Darcy Parker Bruce

Darcy Parker Bruce

Darcy Parker Bruce is a graduate of the MFA Playwriting program at Smith College. In years past they have joined the Sewanee Writers’ Conference as part of their staff, leading hikes and bartending. Darcy was the recipient of a 2017 Tennessee Williams Scholarship through the Sewanee Writers' Conference and was a 2019 LAMBDA Literary Fellow. In 2018 they were granted ATHE's Judith Royer Award For...
Darcy Parker Bruce is a graduate of the MFA Playwriting program at Smith College. In years past they have joined the Sewanee Writers’ Conference as part of their staff, leading hikes and bartending. Darcy was the recipient of a 2017 Tennessee Williams Scholarship through the Sewanee Writers' Conference and was a 2019 LAMBDA Literary Fellow. In 2018 they were granted ATHE's Judith Royer Award For Excellence in Theater for their play Soldier Poet. They are currently working on several projects including the upcoming publication of the Piedmont Plays, a four play cycle about America(andeverythingelse). In 2022 they worked with Chester Theater Company on a commission: To the Moon and Back, and they most recently won Broad Horizon's New Play Award for their play All We Know Is Not Enough. Their work can now be purchased through Broadway Play Publishing. They are currently Writing-in-Residence with Interlochen Center for the Arts and the Gullkistan Center for Creativity in Iceland.

Plays

  • Always Plenty of Light at the Starlight All Night Diner by Darcy Parker Bruce
    Recommendations: 12
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    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: adventure, comedy + 4 more
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    Keyword: time travel, asteroid + 4 more
    Genre: adventure, comedy, dark comedy, fantasy, romantic comedy, science fiction
    Keyword: time travel, asteroid, dinosaurs, time machine, diner, queer
    A SUPER queer time travel adventure. With Dinosaurs. A cross between Jurassic Park, Back to the Future, and Fried Green Tomatoes.
  • Soldier Poet by Darcy Parker Bruce
    Recommendations: 16
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    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: drama, political
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    Keyword: women in the military, babies + 3 more
    Genre: drama, political
    Keyword: women in the military, babies, LGBTQ, queer, Syria
    The first play in the Piedmont Cycle.
  • The Place That Made You by Darcy Parker Bruce
    Recommendations: 23
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    Cast: 
    5
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    Genre: adventure, dark comedy + 3 more
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    Keyword: small town America, ghosts + 8 more
    Genre: adventure, dark comedy, drama, faith-based, political
    Keyword: small town America, ghosts, war in Middle East, queer, Trans Jonah, addiction, adoption, whales, magical realism, LGBTQ
    In the aftermath of a tragedy Jonah attempts to reunite with his best friend, Ben returns to her childhood home, and a giant white whale haunts the coastline of a sleepy Connecticut town. A modern day re-imagining of Jonah and the Whale, a tale of love, loss, and glory in small town America. The second Piedmont play.
  • The Kingdom of Ghosts by Darcy Parker Bruce
    Recommendations: 8
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    Cast: 
    8
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    Genre: dark comedy, drama
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    Keyword: Covid-19, queer + 8 more
    Genre: dark comedy, drama
    Keyword: Covid-19, queer, small town, America, ghosts, Politics, blue collar, masks, orchestra, funeral
    Jonah starts a family. We lay a hero to rest. A continuation of the Piedmont cycle.
  • O Captain! My Captain! by Darcy Parker Bruce
    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: dark comedy, fantasy + 2 more
    Genre: dark comedy, fantasy, horror, political
    Jonah returns to the whale, we return to the Kingdom. The fourth and final play in the Piedmont Cycle.
  • To The Moon and Back by Darcy Parker Bruce
    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 1 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, drama
    Ace alternately maps craters searching for pieces of herself, and flips burgers at her day job as she tries to outrun the shadows of the past she shares with her dad, who spends his days watching gameshows from his lawn chair—on the moon.
  • the wolf you feed by Darcy Parker Bruce
    Recommendations: 13
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    Cast: 
    6–10
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 1 more
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    Keyword: wolves, queer + 7 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, fable/folktale
    Keyword: wolves, queer, dance, Surreal, wolf pack, punk rock, return to nature, where the wild things are, anarchy
    Max, recently separated, has just moved into the rundown Shady Pines motel at the edge of a national park. Outside, a pack of wolves is wondering if she wants to hang out. Inside, everything she used to know is becoming something other-than. A toothbrush becomes a handful of chives, a bottle of shampoo is an owl that refuses to leave the shower, and a stack of papers that demand a signature stubbornly remain just that.
  • All We Know Is Not Enough by Darcy Parker Bruce
    Recommendations: 13
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    Cast: 
    5
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    Genre: dark comedy, drama + 1 more
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    Keyword: Transgender, Syrian refugees + 5 more
    Genre: dark comedy, drama, political
    Keyword: Transgender, Syrian refugees, queer, magical realism, ham radio, communication, outer space
    In a seedy pay-by-the-hour motel Romeo fights to stay alive. Romeo is trans, running from a hate crime, his sister Charlie is taking care of him. An ocean away- Nasrin, a refugee, is lost at sea. Linking their stories and their voices are Charlie’s ham radio and a mysterious white dragon. All We Know Is Not Enough is a play which explores what it means to be searching for home and somewhere to call safe.
  • East Of The Sun by Darcy Parker Bruce
    Recommendations: 3
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    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: drama, fable/folktale + 1 more
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    Keyword: fairy tale, puppets + 2 more
    Genre: drama, fable/folktale, tragedy
    Keyword: fairy tale, puppets, childhood trauma, assault survivor
    An adaptation of the Norwegian fairy-tale East of the Sun, West of the Moon.
  • No One Is Coming To Take You Away by Darcy Parker Bruce
    Cast: 
    2–7
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    Genre: dark comedy, drama + 2 more
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    Keyword: classic adaptation, Beowulf + 3 more
    Genre: dark comedy, drama, fable/folktale, fantasy
    Keyword: classic adaptation, Beowulf, Iceland, coping with suicide, monster
    Rose steals a rock from Thingvellir National Park to get the gods to open a portal to help her find Loui, her lost student.
  • St. Simon by Darcy Parker Bruce
    Cast: 
    6
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    Genre: adventure, comedy + 6 more
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    Keyword: climate change, religion + 4 more
    Genre: adventure, comedy, dark comedy, drama, experimental, faith-based, fantasy, young audiences
    Keyword: climate change, religion, queer family, demon goat, biblically correct angels, baba yaga
    The world is ending and the seas are rising. Simon is building an ark, Markus is writing a song, and a mysterious goat named Baphomet has appeared in the convent kitchen. Soon, Simon’s parents will rise from the dead and everything will be alright, right?
  • GLIMMER by Darcy Parker Bruce
    Recommendations: 3
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    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: adventure, comedy + 3 more
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    Keyword: mermaids, magical realism + 4 more
    Genre: adventure, comedy, dark comedy, fable/folktale, romantic comedy
    Keyword: mermaids, magical realism, queer, 24 hour convenience store, poverty, florida
    Paradise, FL is a tiny dead-end blast-from-the-past glorified-antique of a town at the edge of the country.
  • How We Live In Our Bodies Now by Darcy Parker Bruce
    Recommendations: 5
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    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: dark comedy, drama
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    Keyword: mass shooting, gun violence + 3 more
    Genre: dark comedy, drama
    Keyword: mass shooting, gun violence, LGBTQ, queer, deer and animals
    Viv and her girlfriend Langly try to move forward after Langly survives a mass shooting. Ollie is lost, in love, lost. Langly is becoming something other than.