Technicolor Play Festival
Writing Prompts

2025

Pick one of the following themes

  1. Life is a series of balancing masks.  Write about discovering what lies underneath those masks
  2. Write a reckoning with a younger version of yourself.
  3. Feeling lost in one’s body.  Find oneself again
  4. Write about something life altering.  How did it change your view of yourself/the world?
  5. What does “identity” mean?
  6. How does the idea of independence change as we get older?
  7. The heart & brain are in conflict.  How do they make peace?
  8. What does gender look like in 50 years?  Write a utopia or a dystopia.  Or both
  9. What is your gender?  Try explaining it to a kindergartner.
  10. What is to be said about the persistence of a weed?

Roll a d20 for 3 of the following moments.  You must use at least 2 in your play

  1. A book of secrets
  2. A locket that can’t be opened
  3. Music with no melody
  4. Find a time capsule/relic of time
  5. A secret compartment hidden in the walls.  What secrets does it hold?
  6. An impossible ending. 
  7. An encounter with a ghost.
  8. An insurrection.
  9. A journey across time and space.
  10. A sacred space.
  11. The past, present, and future meet
  12. A journal that talks back
  13. A clock that’s always wrong.  No matter how many times you fix it.
  14. A moment of newfound independence
  15. A question without an answer.
  16. A moment of discovery.
  17. A case of mistaken identity
  18. An awkward first date
  19. A moment of care in a crisis
  20. Broken bones or shattered spirits