Brianna Barrett

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A Civil War Era romantic comedy inspired by real columns from the city's most popular weekly newspaper: The Golden Era. A serious young woman enters the Lick House Hotel Saloon, looking for a job as a journalist -- she begrudgingly agrees to write a gossip column in the persona of a young single lady out on the town. What she finds is a new side of herself she didn't know she had, and a chance at a life she didn't know she wanted. Battles rage between North and South, between rival publishing companies, and between her relationship with her own alter ego.

Recognition:

Regional Arts and Culture Council Project Grant

Finalist, O’Neill National Playwrights Conference
 

Development:

Writing group, Central Works

Reading, Artists Repertory Theatre produced by LineStorm Playwrights

Reading, Seattle Playwrights Salon
Reading, Echo Theatre's "First Draft" produced by Over the Bridge Arts

Adapted for radio on the NYTimes recommended "Storybound" Podcast, sponsored by Regional Arts and Culture Council Project Grant, 2020. Hear it here!

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Harvey and Evan were high school best friends with a punk band and big dreams - until Harvey vanished into addiction and Evan settled down, got married… and got cancer. When Harvey returns to donate bone marrow, something goes wrong: They wake up in each other’s bodies.

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Recognition:

Oregon Book Awards: Angus L. Bowmer Award for Drama

Finalist, Portland Civic Theatre Guild's New Play Award

Development:
MFA Thesis Production, UCLA
Reading, 21Ten Theatre

Reading, Desert Island Studios' Top Secret Club

Marigold is having a baby. Francine is just in commercials. One of their moms is trying to hold it together while the other creates an artificial intelligence algorithm to write her a masterpiece before she dies because surely by now she doesn't have enough time. The family reckons with what it means to honor someone's legacy.

 

Recognition:

Mark Twain Prize in Comic Playwriting

Finalist, Portland Civic Theatre Guild's New Play Award

Finalist, Pegasus PlayLab

Finalist, Gulfshore Playhouse New Works Festival

Development:

Production, The New Stage

Workshop, Theatre 33

Reading, Naked Angels LA
Reading, Vivid Stage

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Cameron is a hopeless romantic trying to turn online dates into real relationships to no avail until a chance second encounter with Parker. Newlyweds Morgan and Terry want to "spice things up" when they get a lot more spice than they bargained for. With a script designed such that every character can be played by an actor of any gender without changing a single line of dialogue, six actors trade roles each night to present a series of conversations about making babies, getting STDs, meeting parents, singing pop songs, and propositioning strangers for that weird stuff your spouse won’t do.

Recognition:
1st Place Selection, Page to Stage V, Hillsboro Artists' Regional Theatre 
George Burns and Gracie Allen Scholarship and Fellowship in Comedy
Semi-Finalist, Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference
Finalist, KCACTF/NNPN MFA Playwrights Workshop

Development:
Workshop, Theatre 33
Workshop, Fertile Ground Festival
Reading, Lewis & Clark College (Gender Studies Symposium)
Community Theater Production, Hillsboro Artists' Regional Theatre

High School Production, Albuquerque High School

 

A love story in which two college freshman try to figure out love, friendship, and femininity while being haunted by the ghosts of their future selves -- neither of whom are the same gender as their current selves. 

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Recognition:

​Semi-Finalist, Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference

Finalist, Texas State New American Play Festival

Finalist, SheLA Summer Theater Festival

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Development:

Production, Public Assembly (10 minutes)
Reading, Playwrights Union's First Peek Festival

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Rae is diagnosed with cancer during her senior year in high school. Her sister Margo stays home from college to care for her. TV shows and social media posts become their main outlets to the world outside, as Rae copes with isolation in a highly-connected digital world.

Recognition:
Kenneth Macgowan Family Playwriting Award

Finalist, Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival

Monologue published in The Best Women's Monologues from New Plays 2020 (Applause Books)

Development:

Commissioned by Camas High School / Leukemia Lymphoma Society

Production, Camas High School

Production, Springfield High School

Production, Chagrin Falls Academy for the Performing Arts

Production, Bard High School Early College in Manhattan

Workshop, Northwest Narrative Medicine Conference

Reading, Fertile Ground Festival produced by LineStorm Playwrights

Reading, Seattle Playwrights Salon

 

Professors of Cinema Studies curate a comprehensive exhibit celebrating the work of visionary director, Stanley Kubrick - and begin to wonder why we hold certain Powerful White Men on a pedestal.

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Recognition:

​Commissioned by Theater Masters' Visionary Award program

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Development:

Reading, Pacific Resident Theatre's First Light Festival
Reading, Playwrights Union's First Peek Festival

Just a 24-year-old dealing with all the normal stuff: online dating, finding love, going bald, and making awkward YouTube videos while having cancer and trying not to die or whatever. Brianna stands on stage with a laptop, editing together footage of her real life, seen by the audience via projector. From childhood to the person in front you, a life flashes before your eyes.

 

Recognition:
Oregonian Art Pick

Willamette Week "Favorite Moments From Fertile Ground"
Twice named "Portland's Best Storyteller" in Willamette Week

Development:

Performance at Artists Repertory Theatre produced by LineStorm Playwrights

Performance at SOLOFEST produced by Bag & Baggage Productions

Performance at Art of the Story Festival

Performance at Northwest Narrative Medicine Conference

Performance at Portland Storytellers' Guild

Performance at ROAR

Performance at The Yarn

Performance at Funhouse Lounge

Performance of Notes of Hope at Alberta Rose Theater

Adapted into 5-part miniseries for KBNB podcast.

 

A loving twist on those classic Hallmark vibes. A dejected 19-year-old barista living on her own in rainy Portland, Oregon forges an unlikely friendship with an elderly woman who writes a depressing online post about her fear of dying alone. Now they’re on a quest to find each other love before Christmas!

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Development:

Fringe Production, Frosty Fest LA
Reading, Hobgoblin Playhouse

Reading, Bellingham TheatreWorks New Play Cafe