Claire Waldrop

Claire Waldrop (she/her) is a playwright, dramaturg, and prose-person. She graduated from Ohio University and studied English Literature and Creative Writing with a scholarly focus on Dramatic Literature. Her ten-minute play, Flicker, was recently selected for the 2024 Appalachia New Voices Festival and she is a recipient of the 365 Women A Year NextGen Playwriting Award. Her thesis play, A Documentary on Steel and Public Health [and the apocalypse], received a staged reading at the Ohio University Fringe Festival in April of 2025 and an honorable mention for the Ohio University Outstanding Creative Thesis Award.

Claire Waldrop (she/her) is a playwright, dramaturg, and prose-person. She graduated from Ohio University and studied English Literature and Creative Writing with a scholarly focus on Dramatic Literature. Her ten-minute play, Flicker, was recently selected for the 2024 Appalachia New Voices Festival and she is a recipient of the 365 Women A Year NextGen Playwriting Award. Her thesis play, A Documentary on Steel and Public Health [and the apocalypse], received a staged reading at the Ohio University Fringe Festival in April of 2025 and an honorable mention for the Ohio University Outstanding Creative Thesis Award.

Scripts

something about missing my middle school best friend i had a falling out with

by Claire Waldrop

Cast Size
3
Genre
drama,
experimental,
horror

TEN MINUTE - There's nothing more horrifying than who you were in middle school. As ex-best friends, Ashley and Darcy, meet at their old hang-out spot, Ashley attempts to reconcile the way she treated Darcy in the past but finds herself unable to move forward.

TEN MINUTE - There's nothing more horrifying than who you were in middle school. As ex-best friends, Ashley and Darcy, meet at their old hang-out spot, Ashley attempts to reconcile the way she treated Darcy in the past but finds herself unable to move forward.

A Documentary On Steel and Public Health [and the apocalypse]

by Claire Waldrop

Cast Size
5
Genre
drama,
political

FULL LENGTH - A group of activists are making a documentary about industrialization in Birmingham, AL. Taking place on the film set, as these three activists interview a family of steelworkers, tensions about the film's topic of industrialization in the area and the creative process erupt. 

FULL LENGTH - A group of activists are making a documentary about industrialization in Birmingham, AL. Taking place on the film set, as these three activists interview a family of steelworkers, tensions about the film's topic of industrialization in the area and the creative process erupt. 

Two Ants Talking About God

by Claire Waldrop

Cast Size
2
Genre
dark comedy,
drama

FIVE MINUTE - Two siblings, Zoe and Dylan, talk about their parents' impending divorce, ants, the apocalypse, their grandma, and higher powers.

FIVE MINUTE - Two siblings, Zoe and Dylan, talk about their parents' impending divorce, ants, the apocalypse, their grandma, and higher powers.

Florida Man

by Claire Waldrop

Cast Size
2
Genre
dark comedy,
drama,
political

FIVE MINUTE - Florida resident, Kenny, is waiting out the hurricane when an unwelcome visitor arrives.

FIVE MINUTE - Florida resident, Kenny, is waiting out the hurricane when an unwelcome visitor arrives.

Static

by Claire Waldrop

Cast Size
2
Genre
dark comedy,
drama

FIVE MINUTE - The end of the world is mostly static, but underneath that, it's two sisters fighting over the radio, while waiting for their sister to return from the store.

FIVE MINUTE - The end of the world is mostly static, but underneath that, it's two sisters fighting over the radio, while waiting for their sister to return from the store.

Flicker

by Claire Waldrop

2
Cast Size
2
Genre
drama,
fable/folktale

TEN MINUTE - When Matty falls into an abandoned mine shaft, he and his unexpected help must search for the light before the darkness swallows it all.

TEN MINUTE - When Matty falls into an abandoned mine shaft, he and his unexpected help must search for the light before the darkness swallows it all.