Kamarie Chapman

I am a playwright from the Pacific Northwest currently teaching the craft of play/screenwriting, dramaturgy, and film at Western Washington University where I have been for fifteen years. My heart home is in Albuquerque and the surrounding mesas and high desert plains. I multi-task being a professor and creator with parenthood; just how things are done in 2025. I try to write plays (short and long) the occasional musical with a friend, and lots of subpar poetry. I also co-chair of KCACTF Region VII for the New Play Program and am the artistic director for a small story telling collective that encourages access to performance and community connection through sharing personal experience.

I am a playwright from the Pacific Northwest currently teaching the craft of play/screenwriting, dramaturgy, and film at Western Washington University where I have been for fifteen years. My heart home is in Albuquerque and the surrounding mesas and high desert plains. I multi-task being a professor and creator with parenthood; just how things are done in 2025. I try to write plays (short and long) the occasional musical with a friend, and lots of subpar poetry. I also co-chair of KCACTF Region VII for the New Play Program and am the artistic director for a small story telling collective that encourages access to performance and community connection through sharing personal experience.

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  • This play. This beautiful play. A play about the loss of friendship. About being fucked up and not able to fix that. Being shoved into adulthood, but what does that even mean any more. About screwing everything up and having to move on.

    Beautiful. Hard. Darkly funny. Puppets too.

    Don't pass this one by.

    This play. This beautiful play. A play about the loss of friendship. About being fucked up and not able to fix that. Being shoved into adulthood, but what does that even mean any more. About screwing everything up and having to move on.

    Beautiful. Hard. Darkly funny. Puppets too.

    Don't pass this one by.

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    This script is one of the more honest depictions of the veteran experience. It’s easy to be distracted by the glamour of heroes in war... “War Heroes”. But there’s the reality of existing as a soldier that never actually goes away. Formby portrays this broken reality beautifully. The characters are fractured memories of the “heroes” we encounter every day. This is a play the needs to be produced- over And over again til the war stops.

    This script is one of the more honest depictions of the veteran experience. It’s easy to be distracted by the glamour of heroes in war... “War Heroes”. But there’s the reality of existing as a soldier that never actually goes away. Formby portrays this broken reality beautifully. The characters are fractured memories of the “heroes” we encounter every day. This is a play the needs to be produced- over And over again til the war stops.

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    This play tells the story of the West being settled through the lens of non-traditional frontier peoples (and some traditional). Idris' language is so beautiful- Shakespearean in fact. It's hard to start reading this play and even think of putting it down. Each scene flows like little pools of water trickling down gently into another pool. The characters are beautiful and raw. And once you figure out that you (we all of us) are the resolution we so desperately want, the play takes on a whole new meaning.

    This play tells the story of the West being settled through the lens of non-traditional frontier peoples (and some traditional). Idris' language is so beautiful- Shakespearean in fact. It's hard to start reading this play and even think of putting it down. Each scene flows like little pools of water trickling down gently into another pool. The characters are beautiful and raw. And once you figure out that you (we all of us) are the resolution we so desperately want, the play takes on a whole new meaning.