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Susan Mosakowski

SUSAN MOSAKOWSKI

  
Nationality:    USA
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Susan Mosakowski is Co-Artistic Director and founder of Creation Production Company. Her plays include: Eclipse, White/Black for the Baltimore Theatre Project and the Kunstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin, the Commie Stories, Ice Station Zebra, the Bride and Her Extra-rapid Exposure commissioned by the Minneapolis Institute of Art, the Rotary Notary and His Hot Plate, in collaboration with architects Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio; commissioned by the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Painted Bride, Cities Out of Print for Manhattan Theatre Club, the Tight Fit and Locofoco for the Padua Hills Playwright's Festival (Los Angeles), Harry and the Cannibals (La Mama), Nighttown (the Flea), the Making of Eugenie Doe with composer Julia Wolfe for Ice Factory 2004 (Ohio Theatre), Third Rail Quill commissioned in 2005 by the Working Theatre, and adaptations of the Inferno (TNC), and the Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (La Mama Annex) with composers Robin Holcomb and Wayne Horowitz. Her awards Include: a Rockefeller Foundation Playwriting Fellowship, a National Endowment Playwriting Fellowship, three Northwest Area Fellowships, and numerous foundation grants. Publications include: the Tight Fit and Cities Out of Print, Padua Playwrights Press (Los Angeles), Ice Station Zebra, VRI Publishing (Los Angeles), and the Commie Stories in Alles Und Noch Viel Mehr, Das Poetische ABC, Bern, Switzerland. . She has been a resident artist at the Long Beach Opera, the Padua Hills Playwrights' Festival, Illusion Theatre (Mpls.), the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, and Ireland's Tyrone Guthrie Playwriting Center. Agent: Clinton Fisher: Hanly Conroy Bierstein & Sherdan LLP

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

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         Baloney Heaven         Bride and Her Extra-rapid Exposure, The         Cabinet of Dr Caligari, The         Cities Out of Print         Commie Stories, The         Escape         Harry and the Cannibals         Ice Station Zebra         Inferno, The         LocoFoco         Making of Eugenie Doe, The         Man-Made         Nighttown         Rotary Notary and His Hot Plate         Tight Fit, The         White/Black         World Apart

Baloney Heaven

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Baloney Heaven is slated for production in 2008 At La MaMa ETC.

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Comedy

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Bride and Her Extra-rapid Exposure, The

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the Bride And Her Extra-rapid Exposure was presented At La MaMa in 1986 And At the Southern theatre (Mpls.) in 1988. Based on Marcel Duchamp's "Large Glass". Composer: Vito Ricci

1st Produced:
Minneapolis, Mn     1985

Organisations:
the Minneapolis Institute of Art

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Cabinet of Dr Caligari, The

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An Adaptation based on the Robert Weine film. Composer: Wayne Horvitz & Carl Mayer

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Creation Production Co. in association with La MaMa

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Cities Out of Print

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Cities out of Print was produced by Manhattan theatre Club in 1990

1st Produced:
Padua Hills Playwrights Festival, La     1989

Organisations:
Padua Hills Playwrights Festival

1st Published:
Theatre Communications Group, 1991   -

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Commie Stories, The

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the Commie Stories was Also presented At P.S.122 And the Provincetown Playhouse

1st Produced:
Ohio Theatre, NYC     1983

Organisations:
Creation Production Company

1st Published:
Autoren und Benteli Verlag, 1985   -

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Escape

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Lying in wait with a shotgun, Gus, an unemployed elevator repairman, keeps his neighbors and his wife in the crosshairs. Next door lives an actress - a Marilyn Monroe look-alike - held captive by Daddy, a universal terrorist on the run. And in the next apartment, the grandson of Harry Houdini struggles to free himself from his own chains. Release is on everyone's mind, but can anyone ever escape?

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1st Produced:
La MaMa First Floor theatre
74A East 4th Street, New York, NY 10003     07 Jun 2012

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Creation Production Company

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Harry and the Cannibals

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Creation Production Co. in association with La MaMa ETC

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Genre:
Comedy

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Male:  7            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Ice Station Zebra

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1st Produced:
Ohio Theatre, NYC     1985

Organisations:
Creation Production Company

1st Published:
VRI Arts Publishing, 1985   -

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Inferno, The

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An Adaptation of Dante's Inferno.

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Creation Production Company

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LocoFoco

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LocoFoco was later produced in New York At La MaMa in 1996

1st Produced:
Padua Hills Playwrights Festival, La     1995

Organisations:
Padua Hills Playwrights Festival

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Making of Eugenie Doe, The

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This play has been re-titled: First. First will be presented in 2008.

1st Produced:
Ohio Theatre, NYC     2004

Organisations:
Soho Think Tank, Ice Factory Festival

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Man-Made

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Man-Made is about the first bio-genetically engineered woman, Eugenie Doe. Susan Mosakowski's provocative Drama takes us on an exploration of human evolution and adaptation channeled through the discoveries of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace, the Creature in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, and finally to the current experiments in biotechnology. Survival is pitched against the rigid morality of the nineteenth century, and later in the 21st century when the tyranny of organized religion and corporate America threaten to halt science
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1st Produced:
Ohio Theatre, NY     2008

Organisations:
Creation Production Company

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Nighttown

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Nighttown was workshopped At Irish Repertory theatre And the National Arts Club in New York.

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Creation Production Company and the Flea Theater

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Rotary Notary and His Hot Plate

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the Rotary Notary was later produced by the Philadelphia Museum of Art At the Painted Bride Art Center (1987) And by the Southern theatre, Mpls. 1988.

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Creation Production Company, La MaMa, Philadelphia Museum of Art

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Genre:
Comedy

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Tight Fit, The

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the Tight Fit was later produced in New York At La MaMa in 1995

1st Produced:
Padua Hills Playwrights Festival, La     1991

Organisations:
Padua Hills Playwrights Festival

1st Published:
Padua Playwrights Press, 2003   -

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Genre:
Comedy

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Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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White/Black

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White/Black was later presented At the Baltimore theater Project (1980), Iowa theatre Lab (1980), the Melkweg (Amsterdam) 1982, Kunstlerhaus (Berlin) 1983.

1st Produced:
Wonderhorse Theatre, NYC     1980

Organisations:
Creation Production Company

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World Apart

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In A World Apart, Mother Augustina wonders how, As Abbess, she can lead her nuns into the future if she cannot explain worldly issues to them. Grappling with the problem of whether she should continue to live the monastic life, she meets Father Byrne who thinks that he can do more for the world by leaving the priesthood. Together they go beyond their cloistered walls, but will the boundaries they break give them new freedom? Both Are seduced by what's outside And what's inside.
- nytheatre.com

1st Produced:
Flea
41 White Street, New York, NY 10013     06 Feb 2011

Organisations:
Creation Production Company

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