BIOGRAPHY
Caity-Shea Violette is an award-winning playwright and screenwriter based in LA. Her plays include RX MACHINA (ACTF Harold & Mimi Steinberg Award, Clauder Competition Gold Prize, Judith Royer Award Finalist), REAP THE GROVE (Jean Kennedy Smith Award, ScreenCraft’s Stage Writing Award Runner-Up), SLOW JAM (Samuel French Off Off Broadway Festival Winner, Gary Garrison National Ten-Minute Play Award, published by Concord Theatricals), CREDIBLE (Blue Ink Award Semifinalist, O’Neill NPC Semifinalist), TARGET BEHAVIOR (National Partners of American Theatre Award), and others. Her work has been developed or presented by Portland Stage Company, Roundabout Theatre Company, The Kennedy Center, Great Plains Theatre Commons, Climate Change Theatre Action, The New Harmony Project, Boston Playwrights’ Theatre, and more. She has been a finalist for Risk Theatre’s Modern Tragedy Award, as well as a semifinalist for the Future of Playwriting Prize and Bay Area Playwrights Festival. MFA in Playwriting: Boston University.
(Full-length – 5W) An ambitious pharmaceutical sales representative’s relentless pursuit of a rigidly principled pain management doctor leads to an intoxicating, forbidden connection that comes with a cost. Ethical boundaries are blurred in a literal manifestation of doctors being in bed with drug reps, forming a love triangle fueled by money, sex, and power. Illuminating the everyday impact of pharmaceutical marketing in the opioid epidemic, Rx Machina searches for humanity in a healthcare system that profits from pain and asks who gets to get better and who gets left behind.