e.k. doolin

e.k. doolin, she/her, lives and writes in the Midwestern U.S., where stories are found in the strangest of places.

Recent Stuff:

~'Am I Dangerous' was produced by Contraband Theatre/St. Louis, MO in October of 2024

~'The Reason Why' was produced by Court of Fools/St. Louis, MO in August of 2024.

~'Waiting for Hecate' was produced virtually in 2022 and LIVE in 2023 with Prison Performing Arts in St. Louis, MO, and is included in the 2024 Region 3 Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival One-Act Division in Flint, MI.

~e.k. was a member of the 2023 Confluence Writers Cohort, sponsored by the St. Louis Shakespeare Festival, where she wrote the play "Titania & Oberon's Epic (Therapy) Road Trip", which was presented as a staged reading in St. Louis and at the annual Big Muddy New...

e.k. doolin, she/her, lives and writes in the Midwestern U.S., where stories are found in the strangest of places.

Recent Stuff:

~'Am I Dangerous' was produced by Contraband Theatre/St. Louis, MO in October of 2024

~'The Reason Why' was produced by Court of Fools/St. Louis, MO in August of 2024.

~'Waiting for Hecate' was produced virtually in 2022 and LIVE in 2023 with Prison Performing Arts in St. Louis, MO, and is included in the 2024 Region 3 Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival One-Act Division in Flint, MI.

~e.k. was a member of the 2023 Confluence Writers Cohort, sponsored by the St. Louis Shakespeare Festival, where she wrote the play "Titania & Oberon's Epic (Therapy) Road Trip", which was presented as a staged reading in St. Louis and at the annual Big Muddy New Play Festival in Carbondale, IL

~'Running Uphill to Smooth Criminal' was a finalist in the 2022 Region 3 Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival One-Act Division, was produced in July 2022 by Heartland Theater, and was given a really cool shout out by Brian James Polak, host of the American Theater sponsored Podcast "The Subtext" (which, if you are a playwright reading this now - listen to this podcast! It's awesome!)

~e.k. had the honor of being included in the Working Group "Visitation and Tourism" at the annual American Society for Theater Research (ASTR) in 2023 with her auto-ethnographic account of a local campaign to remove a statue of an enslaver of humans and perpetrator of genocide in her hometown.

~e.k. participated in a roundtable panel at the American Literature Association (ALA) in 2024 on the topic, "What Role, If Any, Does 'Spoon River Anthology Play in the 21st Century?"

Scripts

GLUT

by e.k. doolin

Synopsis

Sarah and Steve are getting married, they just can't agree on a location for their wedding. Unfortunately, one traditional option has shut it's doors to folks of their kind...or, more specifically, folks of their size. As the tolerance of the world around them grows smaller, these lovers push for something bigger.

Sarah and Steve are getting married, they just can't agree on a location for their wedding. Unfortunately, one traditional option has shut it's doors to folks of their kind...or, more specifically, folks of their size. As the tolerance of the world around them grows smaller, these lovers push for something bigger.

V

by e.k. doolin

Synopsis

Veronica is disillusioned with genius, so she tries yoga. Unfortunately, so do a couple of geniuses.

Veronica is disillusioned with genius, so she tries yoga. Unfortunately, so do a couple of geniuses.

X and Y

by e.k. doolin

Synopsis

X and Y meet at the bus stop and try to figure each other out in this world of self-identity.

X and Y meet at the bus stop and try to figure each other out in this world of self-identity.

The Dead Women of Jackson County

by e.k. doolin

Synopsis

Perdy is trying to solve an almost 200-year-old murder mystery...from her basement. If only her pesky mom and these random decomposing women would leave her alone long enough to understand what really happened to the Dead Women of Jackson County.

Perdy is trying to solve an almost 200-year-old murder mystery...from her basement. If only her pesky mom and these random decomposing women would leave her alone long enough to understand what really happened to the Dead Women of Jackson County.

Running Uphill to Smooth Criminal

by e.k. doolin

Synopsis

Annie isn't OK. She's a lost 40 something that's stuck inside her own trite, mid-life crisis. She can't go over it. She can't go under it. She's gotta go through it - and it's from within that she finds the answers she needs. This is a coming-of-middle-age story. A cautionary tale for those that feel it's too late for them. Spoiler alert: It's never too late.

Annie isn't OK. She's a lost 40 something that's stuck inside her own trite, mid-life crisis. She can't go over it. She can't go under it. She's gotta go through it - and it's from within that she finds the answers she needs. This is a coming-of-middle-age story. A cautionary tale for those that feel it's too late for them. Spoiler alert: It's never too late.

Waiting for Hecate

by e.k. doolin

Synopsis

Malkie, Paddy and Harper are waiting...and, it's been a minute. Who they are waiting for might be less important than simply who they are, or where they come from, or why they are waiting in the first place? They are existential existentialists, who ponder the existence of existing. Oh, and they're weird. In a good way. Or a bad way. It's all subjective anyway, right?

Malkie, Paddy and Harper are waiting...and, it's been a minute. Who they are waiting for might be less important than simply who they are, or where they come from, or why they are waiting in the first place? They are existential existentialists, who ponder the existence of existing. Oh, and they're weird. In a good way. Or a bad way. It's all subjective anyway, right?

Titania and Oberon's Epic (Therapy) Road Trip

by e.k. doolin

Synopsis

The fairies Titania and Oberon are at a point in their eternal relationship where things are no longer working, and each of them thinks they know how to fix it, even though they are both hiding some major truths from each other. This is a play in deep conversation with Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream that focuses on long-term relationships, the open road, and of course, fairies.

The fairies Titania and Oberon are at a point in their eternal relationship where things are no longer working, and each of them thinks they know how to fix it, even though they are both hiding some major truths from each other. This is a play in deep conversation with Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream that focuses on long-term relationships, the open road, and of course, fairies.

The Reason Why

by e.k. doolin

Synopsis

The increasing world of rural addiction creates a strange set of bed-fellows. A series of weekly meetings opens up old and new wounds on the road to recovery.

The increasing world of rural addiction creates a strange set of bed-fellows. A series of weekly meetings opens up old and new wounds on the road to recovery.

Lonesome Library

by e.k. doolin

Synopsis

Beware of the Western section in the library. You never know what might happen, or who you might become.

Beware of the Western section in the library. You never know what might happen, or who you might become.

SHAKE and FAKE and BOIL

by e.k. doolin

Synopsis

A COVID-19 twist on characters from Romeo and Juliet.
Written for a Bake-Off competition in shelter, April 2020

A COVID-19 twist on characters from Romeo and Juliet.
Written for a Bake-Off competition in shelter, April 2020

Twisted Sister

by e.k. doolin

Synopsis

Two sisters remotely dealing with shelter in place - in vastly different ways.
Written for round 2 of Quarantine Bake-Off April 2020.

Two sisters remotely dealing with shelter in place - in vastly different ways.
Written for round 2 of Quarantine Bake-Off April 2020.

The Good Virus

by e.k. doolin

Synopsis

What might happen if the bad virus consumes us all - can humanity rebound? Do we want to?
Written for the third round of Quarantine Bake-Off, May 2020.

What might happen if the bad virus consumes us all - can humanity rebound? Do we want to?
Written for the third round of Quarantine Bake-Off, May 2020.

The Luckiest

by e.k. doolin

Synopsis

Early in shelter, this family of three tries to keep an important tradition in place, even when it's clear the world is about to fall apart. Entry for the first round of Quarantine Bake-Off, March 2020.

Early in shelter, this family of three tries to keep an important tradition in place, even when it's clear the world is about to fall apart. Entry for the first round of Quarantine Bake-Off, March 2020.

DISTANT

by e.k. doolin

Synopsis

Sometimes it takes distance, and a third party, to get to the heart of the matter.

Sometimes it takes distance, and a third party, to get to the heart of the matter.

FAST

by e.k. doolin

Synopsis

A group of strangers find themselves side by side in an ubiquitous fast-food restaurant, but within their own life silo. Suddenly, a lightning bolt of change hits and the strangers are forced to interact and decide how to proceed in this newly altered reality.

A group of strangers find themselves side by side in an ubiquitous fast-food restaurant, but within their own life silo. Suddenly, a lightning bolt of change hits and the strangers are forced to interact and decide how to proceed in this newly altered reality.