Plays

That it all makes perfect
70 minutes — 5 actors [2F, 1M, 2 any gender], 4-5 musicians [any gender]

The Lady Onstage
50 minutes — 1 actor [1F]

A Bid to Save the World
80 minutes — Variable cast size (8-11)

Tvá Kamila
80 minutes — 4 actors [2M, 2F]

Down a Little Dirt Road
75 minutes — 4 actors [2M, 2F]

This is Not a Torture or an Engine
75 minutes — 7 actors [3F, 4M]

Libretti

Precita Park | Music: John Glover
20 minutes — two sopranos, mezzo-soprano, tenor, baritone, chamber orchestra

Two Friends | Music: Matt Boehler
16 minutes — children’s chorus, SATB choir, chamber orchestra

It is enough | Music: Matt Boehler
4 minutes — soprano, cello

Other words

100 stories for 100 days, and a few more

About Me

Erin Bregman’s theatrical work has been produced by Just Theater, Rorschach Theater, 6NewPlays, Playground, Actor’s Theater of Santa Cruz, and Bay One Acts. Her work has been developed across the country, including readings and workshops with The Brick, Inkwell, Profile Theater, American Conservatory Theater, The Lark, The Bay Area Playwrights Festival, Impact Theater, and PlayGround. She has been a multi-year finalist for the Princess Grace Awards and the Global Age Project, and has been a resident artist at Zoo Labs, the Playwrights Foundation, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, and PlayGround.

Recent librettist work includes an ongoing collaboration with composer Alex Stein; a piece for choir, children’s choir, and chamber orchestra with composer and singer Matt Boehler; and a 20-minute opera with composer John Glover for Washington National Opera’s young artist program. A native of Santa Cruz, California, Erin grew up making backyard theater and studying classical guitar. She attended UC Santa Barbara as a College of Creative Studies Literature major, where she studied playwriting under Naomi Iizuka. For over a decade, Erin made operas with kids in San Francisco as a teaching artist with the San Francisco Opera, and founder and director of Little Opera. She now lives and works as a science writer in Sebastopol, California

Get in touch

Ideas? Thoughts? Feedback? Email me at erinbregman[at]gmail.com