CALF SCRAMBLE
by Libby Carr
Full-Length Play
90 min | 5W | Unit Set
Deep in a dusty East Texas barn, five teenage girls raise calves and wrestle with what it means to be good – at school, at God, at girlhood. CALF SCRAMBLE is a fiercely original, darkly funny coming-of-age tale soaked in sweat, scripture, and competition, where faith is tangled with survival, and tenderness bucks like a wild animal.
Development and Production History
Production: Primary Stages, spring 2026
Directed by Caitlin Sullivan
Workshop Production: Boston University, fall 2025
Directed by Shalee Cole MauleónWorkshop Production: Occidental College, spring 2026
Directed by Alana DietzeOjai Playwrights Conference, 2024
Directed by Jaki Bradley | Dramaturg Olivia O'Connor
Dr. Kerry English Artist Award WinnerDeveloped with Coffey Street Studios, 2024
Directed by C.C. Kellogg | Choreographed by Hannah GarnerPlaywrights Horizons New Works Lab, 2023
Directed by Gabby FarrahWorkshop Theatre Lab, 2023
Directed by Gabby FarrahDeveloped with Invulnerable Nothings’ Barn Lab Residency, 2023
Directed by C.C. KelloggO’Neill NPC Finalist, 2024
LIBBY CARR is a writer and dance artist from Houston who uses rhythmic specificity, movement spectacle, and visual imagination to celebrate queer and trans community. Their play CALF SCRAMBLE will have its world premiere at Primary Stages in spring 2026, directed by Caitlin Sullivan. Libby’s plays have been developed and produced with Playwrights Horizons, Ojai Playwrights Conference, the Kennedy Center MFA Playwrights Workshop, Ensemble Studio Theater, Boston University, Coffey Street Studios, Muhlenberg College Theater Association, the Workshop Theater Lab, and Occidental College.
Libby’s a proud member of EST/Youngblood and has been an artist-in-residence with Fresh Ground Pepper, Invulnerable Nothings’ Barn Lab, and MOtiVE Brooklyn. They have a BA in Playwriting and a BA in Plan II Honors from UT Austin.
Libby’s an only child raised by three teachers. Their favorite part of the rodeo is mutton busting
