Claire BonEnfant
Playwright/Lyricist/Screenwriter
I write clever comedies about serious themes for stage and screen. Fresh, funny, quirky and highly original scripts that resonate with unexpected depth. My current body of work includes four feature-length screenplays, three short film scripts, three musicals, four full-length stage plays and three one-act plays. Here you’ll find a one-sentence synopsis for each script. You can even listen to lyrics from my musicals, as well as a stand-alone song.
We all create meaning in our own way. My way is to write about complex characters who stumble from one question mark to the next. As they search for answers, I am guided by an indisputable truth: inquiring minds still want to laugh.
My one-act play, Lying on the Escarpment, was produced by Toronto’s Alumnae Theatre New Ideas Festival and later produced, along with Knock It Off!, at the Toronto Fringe Festival. Horizon was featured in Theatre Aurora’s Playwrights of Spring Festival. A 10-minute play, The Caw-Caw Conspiracy, was produced by the Fowl Plays Festival, Heartland Theatre, Bloomington, Illinois.
I live in Toronto, Canada.
2 New Plays!
Dupe
A 65-year-old woman on the brink of retirement is duped by a scam artist
and plots to retrieve her money and her self-respect.
Homebodies
A 62-year-old woman in search of her missing friend shows up at a house in the country
and finds three singular women with something to hide.
Think you’ve got tummy troubles?
Fam (short for Famished) from Body of Opinion
Hear what she has to put up with in
“Gut Reaction” on the LISTEN TO LYRICS page.
From Eden to Earth:
Look what’s on Eve’s To-Do List!
“A Flash in the Pan is a great deal of fun. It succeeds as a story that is entertaining, but also has heart.”
Cheryl Coons, Chicago
Instructor, Dramatists Guild of America Institute
See Something Intriguing?
If you’re a composer, producer, director or actor looking for
a new project that’s playful yet pertinent, please get in touch.
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