nat čermák

nat čermák (she/they) writes fiction, essays, and plays, with work appearing online and in print with South Dakota Review, Bone & Ink, Bright Wall/Dark Room, Entropy, and onstage throughout the country. She lives in Philadelphia. (Go birds.)

nat čermák (she/they) writes fiction, essays, and plays, with work appearing online and in print with South Dakota Review, Bone & Ink, Bright Wall/Dark Room, Entropy, and onstage throughout the country. She lives in Philadelphia. (Go birds.)

Scripts

A Solstice Howl

by nat čermák

Cast Size
4
Genre
comedy,
romantic comedy

Four sapphic besties go on vacation! Brynne, frayed and unable to stop answering work emails; Olivia, hyperfixated on witnessing a rare bald eagle through her telescope; Allison, who hasn't felt much of anything besides anger lately; and Ellie, who really just wants everyone to have a nice time. As it happens, their trip coincides with the summer solstice, and over the course of two days, the pleasant banality...

Four sapphic besties go on vacation! Brynne, frayed and unable to stop answering work emails; Olivia, hyperfixated on witnessing a rare bald eagle through her telescope; Allison, who hasn't felt much of anything besides anger lately; and Ellie, who really just wants everyone to have a nice time. As it happens, their trip coincides with the summer solstice, and over the course of two days, the pleasant banality of their getaway comes under the influence of gently foreboding cosmic warmth.

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Clouds of Salt and Cannon Smoke

by nat čermák

Cast Size
12—30
Genre
adventure,
comedy,
drama,
fantasy,
movement/physical,
period

Aboard the Blackwater II, pirate captain Ellen Blackheart has just captured the last in a long line of her family's seafaring enemies. Now she has to figure out what the hell she's going to do with them, and what implications her choices will have on her crew's future.

Aboard the Blackwater II, pirate captain Ellen Blackheart has just captured the last in a long line of her family's seafaring enemies. Now she has to figure out what the hell she's going to do with them, and what implications her choices will have on her crew's future.

Support

by nat čermák

Cast Size
5
Genre
adventure,
comedy,
fantasy,
satire

It's the busy season at an educational technology company, and the customer support team is working late shifts to keep up with all the incoming tickets. Mallory, a slacker at heart who's only here for the health insurance, keeps taking weed breaks with Curtis, the assistant office manager, but no one really notices until they find a really, really strange box in storage.

It's the busy season at an educational technology company, and the customer support team is working late shifts to keep up with all the incoming tickets. Mallory, a slacker at heart who's only here for the health insurance, keeps taking weed breaks with Curtis, the assistant office manager, but no one really notices until they find a really, really strange box in storage.

I Do Not Lift This Stone Alone

by nat čermák

Cast Size
5
Genre
comedy,
drama

Seely, the newest trans gal in town, arrives at Edwin's bar, hoping to find a place to sit and write her dying father a letter, a task she has been putting off for as long as she can remember and would rather drink bleach than do right now. Luckily for her, it's open mic night, and the performers have a lot to say.

Seely, the newest trans gal in town, arrives at Edwin's bar, hoping to find a place to sit and write her dying father a letter, a task she has been putting off for as long as she can remember and would rather drink bleach than do right now. Luckily for her, it's open mic night, and the performers have a lot to say.

I can tell you're in love.

by nat čermák

Cast Size
6
Genre
drama,
immersive,
movement/physical,
political

A fever dream for six actors.

A fever dream for six actors.

Sleeping on the Moon

by nat čermák

Cast Size
3
Genre
adventure,
comedy

Emily's been out of college for a year, and to be frank, is kinda having a shitty go of things. Stuck in a crummy cycle of self-defeating thoughts, with a crummy roommate and no professional or artistic prospects, she impulsively accepts an invite to drive across the country with some Guy. Throughout their travels, Emily gets a firsthand look at just how odd the United States of America, and her own psyche...

Emily's been out of college for a year, and to be frank, is kinda having a shitty go of things. Stuck in a crummy cycle of self-defeating thoughts, with a crummy roommate and no professional or artistic prospects, she impulsively accepts an invite to drive across the country with some Guy. Throughout their travels, Emily gets a firsthand look at just how odd the United States of America, and her own psyche, really are.

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The Exhibitions

by nat čermák

Cast Size
2
Genre
comedy

What happens when you lock a washed up painter and a retired minor league athlete in an art studio together? A revolutionary harmony of sport and art, mind and spirit? Or a folly both would like to forget as soon as possible?

What happens when you lock a washed up painter and a retired minor league athlete in an art studio together? A revolutionary harmony of sport and art, mind and spirit? Or a folly both would like to forget as soon as possible?