Chris Holbrook

Chris Holbrook’s short plays have been produced throughout the U.S. and internationally, including the Source Festival (Washington, D.C.); Labute New Theater Festival (St. Louis); Oxford Theater (Oxford, Mississippi); Proscenium Live at the Portland Shakespeare Project; Attic Theatre Company (London); and Montmartre Dionysia (Paris). He has also written three full-length plays, “Les Fantômes,” (O'Neill semi-finalist), ”Doorman,” and “Nightwatch”(O'Neill semi-finalist). He lives in Strasbourg, France.

Chris Holbrook’s short plays have been produced throughout the U.S. and internationally, including the Source Festival (Washington, D.C.); Labute New Theater Festival (St. Louis); Oxford Theater (Oxford, Mississippi); Proscenium Live at the Portland Shakespeare Project; Attic Theatre Company (London); and Montmartre Dionysia (Paris). He has also written three full-length plays, “Les Fantômes,” (O'Neill semi-finalist), ”Doorman,” and “Nightwatch”(O'Neill semi-finalist). He lives in Strasbourg, France.

Scripts

Reunion

by Chris Holbrook

Cast Size
6
Genre
drama,
fantasy

Max, 42, an ex-pat living in France, returns home to a Chicago suburb, ostensibly to clean out and sell the house of his mother, who died five years before. However, it soon becomes clear that this homecoming is something that he has done before, and that the real goal of his trip is much darker—something that could kill him and rip apart the lives of his family and friends.

Part ghost-story, part...

Max, 42, an ex-pat living in France, returns home to a Chicago suburb, ostensibly to clean out and sell the house of his mother, who died five years before. However, it soon becomes clear that this homecoming is something that he has done before, and that the real goal of his trip is much darker—something that could kill him and rip apart the lives of his family and friends.

Part ghost-story, part psychological whodunit, “Reunion” is a story about a homecoming of someone without a home.

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Ski Lift

by Chris Holbrook

Cast Size
2
Genre
comedy,
dark comedy,
drama

Two strangers share a ski lift –one, a consummate skier, the other without skis or poles. Quickly, they learn that sometimes you have more in common with a stranger than with the ones you love.

Two strangers share a ski lift –one, a consummate skier, the other without skis or poles. Quickly, they learn that sometimes you have more in common with a stranger than with the ones you love.

Chapter 7: Living in the Future

by Chris Holbrook

1
Cast Size
3
Genre
comedy,
dark comedy

Three characters are hired by a publisher to be stars of a new English-language textbook. At first, it seems like the perfect gig, until the publisher complains that one of the characters, a Hungarian, has a terrible accent and must be killed off.

Three characters are hired by a publisher to be stars of a new English-language textbook. At first, it seems like the perfect gig, until the publisher complains that one of the characters, a Hungarian, has a terrible accent and must be killed off.