Once on Rumspringa

Once on Rumspringa

Stage Play · Comedy · 88 pages
Two Amish girl friends share a run-down trailer, crystal meth addiction, and queer romantic tension thick as a milkshake. They've spent their Rumspringa together higher than Heaven, but today face their rite-of-passage choice: surrender their forbidden love, or flee Lancaster, shunned forever. Now, with 24 hours until the endgame ceremony, six inter...
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Written by ellis stump
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Second Rounder, Austin Film Festival 2022
Second Rounder, Austin Film Festival 2021

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ellis stump
Los Angeles, CA
A gay disgrace to their Amish PA upbringing, Ellis is now a Columbia University MFA grad ('23), an award-winning Off-Broadway playwright, and the youngest, silliest full-time professor. She's currently in development on numerous pilots, shorts, and a feature. Ellis tells fish-out-of-water, coming-of-age dark comedies for fellow emotional Gen Z yearn...
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Competition Successes: -2nd Rounder, Austin Film Festival Playwriting Competition (Sept 2022) -Finalist, Stories of Diversity Festival, The Fulton Theatre (July 2022) -Semifinalist, Lanford Wilson New American Play Award (April 2022) -Semifinalist, Blue Ink Playwriting Award, American Blues Theater (March 2022) -Semifinalist, New Works Festival, Bay Street Theatre (March 2022) -Winner, Ascending Playwright Award, Yonder Window Theatre Company (Aug 2021) Public Readings/Productions: -Fringe Festival Production (dir. by Amir Malaklou), The Wild Project Theater, NYC (May 2022) -MFA Student Production, Columbia University, NYC (April 2022) -Workshop & Readings (dir. by Ella Jane New), Chain Theatre, NYC (Jan-March 2022) -Reading (organized by Katie McHugh), Yonder Window Theatre, NYC (Aug 2022) -Reading (organized by David Henry Hwang), Columbia University, NYC (July 2022)