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Neal Freeman

NEAL FREEMAN

  
Nationality:    USA
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Neal J. Freeman is a writer, director, and producer based in New York City. He is a member of SDC and an Honors Directing graduate of Cornell University (BA, Theatre Arts and English, 1997). Neal received his MFA in directing from Brooklyn College in 2010. By day he serves as the Director of Digital and Technology for The Broadway League. Neal grew up in Baltimore, MD. Neal's play A Letter from Bataan received a 2010 seed grant from The Drama League Directors Project, was workshopped at the 2010 Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab, and has been a semi-finalist for the Eugene O'Neill Center National Playwrights Conference in both 2012 and 2013. His mash-up of A Midsummer Night's Dream and Bram Stoker's novel Dracula played to strong houses in the 2013 NY International Fringe Festival and received a review and photo in The New York Times. Neal has also written plays on commission from Open Space Arts (Robin Hood) and The Ward Center for the Arts (Animal Farm), both in Baltimore, MD. For 10 years he served as a staff writer for The Great Doings Day, an annual outdoor giant puppet pageant for which he created original short works featuring cavemen, cowboys, pirates, superheroes, ducks, roosters, giant inchworms, and just about everything in between. Neal served as Executive Director of Brooklyn's The Gallery Players from 2009-2012, Executive Producing almost two dozen shows under the Actors' Equity showcase code during this time, and directing a dozen more. Other NYC directing credits include FringeNYC, Sonnet Repertory, Epic Theater Center, Ensemble Studio Theater, Naked Angels, and Engine37. Neal has worked as a director and assistant on original projects, often with Ridge Theater, at 45 Bleecker, Ensemble Studio Theatre, The Kasser Theatre at Montclair, Naked Angels, New World Stages, The Century Center, New York Theatre Workshop, BAM, St. Ann's Warehouse, Angel Orensanz, and The Lucille Lortel. From 1997-2004, Neal worked in Baltimore as a director, writer, and performer, serving as an assistant to directors Irene Lewis, George Faison, and David Schweizer at Baltimore's CENTERSTAGE and appearing in Lewis' productions of Mary Stuart and Sweeney Todd.

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

         Fatboy Romeo         Nightmare 'Dream', The         Richard the Third and Goal, or R3G

Fatboy Romeo

Synopsis:
Fatboy Romeo employs puppets, projections, and live actors to tell a comic story of consumerism run amok using excerpts of Shakespeares "Romeo and Juliet."

Notes:
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1st Produced:

Organisations:
Engine37 at FringeNYC

1st Published:
http://www.indietheaternow.com/Play/fatboy-romeo   -

Music:
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Genre:
one act 45 min

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  5

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Nightmare 'Dream', The

Synopsis:
Lord, what food these mortals be! Stokers Dracula collides with A Midsummer Nights Dream in a puckishly 'biting' woodland mashup where no ruffled neck is safe. Join us, if you dare, for the ORIGINAL douchey teen vampire drama.

Notes:
Adapted from William Shakespeare and Bram Stoker

1st Produced:
The Theater At The 14th Street Y, New York Festival Fringe    Aug 2013

Organisations:
Bloody Shakespeare

1st Published:
http://www.indietheaternow.com/Play/the-nightmare-dream   -

Music:
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Genre:
Comedy 55 min

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Richard the Third and Goal, or R3G

Synopsis:
This comic riff on hero worship mashes iconic and polarizing NFL star Ray Lewis with the notorious King Richard III. Using Shakespeare's text and Lewis' words, R3G sifts the classic play through the wild pageantry of a football game in a sudden-death playoff between two men both revered and reviled.

Notes:
Frigid festival 2015

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Bloody Shakespeare

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
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Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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