OUT FROM UNDER WITH MARY, Authenticity Theater at The Warehouse/Frat Productions, Atlanta, GA, May 16-18, 2024.
THE MEMORY BOX, "The Black Box Bunch," Western Connecticut State University's Visual & Performing Arts Center, Danbury, CT, May 2-3, 2024. SaMya Woodard directed Katelyn Hansom and Ingrid Opdahl.
TAKE TWO, "An Evening of Comedy," New Stage Play Festival, Grange Hall Cultural Center/Across Roads Center for the Arts, Waterbury Center, VT, November 10th through the 19th, 2023.
A new short play ME, ME, ME "read" as part of "New Voices New Work" sponsored by Anacostia Playhouse, Washington, DC, November 20, 2023.
The debut of WEIGHT, "The Waiting Room" Ten Minute Play Festival at Heartland Theatre Company, Normal, IL, June 1st through the 24th, 2023. Rich Tinaglia directed Brooke Moonan and Jared Cantrell.
THE HEROINES OF CENTRAL OHIO, a full-length play most recently produced in Colorado Springs, has been published of Next Stage Press. To read a sample, purchase scripts or for licensing information, please visit the link below.
OUT FROM UNDER WITH MARY, Ten Minute Play Festival at Actors Theatre Playhouse, West Chesterfield, NH, June 8th through the 24th, 2023. James Bombicino directed actors Rose Watson and Rebecca Cross.
A monologue from GETTING LUCKY is published by Smith & Kraus in THE BEST MEN'S STAGE MONOLOGUES OF 2022 edited by Debbie Lamedman.
GETTING LUCKY, part of "Babel's, Banging &Binders" at Minnesota Fringe Festival produced by Thought Bubble Productions, Augsburg Studio, Minneapolis, MN, August 4th through the 13th, 2022.
THE MEMORY BOX, The Summer School for the Performing Arts, Westford Academy, Westford, MA. July 28-29, 2022.
Mack Brown, director.
Mack Brown, director.
GETTING LUCKY, Ritz Theatre Company's 2nd Annual 10-Minute Comedy Play Festival, Haddon Township, NJ. July 1-2, 2022.
GOOD BONES debuted at the 18th Annual Playwrights & Artists Festival, KNOW Theatre, Binghamton, NY, November 19th through the 28th, 2021. Shirley Goodman directed actors Jill Southee-Kabat, Melanie Paquin and Nick Merrell.
FAMILY BAGGAGE, Eden Prairie Players' Women's One Acts Festival, Eden Prairie, MN, September 17th through the 26th, 2021. Lori Alsdurf directed actors Elizabeth Swabey-Keith, Joe Nickell, Robin Gilmer, David Durkee, Kris Eidem, Chris Maresca, and Andie Moore. Photo by Alex Pettersen.
Many thanks to Florida’s Clamour Theatre Company and its Producing Artistic Director Elaine Smith for sponsoring developmental readings via Zoom of two short works-in-progress on June 6th and 7th, 2020. A warm shout-out to actors Sarah Diller, Mia Woods, Timothy Lamb, and Danielle Dobies for their talented participation.
GETTING LUCKY, Laughing Dog Comedy Shorts Festival, Aux Dog Theatre, Albuquerque, NM, February 14th through the
16th, 2020. Zoe Yeoman directed actors Aguilar Harris and Tim MacAlpine.
16th, 2020. Zoe Yeoman directed actors Aguilar Harris and Tim MacAlpine.
THE MEMORY BOX, Fall Shorts, Center for the Arts 131--Margaret Jensen Theatre, Gordon College, Wenham, MA, November 19th through the 21st, 2019. Julia Ragusa directed.
C-BUS, a new full-length comedy, received a public staged reading as part of The Loom, Woven Theatre's New Works Festival, at the Barbershop Theatre in Nashville, TN, on September 8th, 2019. Special thanks to director Hannah Dewing as well as actors Laney Fay, Jonah Jackson, Jennifer Whitcomb-Olivia, Sawyer Wallace and Cailin Hurley for their participation.
BANKIN' ON THE GRAND, Great Lakes Summer Shorts Festival, Little Traverse Theatre at the Crooked Tree Arts Center,
Petoskey, MI, July 26th & 27th, 2019.
Petoskey, MI, July 26th & 27th, 2019.
DESTINY & DAMAGE, world premiere production, "Nine Winning One Acts," The Group Rep, Lonny Chapman Theatre, North Hollywood, CA, June 8th through July 14th, 2019. Directed by Barbara Brownell, this two-character play featured revolving casts with actors Lisa McGee Mann, Sascha Vanderslik, Michael Robb and Victor D'wayne Little.
GLO, "Women Leading: The Play's the Thing" Series 2019, Itinerant Theatre, Lake Charles, LA, May 31st through June 2nd, 2019.
THE MEMORY BOX, One Act Play Series, Youth Ensemble Theater, Byrdcliffe Theater, Woodstock, NY, May 10th & 11th, 2019.
OUT FROM UNDER WITH MARY, 12th Annual One Act Festival, Stage Door Productions, Fredericksburg, VA, April 5th through April 14th, 2019. Winner of Best Script Award--1st Place.
OUT FROM UNDER WITH MARY, Women's Shorts, Out of Box Theatre, Marietta, GA, April 5th through April 13th, 2019.
KID STUFF, 10 X 10 New Play Festival, Barrington Stage Company, Pittsfield, MA, February 14th through March 10th, 2019.
Chris spent time in Florida at the end of January, 2019, participating in the 1st Annual Clay and Water Playwrights' Retreat hosted by Clamour Theatre Company in Green Cove Springs. While there, she worked on developing her latest full-length comedy C-BUS. The Retreat sponsored a concert reading of C-BUS featuring actors Kimberly Cadley-Mach, Franklin Ritch, Kelby Siddons and Matthew Tomplins. Elaine Smith, the Company's Producing Artistic Director, read stage directions.
THE SHAKESPEARE PROJECT won the "Audience Favorite" prize at Laughing Pig Theatre's Shake-Smash! New Play Festival. Congrats and thanks to Director Tony Moschetti and cast members Thomas F. Graca, Dolores Mendoza, Arielle Hurst, Michael Rodriguez and Trejon Dunkley.
THE SHAKESPEARE PROJECT, world premiere production, Shake-Smash! New Play Festival, Laughing Pig Theatre, Mesa Arts Center's Drama Studio, Mesa, AZ, December 7th through the 9th, 2018.
LET ME WIN, world premiere production, 4th Street Theater, Chesterton, IN, August 24th through September 21, 2018. Donna Rowland directed actors Elli Bezotte, Michael Fish and Jill Watterson.
BANKIN' ON THE GRAND, Reading, Magnolia Arts Center, Greenville, NC, July 13th, 2018.
BANKIN' ON THE GRAND, 2018 Opera House PlayFest, Pocahontas County Opera House, Marlinton, WV, May 18th and 19th, 2018. Eric Fritzius directed actors Rhonda Pritt and Bill W. Mitchell.
BUNKER BOUND, world premiere production, Ixion Theatre Ensemble's Fears & Phobias Festival, Lansing, MI, May 12th
through the 20th, 2018. Heath Sartorius directed actors Anna Szabo and Sadonna Croff.
through the 20th, 2018. Heath Sartorius directed actors Anna Szabo and Sadonna Croff.
PEOPLE LIKE US, Short Attention Span Theater at the Acorn Theater, Three Oaks, MI, May 5th, 2018. Jane Brody directed.
OUT FROM UNDER WITH MARY, Allen Bales Theatre, University of Alabama, Tascaloosa, AL, May 1, 2018. Joseph Arrigo directed actors Katharina Fox and Sarah Grace Valleroy.
KID STUFF, "Fresh Brews," a play-reading event sponsored by Emerging Arts Leaders/Los Angeles and Skylight Theatre Company at Angel City Brewery, Los Angeles, CA, April 12, 2018. Deidra Edwards directed actors Isabella Petrini, Nardeep Khurmi, and Jade Puga with stage directions read by Lauren Tothero. |
BUNKER BOUND, The Phoenix Theatre New American Theatre Festival, Hormel Theatre, Phoenix, AZ, March 22, 2018. Staged reading.
GETTING LUCKY, part of "Love and Other Calamities," Staged Right Theatre, Lilburn, GA, March 2nd and 3rd, 2018.
THE THING ABOUT TEX, Women's Shorts Festival, Out of Box Theatre, Artisan Resource Center, Marietta, GA, January 12th through the 20th, 2018.
PEOPLE LIKE US, part of "Five at Seven," five play readings produced by Clamour Theatre Company at the Urban Bean Coffeehouse Cafe, Orange Park, FL, on June 23, 2017, at 7 PM.
TACKLING THE TEN-MINUTE PLAY: Tips on creating your short story and getting it on stage. This workshop led by Chris focuses on the abbreviated art form that’s taking theater by storm. Thursday, June 1st, 2017, 5:30 to 8 PM. Riffe Gallery at the Vern Riffe Center, Downtown Columbus, Ohio.
OUT FROM UNDER WITH MARY, Spring Shorts, Onstage Atlanta, Decatur, GA, May 5th through the 14th, 2017.
THE HEROINES OF CENTRAL OHIO, a full-length play, had its Colorado premiere at the Millibo Art Theatre in Colorado
Springs from April 13th through April 30th, 2017. Cast members included Lynne Hastings, Hannah Rockey, Max Ferguson, Marisa Hebert, Lynn Jacobs, Anna Faye Hunter, Amy Brooks, and Ashley Crockett. Birgitta De Pree directed. Photos below by Brian Kwan.
Springs from April 13th through April 30th, 2017. Cast members included Lynne Hastings, Hannah Rockey, Max Ferguson, Marisa Hebert, Lynn Jacobs, Anna Faye Hunter, Amy Brooks, and Ashley Crockett. Birgitta De Pree directed. Photos below by Brian Kwan.
KID STUFF was presented as a reading during "Conversations in America: Under the Gun," an evening of curated short films
and plays addressing gun violence. The event was sponsored by The Women in the Arts and Media Coalition at the SVA Theatre in NYC on March 20th, 2017. Holli Harms, Chair.
and plays addressing gun violence. The event was sponsored by The Women in the Arts and Media Coalition at the SVA Theatre in NYC on March 20th, 2017. Holli Harms, Chair.
KID STUFF, Storefront Theatre's Readers' Theatre Play Festival, Waxhaw, NC, March 4th and 5th, 2017.
WEIGHT and the new one-act play THE DRIFT OF THINGS had readings during Arts Resources for the Tri-State's New Works 2016 Festival, Renaissance Theatre, Huntington, WV, on Friday, December 2nd, 2016, at 7:30 PM.
WEIGHT, a new one-act play, was "read" as part of the 12th Annual Reader's Theatre Matinee at Southwest Theatre, Houston,
TX, on Sunday, November 20th, 2016, at 3 PM. Brian Heaton and Scott McWhirter, Producers.
TX, on Sunday, November 20th, 2016, at 3 PM. Brian Heaton and Scott McWhirter, Producers.
BANKIN' ON THE GRAND, Free Fall Baltimore Short Play Festival, The Strand Theatre, Baltimore, MD, October 30th, 2016, at 2 PM. Alice Stanley directed.
ORIENTATION DAY was part of the PARAGON Science Fiction & Fantasy Play Festival presented by Otherworld Theatre October 1st and 2nd, 2016, at the Public House Theatre in Chicago, IL. Chris Thoren directed.
KID STUFF, a brand new play, debuted at 10 by 10 in the Triangle, The ArtsCenter in Carrboro, NC, July 8th through the 24th, 2016. Ian Bowater directed actors Johanna Burwell, Mary Rowland, and Sean McCracken. The play was one of ten chosen from more than one thousand submissions.
OUT FROM UNDER WITH MARY, Skippack Playcrafters Fringe Fest, Skippack, PA, July 1st through the 3rd, 2016.
LEGACY, Pocahontas County Opera House Playfest, Martinton, WV, May 19th through the 21st, 2016. Eric Fritzius directed.
FAMILY BAGGAGE, "Unexplored Territory" Staged Reading Series, Break A Leg Productions, The Episcopal Actors Guild, NYC, May 11th, 2016, 7 PM. Valerie Adami directed.
OUT FROM UNDER WITH MARY was chosen by the Six Women Play Festival as one of the best plays they've produced during the past nine years. They presented the play again April 7th through the 24th, 2016, at the Millibo Art Theatre in Colorado Springs. Crystal Carter directed.
OUT FROM UNDER WITH MARY placed 5th in the 24th Annual Nantucket Short Play Competition.
DIRE DAY SEVEN, a new play, was part of Women in Theatre's Kauai Shorts Festival at the Kauai Community College
Performing Arts Center, Kauai, Hawaii, August 7th & 8th, 2015.
Performing Arts Center, Kauai, Hawaii, August 7th & 8th, 2015.
FAMILY BAGGAGE, The 18th Festival of Originals, Theatre Southwest, Houston, TX, July 24th through August 8th, 2015.
Justin Holloway directed.
Justin Holloway directed.
WAITING FOR HEATHER, co-written with John L. Martin, "Seattle After Hours," Seattle Theatre Works, The Erickson Theatre, July 10th through the 25th, 2015.
THE THING ABOUT ELLA, Indie Boots Theatre Festival 2015, The Side Project Theatre, Chicago, IL, April 27th through
April 29th, 2015. Richard Paro directed. Featuring actors Laura Elleseg and Mackenzie Wiglesworth.
April 29th, 2015. Richard Paro directed. Featuring actors Laura Elleseg and Mackenzie Wiglesworth.
PEOPLE LIKE US, Boiling Point Players' "Get Lucky" Cabaret at Rudyard's British Pub, Houston, TX, March 19th, 2015. Featuring actors Leslie Sharp and Katy Burns. Ruth McCleskey directed.
PEOPLE LIKE US, "Claiming the Space: A Play Fest," The Actors Studio of Newburyport in Newburyport, MA, March 13th
through the 22nd, 2015. Featuring actors Lisa Joyce and Paige Fasold. Jenney Dale Holland directed.
through the 22nd, 2015. Featuring actors Lisa Joyce and Paige Fasold. Jenney Dale Holland directed.
TAKE TWO has advanced to the Short & Sweet Festival's Wildcards Finals on March 7th and 8th at the Factory Theatre in Sydney, Australia. With over 1,000 submissions to Short & Sweet and around 160 plays included in the Festival, the Wildcard Finals is one of three showcases featuring the top plays chosen by the judges and/or audience vote during the Festival's eight-week run. Way to go Laura Goddard, Jonathon Emmett and Marcelle Wever!
LITTLE SOMETHINGS, 2015 New Voices Play Festival, Greenbrier Valley Theatre, Lewisburg, WV, February 5th through the
7th, 2015. Featuring actors Shane Miller and Christina Marie. Courtney Susman directed. Heartfelt gratitude to Goshen College's Doug Caskey and his talented students for their help in the development of this play. A special thanks to Sarah Lake-Rayburn and Ben Ganger for their insightful reading.
7th, 2015. Featuring actors Shane Miller and Christina Marie. Courtney Susman directed. Heartfelt gratitude to Goshen College's Doug Caskey and his talented students for their help in the development of this play. A special thanks to Sarah Lake-Rayburn and Ben Ganger for their insightful reading.
TAKE TWO, Short & Sweet Festival at The New Theatre in Sydney, Australia, January 17th through 19th, 2015. Featuring actors Laura Goddard and Jonathon Emmett . Marcelle Wever directed. Congrats to Laura, Jonathon and Marcelle for ranking 2nd in the Audience Vote!
MAXED OUT AT CHRISTMAS, Hard Candy Christmas Play Festival, The Charles Stewart Howard Playhouse, Woodland Hills, CA, December 6th through the 14th, 2014.
OUT FROM UNDER WITH MARY, SLAM Boston, Open Theatre Project, Boston Playwrights' Theatre, Boston, MA, December 2nd through 4th, 2014. Congrats to director Stephanie LeBolt and actors Lynn Wilcott and Ceit McCaleb Zweil for making it to the final round!
THE MEMORY BOX, 10 Minute Play Festival, Black Box Theater, SUNY Potsdam's Performing Arts Center, Potsdam, NY, November 20th and 22nd, 2014. Featuring actors Amber Schmidt and Britney Ruiz. Cameron Fredericksen directed.
BANKIN' ON THE GRAND, Short + Sweet Festival at The Playhouse Theatre in Hobart, Australia, September 30th through
October 5th, 2014. Featuring actors Jessica Davies and Jayson Morrison. Maeve MacGregor directed.
October 5th, 2014. Featuring actors Jessica Davies and Jayson Morrison. Maeve MacGregor directed.
OUT FROM UNDER WITH MARY, First Place Award, Goshen Peace Play Contest 2014. Produced October 3rd through the 5th, 2014, at Goshen College's Umble Center Theater in Goshen, Indiana. Featuring actors Lea Ramer and Kasey Prentice. Directed by Angel Reyes, Jr.
BANKIN' ON THE GRAND, Short + Sweet Festival in Auckland, New Zealand, August 26th through the 30th, 2014. Featuring actors Dawn Glover and Raj Singh. Dennis Brooks directed.
TAKE TWO, Short + Sweet Festival Chennai in Chennai, India, July 10th through the 13th, 2014. Chris' India debut, featuring actors Srikanth Pingali and Smrithi Parameswar. Charan Saravana directed. Won "Play of the Day" award by audience vote. Congrats to Srikanth, Smrithi and Charan!
LEGACY, Rochester Repertory Theatre in Rochester, MN, as part of "Treasures in Ten," a collection of audience favorites from past shorts festivals, July 11th through July 26th, 2014. Rochester reviewer Tim Weber of the Post Bulletin deemed this production a "powerful drama." Kudos to director Becci Miller as well as actors Cheryl Frarck, Christine Boos, and Ben Menning!
GETTING LUCKY, 2014 One Act Play Festival, West Coast Players Theatre, Clearwater, FL, July 11th through July 20th, 2014.
LOST IN THE QUAGMIRE, Write Now 5 Shorts, Jack Studio Theatre, London, England, May 17th, 2014. This is Chris' U.K. debut. Suvi Peisanen directed.
THE MEMORY BOX, Kent Denver Players, Kent Denver School, Englewood, CO, May 2, 2014.
OUT FROM UNDER WITH MARY, The Six Women Playwriting Festival 2014, Colorado Springs, CO, April 10th through April 27th, 2014. Birgitta DePree directed.
MEASURED HONESTY, NOTEwood series of staged readings, Theatre of NOTE, Los Angeles, CA, March 5th, 2014.
THE MEMORY BOX, Mankato Mosaic Theatre Company's Cabin Fever Fest of Plays, Music & More, Mankato, MN, February 27th through March 1st, 2014. Elaine Hardwick directed.
GETTING LUCKY, Heart Throbs #2, Flying Cat Players, at three theaters in the Atlanta, GA, area: OnStage Atlanta in Decatur January 31st through February. 2nd; Out of Box Theatre in Marietta February 7th through the 9th; and Lionheart Theatre in Norcross February 14th through the 16th. Hilary King directed.
STICKER SHOCK, 2nd Annual Piney Fork Theater Playwriting Festival, New York Public Library Riverside Branch/Lincoln Center, NYC, February 8th, 2014. Monologue performed by Melissa Jane Martin and directed by Jeff Stone.
OUT FROM UNDER WITH MARY, Museum of Dysfunction, jointly produced by Mildred's Umbrella and Wordsmyth Theater Company, Houston, TX, December 2013. Michelle Edwards directed.
OUT FROM UNDER WITH MARY, "Shorts in a Bundle" at Fells Point Corner Theatre, Baltimore, MD, October 18th through November 3, 2013. Richard Barber directed.
LEGACY, ACT ONE: One Act Play Festival, Secret Theatre, Queens, NY, September 5th through September 15th, 2013. Tyrus
Cukavac directed.
PICTURING MARE, The New American Theatre's Festival of New One Act Plays 2013, The Odyssey Theatre, Los Angeles, June 16th & 20th, 2013. Jack Stehlin directed.
LOST IN THE QUAGMIRE debuts at Subversive Shorts 2013, Subversive Theatre Collective, The Manny Fried Playhouse, Buffalo, NY, June 14th through July 7th, 2013. Bob Van Valin directed.
OUT FROM UNDER WITH MARY, Short & Sweet Festival, Herald Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, June 2013. Terry Hooper directed. This was Chris' New Zealand debut.
THE PRINCIPLE OF THE THING, Third Place Winner, Metropolis Performing Arts Centre's New Play Festival, Arlington Heights, Illinois. A reading of this new hour-long script was presented at 7 PM on January 20, 2013, at the Centre. Robin Hughes directed. Many thanks to talented Central Ohio actors Ian Short, Michelle Schroeder, Brant Jones and Eleni Papaleonardos as well as stellar director/dramaturg John Dranschak for their help in the early development of this play.
QUALITY TIME, "Honorable Mention," Lourdes Drama Society Playwriting Contest. Production in April, 2013, as part of Lourdes University's Festival of One Acts, Sylvania, OH. Danita Binkowski directed.
QUALITY TIME debuts at the Short & Sweet Festival, Sydney, Australia, March, 2013. Jasna Krsmanovic directed.
QUALITY TIME debuts at the Short & Sweet Festival, Sydney, Australia, March, 2013. Jasna Krsmanovic directed.
GETTING LUCKY, 10 X 10 at Fells Point Corner Theatre, Baltimore, MD, April 12th through May 5th, 2013. Lance Lewman
directed.
directed.
OUT FROM UNDER WITH MARY, Pick of the Vine: Season 10 at Little Fish Theatre, San Pedro, CA, January 1st through February 2nd, 2012.
PEOPLE LIKE US, 10 X 10 at Fells Point Corner Theatre, Baltimore, MD, April, 2012.
THE MEMORY BOX debuts at Lourdes University, Sylvania, OH, April, 2012. 3rd Place Winner of the Lourdes Drama Society Playwriting Contest.
GETTING LUCKY at Flathead Valley Community College's Second International 10 Minute Play Festival, Kalispell, MT, April and May, 2012.
THE MEMORY BOX, the 7th Annual One-Act Play Festival, The Black Box Theatre, Cranston, RI, July, 2012.
OUT FROM UNDER WITH MARY, Midsummer Nights One Act Festival, Secret Theatre, NYC, August 23rd through the 26th, 2012, OUT FROM UNDER... advances to the Midsummer Nights competition finals, extending its run through September 1st, 2012. Congratulations to Director Odalis Hernandez and Actors Knilo Solei and Marchelle Thurman!
PEOPLE LIKE US, 10 X 10 at Fells Point Corner Theatre, Baltimore, MD, April, 2012.
THE MEMORY BOX debuts at Lourdes University, Sylvania, OH, April, 2012. 3rd Place Winner of the Lourdes Drama Society Playwriting Contest.
GETTING LUCKY at Flathead Valley Community College's Second International 10 Minute Play Festival, Kalispell, MT, April and May, 2012.
THE MEMORY BOX, the 7th Annual One-Act Play Festival, The Black Box Theatre, Cranston, RI, July, 2012.
OUT FROM UNDER WITH MARY, Midsummer Nights One Act Festival, Secret Theatre, NYC, August 23rd through the 26th, 2012, OUT FROM UNDER... advances to the Midsummer Nights competition finals, extending its run through September 1st, 2012. Congratulations to Director Odalis Hernandez and Actors Knilo Solei and Marchelle Thurman!
PEOPLE LIKE US is part of 50 Fest, a weekend of events celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Centerstage, the State Theatre of Maryland. Fells Point Corner Theatre reprises their April production with actors Kate Shoemaker and Sophie Hinderberger on September 29, 2012, at 6:15 PM on the Street Festival Stage in Baltimore.
DROP 'TIL YOU SHOP premieres at the Tenth Annual North Park Playwright Festival (GB Productions), San Diego, CA, October 26th through the 28th, 2012.
Chris discusses "Playwriting--from Concept to Production" on Thursday, October 11, 5:30 PM at the Ebeid Center on the campus of Lourdes University in Sylvania, Ohio. She is the guest of the Lourdes Drama Society.