# Eric Coble

Eric Coble is an American playwright and screenwriter. He is a member of the Playwrights' Unit of the Cleveland Play House.
Eric Coble was born in Edinburgh, Scotland and raised on the Navajo and Ute reservations in New Mexico and Colorado. Before turning to playwriting, he received his BA in English from Fort Lewis College in Colorado, and his MFA in acting from Ohio University.

## Career

Coble's play, The Velocity of Autumn premiered on Broadway on April 1, 2014 (previews), officially on April 21, 2014, at the Booth Theatre, starring Estelle Parsons and Stephen Spinella, directed by Molly Smith. The play was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Estelle Parsons received a Tony Award nomination for Best Actress in a Play. The play had its debut at the Boise Contemporary Theatre before moving to Arena Stage, Washington, D.C., in 2013.
The Spanish version, La velocidad del otoño, premiered at the Teatro Bellas Artes in Madrid in December 2016. It starred Lola Herrera and Juanjo Artero and was directed by Magüi Mira.
His play Bright Ideas opened Off-Broadway at the Manhattan Class Company, directed by John Rando, and has since been published by Dramatists Play Service, with dozens of productions across the U.S. His stage adaptation of Lois Lowry's The Giver (published by Dramatic Publishing) has had over 300 productions on three continents. Other work includes Natural Selection (published by Playscripts), For Better (published by Samuel French), The Dead Guy (published by DPS), Virtual Devotion, Cinderella Confidential, and Pecos Bill and the Ghost Stampede (all published by Dramatic Publishing).
His plays have been produced in 50 states of the U.S., and on six continents including productions at The Kennedy Center, Manhattan Class Company, Actors Studio, Playwrights Horizons, The Denver Center Theatre Company, Arena Stage, The Edinburgh and New York Fringe Festivals, South Coast Repertory, Laguna Playhouse, Alliance Theatre, Cleveland Play House, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Cleveland Public Thaeatre, Indiana Repertory, Coterie Theatre, Asolo Rep, Curious Theatre, Geva Theatre, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Dobama Theatre, Stages Repertory, Great Lakes Theater, Coterie Theatre, Boise Contemporary Theatre, Habima Theatre (Israel), Pentacion Productions (Spain), Teatr Polski (Poland), Orange Row (Mexico)and the Contemporary American Theatre Festival.
Awards include an Emmy nomination, the Steinberg New Play Award, two American Alliance for Theatre and Education Distinguished Play Awards for Best Adaptation, the AATE Award for Distinguished Play (2022), the AT&T Onstage Award, National Theatre Conference Playwriting Award, an NEA Playwright in Residence Grant, two TCG Extended Collaboration Grants, Aristophanes Award for Best Off-Broadway Comedy, First Place in the Southwest Festival of New Plays, Heideman Finalist for Actors Theatre Louisville, three Best of the CATCO Shorts Festival Awards, the Cleveland Arts Prize, two Cuyahoga Arts and Culture Creative Workforce Fellowships, and four Ohio Arts Individual Excellence Awards.

## Selected works

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| YEAR | TITLE | PREMIERE | PUBLICATION |
| 1993 | Ordering Lunch | Playwrights Horizons Summerfest, NY | |
| 1994 | Isolated Incidents | Cleveland Public Theatre, OH | |
| 1994 | Tristan And Isolde | Aegean Theatre Co., NY | |
| 1996 | Sound-Biting | Dobama Theatre, OH | |
| 1996 | In A Grove: Four Japanese Ghost Stories | Cleveland Play House, OH | Published by Playscripts |
| 1997 | Nightfall With Edgar Allan Poe | Cleveland Play House, OH | Published by Playscripts |
| 1998 | The Emperor's New Clothes | Cleveland Play House, OH | Published by Dramatic Publishing |
| 1998 | Virtual Devotion | Dobama Theatre, OH | Published by Dramatic Publishing |
| 1998 | Myth-Adventures: Five Greek Classics | Cleveland Play House, OH | published by Dramatic Publishing |
| 1998 | Under The Flesh: The Final Descent of Edgar Allan Poe | Cleveland Playhouse, OH | |
| 1999 | truth: The Testimonial Of Sojourner Truth | Dobama Theatre, OH | published by Playscripts |
| 1999 | The Servant Of Two Masters | Cleveland Playhouse, OH | |
| 1999 | Gold In The Bones: Three Tales Of Haunted New England | Cleveland Play House, OH | published by Playscripts |
| 1999 | Pinocchio 3.5 | Cleveland Play House, OH | published by Playscripts |
| 2000 | The Way You Look Tonight | Great Lakes Theater Festival, OH | |
| 2000 | Lake Of Panthers | Cleveland Play House, OH | |
| 2000 | Tales Of The Southern Frontier | Eckard Theatre Company, FL | |
| 2001 | Bright Ideas | Cleveland Play House, OH | published by Dramatists Play Service |
| 2001 | Strange Intelligence | Imagination Stage, Washington DC | |
| 2001 | Pecos Bill And The Ghost Stampede | Cleveland Play House, OH | published by Dramatic Publishing |
| 2001 | Straight On 'Til Morning | Great Lakes Theater Festival, OH | |
| 2002 | Baggage Unattended | Contemporary American Theatre Company, OH | |
| 2002 | From Here: A Century Of Voices From Ohio | Wallpaper Project Ohio state-wide tour | |
| 2002 | T.I.D.Y. | Beck Center For The Arts, OH | |
| 2003 | Sacagawea | Oregon Children's Theatre, OR | published by Playscripts |
| 2003 | Cinderella Confidential | Cleveland Play House, OH | published by Dramatic Publishing |
| 2004 | Remote | Contemporary American Theatre Company, OH | |
| 2004 | The Machine Stops (by E.M. Forster) | Hiram College, OH | |
| 2004 | Vote? | Eckard Theatre Company, FL | published by Dramatic Publishing |
| 2005 | Uncle Sam's Satiric Spectacular | Humana Festival, Actors Theatre of Louisville, KY | published by Playscripts |
| 2005 | Ten Minutes From Cleveland | Dobama Theatre, OH | |
| 2005 | The Dead Guy | Curious Theatre, CO | published by Dramatists Play Service |
| 2005 | The Giver (based on the novel by Lois Lowry) | Oregon Children's Theatre, OR | published by Dramatic Publishing |
| 2006 | Natural Selection | Humana Festival, Actors Theatre of Louisville, KY | published by Playscripts |
| 2006 | Waiting For The Matinee | Cleveland Play House, OH | published by Dramatists Play Service |
| 2006 | For Better | National New Play Network rolling world-premier: Curious Theatre, CO; New Theatre, FL; Southern Rep Theatre, LA | published by Samuel French |
| 2006 | Luis (based on the story by Richard Selzer) | Verb Ballets, OH | |
| 2006 | Haunted | Contemporary American Theatre Company, OH | |
| 2006 | Let Freedom Ring | Ensemble Theatre, OH | |
| 2007 | Zap! | Florida Repertory Theatre, FL | |
| 2007 | Terror In The Tower (comic book) | | published by Akron Public Schools |
| 2008 | The Cleveland Plays, Part 1: Migration (co-written with Eric Scmhiedl and Nina Domingue) | Dobama Theatre, OH | |
| 2008 | Ask Gilby (television) | Akron Public Schools syndication | |
| 2009 | Southern Rapture | Actors Theatre of Charlotte, NC | |
| 2009 | Unbeatable (music and lyrics by Todd Schroeder and Kevin Fisher) | Phoenix Theatre, AZ | |
| 2009 | H.R. | Dobama Theatre, OH | published by Random House |
| 2009 | Ten More Minutes From Cleveland | Dobama Theatre, OH | |
| 2009 | Huck Finn (based on the novel by Mark Twain) | Cleveland Play House, OH | published by Dramatists Play Service |
| 2010 | Panto Pinocchio | Stages Repertory Theatre, TX | |
| 2010 | The White Coat, The Body, and others | Cleveland Clinic, OH | |
| 2011 | A Girl's Guide To Coffee | Actors' Summit, OH | |
| 2011 | My Barking Dog | Cleveland Public Theatre, OH | published by Dramatists Play Service |
| 2011 | The Velocity Of Autumn | Boise Contemporary Theater, ID | published by Dramatists Play Service |
| 2011 | Side Effects May Include... (co-written with Marc Jaffe | Cleveland Public Theatre, OH | |
| 2011 | Downhill | | published by Dramatic Publishing |
| 2012 | The Storm In The Barn (based on the graphic novel by Matt Phelan) | Oregon Children's Theatre, OR | published by Dramatic Publishing |
| 2012 | Stranded On Earth | Boise Contemporary Theater, ID | |
| 2012 | Gathering Blue (based on the book by Lois Lowry | Oregon Children's Theatre, OR | published by Dramatic Publishing |
| 2012 | Alma Mater | Ohio University, OH | |
| 2012 | A Carol For Cleveland (based on the story by Les Roberts) | Cleveland Play House, OH | |
| 2013 | Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus (based on the book by John Gray) | U.S. Tour | |
| 2013 | The Reason Why | Geva Theatre, NY | |
| 2014 | Sherlock Holmes: The Baker Street Irregulars (based on the graphic novels by Tony Lee and Dan Boultwood) | First Stage, WI | published by Dramatic Publishing |
| 2014 | Fairfield | Cleveland Play House, OH | |
| 2015 | Jedi Training: Challenge Of The Temple | Disney Theme Parks | |
| 2015 | Flour and Brimstone | Cleveland Public Theatre, OH | |
| 2015 | CPH RAW | Cleveland Play House, OH | |
| 2015 | Just Do It | The Every 28 Hours Plays, Ferguson, MO | published in "A Race Anthology: Dispatches and Artifacts From A Segregated City |
| 2016 | Margin of Error (or, The Unassailable Wisdom Of The Mouse And The Scorpion) | Boise Contemporary Theater, ID | |
| 2016 | These Mortal Hosts | Cleveland Play House, OH | |
| 2016 | 'Twas The Night Before Christmas (In Cleveland) | Cleveland Public Theatre, OH | |
| 2017 | Swagger | Palm Beach Dramaworks, FL | published by Dramatic Publishing |
| 2017 | The Talk (co-written with Darius Stubbs) | Cleveland Public Theatre/Station Hope, OH | |
| 2017 | Ghosts In The Machine | First Stage, WI | published by Dramatic Publishing |
| 2017 | The Family Claxon | Cleveland Public Theatre, OH | |
| 2018 | The Girl Who Swallowed A Cactus | Rolling world premiere: Childsplay Theatre, AZ; Metro Theatre Company, MO | published by Dramatic Publishing |
| 2018 | Refugee (based on the book by Alan Gratz) | Florida Repertory Theatre, FL | |
| 2019 | Feed (based on the book by M.T. Anderson) | Cleveland Play House, OH | |
| 2019 | Live To Tell | Palm Beach Dramaworks, FL | |
| 2019 | Tovic Tomte And The Trolls | Talespinner Children's Theatre, OH | |
| 2020 | Wait For It | Covid One-Minute Play Festival, NY | |
| 2021 | Bulletproof Backpack | Florida Repertory Theatre, FL | published by Dramatic Publishing |
| 2021 | That Which Can Be Held | Cleveland Museum Of Art, OH | |
| 2021 | Big Changes (co-written with Kira Hopgood) | | Published by Dramatic Publishing |
| 2022 | The Hatbox | Williamston Theatre, MI | |