Gillian Beth Durkee

STAGE

ON TRASH MONSTERS (Full length)

Zoom reading, Workshop Theater, June 2020

Staged reading, Normal Ave, NAPseries, January 2020

A BRIEF [INCOMPLETE] HISTORY OF MOTHERHOOD (One Act, devised)

The Bellwether Project, Project Y Women in Theatre Festival, June 2019

POST-NOWISM (Full Length)

Staged reading, EST/Youngblood Bloodworks Series, May 2019

DIVING FOR WALT (Full Length)

Staged reading, The Tank Lady Fest, August 2018

LITTLE SOUVENIRS (Full Length)

Finalist, Sanguine Theatre Project Playwright 2018

Semi-finalist, O'Neill National Playwrights Conference 2018

ALL CREATURES (Full Length)

Workshop Production, Carnegie Mellon New Works Series, November 2017

ROMANCE AT THE SHOE FACTORY (10-minute)

Production, Samuel French Off Off Broadway Festival, August 2017

Production, Current Harbor Cabaret, The Tank, November 2017

GREAT, YOU'RE READY FOR A PARTY (Full Length)

Workshop, Sewanee Writers Conference with Naomi Iizuka and Dan O'Brien, July 2017

THE NOTHING TRAIN (Full Length)

Staged reading, In the Water Theatre Company with PTP/NYC After Dark Series, Atlantic Stage 2, July 2016

THE STUDY GROUP (Full Length)

Staged reading, Rhapsody Collective, March 2014

Staged reading, PTP/NYC After Dark Series, Atlantic Stage 2, July 2014

Workshop Production, Access Theatre, September 2014

Semi-finalist, O'Neill National Playwrights Conference 2015

SISTER DEAR (One Act)

Production, Middlebury College, Undressing Cinderella Festival, Second Runner-Up, April 2013

SCREEN

ADULTING WITH JANE (Forthcoming Web Series, 2018-)

Current staff writer 

HEIDI AND JO (Stop-Motion Animated Short, 2018)

Wrote, produced, directed, animated, and edited 

THE MAST YEAR (Feature Screenplay)

Second place winner in The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Script Competition for the Public Understanding of Science and Technology at Carnegie Mellon University (2018)

SUYIN THE SPACE JUNKIE (Feature Screenplay)

Finalist for The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Script Competition for the Public Understanding of Science and Technology at Carnegie Mellon University (2017)

IDLE WORSHIP (Short film, PennyPants Productions, 2016)

Assistant Head Writer 

THAT REMINDS ME... (Web Series, Potatoes Tomatoes LLC, 2014-2015)

Staff writer 

EDUCATION

EST/Youngblood, New York, NY

Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

MFA: Dramatic Writing, Steven Bochco Fellowship

Instructors: Rob Handel, Melissa Martin, Clare Barron, Gary Winter, Cori Thomas, Aurorae Khoo, Peter Sinn Nachtrieb, Andrew Saito, Mike Geither, Amy Schwabauer, Jiehae Park, Onalee Hunter Hughes, JP Nickel, A. Zell Williams, Mando Alvarado

Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT

BA: Theatre: Playwriting