Jeanmarie Simpson
A living digital home for plays, productions, teaching resources, excerpts, and performance rights.
Featured Collection
When Churchyards Yawn and Other Plays
Four plays about memory, ritual, collapse, and survival.
A collection for educators, actors, directors, universities, and community theatres seeking language-driven contemporary drama with historical depth, flexible staging, and strong classroom use.
The collection includes plays intended for classroom discussion, staged readings, actor training, independent production, and repertory development.
For Educators & Theatre Programs
Educational resources are available for high schools, colleges, universities, acting programs, and community theatre organizations.
- Classroom scene packets
- Monologues for actor training
- Teaching and discussion guides
- Performance excerpts
- Review copies
- Workshop and guest discussion availability
- Production and staging information
Themes throughout the work include memory, political history, ritual, survival, gender, mythology, Shakespearean inheritance, and contemporary performance.
Performance Rights
Performance rights are available for universities, schools, community theatres, festivals, workshops, staged readings, and independent productions.