Billie Roe
Novelist and Playwright
THE NINETEENTH FLOOR - it was supposed to be a birthday party. Instead, beloved, terminally ill, gay mystery writer, Patricia Muldoon uses her "last great lesbian party" to stage the ultimate plot twist: convince her 19th floor writer's group that choosing when and how to die isn't giving up on life - it's the last great act of living it fully.
BOYS WITH TOYS - On Halloween night in Mission Falls, Minnesota, three teenage boys form a pact that will destroy everything around them -- including themselves. Written in the shadows of Columbine, this searing two-act American tragedy asks whom we hold responsible when boys become dangerous -- and who we protect when we look away. Unflinching, darkly comic, and disturbingly prescient, the play remains an honest depiction of the culture that produces violent young men -- and the adults who build it for them. (aka Mission Falls, USA)
AMAZONS AT THE SUPER BOWL
A Dark Comedy
In Homer, Minnesota — population 181, home of the mighty Trojans — Charlie has just bought a new 75” TV for Super Bowl Sunday, while his dutiful wife, Margie prepares a feast for his invited football buddies. But what Charlie doesn’t know is that the real company arrived two days earlier, camping out in the garage: five Amazon warrior women, led by their magnetic and otherworldly leader, appeared in the middle of a blizzard and rescued Margie, stranded on the side of the road in her broken-down car. The Amazons have been quietly taking over Charlie’s house — and Margie’s mind — ever since.
By the time the fourth quarter starts, the real game has already begun.
THE CRONE - When a highway project threatens the destruction of her sanctuary cave, retired art teacher, Amelia Deerfield fights to preserve mysterious symbols on its walls-- and in doing so discovers they hold a powerful story that four generations of women will risk everything to protect.