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Adam R Burnett

ADAM R BURNETT

  (1985 - )
Nationality:    USA
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Adam R. Burnett is a writer and Theatre director/producer living in Brooklyn, NY. He is the Artistic Director of Buran Theatre who most recently finished a national tour of the original work the House of Fitzcarraldo (published by Indie Theatre Now). With Buran he has written and produced original performances in NYC, Kansas City, Albuquerque, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, and Vilnius, LithuaniA. Adam writes fiction and non-fiction having been published in numerous literary journals and anthologies including VICe Magazine, Pif Journal, NYTheatre.com, and Three Rooms Press, among others. His new play NIGHTMAReS will premiere at the Brick in January 2013.

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         American Novelist Lost In Paris         Beneath the Bed         Death Of Romance, The         Greater Release, A         House Of Fitzcarraldo, The         Magic Bullets         Mammoth: A de-Extinction Love story         Money Buckets: the Untold Story Of Fdr         Napoleon Exiled         Next Great Thing, The         Nightmares: An Artful Demonstration Of the Sublime         Prelude; Shores Of Lake Michigan         Sensualist, The

American Novelist Lost In Paris

Synopsis:
the one-act play deals with an anxious, suicidal American novelist stuck in his hotel room in Paris mulling over his lovelorn fantasies with the French that become forcefully realized when a shy, unassuming handsome waiter arrives at his door with a baguette, a jar of mayonnaise, and a bottle of wine

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1st Produced:
Oldfather Studios    2007

Organisations:
Buran Theatre Company

1st Published:
Crawdad, a literary magazine, 2008   -

Music:
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Genre:
comedy One act

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Beneath the Bed

Synopsis:
an ailing journalist relives his past affair with a young graduate student while he plans for his son's wedding, reconnects with his estranged dogmatic father, and tries to repair his bitter marriage

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Death Of Romance, The

Synopsis:
the Death of Romance tells of flamboyant pill popping, alcoholic binging, drug friendly romance novelist Linda Wood, who could potentially be a genius. at least that's what her editor, Pam, and the characters from her novel pronounce. as Linda nears the completion of the final novel in her lucratively successful Jacques and Sofia series, she is faced with an onslaught of major life alterations - the death of a Father she had written off years ago, the arrival of her estranged housewife sister, an adoring love-infatuated editor, and a pair of characters she has to kill off before she can make the next bold step. as a new presence begins to flesh itself out in Linda's mind and strange discoveries are made, Jacques and Sofia fight for their life, and Linda finds herself in a significant place with rash decisions to make.

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1st Produced:
William Inge Theatre, Lawrence, KS    Nov 2007

Organisations:
KU University Theatre

1st Published:
http://www.indietheaternow.com/Play/the-death-of-romance   -

Music:
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Genre:
comedy Drama 140 min

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Greater Release, A

Synopsis:
a tapestry of travel stories centered on the mythical sources and inspirations of how a journey begins and the events that arise thereafter. as a Gypsy and her faithful troubadour lead the audience through the greater part of western europe, characters erupt, situations occur (from comedic to darkly disturbing) and identities are found, formed, and lost in a whirling cycle of monologues and vignettes. Featuring a cast of twenty actors, this is a rare, brief engagement that is not to be missed.

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1st Produced:
Oldfather Studios    2007

Organisations:
Buran Theatre Company

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Travelogue/Drama/Musical/Comedy

Parts:
Male:  9            Female:  3            Other:  -

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House Of Fitzcarraldo, The

Synopsis:
In 1979 director Werner Herzog and his megalomaniac best friend, Klaus Kinski, pulled a 300-ton steamship over a mountain under its own steam. In this highly theatrical performance work, the performers, taking on the role of the Collective ego of Herzog and Kinski, ponder the significance of dreams and the insanity one must invest in pursuing the useless conquest of unconscious wishes. Pulling and culling from a myriad of source texts, videos, and dreams, Buran theatre Company uses its distinctive style to situate itself between high and low culture - creating mayhem, shooting cap guns, prompting sing-a-longs, and integrating a folksy existentialism to explore our nature as beings who cannot help but desire our own dumb dreams.
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
Music By: Christopher Luxem And Casey Mraz; Lyrics By: Henry Bial And Adam R. Burnett

1st Produced:
Brick theatre
575 Metropolitan avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11211    08 Mar 2012

Organisations:
Buran Theatre Company

1st Published:
http://www.indietheaternow.com/Play/house-of-fitzcarraldo   -

Music:
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Genre:
musical 70 min

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Magic Bullets

Synopsis:
entertains a trip through modern health and wellness.

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1st Produced:
Incubator Arts Project NYC    2014

Organisations:
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1st Published:
http://www.indietheaternow.com/Play/magic-bullets   -

Music:
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Genre:
play 70 min

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  7            Other:  -

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Mammoth: A de-Extinction Love story

Synopsis:
Mammoth is a poetic and seriously funny new play about love and destruction, invoking the nostalgia of science and the hard data of the human heart. At a moment in time where we can envision our own extinction, this atmospheric new play by Adam R. Burnett will meditate upon why we destroy what we love  from the personal to the universal  and once vanished, what compels us to revive what weve lost. Journeying from the Siberian tundra to a genetic laboratory to your own backyard, Mammoth will be a bounding and far-reaching new work of theatre engaging the surreal and humorous tenor audiences have come to expect from Buran Theatre (The House of Fitzcarraldo, Magic Bullets).

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Organisations:
Buran Theatre Company

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Money Buckets: the Untold Story Of Fdr

Synopsis:
the actual source text, "Money Buckets", is the long lost Marx Bros. script. It was written while they were with MGM between 1937 and 1941- but was never produced due to its controversial political overtures. In 2003 artistic director adam R. Burnett acquired the text from Marx Brothers historian Frederick allison. In 2005 Burnett co-founded Buran theatre Company with alicia Gian and in 2007, after a brief and ultimately painless legal battle, they acquired the rights to perform the script as long as it was not performed in whole. . .In an economy turned upside down FDR (Groucho Marx) asserts himself by hiring two new men, outsiders to the Washington System, to take over the cabinets of Finance, Minister Fellini (Chico Marx), and agriculture (a beard for the War cabinet), Minister Bergman (Harpo Marx). But a villainous pair of eastern european Socialists have plans to dupe the president and his boisterous wife, eleanor (Margaret Dumont), and steal all of the money from the U.S. Government - buckets of money.

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1st Produced:
Metropolitan Theatre Ensemble (KC, Mo)    22 Jul 2009

Organisations:
Buran Theatre Company

1st Published:
http://www.indietheaternow.com/Play/money-buckets   -

Music:
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Genre:
Comedy/experimental 80 min

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Napoleon Exiled

Synopsis:
Napoleon Bonaparte, in impish form, is in exile on the island of St. Helena and must come to terms with the women in his past as he plans for a final attack on the great country's of europe and realizes the impending crisis' of the 20th and 21st century.

Notes:
Features full frontal male nudity.

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Genre:
Comedy/Drama/experimental/Biography

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  doubling

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Next Great Thing, The

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Genre:
two one acts Comedy

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Nightmares: An Artful Demonstration Of the Sublime

Synopsis:
Nightmares is a startling Drama about the origin of passion, desire, jealousy, astonishment, and terror as seen through the scope of 18th century painter Henry Fuseli. Joshua Chapman is happy with his life. He's an assistant professor at a mediocre college full of mediocre students with a best selling book out on the life, art and philosophy of Henry Fuseli. He has a beautiful, adoring wife, a sleek apartment in a large choking city, and he has just recently purchased a copy of Fuseli's renowned painting, "the Nightmare," a personal dream fully realized as it hangs on his living room wall. But as the credibility of his book is questioned by a colleague, things begin to disintegrate and the painting on Joshua's living room wall becomes the crux of what will be his sublimely terrifying, irrational, violent downfall.

Notes:
Play features graphic violence And sexuality.

1st Produced:
Lawrence Arts Center Main Stage    2008

Organisations:
Buran Theatre Company

1st Published:
http://www.indietheaternow.com/Play/nightmares-a-demonstration-of-the-sublime   -

Music:
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Genre:
Drama/experimental 75 min

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Prelude; Shores Of Lake Michigan

Synopsis:
Prelude; Shores of Lake Michigan is the second installment in a five play cycle centered around a single family unit at the end of the 20th century. the cycle focuses on the worlds beyond the world of the immediate middle class American family - the deathly, the grotesque, the romantic, and the subconscious and unconscious. "Prelude" places us in the year 1976, July, on the water front college town evanston, IL, where husband and wife contend with death, pregnancy, birth, consequence, and other ghosts lurking throughout their lake house.

Notes:
Features male And female nudity.

1st Produced:
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Organisations:
Developed at Dixon Place (New York, NY)

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Drama/Comedy

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Sensualist, The

Synopsis:
The Sensualist traverses the love lives of Leonard- a once great musician - and the women who discovered him. as the consequences of past, present and future loves play out, each is faced with the reality of indulging one's appetites and starving one's dignity. after not producing music for many years, Leonard has recently hired a young protege to aid him in the creation of a new album based on T.S. eliot's 'the Wasteland'. as Leonard unsuccessfully tries to create new music, Leonard's past relationships unfold: his marriage and the subsequent affair with his sister-in-law. Scenes with these women dovetail on and off the stage and Leonard's inner conflict with his music increases as Interviewers enter in and out of his conscious longing for recognition, validating his celebrity and belief in his creative work. as the three women begin to forge identities separate from Leonard, he fights blindly to keep them present, to keep them alive aside his (potentially) dying talent.

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1st Produced:
Lawrence Arts Center Black Box    2007

Organisations:
Buran Theatre Company

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Genre:
Drama/experimental

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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