Connor Ermir Bradshaw

Connor Ermir Bradshaw

Connor Ermir Bradshaw (they/them) is a Chicago-based, Midwestern-raised playwright and poet. They have worked with Victory Gardens Theatre, TimeLine Theatre, Adventure Stage Chicago, iO Theatre, Citadel Theatre, and Poetry East. In 2018, Connor was commissioned by Victory Gardens to write a 10-minute play, FLIGHTLESS. Due to COVID, their play, BOXED IN, (dir. Stephanie LeBolt) was adapted into an interactive...
Connor Ermir Bradshaw (they/them) is a Chicago-based, Midwestern-raised playwright and poet. They have worked with Victory Gardens Theatre, TimeLine Theatre, Adventure Stage Chicago, iO Theatre, Citadel Theatre, and Poetry East. In 2018, Connor was commissioned by Victory Gardens to write a 10-minute play, FLIGHTLESS. Due to COVID, their play, BOXED IN, (dir. Stephanie LeBolt) was adapted into an interactive podcast in association with The Theatre School at DePaul University, where it was previously developed in the Wrights of Spring new play festival. Their play, SUPER-RON, was also developed through Wrights of Spring. Connor is the recipient of the Zach Helm Endowed Playwriting Scholarship.
BFA: The Theatre School at DePaul University, BA Literary Studies '20

Plays

  • Boxed In by Connor Ermir Bradshaw
    Cast: 
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    Genre: docudrama/historic, drama + 4 more
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    Keyword: Surreal, dark + 2 more
    Genre: docudrama/historic, drama, experimental, horror, mystery/thriller, tragedy
    Keyword: Surreal, dark, guilt, parenthood
    For more than 15 years, John and Louise have been torn between uprooting themselves and the lives they know and planting themselves even deeper into their house and routine. But after tragedy strikes, the broken home’s groans and shudders begin to sound too familiar. Together, husband and wife must determine whether bodies can ever be laid to rest and if memories are enough to bring a house to its knees.
  • Super-Ron by Connor Ermir Bradshaw
    Cast: 
    5
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 1 more
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    Keyword: 9/11, superhero
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, political
    Keyword: 9/11, superhero
    In a world where the only caped crusaders belong in comic books, our hero, Ron Peterson, gives new meaning to the phrase “below-average”. When the September 11th attack rocks the country, Ron devises a plan to protect the people of Rochester, Minnesota and fulfill his heroic destiny, that is, if he can get out of the comic store bathroom.
  • flightless by Connor Ermir Bradshaw
    Cast: 
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    Genre: drama, experimental + 1 more
    Genre: drama, experimental, faith-based
    Sometimes all we want is to be lost at sea. Sometimes all we want is to escape the world we've known. And sometimes, when faced with a plan to do both, we just can't.