A. E. Nesbitt
Writer | Scientist | Artist
Featured Screenplays
Love & Moonlight in Clonakilty Bay
by A. E. Nesbitt & Jaclyn Stevens
Under the shadow of her husband’s arrest, a resilient farmer forms an unlikely friendship with a spirited Traveller girl. But when a US Bomber — with a stowaway monkey onboard — falls from the sky, the two women must choose between tradition and forbidden love in a town punch drunk on celebration.
For the screenplay: Sextpussy Saves the Day
Accolades
For the play:
Passing Through
For the play:
Skin Hunger
For the screenplay:
Love and Moonlight
in Clonakilty Bay
For the screenplay:
Skin Hunger
Pipe Flights and Dreams of Fancy
A growing collection of dream-inspired short stories.
About A. E. Nesbitt
Stories are powerful — they move us, connect us, and inspire hope and action. Yet increasingly, they are weaponized by special interests, their fictions and fears sold as fact and spread at unprecedented speed. As a storyteller, my goal is to reignite curiosity and invite audiences into a more open stance, where questioning fosters discernment between truth and deception. Through collaboration, I aim to weave narratives from our shared experiences that spark new visions for how we can live better together — in a world of finite resources but infinite imagination. At the University of Illinois, I taught Climate and Global Change and led field expeditions on sustainability, experiences that revealed how curious and open people truly are. But I also learned that when individuals feel their own stories are dismissed or are confronted without empathy, no one wins. As Einstein said, “We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking that created them.” The same is true for stories. Today, we need new stories more than ever.