Ellen Struve

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...
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.

Plays

  • Old Bat
    Kira hunts for an unknown treasure guarded by the Boomer-esque nymph and cyclops. She is an ordinary woman beset by extraordinary times and the same old stories. She’s survived a fire, a plague and a war, and is trying secure her child’s survival by following the hero's plan, but finding the treasure is as difficult as finding her place in these ancient narratives. She enlists the help of the elements,...
    Kira hunts for an unknown treasure guarded by the Boomer-esque nymph and cyclops. She is an ordinary woman beset by extraordinary times and the same old stories. She’s survived a fire, a plague and a war, and is trying secure her child’s survival by following the hero's plan, but finding the treasure is as difficult as finding her place in these ancient narratives. She enlists the help of the elements, betrays her companions and is betrayed and discovers the need for transformation

Recommended by Ellen Struve

  • The Hall of Final Ruin
    1 Jun. 2021
    This funny historical, fast-witted play celebrates its story and its audience! This all-female comedy about death and legacy is also about how we care for one another. Its compassion has absolutely everything to do with making us laugh. It's exactly the kind of play I want to see produced!