Brianna Barrett

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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

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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Harvey and Evan used to play in a band together. They've been best friends since high school. Then Harvey got a little too into drugs, Evan got straight-laced and settled down with a wife.... and now Evan has cancer. Harvey hasn't been a very good friend, in fact, he hasn't shown up at all. When Harvey finally comes back into Evan's life, they finally see the world through one another's eyes. Not in a good way.

Recognition:

Finalist, Portland Civic Theatre Guild's New Play Award

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

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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

Semi-Finalist, O’Neill National Playwrights Conference

Development:

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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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

Workshop, Northwest Narrative Medicine Conference

Reading, Fertile Ground Festival produced by LineStorm Playwrights

Reading, Seattle Playwrights Salon

The first person perspective of a 24-year-old diagnosed with cancer, dealing with all the normal stuff: online dating, finding love, going bald, making awkward YouTube videos and ... oh, you know, 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, her 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.