Full Lengths

Libby has written over a dozen  full-length plays. Here are some favorites.

I Am Not an Allegory (these are people i know) 

Set in a small American city, I Am Not an Allegory (these are people i know), confronts sex, faith, and race from outside the perspective of the educated coastal class. Nine actors step off the stage and into reality to perform a play that takes place at this exact moment in your actual life. 6 women, 3 men.

Bowery Poetry Club, NYC, 2012

The Little Room

Based in part on a true story: in May 2008 it was discovered that a man had kept his daughter imprisoned in the windowless basement of his apartment building, where he raped her and fathered her seven children, for over 20 years. Elsa and Katrin are locked in the basement. The only light they ever see is artificial. Their only connection to the outside world is the television and their captor. What they don’t know is that this is the last day they will have to stay in the basement, or the price of their freedom. 3 women, 1 man. 90 minutes.

Short listed: BBC’s 2009 International Radio Playwriting Competition; Semi-Finalist: Eugene O’Neill Theater Center’s 2010 National Playwrights Conference; Reading: The Hive, NYC, 2012

Zeropia

At the heart of Zeropia is Marta, an urban planner who's ready to take action, to make a stand, to get it done. Unwilling to settle for half-way, she sets out with her trusted assistant Amy to realize her vision of a net-zero town, a town that leaves an absolutely zero carbon footprint. Yet, as more and more people fill Zeropia, and Marta tries to take her vision to the national level, obstacles begin to mount both inside and without.

Clubbed Thumb Biennial Commission winner 2009

The Girls from Afar

Slavery in America did not disappear with the Civil War. No longer institutionalized, it is hidden, tucked away behind manicured lawns and monogrammed golf carts. If the public could hear the clatter of the shackles in the streets, would it recoil it horror? What if the signs are much less obvious? Two girls have come from afar to work as domestics in a wealthy home in the suburbs of New York, but what seems at first to be a great opportunity becomes a lifestyle of brutality. 3 women, 1 man.

Finalist, Yale Drama Series 2010; Readings: East West Players, in collaboration with the Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking, Los Angeles, CA, 2010; Desipina & Co., Teatro Circulo, NYC, NY 2009; Open Rehearsal Series, INTAR, NYC 2011

Bridge Over Sand

Keith and Caroline have come from New York on business. They are in the desert to design a bridge for a demanding client. It’s been a grueling job so far, but those difficulties are compounded when they arrive in country, only to find that the laws have drastically changed since the last time Keith was there. Women are restricted from moving about the city without accompaniment of a male relative, they are restricted from participating in public life. This leaves Keith and Caroline in a tough spot. 1 woman, 2 men. 90 minutes.

Other full-lengths include:

Eyes of the Prophet, MFA thesis 2007, Columbia University School of the Arts, winner John Golden Award

Decomposition in Blue and White, Theatre Double, Philadelphia, PA, 2001

Arrested, reading: The Flea Theater, NYC, 2003

The Sustainable Future, Galapagos Art Space, 2004

Up the Coast

Man Under the Bridge

Helen

Harmless