Erin Considine

Erin Considine

Erin K. Considine is an emerging Southern Playwright from the Atlanta Area. Her first full-length play, Pete & Wendy, was included in 2016’s Bare Essentials Play Reading Series. This collaboration led to the development of Riding Bicycles in the Rain (2017 Ethel Woolson Lab & 2018 Playwrights Voiced Festival), Flaming Out (2018 First Light Reading Series), and multiple Ten-Minute Plays included in...
Erin K. Considine is an emerging Southern Playwright from the Atlanta Area. Her first full-length play, Pete & Wendy, was included in 2016’s Bare Essentials Play Reading Series. This collaboration led to the development of Riding Bicycles in the Rain (2017 Ethel Woolson Lab & 2018 Playwrights Voiced Festival), Flaming Out (2018 First Light Reading Series), and multiple Ten-Minute Plays included in festivals across the country. Her newest play, Twenty-Two, was part of the 2020 Dramaworkshop at Palmbeach Dramaworks and will be a 2020 Ethel Woolson Lab at the Alliance Theatre. Erin was named a Finalist for the 2019 Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, a Semi-Finalist for the 2020 BAPF and the 2020 PlayPenn Conferences, and she was the Winner of the 2020 Tennessee Williams Festival One Act Play Competition. This Fall she will be a Travis Bogard Artist-in-Residence and the first Carey Perloff Fellow at the Tao House as part of the Eugene O’Neill Foundation. After treading the boards for over twenty years, Erin is overwhelmed and grateful for the opportunity to create stories that other artists bring to life.

Plays

  • Twenty-Two (Dragging Angels as They Go)
    Twenty-Two (Dragging Angels as They Go) is a 2019 Eugene O'Neill Finalist.
    We lose 22 soldiers a day to suicide. Twenty-Two: men and women who have fought and survived only to return home broken and abandoned. Twenty-Two is an exploration of one woman and one man, both struggling with the aftermath of this unspeakable choice, and the hope they find in each other.
  • Raising the Dead
    Raising the Dead is a 2021 Eugene O'Neill Finalist.
    Two balconies hang over a humid New Orleans streetscape: Harlowe and Myra, neighbors for more than a decade, stomp and dance and laugh their way through the ins and outs of Louisiana Living until one of them makes the choice to leave. Permanently. Raising the Dead explores female strength, friendship, abandonment, and love, all in the context of a...
    Raising the Dead is a 2021 Eugene O'Neill Finalist.
    Two balconies hang over a humid New Orleans streetscape: Harlowe and Myra, neighbors for more than a decade, stomp and dance and laugh their way through the ins and outs of Louisiana Living until one of them makes the choice to leave. Permanently. Raising the Dead explores female strength, friendship, abandonment, and love, all in the context of a New Orleans night.
    How small has your world become, and could you change it if you had to?
  • Riding Bicycles in the Rain
    Just outside of Nowhere sits a small farmhouse. Just inside that farmhouse sits an old marine with a lousy attitude and a heart bypass. Brady returns to both the farmhouse and the father she thought she’d left behind… just long enough to get him back on his feet. While Brady is stagnating in her personal suburban purgatory she meets James, and together they ponder God, armadillos, and the possibility of falling in love.
  • Family Tree
    Isabella is losing herself to Alzheimer’s. Her communication comes in repetitive stops and starts, leaving her children to untangle the roots of their past in order to make some weighted decisions about their future. Is a fresh start possible when old growth has been gnarled and broken away?
  • Artists & Vandals
    After years of odd jobs and struggling to make ends meet, Lyla and Knox are opening their own Art Gallery to critical acclaim and personal pride. They have parented a son and parented each other. Nothing could ruin this night. Nothing but Daniel: who disappeared fifteen years ago, and is now standing in the shadows under the L.
  • For My Daughter/ For My Son
    A Ten-Minute Digital Play.
    Eileen posts a series of YouTube videos as she struggles to connect with her child.
  • Flaming Out
    Flaming Out is the story of Hunter: a successful but out-of-control starlet who moves from her homespun hometown to New York City. Hunter bucks Harassment in the Hollywood system only to watch her career, and her hair, go up in smoke. Who owns you or your image once you become a media darling?