Carolyn Gage

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  • Bibliography:
    41 Books
  • First Book:
    January 2009
  • Latest Book:
    June 2023
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Book List in Order: 41 titles

  • The Spindle

    This play is simply brilliant-in its construct, its characters and its dialogue.-Sacramento Art and Entertainment Examiner. A children's theatre play for adults! As thirteen-year old Doko struggles to rescue her best friend the Princess Beauty from t...

  • Ugly Ducklings

    Two counselors at a summer camp struggle with their love against a backdrop of homophobia. Scenes with the campers depict with chilling accuracy the cruelty of girls towards those they perceive as outsiders. Powerful, award-winning lesbian drama!...

  • The Second Coming of Joan of Arc: A One-Woman Play

    In The Second Coming of Joan of Arc, Joan returns to share her story with contemporary women. She tells her experiences with the highest levels of church, state, and military, and unmasks the brutal misogyny behind male institutions. Award-winning, i...

  • Artemisia and Hildegard: An Exorcism in One Act

    Two of the most powerful women artists in history discuss their work on an explosive arts panel about survival strategies for women artists....

  • The Last Reading of Charlotte Cushman

    Captivating evening with one of the greatest actresses of the nineteenth century. Charlotte Cushman, a large butch woman, made a name for herself in “breeches parts,” and treats the audience to excerpts from her Hamlet, Romeo, and Cardinal Wolsey...

  • Sappho in Love

    A Lesbian midsummer night’s dream with the goddesses of celibacy, love, and marriage competing for Sappho’s attention amid poetry contests, meteor showers, lessons on lesbian love-making, romantic trysting, mix-ups and disguises. Wet and wild rom...

  • The Goddess Tour

    It’s a dark and stormy night at a remote inn on the Burren of Western Ireland, as six American women -- strangers to each other (or are they?) -- gather for a tour of ancient goddess sites. A murder mystery exploring potentially deadly mother-daugh...

  • Heterosexuals Anonymous: A 12-Step Spoof in One Act

    A playful send-up of the 12-step movement. Five women in recovery from their addictions to men, convene at their weekly meeting. The format includes personal testimonies and the reading of the 12 Steps of HA. ...

  • Starting from Zero: One-Act Plays about Lesbians in Love

    A collection of eight one-act plays by lesbian playwright Carolyn Gage. Includes Lace Curtain Irish, The Greatest Actress Who Ever Lived, Planchette, Little Sister, Souvenirs from Eden, The Countess and the Lesbians, Deep Haven, Since I Died, and 'Ti...



  • The Evil That Men Do: The Story of Thalidomide

    Fast-paced radio drama, suitable for stage production. The conspiracy of the German drug manufacturers and the FDA unfolds like a murder mystery, as Dr. Frances Kelsey, suspecting birth defects, stalls for time against mounting pressures to license ...

  • The A-Mazing Yamashita and the Gold-Diggers

    Powerful anti-prostitution, anti-pornography one-act play! “The transnational, postmodern magic show of the millennium!” The A-Mazing Yamashita promises to levitate a woman, cut a woman in two, and disappear a hundred thousand women -- all throug...

  • Battered On Broadway

    Farcical romp that takes a backwards look at the misogyny of Broadway’s musicals through the eyes of the characters themselves... decades later!...

  • Bite My Thumb: A Skirmish in One Act

    A "skirmish in one-act." Two "gangs" from contemporary rival productions of Romeo and Juliet meet in an Off-Off Broadway alley to rumble, sixteenth-century style. Lots of cross-dressed knee-flexing and gender-bending!...

  • Blackeye: A Knockout In Nine Minutes

    Subtitled "a knockout in nine minutes," this short play packs a punch. The year is 1953, and Amanda is a 13-year-old tomboy who has been sent to the principal's office for fighting the boys who have been lesbian-baiting her. When the prin...

  • The Boundary Trial of John Proctor

    A one'act featuring the notorious anti'hero of Arthur Miller’s Crucible, and the women he exploited. John Proctor, finding himself in the boundary lands of patriarchy after his execution, encounters a second trial -- this time by the women. Pro...

  • The Gage and Mr. Comstock

    A monologue by feminist foremother and Suffragist, Matilda Joslyn Gage, in which she sets the bait for Anthony Comstock to ban her book, Woman, Church and State, a comprehensive exposé of the historical misogyny of the christian church....

  • Hermeneutic Circlejerk, or The Founding of Postmodern Theory

    A farcical satire on the founding of postmodernism by two philosophers with a public history of pro-pedophilia activism. Is the “deconstruction of childhood” a coincidental by-product of of post-structural theory, or something more sinister: the ...

  • How to Write a Country-Western Song

    A five-woman “concert with a plot.” Two sets of lovers, both former bandmates, struggle with recovery on the eve of a concert. Show combines country-western, punk rock, hip hop, gospel, and blues... using a concert stage for the set. CD available...

  • The Ladies' Room

    A five-minute play about two lesbian teenagers in a ladies' room at a shopping mall. The butch has just been mistaken for a man, and mall security is on the way. Her girlfriend, because of her own history,is conflicted about offering support....



  • The Pele Chant: A Civilized Conversation In One Act

    A ninety-two-year-old Native Hawaiian woman struggles with the last request of her adoptive mother, Queen Liliuokalani, the last queen of Hawai’i. Succeeding in her quest, she overturns the paradigm of Western history, exposing its inherently colon...

  • The Poorly-Written Play Festival

    Just possibly the worst one-act play ever written! A committee of play readers meet in the Green Room to select the plays for a Festival of Poorly-Written Plays. In the course of the meeting, they violate every tenet of good playwriting in a kind of ...

  • The Second Coming of Joan of Arc and Selected Plays

    Lambda Award National Winner! Collection of seven historical plays by Carolyn Gage, including: The Second Coming of Joan of Arc,The Last Reading of Charlotte Cushman,The Parmachene Belle,Calamity Jane Sends a Message to Her Daughter, Cookin’ with T...

  • The Countess and the Lesbians

    A one-act play by Carolyn Gage. Three lesbian actors are rehearsing an historical play about Countess Markiewicz and the aftermath of her participation in the Easter Week Rising in Dublin. The play is about her political differences with her sister, ...

  • I Have Come to Show You Death: Scenes On Lesbians and Dying By Nineteenth-Century, New England Women Writers

    A collection of one-act, dramatic adaptations of the writings of four 19th century, New England women writers, dealing with lesbian life partners and death, including Sarah Orne Jewett, Mary Wilkins Freeman, Alice Brown, and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps....

  • Women On the Land: A Lesbian Musical

    Small-cast lesbian musical about the culture clash between the urban leather scene and the country dykes on a land collective in Oregon. “Vampire Lesbians From Hell” meet the goddess worshiper in a showdown of values on the night of Beltane. Scor...

  • Nine Short Plays

  • The Great Fire

    A ten-minute play by Carolyn Gage. Two sisters and their brother wait for rescue by boat on the beach of Bar Harbor, as the Great Fire of 1947 destroys the entire town. The former chambermaid provides a key to escape from the apocalyptic scenario....

  • The A-Mazing Yamashita and the Millennial Gold-Diggers

    The transnational, postmodern magic show of the millennium!” The A-Mazing Yamashita promises to levitate a woman, cut a woman in two, and disappear a hundred thousand women -- all through the wizardry of modern pharmaceuticals, the presto-chango of...

  • Ain't Got No - I Got Life



  • Little Sister

    A one-act play by Carolyn Gage with Christopher N. Courchene. A tribal police officer struggles with her lesbian partner over issues of loyalty and definitions of "family."...

  • Crossing the Rapelands

    This is a one-woman show about the playwright's experiences of hitchhiking through America in the early 1970's-specifically about hitchhiking from Boulder to Los Angeles, to San Francisco and back with another woman in the summer of 1973. In this tal...

  • Babe

    The show is a big, brassy, full-cast, mainstage musical, featuring a high school gymnasium dance and beauty pageant, a choreographed jazz interpretation of a women's basketball game, a pajama party on the Olympic train, a tango at the country club, a...

  • The Very Short Plays

    A collection of twelve of Carolyn Gage's one-act plays, all running under fifteen minutes in length. Plays include: At Sea, Black Eye, Calamity Jane Sends a Message to Her Daughter, The Clarity of Pizza, The Gage and Mr. Comstock, The Great Fire, Hea...

  • At Sea

    Two lesbian buddies in their 80’s have escaped from a nursing home at night, stolen a sailboat, and are planning a double suicide out on the ocean. At Sea is a fleeting (no pun intended) celebration of lesbian friendship, sailing, marijuana, and re...

  • Miss Le Gallienne Announces the New Season

    A 10-minute monologue. A monologue. Actress Eva Le Gallienne faces her first press conference after the fire that almost killed her and the scandal of her girlfriend's divorce....

  • Female Nude Seated

    Two Irish art students, Mainie Jellett and Evie Hone, meet in a student rooming house in London, late one night in 1917. Both of them are at dramatic turning points in their lives and on the brink of making disastrous choices....

  • The Intimacy Coordinator

  • Starpattern

  • Big Plays



  • Georgia and the Butch

  • Announcing the New Season

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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Carolyn Gage has published 41 books.

Carolyn Gage does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Georgia and the Butch, was published in June 2023.

The first book by Carolyn Gage, The Spindle, was published in January 2009.

No. Carolyn Gage does not write books in series.
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