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Tom Dulack

TOM DULACK

  
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    The Luedtke Agency  represented by Penny Luedtke

Tom Dulack is an award-winning playwright, novelist, and director whose new play, The Road to Damascus, opens Off-Broadway in January 2015. His play Incommunicado won a Kennedy Center Prize for New American Drama, and Friends Like These won the Kaufman and Hart Prize for New American Comedy. Among his other plays, which have appeared on and Off-Broadway as well as in leading regional theaters around the country, are Breaking Legs, Diminished Capacity, Francis, York Beach, Just Deserts, Solomon's Child, 1348, Shooting Craps, The Elephant, and Mrs. Rossetti. His novels include The Stigmata of Dr. Constantine and The Misanthropes. He is also the author of the theater memoir In Love With Shakespeare. He has written and directed the scripts for the YPCs since 2005. He is also professor of English Literature at the University of Connecticut.

Research:    Member of the Dramatists Guild of America (as at 2015)

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         1348         Breaking Legs         Diminished Capacity         Elephant and Mrs. Rosetti, The         End of the Century/York Beach         Francis         Friends Like These         Good Enough To Eat         Incommunicado         Just Deserts         My Country         Near the End Of the Century         Nudes Descending         Road To Damascus         Shooting Craps         Solomon's Child

1348

Synopsis:
focusing on the ever-changing price of self-delusion. Unfortunately, despite its moralistic message, it is an inconsistently interesting piece that leaves many questions unanswered. The year is 1348, and all of Western Europe has been attacked by the evils of disease, poverty, revolution, and religious intolerance. However, four aristocrats, a mysterious "nun," and a merchant find the ideal refuge in a remote alpine inn - their own perfect coccoon tucked far away from the storms circling around them. There, they are treated heartily to the hospitality of the inn-keeper, Philip, and allowed to practice all their noble vices, while the world is "cleansed" of all her untouchables. But alas - they discover that the very things they are trying to escape are present among them. A terrible tragedy ensues and teaches our guests a lesson in self-knowledge.

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1st Produced:
The 42nd Street Workshop, The Chelsea Playhouse, 125 West 22nd Street, NY     01 Apr 1999

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Genre:
dark comedy-mystery

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Male:  6            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Breaking Legs

Breaking Legs
the action occurs in an Italian restaurant owned by a successful mobster and managed by his beautiful unmarried daughter. When the daughter's former college professor arrives to ask for financial backing for a play he's written about a murder, the fun begins. the three main Mafiosi are intrigued with the idea of producing a play. the daughter becomes enamoured of the playwright, who is delighted to have the family's support. His bubble is burst when he discovers, through the "accidental" death by train of a lesser thug, that his backers are gangsters. In this madcap situation, murder and menace are served up with plenty of pasta and laughter.

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1st Produced:
Old Globe Theatre In San Diego     1989

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Dramatists Play Service, Inc.; First Edition edition (October 1, 1992)   978-0822201472

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Genre:
Comedy

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Male:  5            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Diminished Capacity

Synopsis:
Judge Frank Troy is a burned-out New York State Supreme Court Judge. On the morning after his Father dies, he finds himself arguing with his young law student summer intern and fending off his sister on the phone who is trying to persuade him to attend his father's funeral, though he never really liked him much. Judge Troy has a particularly vicious criminal ready to come before him for sentencing, and a full calendar to clear in an upcoming session with an assistant District attorney and a Legal aid defender. In the mix comes the request by an old colleague to intervene with the Da on behalf of a wealthy client who just threw his wife out of a twenty-five-story window, while in a state of "diminished capacity" after drinking. Judge Troy sympathizes, as he keeps a bottle of vodka in his desk, and uses it. Near it, he also keeps a revolver, which comes into use when the criminal he's about to sentence takes Judge Troy and his intern hostage in the Judge's chambers. the play elevates the problems of race prejudice and the imminent collapse of the criminal justice system that aggravates it. It is a play about a collision of cultures and values that breeds crime and corruption at every turn of the overwhelmed system, revealing the fault lines of urban America at the end of the twentieth century.

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1st Produced:
Geva Theatre In Rochester, NY     Spring 1986

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Dramatists Play Service, Inc. (October 1, 1998)   978-0822216865

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Play/Drama

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Male:  5            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Elephant and Mrs. Rosetti, The

Synopsis:
dealing with the marriage of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Lizzie Sidda

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1st Produced:
Long Island, NY's Guild Hall     24 Aug 1998

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End of the Century/York Beach

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While vacationing in York Beach, Maine two old literary pals have an amorous encounter with a young woman in front of a Laundromat!

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Francis

Synopsis:
drama of the aristocrat, St. Francis of Assisi., who left a life of luxury to talk to the animals

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1st Produced:
Wilma Theater, Philidelphia, Pa     1991

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Genre:
biographical play

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Friends Like These

Synopsis:
A Memorial Day weekend get-together for old friends who are just a little bit too honest with each other

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winner of the Kaufman & Hart Prize for New American Comedy

1st Produced:
Arkansas Repertory Theatre     2003

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Good Enough To Eat

Synopsis:
The son of a world-renowned painter sits in a New York museum, trying to replicate the work of his father, while a security guard with a penchant for art steals his focus.

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1st Produced:
Road Theatre Company, The Road On Lankershim (Gallery), North Hollywood, Ca 91601     02 Aug 2013

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Genre:
one act

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Incommunicado

Incommunicado
arrested in Italy in 1945 by the liberating U.S. troops, the famous expatriate poet, ezra Pound, was imprisoned in a cage and treated like an animal-which many people considered him to be. at issue were some eighty-four wartime radio broadcasts that Pound had made on Italian radio, broadcasts which, while purporting to discuss economic theory, were in fact rabid anti-Semitic diatribes. Scornful of his captors, Pound takes delight in taunting them with his immense erudition and intelligence, winning small victories not only over the uneducated young black M.P. who is detailed to guard him but also confounding the lawyer and psychiatrist who are sent to interview him. Unrepentant and even indignant at his incarceration, Pound seems to unbend only when speaking with a fellow prisoner, a black G.I. awaiting execution, and he is furious when he is informed that a group of fellow writers, including ernest Hemingway, are encouraging a plea of insanity to account for his actions. Seemingly unassailable in his isolated brilliance and paranoia, Pound does appear momentarily shaken when confronted with evidence of the Nazi death camps-but, as history confirms, it was, in the end, hatred rather than compassion that sealed the destiny of this gifted but tragically misguided man.

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1st Produced:
Wilma Theater, Philidelphia, Pa     01 Feb 1989

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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1998   13: 978-0822205654

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Just Deserts

Synopsis:
about an actor who gets revenge on a drama critic,

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comedy

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My Country

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Genre:
political play

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Near the End Of the Century

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A couple of old friends are sitting around, doing their laundry. Richard is a testy novelist with one best seller in his past and a severe case of writer's block in his present. Howie, who has invited Richard and his fourth wife to a rented beach cottage in Maine, teaches Dante and Blake in college. He is married -- just once -- and satisfied, seemingly. Then, the giddy Trish, a head turner and a home wrecker, who got into a godforsaken community college, just barely, comes around with her laundry bag and perks them up. "You're from a different era, aren't you?" she asks Richard and Howie. "We're sinking into a morass of sexual obsession," Richard says when he watches Trish sashay in and out of the Laundromat screen door. - http://www.nytimes.com/

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Genre:
Gay, theme/character, one act comedy

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Nudes Descending

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Road To Damascus

Synopsis:
A Chechen journalist. An American diplomat. An African Pope. America is under threat as full-scale civil war rages in Syria. A bomb has exploded in Manhattan and all roads lead to Damascus. The President must act. A peace-seeking, African Pope is elected to the Vatican and an Evangelical third-party President is in power in the US. With nuclear war looming, will the new Pope intervene directly in American foreign policy in Syria or will he accede to the demands of Washington? Riddled with international intrigue, Tom Dulack's astonishingly prescient play imagines a world ripped from today's headlines.

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Directors Company

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Dramatists Play Service, Inc. NY (2016)   978-0-8222-3407-4

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Genre:
Political thriller

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Shooting Craps

Synopsis:
Uncle Carmine hires a phony Native American to front for a proposed gambling casino, the key to his niece's mayoral reelection campaign.

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1st Produced:
El Portal Center For The Performing Arts, La     01 Feb 2001

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Genre:
comedy

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Solomon's Child

Synopsis:
Determined to regain his son, who has joined a religious cult which has come to dominate his mind and soul, allen Solomon, a medical research scientist, has arranged to have the young man, Shelley, kidnapped and brought to his summer cottage in the Catskills. Once there Shelley is turned over to the not-so-tender mercies of one Nicodemus Balthazar, a cynical, hard-drinking, grandiloquent, failed evAngelist who, for a fee of $10,000, has promised to free Shelley from his dangerous obsession. Concerned about the illegality of his actions, Professor Solomon contacts his ex-wife, hoping that she will condone his tactics-but their meeting founders in dispute, and serves only to point up the tense, unhappy relationship which contributed to Shelley's alienation from his self-centered and overly ambitious parents. But the core of the action centers on the fascinating and often outrageous Balthazar, and the unorthodox procedures he employs in his tense battle for Shelley's spirit and soul. His ultimate, hard-won victory is a moment of shattering emotional impact, and a moving lesson about both the dogged resiliency-and fragility-of the human psyche

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1st Produced:
Long Wharf Theatre, New Haven, Connecticut,     21 Oct 1980

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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, Inc. (October 1, 1985)   978-0822210511

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Genre:
Thriller

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Male:  6            Female:  2            Other:  -

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