Camilla Dwyer

Camilla Dwyer (she/they) is a Chicago based theatre artist originally from San Francisco. Chicago credits include Avalanche Theatre Company's inaugural First Draft reading series in 2023 (Lucid), Interrobang Theatre Project's Playwriting Initiative in 2022 (Nuclear Galaxy), and The Theatre School at DePaul University's Wrights of Spring Festival in 2018, 2019 (Light as Sand), 2020 (Lucid), and 2021 (Teeth). San Francisco credits include participating in Berkeley Rep's inaugural Young Writers of Color Collective in 2016-17 and SF Playground's Young Playwrights Project in 2015, 2016, and 2017.

Camilla holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in playwriting and a Bachelor of Arts in African-Black Diaspora Studies from DePaul University.

Camilla Dwyer (she/they) is a Chicago based theatre artist originally from San Francisco. Chicago credits include Avalanche Theatre Company's inaugural First Draft reading series in 2023 (Lucid), Interrobang Theatre Project's Playwriting Initiative in 2022 (Nuclear Galaxy), and The Theatre School at DePaul University's Wrights of Spring Festival in 2018, 2019 (Light as Sand), 2020 (Lucid), and 2021 (Teeth). San Francisco credits include participating in Berkeley Rep's inaugural Young Writers of Color Collective in 2016-17 and SF Playground's Young Playwrights Project in 2015, 2016, and 2017.

Camilla holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in playwriting and a Bachelor of Arts in African-Black Diaspora Studies from DePaul University.

Scripts

The Cannibal King

by Camilla Dwyer

Synopsis

Two friends reunite after a long expedition to Africa. While catching up over a whiskey neat it becomes clear that some tales from the dark continent aren’t always meant to be brought to light.

Two friends reunite after a long expedition to Africa. While catching up over a whiskey neat it becomes clear that some tales from the dark continent aren’t always meant to be brought to light.

Nuclear Galaxy

by Camilla Dwyer

Synopsis

Welcome to Anywhere USA, where the war is finally over, the white picket fences are pristine, and a strange young girl has just crash landed on the porch of one of the resident couples. As these two new moms struggle to learn how to take care of their rapidly growing daughter, they come face-to-face with stranger things than the atomic weather raging outside of their home. Can they catch on to raising a...

Welcome to Anywhere USA, where the war is finally over, the white picket fences are pristine, and a strange young girl has just crash landed on the porch of one of the resident couples. As these two new moms struggle to learn how to take care of their rapidly growing daughter, they come face-to-face with stranger things than the atomic weather raging outside of their home. Can they catch on to raising a headstrong teenager? Or will the experience just leave them shell-shocked?

Teeth

by Camilla Dwyer

Synopsis

George wants teeth. Martha wants sex. Their newest dear wants to go swimming. And the estate's trustiest boy simply wants to make it out alive. The more these four lives entangle the quicker their household decays until they are all forced to uproot their lives as they know it, or sit with a bad taste in their mouths.

George wants teeth. Martha wants sex. Their newest dear wants to go swimming. And the estate's trustiest boy simply wants to make it out alive. The more these four lives entangle the quicker their household decays until they are all forced to uproot their lives as they know it, or sit with a bad taste in their mouths.

Lucid

by Camilla Dwyer

Synopsis

A not-so-young-anymore couple tries to fight their way out of the rut they’ve fallen into. A very hungry lighting technician just wants to have their food in peace. A woman finds the love of her life sitting in the kitchen one day and a young writer sits in a kitchen hoping to finally become the-one-capital-o. From there, the tangle of their shared lives starts to unravel into a haze that none of them seem able...

A not-so-young-anymore couple tries to fight their way out of the rut they’ve fallen into. A very hungry lighting technician just wants to have their food in peace. A woman finds the love of her life sitting in the kitchen one day and a young writer sits in a kitchen hoping to finally become the-one-capital-o. From there, the tangle of their shared lives starts to unravel into a haze that none of them seem able to work through. It’s now up to them to decide what to hang onto and what to leave behind in their collective nightmare.

Light as Sand

by Camilla Dwyer

Synopsis

A girl finds herself filled to the brim with the strangest stuff. A crow diagnoses her with hysteria. A kite flies away. That should be the end of the story. A doctor finds his latest subject to study, and it might just bring him world-wide fame! It could even cure female hysteria! A young woman tries to land an internship that can erase three-years of remedial pre-med. She just has to get a famous doctor to...

A girl finds herself filled to the brim with the strangest stuff. A crow diagnoses her with hysteria. A kite flies away. That should be the end of the story. A doctor finds his latest subject to study, and it might just bring him world-wide fame! It could even cure female hysteria! A young woman tries to land an internship that can erase three-years of remedial pre-med. She just has to get a famous doctor to sign off on it, curing female hysteria would look good on a transcript. A little bird flies through a window and the story starts again.