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Girlfails

$16.00

Play, 2f

Everybody loves Joy – especially Frankie. Nobody likes Frankie… except Joy. These two unlikely best friends and roommates are stuck in the post-graduation, pre-real life part of their twenties. You know, the making horrible dating decisions, trying to get a “real job”, drinking open beers off the sidewalk part. But at least they have each other! Joy and Frankie’s adventures in attempted adulthood lead them places most wouldn’t dare go, but they find themselves at a fork in the road when Frankie faces a 23 year old’s worst enemy: graduate school. With one mailed-in application, their lives are turned upside down. What do you do when your other half might leave? Can you still be best friends with someone who’s everything you’re not? How likely are you to get arrested for stealing a live lab rat? Girlfails is the ultimate tale of platonic love and the type of chaos you can only get into with your best friend.

Play, 2f

Everybody loves Joy – especially Frankie. Nobody likes Frankie… except Joy. These two unlikely best friends and roommates are stuck in the post-graduation, pre-real life part of their twenties. You know, the making horrible dating decisions, trying to get a “real job”, drinking open beers off the sidewalk part. But at least they have each other! Joy and Frankie’s adventures in attempted adulthood lead them places most wouldn’t dare go, but they find themselves at a fork in the road when Frankie faces a 23 year old’s worst enemy: graduate school. With one mailed-in application, their lives are turned upside down. What do you do when your other half might leave? Can you still be best friends with someone who’s everything you’re not? How likely are you to get arrested for stealing a live lab rat? Girlfails is the ultimate tale of platonic love and the type of chaos you can only get into with your best friend.

About the Author

Liv Shoup (she/her) is a playwright, screenwriter, and educator based in the one and only Philadelphia, PA. She grew up on the opposite side of Pennsylvania in Pittsburgh, where she was raised by her wickedly funny and incredibly loving parents who instilled in her the love of comedy that made her who she is today. Liv then relocated to Philadelphia in 2016 to pursue a degree in Screenwriting and Playwriting from Drexel University, where she later spent time as an adjunct and the General Manager of the Drexel Theatre Program. She had a great time teaching in higher education and really hopes someone lets her do it again soon (wink wink nudge nudge.) Comedy is Liv’s first love, and she uses it to reflect real life in very heightened situations that still make the audience go “wow, that’s just like me for real.” In the past, Liv has written about difficult subjects such as fatphobia, misogyny, and grief, but always balances it out with themes of unstoppable female friendship, love, and the occasional puppet! Liv’s other written work includes the plays Skinny Legend (Philadelphia Women’s Theatre Festival, 2023) and Trauma Queen (coming to Spokane Playwrights Lab in 2026!), as well as the pilot edition of Girlfails (Finalist: New Your Script Awards) and her pilot Me and My Great Great Great Grandad’s Gay Skeleton (Semi-finalist, Creative Screenwriting Unique Voices Competition). This play, Girlfails, is a celebration of the rich tapestry of friendships and platonic love she has experienced over the years. She hopes you enjoy reading it, and that it makes you want to tell your friends how much you love them!