Ellen Struve

Ellen Struve’s plays include Recommended Reading for Girls published by PlayScripts Inc. (O'Neill National Playwrights Conference Semi-Finalist, GPTC Stage Write Award), Prince Max’s Trewly Awful Trip to the Desolat Interior (selected for the 2015 PlayPenn Playwrights’ Conference, Great Plains Theatre Conference PlayFest Production), EPIC (GPTC PlayFest Production), The Octopus Play (EST/Sloan Commission), The Dairy Maid-Right (Mid-America Arts Alliance Artistic Innovation Grant), Untitled Series #7 (Theatre Arts Guild Best Comedy), among others. She is a Nebraska Arts Council Individual Artist Fellow and WhyArts Resident Artist. She has degrees from University of Iowa and School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Ellen Struve’s plays include Recommended Reading for Girls published by PlayScripts Inc. (O'Neill National Playwrights Conference Semi-Finalist, GPTC Stage Write Award), Prince Max’s Trewly Awful Trip to the Desolat Interior (selected for the 2015 PlayPenn Playwrights’ Conference, Great Plains Theatre Conference PlayFest Production), EPIC (GPTC PlayFest Production), The Octopus Play (EST/Sloan Commission), The Dairy Maid-Right (Mid-America Arts Alliance Artistic Innovation Grant), Untitled Series #7 (Theatre Arts Guild Best Comedy), among others. She is a Nebraska Arts Council Individual Artist Fellow and WhyArts Resident Artist. She has degrees from University of Iowa and School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Scripts

Old Bat:A New Myth

by Ellen Struve

Synopsis

Plague, fire, war, repeat. When a desperate librarian is stranded on an island with some Boomer monsters, a hero, and an anthropomorphic breeze, she must decide how many betrayals it takes to wrest salvation out from old stories in this violent, funny, uplifting, emo-feminist creation-scream

Plague, fire, war, repeat. When a desperate librarian is stranded on an island with some Boomer monsters, a hero, and an anthropomorphic breeze, she must decide how many betrayals it takes to wrest salvation out from old stories in this violent, funny, uplifting, emo-feminist creation-scream