Caitlin Strom-Martin

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On a road trip across the Southwest, Ruth and Amy, a mother and daughter with a fractured relationship, spend the night at one of America's most haunted hotels, in an interlude that will change their lives forever. What does it take to repair the ragged bonds between a mother and her child? Is it ever too, too late to make things right?

New draft as of 12/2022.
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25 pages. When nuclear war breaks out during a semi-professional theater company’s performance of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? the audience and actors are left trying to figure out what to do.

PLEASE NOTE: This is a work in response to the horrible invasion of Ukraine by Russia.

10-15 minutes. A very short version of the original play. An apparent nuclear attack interrupts a performance of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, sending the actors and remaining audience to hide, and ponder their fate, in the theatre basement.

Accepted to Rogue Theatre Festival, 2022
Finalist, Lower East Side Play Festival 2022

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16 Pages. A mother and daughter grapple with their response to the ever-worsening condition of Caroline, the family matriarch, who is dying of dementia.

A secondary ending to my short, biographical play, after receiving feedback that "nothing happened," in the original version.

Semi-finalist, Hindsight 2023 International New Short Play Festival

A shorter version of the original play, minus the character of Dena. 3 generations of women prepare for the departure of the matriarch.

DRAFT #5, February 2023
In the future, somewhere in America, a committee of women welcome a newcomer to their sheltered community.

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Playwrights: Caitlin Strom-Martin, Lillian Myers, Juliet Noonan-Bivetto, and Laura J. Davies

During the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic, an anxious horror author with a massive case of writers block seeks inspiration and quiet in a local cemetery. Here she encounters 3 manifestations of the Maiden, the Mother, and the Crone, who help fuel her creative fire, and give her the will to carry on. Devised for the theatre, by 4 professional theatre actresses, and filmed during the pandemic, this play has yet to receive its proper staging. Contains 4 excellent monologues for women/female-identifying actors of all varieties.
NOTE: The final filmed version is around 45 minutes long, but appropriate staging of this piece as a play could add length to the production.

IN DEVELOPMENT. Seeking Development partners!
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Playwrights: Caitlin Strom-Martin and Shelby Arthur. We are seeking a librettist, a lyricist, and an offer to commission this musical extravaganza for production. We need a generous patron/entity to help finish this piece. Two original songs have already been written, and are in word-form waiting to be developed further.

Broadway superstar extraordinaire Mandy Patinkin (seen here as his Inigo Montoya persona) has it all: fame, fortune, and a fabulous entourage of the best Broadway costumers and backup dancers ( known as the infamous Room 9 Gang). Poor aspiring actors, Llana and Svetlana, from an unnamed Soviet country, are his #1 fans. Leaving their bleak futures behind, the sisters journey to America to join Mandy's gang. But can they help him outwit the evil machinations of his arch-nemesis, James Spader (always the supporting player to Mandy's bright star), who is determined to foil every move that Mandy makes? And can their Yoda-like mentor, Christine Baranski, help shape them into the stars they know they have always been? Find out in this musical spoof glitter bomb of a show, inspired by music from Baccara, ABBA, the opening Meryl Streep dance number in Death Becomes Her, and such musicals as Mama Mia!, and Priscilla: Queen of the Desert.

A horror writer grapples with trying to finish her novel during the pandemic. This monologue formed the basis of the devised play, Beyond the Mask, filmed in spring of 2021.
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A young woman implores her mother to intervene when her father's raccoon feeding gets out of control.
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(NOTE: This is still a work in progress) A naive young babysitter reads the letter of instructions for her new charge, a four-year old who is also the heiress to a massive automobile fortune.

CURRENTLY IN DEVELOPEMENT
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A 1-Act Play (potentially could have an intermission), with room for expansive staging and special/practical/ creative effects.
In this small-town horror fable, a young boy convinces his babysitter to take him to the old abandoned mansion that's rumored to be haunted, with terrifying results. Do curses really exist? Are ghosts real? Is the cat an accomplice to the unspeakable evil that has befallen the town?