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Gordon Dahlquist

GORDON DAHLQUIST

  (1961 - )
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    Antje Oegel International  

Gordon Dahlquist is a native of the Pacific Northwest, where he worked for several years writing and directing plays. Since 1988 he has lived in New York. He has been a member of New Dramatists, and is a New York Theatre Workshop Usual Suspect. His works include: Messalina (evidence Room, Los Angeles), text for Babylon Is everywhere: a Court Masque (CINe, Schaeberle Theatre; to be published inTheatre Magazine), Delirium Palace(evidence Room, Los Angeles; published inBreaking Ground), the Secret Machine(Twilight Theatre Company at Soho Rep),Vortex du Plaisir (Ice Factory '99 Festival at the Ohio Theatre, WKCR's Manhattan Theatre of the air), Island of Dogs (4th Street Theatre), Severity's Mistress (Soho Rep Theatre, New York University, winner of Primary Stages' Bug & Bub award),Mission Byzantium! (American Globe Theater, NYTW's Just add Water Festival) and Reticence (Horace Mann Theatre). He has written and directed several experimental films, including Boise and Beyond (selected for the San Francisco International Film Festival), Requiem (Seattle International Film Festival), and the feature-length Rope of Blood (Northwest Film and Video Festival). He is a graduate of Reed College and Columbia University's School of the Arts. He received a Garland Playwriting award forDelirium Palace, and the Joe Calloway award from New Dramatists.

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         Bright Captivities         Coarse Majeure         Delirium Palace         Island Of Dogs         Messalina         Secret Machine, The         Severity's Mistress         Sick Again         Tea Party         Tomorrow Come Today         Velazquez         Venice Saved: A Seminar         Vortex Du Plaisir

Bright Captivities

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Coarse Majeure

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Two women find themselves waiting to undergo the same obscure medical procedure at a mysterious clinic, at 3am, with neither a doctor or nurse in sight. an exuberant and dark-hearted farce about unquenchable desire in an age of loneliness and despair.

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Delirium Palace

Delirium Palace
an amnesiac is held against her will, interrogated, hypnotized, abused. Her handlers, subject to doubts and distrust, operate in the shadow of an imminent, dreadful arrival. then that person arrives, and dreadful things occur. DeLIRIUM PaLaCe is a morality play where our sense of justice continually shifts, as each character attempts to make sense of what they've done, and why, and whether they can escape or be forced to answer.

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Inside The Ford Theatre, Los Angeles, Usa    2001

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the evidence Room Theatre Company

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Contained in: "Breaking Ground Adventurous New Plays From Adventurous theaters" published by Stage and Screen 2002   978-1582880495

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Island Of Dogs

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Messalina

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MeSSaLINa explores the decline and fall of an empire. With references to ancient Rome, the play presents an image of contemporary New York revealed in its most emblematic and sophisticated form  the dinner at eight.

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Secret Machine, The

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Severity's Mistress

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Sick Again

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Tea Party

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Civil unrest, interference from foreign governments and political terror - all in Colorado

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Bay Area Playwrights Festival    2012

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Tomorrow Come Today

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In the future the rich never die they just take over a younger, healthier, sexier body. However the climate change clock is ticking

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Undermain Theatre, Dallas    2014

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Science fiction

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Velazquez

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VeLaZQUeZ takes as premise a historical meeting of art and Power, the 40 year relationship between baroque painter Diego Velazquez and Philip IV, a king doomed to preside over the decline of the Spanish empire. Using the facts of the 17th century  religious and racial intolerance, ruinous foreign wars, spiraling debt, the birth of propaganda, the chimera of real reform  Velazquez tells the story in contemporary, and highly theatrical, terms. Unfolding in three bravura acts, the play presents the struggle of both art and politics as uniquely social, where the meticulously rendered vagaries of a court (whether it's a crowd in an artist's studio, or a palace, or a theatre, or a boardroom) truly determine where and how the world gets made. the play's insistence on spectacle, on density of experience, creates an exhilarating Dramaturgy where the audience is seduced by the immediate details of plot and protocol while, as if glimpsed through an open door, the momentous issues of the day  of our days  pass with a tantalizing nearness. the tension between them generates a palpable sense of what is possible  what might have happened then, what could still happen now, of all we hold at stake  that underscores how Velazquez is an intimate portrait of individuals  that history, our own included, exists as a succession of human moments.

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Venice Saved: A Seminar

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For this inquiry into the nature of democracy and the value of "political theater," theatre auteur Levine has eliminated the 'audience' and gathered everyone around a seminar table peppered with cast members who may, or may not, be acting. the topic of this seminar is Simone Weil's unfinished 1943 play Venise Sauvee, an allegory of democracy and its overthrow, presented on the 100th anniversary of Weil's birth. What do we want theater to do? Venice Saved: a Seminar is a groundbreaking, gleefully irreverent discussion of this question in 21st century America. By asking 'How would Weil's play be staged today?,' it touches on a range of topics on the minds of artists and audiences in 2009: performance art, torture, gift bags, Blasted, outsourcing, anorexia, Israel, the TCG, Rachel Corrie, Blackwater, free beer, Iraq, the financial crisis, Barack Obama, and why TV, contemporary art, and and movies kick theater's ass every time. On the 100th anniversary of Simone Weil's birth, this unique interactive event takes her unfinished play and asks American theater, 'What were you possibly thinking?
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Vortex Du Plaisir

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Four strangers find they are personally depicted in a deck of 15th-century tarot cards, and are drawn into a menacing conspiracy of murder, tattoos, mysticism, pornography, dismemberment, ritualistic group sex, and the millennial thumbsuck. a sweet-natured comedy.

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Ohio Theater (New York, NY, United States)    1999

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85-95 min Comedy

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