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C J Ehrlich

C J EHRLICH  

 Nationality:    USA/British
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C.J. Ehrlich has been writing short plays since 2008, which have been produced all around the USA and in Canada (and simulcast in Wogonga, Australia). Some accolades: THE LILAC TICKET and SECONDHAND GIFTS - Heideman Award finalists. THE CUPCAKE CONSPIRACY (collaboration) - Finalist in the Mountain Playhouse International Comedy Competition. 2+1=MURDER - Overall Festival Winner Bellarmine International MADthematics Fest. Published: HOME SWEET HOMELAND SECURITY (Heuer Press); NOIR IN SECOND CLASS in The Best Plays of 2011 (Smith & Kraus). C.J. always looks forward to new collaborations.

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 2 + 1 = Murder!         All's Fair in Love and Science         Andy Carter Becomes a Man         Cupcake Conspiracy, The         Homespun Webs: Imagining Louise Bourgeois         It Skips a Generation         Lilac Ticket, The         Ninth Circus Of Hell, The         Noir In Second Class         Occupy This!         Package Deal         Passage to Delhi         Red & Green Room, The         Secondhand Gifts         The Ninth Circus Of Hell         Three's a Cloud         Tuesdays In The Park With River Apple         Whom Death Doth Seee/K: A Comedy Of Sex, Death And Shoes

2 + 1 = Murder!

Synopsis:
Blaze Pascal will have to solve this case, by the numbers! A noir-ish tribute to Math 101.

Notes:
Audience Choice award. No set required (a dark alley).

1st Produced:
Bellarmine University, Louisville KY    01 Mar 2011

Company:
Bellarmine University International MADthematics Festival

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Noir comedy (10-minute)

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  1 F/M, one corpse

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All's Fair in Love and Science

Synopsis:
Two dads learn it's a high stakes game, the elementary school science fair.

Notes:
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Company:
MTS Testogenius Fest

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Music:
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Genre:
Comedy (10-minute)

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Andy Carter Becomes a Man

Synopsis:
Andy doesn't want to do the ceremony, and no one's going to make him! "Dad, you're a youth vampire! You want me to go through with it so you can suck the experience out of me!" What is tradition worth after all?

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Piper Theatre, Brooklyn NY    01 Jun 2012

Company:
Piper Theatre Productions

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Comedy (10-minute)

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  (2 adults, one 14-year old)

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Cupcake Conspiracy, The

Synopsis:
"Terrorism is easy. Marriage is complicated."

Notes:
written by Philip J Kaplan and C J Ehrlich. finalist in the 2012 Mountain Playhouse International Comedy Playwriting competition

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Genre:
comedy

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Homespun Webs: Imagining Louise Bourgeois

Synopsis:
Newly-divorced Madeline is tipsy on chardonay, struggling through her first night alone in her new apartment. Should she look forward to a glorious new life, or back at her shattered marriage? Maybe she won't even make it through the night. Then a stranger intrudes, in the spectral form of world-renowned (and deceased) "giant spider" artist Louise Bourgeois, and proceeds to tell Madeline how to make art, and webs.

Notes:
Simple set: an unfurnished apartment.

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Company:
Brooklyn Playwrights Collective

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
One-act comedy

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  2            Other:  -

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It Skips a Generation

Synopsis:
An ultra-Orthodox teenager in 1980s Brooklyn and her estranged grandfather discover they have a lot in common, starting with an album of yellowed newspaper clippings.

Notes:
Grandpa, 70s. Chaya - teenager. Set: table and chairs.

1st Produced:
Brockport, NY    01 Feb 2011

Company:
College of Brockport "Festival of Ten"

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Comic drama (10 minutes)

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Lilac Ticket, The

Synopsis:
Sam and Barb confront two crises that threaten to tear apart their 50-year marriage; one happening now, in the doctor's office, and the other, a long buried secret.

Notes:
Set: two chairs.

1st Produced:
Little Fish Theatre, San Pedro, Ca    01 Jan 2010

Company:
Little Fish Theatre (Pick of the Vine 2010)

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Comedy (10-minute)

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Ninth Circus Of Hell, The

Synopsis:
Andrew pines for Maya like Dante for Beatrice. Those nude photos? Just proof of his love. Hell is for wimps! Today there will be clowns.

Notes:
Set: a bench (circus audience)

1st Produced:

Company:
Brooklyn Playwrights Collective

1st Published:
Best 10-Minute Plays 2013 Plays For Two Actors. Published by Smith and Kraus, Inc.    -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Dark comedy (10-minute)

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Noir In Second Class

C J Ehrlich
Sometimes this couple feel like they're in two different movies.

Notes:
Simple set: a train compartment. SFX: train noises.

1st Produced:
Bruschetta Fest, Chicago IL    01 Oct 2010

Company:
Appetite Theatre

1st Published:
in The Best Ten-Minute Plays 2011, Smith & Kraus; (June 1, 2012)   978-1575257822

Music:
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Genre:
Noir comedy (10-minute)

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  1 M/F walk-on, or voiceover

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Occupy This!

Synopsis:
Part I: View from the Occupy Bridge. Everyone's favorite 99 percent movement may be achieving all the wrong victories. (10m, 3W, 2M). Part II: Spare Some Change. An entrepreneurial homeless man tries to convince a businesswoman to invest in his lunch. (12m, 1W, 1M)

Notes:
No set required. Produced for the First Ever Republican Theatre Festival.

1st Produced:
Plays and Players Theatre, Philadelphia, PA    01 Nov 2012

Company:
Forearmed Productions

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Comedy/satire (a duo of shorts which can play together or individually, 25m total)

Parts:
Male:  2-1            Female:  3-1            Other:  -

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Package Deal

Synopsis:
A relationship is strained as a couple tries to survive a bargain tour of Eastern Europe, and stay out of prison

Notes:
Set: a cheap hotel room in Eastern Europe

1st Produced:
Milwaukee, WI    01 Jan 2012

Company:
Carte Blanche Productions

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Comedy (10-minute)

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  1W or man in drag

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Passage to Delhi

Synopsis:
When a dutiful daughter invites her aging mother to move in with her, neither of them suspect how the gradual onset of Alzheimer's disease will change their lives.

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Genre:
One act Dramedy (45 minutes)

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Red & Green Room, The

Synopsis:
Three actors chafe and fume in the Green Room while the star hogs all the stage time. But it's not his fault - he just can't get to the higher levels! The darker side of the Mario Brothers: love, lust, jealousy and existential angst, behind the scenes at a video arcade.

Notes:
Set: a worn Green Room behind a performance space.

1st Produced:
Manhattan Theatre Source, New York, NY    07 May 2012

Company:
Ingenius Festival

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
One act Comedy (20-minute)

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Secondhand Gifts

Synopsis:
Over an exchange of hand-me-down toys and advice, sisters Alison and Berni bicker about childrearing, commiserate over the past, and marvel that they made it this far. When Alison requests a special gift from her sister, they both learn the real meaning of gifts -- and family.

Notes:
Set: living room couch.

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Company:
Rapscallion Theatre Collective

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Comedy/drama (10-minute)

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  2            Other:  -

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The Ninth Circus Of Hell

Synopsis:
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Company:
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1st Published:
in Best 10-Minute Plays of 2013, edited by Laurence Harbison, Smith and Kraus, Inc.   -

Music:
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Genre:
ten min play

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Three's a Cloud

Synopsis:
When her old flame storms the honeymoon suite, Margot realizes today's raincloud could be tomorrow's tornado. Fasten your seatbelts, it's going to be a bumpy honeymoon!

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Fort Lauderdale, FL    01 Jun 2011

Company:
Girl Play Lesbian Theatre Fest

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Bedroom farce (10-minute)

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Tuesdays In The Park With River Apple

Synopsis:
Abby's new to the city, and to stay-at-home motherhood. Who knew joining a playgroup would be this hard? Play nice ladies! A satirical yet sympathetic comedy about the multiple roles women have to juggle, especially as Moms.

Notes:
5 W from 20s-40s - multi-ethnic casting. Set: a park bench

1st Produced:
15th annual 15-Minute Play Festival, American Globe Theatre, New York, NY    01 May 2009

Company:
American Globe Theatre

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
One-act comedy

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Whom Death Doth Seee/K: A Comedy Of Sex, Death And Shoes

Synopsis:
Two beautiful models are lured into a strange boutique by the siren call of expensive new footwear. Yulia can't resist her friend Stef's dare: get jiggy with the shoe clerk and wrangle a discount. Between the fashions and the challenge Yulia couldn't be more excited, until a mysterious stranger appears with compliments, and some really bad news. A comedy that will have you laughing in the aisles and cleaning out your closets!

Notes:
Set: sparsely furnished shoe boutique (pedestal, shoe, cash register)

1st Produced:
Directors Lab, UNT, Denton, Texas    01 Oct 2009

Company:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
One-act comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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