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Greg Allen

GREG ALLEN

  
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Greg Allen is the Founder of the Neo-Futurists and creator of over two dozen productions including the legendary Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind (30 Plays in 60 Minutes) which has been running weekly in Chicago since the Reagan administration. His works include the Last Two Minutes of the Complete Works of Henrik Ibsen, Jokes and their Relation to the Unconscious (a comedy to end all comedy), H20, and a Child's History of Bombing. K., his adaptation of Kafka's the Trial, won him a Best Director award at the New York International Fringe Festival as well as the after Dark award for Outstanding New Production. His collaboration with Theater Oobleck, the Complete Lost Works of Samuel Beckett as Found In an envelope (partially burned) In a Dustbin In Paris Labeled "Never to be performed. Never. ever. eVeR! Or I'll Sue! I'LL SUe FROM the GRaVe!!!" has enjoyed ten international productions including a three month UK tour and and two off-Broadway revivals in 2006. His environmental collaborations - Boxing Joseph Cornell; a Duchampian Romp, even; Lear's Shadow; and Crime & Punishment: a (mis)Guided environmental Tour with Literary Pretensions -- have seen long successful runs at his home Neo-Futurarium. Greg teaches residencies in Neo-Futurism at universities and Theater programs across the country as well as in Chicago where he teaches playwriting at the University of Chicago. He is a proud graduate of Oberlin College.

Research:    Member of the Dramatists Guild of America

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         Boxing Joseph Cornell         Child's History Of Bombing, A         Complete Lost Works Of Samuel Beckett, The         Crime and Punishment: A (mis)Guided Environmental Tour With Literary Pretensions         Duchampian Romp, Even, A         Evidence         H2O         I Am A Camera         Jokes And their Relation To the Unconscious (A Comedy To End All Comedy)         K         Last Two Minutes of the Complete Works of Henrik Ibsen         Lear's Shadow         Mr Fluxus         Neo-Futurist Revenger's Tragedy         Sleeping With the Prince Of Darkness: the Imagined Pillow Talk Of FBI Agent John O'Neill         Strange and Terrible True Tale of Pinocchio (the Wooden Boy) as Told by Frankenstein's Monster (the Wretched Creature)         Subliminable         Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind         Uncle Sam's Satiric Spectacular         You Asked For It!

Boxing Joseph Cornell

Synopsis:
the life and work of surrealist artist Joseph Cornell and his theories of memory

Notes:
Written with Connor Kalista

1st Produced:
Neo-Futurarium, Chicago    10 May 1999

Organisations:
Neo-Futurists

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Documentary drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Child's History Of Bombing, A

Synopsis:
the effect war has on children

Notes:
Written with Donovan Sherman

1st Produced:
Neo-Futurarium, Chicago    02 Feb 2006

Organisations:
Neo-Futurists

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Documentary drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Complete Lost Works Of Samuel Beckett, The

Synopsis:
as found in an envelope (partially burned) in a dustbin in Paris labeled "Never to be performed. Never. ever. eVeR! Or I'll sue! I'LL SUe FROM the GRaVe!!!"

Notes:
discovered' by Greg Allen, Ben Scheider & Danny Thompson

1st Produced:
Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh    2002

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Crime and Punishment: A (mis)Guided Environmental Tour With Literary Pretensions

Synopsis:
Sort of based on Dostoevsky's "Crime and Punishment" with Woody Allen, Jack the Ripper and Jen Luc Goddard thrown in

Notes:
Written with Connor Kalista

1st Produced:
Neo-Futurarium, Chicago    06 mar 1998

Organisations:
Neo-Futurists

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Drama

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Duchampian Romp, Even, A

Synopsis:
Life work and chess games of Marcel Duchamp

Notes:
Written with John Pierson

1st Produced:
Neo-Futurarium, Chicago    17 Jan 2003

Organisations:
Neo-Futurists

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Documentary drama

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Evidence

Synopsis:
How do you find love in the age of Bush?

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Neo-Futurarium, Chicago    18 Mar 2004

Organisations:
Neo-Futurists

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Genre:
Drama

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H2O

Synopsis:
the agonies of love

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Neo-Futurarium, Chicago    08 Nov 2001

Organisations:
Neo-Futurists

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Genre:
Black comedy

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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I Am A Camera

Synopsis:
A homage to the photograph

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Neo-Futurarium, Chicago    04 Feb 2010

Organisations:
Neo-Futurists

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Documentary drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Jokes And their Relation To the Unconscious (A Comedy To End All Comedy)

Synopsis:
Chicago's Neo-Futurists attempt to drive the final nail in the coffin of comedy by explaining it to death, with help from Freud, Bergson, and Uncle Miltie

Notes:
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Organisations:
the Neo-Futurists

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Comedy Performance art, 90 min

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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K

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Based on "the Trial" by Franz Kafka

1st Produced:
Neo-Futurarium, Chicago    17 Nov 1996

Organisations:
Neo-Futurists

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Adaptation

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Last Two Minutes of the Complete Works of Henrik Ibsen

Synopsis:
A paper-mache fjord. A jar of relish gives a monologue.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Neo-Futurarium, Chicago    27 Jan 2005

Organisations:
Neo-Futurists

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Lear's Shadow

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
Based on "King Lear" by William Shakespeare

1st Produced:
Neo-Futurarium, Chicago    25 May 2000

Organisations:
Neo-Futurists

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Adaptation

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Mr Fluxus

Synopsis:
Fluxus was an artistic movement in the 1950s

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Neo-Futurarium, Chicago    01 Nov 2007

Organisations:
Neo-Futurists

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Documentary drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Neo-Futurist Revenger's Tragedy

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
Based on "the Revenger's Tragesy" by George Tourneur

1st Produced:
Neo-Futurarium, Chicago    27 Oct 1994

Organisations:
Neo-Futurists

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Adaptation

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Sleeping With the Prince Of Darkness: the Imagined Pillow Talk Of FBI Agent John O'Neill

Synopsis:
FBI Agent John O'Neill was the first to warn about Al Qaeda - but politics and his personal life meant he was ignored

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Rehearsed Reading At Goodman Theatre, Chicago    20 Jul 2013

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Drama

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Strange and Terrible True Tale of Pinocchio (the Wooden Boy) as Told by Frankenstein's Monster (the Wretched Creature)

Synopsis:
Two motherless unborn souls

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Neo-Futurarium, Chicago    08 Mar 2012

Organisations:
Neo-Futurists

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Subliminable

Synopsis:
audience members enter one of several phone booths, pick up the receiver and listen to a three-minute play unfold in conversation

Notes:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Humana Festival 2001: the Complete Plays, ed Tanya Palmer & amy Wegener, Smith & Kraus, 2001   -

Music:
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Genre:
Phone Play

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Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind

Synopsis:
angst and loneliness in Middle America in a series of short plays randomly chosen by the audience.

Notes:
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1st Produced:

Organisations:
Neo-Futurists

1st Published:
Playscripts Inc   -

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Uncle Sam's Satiric Spectacular

Synopsis:
the astounding Krispinsky! the all-American Feminem! the amazing Screaming Vegan, the Formerly amazing Bob, and Mr. McBuffer the Renegade Puppet! With American culture and politics growing increasingly surreal, Actors theatre of Louisville commissioned seven marquee playwrights to create a variety-show satire in the grand old vaudeville tradition -- from ventriloquists to contortionists to Lady Liberty on a trapeze. With songs!

Notes:
a Collaborative Project by Greg Allen, Sheila Callaghan, Bridget Carpenter, eric Coble, Richard Dresser, And Hilly Hicks, Jr., with music by Michael Friedman

1st Produced:
Actors Theatre Of Louisville (Louisville, Ky, United States)    2005

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Playscripts, Inc - New York   -

Music:
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Genre:
80-95 min Satirical musical comedy

Parts:
Male:  8            Female:  8            Other:  8 males, 8 females (10-30 actors possible: 5-15 males, 5-15 females)

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You Asked For It!

Synopsis:
the American people are surveyed to see what play they want performed

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Neo-Futurarium, Chicago    25 Jan 2007

Organisations:
Neo-Futurists

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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