C.J. Ehrlich
playwright - screenwriter
Upcoming & recent
FINAL EXAM - (horror-thriller feature)
- Austin Film Festival 2023 - Second Rounder
- Scriptapalooza 2023 - Quarterfinalist
- Renegade Film Festival 2023 - Official Selection; Lizzie Award Nominee
- Horrorigins Film Fest 2023 - Official Selection
- Underground Indie Film Fest 2023 - Official Selection
- Filmmatic Horror Screenplay awards 2023 - Semi-Finalist
- Cinestory 2022 - Quarter-Finalist
- Independent Horror Movie Awards - Best Feature Nominee; Official Selection
- Bloodstained Indie Film Fest 2022 - Finalist
- The Script Lab TSL FSP - Semi-Finalist
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LOSER ISLAND - (dark-comedy pilot)
- TOP 10 FINALIST, Creative Screenwriting TV Pilots Competition 2023
- SECOND ROUNDER Austin Film Festival 2022
- TOP 10% The Writers Lab US 2022
- WINNER Austin Comedy Film Festival, 2021, Best Dark Comedy Teleplay
- FINALIST Houston Comedy Film Festival, 2021, Best Dark Comedy Teleplay
- SECOND PLACE 2021 Ivy Film Festival, Pilots (largest student-run film festival in the world)
- QUARTER FINALIST Table Read My Screenplay Spring 2023
- QUARTER FINALIST Filmmatic TV Pilot Awards Season 6, 2021
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O-TOWN the Web Series:, Season 2, Ep 3: "In the Box"
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IT SKIPS A GENERATION Eden Prairie Players, Women's One Acts Festival, Eden Prairie, MN May 2023
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ALL'S FAIR IN LOVE AND SCIENCE, Theater One Productions, Middleboro, MA Mar 2023
2+1=MURDER The Citamard Players of Millersville University, Millersville, PA 2022
THE LILAC TICKET Actors Theatre Playhouse, Chesterfield, NH Jul 2022
THE LILAC TICKET Red Earth Theatre, "What Next #2", Outdoors at Tlaquepaque Patio de Las Campanas,
Sedona AZ June 2022 redearththeatre,org
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THE LILAC TICKET Theatre One Productions "Slice of Life Fest,"
Middleboro, MA, Sept 2021 (winner, Richard Pachico Audience Choice Award)
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2+1=MURDER Theater workshop, Wellesley High School, MA 2021
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SECONDHAND GIFTS Spark Creative Works, Virtual Production, Mar 2021
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THE CUPCAKE CONSPIRACY (w/Philip J. Kaplan),
Bay City Players (MI) Virtual Season, July 2020.
ALL'S FAIR IN LOVE & SCIENCE
Bay City Players Virtual Short Play Fest, Bay City, MI, July 2020
YOUTUBE - https://tinyurl.com/bcpAllsFair
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THE LILAC TICKET Actors Theatre Playhouse, Play Fest, Chesterfield, NH Jun 2020 (delayed d/t pandemic)
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THE LILAC TICKET Theatre One, Slice of Life New Plays Fest at the Alley Theatre, Middleboro, MA Apr 2020
(delayed due to pandemic)
HOME SWEET HOMELAND SECURITY
Ridgefield Theatre Barn, 2020 One Acts, Ridgefield, CT Mar 2020 (cancelled d/t pandemic, thanks Covid!)
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ALL'S FAIR IN LOVE & SCIENCE
Allegan Community Players, Allegan, MI Mar 27-29 2020
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ALL'S FAIR IN LOVE & SCIENCE Raven Theatre Short Play Festival, Healdsburg, CA Feb 27-Mar 1 2020
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2+1= MURDER Park School of Baltimore, Baltimore, MD Feb 6-8 2020
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Select Productions and Staged Readings Prior to 2020 (chronological)
For full list by production see PRODUCTIONS page.
NOIR IN SECOND CLASS Texas A&M Univ - Corpus Christi,
School of Arts, Media and Communication Corpus Christi, TX Dec 2019
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2+1= MURDER Blaze Pascal must solve this case by the numbers! A noir tribute to Math 101.
Sugar-Salem High School, Sugar City, ID Nov 2019 (District and State Competitions)
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ALL TOO SHORT (editor) - A collection of short plays about lives cut short by gun violence,
numerous playwrights, a benefit for gun-sense, presented by
Mystic Vision Players, Linden, NJ Apr 26/27 2019
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WAITING FOR HUGOT A wanna-be screenwriter stalks a minor celebrity.
Red Earth Theatre, 6th Annual Female Playwrights Onstage readings,
LBDInk "Swimming with Giants", Sedona, AZ April 25 2019.
and Red Herring Theater, Columbus, OH, Mar 2019
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WAITING FOR HUGOT Ridgefield Theatre Barn, 2019 One-Act Fest, Ridgefield, CT Mar 2019
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THE NINTH CIRCUS OF HELL Axial Theatre, "Twisted Valentines" Pleasantville, NY Feb 2019
BUT I'M THE WEATHER GIRL! Neem-2018 Award Finalist, St. Petersburg Russia
2+1=MURDER St. Andrew's School, Boca Raton, FL Dec 2018
DARK FRIDAY MARKDOWNS Westchester Collaborative Theatre, Ossining, NY Nov 2018
ASK ZSUZSANNA The Mother Lode, New York, NY Oct 2018
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THE LILAC TICKET Tri-State Theatre Fest, South Street Players, Spring Lake, NJ Oct 2018
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WAITING FOR HUGOT San Pedro Seniors Rep, San Pedro, CA, Sep 2018
THE LILAC TICKET Aery 20/20 Festival, Garrison, NY 2018 (acc not staged)
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O-TOWN the Web Series: "High as a Kite," Parts I and 2
NOW SHOWING: https://otownny.com/watch
BLACK HOLE ENTERPRISES Renegade Theatre Festival, Lansing MI Aug 2018
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THE LILAC TICKET
Players Guild of Leonia Playwrights Showcase 2018
Leonia, NJ Jun 8-10, 15-16
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LONG TRAIN RUNNING
Gann Academy, "Playhem!", Waltham, MA May 31 2018, dir. Ilana Jacobs
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HOMESPUN WEBS: Imagining Louise Bourgeois
Madeline's given up on life after divorce, until she's interrupted by the
spectral presence of renowned 'spider artist', Louise Bourgeois.
Eden Prairie Players Eden Prairie, MN Apr 2018
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​THE NINTH CIRCUS OF HELL
Normandale Community College, Minneapolis, MN Apr 2018
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A MURDER OF CROWS
Stage Left's Fast & Furious V Festival, Spokane WA Apr 2018
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THE THINGS THEY DON'T TELL US
​1:One UAE Theatre Fest
Constellation Productions, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Shortlisted, Apr 2018
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THE BEES ARE WATCHING
Westchester Collaborative Theatre and Ossining Arts Council
2018 Living Art Event @ the Firehouse, Ossining, NY Mar 2-24
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MIT A FIDDLE IN THE MIDDLE
Untold Stories of Jewish Women Festival
A Festival of Plays, Music, and Conversation
In a wagon, on a dirt road, outside a Polish village in 1936,
Molly Picon starts work on what will become the most popular
Yiddish film ever.
March 20-22, 2018
Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to the Holocaust
in collaboration with
365 Women a Year: A Playwriting Project
National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene
Women in the Arts & Media Coalition
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NOIR IN SECOND CLASS
Marriage is more exciting on the Orient Express.
Beaver, PA and other locations, Mar 2018
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THE BEES ARE WATCHING
Little Black Dress INK "Volume Control"
International Women's Day
Prescott, AZ and Bemidji University, MN Jan 2018 (SR)
Red Earth Theatre, Sedona, AZ Mar 2018 (SR)
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A MURDER OF CROWS
There's a name for every grouping - what's this couple's?
Stage Left's Fast & Furious V - Spokane, WA Feb 2-4
BLACK HOLE ENTERPRISES
The Navigator's Theatre & NY Madness
dir Melissa Skirboll, Kraine Theatre, NYC Jan 2018
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CO-WORKERS A strange job interview over a vat of molten steel.
Little Black Dress INK "Hot Mess!"
Sam French Bookshop, Los Angeles, CA Jan 2018
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SPARE SOME CHANGE
An entrepreneurial homeless man tries to convince a businesswoman to invest in his lunch.
text used in "Current Issues, Current Plays" seminar
Webster University, Webster Groves, MO
THE LILAC TICKET
South Street Players Tri-State Theatre Fest Spring Lake, NJ Oct 20-22
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THE CUPCAKE CONSPIRACY (full-length comedy/farce)
"Cupcakes are Easy. Marriage is Complicated."
with Philip J. Kaplan (full-length comedy)
Florentine Players, Omaha, NE. Aug 2017
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WAITING FOR HUGOT
San Pedro Seniors Rep, at Little Sisters of the Poor San Pedro, CA, Sep 2018
THE MALTESE BABKA (full-length noir comedy)
Westchester Collaborative Theatre - dir. Chris Arena
Ossining, NY May 2017
and The Last Frontier Theatre Conference, Valdez AK (SR) Jun 2017
CO-WORKERS A strange job interview over a vat of molten steel.
Little Black Dress INK "Hot Mess" national winner
Prescott, AZ Jul 2017 dir. Cason Murphy
A PACKAGE DEAL
Ridgefield Theatre Barn, Summer One-Act Play Festival
Ridgefield, CT June 30-July 15
BUT I'M THE WEATHER GIRL!
Last Frontier Conference, Fringe Fest, Valdez AK Jun 2017
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WAITING FOR HUGOT
A wanna-be screenwriter stalks a minor celebrity.
South of Broadway Theatre Co 2017 Playfest Charleston SC May 5,6
CO-WORKERS
A strange job interview over a vat of molten steel.
Little Black Dress INK "Hot Mess" dir. Kila Kitu
Samuel French Bookshop, Hollywood CA May 2017 (SR)
ALL'S FAIR IN LOVE & SCIENCE
It's a high stakes game, the elementary school science fair.
Cliffhanger Company "Mixed Doubles"
The Coach House, Rottingdean England. Apr 18-22
COUNTING VOTES WITH PHILIP GLASS
Two EMTs watch election returns, awaiting disaster.
Navigators Theatre (navigatorstheater.com) "Lovecraft" Benefit, NYC Apr 2017
BUT I'M THE WEATHER GIRL!
Fury Theatre "Bad Plays: Reasons Why I Drink" Chicago IL Mar 2017
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2+1=MURDER
The Bobcat Players Beaver, PA and other locales, Feb 2017.
NON-REFUNDABLE
A lesbian couple struggles on a tour of the Eastern Block.
StageQ, Queer Shorts 2.1, Madison, WI, Feb 2017
SPARE SOME CHANGE
The Conservative Theatre Fest
Stage Right Theatrics, Columbus OH. Jan 2017
COUNTING VOTES WITH PHILIP GLASS
Little Black Dress INK, "We're Not Playing", online publication Jan 2017
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Busy Bees, Liv Gus (oil on canvas)
