Ellen Wiese

Ellen Wiese is a Chicago-based writer. She has developed short and full-length plays with Trap Door Theatre and Chimera Ensemble. Ellen was a Literary Apprentice at Steppenwolf Theatre Company and has worked as dramaturg, script supervisor, and research associate with playwrights including Tracy Letts, Matthew-Lee Erlbach, B.J. Tindal, and Aziza Barnes. Her prose publications include Portable Gray, AGNI, Wigleaf, and Lost Balloon and she holds an MA in Prose Fiction from the University of East Anglia.

Ellen Wiese is a Chicago-based writer. She has developed short and full-length plays with Trap Door Theatre and Chimera Ensemble. Ellen was a Literary Apprentice at Steppenwolf Theatre Company and has worked as dramaturg, script supervisor, and research associate with playwrights including Tracy Letts, Matthew-Lee Erlbach, B.J. Tindal, and Aziza Barnes. Her prose publications include Portable Gray, AGNI, Wigleaf, and Lost Balloon and she holds an MA in Prose Fiction from the University of East Anglia.

Scripts

Secondhand Time

by Ellen Wiese

Cast Size
6
Genre
adaptation,
drama,
experimental,
fable/folktale,
immersive,
movement/physical

Developed and produced at Trap Door Theatre in February 2018, Secondhand Time explores the many ghosts inside us and the experience of making and remaking ourselves in every moment. Inspired by Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita.

Developed and produced at Trap Door Theatre in February 2018, Secondhand Time explores the many ghosts inside us and the experience of making and remaking ourselves in every moment. Inspired by Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita.

Two-Legged Ghosts

by Ellen Wiese

Cast Size
6—8
Genre
drama,
experimental,
fable/folktale,
mystery/thriller

As a brutal snowstorm descends, three generations of women return to the family home in rural Massachusetts. Sitting in the dark as an old bargain comes due and a spectral moose arrives to collect, the characters encounter their own folk tale of loneliness, storytelling, and what it means to not come home.

As a brutal snowstorm descends, three generations of women return to the family home in rural Massachusetts. Sitting in the dark as an old bargain comes due and a spectral moose arrives to collect, the characters encounter their own folk tale of loneliness, storytelling, and what it means to not come home.

last bus

by Ellen Wiese

Cast Size
5
Genre
dark comedy,
drama,
fable/folktale,
fantasy,
horror,
mystery/thriller

A motley collection of hospital admins wait at a bus stop at the end of the world. Caroline misses her ex. Jo wishes she left sooner. Cassandra knew this was coming. Jim just wants everyone to get along. And Greg wants to come in out of the rain.

A motley collection of hospital admins wait at a bus stop at the end of the world. Caroline misses her ex. Jo wishes she left sooner. Cassandra knew this was coming. Jim just wants everyone to get along. And Greg wants to come in out of the rain.