Erin FM

Erin FM is a playwright, puppeteer, improviser, songwriter, and indie producer.

Her ten-minute play Limited Engagement! was a Region 1 Finalist for the Gary Garrison Ten-Minute Play Award at the 2024 Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival and was produced by Gloucester Stage for Boston Theater Marathon XXVI. She will be taking her One-Act play Aeschylus Died When an Eagle Dropped a Turtle on his Head to Fringe PVD in July 2024. Her ten-minute play The Spirit of Goodwill will be produced by Theatre@First for their new works festival Love is Love in August of 2024. Currently, Erin is a participant in Outer Loop Theater's 2024 Inner Enso Program (a devised theatre ensemble), where she is working on a (currently untitled) play, told through the lens of Maureen Murdock's framework...

Erin FM is a playwright, puppeteer, improviser, songwriter, and indie producer.

Her ten-minute play Limited Engagement! was a Region 1 Finalist for the Gary Garrison Ten-Minute Play Award at the 2024 Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival and was produced by Gloucester Stage for Boston Theater Marathon XXVI. She will be taking her One-Act play Aeschylus Died When an Eagle Dropped a Turtle on his Head to Fringe PVD in July 2024. Her ten-minute play The Spirit of Goodwill will be produced by Theatre@First for their new works festival Love is Love in August of 2024. Currently, Erin is a participant in Outer Loop Theater's 2024 Inner Enso Program (a devised theatre ensemble), where she is working on a (currently untitled) play, told through the lens of Maureen Murdock's framework of "the heroine's journey," about a young, queer, Thai-American woman on a quest of self-discovery.

As a puppeteer, she has done work with Puppet Showplace Theater, Imaginary Beasts, Behind the Mask, and the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center’s National Puppetry Conference.

As a comedian and public speaker, Erin was Shanghai Comedy Club’s first local headliner in 2016, and later that year gave a TEDx Talk about her comedy journey at Shanghai’s Mercedes-Benz Arena. She performs with the (improv) Spokane team “Business Donut.”

She holds an MFA in Writing for Stage and Screen from Lesley University and holds BAs in Philosophy and Comparative Literature from the University of Georgia.

Scripts

Still Life with Mom

by Erin FM

Synopsis

Thirty-five-year-old Audrey Walker comes home from an art class to discover her estranged mother in her apartment on a night when all she wanted to do was relax and paint. As Audrey and Mom trade barbs and relive tragic family tales, it becomes clear that Mom is not physically there. The truth of why Mom is "there" reveals itself as Audrey works through both her painting and her mental unrest about her mother.

Thirty-five-year-old Audrey Walker comes home from an art class to discover her estranged mother in her apartment on a night when all she wanted to do was relax and paint. As Audrey and Mom trade barbs and relive tragic family tales, it becomes clear that Mom is not physically there. The truth of why Mom is "there" reveals itself as Audrey works through both her painting and her mental unrest about her mother.

Temporarium

by Erin FM

Synopsis

In the midst of a personal tragedy and a mental health crisis, 33 year old Mainie Fudgel is launched from one bizarre landscape to another. She is accompanied by her own shadow, who speaks to her constantly, but is not heard. On their way, Mainie and Shadow encounter kidnappers, desert vampires, corporate horses, and a Svengali blood relative while trying simply to find Mainie a job and a place that feels like...

In the midst of a personal tragedy and a mental health crisis, 33 year old Mainie Fudgel is launched from one bizarre landscape to another. She is accompanied by her own shadow, who speaks to her constantly, but is not heard. On their way, Mainie and Shadow encounter kidnappers, desert vampires, corporate horses, and a Svengali blood relative while trying simply to find Mainie a job and a place that feels like home.

Limited Engagement!

by Erin FM

Synopsis

With six months or less to live, elderly hospice care patients Lenny and Gracie seize the spotlight, thumb their noses at death, and live out their last days as if they're in an old comedy variety show—all from their hospital beds.

With six months or less to live, elderly hospice care patients Lenny and Gracie seize the spotlight, thumb their noses at death, and live out their last days as if they're in an old comedy variety show—all from their hospital beds.

Aeschylus Died When an Eagle Dropped a Turtle on His Head

by Erin FM

Synopsis

In an anachronistic, setting-bending mashup of ancient Athens, Greece and current Athens, Georgia, the classic playwright Aeschylus must convince a convenience store clerk to call an ambulance for his bleeding head. As things escalate from the clerk's philosophical inquisition to a formal trial to determine the cause of the injury, Aeschylus must prove himself before he meets a tragic end.

In an anachronistic, setting-bending mashup of ancient Athens, Greece and current Athens, Georgia, the classic playwright Aeschylus must convince a convenience store clerk to call an ambulance for his bleeding head. As things escalate from the clerk's philosophical inquisition to a formal trial to determine the cause of the injury, Aeschylus must prove himself before he meets a tragic end.

The Spirit of Goodwill

by Erin FM

Synopsis

A young woman named Perdita searches desperately through thrift store bins for her t-shirt collection that she mistakenly gave away. Perdita meets an eccentric, outgoing woman named Mabel, who encourages her to try something new. When Mabel reveals the magical reason why she cares so much, it's up to Perdita move on or stay stuck in the past.

A young woman named Perdita searches desperately through thrift store bins for her t-shirt collection that she mistakenly gave away. Perdita meets an eccentric, outgoing woman named Mabel, who encourages her to try something new. When Mabel reveals the magical reason why she cares so much, it's up to Perdita move on or stay stuck in the past.

The Haircut

by Erin FM

Synopsis

The author attempts to go to on her first post-pandemic trip to the hair salon, only to discover her communication skills have fully broken down.

The author attempts to go to on her first post-pandemic trip to the hair salon, only to discover her communication skills have fully broken down.

A Vessel with a False Bottom

by Erin FM

Synopsis

A young man who works in a practical joke factory questions his whole existence when a romantic prank goes wrong.

A young man who works in a practical joke factory questions his whole existence when a romantic prank goes wrong.

When The Unexpected Happens

by Erin FM

Synopsis

Appearing to be on the run from the law, two young women wildly search for the key to what’s happening to them, only to reveal that their orange jumpsuits point to a more bizarre fate than just being fugitives.

Appearing to be on the run from the law, two young women wildly search for the key to what’s happening to them, only to reveal that their orange jumpsuits point to a more bizarre fate than just being fugitives.