Full-Length
Drama
3 Actors

Play

Dear Alien


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Synopsis

A shambolic reclusive advice columnist known professionally as Dear Alien is in crisis. He has a deadline of yesterday for a collection of his columns; if he doesn’t turn it in, he’ll be broke and in danger of eviction. But the agonizing predictability of readers’ questions is driving him mad, his editor is showing alarming signs of romantic interest, and online trolls are making threats, in this existential comedy about how to live in our postmodern world.

Casting & Production


Casting

DEAR ALIEN — An advice columnist. Over 40.
ÉCRIVAIN — A series of men who write to Dear Alien
SCRITTORA — A series of women who write to Dear Alien


Setting

Place
An apartment in a large city. Something to sit and lie on like a shabby chaise lounge or upholstered bench. Stacks of papers, piles of books, a booze bottle, a landline phone.

Time
Now.

Media

"There’s something quietly radical about a play that asks audiences to slow down and listen — really listen — to the inner lives of strangers... The result is a play that feels witty, melancholic, deeply human — and surprisingly timely."

— KPRC’s Houston Life

"The amazing feat overall is that with so many simple ingredients, DEAR ALIEN explodes into orbits that seem stranger than anything encountered on movie Sci-Fi screens. In doing so, it reveals how isolated living in a tribe defined by our texting thumbs can feel and what hope there is for connection, which is theatre’s great promise."

— Houston Chronicle