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Trish Cole

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Full-length plays

American Dream

In 2011, fourteen teenage girls in upstate New York high school suddenly developed Tourette's-like symptoms, or, as Ruth Graham posited, "rage against patriarchal cultures." This is not their story. 


Instead, this is the story of Eve, Joan of Arc, Bubbe, and a group of "afflicted" cheerleaders as they navigate  a religious origin story, Title IX, The Pale, and homecoming, all while balancing purity and sexual autonomy in a world that constantly diminishes and dismisses them.


(10 w, 3 m)




One-act dramas

Paradise (Scenes from American Dream)

Paradise (Scenes from American Dream)

Paradise (Scenes from American Dream)

A mother and daughter have "the talk;" an assimilated American Jew recalls the event that started her family's generational trauma; and Adam and Eve go on a first date. Somehow, they are all connected.


Award: Outstanding Script, Watermelon One-Act Festival


(4 f, 1 m)

Field Guide to the North American Osprey

Paradise (Scenes from American Dream)

Paradise (Scenes from American Dream)

On a March morning, a grieving couple waits for the migratory return of the osprey  to the St. Mary's River for the nesting season.


Award: Outstanding Original Script, Maryland Community Theatre Festival


(1 f, 1 m)

Life on Mars

Paradise (Scenes from American Dream)

Life on Mars

A lesbian fugitive spends her final ten minutes on Earth waiting in shackles to board the last penal transport to Mars.


(2 f, 1 m or 3 f)

Butterfly

Who's Afraid of a Hot Tin Roof?

Life on Mars

A mother in prison seeks refuge in an imaginary place filled with self-defined beauty when pushed to confront the chilling memories of her relationship with her transgender child.


Award: Excellence in Original Script, Maryland Community Theatre Festival


(2 f, 1 FTM who transitions on stage)

Who's Afraid of a Hot Tin Roof?

Who's Afraid of a Hot Tin Roof?

Who's Afraid of a Hot Tin Roof?

Four actors playing Martha, George, Brick, and Maggie simultaneously take the stage at the start of two different plays. As the actors vie for control of the stage and the limelight, they each begin to reveal themselves--not as their characters, but as human beings. 


(2 f, 2 m)

Midnight Things

Who's Afraid of a Hot Tin Roof?

Who's Afraid of a Hot Tin Roof?

James and Victoria examine the betrayal that pushed their marriage past the brink.


(1 f, 1 m)

comedy shorts

woman: revised

The Raging Hags

The Raging Hags

Four dictionary definitions attempt to literally find their meaning and their place in the dictionary, as Woman herself struggles to hold onto her identity in a changing world filled with revision. 


(4 f, 1 m)

The Raging Hags

The Raging Hags

The Raging Hags

A has-been band of female caped crusaders meet at the annual Women's Auxiliary Committee of Super Heroes where they must decide whether or not to expand their heroic exploits beyond the usual American iconography and defend women and girls everywhere.


(4 female caped crusaders, 1 tomboy sidekick)

Rapture

The Raging Hags

Rapture

A group of religious, sign-wielding protesters unintentionally invoke the interest of God. 


(1 f, 2 m)


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