Beatrice & Beau
2009
Collaboraction’s Sketchbook 9 Festival @ The Building Stage (Chicago)
photo credit: Phil Dembinski
2010
Players, Please Theatre Short Play Festival (Lombard, IL)
Watch a clip on YouTube!
Audience Favorite Award
REVIEWS:
“Exceedingly clever look at the love-hate component in intimate relationships” – Chicago Sun-Times
“Especially good. I suspect the dark comedy will hit uncomfortably close to home for many.” — Chicago Tribune“
A brilliantly claustrophobic rendering of a failing relationship.” – Chicago Journal
“A hilarious examination of a romantic couple arguing over whether to take their relationship to the next stage.” – Windy City Times
This is the Big One
REVIEWS:
“Highlights [of the festival] include “This Is the Big One,” Chelsea Marcantel’s artful portrait of six people who experience a roller coaster in drastically different ways.” — The Washington Post
A Hipster Christmas Carol
2013
The Hobo Robo Festival 6 @ The Greenhouse Theater Center (Chicago)
Audience Favorite Award
Four Faces
2009
Point of Contention’s ChAos Festival ’09 (Chicago)
REVIEWS:
“An adorable little slice of a modern relationship. Marcantel has a wonderfully modern young urban voice, and her piece is exquisite in its overlapped dialogue and twists.” – The Kid’s Got Moxie
Climax
2021
F*IT CLUB’s Spring Fling: “Happily Ever After” Festival @ IRT (New York City)
photo credit: Molly Hagan
2022
Barrington Stage Company’s 10×10 New Play Festival (Pittsfield, MA)
Dopplegänged
2011
Collaboraction’s Sketchbook 11 Festival @ The Chopin Theatre (Chicago)
photo via Collaboraction
2014
The 9th Annual InspiraTO Festival @ Theatre InspiraTO (Toronto, Canada)
2017
Everyday Inferno’s If On a Winter’s Night… Festival (New York City)
First Girl on Mars
2019
Chalk Rep’s Space Flash! at the Columbia Memorial Space Center (Los Angeles)
A Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon Landing
Vegetare Vegetus
2013
The BaD Theater Festival @ The Tank (New York City)
Best of the Fest Award + Encore Performance
The We’re Not Worthy Award for “Worst” Bad Theater (a.k.a. Great Play We Didn’t Deserve)
Consumables
2012
The Hobo Robo Festival 4 @ Strawdog Theatre (Chicago)
Dealing
2010
The Inconvenience’s Strapped Festival (Chicago)
Global
2011
Jackalope Theatre’s Living Newspapers Festival (Chicago)
Heroics! Adventure!
2013
Co-written with Andy Grigg
The Barter Theatre’s Radio Hour (Abingdon, VA)
Independence Day
2012
The Hobo Robo Festival 5 @ Strawdog Theatre (Chicago)
Just Georgette
2010
Point of Contention’s ChAos Festival ’10 (Chicago)
The Limiting Factor
2012
Jackalope Theatre’s Living Newspapers Festival (Chicago)
Naked Ambition
2011
The Naked 24-Hour Project @ Stage 773 (Chicago)
Open Season
2013
Broken Nose Theatre‘s Bedchel Festival (Chicago)
The Real Housewives of the Hanesville Pines Trailer Park
2011
The Hobo Robo Festival 2 @ Strawdog Theatre (Chicago)
Reckless
2008
The Revenants’ 24-Hour Play Festival @ City Lit (Chicago)
White Window
2012
Cabaret Vagabond‘s Final Show @ Martyrs’ Live (Chicago)
2013
North by South Theatre LA‘s Winter Rites Festival (Los Angeles)