Middle Names is a play written by Corey O'Hara. It debuted at the Fertile Ground New Works Festival in Portland, OR, in February 2014. It was produced as a feature film that spring.

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"This is a sophisticated script. It’s edgy, taut, and unpredictable. It’s unsafe, from beginning to end...I’m left with the hunch that this is exactly the type of show serious theater buffs are hoping to see at a fringe festival."

- A.L. Adams, OR ArtsWatch

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Middle Names finds three relative strangers brought together by the death of a mutual friend. In a sweat-stained motel room in the middle of anywhere, Birchie, Ray and Eliot are forced to come to terms with their static young lives in the wake of tragedy. Drugs, desert heat, love affairs and fashion offenses drive them to gunshots and a deadly game of rock, paper, scissors. 

The comedy-drama captures the contradictions between who you were raised to be and who you actually are. In this Shepardian wild ride, messes are made, language is mangled, and morality is blurred. The script was a national semi-finalist for the John Cauble Short Play Award in 2013. 

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