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Nora Brigid Monahan

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Nora Brigid Monahan’s "Aunt Jack" bursts with new ideas, heated confrontations, and intellectual arias... I want to see it again!


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Plays

The Fifth of November (an almost certainly illegal play)

The Fifth of November (an almost certainly illegal play)

The Fifth of November (an almost certainly illegal play)

2026 Kendeda Prize Finalist


When a pitch meeting goes shockingly well, NBM is hired to work on her dream project – the screenplay for the sequel to V FOR VENDETTA. Pre-production gets a little out of control, though, when the Secret Service starts investigating NBM for potentially trying to use this movie to incite a revolution to overthrow the government.

NEW PLAY EXCHANGE

Brooklyn Dionysia (Three Tragedies and a Satyr Play)

The Fifth of November (an almost certainly illegal play)

The Fifth of November (an almost certainly illegal play)

In Flatbush, Alex contemplates an enormous sacrifice to save their estranged father. In Bay Ridge, Maddie lashes out at everything and everyone as her marriage falls apart. In Bushwick, Patrick grows paranoid about whether or not he's being taken advantage of by the older couple he's dating. In Athens, Euripides vents to his boyfriend about the purpose of theatre in a crumbling world.

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Maximilien Robespierre Did Nothing Wrong, or Virtue

The Fifth of November (an almost certainly illegal play)

Maximilien Robespierre Did Nothing Wrong, or Virtue

Commissioned by Less Than Rent Theatre/59E59, developed by The Lark and New York Stage and Film


The Jacobins – the most radical political group during the French Revolution – work to overthrow the old regime and change the world. Hopefully in-fighting and purity testing won't derail them. That never happens.

NEW PLAY EXCHANGE

Hannah

Aunt Jack

Hannah

Developed by Good Girl and Soto Productions


In this radical reimagining of Hedda Gabler, a stealth trans woman living among the conservative elite finds her life in jeopardy when a volatile man from her past threatens to reveal her secret.

NEW PLAY EXCHANGE

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Aunt Jack

Hannah

Developed by The Lark and The Hearth


In the late 1980s, a young woman struggling with an eating disorder meets an older woman who offers to help her. Karen Carpenter and St. Catherine of Siena also have things to say.



NEW PLAY EXCHANGE

Aunt Jack

Aunt Jack

Aunt Jack

Published and Licensed by Concord Theatricals/Dramatists Play Service


A 21st-century twist on queer and queer-coded comedies like La Cage Aux Folles and Auntie Mame, Aunt Jack follows Norman as he seeks affirmation of his new relationship and love from his parents.


Photo by Russ Rowland featuring Charles Baran in the 2019 New York Premiere

CONCORD THEATRICALS

Musicals

The Danish Girl (Book & Lyrics)

Orlando (Book & Additional Lyrics)

Orlando (Book & Additional Lyrics)

Music by Alex Parker


Based on the award-winning book by David Ebershoff, this new musical adaptation of The Danish Girl sets to song the groundbreaking story of Lili Elbe, one of the most famous figures in transgender history. In a contemporary art gallery, a woman stands before the century-old paintings by Gerda Wegener and Lili Elbe, sea

Music by Alex Parker


Based on the award-winning book by David Ebershoff, this new musical adaptation of The Danish Girl sets to song the groundbreaking story of Lili Elbe, one of the most famous figures in transgender history. In a contemporary art gallery, a woman stands before the century-old paintings by Gerda Wegener and Lili Elbe, searching for the truth behind the mythology of their lives and queer love. The show is an exploration of the legacy left behind by these two trailblazers and their relevance almost a hundred years later.

INSTAGRAM

Orlando (Book & Additional Lyrics)

Orlando (Book & Additional Lyrics)

Orlando (Book & Additional Lyrics)

Music by Cynthia Saunders

Lyrics by Tricia Dunn & Cynthia Saunders


Virginia Woolf tries to sort through her feelings for the love of her life by writing Orlando – a surreal tapestry of queerness, curiosity, and revolution that spans the rise and fall of an empire.


Photo by Danny Hidalgo featuring Jessie Cannizzaro and Evie Schuckman in the 2024 World Premiere at Theatre Row

INSTAGRAM

Galatea (Book)

Orlando (Book & Additional Lyrics)

Galatea (Book)

Music & Lyrics by Alexander Sage Oyen


In this reimagining of both Ovid's Pygmalion and Galatea myth and George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, an established gay artist takes a rebellious, gender non-conforming street performer under his wing. Naturally, they fall in love.


Recipient of the Grove/Whitman Commission

NEW PLAY EXCHANGE

Tyrants (Book)

Little Mac, Little Mac, You're the Very Man (Book & Lyrics)

DIVA: Live From Hell (Book & Characters)

Music & Lyrics by Alexander Sage Oyen


Politics becomes personal when brothers Edwin and John Wilkes Booth find themselves on opposing sides of the most defining conflict in American history. In the aftermath of the Lincoln assassination, Edwin Booth revisits his past and examines his own role and responsibility for his brother's heinous cr

Music & Lyrics by Alexander Sage Oyen


Politics becomes personal when brothers Edwin and John Wilkes Booth find themselves on opposing sides of the most defining conflict in American history. In the aftermath of the Lincoln assassination, Edwin Booth revisits his past and examines his own role and responsibility for his brother's heinous crime.


Show Art by Eric Emch from the 2023 U.S. National Archives Presentation

INSTAGRAM

DIVA: Live From Hell (Book & Characters)

Little Mac, Little Mac, You're the Very Man (Book & Lyrics)

DIVA: Live From Hell (Book & Characters)

Music & Lyrics by Alexander Sage Oyen


Published and Licensed by Concord Theatricals/Broadway Licensing


As president of the Ronald Reagan High School Drama Club, Desmond Channing spends most of his life in the spotlight. But when a hotshot transfer student challenges his throne, Desmond responds, as any diva would, with lethal force. Now, in

Music & Lyrics by Alexander Sage Oyen


Published and Licensed by Concord Theatricals/Broadway Licensing


As president of the Ronald Reagan High School Drama Club, Desmond Channing spends most of his life in the spotlight. But when a hotshot transfer student challenges his throne, Desmond responds, as any diva would, with lethal force. Now, in Hell’s most squalid cabaret venue, Desmond relives his disturbing tale of woe.


Show Art featuring Luke Bayer by Joe McNeice from the 2022 London Premiere

CONCORD THEATRICALS

Little Mac, Little Mac, You're the Very Man (Book & Lyrics)

Little Mac, Little Mac, You're the Very Man (Book & Lyrics)

Little Mac, Little Mac, You're the Very Man (Book & Lyrics)

Book & Lyrics by James Presson

Music by Alexander Sage Oyen


The long arm of the law pursues career criminal Macheath across the country, and through a hodgepodge of American history and culture. With 85 characters and a musical score that sends up the Great American Songbook, Little Mac is an irreverent satire about money, capitalism, money

Book & Lyrics by James Presson

Music by Alexander Sage Oyen


The long arm of the law pursues career criminal Macheath across the country, and through a hodgepodge of American history and culture. With 85 characters and a musical score that sends up the Great American Songbook, Little Mac is an irreverent satire about money, capitalism, money, and money.


Photo by Bruce Fuller featuring Ashley Denise Robinson and Tom Sanchez in the 2014 World Premiere

LESS THAN RENT THEATRE

Screenwriting

Them (Feature)

The Drive There (Feature)

Them (Feature)

A depressed, transgender divorcée copes with the catastrophic end of yet another relationship as their father prepares to remarry.

Them (Pilot)

The Drive There (Feature)

Them (Feature)

After a failed suicide attempt, a young divorcée tries to avoid the well-meaning, but suffocating people in their life.

The Drive There (Feature)

The Drive There (Feature)

The Drive There (Feature)

An art history major takes a road trip with the subject of her thesis, a modern artist who wants to reclaim her old adventurous spirit.

Praise for Nora's Work

For "Aunt Jack"

For "Aunt Jack"

For "Aunt Jack"

"Nora Brigid Monahan’s play examines the gender progress we’ve made since the 60s under the bold, harsh light of today.  Aunt Jack is a delicious soufflé of quick wits battling issues of LGBTQ+ sexuality... I want to see it again."

Theatrius

For "Aunt Jack"

For "Aunt Jack"

"Playwright Nora Brigid Monahan has found a fertile ground for drama–a changing sexual landscape–that has been explored in many different ways over the past 50 years (or longer), but never quite like this... Aunt Jack is an endearing journey into how one family deals with their crises with tremendous love..."

Talkin' Broadway

For "Aunt Jack"

For "DIVA: Live From Hell"

"Nora Brigid Monahan's enjoyably overstuffed comic family drama has several genuinely unexpected narrative twists. But the biggest surprise of all is the provocative intellectual and emotional engine Monahan has tucked beneath what at first appears to be a vintage sitcom jalopy. You'll still feel it revving after the play ends."

Bay Area Reporter

For "DIVA: Live From Hell"

For "DIVA: Live From Hell"

For "DIVA: Live From Hell"

"The clever, snide and witty book by Nora Brigid Monahan grapples with teen insecurity, envy and the struggle for success of a wannabe actor...For such a camp show, it has surprising darkness... This should not be missed."

The Guardian

For "DIVA: Live From Hell"

For "Them"

"Musical theatre enthusiasts will revel in the references to Patti Lupone and Glenn Close and whilst not all of them may be familiar to all theatregoers, this does nothing to detract from the impeccable comic writing of Nora Brigid Monahan..."

West End Best Friend

For "Them"

For "DIVA: Live From Hell"

For "Them"

"This script is phenomenal, and any actor would love to play this role... THEM is a unique, heart-breaking, fun, humorous wild ride... It's authentic, the dialogue pops off the page, and at its core, it's a beautiful story about self-love."

The Black List

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