From a top-secret laboratory to a crowded RV, from the ruins of an ancient shopping mall to an otherworld behind the mirrors, BT Montrym’s writing unmasks the surreal in the quotidian.
Screenplays and Audio
Fatal Viewpoint
When amnesiac himbo Qi meets a mysterious telepathic woman who claims they were once best friends as children (and that they both grew up in the shady government lab up the road) he joins her on her quest for answers— and finds a labyrinth of regrets, revenge, and the echoes of a child’s promise.
Chapter 01: Materially Real Girls in a Materially Real World
Chapter 02: Do Skeletons Dream, Strung Up and Closeted?
Chapter 03: Wistful Style of a Wishful Life
Chapter 04: Through the Eyes of Another
Seeking one more staged reading before beginning production. Inquiries regarding financing are welcome.
Indestructible
An invulnerable man must guide a powerful girl through a post-apocalyptic grassland so she can deactivate an ancient nuclear reactor before a nihilistic cult blows it up.
About three hundred years after an apocalypse that took place around now, some people have been Talented by the chaotic environment and can perform impressive supernatural feats if they can endure encroaching supernatural costs. Desmond, an invulnerable fixer, is hired to escort someone across the ruins, wastes, and grasslands: Spira, a girl who can destroy anything but whose body cracks like glass at the slightest injury. When a cult dead set on proving nothing matters threatens nuclear annihilation using the abandoned technology of the ancients, Desmond must keep the fragile girl safe so she can destroy the threat and not destroy herself.
Second draft in progress. Seeking workshops and readings.
Full-Length Plays
Her Vanity
All roles have no specified race. One woman, 25-30, mobility impairment (more details in script); One man, 30-40; One woman, 25-35; One man, 22-45; One actor of any appearance (more details in script).
Fresh out of physical therapy and eager to start over, Match moves back to her childhood home, the City of Bridle. Her old friend is able to set her up above a mutual acquaintance’s bar, but something isn’t right. People are disappearing on the news and Match’s new friends are keeping a secret. Luckily for the sinister presence spilling out of the vanity in Match’s room, Match is still relearning how to stand on her own. But her friends will risk everything to keep another lost soul from vanishing behind a mirror.
Open to revisions. Seeking readings and full productions.
Radiant
All characters 20-30. One white woman; One man, any race; One woman of color; One trans man, Sino-Indian; One white man; One actor of any appearance.
It’s time for Wiccan Rachel, thoughtful Tristan, and extremely millennial Satya to resume criss-crossing the country in Rachel’s RV, selling their art and handiwork in various towns and cities. In Seattle, Tristan decides to bring an acquaintance, a painter named Dylan, into the group. The problem? Rachel is prone to angry outbursts and hates change. Nevertheless, they all make it to Texas and decide to help out a hitchhiker named Ayla who needs to get to New York. The problem? Rachel is a cartoonish Islamophobe, and Ayla is Muslim. When a medical emergency halts the trip, what was meant to be a straightforward journey quickly devolves into a tangled clash about faith, religion, loyalty, and anger.
Open to minor revisions. Seeking readings and full productions.
Three Deities Witness an End of a World
Two women between 25 and 45, any race
Two men between 30 and 50, any race
One woman, 20-30, any race (Theia)
One woman, 40-50, any race (Nyx)
One man, 25-35, any race (Gaia)
Gaia, Theia, and Nyx, grand beings forged and discarded by the great collision that birthed our moon, watch over Earth’s newest dominant species. Theia’s convinced humanity turns towards light, but we are so wrapped in choice and contradiction that it’s truly hard to tell. This play cycle traces humanity across centuries as the Earth tries to ascertain: Where will we stand when the looming dark falls?
Open to revisions. Seeking readings and full productions.
Tiny Hoodie
One man, any race, 30-40; One woman, any race, 35-45; Two women, any race, 25-30; One man, any race/age.
“So, I guess you’re a werewolf now, huh?”, says Red, and things don’t look up for her boyfriend Randolph after that. Well, maybe they do for a little– he feels younger, healthier, more passionate. Sure, he has horrible fits when the moon gets too bright. Sure, he’s still not a father. And the odd power outages leave a lot to be desired. But he’s gotten so strong. So what exactly is the problem? Tiny Hoodie is the family-drama-instigated-by-lycanthrophy that no one knew they needed.
Open to revisions. Seeking workshops and readings.
Someone’s Daughter
One white man (tenor), 35-45; One Hispanic man (baritone), 45-55; One Black woman (contralto), 35-40; One Hispanic woman (mezzo), playing 15; One man (baritone), any race/age; Two women (alto&soprano), any race/age.
When Tom Gale is transferred to the small-town police department in Toluca Falls, he resigns himself to a life of missing bicycles and overbearing coworkers. But when a murder rocks the sleepy town, then another, then another, Tom’s life heats up. Sure, it’s him doing the killing, but that doesn’t matter if everyone’s having fun, does it? And the chief of police is desperately searching for the truth. Why do bad things happen to good people? Why did Tom do it? And why have similar murders been happening every thirty years for as long as anyone can remember? While it becomes clearer and clearer that the voices in Tom’s head are more real than anybody thought, Toluca Falls and the people Tom lied to are in for a very rude awakening.
Open to major revisions. Seeking workshops and readings.
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Short Plays + Play Cycles
Diminishing Wine
Play Cycle.
One woman of color, 30-40; One white man, 30-40; Two actors, 25-40, any gender, any race.
Five short plays: a fiery couple with a secret, a listless couple with a sick dog, a gigantic spider in a man’s apartment, a red dwarf and a blue giant in love across galaxies, and never, ever enough wine.
Eucalyptus
Ten-minute.
Two actors, any gender, any race.
One ex receives an out-of-the-blue phone call from the other.
Aul//Ope is Lost
One-act.
Two masc actors, 25-30, any race; One masc actor, 20-25, any race.
In a surrealist poetic tragedy, three queer men/mascs unpack how the concept of masculinity, both toxic and empowering, has impeded, impacted, and impelled their capacity for love. Each of the three characters speaks in their own form of verse.
Upcoming workshop reading at Living Light.
