Playwright
Plays by Greta Mae Geiser
Full Length
Antistrophe to an Andro-Sapphic Tragedy
A surreal Neo-Greek tragedy reflecting on female sexuality, bodily autonomy, and all the things we hold sacred in a world eager to strip us of our agency.
The Pyg Hypothesis
A modern adaptation of Shaw’s Pygmalion. A naively misogynistic young man finds himself the subject of a social experiment conducted by an egotistical professor of feminist studies.
Short
In Development
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Duck, Duck, Grey Goose
Laurel and Kostya, Minnesotan transplants living in Chicago, find their engagement threatened by reunions with old friends and resurrections of old ghosts. Meanwhile, Hope, Foster, and Verity fight for connection and purpose amid isolation. A study of Love, Grief, and Minnesota Nice.
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Pride and Impropriety
A new sapphic adaptation of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice written for Junk Drawer Theatre Company. More information coming soon.
Artistic Statement
My work balances the archaic and the contemporary to start discussions around feminism, sex and sexuality, relationships, and abuse in its many forms. I am interested in the way choreographed art — combat, intimacy, movement — makes theatre a unique medium, and I endeavor to incorporate it into my scripts. I aim to create characters that entice actors and give them agency in the story. My writing voice combines realistic, easy dialogue with poetry, creating a theatrical world that is both authentic and mythic, familiar and fantastical, and full of play.
-Greta Mae Geiser
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