TWO CATCHERS

by Brad Goren-Wilson

An elite high school softball player with a tumultuous home life pursues an athletic scholarship by learning the only premium position her plus-size body allows: catcher. She enlists the local altar boy to coach her, and though both of them are conspicuously queer, a complex and ecstatic relationship blossoms between them, and they find themselves dealing with complications much more serious than sports. Honest...

An elite high school softball player with a tumultuous home life pursues an athletic scholarship by learning the only premium position her plus-size body allows: catcher. She enlists the local altar boy to coach her, and though both of them are conspicuously queer, a complex and ecstatic relationship blossoms between them, and they find themselves dealing with complications much more serious than sports. Honest, raw, and darkly funny, Two Catchers is a Gen Z coming-of-age romance about gender, meritocracy, love, God, and baseball.

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  • Premiere Stages at Kean University: TWO CATCHERS by Brad Goren-Wilson
    “

    Premiere Stages, the professional Equity theatre company in residence at Kean University, is pleased to recognize TWO CATCHERS as a Semi-Finalist for the 2025 Premiere Play Festival. TWO CATCHERS rose through a competitive selection process conducted by Premiere staff and a panel of outside theatre professionals to become distinguished among 805 submissions. The panel was impressed by the well-structured dialogue and the relationships between characters. Our congratulations and thanks to Brad.

    Premiere Stages, the professional Equity theatre company in residence at Kean University, is pleased to recognize TWO CATCHERS as a Semi-Finalist for the 2025 Premiere Play Festival. TWO CATCHERS rose through a competitive selection process conducted by Premiere staff and a panel of outside theatre professionals to become distinguished among 805 submissions. The panel was impressed by the well-structured dialogue and the relationships between characters. Our congratulations and thanks to Brad.

    ”
  • Jillian Blevins: TWO CATCHERS by Brad Goren-Wilson
    “

    Calling it now: TWO CATCHERS is gonna be a huge deal. This play has everything going for it—a truly original coming of age story, relevance both topical and timeless—-but its greatest strength is the tender, complicated teen romance at its heart. Phoebe and Connor’s connection is inexplicable, erotic, subversive, and rooted in seeing and being seen. Goren-Wilson writes queerness in a way that feels revelatory; in TC, identity is expansive and indefinable, an exploration rather than a label.

    Calling it now: TWO CATCHERS is gonna be a huge deal. This play has everything going for it—a truly original coming of age story, relevance both topical and timeless—-but its greatest strength is the tender, complicated teen romance at its heart. Phoebe and Connor’s connection is inexplicable, erotic, subversive, and rooted in seeing and being seen. Goren-Wilson writes queerness in a way that feels revelatory; in TC, identity is expansive and indefinable, an exploration rather than a label.

    ”

Development History

  • Workshop, Boston Playwrights' Theatre, 2025

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