Erickson, Cass

Cass Erickson is a poet, playwright, and short story writer. Her ten-minute play Alpha Dogs was produced off-Broadway by Love Creek Productions and had a staged reading at Chicago Dramatists. The play was invited for a staged reading at the Last Frontier (Edward Albee) Theatre Conference in Valdez, Alaska. Insomnia, a ten-minute play, was produced by Flying Leap Players in Grand Marais, Minnesota. Every Shiny Object had a reading in the Ten-Minute Play Festival at the Playwrights’ Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Zigs and Zags, a one-minute memoir written for radio, was a finalist in the Brevity: The Podcast of a Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction competition and published by Unwashed: A Bay View Art & Literary Magazine (Milwaukee, WI). Most recently, Cass directed a staged reading of her full length play, The Dreamer of Oyster Bay, at Shake Rag Alley Center for the Arts in Mineral Point, WI. Forks of Ivy, a full length play, was a finalist in Trustus Theatre’s Playwrights’ Festival in Columbia, SC. Sponsored by Lex-Ham Community Theater in Saint Paul, Minnesota, Cass directed a staged reading of Forks of Ivy at the Lowry Lab Theater. “Ennui,” a monologue, was published in Mother/Daughter Monologues: Volume 4: Urgent Maturity by International Centre for Women Playwrights (ICWP) Press. Her short story, “Diamonds in the Sky,” was a finalist in the E.L. Doctorow short story contest sponsored by the Writers Workshop in Asheville, North Carolina. Her poetry has appeared in The Poet Magazine and Poetry for Mental Health (Norwich, England) and Unwashed: A Bay View Art & Literary Magazine. In addition to the Playwrights Center in Minneapolis, Cass is a member of the International Centre for Women Playwrights and London Playwrights’ Workshop. She taught playwriting through Saint Paul Schools Community Education in Saint Paul, MN and Lakeshore Players Theatre in White Bear Lake, MN.