Drama/ 2 characters, any gender/ One Act

Synopsis: Dubbed the Velveteen Rabbit for adults, Garrett, the Blue Giraffe is a gentle drama about a sad and lonely giraffe who is in turmoil because he wants to be a rhino. He considers molecular reconstruction, but when he makes a divine appointment with Israfel, his heavenly counselor, he learns just who he really is and why it’s important to be true to himself.

“An endearing story with philosophical and metaphysical implications” — Opera Magazine

“Every adult can identify with Garrett’s search for identity and his need for counseling, divine or otherwise” — Opera News

Contact information:
Amateur and professional rights:
Coni Koepfinger
Ph.: 412-983-1029
koepfingerc@gmail.com

About the Playwright: Winner of the 2021 Olwen Wymark Award from the Writers Guild of Great Britain, Coni Koepfinger believes creative energy is never lost — it simply changes hearts, heads and hands. She is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon (Literary and Cultural Theory MA 2002) and Penn State (Theatre Arts BA 1980), and also a member of the National League of American Pen Women, Theatre for Young Audiences/USA, the National Association of Musical Theatre, the Lifeboat Foundation, a lifetime member of the Dramatists Guild, a former board member of the International Centre for Women Playwrights, and former committee Chair for the League of Professional Theatre Women. Her work has been produced by the Gene Frankel Theatre, the American Theatre of Actors, the Rogue Theatre Festival, the UNFringed Festival, The Secret Theatre, the Manhattan Repertory Theatre, Cosmic Orchid, the Pan Asian Repertory Theatre, the Harlem Me Too Project, Untold Stories of Jewish Women, The Producers Circle at the Players Club, the Playbill Virtual Theatre Festival, Open Eye Theatre, the Phoenicia Playhouse, and Theater for the New City. Her published plays and musicals can be found at Leicester Bay Theatricals and Next Stage Press. Her most recent work, The Unusual Chauncey Faust, won first place in the 2025 15 Minutes of Frame Play Festival, presented at the Gene Frankel Theatre in New York.

As an academic, Coni has enjoyed teaching at various major universities, including Duquesne, Carlow, and Point Park, specializing in composition, literature and playwriting, and developing a new pedagogy that examined the stages of creative form, something she applies to her own writing as well. Website: www.awakeneddreamtheatre.com.

Garrett, the Blue Giraffe was first produced by the Lester Hamburg Theatre, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1998, through a grant from the Heinz Multicultural initiative Award, and as an opera by Fifteen B Productions, London, UK in 2001.