Elizabeth Coplan

Elizabeth Coplan

Elizabeth Coplan is a 40+ year PR and Marketing veteran. Her professional and life experiences in numerous cities throughout the U.S., including New York City, San Antonio, Los Angeles, and Seattle, create an unending library of writing topics and has earned her several awards.

Her first produced play, Hospice: A Love Story, is the cornerstone of her project, The Grief Dialogues. The mission of...
Elizabeth Coplan is a 40+ year PR and Marketing veteran. Her professional and life experiences in numerous cities throughout the U.S., including New York City, San Antonio, Los Angeles, and Seattle, create an unending library of writing topics and has earned her several awards.

Her first produced play, Hospice: A Love Story, is the cornerstone of her project, The Grief Dialogues. The mission of The Grief Dialogues is to instruct, enhance and encourage deeper, more fulfilling conversations on the subject of dying, death and grief. The spirit of her project is one of celebration, humor and openness.

Plays

  • The Choice by Elizabeth Coplan
    Cast: 
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    Genre: drama
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    Keyword: abortion, maternal love + 6 more
    Genre: drama
    Keyword: abortion, maternal love, maternal loss, miscarriage, Advanced maternal age, birth and death, accepting death, paternal loss
    Marie and Joe face their worst nightmare. The child they waited so long to conceive may be severely disabled and poses a health risk to Marie. In a state where abortion is illegal, the doctor risks her medical license to advise them on a decision no parent should have to make. Cross-state lines for an abortion now or bury the baby after its birth? Joe and Marie’s fundamental differences complicate this...
    Marie and Joe face their worst nightmare. The child they waited so long to conceive may be severely disabled and poses a health risk to Marie. In a state where abortion is illegal, the doctor risks her medical license to advise them on a decision no parent should have to make. Cross-state lines for an abortion now or bury the baby after its birth? Joe and Marie’s fundamental differences complicate this decision. They have strong convictions, until their understanding of the choice shakes their resolve.
  • Over My Dead Body by Elizabeth Coplan
    Cast: 
    6
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 1 more
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    Keyword: hospice, death + 6 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, drama
    Keyword: hospice, death, dying, end of life, family, adoption, runaway teen, medical aid in dying
    Mary’s family returns to coordinate her “good death.” Her daughter Lucy believes death is just death. Michael, the “new” husband, believes death is up to God. Anne, Mary’s other daughter, wonders if there is something in between. Jason, her son, can’t forgive a 40-year-long lie, while Nick loves his grandma dearly and is there to actually help. Unintended consequences splinter the family when arguments erupt...
    Mary’s family returns to coordinate her “good death.” Her daughter Lucy believes death is just death. Michael, the “new” husband, believes death is up to God. Anne, Mary’s other daughter, wonders if there is something in between. Jason, her son, can’t forgive a 40-year-long lie, while Nick loves his grandma dearly and is there to actually help. Unintended consequences splinter the family when arguments erupt over medical-aid-in-dying, childhood memories, Disneyland, and whose house is it anyway. Over My Dead Body is a dramatic romp through the messiness and pain surrounding death and the colliding experiences of love and chaos.
  • Hospice: A Love Story by Elizabeth Coplan
    Recommendations: 2
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    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 1 more
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    Keyword: death, dying + 6 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, drama
    Keyword: death, dying, grief, Shared Grief, aging parents, death with dignity, assisted suicide, sibling rivalry
    HOSPICE: A LOVE STORY is a darkly comic look at our faulty memories and childhood transgressions. It follows two sisters the day after their mother’s death. Although both women were in the room, they remember alarmingly different outcomes of their mother’s care and her final days. Anne goes to confession for the first time in 42 years. Her sister Betsy heads to the therapist’s office. Individually they...
    HOSPICE: A LOVE STORY is a darkly comic look at our faulty memories and childhood transgressions. It follows two sisters the day after their mother’s death. Although both women were in the room, they remember alarmingly different outcomes of their mother’s care and her final days. Anne goes to confession for the first time in 42 years. Her sister Betsy heads to the therapist’s office. Individually they explore their grief. Together they weave in the memories of their childhoods and their specific, yet opposing, recollections of their mother's death.

Recommended by Elizabeth Coplan

  • STILL LIFE by Barbara Blumenthal-Ehrlich
    29 Sep. 2015
    “ I have now seen this play twice. The expression of grief is raw and identifiable whether you have experienced a loss via terrorism or illness or accident. Still Life demonstrates how grief can throw two people together with no desire to part, until grief starts to change, ever so slightly, and life must go on. I recommend it and would add that it is easily staged and a powerful discussion piece about the suddenness of death and unset of grief (this applies to any death, no matter how slow in coming). ”