about me:
Greg Aldrich is a philosophical, poetic playwright whose spirit emerged from the icy, winter dark-nights-of-the-soul found in the Alaskan desert. Award-winning plays include The Blue Hotel (Winner, City Lit Theater Company’s Second Annual Art of Adaptation Festival) and In the Octopus’s Garden (Audience Choice Award, Rhythm Section’s MixTape 2010). His plays Pertaining to Those Things that Happen in Vegas and Elsewhere and The Blue Hotel were finalists for Region II KCACTF. His one act comedy The
Ridiculously Sweet Dream Apartment was a national semi-finalist for KCACTF in 2013 and produced by Southern Illinois University in 2015. His full-length play Epulosia was a semi-finalist for the Princess Grace in 2010. Other produced and developed plays include Beheading Vampire Puppies, Schrödinger’s Brother (formerly titled The Moment After), The Attack of the Ladybugs, Typing Lear, The Body Snatcher, Looking Long Into the Abyss, and The Principle of the Thing. Greg received his MFA in Playwriting from Ohio University, his BA in English from Benedictine College in Atchison, KS and is currently pursuing his PhD in Playwriting from Southern Illinois University focusing on Adaptation Studies. Currently he is adapting Dostoyevsky for the stage and his latest epic is a 4-act adaptation of The Idiot , titled Reflections on an Idiot. He has trained with Clubbed Thumb, Chicago Dramatists, Victory Gardens, Riverside Theatre, and the University of Alaska, Fairbanks.
Ridiculously Sweet Dream Apartment was a national semi-finalist for KCACTF in 2013 and produced by Southern Illinois University in 2015. His full-length play Epulosia was a semi-finalist for the Princess Grace in 2010. Other produced and developed plays include Beheading Vampire Puppies, Schrödinger’s Brother (formerly titled The Moment After), The Attack of the Ladybugs, Typing Lear, The Body Snatcher, Looking Long Into the Abyss, and The Principle of the Thing. Greg received his MFA in Playwriting from Ohio University, his BA in English from Benedictine College in Atchison, KS and is currently pursuing his PhD in Playwriting from Southern Illinois University focusing on Adaptation Studies. Currently he is adapting Dostoyevsky for the stage and his latest epic is a 4-act adaptation of The Idiot , titled Reflections on an Idiot. He has trained with Clubbed Thumb, Chicago Dramatists, Victory Gardens, Riverside Theatre, and the University of Alaska, Fairbanks.
