C.J. Ehrlich

playwright - screenwriter
Upcoming in 2021 & recent
LOSER ISLAND -
WINNER, Austin Comedy Film Festival, 2021, Best Dark Comedy Teleplay
SECOND PLACE, 2021 Ivy Film Festival, Pilots (largest student-run film festival in the world)
FINALIST, Houston Comedy Film Festival, 2021, Best Dark Comedy Teleplay
QUARTER-FINALIST, Filmmatic TV Pilot Awards, Season 6, 2021
O-TOWN the Web Series:, Season 2, Ep 3: "In the Box"
THE LILAC TICKET, Theatre One Productions "Slice of Life Fest," Middleboro, MA, Sept 2021 (Audience Choice Award)
SECONDHAND GIFTS Spark Creative Works, Virtual Production, Mar 2021
THE CUPCAKE CONSPIRACY (w/Philip J. Kaplan),
Bay City Players (MI) Virtual Season, July 2020.
ALL'S FAIR IN LOVE & SCIENCE
Bay City Players Virtual Short Play Fest, Bay City, MI, July 2020
YOUTUBE - https://tinyurl.com/bcpAllsFair
THE LILAC TICKET Actors Theatre Playhouse, Play Fest, Chesterfield, NH Jun 2020 (delayed d/t pandemic)
THE LILAC TICKET
Theatre One, Slice of Life New Plays Fest at the Alley Theatre, Middleboro, MA Apr 2020 (delayed due to pandemic)
HOME SWEET HOMELAND SECURITY
Ridgefield Theatre Barn, 2020 One Acts, Ridgefield, CT Mar 2020 (cancelled d/t pandemic, thanks Covid!)
ALL'S FAIR IN LOVE & SCIENCE
Allegan Community Players, Allegan, MI Mar 27-29 2020
ALL'S FAIR IN LOVE & SCIENCE, Raven Theatre Short Play Festival, Healdsburg, CA Feb 27-Mar 1 2020
2+1= MURDER, Park School of Baltimore, Baltimore, MD Feb 6-8 2020
NOIR IN SECOND CLASS, Texas A&M Univ - Corpus Christi, School of Arts, Media and Communication Corpus Christi, TX Dec 2019
2+1= MURDER, Sugar-Salem High School, Sugar City, ID Nov 2019 (District and State Competitions)
ALL TOO SHORT (editor) - A collection of short plays about lives cut short by gun violence,
numerous playwrights, a benefit for gun-sense, presented by
Mystic Vision Players, Linden, NJ Apr 26/27 2019
WAITING FOR HUGOT, Red Earth Theatre, 6th Annual Female Playwrights Onstage readings,
LBDInk "Swimming with Giants", Sedona, AZ April 25 2019.
THE LILAC TICKET, Nantucket Short Play Festival, Nantucket, MA Mar 2019
WAITING FOR HUGOT, Little Black Dress INK "Swimming with Giants,"
Red Herring Theater, Columbus, OH, Mar 2019
WAITING FOR HUGOT, Ridgefield Theatre Barn, 2019 One-Act Fest, Ridgefield, CT Mar 2019
THE NINTH CIRCUS OF HELL, Axial Theatre, "Twisted Valentines" Pleasantville, NY Feb 2019
BUT I'M THE WEATHER GIRL! Neem-2018 Award Finalist, St. Petersburg Russia
2017 Productions and Staged Readings:
2+1=MURDER, St. Andrew's School, Boca Raton, FL Dec 2018
DARK FRIDAY MARKDOWNS, Westchester Collaborative Theatre, Ossining, NY Nov 2018
ASK ZSUZSANNA, The Mother Lode, New York, NY Oct 2018
THE LILAC TICKET, Tri-State Theatre Fest, South Street Players, Spring Lake, NJ Oct 2018
WAITING FOR HUGOT San Pedro Seniors Rep, San Pedro, CA, Sep 2018
THE LILAC TICKET, Aery 20/20 Festival, Garrison, NY 2018 (acc not staged)
O-TOWN the Web Series: "High as a Kite," Parts I and 2
NOW SHOWING: https://otownny.com/watch
BLACK HOLE ENTERPRISES Renegade Theatre Festival, Lansing MI Aug 2018
THE LILAC TICKET
Players Guild of Leonia Playwrights Showcase 2018
Leonia, NJ Jun 8-10, 15-16
LONG TRAIN RUNNING
Gann Academy, "Playhem!", Waltham, MA May 31 2018, dir. Ilana Jacobs
HOMESPUN WEBS: Imagining Louise Bourgeois
Madeline's given up on life after divorce, until she's interrupted by the
spectral presence of renowned 'spider artist', Louise Bourgeois.
Eden Prairie Players Eden Prairie, MN Apr 2018
THE NINTH CIRCUS OF HELL
Normandale Community College, Minneapolis, MN Apr 2018
A MURDER OF CROWS
Stage Left's Fast & Furious V Festival, Spokane WA Apr 2018
THE THINGS THEY DON'T TELL US
1:One UAE Theatre Fest
Constellation Productions, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Shortlisted, Apr 2018
THE BEES ARE WATCHING
Westchester Collaborative Theatre and Ossining Arts Council
2018 Living Art Event @ the Firehouse, Ossining, NY Mar 2-24
MIT A FIDDLE IN THE MIDDLE
Untold Stories of Jewish Women Festival
A Festival of Plays, Music, and Conversation
In a wagon, on a dirt road, outside a Polish village in 1936,
Molly Picon starts work on what will become the most popular
Yiddish film ever.
March 20-22, 2018
Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to the Holocaust
in collaboration with
365 Women a Year: A Playwriting Project
National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene
Women in the Arts & Media Coalition
NOIR IN SECOND CLASS
Marriage is more exciting on the Orient Express.
Beaver, PA and other locations, Mar 2018
THE BEES ARE WATCHING
Little Black Dress INK "Volume Control"
International Women's Day
Prescott, AZ and Bemidji University, MN Jan 2018 (SR)
Red Earth Theatre, Sedona, AZ Mar 2018 (SR)
THE LILAC TICKET
2nd place winner, 26th Annual
Nantucket Short Play Compeition
Nantucket, MA Mar 2018
A MURDER OF CROWS
There's a name for every grouping - what's this couple's?
Stage Left's Fast & Furious V
Spokane, WA Feb 2-4
BLACK HOLE ENTERPRISES
The Navigator's Theatre & NY Madness
dir Melissa Skirboll
Kraine Theatre, NYC Jan 2018
CO-WORKERS
A strange job interview over a vat of molten steel.
Little Black Dress INK "Hot Mess!"
Sam French Bookshop, Los Angeles, CA Jan 2018
SPARE SOME CHANGE
text used in "Current Issues, Current Plays" seminar
Webster University
Webster Groves, MO
2017 Productions and Staged Readings:
THE LILAC TICKET
South Street Players Tri-State Theatre Fest Spring Lake, NJ Oct 20-22
THE CUPCAKE CONSPIRACY (full-length comedy/farce)
"Cupcakes are Easy. Marriage is Complicated."
with Philip J. Kaplan (full-length comedy)
Florentine Players, Omaha, NE. Aug 2017
WAITING FOR HUGOT
San Pedro Seniors Rep, at Little Sisters of the Poor San Pedro, CA, Sep 2018
THE MALTESE BABKA (full-length noir comedy)
Westchester Collaborative Theatre
Ossining, NY May 2017
dir. Chris Arena
Selections: "A Taste of WCT", Westchester Collaborative Theater
Budarz Theatre, Ossining, NY Jun 2017
and
Last Frontier Theatre Conference, Valdez AK (SR) Jun 2017
CO-WORKERS
Little Black Dress INK "Hot Mess" national winner
Prescott, AZ Jul 2017 dir. Cason Murphy
A PACKAGE DEAL
Ridgefield Theatre Barn, Summer One-Act Play Festival
Ridgefield, CT June 30-July 15
BUT I'M THE WEATHER GIRL!
Last Frontier Conference, Fringe Fest, Valdez AK Jun 2017
WAITING FOR HUGOT
A wanna-be screenwriter stalks a minor celebrity.
South of Broadway Theatre Co 2017 Playfest Charleston SC May 5,6
CO-WORKERS
A strange job interview over a vat of molten steel.
Little Black Dress INK "Hot Mess" dir. Kila Kitu
Samuel French Bookshop, Hollywood CA May 2017 (SR)
ALL'S FAIR IN LOVE & SCIENCE
It's a high stakes game, the elementary school science fair.
Cliffhanger Company "Mixed Doubles"
The Coach House, Rottingdean England. Apr 18-22
COUNTING VOTES WITH PHILIP GLASS
Two EMTs watch election returns, awaiting disaster.
Navigators Theatre (navigatorstheater.com) "Lovecraft" Benefit, NYC Apr 2017
2+1=MURDER
Blaze Pascal must solve this case by the numbers! A noir tribute to Math 101.
Phillips Academy Drama Lab, dir. Emily Humphreys, Andover MA, Apr 14
BUT I'M THE WEATHER GIRL!
Fury Theatre "Bad Plays: Reasons Why I Drink" Chicago IL Mar 2017
ASK ZSUZSANNA: Single Motherhood at 50
Forked Theatre "Motherlogues" London, England Mar 2017
2+1=MURDER
The Bobcat Players Beaver, PA and other locales, Feb 2017.
NON-REFUNDABLE
A lesbian couple struggles on a tour of the Eastern Block.
StageQ, Queer Shorts 2.1, Madison, WI, Feb 2017
SPARE SOME CHANGE
An entrepreneurial homeless man
tries to convince a businesswoman to invest in his lunch.
The Conservative Theatre Fest
Stage Right Theatrics, Columbus OH. Jan 2017
COUNTING VOTES WITH PHILIP GLASS
Little Black Dress INK, "We're Not Playing", online publication Jan 2017
NON-REFUNDABLE
AlphaNYC Rainbow Fest New York, NY, 2017
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