Project Fear (And All the Fears)

Project Fear (And All the Feels)

by Michelle Kholos Brooks

Project Fear (And All the Feels) is a documentary-style play that delves into the fears and obstacles faced by youth in Middle and High School today. With the added pressures of social media, gender identity, and cancel culture, as well as issues of racism, violence, and a global pandemic, teenagers are facing an unprecedented amount of challenges. This production compiles the stories of over fifty teens from various backgrounds across the United States to tell the stories that are meaningful to them.

$12.00

Quick Details

  • Type: Play
  • Length: 60 minutes | Playwright is willing to work with individual groups to creating shorter versions for one-act competitions
  • Availability: Available for productions worldwide
  • Cast Size: Flexible casting. 23 roles with option to reduce or expand when appropriate. Doubling possible.

Full Details

Roles:

  • Hailey
  • Rachel
  • Liam
  • Samantha
  • Theo
  • Luke
  • Curtis
  • Emma
  • Cora
  • Jace
  • Lily
  • Amelia
  • Sidney
  • Miriam
  • Kennedy
  • Savannah
  • Gus
  • Isabelle
  • Kai
  • Joshua
  • Tristan
  • Bobbi

The following resources are included in each performance license:
  • Permission to photocopy the PDF script for your production so there is no additional cost for these assets.

The following resources may be added to you license for an additional fee:
  • Logo/Media package

Michelle Kholos Brooks

Michelle Kholos Brooks is an award-winning playwright with productions staged internationally. Awards and distinctions include the Susan Glaspell Award for H*TLER’S TASTERS and the Riva Shiner Comedy Award for KALAMAZOO, co-written with Kelly Younger. ROOM 1214 was a finalist for The Ashland New Plays Festival. HOSTAGE was a finalist for the Woodward/Newman Drama Award, The Fratti-Newman Political Play Contest, and a Showcase Finalist for the National New Play Network. CHAIR received second place in the Firehouse Theatre Festival of New American Plays. Michelle’s play, WAR WORDS has been recognized by the Veteran’s History Project at the Library of Congress.

Publications include Dramatists Play Service, Theatrical Rights Worldwide, Room literary magazine, The Daily Beast, and Zocalo Public Square.

Brooks earned a B.A. from Emerson College and an M.F.A. in Fiction from Otis College of Art and Design. She is a Resident Artist with New Light Theater Project, and a board member of ShPIel-Performing Identity Theatre Project. Michelle is a member of The Dramatists Guild of America and a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council, Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security.

Originally produced by Santa Monica College in 2024

A Note from the Playwright:

"I hope that young people will see what connects them rather than what divides them. I interviewed kids from Alaska to Hawaii to New York to South Carolina to Iowa. I interviewed progressives, conservatives and kids of varying cultures and identities. Almost every single kid told me that they had anxiety, that they hated middle school, and that they were scared of spiders. Those are great places to start when it comes to finding commonalities instead of differences." ~playwright, Michelle Kholos Brooks