
emilymcclainplays

FULL LENGTH PLAYS

CAST: 3 M, 3 W
GENRE: Family Comedy
When two adult siblings return to their family's failing restaurant after their mother's sudden death, they’re thrust into a hilarious storm of outrageous family secrets, quirky mishaps, and unexpected chaos, all while trying to figure out how to move on from the past.

CAST: 4 M, 2 W, 4 ANy Gender
GENRE: Historical Romance
Amid the intrigue of Queen Elizabeth I’s court, William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, and Emilia Bassano fight to preserve their love and artistic legacy, but when espionage, betrayal, and ambition threaten to tear them apart, they must decide what they are willing to sacrifice for passion, survival, and the power of creation.

CAST: 7 M, 3 W
GENRE: Drama
A young female painter struggles to gain recognition for her work within the male-dominated art world of Renaissance Italy. Meanwhile, in the contemporary United States, a young career woman encounters her own version of the same challenges as she fights for recognition in the workplace. chiaroscuro or Slaying Holofernes blends and blurs the worlds of past/present, fact/fiction, and personal/political as it explores two women’s parallel quests for justice in an imperfect world.