Evan Spreen

Playwright / Actor / Director

Curriculum Vitae

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EVAN SPREEN

Email: espreen@gmail.com

Union: AGVA

Professional Biography

Evan Spreen is an award-winning LGBTQ playwright based in Los Angeles. Most recently, his play Amelia? was part of PEP Productions Best of 2020 festival in Orange County, NY and the 2025 Brisk Festival in Los Angeles. His one-act Lost Oceans was selected as Best of Festival at Know Theater’s 2022 festival in Binghamton, NY. His horror play The Vast and Unknowable Oven was performed at Kent School in Connecticut in 2023. In New Mexico, his play Decision Makers was part of the New Mexico Seven 2023 at the Fusion Theater company. His full-length play Unsweet Perdition premiered at the 2025 Hollywood Fringe Festival and then went on to appear at the Santa Clarita Shakespeare Festival 2026 to much praise from audiences. He is a proud member of the DGA, HWA, and SFWA.

Directing / Writing

Title Role Venue / Location
Various ScriptsParticipantTuesdays@9 Chicago
RedwingWriterTIP Cozy Reads Tokyo
A Magnolia in CairoWriterYoshimoto Butoh Studio, Tokyo
Rocky Horror Christmas Show(Co-director)Ohlook Performing Arts, TX
The Ballad of Phineas GageWriterFusion, ABQ
Vast and Unknowable OvenWriterKent School, CT
Lost OceansWriterKnow Playwrights Fest
Tonya and PeachesWriter/DirectorALAP Conference
Amelia?WriterPEP Productions, NY
Amelia?Writer/Director (Finalist)Brisk Festival, LA
Unsweet PerditionWriter/DirectorHollywood Fringe 2025
Save the WhalesDirectorHollywood Fringe 2026

Acting (partial list)

Show / Production Role Theater / Company
HHN 34RIP GrabberUniversal Studios Hollywood
FrankensteinVictorUniversity New Mexico
DraculaJonathan HarkerVortex
Mummy's ClawAlvinDallas Children's Theater
TommyUncle ErnieTokyo International Players
Spring AwakeningAdult MaleTokyo International Players
ConstellationsRolandVortex ABQ
Wedding SingerRobbie HartOhlook Performing Arts
Dora Explorer MusicalSwiperOhlook Performing Arts
Rocky HorrorRiff RaffOhlook Performing Arts
Silence! the MusicalBuffalo BillOhlook Performing Arts
Evil Dead the MusicalScottOhlook Performing Arts
Dog sees GodCBOhlook Performing Arts
Skin of our TeethMessengerStage West
Into the WoodsBakerKD Studios
Through a Glass DarklyMartinTokyo Sheepdog Theater
DisturbanceTonyDisturbance Project Tokyo
The Bald SopranoMr. MartinSanta Clarita Shakespeare

Plays & Scripts

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Amelia?

A 10-Minute Comedy / Drama (2025)

10-Min Play

A couple searching for their lost cat encounter a mysterious individual in a cat costume who poses riddles, leading to an unexpected, bittersweet meeting with the ghost of aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart.

CAST: 2M, 2F (4 Actors)
FESTIVALS: Finalist, 2025 Brisk Festival LA • PEP Productions Best of 2020 (Orange County, NY)
GENRE: Surreal Comedy / Drama
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Archaeopteryx

A 10-Minute Sci-Fi Comedy

10-Min Sci-Fi

A tired Colorado police officer interrogates a teenage girl whose rescue "chihuahua mix" bit off a vet assistant's fingers — only to discover the pet might be a talking immortal prehistoric Archaeopteryx.

CAST: 1M, 1F, 1 Voice/Puppet (3 Actors)
SETTING: Police Interrogation Room, Durango, CO
GENRE: Sci-Fi Comedy / New Weird
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Following a Blind God

A 10-Minute Analytical Drama

Drama / History

A Russian survivor of Aum Shinrikyo reflects on the mid-1990s messianic cult, the allure of spiritual nihilism after the fall of communism in Moscow, and confronting the blind leader Shoko Asahara.

CAST: 1M, 1F (Marina & Shoko Asahara)
THEMES: Cult Psychology, Messianism, Post-Soviet Russia
GENRE: Historical / Psychological Drama
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Sojourners

Full-Length Drama / Sci-Fi (Full Act One)

Full-Length Drama

After failing a spiritual audit and spending years in an alternate realm, Molly returns to earth to stay with her eccentric Uncle John and an ethereal siren named Nora, while Curtis struggles with the feelings left behind.

CAST: 3M, 3F (6 Actors)
SETTING: Kansas • Shelborne, MA • Chicago, IL
GENRE: Magic Realism / Sci-Fi Drama
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Terrible Reception

Full-Length Horror / Comedy (Full Act One)

Horror / Comedy

Six guests seated at table twenty-three of an outdoor Kansas wedding reception gradually realize that the wedding itself has somehow come alive and won't let them leave, plunging into cosmic chaos.

CAST: 3M, 3F (6 Actors)
SETTING: Table 23, Wedding Reception, Bethany, KS
GENRE: Cosmic Horror / Dark Comedy
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Tonya & Peaches

A 10-Minute Monologue (ALAP Conference)

Monologue

Lily Everett, "Peaches" the clown in a 1997 traveling circus, sits down in full makeup before a show to confide in her friend Tonya about heartache, milkshakes, and her dream of opening a movement theater school.

CAST: 1F (Solo Monologue)
FESTIVALS: Selected, ALAP Annual Conference
SETTING: Traveling Circus, Baraboo, Wisconsin (1997)
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Unsweet Perdition

Full-Length Sci-Fi / Abstract Stage Play

Full-Length Sci-Fi

On her first day at the Danbury Hydroelectric Facility, Astrid descends into madness alongside a strange staff, filtered memory water, and cryptozoological birds before everything dissolves into oblivion.

CAST: 3M, 3F (6 Actors)
PREMIERE: Hollywood Fringe Festival 2025 • Santa Clarita Shakespeare 2026
GENRE: Abstract Sci-Fi / Surrealism / New Weird
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Media & Performances

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UNSWEET PERDITION • STAGE PLAY RECORDING
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Unsweet Perdition

Written by Evan Spreen • Produced by Fierce and Purple Creative

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PRODUCTION CREDITS

Unsweet Perdition

A stage play written by Evan Spreen

PRODUCED BY: Produced by Fierce and Purple Creative.
WORLD PREMIERE: A World Premiere at the Broadwater Second Stage as part of the Hollywood Fringe Festival, running from June 5th to June 28th. Video captured on the June 27th performance.

SYNOPSIS

Synopsis: Astrid shows up for her first day of work at the Danbury Hydroelectric Power and Treatment facility. What follows is a descent into madness. Astrid meets the strange folks who work at the Dam, who take her on a journey that culminates in a trip all the way to oblivion.

ABOUT THE PLAY

Unsweet Perdition is an abstract science fiction play that blends surrealism, poetry, and the “New Weird” to bring something wholly unique to the stage. Each monologue driven scene serves to delve deeper into the mystery of the Dam before everything threatens to dissolve entirely. It draws influence from works such as “Severance”, “SCP Foundation”, “Control”, “Annihilation”, and “House of Leaves.”

CAST & CREW

Grace Nix as ASTRID KELVIN

– A New Hire, trying her best to navigate the most confusing first day imaginable.

Sean James as MIKE BROOM

– A Dam Employee, somehow unbothered by this strange work environment.

Jeremy D. Thompson as lighting designer and DR. PAUL MORGAN

– Lead Hydrologist, who fears the Dam may already be out of his control.

Michelle Belmont as producer and JULIA SPENCER

– A Cryptozoologist, who has tracked strange birds to the Dam.

Naomi Melville as ERIN REYNOLDS

– Dam Supervisor, who worries they’ve all been under the influence of the Dam for far too long.

Athena Reddy as ADRIAN CALIGOS

– FBI Agent, returning to the Dam to investigate once more.

Writer/Director: EVAN SPREEN
Assistant Director: JUSTINE LANG
Sound Designer: IAN SUTHERLAND
Graphic Design: DAN MATHIS
Videography & Editing: WOODY FU
⚠️ CONTENT WARNINGS

Language, descriptions of bodily harm and death, depictions of OCD and PTSD, allusions to parental abuse.

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