Cam Eickmeyer

10-Minutes

Neighbors in a small seaside community struggle with how to face an oncoming horrific storm. Blame whips around like the wind and some just want to flee. A response to the 2024 Presidential Election.

10 Minutes

Two friends try to navigate the Covid-19 pandemic, but a pesky CDC Agent keeps getting in the way.

10 Minute Play

An American businessman visiting an authoritarian regime learns living in a democracy isn't the same as participating in one.

Productions:
2024 Election Day The Comedies - The MAT! Colorado Springs
City Theater Miami Oct 24 City Reads

10-minute play:

Three reporters desperate for an election day scoop, post up outside a voting location willing to do anything, yes, absolutely anything, to predict the outcome of the votes.

2022 Vote! Short Play Festival - The Mat! in Colorado Springs

10 minute play:

Struggling to compete, A church leadership group brainstorms their promotion strategy for the upcoming Easter holiday.

Selection 2023 Off Page Short Play and Film Festival

60-90 Minutes: In a frontline foxhole during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, a religious Ukrainian-American soldier and his atheist mercenary comrade bond over Christmas music, debate religion and the morality of their mission, and fight off the Russians on Christmas Eve.

(Also available in small cast version - Contact author for details)

10-minute Short: A prominent surgeon is found dead with his body parts shipped to his home. The police call in the Detective to decide if this is murder, or a macabre suicide.

10-minute short: A young man's quest for adventure pushes his elderly roommate to explore life beyond their walls, revealing the limitations of aging and the universal struggles that bind us.

Published in 2023 Anthology for Short Plays Mushroom Cloud Press

15-minute short: A journey into a traumatic memory aided by EMDR therapy allows the audience to confront the past at the same time as the troubled main character.

30 Minutes: On the brink of adolescence, Charlie follows his older brother to a mythical pit to throw stones into an allegedly bottomless void, but he and his friends find more than an echo in the darkness.

2-9 Minutes: Siblings try to sleep but the creaky house, or whoever is making the house creak, won't let them.

10-minute short: Emotionally deficient father takes son to lunch before sending him to college, but first tries to find ways to impart wisdom using any means but normal human conversation

15-Minute Drama

On the day a meteor is set to end life on Earth, a dad invents a holiday to distract his children from the horror. He learns they are more capable than he ever imagined to still find purpose in the face of death.

5 minute or less monologue: A dad escapes to the bathroom to hide from his son's question: Who goes to heaven or hell in Gaza right now?

Selection: 2024 Original Monologue Contest - Talking Horse Productions

5-minutes: A daydreamer comes to in an elevator and can't remember how they got there. Luckily there's a friendly, but unsettling, attendant to help.

10 minutes or less

A man trying to enjoy his lunch and the newspaper at a park bench is pulled into an unwilling game of espionage with the worst Spy ever.

10-Minute short: During a late-night fast-food run, a man spiraling from his divorce picks up an unexpected passenger, plunging them both into a conversation about life, love, and addiction

10-minute short: A man struggling with Alzheimer's finds himself at a bus stop trying to chase away the physical manifestation of the disease that chips away at his world moment by moment.

Produced: THEATREdART, 2017

10-minute short: A hopeful grad student joins a heady conversation of the brightest minds his aging professor can collect to discuss solving humanity's greatest threat. No, not the obvious one.

5-7 Minutes

Cheating spouse breaks the news to their partner on a roller coaster. Smile for the camera!