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Joshua Conkel

JOSHUA CONKEL

  
Nationality:    USA
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Joshua Conkel is a playwright, culture vulture and Navy brat who hails from the pine forests of rural Washington State. He is the author of MilkMilkLemonade (Best Off Off Broadway Show of 2009-NY Press, published by Playscripts), the Chalk Boy (Published by Original Works Publishing), Lonesome Winter, I Wanna Destroy You as well as countless short plays. Conkels work has been seen in New York, Los Angeles, Berkeley, San Francisco, Chicago, Austin, San Diego, Seattle, Fort Lauderdale, Boston and Baton Rouge. He is the Co-artistic Director of the Management, and a member of ensemble Studio Theatre, TOSOS and the Dramatists Guild. "Joshua Conkel, the most importANT queer playwright of his generation" (Doric Wilson, the Co-Founder of Off-Off-Broadway's very first Theatre, Cafe Cino.)

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         America, You Kill Me         Bonerville         Chalk Boy, The         Crawl For It         Created Equal         Curmudgeons in Love         Everything Will Be Just Fine         Gentrifusion         Hail Satin! Or the House Of Von Macrame         House Of Von Macrame, The         I Wanna Destroy You         It's Electric         Lonesome Winter         Lost Cause         Milkmilklemonade         Okay, Bye         Power Lunch         Robert Mapplethorpe DoesnT Live Here Anymore         Save Yourself For You         Sluts Of Sutton Drive, The         Sprawl         Super Shiny Precious Thing         Super Shiny Precious Thing,         Up With (Some) People

America, You Kill Me

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Youngblood

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short play

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Bonerville

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short play

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Chalk Boy, The

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the Chalk Boy is a deathly black comedy about measuring your own worth by comparing it to everyone else's. Sparks fly when four teenage girls in small town Washington begin to obsess over the mysterious disappearance of the most popular boy in school. Witchcraft, murder, and shopping ensue as the girls draw a ghostly picture of American culture and its values
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collective P.a.S.T. & the Management

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Original Works Publishing   -

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Play/Drama

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Male:  -            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Crawl For It

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The Drafts Fest for 2010 is the collaborative effort of seven playwrights, seven directors, and ten multifaceted actors. Playwrights receive randomly compiled cast lists and create stories tailored to The Drafts and their invited Guests based on this years theme, Pre-Existing Condition. All of the playwrights who participated in the Pre-Existing Condition Draft's Fest were given the theme and two or three cast members before they started to write. They had one month to complete their short piece which was limited to ten minutes. Many of the playwrights met with their director and actors during the writing process in order to get to know the actors better. All of the actors "auditioned" for the playwrights, with one comedic and one dramatic monologue as well as a special skill, fact, or story they wanted to share about themselves. In this way, the playwrights grew to have some understanding of the actors' 'types' prior to writing. The theme taken from our health care vocabulary inspired a variety of writing, from pests and childhood emotional scars, to futuristic realities and poverty. Overall, we generated some exciting new work, some of which have been developed into full length plays.

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the Drafts

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in "Pre-Existing Condition", http://www.indietheaternow.com/Plays   -

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short piece

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Male:  3            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Created Equal

Synopsis:
Red Fern theatre Company will present newly commissioned work by Rob Askins, J. Hotham, Anna Moench, Kristen Lee Rosenfeld and Luanne Aronen Rosenfeld, and Jen Silverman, all addressing the meaning of equality within the landscape of the 2012 election.
- nytheatre.com

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1st Produced:
the Theater at the 14th Street Y, 344 East 14th, NY    26 Jan 2012

Organisations:
Red Fern Theatre Company

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Red Fern Theatre Company will present newly commissioned work by Rob Askins, J. Hotham, Anna Moench, Kristen Lee Rosenfeld and Luanne Aronen Rosenfeld, and Jen Silverman, all addressing the meaning of equality within the landscape of the 2012 election.   -

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Curmudgeons in Love

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34th Marathon of One Act Plays

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one act

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Everything Will Be Just Fine

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Six Plays About Hope was our first Draft's Fest, the collaborative effort of six emerging playwrights, six imminent directors, and ten multifaceted actors. Each play was written specifically for The Drafts; playwrights were given randomly compiled cast lists and the theme hope plays before setting out to write them. All of the playwrights who participated in the Six Plays About Hope Draft's Fest were given the theme and two or three cast members before they started to write. They had one month to complete their short piece which was limited to ten minutes. Many of the playwrights met with their director and actors during the writing process in order to get to know the actors better. All of the actors "auditioned" for the playwrights, with one comedic and one dramatic monologue as well as a special skill, fact, or story they wanted to share about themselves. In this way, the playwrights grew to have some understanding of the actors' 'types' prior to writing. The theme chosen by the ensemble inspired a variety of writing, from dealing with grief and disappointment, to overcoming poverty and rowdy neighbors. Overall, we generated some exciting new work, and met playwrights who would become part of our work for years to come.

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in "Six Plays About Hope", http://www.indietheaternow.com/Plays   -

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Ten Min

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Gentrifusion

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In Gentrifusion, playwrights Carla Ching, Joshua Conkel, Michael John Garces, Jon Kern, Janine Nabers and Crystal Skillman explore the different truths surrounding the gentrification of New York's neighborhoods. the playwrights were charged with breaking down the cliched idea of "gentrification." their pieces dig deeper to address the ways that change both improves and diminishes a community. all residents are given voice in this series, ultimately discovering that both long time residents and the new crop of gentrifiers benefit and suffer in different measures and different ways.
- nytheatre.com

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written by Carla Ching, Joshua Conkel, Michael John Garces, Jon Kern, Janine Nabers, Crystal Skillman

1st Produced:
LaBa Theatre at the 14th Street Y    29 Jan 2011

Organisations:
Red Fern Theatre Company

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Hail Satin! Or the House Of Von Macrame

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(In Development, Upcoming Staged Production)

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the Bushwick Starr, Brooklyn, NY    2013

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House Of Von Macrame, The

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1st Produced:
Flea
41 White Street, New York, NY 10013    2011

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Genre:
weekly serial

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I Wanna Destroy You

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Beau is the gay personal assistant to a famous (and famously demanding) romance novelist, Cecile Collins. His longtime boyfriend dumps him on his 30th birthday, just as he is helping Cecile plan her wedding. When an old frenemy makes a reappearance, Beau must re-evaluate his choices and plans. I Wanna Destroy You is a romantic comedy that tears the trope of the gay sidekick to shreds.

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staged reading at Playwrights Horizons/Old Vic New Voices    2011

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Genre:
comedy. - - Gay/Lesbian, of interest

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Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  -

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It's Electric

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Brick theatre
575 Metropolitan avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11211    2009

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Fight Festival

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short play

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Lonesome Winter

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Lonesome Winter is a melancholy Christmas comedy about Winter, a lonely hoarder who lives alone with her mean spirited cat, Sparkles. Just when Winter is about to throw in the towel, a mysterious stranger in an adorable skirt suit shows up just in time to teach winter how to shine. a hilarious send-up of Cathy comics, lifetime movies, and Christmas cliches.
- nytheatre.com

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written by Joshua Conkel And Megan Hill

1st Produced:
Under St. Marks
94 St. Marks Place, New York, NY 10009    40514

Organisations:
the Management

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Genre:
Christmas comedy

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Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Lost Cause

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short play

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Milkmilklemonade

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emory is an effeminate 11-year-old boy who lives on a farm with his chain smoking Nanna and his only friend, a depressed chicken about to be processed. Nanna wishes emory would get his head out of the clouds, stop choreographing ribbon stick dance numbers, and be more like elliot, the boy down the road with a penchant for burning things. But emory and elliot have a relationship -- just not one Nanna would expect or approve of. With absurd, poignant dialog and brutal characterizations, MilkMilkLemonade is a bitterly funny exploration of gender, sexuality, life, death, and the human body.

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the Management

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Playscripts Inc   -

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75 min Play/Drama. - - Gay/Lesbian, of interest

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Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Okay, Bye

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Two thirty somethings meet at an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting. The recognise each other from High School - then they had nothing in common and now they have drink

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1st Produced:
Garage Theatre, Chicago    26 Aug 2014

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Drama

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Power Lunch

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1st Produced:
New York One Minute Play Festival    2010

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Robert Mapplethorpe DoesnT Live Here Anymore

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1st Produced:
ed Fern Theater Company, New York, NY    2011

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Save Yourself For You

Synopsis:
Mommy and Daddy are not pleased when they discover daughter Judith with her hands down the front of Jed Morgan's slacks. they decide that stoning is the answer to such immorality

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Youngblood

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Genre:
One act

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Sluts Of Sutton Drive, The

Sluts Of Sutton Drive, The
Would you ever want to sit with me in the dark? Just sit with the lights out, barely even touching, maybe not touching at all, and just listen to me breathe?' everybody wants a piece of Stephanie Schwartz. Her son's demanding nuggets, her boyfriend wants her to wax and her best friend's taking her to a stripping class. Now there's a rapist on Sutton Drive, an obscene caller invading her home and a portal to hell beneath her sofa. How far must she go to make it all stop? and how far is too far? a heart-breaking, taboo-busting black comedy by Joshua Conkel,

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studio production At ensemble Studio theatre, NY, 27 Jan 2011

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Vicky Graham Productions and arch 468

1st Published:
Oberon Books (2012) >>>    978-1849434980

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Genre:
black comedy

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Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Sprawl

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(In Development, Upcoming Staged Reading)

1st Produced:
Soho Rep Writers/Directors Lab    2012

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Super Shiny Precious Thing

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Two poor young men at Christmas in Brooklyn plan their wedding

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Genre:
One act. - - Gay, one act

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Super Shiny Precious Thing,

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Youngblood

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short play

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Up With (Some) People

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In Up With (Some) People, a wealthy young couple scrutinizes their marriage when the rapture begins whisking people skyward at their country club.

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Youngblood

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short play

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