Plays

Riley Gene's work blends the mythic and the intimate, weaving stories of resistance, transformation, and survival. Their plays move between horror, comedy, and epic musical forms, often drawing on ritual, folklore, and the uncanny to ask how communities endure in the face of power. Recent works include The House Devours (a period supernatural/psychological horror), DROOSE IS LOOSE (a commissioned children’s musical comedy for foundry10), and Headlights. Their new epic musical, EPOS: A Song Without End, explores abolition, environmental collapse, and the fight to keep singing when silence is demanded. An autistic and trans-nonbinary artist, Riley Gene writes with a voice at once lyrical and defiant, creating theatre that cracks open the familiar and lets something wilder in.