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John Minigan

JOHN MINIGAN

  
Nationality:    USA
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John Minigan's writing for the stage has been produced throughout the US, in Europe and in Asia. His Elliot Norton Award nominated piece Breaking the Shakespeare Code premiered in Chicago and at the NY International Fringe Festival in 2014, and his hallucinogenic period piece Concordance will premiere later this year. He is a three-time winner of the Firehouse New Works Contest, a winner of the Nantucket Short Play Contest, the Rover Dramawerks Competition, the Longwood 0-60 Contest, New York's 8-Minute Madness Festival, the Nor'Eastern Playwriting Contest and the KNOCK International Short Play Competition. He was a 2014 finalist for the Heidemann Award at Actors Theater of Louisville and a 2015 O'Neill Conference semifinalist. When not writing, John teaches theater, writing and Shakespeare in the Boston area. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild.

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

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         Away in a Manger         Breaking the Shakespeare Code         Castle of Otranto, The         Concordance         Entree Gold         Isaac in Flux         It's the Jews         Long Christmas Journey to Wellesley and Weston, The         Maltese Walter, The         Noise         Till That Lucky Day

Away in a Manger

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1st Produced:
Part Of Suburban Holidays Ii At Quannapowitt Players In Reading, Ma     12 Dec 2013

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Breaking the Shakespeare Code

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Eighteen-year-old Anna approaches Curt, a callous young acting instructor at the women's college she attends, to ask him to coach her for an upcoming audition. Though initially dismissive, he agrees to work with her only when she survives his challenges to her work on Julius Caesar's Portia. Six years later, personal scandal has nearly destroyed Curt, and Anna returns to challenge him to work with her on Lacy Percy from 1 Henry IV. As she forces him to confront his personal disgrace, they begin to face the unanswered questions about their own relationship. Ten years later, Curt is a successful, tenured professor with a new book about acting Shakespeare, and thirty-five-year-old Anna comes to him in the midst of personal and professional crises of her own. their work on Hostess Quickly from the Merry Wives of Windsor and Imogen from Cymbeline finally breaks the code that first allowed their work together but which has kept them from true success, professionally and personally.

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Also presented At New American Playwrights Project At Utah Shakespearean Festival, August 2007. (a.k.a. Codes)

1st Produced:
Harriet Lake Festival Of New Plays, Orlando Shakespeare Theater, Orlando Florida     01 Feb 2006

Organisations:
Orlando Shakespeare Theater

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Play/Drama

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Castle of Otranto, The

Synopsis:
When a giant helmet falls from the sky to kill his son Conrad and enormous body parts begin to appear in his castle, Prince Manfred must scramble to divorce his wife, marry his son's fiancee and produce a male heir before an ancient prophecy is fulfilled: that he will lose the castle when the original owner has grown too large to inhabit it. Unfortunately for Manfred, young peasant theodore arrives and wins the hearts of both the fiancee and Manfred's daughter. Manfred's wife Hippolita, her confessor Father Jerome and even the Knight of the Gigantic Saber try to convince Manfred to give up the castle before more disaster strikes, but all soon discover that young theodore is much more than he seems and that dark fates await them all.

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Seven-actor bare-stage Adaptation of the Gothic novel by Horace Walpole

1st Produced:
Harriet Lake Festival Of New Plays, Orlando Shakespeare Theater, Orlando, Florida     01 Feb 2008

Organisations:
Orlando Shakespeare Theater

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Full-length Adaptation

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Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Concordance

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1st Produced:
Part Of Sobe Arts Miami's New American Play Reading Series     01 Mar 2014

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full length play

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Entree Gold

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Although Peter has been sent by their school's headmaster to give incapacitated Leverett a ride home from Montreal, he quickly learns that Leverett, dressed in drag, has a different plan in mind. As Peter attempts to get Leverett ready to return to the states, the older man reveals the sexual secret that has caused him to flee their school and kept him from returning on his own. As Peter probes for the truth of Leverett's transgressions, he discovers that Leverett's goal has more to do with unearthing Peter's secrets than in covering up his own.

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Winner, Firehouse theater New Works Contest

1st Produced:
Firehouse Theater, Newburyport, Massachusetts     01 Jan 2011

Organisations:
Firehouse Theater

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Genre:
Drama One Act

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Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Isaac in Flux

Synopsis:
Since 15% of the body's cells are replaced every year, Isaac believes we are completely new every 7 years. So, on his 28th birthday, Isaac (who had been Henry seven years before), seeks a new identity, while also trying to find something in the world that is not subject to 7 year cycles of change. Religion? Wealth? Love? Family? Isaac's encounters with his possible dead mother, a pornographic jeweler, a shape-shifting priest, the "girl next door," and a possibly inspirational Abraham Lincoln lead him toward surprising discoveries about what is and what is not perpetual.

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Also produced by Circle Rep And Shelter West in New York (also performed As "the Secret Dream of Professor Isaac"). Four Actors play five characters.

1st Produced:
Quiagh Theater, New York City     01 Jan 1986

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Genre:
comedy One Act

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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It's the Jews

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Part of 8 Minute Madness. Eighteen new provocative And engaging plays will be presented in groups A And B of 9 plays each. the plays, directed by innovative directors, Are produced by A select team of New York's finest designers. Attending industry members will vote for who will win the coveted Award of 8 Minute Madness Playwright of 2011. the participating Audience will Also vote on the best performance by An Actor And best over-all show. the plays Are: . . .Last And Always by Allan Baker, First Half by Ron Burch, the Intervention by Ron Burch, Last Words by Jeff Carter, the Family That Plays Together by Gigi Eng, Magnolia Day by SD Graubert, Bottom of the Ninth by Rand Higbee, the Wedding Ring by Tony Howarth, Duet in Platinum by Allston James, A Change of Plans by Dennis Jones, Mammaries by Joanne Koch, Bona Fide by Nina Mansfield, It's the Jews by John Minigan, Out of Time by Barbara And Carlton Molette, Dead Body by Barry M. Putt, Jr., Short Division by Fred Sahner, Zero Point by Jeff Schwamberger, And Slipping into Anarchy by Jeffrey Wolf.

1st Produced:
Wimberley Theater, Boston, Massachusetts (Boston Theater Marathon)     01 May 2010

Organisations:
Actors Shakespeare Project

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published by KNOCK Magazine (Jun 2010 and viewable at knockmagazine.com. Winner of the KNOCK International Short Play Contest 2010. It is also slated to be published by Smith & Kraus in the Boston theater Marathon XII anthology.   -

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Genre:
comedy Ten Min

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Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Long Christmas Journey to Wellesley and Weston, The

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1st Produced:
Firehouse Theater. Newburyport, MA     30 Jan 2015

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Maltese Walter, The

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On the eve of his wedding day, mild-mannered accountant Walter visits therapist Dr. Eddy with a big problem. Walter's fiancee Vera refuses to marry him unless he gives up his superpower and secret identity: Noir-Man, able to transform any moment into film noir. When Vera arrives, she and Dr. Eddy convince Walter to go straight, but the therapy takes an unexpected turn.

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part of the Boston Theatre Marathon

1st Produced:
Part Of The Snowdance Comedy Festival, Racine, Wi     31 Jan 2014

Organisations:
Argos Productions

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ten min

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Noise

Synopsis:
What would happen if Caryl Churchill and Harold Pinter wrote a play together? there would be a lot of silence and then everyone would talk at the same time. In "Noise," two characters listen and argue about whether a noise has broken the silence they experience.

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An experimental rhythm piece for two Actors

1st Produced:
Nat Horne Theater, New York City     01 Apr 1986

Organisations:
Shelter West

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Genre:
Experimental short

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  2 of either gender

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Till That Lucky Day

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1st Produced:
Staged Reading Presented As Part Of "Play With Your Food" Series At Cape Cod Community College, Barnstable, Ma     27 Sep 2013

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