LOADED LANGUAGE
ELIZABETH SHANNON
sponsored by: JEANNE DUNCAN
SYNOPSIS
Five high school students have grown up in the era of lockdowns and active shooter drills. When a rumor about a school shooter begins to circulate, Kiersa and her friends must decide what they should do to protect their classmates before it is too late.
"Did you hear correctly? You’re kinda freaking me out…"
Elizabeth Shannon
Loaded Language
Playwright's Bio
Elizabeth Shannon is a Maryland-based writer and a current senior. She is an apprentice at the Maryland Ensemble Theatre (MET), as well as a member of the Theatre Focus in the Academy for the Fine Arts. Her play, WHAT ARE YOU HIDING?, which she co-wrote with Morgan Southwell, was a winner of Baltimore Centerstage’s Young Playwright’s Festival, and a finalist in The Secret Theatre’s Act One: One Act Festival, as well as part of the live-streamed reading series, THE FUTURE WAS NOW, by Quarantined Theatre Company, which can be found on YouTube. Her play, SMOKE, has also been published through Scripts For Stage, and had a Zoom performance with University of Texas El Paso’s student organization, Ensemble. Her play, NUCLEAR is a current winner of The Blank Theatre’s 28th Annual Young Playwrights Festival.
Fascinating look at an under-reported phenomenon associated with gun violence - the attendant anxiety of knowing it might happen at any time.
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