E. W. "Chip" MacEnulty II

Recently retired after twenty-five years as the Drama and Film Teacher in Colorado Springs, establishing the program.

• Wrote many of the theatrical productions for the drama club.
• Playwriting was a basic concept taught at all levels in all classes.
• Implemented effective classroom management techniques to provide safe, calm learning environment.
• Planned lessons to reflect group and individual student needs utilizing creative instruction.
• Exposed students to diverse content to build perspective in drama pedagogy.
• Modeled creative acting styles and techniques encompassing varied history genres and performance techniques.
• Produced 2-3 theatrical performances each year streamlining technical elements, concluding with a total of 62 productions.
• Managed after-school drama club activities, fostering a sense of community among participating students.

• In January of 2020, Blind: Sight was submitted to Craft Production Resource’s playwriting contest (Colorado Springs, CO).
• In August 2020, the play was elected as the contest winner and slated for a production in the upcoming season.
• However, due to the COVID pandemic the play was not produced. Consequently, as a result of the pandemic, CPR did not reopen and the first production rights to the play were ceded back to the playwright.

• In July 2006, Blind: Sight was submitted to Paragon Theatre’s The Trench playwriting contest (Denver, CO);
• It was selected for a staged reading in front of a public audience as part of Paragon’s 2007 season. The Trench is a forum where aspiring playwrights can hear their work with a talkback after the show to enhance the playwright’s writing and encourage further revision.
• Blind : Sight had its reading in October 2007 under the direction of Taylor Gonda with a full cast compliment.

• A Portrait Of A Choice premiered at the Tri-Lakes Center for the Arts in Palmer Lake, Colorado on July 20, 2001.
• Title: A Portrait of a Choice
• Author: E.W. MacEnulty II
• Genre: Drama
• Cast: 6M, 6F leads (less with doubling). Note: some roles can be played either gender.
• Play Structure: Two acts.
• Set: Minimal; with pieces rolled on an off.
• Major Themes: abortion, accumulation of choices,

Play Promo Line

A young woman, during an abortion, is visited by the “adult” child she is aborting.

Brief Description of the Play
In A Portrait of a Choice, we meet Mary Taylor, an ambitious, young law student. She is seduced by her law professor and becomes pregnant. Due to a genetic trait in his liver, Mary is unable to have a “chemical” abortion. As a result, she must undergo the invasive, intra-uterine abortion common before the rise of the recent chemical choice. Just days prior to her scheduled abortion and several months after her mother’s unexpected passing due to liver complications, Mary is told that the man who raised her is not her father. In fact, through a flashback, we see her mother in the abortion clinic about to abort her (Mary). Her father, despite knowing that he is not the father, convinces her mother to keep the child and he will raise her as his own. Days later, during the abortion procedure, Mary is visited by the child in her womb, an “adult” woman. At the same time, her abortion procedure becomes linked to her mother’s past appointment. All three lives hinge upon the decision that Mary must make: abort Rachel and she aborts herself.