Karina Cochran

Karina Cochran

Karina Cochran's plays have been performed in various venues across the United States, including FaultLine Theater, Thrown Stone Theater, and Theater Unchained. She studied at Carnegie Mellon University and Bennington College. She is currently starting a family farm in Vermont.

Plays

  • Where All Good Rabbits Go by Karina Cochran
    Recommendations: 5
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    Cast: 
    3–8
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    Genre: dark comedy, drama + 2 more
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    Keyword: death, illness + 3 more
    Genre: dark comedy, drama, fable/folktale, tragedy
    Keyword: death, illness, women, animals, rabbit
    During the Age of the Rabbit, no one died. That is to say no one died in the typical way we now view death (the mystical removal of life from the body). Instead people became rabbits. This could happen very suddenly, or gradually over a long period of time. But sooner or later everyone became a rabbit.
    *Full length, Published through Original Works Publishing
  • The World Behind Our World by Karina Cochran
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    5–8
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 5 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, drama, experimental, political, satire, science fiction
    When Jennifer dies and becomes a ghost, she learns that ghosts are actually everywhere, working minimum wage jobs. There are so many, that she struggles to tell the difference between the dead and the living. She takes it upon herself to uncover why there are so many ghosts, and what can be done to set them free.
    *Full Length
    *New Script, Never Produced
  • The Laborious Dance by Karina Cochran
    Recommendations: 4
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    Cast: 
    5
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    Genre: comedy, drama + 1 more
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    Keyword: pregnancy, dance + 2 more
    Genre: comedy, drama, movement/physical
    Keyword: pregnancy, dance, intergenerational, comedy
    Five women of varying age and demographics bond and grow during their six-week pregnancy dance class.
    *Full Length
  • The Saddest Word in the English Language by Karina Cochran
    Recommendations: 2
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    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: drama
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    Keyword: dark, loss + 6 more
    Genre: drama
    Keyword: dark, loss, Relationships, stillbirth, Birth, ghosts, love, poetry
    A couple keeps having stillborn babies. They are deeply in love but the loss is tearing them apart. Their house gradually fills with ashes and ashtrays. When the woman becomes pregnant again they have to join forces to accept and uncover the randomness of life.
    *Full length
  • Period Dragon by Karina Cochran
    Recommendations: 4
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    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: adventure, comedy + 1 more
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    Keyword: comedy, coming of age
    Genre: adventure, comedy, dark comedy
    Keyword: comedy, coming of age
    Two pre-teen girls talk about boys, make-up, and periods. One of them is convinced there is a fire-breathing dragon in her bedroom. The other one thinks she is probabaly just PMSing.
    *Ten Min Play
  • Kicking by Karina Cochran
    Recommendations: 4
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    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy
    A coming of age tale of two fetuses
    *Ten Min Play
  • The Hands of the Mother by Karina Cochran
    Cast: 
    5
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    Genre: dark comedy, drama + 1 more
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    Keyword: myth, Hades and Persephone + 2 more
    Genre: dark comedy, drama, fable/folktale
    Keyword: myth, Hades and Persephone, Demeter, Alcholism
    A modern day retelling of the Demeter and Persephone myth that asks if (and how) we leave our Mothers. When Persephone meets H at a bar and goes back to his place, she gets entranced by the dark beauty of the underworld and the sexy, troubled alcoholic who lives there. Her Mother meanwhile, befriends a private detective to help find her.
  • Hellhound by Karina Cochran
    Cast: 
    5
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    Genre: dark comedy, drama + 1 more
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    Keyword: myth, dark comedy + 2 more
    Genre: dark comedy, drama, fable/folktale
    Keyword: myth, dark comedy, drama, animal character
    When Marigold returns home to take care of her dying father, her anxiety increases so
    dramatically that it becomes anthropomorphized into an evil dog that shows up in her yard. Life starts looking up when a kind hospice nurse named Adam starts taking care of her father, but can she overcome her own demons? As well as the one that is living in her yard?
  • A (Happy) Holiday by Karina Cochran
    Cast: 
    6–11
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    Genre: comedy, drama + 1 more
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    Keyword: Holidays, christmas + 2 more
    Genre: comedy, drama, holiday
    Keyword: Holidays, christmas, grief, centers a LGBTQ character
    A mysterious book arrives for the holidays with the promise to heal a family struggling with grief and betrayal... if only they can complete every story by midnight! A unique holiday script by local Indiana writers Max McCreary, Kaya (Kyle) Dorsch, Janice Hibbard, and Karina Cochran