Genre: Drama, one-act play

Synopsis: As a budding scientist, FRANKIE strives to develop a science project about energy for a high school Science Fair. However, her dysfunctional family inadvertently sabotages her efforts. In order to reach her goal, FRANKIE develops an alter-ego based on an 80-year-old scientist she finds on YouTube, MILLIE DRESSELHAUS. But is FRANKIE’s shear imagination powerful enough?

Characters (in order of appearance):  

FRANKIE, teenage girl

SCOTTY, teenage boy, FRANKIE’s younger brother

MOM, FRANKIE’s mother

DAD, FRANKIE’s father

MILLIE DRESSELHAUS, 86-year-old scientist, FRANKIE’s alter-ego. She wears her signature red sweater, and her hair is gray and braided around her head, as in the GE commercial.

Place:  Pittsburgh

Time: Present time

PROP LIST

Backpack

Bouquet of flowers wrapped in paper

Broken sheet of glass

Cell phones (2)

DVDs converted into solar cells – 2 good ones, a bunch of broken ones

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Earbuds

Glass with whiskey

Table

Trash can

Vase

SOUND

Thud

VIDEOS

#01  Moonshot Video

#02 Moonshot Video

#03 Moonshot Video

#04 Moonshot  Video

#05 Moonshot  Video

#06 Moonshot  Video

#07 Moonshot  Video