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POTUS

  • Selina Fillinger
  • Full Length Play, Comedy, Contemporary
  • 7F
  • ISBN: 9780573709999

An uproarious Broadway debut by playwright Selina Fillinger, POTUS Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive is a riotous comedy about the women in charge of the man in charge of the free world.

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Comedy
  • 105 minutes

  • Time Period: Contemporary
  • Target Audience: Adult
  • Set Requirements: Unit Set/Multiple Settings
  • Cautions: Drugs, Alcohol, Intense Adult Themes, Strong Language

  • Performance Group:
  • College Theatre / Student, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, Professional Theatre
One four-letter word is about to rock 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. When the President unwittingly spins a PR nightmare into a global crisis, the seven brilliant and beleaguered women he relies upon most risk life, liberty, and the pursuit of sanity to keep the commander-in-chief out of trouble.

Selina Fillinger's brilliant, all-female farce took Broadway by storm in a star-studded production that earned three 2022 Tony nominations.
REVIEWS:

"I am woman, hear me roar — with laughter, at POTUS: or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive, playwright Selina Fillinger’s delicious feminist farce... There are no secondary characters here, but a tight, fiercely funny ensemble of women... irresistibly funny."

 Variety

"Gleefully filthy."

 The New York Times

"A broad, zany, old-school comedy... You can feel how hungry the spectators are to laugh together, and they get to do it often in this silly, fast-paced lark."

 TimeOut NY

"Sly wit and inspired goofiness."

 The New York Sun

Premiere Production: POTUS: or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive premiered on Broadway at the Shubert Theatre on April 27, 2022. Directed by Susan Stroman, the production featured Lilli Cooper, Lea DeLaria, Rachel Dratch, Julianne Hough, Suzy Nakamura, Julie White and Vanessa Williams.

Characters

  • Casting: 7F
  • Casting Attributes: Roles for Multicultural Casting, All Female
  • Casting Notes: Any of these women can be any ethnicity. At least three of them should be WOC. Actors can be female-identifying or non-binary. Age is flexible. Beauty is subjective. So long as they’re fast, fierce, and fucking hilarious.

  • The Women, in order of their emotional proximity to POTUS (closest to farthest):

    HARRIET – His chief of staff.
    JEAN – His press secretary.
    STEPHANIE – His secretary.
    DUSTY – His dalliance.
    BERNADETTE – His sister.
    CHRIS – A journalist.
    MARGARET – His wife. The First Lady.

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    One four-letter word is about to rock 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. When the President unwittingly spins a PR nightmare into a global crisis, the seven brilliant and beleaguered women he relies upon most risk life, liberty, and the pursuit of sanity to keep the commander-in-chief out of trouble.

    Selina Fillinger's brilliant, all-female farce took Broadway by storm in a star-studded production that earned three 2022 Tony nominations.

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