Playwright // Screenwriter
Caity-Shea
Violette
Caity-Shea Violette is a 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), 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 Roundabout Theatre Company, The Kennedy Center, Portland Stage Company, Great Plains Theatre Commons, Climate Change Theatre Action, The New Harmony Project, Boston Playwrights’ Theatre, and more. She has also been a finalist for Risk Theatre’s Modern Tragedy Award and a semifinalist for the Future of Playwriting Prize and Bay Area Playwrights Festival. Caity-Shea’s plays are published by Concord Theatricals and Applause books. 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.