Amy Crider

Amy Crider

Amy Crider has been a semifinalist for the Princess Grace Award and the O'Neill. Her BA in Theater is from Goddard College. She studied with Chicago Dramatists from 2010 to 2020. She did the LaMaMa Retreat in Italy, and in 2020 she attended the Jackalope Playwrights Lab. In 2021 she won the Tennessee Williams One Act Play Contest. Her work has been performed in Chicago, New York, Columbus, Ann Arbor...
Amy Crider has been a semifinalist for the Princess Grace Award and the O'Neill. Her BA in Theater is from Goddard College. She studied with Chicago Dramatists from 2010 to 2020. She did the LaMaMa Retreat in Italy, and in 2020 she attended the Jackalope Playwrights Lab. In 2021 she won the Tennessee Williams One Act Play Contest. Her work has been performed in Chicago, New York, Columbus, Ann Arbor, Minneapolis, and St. Louis. A podcast of her work can be found at www.continuousdream.com.

Plays

  • Her 85 Minutes by Amy Crider
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    5
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    Genre: biography, docudrama/historic + 1 more
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    Keyword: Politics, History + 1 more
    Genre: biography, docudrama/historic, political
    Keyword: Politics, History, feminism
    On November 19, 2021, Kamala Harris was president of the United States for 85 minutes.
  • Buddha's Birthday by Amy Crider
    Cast: 
    5
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    Genre: comedy, drama
    Genre: comedy, drama
    Pamela, a university professor, is stressed-out planning her crusty mother's 80th birthday party and facing whether to go on anti-anxiety medication. When she teaches her beauty school-student niece how to meditate, her niece becomes enlightened. Meanwhile, raccoons set fire to the house.
  • The Hamster by Amy Crider
    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 2 more
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    Keyword: Russia, Politics + 2 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, political, satire
    Keyword: Russia, Politics, Trump, Putin
    The biggest Trump election night party in 2016: The one at Vladimir Putin's house.
  • The Death of Captain Hero by Amy Crider
    Cast: 
    7–8
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    Genre: drama, fantasy + 2 more
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    Keyword: 1970s, Watergate + 3 more
    Genre: drama, fantasy, period, political
    Keyword: 1970s, Watergate, animation, children's cartoons, superhero
    When the lead voice actor of a Saturday morning cartoon show dies a scandalous death, Chuck, the head writer, wants to give him a heroic send-off on the show. But it's against FCC regulation for a character to die on a Saturday morning cartoon (this is a real regulation). O'Neill and Princess Grace semifinalist.
  • Fourteen by Amy Crider
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: comedy, drama + 2 more
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    Keyword: Robots
    Genre: comedy, drama, fantasy, science fiction
    Keyword: Robots
    Three freshman girls in high school befriend a robot who has joined their class, and the class bully is redeemed. Winner of the Tennessee Williams One Act Play Contest.
    Note: there is adult language.
  • Metadata by Amy Crider
    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: comedy, drama + 3 more
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    Keyword: thriller, social media
    Genre: comedy, drama, mystery/thriller, political, tragedy
    Keyword: thriller, social media
    A young woman gets a new job working with a psychologist to study human behavior on social media. At first it's fun to see who likes and shares cute cat videos. But things take a dark turn when they're assigned to create a political action group whose members seem to be disappearing.
  • Charlie Johnson Reads All of Proust by Amy Crider
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    Genre: drama
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    Keyword: LGBTQ, literature
    Genre: drama
    Keyword: LGBTQ, literature
    A full-length monologue. Charlie Johnson is a 75-year old small town Midwesterner. One day he dips a Madeleine cookie in his coffee at Starbucks, and his snooty daughter-in-law gives him a little lecture on Proust.
    Determined to prove he's no dummy, he decides to read all of Proust. He then reflects upon the epic and his own life, as he ponders how to "live right" and get close to his estranged daughter.
  • Civilization by Amy Crider
    Cast: 
    6
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    Genre: comedy, fantasy
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    Keyword: family, women
    Genre: comedy, fantasy
    Keyword: family, women
    Maybe we'd all be happier in simpler times...like 9000 BC. A family finds out.
  • Wells and Welles by Amy Crider
    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: biography, drama + 1 more
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    Keyword: History
    Genre: biography, drama, period
    Keyword: History
    Two years after Orson Welles' famous War of the Worlds broadcast, he and HG Wells happened to be in Texas at the same time. Orson comes to HG's hotel room to ask a favor on a rainy night.
  • Locked Ward by Amy Crider
    Cast: 
    7
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    Genre: drama, mystery/thriller
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    Keyword: mystery, mental illness
    Genre: drama, mystery/thriller
    Keyword: mystery, mental illness
    When a young nurse is found dead in a psych ward, the patients must hold themselves together to solve the mystery. A realistic view of psych wards based on personal experience.
  • The New Deal by Amy Crider
    Cast: 
    12–17
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 3 more
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    Keyword: American society and politics
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, farce, political, satire
    Keyword: American society and politics
    A female DA copes with the case of a serial killer who runs for president from jail, while her teen-age daughter
    runs away to figure things out.
  • The Sound by Amy Crider
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    2
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    Genre: drama, fantasy + 1 more
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    Keyword: Surreal, horror + 1 more
    Genre: drama, fantasy, horror
    Keyword: Surreal, horror, lynchian
    Dom and Suzy have just moved into a new apartment, when an annoying sound coming in bothers Dom. The sound drives him to the edge of madness. Then he notices that when Suzy sits in a certain corner, the sound goes away. He'll do anything to keep her in that corner, even sell his soul. As Suzy stays ensconced in her corner, the play becomes increasingly surreal, as she turns into an object of worship and horror.
  • The Last Sane Man by Amy Crider
    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: dark comedy, drama
    Genre: dark comedy, drama
    Casey is a shy, withdrawn college student who meets a young man with a theory: insanity is caused by a virus that's spreading around the globe. As she observes the crazy world around us, embodied by her news-obsessed grandmother, she starts to think he is right. But as Alan becomes more obsessed with his theory, Casey is forced to break out of her shell to be the friend he needs.
  • Poet and Warrior by Amy Crider
    Cast: 
    5–7
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    Genre: biography, docudrama/historic + 3 more
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    Keyword: Ireland, History
    Genre: biography, docudrama/historic, drama, period, political
    Keyword: Ireland, History
    It's August, 1916. The famous Irish poet William Butler Yeats has come to Normandy to pace on the beach with the revolutionary Maud Gonne, considered Ireland's Joan of Arc. He has wanted to marry her for 30 years, and the Easter Uprising has just made her a widow. Can he convince her at last, or will he finally let her go?
  • Leda by Amy Crider
    Cast: 
    10–14
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    Genre: comedy, farce + 2 more
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    Keyword: History, Farce
    Genre: comedy, farce, period, satire
    Keyword: History, Farce
    A farce in the style of Aristophanes. Leda is captured in the war between Athens and Sparta and sold into slavery. One day in the market, a soldier seduces her claiming to be Zeus in disguise, then goes off, leaving her pregnant. Her Master notices her condition and orders her to "expose" (abandon to die) the baby when it's born. She says she can't do this, because the baby's father...
    A farce in the style of Aristophanes. Leda is captured in the war between Athens and Sparta and sold into slavery. One day in the market, a soldier seduces her claiming to be Zeus in disguise, then goes off, leaving her pregnant. Her Master notices her condition and orders her to "expose" (abandon to die) the baby when it's born. She says she can't do this, because the baby's father is Zeus. The Mayor gets wind of this and thinks a child of Zeus born in Athens would be great publicity for his re-election, while the High Priest is terrified Hera will punish them and orders Leda into exile. Everyone is trying to control Leda's fate, but with the help of Socrates, Leda outwits all of Athens to gain her freedom and have a happy ending.
  • The Morrigan by Amy Crider
    Cast: 
    12–22
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    Genre: docudrama/historic, fable/folktale + 3 more
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    Keyword: Ireland, History
    Genre: docudrama/historic, fable/folktale, fantasy, movement/physical, period
    Keyword: Ireland, History
    An adaptation of legends from ancient Ireland. Has many characters, good for a large drama department, with many strong female roles and a lot of stage combat.
  • Fading Away by Amy Crider
    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: drama, tragedy
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    Keyword: Lesbian
    Genre: drama, tragedy
    Keyword: Lesbian
    An old lesbian history professor is in conflict with her partner's daughter about how to handle her partner's dementia. (10 minute)
  • The Arlo File by Amy Crider
    Cast: 
    5–6
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    Genre: drama, political + 1 more
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    Keyword: Robots, bipoc
    Genre: drama, political, science fiction
    Keyword: Robots, bipoc
    A young Black detective is partnered with the latest technology: a robot. When she learns that this "perfect" computer is programmed with human flaws, she questions everything she valued.