ERIC PFEFFINGER'S
plays have been produced by Visions and Voices (Chicago), Vox Humana
(L.A.), the Noble Fool (Chicago), Fat Chance Productions (Off-Off-Broadway),
and the Bloomington Playwrights Project. Most recently his short play
TINY BABY premiered at Actors Theatre of Louisville and his one-act
THE JOCKEY SHORT was produced by Rough Magic in Indianapolis. He’s
developed plays in collaboration with the Geva Theatre and Chicago Dramatists
and has been commissioned by the Signature Theatre. His full-length
plays include ACCIDENTAL RAPTURE, MOUSE COP, LOST AND FOUNDLING, BIRD
GERMS, LIFE IN THE FAUST LANE, OF HOW MAURICE RAVEL FELL SICK AND HOW
HE DIED, WHERE MEN ARE EMPTY OVERCOATS, and TRAUMATURGY. He’s
also the co-author of the novel THE HIGH-IMPACT INFIDELITY DIET, published
last year by Crown. He’s been a visiting playwright at the
University of Toledo, Valparaiso University, and Butler University,
and he’s a member of the Dramatists Guild.
MALIGNANCE
When a little white girl falls
fatally ill, it's a chance for her mother to climb the social ladder.
For her father to convert other people's sympathy into sexual opportunities.
And for everyone else to participate in the seductive melodrama of someone
else's suffering. But when the family sucks their African-American neighbor
Carla into their tragedy , the venomous prejudices churning beneath
these ordinary middle class lives explode the comforting narratives
we tell ourselves about race, class, and death.
