Connor Ermir Bradshaw

Connor Ermir is a Chicago-based, Midwestern-raised playwright and poet. They've worked — or had work developed — with Timeline Theatre, Victory Gardens Theatre, Jackalope Theatre, Shattered Globe Theatre, Poetry East, Playground Theatre, Citadel Theatre, iO Theatre, and The Understudy. Their play, BRAWL! (Ojai Playwrights Conference, Finalist; Seven Devils Playwriting Conference, Semi-Finalist, Eugene O’Neill NPC, Semi-Finalist) serves as a distillation of their artistic focus: rural America and the tension between the devil you know and the one you don’t.

Connor Ermir is a Chicago-based, Midwestern-raised playwright and poet. They've worked — or had work developed — with Timeline Theatre, Victory Gardens Theatre, Jackalope Theatre, Shattered Globe Theatre, Poetry East, Playground Theatre, Citadel Theatre, iO Theatre, and The Understudy. Their play, BRAWL! (Ojai Playwrights Conference, Finalist; Seven Devils Playwriting Conference, Semi-Finalist, Eugene O’Neill NPC, Semi-Finalist) serves as a distillation of their artistic focus: rural America and the tension between the devil you know and the one you don’t.

Scripts

BRAWL!

by Connor Ermir Bradshaw

2
Cast Size
5
Genre
drama,
tragedy

Dug into the backyard of Diesel Philips’ home is The Pit: the home and training ground for young boxers in the Mowbray Mountain valley.

Here, limbs lock until a bell dings or a body drops. Here, loving looks a lot like fighting. And here, boys don’t leave; they escape.

Dug into the backyard of Diesel Philips’ home is The Pit: the home and training ground for young boxers in the Mowbray Mountain valley.

Here, limbs lock until a bell dings or a body drops. Here, loving looks a lot like fighting. And here, boys don’t leave; they escape.

Gnawbone

by Connor Ermir Bradshaw

Cast Size
5
Genre
drama,
horror,
mystery/thriller,
tragedy

Gnawbone: an unincorporated community where the taps run red, the soybean fields hum with industrial excavators, and the news anchors keep smiling.

Gnawbone: home to the trailer where Lynn and Abel, mother and son, dwell — and where daughter Angel returns.

Gnawbone: a place where you don’t hit rock bottom; you just keep falling.

A play about loyalty and the voices that call you home.

*Work in progress*...

Gnawbone: an unincorporated community where the taps run red, the soybean fields hum with industrial excavators, and the news anchors keep smiling.

Gnawbone: home to the trailer where Lynn and Abel, mother and son, dwell — and where daughter Angel returns.

Gnawbone: a place where you don’t hit rock bottom; you just keep falling.

A play about loyalty and the voices that call you home.

*Work in progress*

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Boxed In

by Connor Ermir Bradshaw

Cast Size
2
Genre
docudrama/historic,
drama,
experimental,
horror,
mystery/thriller,
tragedy

For more than 15 years, John and Louise have been torn between uprooting themselves and the lives they know and planting themselves even deeper into their house and routine. But after tragedy strikes, husband and wife must determine whether bodies can ever be laid to rest and if memories are enough to bring a house to its knees.

For more than 15 years, John and Louise have been torn between uprooting themselves and the lives they know and planting themselves even deeper into their house and routine. But after tragedy strikes, husband and wife must determine whether bodies can ever be laid to rest and if memories are enough to bring a house to its knees.