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Laurel Haines

LAUREL HAINES

  
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    Susan Schulman Literary Agency  represented by Susan Schulman

Laurel Haines is the author of Future Anxiety and The Dianalogues, among other plays. Her play Body Farm is soon to be published in The Best Ten-Minute Plays 2012, Smith and Kraus. Future Anxiety, a dystopian comedy, was produced in 2011 by the Flea Theater, directed by Jim Simpson, after being developed at the Lark Playwrights Week 2009. The Dianalogues, her play about the publics obsession with Princess Diana,has been produced in the U.S., Canada, Great Britain, and South Africa, and is published in Women Playwrights: The Best Plays of 2003 (Smith and Kraus) and Best Womens Monologues for the Millennium (2010, Applause Books). She is a member of the BMI Librettists Workshop and has co-authored book and lyrics for musicals including Stones of Wisdom, a puppet musical for young people commissioned by First Stage Childrens Theater in Milwaukee, WI, and Beach Wars, presented at the Stages Festival 2006 in Chicago. Other plays include Gun in the Funnies (staged reading in Kitchen Dog Theatres New Works Festival 2009), Raw Footage (Semi-Finalist, Eugene ONeill National Playwrights Conference 2000), and Potatoes (Best Production, Collaboraction Sketchbook 2004). Laurel has a BA in Anthropology from Brown University and an MFA in Creative Writing from ASU, where she studied with Guillermo Reyes. She lives in New York City.

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

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

         Body Farm         Dianalogues         Future Anxiety         Gun In the Funnies

Body Farm

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The Challenge: This month, we asked our writers to create 10-minute plays that met the following requirements: Each play must include a dream. Each play must include an animal. Each play must have a moment where the characters break into a song or dance. Someone must wear the color red. One character in the play must be named Bob. . .or reference someone named Bob.

1st Produced:
Jimmy's No. 43, New York City    04 Feb 2011

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1st Published:
in "Detention #1: What About Bob?", http://www.indietheaternow.com/Plays
the Best 10-Minute Plays Of 2012. Published by Smith and Kraus, Inc.    -

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ten min play

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Dianalogues

Synopsis:
Mother Teresa is in Heaven but she is not pleased because all the attention goes to Princess Diana

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Future Anxiety

Synopsis:
Future anxiety is set in the not-too-distant future. Unfortunately, the planet's become uninhabitable. Fortunately, Karl's built a spaceship. In this fiercely intelligent and wildly conceivable vision of the apocalypse, a new generation tries to make sense of how to live on a planet with increasingly drained resources and suspect inhabitants.
- nytheatre.com

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1st Produced:
Flea
41 White Street, New York, NY 10013    28 Apr 2011

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  large cast

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Gun In the Funnies

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1st Produced:
-    2007

Organisations:
Womens Theatre alliance

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