Full-Length Plays by
Aly Kantor
[90 Minutes, comedic drama - 2F, 1 any] Again and again, best friends Jac and Amelia find themselves meeting in bathrooms, while real world tragedies and paradigm shifts assert themselves on the world outside. Vulnerability, humor, and uncensored honesty reign as they are forced to grapple with the question "Has anyone ever been safe? Are we?" 'Occupied' is a critical examination of the millennial generation's relationship to safety, told through the lens of female friendship, from 9-11 to today.
OCCUPIED
MURDERING MEDEA
[ 90 Minutes, dark comedy, 2F, 1 M] “This episode of MONSTER OF THE WEEK is sponsored by the loneliness epidemic, the 40-hour work week, and the inevitable heat death of the universe!”
Girlypop podcast host Lucy has arrived at a Reddit-famous haunted murder hotel to record a podcast…as a cover story for her secret, out-of-state abortion. When famous child murderer Medea shows up and asks some uncomfortable questions, she’s forced to contend with her own relationship to monstrosity in Post-Roe America.
[100 Minutes, farce, 4M, 5F] A nautical, radical, turn-of-the-century adaptation of Aristophanes' Lysistrata set in a struggling whaling village during the doldrums period of the American suffrage movement. A silly and scintillating sex farce for a dynamic ensemble of nine actors, including strong roles for women and seniors.
BLOWHOLE
THE CARE AND FEEDING OF RESTLESS SPIRITS
[90 Minutes, comedic drama - 4F, 1M] Autumn, 1920. The residents of the Mary Todd Hotel for Professional Women have been through a lot. The war has recently ended, the country is still recovering from a devastating pandemic, and they’re about to vote for the first time in a national election. Still, every Tuesday, they make time to convene in the sixth-floor parlor for a single purpose—to speak to the dead.
THEY HAVE BECOME THE FOREST
[75 Minutes, Hopeful tragedy, 2F] Many Greek myths begin and end in the forest of Arcadia. Most of them end with the death or transformation of the women involved. they have become the forest imagines the lives of two such women before their myth begins—the naiads Daphne and Sy, members of Artemis’s hunt. In this campfire story, they fall in love, grapple with consumption, identity, and courage, and leave audiences with a powerful call to action to support their queer loved ones in a dynamic, often unsafe world.
YOU ENTER THE TAVERN
[100 Minutes, comedic drama, 5F] In just two short weeks, Dungeon Master Sylvie will be one year sober. In the meantime, she has to wrangle the rag-tag team of dysfunctional support characters she's gathered for her weekly, post-AA, addicts-only DnD campaign. The party is missing a healer, however, and the ringer Sylvie's brought in to fill the slot seems more eager to cause damage than to repair it. As Sylvie begins losing her grip on the adventure, the rest of her life follows suit. Can you really run a game when it’s clear you don’t trust the rules?
[2 Hours, adaptation, 6M, 4F, 1 any] In the ruins of a Gold Coast mansion, queer Midwesterner Nick Carraway revisits his once-gilded Jazz-age memories and confronts the ghosts of his past. A new, haunted adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby.
THESE GILDED SOULS (A GREAT GATSBY)
[90 minutes, comedic drama - 2F, college-aged performers] Julissa is the second-chair violist in her state college’s orchestral music program. Giselle is the third chair cellist. When Julissa makes the spontaneous and risky decision to switch instruments mid-year, it upsets the carefully curated status quo that Giselle has always depended upon. That seemingly small inconvenience sets people-pleasing Wunderkind cellist on a quest to retain her hard-earned seat at any cost.