Amy Drake & Drake Theatrical, LLC
WRITER FOR HIRE
Telly Award Winning Filmmaker
When I was five years old, I sketched out a scene about people in my neighborhood. My teacher was so impressed that she had me perform it for the class. Decades later, I was in NYC with my husband and inspiration struck again. I stayed up all night writing a play which was accepted three weeks later for the NYC Strawberry Theater Festival. I have been writing plays, films, and articles ever since, for publication and performance, and on commission. Currently, I am writing The Spiritual Side of Mae West, a play based on the actor’s metaphysical experiences, scheduled to premiere in August 2025. Look for my column on the Visual Arts on the first Sunday of every month in The Columbus Dispatch.
DrakeTheatrical@gmail.com | (614) 753-9606
FULL LENGTH PLAYS AVAILABLE FOR LICENSING
SOMEWHERE I CAN SCREAM
A gold medal Olympian turned college professor at a Midwestern university has an affair with a female medical student in the 1920s in an age when infidelity was illegal. An argument turns deadly, and the professor becomes the only Olympic athlete to be executed in the electric chair, even though he may have been acting in self-defense. Was justice served? Based on a true story.
RIFE: LIFE UNDER A MICROSCOPE
A scientist discovers a cure for cancer with alternative medicine. He is relentlessly pursued by Big Pharma, who burn evidence, destroy equipment, and threaten his supporters in the medical community. Supported by his Chinese American wife and engineer business partner, will he prevail? Based on a true story.
MYSTIC MARGARET
An historical play about the rags to riches to redemption life of 13th c. Italian Saint Margaret of Cortona, in which a farm girl becomes the consort of a nobleman, has a baby out of wedlock, becomes a nun, has mystic visions, founds a hospital, and later becomes a saint whose body has never decomposed. Ideal for a large cast. the play is available for licensing through Next Stage Press
These scripts and many short plays by Amy Drake can be found at
Amy can be reached directly at DrakeTheatrical@gmail.com.
Amy Drake, MA, MS MCM.
Playwright/dramatist, producer, filmmaker, speaker.
The Kilroys List, Kennedy Center Playwriting Intensive, Yale Writers’ Workshop.
Member of The League of Professional Theatre Women, Theater Makers Studio, Dramatists Guild, Theater Resources Unlimited, P.A.G.E.S., PDMP.
Visual Arts columnist for The Columbus Dispatch.
Producer of short film GUELLEN, KS (NYC) and SHOWDOWN IN AMHERST (writer/producer/actor), a quarter finalist in the
Sunvale screenplay competition.
Presented research papers at theater conferences in the U.S. and in Austria.
National Society of Collegiate Scholars (inducted 2024).
IABC Winner of the Silver Quill of Excellence award in web writing.
Appeared in regional Emmy-winning TV episode of Columbus Neighborhoods, numerous commercials, and short films.
Playwright of SOMEWHERE I CAN SCREAM, selected for residency at The Players Theatre, NYC; Audience Favorite award SHOPPERS PARADISE, NYC Short Theatre Festival; EYES LIKE OPAQUE GEMS, Most Popular Play, MITF Short Play Lab.
Producers PRO Inner Circle Award.
Best Director Award Theatre Roundtable Columbus (OH) for NIGHT MUST FALL.
Summer programs at Univ. of Cambridge, Reed Hall, Paris, and Kenyon (College) Summer Institute in Playwriting.
Represented by Heyman Talent Agency.
WRITER FOR HIRE
Creative resume and rates available upon request. Let’s talk about your project today! Email me at draketheatrical@gmail.com
Call or text 614-753-9606
