Writing Portfolio
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How To Build a Gate
Computer Scientist and natural charmer, Liza, accidentally creates a sentient AI in this campy comedy and suddenly has to grapple with a budding God complex— and the responsibility that comes with it.
New Zealand Tour, Summer 2024 - Emerging Artists Spark Festival, February 2025 - Soho Playhouse Lighthouse Festival, April 2025
To the Floor
On the morning of the year’s biggest ballroom competition, two college girls reveal just how good cruelty looks when you’re doing it in rhinestones.
In development.
The Rug
When Amy’s mother passes away thanks to a bout of erotic asphyxiation gone too far, her partner tries to pick up the pieces of a woman in grief in a somewhat… unorthodox way.
The Tank, 2024
F**kboy Frankenstein
Fran reanimates a corpse. Fran tries to upload her Jane Austin dissertation to its brain. Fran uploads her Tinder instead. Chaos ensues.
Theater for a New City, 2023 - Bakers Falls, 2024
About
Me
Electra Artemis is a New York City-born and raised Playwright and Screenwriter. She holds a bachelor's degree from Wellesley College, where she majored in English and minored in Astronomy.
She is a founding member of the Resident Dilettante production company and has written and produced several plays in New York and abroad. Her work has been showcased in the Emerging Artists Spark Festival in New York City, and her play, How to Build a Gate, was featured as a finalist in the Soho Playhouse Lighthouse Festival. She’s excited to be revisiting an old favorite, The Rug: A Grief Comedy, for the Emerging Artists Spark Festival’s Fall season, and is equally thrilled to be joined by an incredible team of familiar and fresh faces.
Her new short film, To The Floor, is coming out of post-production and is currently being submitted to festivals.