A playwright, screenwriter, and director from hot dish country, Brandy N. Carie mainly writes about apocalypse, anxiety, and what happens when nice girls get mad. Carie was a winner of the Kennedy Center ACTF Steinberg Playwriting Award, a finalist for the Princess Grace Award and Leah Ryan Emerging Playwright Prize, and a semi-finalist for the O’Neill National Playwrights Conference. Carie’s playwriting has been supported by theaters around the country, including Barter Theater, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Northlight Theater, Mildred’s Umbrella Theater, and the James Madison University New Works Lab. Residencies include SPACE on Ryder Farm, The National Winter Playwrights Retreat, Soaring Gardens Artist Retreat, and the Edward Albee Foundation. Carie also works in film. She won the Sloan/CMU Screenwriting Competition for her canine genetics rom-com LOVE,GENOME and her furious abortion-themed body horror script BABY won the Inaugural Athena Film Festival Abortion Pipeline Project and was featured on the Dead List. Her immersive opera THE BEGINNING OF EVERYTHING: A LOVE STORY was produced by the Off-Book Club and released as an animated short by New Opera West, and her collection of short puppet plays adapting Jane Austen’s oeuvre, ABRUPTLY, AUSTEN, was produced as a web series. Recently, her apocalyptic stage play TOMORROW GAME was published by Samuel French and had its west coast debut with a developmental production by Walking Snail Productions. Carie is a Playwrights’ Center Core Writer and a member of The Horrors Persist filmmaking collective. MFA, Carnegie Mellon University.
Free
Playwrights’ Center, 710 Raymond Ave, Saint Paul, MN 55114
In-person February 5 at 7:00 p.m. CST
About the play
Minnesota beavers Reggie and Ronnie struggle to build a lodge before the frost sets in, but dreams of ancient Giant Beavers keep drawing Reggie toward a fantasy of power and safety that feels foolishly out of reach. Ronnie tries to convince Reggie that it’s better to be safe and small than brave and dead, even as she develops a dangerous secret friendship with the local Wolf. Meanwhile, a human family strives to prepare for every possible danger, blindly tearing the forest apart. When the oldest daughter, Al, arrives, she’s running away from a life in the city where she never felt like she fit…only to find that the woods don’t feel like home any more, either.
I’m excited to develop this play at Playwrights’ Center because it is a love letter to my roots. As a bookish theater nerd, I sometimes felt like an outsider in a family of hunters and people who know how to drive a tractor, but as an adult I still think of Minnesota as home. I wrote this play to explore what it means to both belong and not belong in the place where you are from and what it takes to love the imperfect people who raised us. I know that the talented artists at the Playwrights’ Center will approach my deeply flawed characters with complexity and care, and I can’t wait to see how the script grows with their support.
Making your reservation
This is an free, in-person, ticketed event at Playwrights’ Center on February 5. Donations are accepted and appreciated.
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If you have any questions about making your reservation, please email us at rsvp@pwcenter.org.
When to arrive
All seating is general admission. We recommend arriving 10-15 minutes prior to the reading to check in and find your seat. Please note, free parking is limited around the Center.
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Large groups
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Brandy N. Carie
