C.J. Ehrlich
playwright - screenwriter
C.J. Ehrlich
E-mail: CJE.Playwright @ gmail.com
On the New Play Exchange: newplayexchange.org/users/2501/cj-ehrlich
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Professional info
How does this work?
C.J. Ehrlich’s award-winning plays have enjoyed over 200 productions and staged readings in 35 US states, and internationally, in exotic locales such as Austin, Boston, Brooklyn, Chicago, Louisville, Manhattan, Kealakekua, Kitchener (Ontario), Dubai, Chennai (India), Seoul, Liverpool, Wogonga (Australia) and alongside the Panama Canal. Top of the wish list, Djibouti, Ypsilanti, and Pyongyang.
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C.J. was dubbed "a master of the ten-minute play form” by Larry Harbison of Smith & Kraus. A few clicks will whisk you away to an Amazonian forest where you can buy her work in a number of “Best of” anthologies. See Awards etc for links, and for lots of humble-bragging about Best of Fest awards, three Heideman Award finalists, Rover Dramawerks National New Play competition winner, Mountain Playhouse International Comedy Finalist, National "Women Are Funny" award, multiple Austin Film Fest Second Rounders etc.
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While a newcomer to screenwriting, C.J. has read and covered literally
1000s of scripts for competitions. Her own award-winning screenplays include Final Exam: "This year failing is not an option” (female-led horror feature), dark comedy pilot Loser Island: “Survival isn’t just fun and games," and her romantic thriller, Dirty Weekend: "It's easy to run off with a beautiful stranger. It's harder to explain how she disappeared." See Screenplays page for more tantalizing taglines.
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Other pursuits include freelance journalism, travel, book editing, teaching impressionable youth the fine art of the spit take, smashing computers for a paycheck, driving an ambulance, appreciating the art of wet collodion on silver, kibbitzing, kvetching and kvelling, and, perhaps closest to her heart, mentoring and hectoring.
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C.J. has been to every state but Arkansas.
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Browse the website to explore play titles and synopses (with cast size and breakdowns). It is best viewed on a desktop!
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Visit the Productions page to chart the travels of various plays.
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Contact C.J. (via the Contact page).
Include a little about you and your group, the plays(s) you're interested in, and what you want to do with them.
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Production royalties are based on ticket prices and size of house.
For readings where no tickets are sold, and for certain benefits, royalties can be waived. However, photos of productions and/or rehearsals, plus a program, are required.
In all cases you must get written permission from the Playwright to produce her work, lest the wrath of the Dramatists Guild fall upon your house.
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2010 - present
2010 - present
Director, Reader, etc.
Script Reader and Coverage for numerous film & theatre festivals and competitions.
Available for one-on-one script or prose consultations.
Producer, Director, Play Curator: Westchester Collaborative Theatre, Incoming Tide Productions, Friends of the Chappaqua Library Dewey Decimal Fests, Manhattan Theatre Source, Brooklyn Playwrights Collective, Chappaqua Drama Group et al.
Are you still reading?! Imma bake you some cupcakes.
Children's Workshop leader/developer:
Playwriting, stop-motion animation, stagecraft, improv, drama, theatre games.
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Member: Dramatists Guild of America; International Center for Women Playwrights; Westchester Collaborative Theatre. Prior Member: Brooklyn Playwrights Collective, Chappaqua Drama Group.
Inaugural Class: Dramatists Guild Institute.
MFAs in Screenwriting and Screenwriting History. MSc Computer Engineering.
Certified Laser Safety Specialist.
Music to write by:
Favorite Simpson's quote: "What IS your fascination with my forbidden closet of mystery?"
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Music to write by
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