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Monique Franz

Monique Franz is an American playwright, novelist, and teaching artist whose work highlights advocacy for marginalized communities. She earned her MFA in Creative Writing from Wilkes University, where she won the Beverly Hiscox and Norris Church Mailer scholarship awards.

Franz has written several plays produced onstage in California, New York, and overseas where she served as the Head Performing Arts Mentor of the International Academy of Film and Television (Hong Kong). During her time overseas, she also worked as a freelance writer and theatre director—assisting professional musical productions that raised city-wide awareness and funds for asylum-seekers and refugees.

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    Candy and Toys

    $7.25 – $35.00
    A ten-page short play from a series of plays within a collection - Legacy of a Father - by playwright, Monique Franz. The script addresses the emotional toll on women raised without the love and affection of a father. Based on a real-life interview, the story highlights the negative impact of a culture that values sons over daughters, men over women.
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  • Daddy’s Silhouette

    $7.25 – $35.00
    From her earliest memory, Quiana, an African American woman in her twenties, is desperate for the love of an absentee father, which carries into her adulthood. Her fear of abandonment bleeds into her marriage to Tommy, an easy-going seaman, who demonstrates saint-like patience with his wife’s chronic daddy issues.
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  • Far from the Tree

    $7.25 – $35.00
    A father should be proud to witness his ambitious son strive to fulfill his career goals, except if the father is a narcissistic dad whose failures come to light by his son’s successes. In "Far from the Tree", a comedy short play within "Legacy of a Father" series by playwright Monique Franz, the main character has to overcome his father’s tactics of sabotage to stay focused on his future.
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  • Legacy of a Father

    $14.70 – $110.00
    "Legacy of a Father" is a collection of  seven dramatic and comedy one-act plays inspired by real one-on-one, personal interviews conducted by the playwright, Monique Franz. The series addresses a fatherless theme and deals with absentee fathers and the absence of what a father traditionally provides.
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  • Papito

    $7.25 – $35.00
    Papito is a ten-page short play addressing parentification, specifically how a young man who grows up without a father assumes the partnership role with his mother and has difficulty establishing a healthy partnership with a significant other. The narrator, Zoe, is that significant other who is frustrated with her domineering mother-in-law and her husband who refuses to establish needed boundaries for his mom.
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  • The Legacy of an Invisible Father

    $7.25 – $35.00
    “The Legacy of an Invisible Father” is a 10-min drama within Monique Franz’s play series “Legacy of a Father.” The short play highlights one woman’s futile attempt to locate a father through a private investigator. Angela’s lifelong loss of a father figure is further complicated by her biracial identity and her struggles with an unloving mother. Within the script, Angela must come to the terms that fate hadn’t been cruel to her at all, that maybe the absence of her father was the heavens working in her favor.
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  • Unlocked Doors

    $7.25 – $35.00
    “Unlocked Doors” is a 10-min drama within Monique Franz’s play series, “Legacy of a Father" , and touches on the impact of incest for one woman. Christine, a wife and mother in her thirties, is losing her faith and has hit an emotional wall due to the past sexual abuse of her father. Decades after the abuse, Christine is challenged to aggressively take back the control robbed from her as a child.
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  • Wrong Place, Wrong Time

    $7.25 – $35.00
    “Wrong Place, Wrong Time” is another 10-minute short in Monique Franz play series, “Legacy of a Father.” The script touches on the soil on which many troubled inner-city youth grow, especially those without the presence of a quality father figure. The script highlights the lack of choices that men of urban contexts are presented with, from birth until adulthood.
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