The Wishing Place
World Premiere opens Friday, August 18, 2023
A poetic drama about two families in 1960s rural Georgia, one black and one white, trying to find their path and keep their dreams alive.
Ellen McQueen
A Complicated Hope
Opening Friday August 5 – A play about hope, shining a light on the darkest corners of grief – Winner of the 2022 Essential Theatre Playwriting Award – Winner of the 2022 Essential Theatre Playwriting Award.
Essential Theatre Presents:
High Risk, Baby!
The funny and heart-expanding true story about one woman’s wild and epic journey into motherhood.
Raising the Dead
On a hot night in New Orleans, two very different women — lost in loneliness and the living death of feeling invisible – try to connect and find a way to bring themselves back to life.
The Local
A collaborative theatre project about the City of Atlanta, by the writers of Atlanta, developed and directed by Ellen McQueen, award-winning director of Ice Glen and Sally and Glen at the Palace.
Sally and Glen at the Palace
A comic drama about the growing friendship between two very different college students working together in the lobby of a 1970s movie theatre in a southern university town. Written by artistic director Peter Hardy.
Mysterious Connections
Mysterious Connections, written by Peter Hardy and directed by Ellen McQueen, is a fantasy based around two women who grow close and eventually find themselves able to enter each other’s dreams.
Woke
ADA AND THE MEMORY ENGINE
By Lauren Gunderson
Directed by Ellen McQueen
ADA AND THE MEMORY ENGINE press kit with photos
Regional premiere opened July 28, 2017.
One of the latest plays penned by our very first Essential Theatre Playwriting Award Winner and the Most Produced Living Playwright in America in 2016,
