The October People’s Choice Award goes to…

The people have spoken… The October People’s Choice Award goes to Kathryn Ryan for her short play, Supergirls, presented as a staged reading live at The Producer’s Club and  Simulcast & On-Demand via Vimeo Live on October 23rd. Congratulations, Kathryn!

Courtesy of Kathryn, we’re pleased to share the first few pages from the award-winning script. Enjoy!

SUPERGIRLS
by Kathryn Ryan

CHARACTERS
ROSIE: Female, a recent Ivy League graduate. Can be any race, ethnicity.
CASSANDRA: Female, middle aged, well-educated and well-off. Rosie’s adoptive mom. Can be any race, ethnicity.

SETTING
A depressed area in the Midwest. The main action takes place in a car, suggested by two
seats and an imagined steering wheel, mirrors, windows, etc.

AT RISE Cassandra is driving, her phone at the
ready. Rosie is in the passenger’s seat, with a
Supergirl reprint compendium: Action Comics
Supergirl The Silver Age Volume 1.

ROSIE

I wouldn’t expect you to understand –

CASSANDRA

I’m trying to.

ROSIE

Because, A) you have no interest in comic book characters –

CASSANDRA

I watched every episode when you were in high school –

ROSIE

You never enjoyed it.

CASSANDRA

I would have preferred a Restoration Comedy, but it was important to you – so I did it.

ROSIE

And B), you don’t believe I have trauma.

CASSANDRA

Also not true.

ROSIE

I didn’t even bring it up. She did!

CASSANDRA

I wish you would have told me you’d started emailing her. Not because you’re not
allowed, you’re an adult, you’re totally allowed – it’s just –

ROSIE

I didn’t want to upset you.

CASSANDRA

What upsets me is that you felt you had to keep it a secret. I don’t keep secrets from you.

ROSIE

I wasn’t sure where things were headed. Until she said “this situation is exactly like the story in Action Comics Supergirl Three-Oh-Nine” –

CASSANDRA

Title, please.

ROSIE

(consults the book) “The Untold Story of Argo City”. I included it in my thesis?

CASSANDRA

There were an awful lot of comic book examples in your thesis. But focus is why we have grad schools.

ROSIE

It’s the one where Supergirl tries to reconnect with her birth parents? And I was like “Three-Oh-Nine, that’s my all-time favorite” and she said, “Of course it would have to be, because that story is about trauma, which is what you have from being adopted.”

CASSANDRA

That’s where you picked up this trauma idea? From Jade? Who gives people manicures
for a living?

ROSIE

She’s a fully licensed cosmetologist, and anyway, there’s a ton of articles. A lot of research being done about the tremendous psychic damage adoption causes –

CASSANDRA

I’m familiar with the literature. And aware of the current reconsideration of the topic.

ROSIE

It’s not a topic, Mom. It’s my story.

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