Playwriting

A Tiny Island Sky

This full length play about climate change and queer friendship explores if a happy ending is possible even after the apocalypse.

In this piece, humanity can be found anywhere, even on an island swarming with toxic exes, veganism, and coconuts. In May 2024, A Tiny Island Sky received a staged reading directed by Sophia Haugen. After just a week of rehearsal, filled with insights from actors, directorial analysis, and many re-writes, A Tiny Island Sky was performed for the first time for a small audience.

You can read an excerpt here or to the left.

Please email m.j.patterso@gmail.com with interest in reading the full work.

  • Playwright: Maybelle Patterson
    Director: Sophia Haugen
    Stage Manager: Moe Kuhlman

    O: Gabby Gilmer
    Elaine: Kylie Reuter
    Todd: Kieran Yeager

I HATE NEW YORK

This ten-minute comedy horror play satirizes the media's obsession of the starving young New York artist who just happens to live in a loft apartment with exposed brick and in-unit laundry. Tracy just wants to visit some college friends in New York, but the Big Apple has other plans for her -- if she can survive them.

I HATE NEW YORK was recently produced as a part of Comedy Liberation Front’s ten minute comedy festival, Table Read The Show The Table Read, where it was directed by me.

Read an excerpt of the piece here or to the right.

Please email m.j.patterso@gmail.com with interest in reading the full work.

  • Playwright: Maybelle Patterson
    Director: Maybelle Patterson
    Producers: gigi Vera Noblewolf and Rick Idaho

    Tracy: Sophia Haugen
    Teegan: Kylie Reuter
    Ashleigh: Olivia Róg
    Brandon: Lucca Datillo

Where Am I: Or, the Cult Play

What happens when the cult leader doesn’t want to lead the cult anymore?

This full length play explores how the systems we are attached to can pull us together and push us apart. Cult Leader wants some peace and quiet, Christina wants Cult Leader, Chad wants to show off his football skills, and Tom Cruise and Kim Kardashian want — well, who knows.

An excerpt of Where Am I: Or, The Cult Play was recently produced as a part of Comedy Liberation Front’s ten minute comedy festival, Table Read The Show The Table Read, where it was directed by me.

You can read an excerpt here or to the right.

Please email m.j.patterso@gmail.com with interest in reading the full work.

  • Playwright: Maybelle Patterson
    Director: Maybelle Patterson
    Producers: gigi Vera Noblewolf and Rick Idaho

    Cult Leader……Lucca Datillo
    Christina…….Kylie Reuter
    Kim Kardashian……Olivia Róg
    Tom Cruise………..Sophia Haugen

Never Touch the Pigeons

In Oct. 2022, I wrote and directed a play that was selected to be a part of the Columbia College Chicago monthly ten minute play festival Playwrights Aloud.

An absurdist take on homelessness in America, this play critiques the US political system for promises never fulfilled.

An excerpt can be read here and to the left.

Please email m.j.patterso@gmail.com with interest in reading the full work.