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C S Hanson

C S HANSON

  
Nationality:    USA
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I write plays about people who are desperately holding on to their dreamy illusions. I put my characters in pristine situations-a lovely apartment, a beautiful art gallery, an upscale hotel-and then I burst the bubble big time! For these weird and endearing characters, there is no conventional road map to the American dream. Like me, a girl who came to the big city from rural North Dakota, the journey is bizarre but the intention is full of heart and dead-on, achingly truthful. Here's my standard blurb for theatre programs: C.S. Hanson's plays have been produced in New York (Theatre for the New City, Living Image Arts, Metropolitan Playhouse, Estrogenius, 3Graces, At-Hand Theatre), Miami (City Theatre), Washington, D.C. (The Source), Pittsburgh (New Works Festival), and Denver (The Three Leaches). Hanson's work has been developed by EST, LaMaMa, Abingdon Theatre, Naked Angels, and New Jersey Rep, among others. Hanson has received commissions from the Experimentals at LaMama (George Ferencz, curator) and America-in-Play (Lynn M. Thomson, founder and artistic director) where she was Artist Associate in 2008 (here's a New York Times article about the group). Member, Dramatists Guild of America. A couple more highlights: I was a Tennessee Williams Scholar at the 2010 Sewanee Writers' Conference, where my play I COULD NEVER LIVE HERE was workshopped with Beth Henley and Dan O'Brien. Four of my plays have been named Heideman Award finalists at Actors Theatre of Louisville. COMBAT DATING is published in "EstroGenius 2009". City Theatre of Miami honored THE ART OF THE INTERVIEW with a finalist award in its national contest. Kate McLeod wrote this amazing profile of my work. A little more: I grew up in North Dakota, earned my B.A. at the University of North Dakota, went to Syracuse University for my M.A. degree (Newhouse grad), then headed directly to New York City. A few years in Cleveland followed, after which I came back to my beloved NYC-a place I rarely leave (with exceptions for travel to U.S. theatres for workshops and productions of my plays).

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

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         Answers         Apologies To Vietnam         Art Of the Interview, The         Becoming, Becoming         Charles Winn Speaks         Combat Dating         Dog, Speak         Double D         Etruscan Lovers And Other Fools         Extremes         Falutin'         Guatemalan Babies         I Could Never Live here         Leak, The         Look At Me, Look Away (Now, Please)         Lucky Patrons Of the Art         Out There         Photo Album, The         Rev, Rev         Sabbatical, The         Sacred Space         Stalk Me, Baby         Under My Box Spring         Vision, The         Where Were You When I Was Coming

Answers

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Answers finds Valerie facing the biggest decision of her life without the usual help of her Magic 8 Ball.

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American Globe/Turnip Theatre Festival    

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Apologies To Vietnam

Synopsis:
a plate of vegetables and rice lead a grad student and a Vietnamese woman to a startling revelation about what it means to be American

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part of Metropolitan Playhouse presents the fourth Annual installment of east Village Chronicles, An ongoing series of original one-act plays About/set in the theatre's local neighborhood in NYC's east Village/alphabet City

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One act comedy

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Art Of the Interview, The

Synopsis:
about a teenage Valley girl who goes to a farm in the Midwest to interview her great uncle for a term paper.

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Citywrights Weekend For Playwrights     14 Jun 2012

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Becoming, Becoming

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In Becoming Becoming, Mitzi and hairdresser Jerry come together on the day when each is about to enter into a lifelong commitment with a less-than-ideal partner.

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Muse of Fire; semi-finalist, Sam French One-Act Playwriting Contest

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Charles Winn Speaks

Synopsis:
A young ambitious Russian immigrant achieves the American dream. He is at the top, until his American girlfriend dumps him.

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part of Living Image Arts' 5th anniversary Festival of One-acts features the world premiere of 4 uniquely American new works about 4 distinctly American life experiences. From the love-struck brokers of Wall Street to immigration raids torn from today's headlines, from doughnut-hurling Grannies to Charlie's angels-obsessed housewives, Americanize will show you just what it is to be a Real American
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1st Produced:
Lion Theatre, NY     2009

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Living Image Arts

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One act comedy

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Combat Dating

Synopsis:
a comedy with roach traps
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part of the Curan Repertory Company's Notes From the Underground, An international one-act festival

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American Theatre Of Actors, 314 West 54th Street, New York, NY 10019     2009

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Comedy One act

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Dog, Speak

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A Private, Roundtable Reading Lark, NYC     27 Jun 2013

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Double D

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produced in the Lower East Side Festival

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Theater for the New City. New York, NY     29 May 2016

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Genre:
short screwball comedy

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Etruscan Lovers And Other Fools

Synopsis:
a re-working of the 2008 comedy Lucky Patrons of the Arts. a re-working of last season's comedy Lucky Patrons of the Arts. the annual museum gala--champagne is flowing, egos need stroking, spouses are being neglected, and the "etruscan Lovers" are coming to life. In this romantic comedy, people either adore or abhor the etruscans. Yet these ghosts have lessons to impart . . . about the illusion of perfect love, the struggle to live in the moment, and the difficulty of moving on. But will anyone ever learn? and what did the etruscans know anyway?

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Genre:
romantic comedy

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Extremes

Synopsis:
extremes opens with Celeste (Julia Brandeberry) on a tousled bed practically paralyzed by depression. aggravating her mental condition is a recent separation from her husband Ben (John Bailey). Ben arrives so that she can accompany him to the funeral of a beloved former professor. the two reveal their back story and discuss their relationship in a realistic fashion while Ben helps her get cleaned and dressed.
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Source Festival, Washington Dc     2009

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Ten min drama

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Falutin'

Synopsis:
a flutist and trombonist discover whether love can overcome an orchestral divide. Based on a comedy inspired by Cornelius Logan's The Vermont Wool-Dealer (1838).

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part of Spring Shorts 8

1st Produced:
Turtle Shell Theater     2008

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3Graces Theater Co.

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Genre:
One act comedy

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Guatemalan Babies

Synopsis:
Guatemalan Babies finds friends Sylvie and Peter dealing with loss in surprisingly different ways

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Staged reading at First Stage/L.A.

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I Could Never Live here

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Workshopped at the 2010 Sewanee Writers' Conference with Beth Henley and Dan O'Brien.

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drama

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Leak, The

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At 39, Bea is leaving home to marry a man her mother has never met. Set in the rainy town of Anacortes, Washington, the play explores loss so deep it makes this family create a fantasy world that's hard to escape. Home might be a scary place, but what if leaving is even scarier?

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Readings at Ensemble Studio Theatre, The Barrow Group, New Jersey Repertory Theatre, Innovative Stages, Playwrights and Actors Collective Theatre

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tragicomedy

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Look At Me, Look Away (Now, Please)

Synopsis:
Susan and Rusty have been living the good life until . . . he starts barking like a dog and young men start following her home. This couple is melting down, right along with the economy, the American dream, and all that they once thought was as solid as the wedding rings on their fingers.

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Table reading by At Hand Theatre (Dan Horrigan, artistic director) at 59E59.

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Genre:
dark comedy

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Male:  5            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Lucky Patrons Of the Art

Synopsis:
Mimi's obsession with the long-lost etruscan culture strains her marriage, gets her fired from her job as a museum curator, and leads to criminal acts. In the romantic comedy Lucky Patrons of the art, etruscan ghosts inspire lessons about love, marriage, work and the difficulty of letting go

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romantic comedy

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Out There

Synopsis:
about a mother who tries to protect her daughter, Tulip, from the real world by entrapping her in a cave.

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Genre:
one act absurdist comedy

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Photo Album, The

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Written by The Story Gym: Holly Hepp-Galvan, Jack Karp, C S Hanson, Daniel Ho and Lisa Reinke

1st Produced:
New York International Fringe Festival. New York, NY     08 Aug 2014

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Rev, Rev

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Available as a full-length and as a one-act. Rev is part of a collaborative project called "the Photo Album," conceived and directed by Lisa Reinke

1st Produced:
Game Play Festival At The Brick Theatre, In Williamsburg, Brooklyn     06 Jul 2013

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Genre:
monologue

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Sabbatical, The

Synopsis:
a four-character black comedy about a man who decides to put his wife in a storage locker

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Pittsburgh New Works    

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Genre:
one act black comedy

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Sacred Space

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Will comes home to find Xenia throwing out the stove to make room for her home office.

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Polaris North    

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Stalk Me, Baby

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part of Script Tease. A new play reading series of readings of thematically related new works, performed by professional Actors, followed by cocktails And conversation. "Under the Bed" by Theresa Giacopasi, "Stalk Me, Baby" by C.S. Hanson, "Wearing the Pants" by Daniel John Kelley, "Ten Year Twilight" by Crystal Skillman, "Regulations" by David L. Williams,"Yoga Time!" by Ethan Youngerman.

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Reading At Union Hall, 702 Union Street At 5th AVenue, Brooklyn, NY     16 Oct 2010

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the Best 10-Minute Plays Of 2012. Published by Smith and Kraus, Inc.    -

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Under My Box Spring

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opens with Olivia hovering over Bug, about to squash him to smithereens. And then the sweet talking begins. Is he a parasite or just what she needs?

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Genre:
short comedy

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Vision, The

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The Vision takes places in a rundown hotel in the Catskill Mountains, where George tells wife Stacy that he has bought the place.

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The Theatre-Studio    

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Where Were You When I Was Coming

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1st Produced:
Theater for the New City
155 First aVenue, New York, NY 10009     25 May 2012

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Lower east Side Festival, New York

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Best 10-Minute Plays 2013 Plays For Three Or More Actors. Published by Smith and Kraus, Inc.    -

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short comedy

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