e.k. doolin

e.k. doolin

e.k. doolin, she/her, lives and writes in the Midwestern U.S., where there are lots of interesting people and stories roaming about.

Recent Activities include:

~Her play "Waiting for Hecate" was produced virtually in 2022 and LIVE in 2023 with Prison Performing Arts in St. Louis, MO, and is included in the 2024 Region 3 Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival One...
e.k. doolin, she/her, lives and writes in the Midwestern U.S., where there are lots of interesting people and stories roaming about.

Recent Activities include:

~Her play "Waiting for Hecate" was produced virtually in 2022 and LIVE in 2023 with Prison Performing Arts in St. Louis, MO, and is included in the 2024 Region 3 Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival One-Act Division in Flint, MI.

~e.k. was a member of the 2023 Confluence Writers Cohort, sponsored by the St. Louis Shakespeare Festival, where she wrote the play "Titania & Oberon's Epic (Therapy) Road Trip", which was presented as a staged reading in St. Louis and at the annual Big Muddy New Play Festival in Carbondale, IL

~Her play "Running Uphill to Smooth Criminal" was a finalist in the 2022 Region 3 Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival One-Act Division, was produced in July 2022 by Heartland Theater, and was given a really cool shout out by Brian James Polak, host of the American Theater sponsored Podcast "The Subtext" (which, if you are a playwright reading this now - listen to this podcast! It's awesome!)

~e.k. had the honor of being included in the Working Group "Visitation and Tourism" at the annual American Society for Theater Research (ASTR) in 2023 with her auto-ethnographic account of a local campaign to remove a statue of an enslaver of humans and perpetrator of genocide in her hometown.

Plays

  • GLUT by e.k. doolin
    Recommendations: 4
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    Cast: 
    4–10
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    Genre: comedy, faith-based + 2 more
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    Keyword: sizism, religious persecution
    Genre: comedy, faith-based, movement/physical, political
    Keyword: sizism, religious persecution
    Sarah and Steve are getting married, they just can't agree on a location for their wedding. Unfortunately, one traditional option has shut it's doors to folks of their kind...or, more specifically, folks of their size. As the tolerance of the world around them grows smaller, these lovers push for something bigger.
  • V by e.k. doolin
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: comedy, farce + 1 more
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    Keyword: feminism, metoo
    Genre: comedy, farce, satire
    Keyword: feminism, metoo
    Veronica is disillusioned with genius, so she tries yoga. Unfortunately, so do a couple of geniuses.
  • X and Y by e.k. doolin
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: comedy
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    Keyword: gender identity, respect
    Genre: comedy
    Keyword: gender identity, respect
    X and Y meet at the bus stop and try to figure each other out in this world of self-identity.
  • The Dead Women of Jackson County by e.k. doolin
    Cast: 
    7
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    Genre: adaptation, dark comedy + 4 more
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    Keyword: true crime, podcasting + 4 more
    Genre: adaptation, dark comedy, drama, fantasy, mystery/thriller, science fiction
    Keyword: true crime, podcasting, grief, agoraphobia, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, based on Shakespearean characters
    Perdy is trying to solve an almost 200-year-old murder mystery...from her basement. If only her pesky mom and these random decomposing women would leave her alone long enough to understand what really happened to the Dead Women of Jackson County.
  • Running Uphill to Smooth Criminal by e.k. doolin
    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: comedy
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    Keyword: midlife crisis, spirituality
    Genre: comedy
    Keyword: midlife crisis, spirituality
    Annie isn't OK. She's a lost 40 something that's stuck inside her own trite, mid-life crisis. She can't go over it. She can't go under it. She's gotta go through it - and it's from within that she finds the answers she needs. This is a coming-of-middle-age story. A cautionary tale for those that feel it's too late for them. Spoiler alert: It's never too late.
  • Waiting for Hecate by e.k. doolin
    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: adaptation, comedy + 1 more
    Genre: adaptation, comedy, experimental
    Malkie, Paddy and Harper are waiting...and, it's been a minute. Who they are waiting for might be less important than simply who they are, or where they come from, or why they are waiting in the first place? They are existential existentialists, who ponder the existence of existing. Oh, and they're weird. In a good way. Or a bad way. It's all subjective anyway, right?
  • Lonesome Library by e.k. doolin
    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: comedy, fantasy + 1 more
    Genre: comedy, fantasy, young audiences
    Beware of the Western section in the library. You never know what might happen, or who you might become.
  • SHAKE and FAKE and BOIL by e.k. doolin
    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: comedy, farce + 2 more
    Genre: comedy, farce, satire, verse
    A COVID-19 twist on characters from Romeo and Juliet.
    Written for a Bake-Off competition in shelter, April 2020
  • Twisted Sister by e.k. doolin
    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: comedy
    Genre: comedy
    Two sisters remotely dealing with shelter in place - in vastly different ways.
    Written for round 2 of Quarantine Bake-Off April 2020.
  • The Good Virus by e.k. doolin
    Cast: 
    3–7
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 2 more
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    Keyword: pandemic, virus + 1 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, fantasy, science fiction
    Keyword: pandemic, virus, Bake-Off
    What might happen if the bad virus consumes us all - can humanity rebound? Do we want to?
    Written for the third round of Quarantine Bake-Off, May 2020.
  • The Luckiest by e.k. doolin
    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: comedy, drama
    Genre: comedy, drama
    Early in shelter, this family of three tries to keep an important tradition in place, even when it's clear the world is about to fall apart. Entry for the first round of Quarantine Bake-Off, March 2020.
  • DISTANT by e.k. doolin
    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: comedy, drama
    Genre: comedy, drama
    Sometimes it takes distance, and a third party, to get to the heart of the matter.
  • FAST by e.k. doolin
    Cast: 
    9
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    Genre: dark comedy, experimental + 1 more
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    Keyword: ageism, Relationships + 1 more
    Genre: dark comedy, experimental, fantasy
    Keyword: ageism, Relationships, faith
    A group of strangers find themselves side by side in an ubiquitous fast-food restaurant, but within their own life silo. Suddenly, a lightning bolt of change hits and the strangers are forced to interact and decide how to proceed in this newly altered reality.
  • The Reason Why by e.k. doolin
    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: dark comedy, drama + 2 more
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    Keyword: rural addiction, juggalos + 2 more
    Genre: dark comedy, drama, faith-based, fantasy
    Keyword: rural addiction, juggalos, Recovery, Therapy
    The increasing world of rural addiction creates a strange set of bed-fellows. A series of weekly meetings opens up old and new wounds on the road to recovery.