Ellen Wiese

Ellen Wiese

Ellen Wiese is a Chicago-based writer and dramaturg. She has developed short and full-length plays with Trap Door Theatre and Chimera Ensemble. Ellen was the 2017-2018 Literary Apprentice at Steppenwolf Theatre Company and has worked as dramaturg, script supervisor, and research associate with playwrights including Tracy Letts, Matthew-Lee Erlbach, B.J. Tindal, and Aziza Barnes. She recently earned her Master...
Ellen Wiese is a Chicago-based writer and dramaturg. She has developed short and full-length plays with Trap Door Theatre and Chimera Ensemble. Ellen was the 2017-2018 Literary Apprentice at Steppenwolf Theatre Company and has worked as dramaturg, script supervisor, and research associate with playwrights including Tracy Letts, Matthew-Lee Erlbach, B.J. Tindal, and Aziza Barnes. She recently earned her Master's degree in Creative Writing from the University of Chicago.

Plays

  • Two-Legged Ghosts by Ellen Wiese
    Cast: 
    6–8
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    Genre: drama, experimental + 2 more
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    Keyword: elderly, rural America + 8 more
    Genre: drama, experimental, fable/folktale, mystery/thriller
    Keyword: elderly, rural America, magical realism, snow storm, ghosts, family, female, Non-Binary, gender, History
    As a brutal snowstorm descends, three generations of women return to the family home in rural Massachusetts. Sitting in the dark as an old bargain comes due and a spectral moose arrives to collect, the characters encounter their own folk tale of loneliness, storytelling, and what it means to not come home.
  • last bus by Ellen Wiese
    Cast: 
    5
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    Genre: dark comedy, drama + 4 more
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    Keyword: rainstorm, apocalypse + 2 more
    Genre: dark comedy, drama, fable/folktale, fantasy, horror, mystery/thriller
    Keyword: rainstorm, apocalypse, monster, queer
    A motley collection of hospital admins wait at a bus stop at the end of the world. Caroline misses her ex. Jo wishes she left sooner. Cassandra knew this was coming. Jim just wants everyone to get along. And Greg wants to come in out of the rain.
  • Secondhand Time by Ellen Wiese
    Cast: 
    6
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    Genre: adaptation, drama + 4 more
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    Keyword: memory, subjectivity + 5 more
    Genre: adaptation, drama, experimental, fable/folktale, immersive, movement/physical
    Keyword: memory, subjectivity, devised, beauty, loneliness, fear, bullying
    Developed and produced at Trap Door Theatre in February 2018, Secondhand Time explores the many ghosts inside us and the experience of making and remaking ourselves in every moment. Inspired by Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita.