Eugenie Carabatsos

Eugenie Carabatsos

Eugenie Carabatsos writes character driven scripts for the stage, screen, and ear. Her work plays with structure, memory, and is oftentimes about how companionship allows for resilience in unstable worlds. Her plays have been published by Concord Theatricals, Heuer Publishing, Brooklyn Publishers, Original Works Publishing, and Stage Partners. Her work has been produced or developed by places such as Trustus...
Eugenie Carabatsos writes character driven scripts for the stage, screen, and ear. Her work plays with structure, memory, and is oftentimes about how companionship allows for resilience in unstable worlds. Her plays have been published by Concord Theatricals, Heuer Publishing, Brooklyn Publishers, Original Works Publishing, and Stage Partners. Her work has been produced or developed by places such as Trustus Theatre, Landing Theatre, Great Plains Theatre Conference, Red Theatre, Midtown Direct Rep, and iDiOM Theatre. She is the winner of KCACTF’s Harold and Mimi Steinberg Award, one of the Landing Theatre’s New American Voices Playwright 2021, Seven Devils Finalist, O’Neill Semi-Finalist, and Winner of the BroadwayWorld Award for Best Play in South Carolina 2013. Her work has also been featured in a number of festivals and community theaters throughout the country. She graduated with her BA from Wesleyan University in 2010, and her MFA from Carnegie Mellon University in 2016. When she’s not writing, she teaches at Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH.

For more information and a full resume, please check out www.eugeniecarabatsos.com.

Plays

  • Perimeters
    A female Iraq war veteran starts to suspect her neighbor is plotting a terrorist attack.
  • A Series of Inelastic Collisions
    After the death of her husband, Rain moves in with her estranged son, whose recent religious conversion has brought on major life changes, including fostering two teenagers. Isolated from her family, Rain finds connection and intimacy with the strangers she interacts with while phone-banking for her preferred presidential candidate.
  • We Will Not Describe the Conversation
    Inspired by a missing scene in Crime and Punishment, We Will Not Describe the Conversation follows a massage therapist whose latest client has arrived with the news that her estranged brother has committed a heinous crime--killing an elderly woman with an axe--and is nowhere to be found. The women try to piece together how this happened, while also uncovering their own dark desires and the fear that they will one day turn out like him.
  • When Colossus Falls
    The Riverview B&B hasn't seen a guest in ages. When one finally arrives, the inhabitants' lives are thrown into a tailspin as they try to figure out who she is, why she’s there, and what she's doing walking through the rubble from a burned down building across the street.
  • After Eternity
    Somewhere in eternity, a Woman has willed her very own palace into existence. Her world is turned upside-down when a guest suddenly appears, and they are forced to live together as their palace starts to shrink.
  • Pine
    Colin’s been dead for the past five years, yet he still lives in his childhood home. When his ex-fiancée brings a new man to meet the family, Colin plans to sabotage the relationship only to find that his presence may not be so invisible after all.
  • Stalled
    Maggie has to take her beloved car to be junked. En route, she’s visited by the memories of the defining moments of her life. Her car has witnessed love and heartbreak, rejected bad boyfriends, held her in times of great trauma, participated in the creation and destruction of relationships, and maybe, just maybe, it will help her out one last time.
  • The Brink
    Helen and Charlie relive the tragic events of their friends' deaths. In an attempt to figure out what happened and why, they unintentionally reevaluate their own changing relationship.
  • Seven Minutes in Heaven (a seven minute play)
    Fredi and Martin have been thrown into a closet to play seven minutes in heaven, but Fredi has more important things on her mind, like science, presidential campaigns, and vegetarianism. Meanwhile, Martin's trying his best not to picture Fredi as a skeleton.
  • Talk to Me About Home (a ten minute play)
    Beth and Kat haven't seen each other since middle school. Now that they are both in New York City, they have decided to reconnect. Each looks to the other for that which they have been missing--home, partnership, and the intimacy of childhood friends.
  • The Night Sky (a ten minute play)
    Stan and Stella are two midsized stars, living a midsized life. They question their purpose in the universe, as well as their strained relationship.
  • Lost Satellites (a ten minute play)
    Ally and Ben are driving across the country after the death of their mother. Their relationship has gone off course—will their GPS be able to help them find their way?
  • Two (a short play)
    Benjamin and Bernadette, a dynamic duo of rag dolls, have been placed in a box. They don't know how long they've been there, or if they will ever be released, and it's starting to drive them crazy.
  • Marshmallow's Real Friend (a ten minute play)
    An imaginary friend, Marshmallow, has been separated from his real friend for years. Tragedy, and help from a fellow abandoned imaginary friend, will bring them together again for one last time.
  • Rowing, Onward (a ten minute play)
    Woman and Man have been rowing on an endless sea, alone, forever. One of them wants to stop.
  • Sweet Bonnie Beau (stage version)
    Fiona has just completed her lifelong dream of starring as Mother Abbess in The Sound of Music, but because of the pandemic, the production was over zoom and the internet cut out, rendering her solo mute. Her best friend, Joanne, comes over for a socially distant cheer up session. Together they unearth the struggles and loneliness of their diverging lives, and do their best to find intimacy in an increasingly alienating world.
  • Sweet Bonnie Beau (Audio version)
    Fiona has just completed her lifelong dream of starring as Mother Abbess in The Sound of Music, but because of the pandemic, the production was over zoom and the internet cut out, rendering her solo mute. Her best friend, Joanne, comes over for a socially distant cheer up session. Together they unearth the struggles and loneliness of their diverging lives, and do their best to find intimacy in an increasingly alienating world.
  • Underdogs
    Non-athletic younger siblings of star high school athletes seek refuge under the bleachers in the hopes of having a moment to be their true selves.
  • meatloaf day
    A group of high schoolers are ostracized to an allergen free lunch table. Is it a sanctuary or a hellspace? Friendships are tested, alliances are threatened, crushes are outed, and allergy shots are... a possibility?
  • Synchronicity
    Two high school ballet dancers meet to work on their synchronicity on and off the stage.