The Ella Plays

Indie Boots Theatre Festival celebrates new short plays with different perspectives on whose stories are worth telling, what’s funny, and how the world works. This year’s writing prompt, to use “Ella” in the title of a short script, resulted in hundreds of diverse submissions, each competing to be a finalist.

Audiences are treated to nine short plays, fully staged by Chicago directors and actors. This year’s plays, most of them seriocomedies penned by women, touch on feminism, sexuality, the American workplace, growing up, intersectionality, disconnection, friendship, and, well, zombies.