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.

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.

Scripts

The Hands of the Mother

by Karina Cochran

Cast Size
5
Genre
dark comedy,
drama,
fable/folktale

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.

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 Size
5
Genre
dark comedy,
drama,
fable/folktale

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?

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 Size
6—11
Genre
comedy,
drama,
holiday

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

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

Where All Good Rabbits Go

by Karina Cochran

5
Cast Size
3—8
Genre
dark comedy,
drama,
fable/folktale,
tragedy

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

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

1
Cast Size
5—8
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

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

4
Cast Size
5
Genre
comedy,
drama,
movement/physical

Five women of varying age and demographics bond and grow during their six-week pregnancy dance class.
*Full Length

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

2
Cast Size
3
Genre
drama

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

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

4
Cast Size
2
Genre
adventure,
comedy,
dark comedy

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

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

4
Cast Size
2
Genre
comedy,
dark comedy

A coming of age tale of two fetuses
*Ten Min Play

A coming of age tale of two fetuses
*Ten Min Play