FULL LENGTH WORKS

From the Ground Up 

7 actors, 90 min play
Ms. Vivian hopes to heal the neighborhood and herself by gardening in a reclaimed urban lot. Yet her harvest party becomes an all-night community defense when the Field of Possibilities is threatened with imminent destruction from the city. A defensive fantasy about the struggle to share space and find sanctuary in a world where everyone is both human and plant, weed and medicine.
*Rosa Parks Playwriting Award, Second Place Recipient for the Mark Twain Comic Playwriting Award, and a Planet Earth Playwriting Award from the Kennedy Center

Monstrous, or, A Short Narrative on an Extraordinary Delivery of Rabbits

10+ actors, 90 min play
Mary's search for an abortion provider lands them in 1720s England, where they pass as Mary Toft, a historical figure notorious for giving birth to rabbits. A queer exploration of rage in the post-Roe era, 'Monstrous' confronts government control over bodily autonomy with absurdity and magic.

*Second Place Recipient for the Paula Vogel Playwriting Award, Kennedy Center

Queen B: A New Work of Honeybee Futurism
6-8 actors, 90-120 min musical
book by Elle Thoni, music by Dameun Strange & Carlisle Evans-Peck
100 years into the future, cities have sealed themselves under holographic domes to protect themselves from the inhospitable climate. Yet, when the robo-bee population begins to die off like their honeymaking ancestors, the fate of this new society rests upon the fading memories of the last living beekeeper, a (former?) revolutionary who goes by the name Queen B.

*See Projects for Production History

Bestiary of Rogues

6-8 actors, 70-90 min play

After a fatal fire at communal house in South Minneapolis, a band of urban animals come together to tell the story of what happened - or is it? Part documentary theatre and part punk folklore, 'Bestiary of Rogues' sifts through the wreckage to find the difference between between fact and truth with tremendous heart.
 

Woolly: A de-extinction play

6-8 actors, 70-90 min play

As evolutionary biologist Dr. Robin Slater prepares for her Ted Talk, she and her family members find themselves disappearing into the tundra of her anxious imagination. When - and how - will they be able to find their way back to the present time and moment? Based on the science of de-extinction, 'Woolly' is a play about the liminal space between hope and heartbreak, what we stand to lose, and what may still be possible to regain.
 

SHORTER WORKS
Moon Zoo

3 actors, 10 min play

Welcome to the first wilderness park on the moon. The first bear is scheduled to arrive on the next shuttle. How will two clueless first-generation "Moonies" make a suitable habitat for her? A sci-fi comedy about so-called "nature."

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The First Whale

2 actors, 10 min play

Natural history gets a redux in this queer retelling of the evolution of the whale from a land to sea mammal.

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Please visit me on New Play Exchange for select scripts. 
For inquiries, please contact me at ellethoni@gmail.com