The second biannual Stethoscope Stage play festival is being hosted by the Anne Burnett Marion School of Medicine at Texas Christian University and produced by Theatre TCU. The festival will be held at 1PM CT on October 19, 2024 in PepsiCo Recital Hall located at TCU. Admission is FREE and open to the public, but seat reservations are required. Subscribe to be the first to learn when seat reservations open.
Official Selections
Official Selection monologues and short plays will be performed at Stethoscope Stage 2024
- My Name is Jane by Phil Darg
- Dear Diary by Naomi C.
- Dingoes Ate Your Baby by Mary Beth McNulty
- Trisomy by Diana Burbano
- Safe Harbor by James McLindon
- Waiting For The GYN by Helen Cheng Mao
- Not My Tale to Tell by Donna Latham
- My Friend Endo by Emily Golden
- Kamaya Monologue from Shanktown by Mary Donnet Johnson
- Metamorphoses’ by Timothy David Rey
- Fertility Rites by Joni Fritz
- Roles and Rules by Tammy Gomez
- Does Not Warrant by Eugene O’Reilly
- The Waiting Room by Brittany Micka-Foos
- Sex and Sensibility by Annie Vaughn
Finalists
- Cliff & Clara & Her Baby by Lauren Whitehead
- I’m Preggers! By Melinda Gros
- Birthrights…and Wrongs by Marj O’Neill-Butler
- Destiny by Laura Scruggs
- Unbalanced by Charles Karol Brestman
- The Doctor Will Be With You Shortly by Chantel L. Carlson
Semi-Finalists
- The Silence by Connie Schindewolf
- Cleavage by J. Thalia Cunningham, MD
- The Miracle of Childbirth by Charles Karol Brestman
- Nature vs. Nurture by Louis DeVaughn Nelson
- Birth Plan by Monica Cross
Script Selection Committee
- Heather Hale Nguyen, MS – Director, Humanities & Communication, Anne Burnett Marion School of Medicine at TCU.
- Whitney Hall – Coordinator of Standardized Patient Education, Anne Burnett Marion School of Medicine at TCU. Whitney has a theater background and previously served as a Standardized Patient for the School of Medicine.
- Lindsay Hayward, MA – Academic Coordinator, Anne Burnett Marion School of Medicine at TCU. Lindsay is an international performer, playwright and EMC candidate.
- Erin Nelson, PsyD – Assistant Dean of Physician Communication, Anne Burnett Marion School of Medicine at TCU. Dr. Nelson has over two decades of experience conducting independent psychological evaluations and providing consultation on psycho-legal matters.
- Ayvaunn Penn, BA, MA, MFA – Stethoscope Stage Founder. In addition to being an assistant professor of Theatre at Texas Christian University, Penn is a Columbia University Playwriting Dean’s Fellow, published playwright, full member of The Dramatists Guild of America, and Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference Finalist. Click here to learn more.
- Clare Shaffer, MLA – Simulated Patient Educator, Anne Burnett Marion School of Medicine at TCU. Clare is also a theatre director, producer and casting director.
- Amit Singh, MD – Director, Physician Communication & Associate Professor, Pediatrics, Anne Burnett Marion School of Medicine at TCU. Pediatric Hospital Attending & Physician Director, Cook Children’s Medical Center.
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