Cam Eickmeyer

Cam Eickmeyer writes plays that explore technology, social justice, and ethical tension, often through dark humor. His work has been produced on stage and selected for festivals across the United States, and has also been produced as audio drama, including internationally in the UK. His fiction and poetry have appeared in various outlets, and his screenplays have been optioned. A former journalist, he lives in Colorado and is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America since 2023.

Cam Eickmeyer writes plays that explore technology, social justice, and ethical tension, often through dark humor. His work has been produced on stage and selected for festivals across the United States, and has also been produced as audio drama, including internationally in the UK. His fiction and poetry have appeared in various outlets, and his screenplays have been optioned. A former journalist, he lives in Colorado and is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America since 2023.

Scripts

So, What Now?

by Cam Eickmeyer

Synopsis

Faced with a seemingly unprecedented cultural and political moment in America, two neighbors wonder what comes next?

1- Hour

Faced with a seemingly unprecedented cultural and political moment in America, two neighbors wonder what comes next?

1- Hour

Party Favors

by Cam Eickmeyer

Synopsis

Exasperated parents of America and Colorado talk about parenting struggles as they decorate for America's big birthday party.

Exasperated parents of America and Colorado talk about parenting struggles as they decorate for America's big birthday party.

Dear John (One Act)

by Cam Eickmeyer

Synopsis

20 minutes: A detective and patrolman try to piece together the mystery of why boxes filled with body parts are being mailed to the police station.

2026 Somerset CC 4th Short Play Festival
2025 Winthrop University Fall One-Act Festival

20 minutes: A detective and patrolman try to piece together the mystery of why boxes filled with body parts are being mailed to the police station.

2026 Somerset CC 4th Short Play Festival
2025 Winthrop University Fall One-Act Festival

Black Good Friday

by Cam Eickmeyer

Synopsis

15 minute play:

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

Broken Arts Entertainment Make Me Laugh 2025
Selection 2023 Off Page Short Play and Film Festival

15 minute play:

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

Broken Arts Entertainment Make Me Laugh 2025
Selection 2023 Off Page Short Play and Film Festival

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. ** I swear I wrote this before TFG started renaming things **

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. ** I swear I wrote this before TFG started renaming things **

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

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!

Selected for 2026 Playground Theatre Co. 10 Minute Festival - Chelmsford, MA
Semifinalist 2026 Theater Project Winter Cabaret
2025 - Springs Ensemble Theatre - Arnie’s Love Mix

5-7 Minutes

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

Selected for 2026 Playground Theatre Co. 10 Minute Festival - Chelmsford, MA
Semifinalist 2026 Theater Project Winter Cabaret
2025 - Springs Ensemble Theatre - Arnie’s Love Mix

Good Bones

by Cam Eickmeyer

Synopsis

An eager young architect tours the Chicago home of his first big client, one HH Holmes, but finds evil hiding behind every wall.

2025 - BrooklynOne Productions Scream Scenes

An eager young architect tours the Chicago home of his first big client, one HH Holmes, but finds evil hiding behind every wall.

2025 - BrooklynOne Productions Scream Scenes

How We Began

by Cam Eickmeyer

Synopsis

(20 Minutes)
A young couple react in real time to edits and rewrites of the script their future descendants are writing about their engagement

Selection Broken Arts Media Loved Ones Season 3 - 2026
Cast Iron Theatre Short Play Night Brighton UK - 2025

(20 Minutes)
A young couple react in real time to edits and rewrites of the script their future descendants are writing about their engagement

Selection Broken Arts Media Loved Ones Season 3 - 2026
Cast Iron Theatre Short Play Night Brighton UK - 2025

While We Still Can

by Cam Eickmeyer

Synopsis

10-Minutes

Neighbors in a small seaside community struggle with how to face an oncoming horrific storm. Blame whips around like the wind and some just want to flee. A response to the 2024 Presidential Election.

Productions:
Arts Uprise Festival - Colorado Springs 2025

10-Minutes

Neighbors in a small seaside community struggle with how to face an oncoming horrific storm. Blame whips around like the wind and some just want to flee. A response to the 2024 Presidential Election.

Productions:
Arts Uprise Festival - Colorado Springs 2025

Solstheist

by Cam Eickmeyer

Synopsis

10 Minutes: A bold heist of an ancient, and richly adorned, tomb needs only the Solstice sunbeam to unlock the door. Good thing two robbers have it all figured out and nothing will go wrong.

KDC Theatre Summer Stack Solstice theme call, London, UK 2025

10 Minutes: A bold heist of an ancient, and richly adorned, tomb needs only the Solstice sunbeam to unlock the door. Good thing two robbers have it all figured out and nothing will go wrong.

KDC Theatre Summer Stack Solstice theme call, London, UK 2025

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.

Selection: Broken Arts Entertainment Loved Ones Season 2 (2025)

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.

Selection: Broken Arts Entertainment Loved Ones Season 2 (2025)

Stay Calm and Panic

by Cam Eickmeyer

Synopsis

10 Minutes

Two friends try to navigate the Covid-19 pandemic, but a pesky CDC Agent keeps getting in the way.

The Lost Years - Millibo Art Theatre, Colorado Springs 2025

10 Minutes

Two friends try to navigate the Covid-19 pandemic, but a pesky CDC Agent keeps getting in the way.

The Lost Years - Millibo Art Theatre, Colorado Springs 2025

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.

2022 Vote! Short Play Festival - The Mat! in Colorado Springs

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.

2022 Vote! Short Play Festival - The Mat! in Colorado Springs

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.

Published in 2023 Anthology for Short Plays Mushroom Cloud Press

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.

Published in 2023 Anthology for Short Plays Mushroom Cloud Press

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

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

Bridge Builder

by Cam Eickmeyer

Synopsis

A stoic bridge builder pushes on with their task despite the insistence the bridge is not needed.

2025 - Arts Uprise Tres Festival - Colorado Springs, Colo.

A stoic bridge builder pushes on with their task despite the insistence the bridge is not needed.

2025 - Arts Uprise Tres Festival - Colorado Springs, Colo.

A Pine Cone's Chance

by Cam Eickmeyer

Synopsis

15 Minutes

SYNOPSIS: In a distant future dystopia after the fall of civilization, a relic of holidays past forces a grandfather and grandson to confront the different ways they see the world.

Selection Lumos Players 2026 Script Reading Series

15 Minutes

SYNOPSIS: In a distant future dystopia after the fall of civilization, a relic of holidays past forces a grandfather and grandson to confront the different ways they see the world.

Selection Lumos Players 2026 Script Reading Series

Essential Worker (Radio)

by Cam Eickmeyer

Synopsis

45 Minutes

After a brilliant executive dies, his consciousness is uploaded into a device that reanimates a virtual version of him for one day per year, but when he is summoned to the annual company meeting, he discovers that his digital afterlife may come at a cost he never expected.

45 Minutes

After a brilliant executive dies, his consciousness is uploaded into a device that reanimates a virtual version of him for one day per year, but when he is summoned to the annual company meeting, he discovers that his digital afterlife may come at a cost he never expected.

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)

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.

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.

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

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

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.

The Affair

by Cam Eickmeyer

Synopsis

5 Minutes: After waiting for much to long to break the news, a wife summons the courage to admit to her husband that he is not the father of her baby. If only she could get him to listen to her confession.

** Prompted by Kuma Kahua Theatre's June 2025 GoTry PlayWrite Contest - An epic Trump word salad recrafted into a palatable comedy **

5 Minutes: After waiting for much to long to break the news, a wife summons the courage to admit to her husband that he is not the father of her baby. If only she could get him to listen to her confession.

** Prompted by Kuma Kahua Theatre's June 2025 GoTry PlayWrite Contest - An epic Trump word salad recrafted into a palatable comedy **