Erin Courtney

Erin Courtney

Erin Courtney’s play I WILL BE GONE, directed by Kip Fagan, premiered at Actors Theater of Louisville, Humana Festival in 2015. Her play A MAP OF VIRTUE, produced by 13P and directed by Ken Rus Schmoll, won a special citation OBIE in 2012. Her plays have been produced or developed by Clubbed Thumb, The Public Theater, The Flea, The Vineyard, Playwrights Horizons, NYS&F, and Soho Rep. She is an affiliated...
Erin Courtney’s play I WILL BE GONE, directed by Kip Fagan, premiered at Actors Theater of Louisville, Humana Festival in 2015. Her play A MAP OF VIRTUE, produced by 13P and directed by Ken Rus Schmoll, won a special citation OBIE in 2012. Her plays have been produced or developed by Clubbed Thumb, The Public Theater, The Flea, The Vineyard, Playwrights Horizons, NYS&F, and Soho Rep. She is an affiliated artist with Clubbed Thumb, a member of the Obie award winning playwright collective -13P, as well as the co-founder of the Brooklyn Writer’s Space. Ms. Courtney teaches playwriting at Brooklyn College. She earned her MFA in playwriting at Brooklyn College with Mac Wellman. She is a member of New Dramatists and is a 2014 Guggenheim Fellow.

Plays

  • I Will Be Gone by Erin Courtney
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    Genre: dark comedy, drama
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    Keyword: ghosts
    Genre: dark comedy, drama
    Keyword: ghosts
    Seventeen-year-old Penelope goes to live with her Aunt Josephine in a small town in California’s Sierra Nevada Mountains after her mom dies. Everyone in this small town—built right next door to a ghost town—is haunted by something or someone, and no one knows how to behave. Filled with apparitions, earthquakes, and strange attempts to mourn, this play explores the beauty and awkwardness of living with the...
    Seventeen-year-old Penelope goes to live with her Aunt Josephine in a small town in California’s Sierra Nevada Mountains after her mom dies. Everyone in this small town—built right next door to a ghost town—is haunted by something or someone, and no one knows how to behave. Filled with apparitions, earthquakes, and strange attempts to mourn, this play explores the beauty and awkwardness of living with the knowledge that everything ends.