Emily Krause

Ana has been missing since this summer, presumed dead. Evelyn has run off to Ecuador to avoid that fact. Local talk radio host Miss Claudia has devoted her life to the paranormal, with diminishing returns. And Margot is becoming something other than herself. In Do You Think About Me, Too? the lives of four women collide in a tangle of grief, ghosts, and good intentions. They say the people we've lost are never truly gone, but who said that was a good thing?

A Whitman College senior thesis project, developed for Zoom with Oriana Golden, Eva Sullivan, and Chris Petit

Three miserable women named Masha search for the meaning in their empty lives in a rapid-fire game of anywhere would be better than here. The Mashas question their purpose, their desire, and their avoidance tactics as over and over again they find themselves stuck in a life they don’t want. ARE YOU HAPPY NOW? is a play about a generation born into a dream that wasn’t theirs, about women born into boxes that are too small and too square, about anyone born with a brain that never shuts off. It's got some songs, and some anger, and some anxiety. It's a 21st century existential crisis, but hopefully a hopeful one.

How do you find happiness in a world that doesn't give a shit about you?

A fisherman in a small coastal town dreams of mass marine extinction, and hauls in empty traps each day. A prodigal son returns, looking for answers. Three young women are beginning to change form, and nobody is talking about it. And yes, some time in the past, on a particularly cold midnight, a woman walked into the sea. It has happened before... SOMETHING FOR THE FISH is a play about people on the verge of enormous change, and the transformative (or, transfiguring) power of grief.

Two women in a bathroom wrestle with being mediocre people. The girl in the middle stall wrestles with an applicator-less tampon.

Ais and Thalia are en route to Ais' brother's funeral when they crash-land on a deserted island, with only each other and their pineapple for company. There's a song, there's a sudden change in weather, there's an impromptu burial, there are frozen margaritas.

Elise's old man is dead, the son-of-a-bitch. Nate and Hazel have joined her in the middle of nowhere to dance, drink, and self-destruct, as together they navigate love and mourning. Come out, crack open a Budweiser and knock one back, or two, or ten, for the people who have stepped on you. Because a good wake is basically a party...right?

*play with original music; demos and score available upon request.