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Ed Dixon

ED DIXON

  (1948 - )
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    Phoenix Artists Management (212 586-9110)

Ed Dixon (Book, Music & Lyrics) COMPOSITIONS: OFF-BROADWAY: Shylock (Drama Desk nomination), Fanny Hill (Dramalogue Award, two Deans Lists Awards, two Drama Desk nominations); Richard Cory (with A. R. Gurney, (Steinberg Grant, Leon Rabin Award nomination, NYMF Festival Award and Audience Prize); Cather County (Leon Rabin Award). REGIONAL: Scenery, The Spectre Bridegroom, Richard Cory, Cather County, Whodunit&the Musical (numerous productions). BOOKS: Secrets of a Life On Stage. . .and Off.

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below is a list of Ed Dixon's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Cather Country         Cloak And Dagger         Fanny Hill         Murder At The Apthorp         Norma         Park Avenue Christmas, A         Pectre Bridegroom, The         Pere Lachaise         Richard Cory         Scenery         She-Devil         Shylock         Spectre Bridegroom, The         Whodunit. . .The Musical

Cather Country

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1st Produced:
Playwrights Horizon Studio Theater, New York    1993

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Cloak And Dagger

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With its requisite down-on-his-luck detective and femme fatale caught up in a zany whodunit, Ed Dixon's screwball musical comedy Cloak & Dagger delightfully sends up classic film noir. Helen Hayes Award-winning actor, writer and composer Dixon (Signature Theatre's Sunset Boulevard) brings his sharp wit to bear in this mile-a-minute race through every neighborhood in New York. With four actors playing nearly 20 roles, Cloak & Dagger is a hilarious and loving spoof of the genre perfected by writers like Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler.

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1st Produced:
Signature Theatre, 4200 Campbell Avenue, Arlington, VA    12 Jun 2014

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Signature Theatre

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Genre:
musical comedy

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Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Fanny Hill

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Music And lyrics by Ed Dixon. Based on the novel by John Cleland

1st Produced:
Goodpeed at Chester    2006

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York Theatre Company

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Murder At The Apthorp

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It's had several reading, notably at the Lark Theatre with John Dosset, Marla Schaffel and Jonathan Hadari. Have also turned it into a screenplay entitled THE RAVENWOOD HORROR.

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thriller

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Norma

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one woman play about an opera diva whose life is coming undone

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Playwrights Horizon Studio Theater, New York    -

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Park Avenue Christmas, A

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non-traditional holiday musical

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York Theatre    -

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Pectre Bridegroom, The

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Pere Lachaise

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This three act comedy in the style of Kaufman and Hart is about the famous inhabitants of the world's most famous cemetery, Pere Lachaise in Paris. Readings have taken place at Playwright's Horizons and The Manhattan Theater Club featuring Bebe Neuwirth, Tovah Feldshuh and Paul Giamatti.

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3 act comedy

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Richard Cory

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Book, Music and Lyrics by ED DIXON, adapted from the play by A. R. Gurney

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Playwrights Horizon Studio Theater, New York    -

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Scenery

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John Drew Theater    -

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She-Devil

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"Have just completed developing this project with Warren Carlyle. He had the rights to Fay Weldon's novel, SHE-DEVIL, and asked me to adapt it into a musical. It's a fascinating topic and fascinating book. Warren will direct and choreopraph. There should be a workshop in our very near future."

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Shylock

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"My operatic version of THE MERCHANT OF VENICE opened at the York Theatre in 1987 and garnerned me a Drama Desk Nomination as Best Actor in a Musical. It featured the divine Lisa Vroman, Dennis Parlato, Brooks Almy and Charles Pistone."

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Music, lyrics And book by Ed Dixon

1st Produced:
York Theatre    23 Apr 1987

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Spectre Bridegroom, The

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based on the Washington Irving short story

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Playwrights Horizon Studio Theater, New York    -

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Whodunit. . .The Musical

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It takes place in a summer cottage in 1931 where a group of hapless vacationers find themselves in a mixup up of murder. . .with humor.

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musical adaptation of Mary Roberts Rinehart's 1908 short story, THE CIRCULAR STAIRCASE

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