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Susan Emshwiller

SUSAN EMSHWILLER

  
Nationality:    USA
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Susan Emshwiller wears several hats, sometimes many at the same time, a column of them teetering on her head. Filmmaker, playwright, screenwriter, director, novelist, actress, chicken wrangler, painter, poet& She has written and directed several plays including DOMINOES, DEFROSTING POPSICLES, SO SHALL YOU REAP, WORDS OF LOVE, JUAN AND SOOZ, and the critically acclaimed and award-winning BRUSHSTROKES. As an actress she was featured in Robert Altman's "The Player." She is co-writer of the Academy Award-winning film "Pollock." Her feature film "In the Land of Milk and Money," a wild social satire, garnered awards and rave reviews at festivals in the US and internationally. She likes inventing stories and backyard contraptions.

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

         BrushStrokes         Defrosting Popsicles         Dominoes         Jimmy         Juan and Sooz         No Smoking         So Shall You Reap         Things I Never Told You         Waiting Two Point Oh         Words of Love

BrushStrokes

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6 plays inspired by paintings of

1st Produced:
The Met Theater, Hollywood, CA    1994

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six short plays

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Defrosting Popsicles

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Sally's father is on his death bed, but she just can't bring herself to emotionally confront the impending loss. Who has the time to process grief anyway, when you're wrangling a neurotic mother and sister, fending off an overly-sympathetic boyfriend, and wading through the maze of paperwork and regulations that spring up around death? Along with her wisecracking family, Sally discovers that grief manifests in many different forms, and that every individual must find their own way to navigate the comedic, surreal, and bizarre experience that is sickness and death.

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Friends and Artist's Theater, 1761 N Vermont, Hollywood, CA    1993

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comedy dram 70-90 min

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Dominoes

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Mikey, about to head "over there" to fight in WWII, can't win on the home front. Mom manipulates her son with baby-talk, pouting, and flirting. Pop demeans the young man with his cynical worldliness. The family dynamics play out with humor and pathos; Mikey yearns for warmth and intimacy, but his folks can't give it. Every grunt or glance is a power-play. Mikey's war experiences accentuate his dilemma between needing real connection and sinking into boorishness. Back home, shamed by his powerlessness, Mikey becomes all that he hates in his parents. The dysfunction of family is passed down, and the dominoes of one generation topple the next.

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1st Produced:
South Pasadena Theater work-shopped    2012

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Dramatists Play Service, Inc. NY (2015)   978-0-8222-3048-9

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Play/Drama

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Jimmy

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Edward Hopper

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The Met Theater, Hollywood, CA - work-shopped    1994

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Juan and Sooz

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1920s flapper and Mexican gardener. Power shifts.

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The Met Theater, Hollywood, CA    1999

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No Smoking

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The Met Theater, Hollywood, CA - work-shopped    1994

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So Shall You Reap

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When you try to manipulate a situation, you may get more than you bargained for

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1st Produced:
Nexus Theater - Festival of One-Acts    2000

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Things I Never Told You

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The Met Theater, Hollywood, CA    2007

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Waiting Two Point Oh

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Words of Love

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A screenwriter can put all his emotions and love into his work, but it never seems to come out in his relationship. When his best friend gets to act in one of the writer's films, those words might just ruin a marriage.

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1st Produced:
Friends and Artist's Theater, 1761 N Vermont, Hollywood, CA    09 Jun 1993

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one act

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