Erika Spondike

As a performer and creator, Spondike is passionate about new and exciting works full of humor and heart. Her debut one-act "I Don't Know What I'm Doing" premiered at the Pittsburgh New Works Festival in August of 2022, and she was nominated for Best Playwright. She is a BFA Musical Theatre graduate of The Hartt School.

As a performer and creator, Spondike is passionate about new and exciting works full of humor and heart. Her debut one-act "I Don't Know What I'm Doing" premiered at the Pittsburgh New Works Festival in August of 2022, and she was nominated for Best Playwright. She is a BFA Musical Theatre graduate of The Hartt School.

Scripts

I Don't Know What I'm Doing

by Erika Spondike

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Cast Size
4
Genre
comedy,
drama,
experimental

Told entirely through a phone, IDKWID is a frustratingly realistic farce about communication, car trouble, and those little moments in life when no one else is watching. Think “No Exit” meets SNL with a healthy serving of Triple-A Slander. The characters in this piece can be portrayed by actors of any gender because life's a bitch to everyone, it doesn't discriminate.

Told entirely through a phone, IDKWID is a frustratingly realistic farce about communication, car trouble, and those little moments in life when no one else is watching. Think “No Exit” meets SNL with a healthy serving of Triple-A Slander. The characters in this piece can be portrayed by actors of any gender because life's a bitch to everyone, it doesn't discriminate.

Murder Train!

by Erika Spondike

Cast Size
7—20
Genre
comedy,
farce,
melodrama,
mystery/thriller

Nothing bad ever happens on the Murder Train... except for MURDER! The Tuggawa Dinner Theater at Gary’s Barbecue Palace is far from Broadway, but their murder mystery dinner theatre is to DIE for. That is, until one evening's performance goes off the rails.

Nothing bad ever happens on the Murder Train... except for MURDER! The Tuggawa Dinner Theater at Gary’s Barbecue Palace is far from Broadway, but their murder mystery dinner theatre is to DIE for. That is, until one evening's performance goes off the rails.

Funeral for a Soulless Man

by Erika Spondike

Cast Size
9—20
Genre
comedy,
dark comedy,
farce

Friends and family come together to mourn the loss of comedian, Benjamin Neely. Outsider, Thomas, joins his girlfriend, Abigail, for the services and is shocked by the true nature of the deceased...

Friends and family come together to mourn the loss of comedian, Benjamin Neely. Outsider, Thomas, joins his girlfriend, Abigail, for the services and is shocked by the true nature of the deceased...