Ellie Pyle

Ellie Pyle is an award winning playwright based in Los Angeles. She once wrote the book for jukebox musical that told a tale of King Arthur with classic rock in six weeks, and had three days to rewrite he play Sources to take place on the night of the 2016 election. Fifteen of her plays have been fully produced on the East Coast and she has had readings in NYC and Los Angeles. Her one woman show Blood Brides has been published internationally (and she also has two novels Southern Girls with Big Vocabularies and The Men In Between, available on Amazon and iBooks). A love of new play development also inspired her to become a producer, founding her first theatre company, The Risk Plays at the age of 18 in Richmond, VA. As Performing Arts Coordinator for the City of Savannah, she launched a...

Ellie Pyle is an award winning playwright based in Los Angeles. She once wrote the book for jukebox musical that told a tale of King Arthur with classic rock in six weeks, and had three days to rewrite he play Sources to take place on the night of the 2016 election. Fifteen of her plays have been fully produced on the East Coast and she has had readings in NYC and Los Angeles. Her one woman show Blood Brides has been published internationally (and she also has two novels Southern Girls with Big Vocabularies and The Men In Between, available on Amazon and iBooks). A love of new play development also inspired her to become a producer, founding her first theatre company, The Risk Plays at the age of 18 in Richmond, VA. As Performing Arts Coordinator for the City of Savannah, she launched a reading series in addition to producing, directing and teaching for two seasons. In 2018 she co-founded Bespoke Plays, producing monthly staged readings in Los Angeles customized to the goals of the writer and readiness of the play.

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Scripts

Graves

by Ellie Pyle

Cast Size
6
Genre
drama,
fantasy,
horror

They call him "Graves" and if it's a ghost story you're looking for, he spins a tale so well you won't care whether it's true. He's mentored a lot of Savannah's ghost guides over the years, but his latest collection of stray art students is different: they want to learn magic. Thus far, he's been able to keep them distracted: a bit of Hermeticism here, a little Wicca there, never mind the root working born into...

They call him "Graves" and if it's a ghost story you're looking for, he spins a tale so well you won't care whether it's true. He's mentored a lot of Savannah's ghost guides over the years, but his latest collection of stray art students is different: they want to learn magic. Thus far, he's been able to keep them distracted: a bit of Hermeticism here, a little Wicca there, never mind the root working born into these parts. But when a new girl joins the group, her innate gifts threaten to awaken things Graves buried long ago.

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Trapped in a Suburban Parking Lot

by Ellie Pyle

Cast Size
5
Genre
comedy

An absurdist comedy about the existential dread of trying to find your way out of a parking lot.

An absurdist comedy about the existential dread of trying to find your way out of a parking lot.

Sources

by Ellie Pyle

Cast Size
2
Genre
drama,
political,
science fiction,
zoom

An intimate negotiation of complex conflicts of interest that begins in the early morning after the 2016 election, when a successful journalist receives a call from a corporate programmer who may or may not have invented an algorithm that can remove anonymity from the internet.

The entire play takes places as one continuous phone call during which the two characters move around the same set as though they are...

An intimate negotiation of complex conflicts of interest that begins in the early morning after the 2016 election, when a successful journalist receives a call from a corporate programmer who may or may not have invented an algorithm that can remove anonymity from the internet.

The entire play takes places as one continuous phone call during which the two characters move around the same set as though they are alone, making it ideal for social distancing. Zoom version also available.

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Heretics

by Ellie Pyle

Cast Size
7
Genre
drama,
period,
romantic comedy,
tragedy

Part courtly romance, part spiritual allegory, this re-imagining of the Magdalene mythos, in 13th-century Languedoc, weaves a tapestry of historical heresies, sultry songs and witchcraft wisdom. Aesthetically Shakespearean, in modern prose, with one actor-musician or a cappella troubadour.

Part courtly romance, part spiritual allegory, this re-imagining of the Magdalene mythos, in 13th-century Languedoc, weaves a tapestry of historical heresies, sultry songs and witchcraft wisdom. Aesthetically Shakespearean, in modern prose, with one actor-musician or a cappella troubadour.

BattleArt III: The Art of Battle (The Quest for Battle)

by Ellie Pyle

1
Cast Size
5—8
Genre
adventure,
comedy,
parody/spoof

At midnight on the release date of "the most anticipated game from Snowbound Entertainment in years", Walter drags his best friend Randy and (Randy's long suffering girlfriend) Angela to Walmart. But first they must navigate the parking lot, discovering their character classes as they begin to suspect they just might be video game characters themselves.

At midnight on the release date of "the most anticipated game from Snowbound Entertainment in years", Walter drags his best friend Randy and (Randy's long suffering girlfriend) Angela to Walmart. But first they must navigate the parking lot, discovering their character classes as they begin to suspect they just might be video game characters themselves.

Blood Brides

by Ellie Pyle

Cast Size
1—4
Genre
adaptation,
docudrama/historic,
period,
verse

Blood Brides is a one woman show which interweaves the stories of four women who married their husband's murder: Clytemnestra, Bathsheba, Igraine and Lady Macbeth.

Blood Brides is a one woman show which interweaves the stories of four women who married their husband's murder: Clytemnestra, Bathsheba, Igraine and Lady Macbeth.