Cam Eickmeyer

Cam Eickmeyer writes about technology, social justice, and how people interpret the world. His work often explores the dark humor where those topics overlap. He's had stage plays produced in Colorado, Florida and Missouri. His fiction and poetry has appeared in various outlets, and he has a screenplay optioned in 2022. Previously a journalist, he lives in Colorado and enjoys the outdoors with his family. He is a proud member of the Dramatist Guild since 2023.

Cam Eickmeyer writes about technology, social justice, and how people interpret the world. His work often explores the dark humor where those topics overlap. He's had stage plays produced in Colorado, Florida and Missouri. His fiction and poetry has appeared in various outlets, and he has a screenplay optioned in 2022. Previously a journalist, he lives in Colorado and enjoys the outdoors with his family. He is a proud member of the Dramatist Guild since 2023.

Scripts

The Pit (Radio Horror)

by Cam Eickmeyer

Synopsis

30 Minutes: On the brink of adolescence, Charlie follows his older brother to a mythical pit to throw stones into an allegedly bottomless void, but he and his friends find more than an echo in the darkness.

30 Minutes: On the brink of adolescence, Charlie follows his older brother to a mythical pit to throw stones into an allegedly bottomless void, but he and his friends find more than an echo in the darkness.

Unsettling (Radio Play)

by Cam Eickmeyer

Synopsis

2-9 Minutes: Siblings try to sleep but the creaky house, or whoever is making the house creak, won't let them.

2-9 Minutes: Siblings try to sleep but the creaky house, or whoever is making the house creak, won't let them.

Exit Poll

by Cam Eickmeyer

Synopsis

10-minute play:

Three reporters desperate for an election day scoop, post up outside a voting location willing to do anything, yes, absolutely anything, to predict the outcome of the votes.

10-minute play:

Three reporters desperate for an election day scoop, post up outside a voting location willing to do anything, yes, absolutely anything, to predict the outcome of the votes.

Tuesdays ... Am I Right?

by Cam Eickmeyer

Synopsis

10 Minute Play

An American businessman visiting an authoritarian regime learns living in a democracy isn't the same as participating in one.

Productions:
2024 Election Day The Comedies - The MAT! Colorado Springs
City Theater Miami Oct 24 City Reads

10 Minute Play

An American businessman visiting an authoritarian regime learns living in a democracy isn't the same as participating in one.

Productions:
2024 Election Day The Comedies - The MAT! Colorado Springs
City Theater Miami Oct 24 City Reads

Black Good Friday

by Cam Eickmeyer

Synopsis

10 minute play:

Struggling to compete, A church leadership group brainstorms their promotion strategy for the upcoming Easter holiday.

Selection 2023 Off Page Short Play and Film Festival

10 minute play:

Struggling to compete, A church leadership group brainstorms their promotion strategy for the upcoming Easter holiday.

Selection 2023 Off Page Short Play and Film Festival

Dear John

by Cam Eickmeyer

Synopsis

10-minute Short: A prominent surgeon is found dead with his body parts shipped to his home. The police call in the Detective to decide if this is murder, or a macabre suicide.

10-minute Short: A prominent surgeon is found dead with his body parts shipped to his home. The police call in the Detective to decide if this is murder, or a macabre suicide.

Fruit of the Banyan Tree

by Cam Eickmeyer

Synopsis

15-minute short: A journey into a traumatic memory aided by EMDR therapy allows the audience to confront the past at the same time as the troubled main character.

15-minute short: A journey into a traumatic memory aided by EMDR therapy allows the audience to confront the past at the same time as the troubled main character.

Everything Bagel

by Cam Eickmeyer

Synopsis

10-minute short: A young man's quest for adventure pushes his elderly roommate to explore life beyond their walls, revealing the limitations of aging and the universal struggles that bind us.

10-minute short: A young man's quest for adventure pushes his elderly roommate to explore life beyond their walls, revealing the limitations of aging and the universal struggles that bind us.

What's on the Menu?

by Cam Eickmeyer

Synopsis

10-minute short: Emotionally deficient father takes son to lunch before sending him to college, but first tries to find ways to impart wisdom using any means but normal human conversation

10-minute short: Emotionally deficient father takes son to lunch before sending him to college, but first tries to find ways to impart wisdom using any means but normal human conversation

Merry Birthday of July

by Cam Eickmeyer

Synopsis

15-Minute Drama

On the day a meteor is set to end life on Earth, a dad invents a holiday to distract his children from the horror. He learns they are more capable than he ever imagined to still find purpose in the face of death.

15-Minute Drama

On the day a meteor is set to end life on Earth, a dad invents a holiday to distract his children from the horror. He learns they are more capable than he ever imagined to still find purpose in the face of death.

Carols From Accursed Mouths

by Cam Eickmeyer

Synopsis

60-90 Minutes: In a frontline foxhole during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, a religious Ukrainian-American soldier and his atheist mercenary comrade bond over Christmas music, debate religion and the morality of their mission, and fight off the Russians on Christmas Eve.

(Also available in small cast version - Contact author for details)

60-90 Minutes: In a frontline foxhole during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, a religious Ukrainian-American soldier and his atheist mercenary comrade bond over Christmas music, debate religion and the morality of their mission, and fight off the Russians on Christmas Eve.

(Also available in small cast version - Contact author for details)

Heaven or Hell

by Cam Eickmeyer

Synopsis

5 minute or less monologue: A dad escapes to the bathroom to hide from his son's question: Who goes to heaven or hell in Gaza right now?

Selection: 2024 Original Monologue Contest - Talking Horse Productions

5 minute or less monologue: A dad escapes to the bathroom to hide from his son's question: Who goes to heaven or hell in Gaza right now?

Selection: 2024 Original Monologue Contest - Talking Horse Productions

Going Down?

by Cam Eickmeyer

Synopsis

5-minutes: A daydreamer comes to in an elevator and can't remember how they got there. Luckily there's a friendly, but unsettling, attendant to help.

5-minutes: A daydreamer comes to in an elevator and can't remember how they got there. Luckily there's a friendly, but unsettling, attendant to help.

Crossed Wires

by Cam Eickmeyer

Synopsis

10 minutes or less

A man trying to enjoy his lunch and the newspaper at a park bench is pulled into an unwilling game of espionage with the worst Spy ever.

10 minutes or less

A man trying to enjoy his lunch and the newspaper at a park bench is pulled into an unwilling game of espionage with the worst Spy ever.

Drive Thru

by Cam Eickmeyer

Synopsis

10-Minute short: During a late-night fast-food run, a man spiraling from his divorce picks up an unexpected passenger, plunging them both into a conversation about life, love, and addiction

10-Minute short: During a late-night fast-food run, a man spiraling from his divorce picks up an unexpected passenger, plunging them both into a conversation about life, love, and addiction

Besieged

by Cam Eickmeyer

Synopsis

10-minute short: A man struggling with Alzheimer's finds himself at a bus stop trying to chase away the physical manifestation of the disease that chips away at his world moment by moment.

Produced: THEATREdART, 2017

10-minute short: A man struggling with Alzheimer's finds himself at a bus stop trying to chase away the physical manifestation of the disease that chips away at his world moment by moment.

Produced: THEATREdART, 2017

Catastrophy Awaits

by Cam Eickmeyer

Synopsis

10-minute short: A hopeful grad student joins a heady conversation of the brightest minds his aging professor can collect to discuss solving humanity's greatest threat. No, not the obvious one.

10-minute short: A hopeful grad student joins a heady conversation of the brightest minds his aging professor can collect to discuss solving humanity's greatest threat. No, not the obvious one.

Ups and Downs

by Cam Eickmeyer

Synopsis

5-7 Minutes

Cheating spouse breaks the news to their partner on a roller coaster. Smile for the camera!

5-7 Minutes

Cheating spouse breaks the news to their partner on a roller coaster. Smile for the camera!