Eric Craft

Eric Craft is a playwright, director, and actor proudly based in New Jersey. He loves writing about bugs,
among other things. He has written and developed multiple one-act plays which have been presented across New Jersey and New York, including "So You Bought a Fiddle Leaf Fig" (Irvington Theater Short Play Fest), "The
Spaces Between" (SOOP to Nuts), and "A Sprinkle of Grace" (48th Annual Samuel French Off Off-Broadway Short Play Festival). His full length play "And Every Creeping Thing" was developed in residency with the New
Jersey PlayLab 2022-2023 and received a workshop production at Sussex County Community College. He holds a B.A. in Theatre Studies from Montclair State University. Also, he is writing a romance novel.

Eric Craft is a playwright, director, and actor proudly based in New Jersey. He loves writing about bugs,
among other things. He has written and developed multiple one-act plays which have been presented across New Jersey and New York, including "So You Bought a Fiddle Leaf Fig" (Irvington Theater Short Play Fest), "The
Spaces Between" (SOOP to Nuts), and "A Sprinkle of Grace" (48th Annual Samuel French Off Off-Broadway Short Play Festival). His full length play "And Every Creeping Thing" was developed in residency with the New
Jersey PlayLab 2022-2023 and received a workshop production at Sussex County Community College. He holds a B.A. in Theatre Studies from Montclair State University. Also, he is writing a romance novel.

Scripts

Finding The Root

by Eric Craft

Cast Size
16—30
Genre
comedy,
drama

"Finding the Root" follows Mr.Feinman’s 8th grade Algebra I class over the course of an exam. The class files in their distinct friend groups gossiping about their classmate, Sam, who apparently discovered the test online and shared it with most of the class the night before. The class begins the test and are shocked to discover that it has been replaced with a different, much more difficult one. Each student...

"Finding the Root" follows Mr.Feinman’s 8th grade Algebra I class over the course of an exam. The class files in their distinct friend groups gossiping about their classmate, Sam, who apparently discovered the test online and shared it with most of the class the night before. The class begins the test and are shocked to discover that it has been replaced with a different, much more difficult one. Each student has their own character moments over the course of the play: one deals with her anxiety, another schemes to get a better role in the school play, and yet another struggles facing her dog’s forthcoming death. The extra credit question reveals that the teacher was aware of the attempted cheating on the test and offers the class a choice. They can either guess the percentage of the class that cheated, or confess to being part of the cheating. If they confess, however, their grade becomes the percentage of kids who admit that they cheated. Sam calls this practice out as horribly cruel and immature, and the students ultimately rally around him, with all but one confessing to cheating regardless of whether or not they did.

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The Spaces Between

by Eric Craft

Cast Size
2
Genre
comedy,
drama

Cleo comes home to her recent ex, Zeke, rifling around her apartment for his nightguard. She doesn't quite give him an answer when he asks where the nightguard is, until she does. An exploration of a relationship falling apart for the final time.

Cleo comes home to her recent ex, Zeke, rifling around her apartment for his nightguard. She doesn't quite give him an answer when he asks where the nightguard is, until she does. An exploration of a relationship falling apart for the final time.

A Sprinkle of Grace

by Eric Craft

Cast Size
5
Genre
comedy

Jasmine's close family and maid of honor come together for her surprise bridal shower (sorry, "sprinkle") but the family bickering and gossip threatens to tear the party asunder before it even starts. The sister is pregnant and bitter, the mom highly opinionated, the cousin distant, and the aunt unhinged. Brooke, the best friend, tries to make them all get along, but stepping into this family battlefield will...

Jasmine's close family and maid of honor come together for her surprise bridal shower (sorry, "sprinkle") but the family bickering and gossip threatens to tear the party asunder before it even starts. The sister is pregnant and bitter, the mom highly opinionated, the cousin distant, and the aunt unhinged. Brooke, the best friend, tries to make them all get along, but stepping into this family battlefield will fully test her patience. What is this family’s love language, anyway?

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