Enid Graham

Enid Graham is a writer and actress living in New York City where she is a 2022 graduate of the Lila Acheson Wallace Playwriting Program at Juilliard. Smoke was produced in the 2025 season at the Cadence Theater in Richmond Virginia and How To Save Ourselves, a commission from the Farm Theater, received simultaneous productions from Sewanee College in Tennessee and Center College in Kentucky. Tenderness and Gratitude Number Four was seen as part of the Scripts in Hand series at the Westport Country Playhouse, it received a reading at the Chance Theatre in Anaheim, CA, and was a finalist for the Blue Ink Playwriting Festival 2025. Her play A Long Time Ago in a Dark Yard at Night was performed in a 2022 reading series at the Hudson Stage Company, and her short play for Zoom, Do Not Go, My...

Enid Graham is a writer and actress living in New York City where she is a 2022 graduate of the Lila Acheson Wallace Playwriting Program at Juilliard. Smoke was produced in the 2025 season at the Cadence Theater in Richmond Virginia and How To Save Ourselves, a commission from the Farm Theater, received simultaneous productions from Sewanee College in Tennessee and Center College in Kentucky. Tenderness and Gratitude Number Four was seen as part of the Scripts in Hand series at the Westport Country Playhouse, it received a reading at the Chance Theatre in Anaheim, CA, and was a finalist for the Blue Ink Playwriting Festival 2025. Her play A Long Time Ago in a Dark Yard at Night was performed in a 2022 reading series at the Hudson Stage Company, and her short play for Zoom, Do Not Go, My Love was performed in an online reading series, also at Hudson Stage. Golden was presented in audio format for The Falconworks Theater Company. What Martha Did received a preview production in the Launch Pad series at UCSB. Her play Ruth was chosen for the National Playwrights Conference at the O’Neill Center and the New TACTics New Play Festival in NYC. What Martha Did, was a finalist for the National Playwrights’ Conference and a semi-finalist in the Blue Ink Playwriting Festival in Chicago. Other plays include: Pathological Venus (2020 finalist NPC), Something Unrecognizable, The Plans I Have for You, and Saint Vegas (NPC semifinalist 2025) and Varenka by Miriam Leeds. As an actress, her credits include numerous Broadway and off-Broadway productions such as The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime, and Honour (Tony Award nomination), and Television/Film including The Sinner, Boardwalk Empire, Margaret, Mare of Easttown, and Rabbit Hole and the upcoming film A House of Dynamite.

Scripts

How To Save Ourselves

playwright by Enid Graham

Synopsis

In a tumultuous near future, a group of college students come together to volunteer at a food distribution center and learn that our most precious resource in the face of challenging times is our ability to work together.

In a tumultuous near future, a group of college students come together to volunteer at a food distribution center and learn that our most precious resource in the face of challenging times is our ability to work together.

SMOKE

by Enid Graham

Synopsis

Things turn scary at a wedding at a mansion on a hill.

Things turn scary at a wedding at a mansion on a hill.

Tenderness and Gratitude Number Four

by Enid Graham

Synopsis

Michael has plans to coast alone through life, until he meets Jenny. Through friendship, love and art he learns the awful joy of being human.

Michael has plans to coast alone through life, until he meets Jenny. Through friendship, love and art he learns the awful joy of being human.

SAINT VEGAS

by Enid Graham

Synopsis

In this memory play, Ben returns to the hot Galveston summer of his thirteenth year when a complicated and dangerous teenaged girl, Fresca, moved in with him and his mom. As he and Fresca become friends, Ben grows up and learns to appreciate the difficult greyness of life.

In this memory play, Ben returns to the hot Galveston summer of his thirteenth year when a complicated and dangerous teenaged girl, Fresca, moved in with him and his mom. As he and Fresca become friends, Ben grows up and learns to appreciate the difficult greyness of life.

A Long Time Ago in a Dark Yard at Night

by Enid Graham

Synopsis

Two friends from a small Texas town take divergent paths in life as they grow from girls to women, each fighting to find happiness in a patriarchal world full of compromise.

Two friends from a small Texas town take divergent paths in life as they grow from girls to women, each fighting to find happiness in a patriarchal world full of compromise.

Something Unrecognizable

by Enid Graham

Synopsis

A woman in her mid-life examines her marriage, her family, her sexuality and the inevitability of death.

A woman in her mid-life examines her marriage, her family, her sexuality and the inevitability of death.

The Plans I Have For You

by Enid Graham

Synopsis

Running from her painful past in Sri Lanka, Dr. K has found the perfect place to escape God – West Texas.

Running from her painful past in Sri Lanka, Dr. K has found the perfect place to escape God – West Texas.

GOLDEN

by Enid Graham

Synopsis

In a dystopian near future, GOLDEN tells the darkly funny tale of a young widow as she struggles to survive in a society that disdains human frailty.
Also available as an audio-only version.

In a dystopian near future, GOLDEN tells the darkly funny tale of a young widow as she struggles to survive in a society that disdains human frailty.
Also available as an audio-only version.

PATHOLOGICAL VENUS

by Enid Graham

Synopsis

With a time frame ranging from the early-Christian era to the 19th Century, Pathological Venus explores the themes of male-female relations, the powerful oppressing the powerless, and the ways women, within their limited circumstances, seek to achieve some level of power or freedom. Set mainly in 1890 at the Salpetriere, the famous Parisian women’s hospital for the indigent and insane, the play follows hysteria...

With a time frame ranging from the early-Christian era to the 19th Century, Pathological Venus explores the themes of male-female relations, the powerful oppressing the powerless, and the ways women, within their limited circumstances, seek to achieve some level of power or freedom. Set mainly in 1890 at the Salpetriere, the famous Parisian women’s hospital for the indigent and insane, the play follows hysteria patients under the care of their doctor, Jean-Martin Charcot. The strange and complex relationship between male doctor and female patient mirrors the intricate negotiations between men and women generally – husbands and wives, fathers and daughters – and encourages us to examine the inherent and societal difficulties between the sexes.

Do Not Go, My Love

by Enid Graham

Synopsis

An encounter with two people on a customer service call gets surprisingly human.

An encounter with two people on a customer service call gets surprisingly human.

Ruth

by Enid Graham

Synopsis

A young woman from a mysterious and sheltered background attempts to create a new life in modern day New York City. Along the way she encounters four people: Joan – a woman with a similar past who is helping her transition into her new life, Derrick – a lonely, underachieving co-worker in the photo/copy shop, Claire – a very friendly stranger on a mission of her own, and Toby – Claire’s friend who isn’t what he...

A young woman from a mysterious and sheltered background attempts to create a new life in modern day New York City. Along the way she encounters four people: Joan – a woman with a similar past who is helping her transition into her new life, Derrick – a lonely, underachieving co-worker in the photo/copy shop, Claire – a very friendly stranger on a mission of her own, and Toby – Claire’s friend who isn’t what he seems to be. All of the characters find themselves being drawn to Ruth, each wanting to save or be saved by her. As we watch them struggle to connect, the play asks the questions that drove Ruth out into the fractured, abrasive world in the first place – Who am I? What do I believe? Is it possible to be alive and not be alone?

What Martha Did

by Enid Graham

Synopsis

A family gathers to commemorate the twenty-fifth anniversary edition of Martha’s celebrated book of essays, all except Martha who killed herself soon after the book’s publication. Haunted by the past and events they can’t explain, her family struggles to move forward. How can they reconcile the Martha they knew who wrote so brilliantly about the joys of living, and the hidden Martha who ended her life? And how...

A family gathers to commemorate the twenty-fifth anniversary edition of Martha’s celebrated book of essays, all except Martha who killed herself soon after the book’s publication. Haunted by the past and events they can’t explain, her family struggles to move forward. How can they reconcile the Martha they knew who wrote so brilliantly about the joys of living, and the hidden Martha who ended her life? And how can they reconcile their own dreams of youth with the people they have become? And then a mysterious young woman arrives...