SCOTT C. SICKLES (he/him) is an LGBTQ/neurodivergent/biracial Korean American writer. He has received five consecutive Writers Guild of America Awards for the daytime serial General Hospital, and numerous Emmy Award nominations. For over thirty years, his plays have been performed in New York City, his native Pittsburgh, across the United States, as well as internationally in Canada, Australia, the UK, Hungary, Singapore, Indonesia, Lebanon, and Dubai.
Sickles’s biographical drama Nonsense and Beauty, chronicling the private life of E. M. Forster, received its world premiere at the Repertory Theater of St. Louis, garnering an Edgerton Foundation New Play Award, and was a finalist for the Harold and Mimi Steinberg/American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award. The play won the 2016 Dayton Playhouse Future Fest under its previous title, Shepherds Bush, and received its West Coast Premiere at Theatre22 in Seattle in 2022.
Playing on the Periphery received its world premiere at Kansas City’s Whim Productions. Telling the story of four LGBTQ+ third-graders, it was prevoiusly presented as a concert reading by Reading Theatre Project, deep in red Pennsylvania. Monologues and scenes from the piece have been performed in “Don’t Say Gay” Florida.
The Second World Trilogy, a speculative alt-history political/environmental love story, consists of three full-length plays spanning nearly 50 years. Marianas Trench, the first in the series and an O’Neill finalist, received developmental readings at The Road Theater Company, Portland Stage, and the Mixed Asian Media Festival. Leviathan Lab in New York City will produce its world premiere production in Spring 2024. The second installment, Pangea, an O’Neill semifinalist, was presented as virtual readings by Roly Poly Productions and the Garry Marshall Theatre New Works Festival. The final play, The Known Universe, headlined the inaugural Mixed Asian Media Festival.
Published tiles include Composure (New York Innovative Theater Award, Lambda Literary finalist), Hairdresser on Fire, From the Top, Moonlight & Love Songs, and Hellish Delights (Next Stage Press); Intellectuals, Beautiful Noises, and Drain (Smith & Kraus); Turtles and Bulldogs, Up on a Roof, and Badger and Frame (Applause); murmurs (Samuel French/Concord); a Hungarian translation of The Other Half; Perfecting the Kiss: a mockumentary for the Stage and Demon Bitch Goddess (consisting of the short plays Medusa, Cassiopeia, and Thalassa) (Amazon/KDP); “Guten Tag, Baby!” (Left Edge Theatre and Good Life Review); Your Gaze and Afterwards (The Playground Experiment Faces of America); Eighty-Seven Keys (Breath of Fire Latina Theater Ensemble); 600 km NE Lima (Flyway Journal). Smith & Kraus and Applause have also published several of his monologues.
Other full-length plays: Lightning from Heaven (Beverly Hills Theater Guild/Julie Harris Playwriting Award), The Philosopher’s Joke; Frailty, Thy Name; Layers, or “The Casserole Play,” Seaside Tragedies; TARTARUS; and Tesseract.
Other produced short plays: All the Things; The Antique Shoppe; Appetizers, or “On an Island Somewhere”; Arboreal Conquests; The Bedroom Summit; Boardwalk Concessions; Bulletproof Love; Dangerous Angels; Deception • War • Retribution; Erroneous Zones; Fade to White; The Fallow Garden; The Following Morning; Glint; The Greater and Lesser Edmunds of the World; Hand on Heart; The Harmonic Convergence (winner Pittsburgh New Works Festival); #Bastille; I Knew It!; I’d Follow You Anywhere: a Solaris story; I’ll Find My Soul as I Go Home; The Man in 119; Manly Men Doing Manly Things; Miracle and Her Minion, The Mother Lode; The Nihilists Victorious; Notes Over and Undercast Sky; O, For a Muse of Fire; The Open Window; Orchids and Heat; Outpost; Sarcophagus; Somewhere South of Bethlehem; Sugarplum; Tactile Creatures; Uncomplicated Bereavement; Vacancies; Vanilla; Virgins; We’ll Take a Cup of Kindness Yet; Wheel of Fortune Reversed; and Yea, Though I Walk.
Other produced monologues: Between the Surf and the Stars; Boy’s State; Consolation; End of a Long, Long Day; Escalator to the Gallows; Hoist; I Left My Heart in the Mojave Desert; Knife on a Glass; Night in Tunisia; Parameters; Surrounded; This is Not a Touch Exhibit; Time, Magic, and Antoinette; The Time You Were Away; We Ride at Dawn!.
Sickles holds an MFA in playwriting from Carnegie Mellon University and is a member of the Writers Guild of America, the Dramatists Guild, and the New Play Exchange. www.ScottCSickles.com