WPS: Big Money
Women Playwrights Series
Wednesday, April 1 at 7:00 PM
Sitnik Theatre : 715 Grand Avenue
written by Lauren Ferebee
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"If you get the woman, you get the whole family."
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In 2018, an NRA executive uttered these words on tape, giving voice to a rising movement in the gun industry: marketing to moms. ​None of those moms or their kids are in the remote social radius of Felicity, Ximena, Jo, and Yasmin, the four competitive NYC advertising professionals who are brought in to fix their agency's Guns for Moms pitch. However, by virtue of their unofficial status as the "DEI team," they are the closest thing to moms available on a Thursday night. It's their chance to quit selling tampons and land one of the biggest accounts their boutique company has seen so far - as long as they can do it in 12 hours with constant coke-fueled interruptions from their 25-year-old male boss.
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They might have to compromise their values, deeply held beliefs, romantic relationships, friendships, families, eating habits. sleep schedules, promises to stop drinking, family members' lives, etc., etc., to get it done. But that's how you get Big Money. Which is what we all want. Right?
ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT​​​
Lauren is an award-winning multi-genre writer who writes smart women rebelling against the systems trying to destroy them. Her play BIG MONEY was previously workshopped in 2023 at the Hollywood Fringe, where it was nominated for five awards including Best Drama and won the Loud Karma Emerging Playwright Award. Her play BRILLIANCE (2023 Woodward/Newman Award finalist) will premiere in winter 2027 as part of Boomerang Theatre's 9-play superseason (dir. Mêlisa Annis). Her Kennedy Center-award-winning play GOODS (Artemisia Theatre, dir. E. Faye Butler) won accolades from Chicago press including Chicago Onstage, who lauded it as "the best science fiction... really about us all, who we are today, what we might become." As a television writer, she has multiple projects in development across a variety of genres, from eco-science-fiction to family drama. She was a recently selected short fiction participant in the McCormack (fka Tin House) Winter Workshop under Lydi Conklin's tutelage. Her short fiction has been featured in Tiny Molecules, Flash Fiction Online, and The Future Fire. She holds an MFA in playwriting from the University of Arkansas. Representation: Gio Bakunawa, Established Artists.
