Eve Lederman

Eve Lederman

Eve’s play The Unthinkable is a 2017 semifinalist for the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center’s National Playwrights Conference and shortlisted for the 92Y 2017 Theatre Development Lab.

Nothing But The Truth was named a finalist and “highly commended play” in The BBC’s 2016 International Radio Playwriting Competition and it will be produced as a radio drama with The Radio Theatre Project in 2018. The...
Eve’s play The Unthinkable is a 2017 semifinalist for the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center’s National Playwrights Conference and shortlisted for the 92Y 2017 Theatre Development Lab.

Nothing But The Truth was named a finalist and “highly commended play” in The BBC’s 2016 International Radio Playwriting Competition and it will be produced as a radio drama with The Radio Theatre Project in 2018. The play is also is a finalist for T. Schreiber Studio & Theatre’s 2017 New Works Project, shortlisted for the 2017 Urban Stages Development Program, and a semi-finalist for Theater Resources Unlimited’s TRU Voices series (NYC), The Landing Theatre Company’s New American Voices series (Houston), and Geva Theatre’s Festival of New Theatre (Rochester, NY); among others.

Eve is also a monologist and has performed in New York at The Players Club, the Bryant Park Reading Room, the Nuyorican Poets Café and The Cornelia Street Café. Eve was named one of “New York’s best emerging Jewish artists” by the Museum of Jewish Heritage and told stories on the museum’s stage.

Eve’s memoir Letters From My Sister: On Life, Love and Hair Removal was published by Skyhorse Publishing and released on Audible.com. The New York Times City section editor hailed the book as “a warm slice of life of the edge, with an edge.” Her essays have appeared in The New York Times, she has discussed her work on Good Day NY and WCBS radio, and appeared at Barnes & Noble and the JCC Lit Café.




Plays

  • Nothing But The Truth by Eve Lederman
    Cast: 
    5
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    Genre: drama, radio drama + 1 more
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    Keyword: psychological, law + 7 more
    Genre: drama, radio drama, tragedy
    Keyword: psychological, law, PSYCHOTHERAPIST, Therapy, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, betrayal, sexual abuse, child abuse, mother and daughter
    Inspired by deposition transcripts from a malpractice case, Nothing But The Truth portrays the relationship between patient and therapist as a love more powerful and volatile than any romance. Rachel is a vivacious yet distraught young woman exploring her family secrets and fears about children with her maternal therapist Marilyn. But when Marilyn faces questions in a lawsuit for abruptly terminating Rachel’s...
    Inspired by deposition transcripts from a malpractice case, Nothing But The Truth portrays the relationship between patient and therapist as a love more powerful and volatile than any romance. Rachel is a vivacious yet distraught young woman exploring her family secrets and fears about children with her maternal therapist Marilyn. But when Marilyn faces questions in a lawsuit for abruptly terminating Rachel’s treatment, she paints her as violent and an explosive, life-altering battle ensues. Is Rachel dangerous as her therapist claims? Or is the doctor hiding her own emotional and ethical violations?

    The scenes alternate between the doctor’s office and the deposition room, toying with the timeline and challenging the audience to uncover the truth: Marilyn testifies to one version of events and then the clock turns back to the doctor’s office where the facts unfold. Like Mamet’s Oleanna, the viewers’ allegiance vacillates as the protagonists’ power struggle unfolds, similarly inciting and polarizing the audience.

    Within this harrowing legal and psychological ordeal is a treasure trove of deposition dialogue and a complex character, both caring and conniving, to expose. This story shares a tale of betrayal that ignites a heated dialogue about the dynamics of therapy and the blurry line between obsession and love.

  • To Life by Eve Lederman
    Cast: 
    6
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    Genre: dark comedy, drama + 1 more
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    Keyword: family, Relationships + 7 more
    Genre: dark comedy, drama, tragedy
    Keyword: family, Relationships, illness, cancer, death, mother, daughters, abuse, Jewish Family
    To Life is inspired by the deaths of my brother and mother from the same cancer during the course of a year. The 90-minute drama depicts one afternoon in a hospital room in a death-defying dramedy revealing family secrets. Backs are turned and accusations hurled as the Rosens come together and fall apart, bound by heartbreak and humor.

    The play opens with Jeffrey on a ventilator as his sisters...
    To Life is inspired by the deaths of my brother and mother from the same cancer during the course of a year. The 90-minute drama depicts one afternoon in a hospital room in a death-defying dramedy revealing family secrets. Backs are turned and accusations hurled as the Rosens come together and fall apart, bound by heartbreak and humor.

    The play opens with Jeffrey on a ventilator as his sisters Claire and Leah gather with their parents. Claire, in her mid-30s, hasn’t spoken to her mother and father in years. She often clashes with her strident younger sister as their relationship careens between closeness and collapse. Mom, meek and emotionally unavailable, is subservient to her husband, an outward bully but internal nebbish. While she fixates on caring for her son who is still her boy, Dad’s proclivity for violence escalates with grief. Jeffrey is a rich character as well, portrayed through the family’s anecdotes and his supernatural speech which others can’t hear.

    The scenes reveal interactions and confrontations between family members: Dad and Claire clash over childhood abuse; Mom and Dad face her cancer which she kept secret until now as she struggles to assert her own choices; Claire wrestles with Mom over her lack of maternal love; and the whole family intermittently reminisces about their beloved guinea pig, sings the Seder’s Four Questions in Klingon, smashes glass, and clings to their fragile connection amidst the chaos. Then Jeffrey communicates that he wants his life support turned off…

    This quintessentially Jewish family drama:
    • Celebrates the juxtaposition between secular and religious, pop culture and Jewish culture.
    • Fuses Yiddishisms with sass.
    • Gives every character a good kick in the tuchos.
    • Offers hip Jewish humor that can reach a multi-ethnic audience.
    • Allows self-deprecating characters to laugh at themselves, enticing audiences to do the same.
    • Integrates evocative Jewish music.
    • Pays homage to Joan Rivers who said, "If you take the worst thing in the world and make it funny, it’s a vacation from horror."

    To Life depicts the heartbreaking and humorous vicissitudes of living and creates both elegy and eulogy to the death of a family.