Jess Eichen

SheNYC 2026 Semifinalist, Good Apples Collective Rootstock Reading Series 2025 Finalist, Larking House Playwrights Intensive 2025 Finalist
FULL-LENGTH. 70 Minutes.
Two eighth-graders meet at a Catholic boarding school. Both are sex addicts. Only one wants to stop. And the nun taking care of the two of them is keeping a secret.

ONE-ACT. 10 Minutes
One girl and two women sit in the waiting room of a physician's office.

SheNYC 2025 Semifinalist, Fresh Binder Productions Spring 2025 Writers Cohort Selection
FULL-LENGTH. 110 Minutes, Two Acts.
In a rehab facility tucked deep in the mountains of Oregon, a middle-aged man named David is struggling to overcome a decade-long opiate addiction. Once a nationally ranked powerlifter, he's now nursing a chronic injury and in the care of his younger wife Mindy. When he gets assigned to mentor the wiry and reclusive teenager Striker, David struggles to get him to open up. Striker keeps to himself, refusing to participate in therapy, and keeps mumbling about the "Animal Man" - an imaginary monster who threatens Striker when he does something bad.

FULL-LENGTH. 70 Minutes.
It's 1899. A pious pastor Theo lives a quiet life in Charleston with his wife Mabel, making forgiveness his life's work, working to help even the widowed prostitute Molly living on the street corner confess her wrongs. Until, a mysterious traveller only referring to himself as "Lyman" wanders through town, asking for help from a religious man. Carrying with him stories from more debaucherous parts of the world, he asks Theo to teach him how to cleanse his sins and find God. As the winter weeks leading up to the New Year go on, Lyman starts putting himself between Theo and Mabel, and Theo starts to question what this otherworldly man's true motives are.

ONE-ACT. 15 minutes.
Based on the novel Absalom, Absalom by William Faulkner.
At the dusk of the American plantation era: Henry is the son of a plantation owner. Chuck is his sister's fiancé. It's midnight, and only a few minutes away from when Henry will kill Chuck on the steps of his father's home. They're doing poppers and smoking.