Rectified: An Apocryphal History of Bourbon

Dani, a master distiller, relates the unusual origins of her company to her single, know-it-all guest, Avery. In the tale, a lonesome female chemist and a free Black woman risk isolation or worse, marriage, when they team up to develop history's first aged Kentucky Bourbon.
Greer comes from Scotland with a shrinking pile of cash and a lot of spirits knowledge, but when she arrives in Kentucky it's not the liberating place she imagined. She struggles to avoid detection by her high society neighbors, connect with the ultra-secretive Myra, and get it on with a hot cooper. When she runs out of food and cash creepy distiller Williams come calling, but she persists in selling her bourbon to the classiest joint in town - even if she has to resort to blackmail and give up the last shred of connection she has with her dead socialite mother.
As Dani and Avery get progressively more intoxicated anachronisms abound, and they must contend with the question: when history is biased what stories are REALLY worth telling?

  • N.
    Writer
  • Project Type:
    Screenplay
  • Genres:
    Drama
  • Number of Pages:
    109
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • First-time Screenwriter:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Sloan/CMU Screenplay Competition 2020 Finalist
    Pittsburgh, PA
    May 1, 2020
    Finalist; awaiting final awards
Writer Biography - N.

Brandy N. Carie is a winner of the SLOAN/CMU Screenwriting Competition, the Kennedy Center National Student Playwriting Award, and a finalist for the Princess Grace award. She writes about women, werewolves (and other canines), capitalism, whiskey, and doomsday preppers. She also writes tiny musicals and puppet game shows, and occasionally directs plays and operas.
Carie has received residencies at SPACE on Ryder Farm, the Edward Albee Foundation, and the National Winter Playwrights Retreat. Her plays have been developed at Barter Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Pittsburgh’s City Theatre, the Kennedy Center, and Northlight Theatre, and produced in NYC by Everyday Inferno Theater. Her storage container mini-opera (in which The Universe uses blindfolds and heat lamps to recount the beginning of Everything) was produced by the Off-Book Club with Bricolage Production Company.
She is also developing a seven-play BUNKER CYCLE, which explores American survivalism and doomsday prepping, as well as a television pilot about lady pirates.

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