FELICE LOCKER’s plays include MUD SEASON (Finalist, Bay Area Playwrights Festival 2020, Playwrights Foundation, and Semi-Finalist, 2021 Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference.), PIED NOIR (2017 Eugene O'Neill Semi-Finalist, Special Consideration The American Playwriting Foundation’s Relentless Award 2018-2019, Semi-Finalist Unicorn Theater 2017-2018 In-Progress New Play Reading Series, Semi-Finalist MultiStages 2017 New Works Contest, Winner 2017 Playwrights Voiced Festival Relative Theatrics), and 50 STEPS TO THE BEACH, which was presented by The Three Leaches and Theater 29 Denver at The Buntport Theater.
Felice’s writing combines a confrontation of social and political issues with poetic language that explores the personal. A monologue from her play Mud Season is included in the publication “SHE PERSISTED: One Hundred Monologues from Plays by Women over Forty,” a project of Honor Roll! -- an advocacy and action group of women+ playwrights over forty.
The Denver Center for the Performing Arts selected Felice for its 2020-2021 core Playwrights Group, a year-long residency. She was also part of Theatre 29 Denver’s inaugural CoLAB 2020-2021, a commission, development, and production opportunity for Colorado playwrights. Her plays have been developed and performed by The Catamounts (CO), Relative Theatrics (WY), Thunder River Theatre Co. (CO), The Edge Theatre (CO), Bas Bleu Theatre Co. (CO), LOCAL Theater Co. (CO), Westcliffe Center for the Performing Arts at the Jones Theatre (CO), Stagecrafters Second Stage (MI), Turnip Festival (NY), and Liverpool Playhouse (Liverpool). Felice has a BA (English) and an MBA, both from Harvard. She is also an arts mentor for youth & seniors and organizes and performs in readings of French language plays in her community.
Plays
Jane, resilient but restless, decamps to rural Colorado where she thinks hard work and even harder weather are the answer to almost everything. While enduring sliding mud and her slippery sister, Jane, who is disabled, embarks on a journey with mythical time travelers and a magical eagle to discover her place in the changing West.
Two women from the same friend group in college meet up for a fun weekend at the beach, but sand is getting into everything, and the house feels so cold. As the sun begins to set, this play asks the question: what do you need to let go of the past?
Rinsed tells the story of Angela, a minimum wage caregiver, and Clarissa, the client recovering from surgery that hired her, who confuse giving and taking. During a morning shift filled with chitchat and chores, Angela gives Clarissa the news that it’s her last day on the job, but Clarissa refuses to let her go. Class and privilege are probed as the two women suffer their pain and desires, manipulate truths, and reveal the darker side of compassion to remind us that we don’t know someone until we do.
Police respond to a deadly attack in the South of France with an early morning raid on Muslim extremists. When a young Muslim woman crashes into the home office of Claude, a physical therapist, her hijab and refusal to be treated for her injury trigger nostalgia for his colonial life in Algeria when it was part of France. How can Magida, a Muslim born in France but not yet a citizen, and Claude, reliving his colonial superiority, face their fears and agree to share a national identity? This play intimately explores the racist roots of violence, multiculturalism, and the search for home and identity.
Leonard and Daphne is the story of Leonard, a charming and complex older widower intent on living a life full of the stories he borrowed from his dear friend Blake. With Daphne’s voice still in his head and a huge financial settlement in the bank, Leonard struggles to grow even as he grows older. Leonard and Daphne asks who are we without our memories and explores the complex connections between our actions and self-esteem at any age.
Successes
My monologue, “A Winter’s Tell,” a commission, will be performed as part of The Catamounts event FEED: Après at the Dairy Arts Center in Boulder, CO. Directed by Amanda Berg Wilson. This 27th installment of the FEED series, is a multi-course meal and Immersive Theater Experience centered around a central question: what comes after? Live music weaves the whole evening together. February 17- March 5, 2023.
My monologue, “A Winter’s Tell,” a commission, will be performed as part of The Catamounts event FEED: Après at the Dairy Arts Center in Boulder, CO. Directed by Amanda Berg Wilson. This 27th installment of the FEED series, is a multi-course meal and Immersive Theater Experience centered around a central question: what comes after? Live music weaves the whole evening together. February 17- March 5, 2023.
My play “50 Steps to the Beach,” a new one-act, ran Dec 7-10, 2022 at The Buntport Theater in Denver in PIVOT, a festival of new short plays by Theater 29 Denver CoLab Playwrights. The festival was presented by The Three Leaches and Theater 29 Denver, which commissioned the play.
Semi-Finalist, Eugene O’Neill Theater Center National Playwrights Conference – 2021 – Mud Season
Finalist, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, Playwrights Foundation – 2020 -- Mud Season