All I Wanna Do Is Be Pretty Like You

120 mins: 5w, 1M

A group of twenty something actors are trying to perform as a group of abducted teenage girls who are trying to perform as a group of pageant contestants so that one of them can be awarded the crown by their Director--and be set free.

A play about performing womanhood, goodness, and trauma for the male gaze, and the blurred lines between desire and abduction, fantasy and reality, and violence and beauty itself.

Read the script at NPX

 

History

  • 2022, The New Coordinates (Chicago), Workshop

AWARDS

  • 2023 Semi-Finalist National Playwriting Conference, Eugene O'Neill Theater Center

  • 2023 Semi-Finalist Bay Area Playwrights Festival, Playwrights Foundation