Publication Date

Summer 2021

Advisor(s) - Committee Chair

Jessica Folk (Director), Nancy Dinan, and Peggy Otto

Degree Program

Department of English

Degree Type

Master of Fine Arts

Abstract

DISCOVERING CAROLINE is the script for an ensemble, a feature-length supernatural drama, set in 1899. Caroline, presumed dead at birth, returns forty years later to the scene of that tragedy, a university nursing school training hospital, where her birth mother still works as a lunch lady. Surrounded by a dozen other characters (thirteen if you count the pig), played against a backdrop of a handful of supernatural events, this script explores familiar love, romantic love, inappropriate love, truth, deceit, death, and the consequences on others when these life events intertwine throughout seventy-seven scenes. Included here is an introduction as well as the entire 114 page screenplay which consists of those seventy-seven scenes.

Disciplines

Creative Writing | English Language and Literature | Fine Arts | Screenwriting

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