Scripts &
Plays
Kelsey Maurine Brickl writes dramatic work across stage and screen, with a focus on power, historical memory, coercion, class, institutional mythology, disability, reputation, and the unstable relationship between public identity and private truth.
Her dramatic writing combines historical rigor, psychological pressure, moral ambiguity, dark humor, and strong theatrical architecture.
Across forms, her work is particularly interested in the systems people build to survive hierarchy, shame, violence, longing, and belief.
Screen
The Book of Loretta
Completed feature screenplay.
When a devout, socially isolated Florida woman reframes estrangement as divine persecution, she goes uninvited to Manhattan to reclaim her estranged daughter, only for her mission of love, faith, and essential oils to tighten into domestic siege.
Dark satire with psychological pressure.
Comps: The Royal Tenenbaums meets Succession meets Oh, Mary!
There Are No Comets Seen
Completed pilot screenplay.
A dramatic science-fiction pilot exploring memory, corporate power, the hierarchy of human life, and the stories people construct to survive public and private catastrophe.
Stage
The Iron Duke
Two-act historical play. Currently in development.
Set during the final years of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, The Iron Duke follows the aging victor of Waterloo as he confronts legacy, bodily decline, imperial mythology, class anxiety, political exhaustion, and the intimate human cost of becoming a national symbol.
