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Shawn Northrip

SHAWN NORTHRIP

  
Nationality:    USA
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Shawn Northrip received a BA in Theatre Education from Catholic University of America and a MFA in Musical Theatre Writing from New York University. Plays include: Titus X (Page to Stage, Sept. 2002, CUA Workshop, Dec. 2002, 23rd Annual Washington New Play Festival, July 2003, Source Theatre, Sept. 2003, New York Musical Festival, Sept. 2004, Chashama, Oct. 2004, the Tank, August 2006, Black Cat, July and December 2007, Capital Fringe Festival, July 2009, Dysfunctional Theatre Company, Fall 2009, published by New York Theatre Experience in Playing with Cannons, Sept. 2006); McMusical(Source Workshop, Feb. 2004, Page to Stage, Sept. 2004); Ramona and Juliet(ADP Reading Series, April 2004, Buffalo Infringement Festival, Aug. 2006, Buffalo United Artists, Dec. 2006); Lunch (Madcap Players' Winter Carnival, Jan. 2005, Kennedy Center Kenan Foundation, April 2005, Page to Stage, Sept. 2005, Capital Fringe Festival, July 2006, New York Musical Festival, Sept. 2006); Cautionary Tales for Adults (Madcap Players' Winter Carnival, Jan. 2006, Page to Stage, Sept. 2006, Capital Fringe Festival, July 2007, Winner Audience Choice: Pick of the Fringe, Round House Theatre, November 2008);Lost Sock: Have You Seen Me (Madcap Players' Winter Carnival, Jan. 2007); A Midsummer Dyke's Dream (Buffalo Infringement Festival, August 2007);Playdoh Golem (Theatre J/J OnDemand, March 2008, Page to Stage Festival, September 2008); Dream Date, the Musical! (Madcap Players' Winter Carnival, Jan. 2009). Affiliations include: Bouncing Ball theatrical Productions, Founding Member; Brazen-faced Varlets, Company Playwright; recipient of the Anna Sosenko Assist Trust Grant for songwriters.

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

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         Aristocrats!, The: The Musical         Blood Sweat and Fears III: the Red Velvet Curtain         Boy and Girl From the River, The         Cautionary Tales For Adults And The Many Adventures Of Trixie Tickles         Comedy Of Queerers, The         Dream Date - The Musical!         Horrors Of Online Dating         It Closed On Opening Night         It's Like That for Everyone         Izanami and Izanagi         Lost Sock Have You Seen Me?         Lunch         McBeth's McTragic McMusical         Midsummer Dyke's Dream, A         Of All The Tests I Took In High School         On The Rag To Riches         Paul Bunyan vs The Tree Conservation Coalition         Playdoh Golem, The         Ramona and Juliet         Stolen Diamond, The         Titus X: the Musical         Very Grand Guignol Christmas Carol         Wonderful World of Zidney

Aristocrats!, The: The Musical

Synopsis:
In the sweetest story inspired by the most offensive joke ever told, the daughter of a traveling vaudeville family falls in love for the first time and quits the act.

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Page-to-Stage Festival 2014. The three-day, Center-wide Page-to- Stage event offers a series of free readings and open rehearsals of plays and musicals being developed by local, regional, and national playwrights, librettists, and composers.

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Blood Sweat and Fears III: the Red Velvet Curtain

Synopsis:
Molotov theatre Group, America's second-oldest Grand Guignol theatre, presents Blood Sweat & Fears III: the Red Velvet Curtain as part of their yearly offering of three one-act plays from the "theatre of horror" repertoire. This year's show features original adaptation and music from Shawn Northrip, the playwright behind this summer's smash hit the Horrors of Online Dating. You'll see murder, disfigurement, a mime strip-tease, and learn a great recipe for kitten stew. Great Halloween season fare.
theatre in DC

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Adapted by Shawn Northrip from: Private Room Number 6 By Andre de Lorde And Pierre Chain; I Want to Go Home By H.F. Maltby; the Person Unknown By H.F. Maltby

1st Produced:
Playbill Cafe, 1409 14th Street, Nw Washington     01 Oct 2010

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Boy and Girl From the River, The

Synopsis:
After his father drowns in the river the mother makes her son promise never to cross the river. When he grows up he falls in love with a girl on the other side. To get to her he sets of in the other direction - to walk around the world

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Music and lyrics by Christian Imboden; book by Shawn Northrip

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Kennedy Center Family Theater, Washington Dc     05 Dec 2010

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Cautionary Tales For Adults And The Many Adventures Of Trixie Tickles

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A librarian traps a group of people to punish them for being smokers, drinkers and fornicators

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Comedy Of Queerers, The

Synopsis:
Two sets of twins one straight and one gay. E-Town where everyone has to be GLBTQ or have your head chopped off. The straight twins arrive in E-Town

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Rust Belt Books, Buffalo     01 May 2011

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Dream Date - The Musical!

Synopsis:
A board game teaches girls to take the man they can get rather then waiting for Mr Right

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Horrors Of Online Dating

Synopsis:
A gory musical comedy with sex, drugs, and puppets about a killer who finds her victims through dating websites. Molotov theatre Group (Pick of the Fringe 07' Best Comedy, 08' Best Overall) and playwright Shawn Northrip (07' Best Musical) collaborate. 90 minutes

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Molotov Theatre Group, Washington Dc     08 Jul 2010

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It Closed On Opening Night

Synopsis:
It is decided to revive a 1977 Broadway flop

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Music and lyrics by Christian Imboden; book by Shawn Northrip

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Kennedy Center Family Theater, Washington Dc     07 Sep 2009

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It's Like That for Everyone

Synopsis:
the songs of the seminal '70s glam punk band the New York Dolls have been transported into the story of Lorenzo Da Ponte's Cosi Fan Tutte as set on the Bowery in the early '70s. Two teenage boys enter into a bet to prove their girlfriends' fidelity; each will attempt to seduce the other's girl before the night is out. Recommended for ages 13 and up.

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the Kennedy Center hosts its 12th annual Page-to-Stage festival, featuring more than 40 D.C.-area theater companies. This three-day event offers free readings and open rehearsals of plays and musicals being developed by local, regional, and national playwrights, librettists, and composers.

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Kennedy Center, Terrace Theater, Dc     31 Aug 2013

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Bouncing Ball theatrical Productions

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Izanami and Izanagi

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A teacher is banned from teaching Creationism and Evolution. So he switches to the Shintoistic origins of the Universe

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Lost Sock Have You Seen Me?

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A sock leaves his partner to go out in to the world

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Lunch

Synopsis:
A series of vignettes about raging hormones, inane fights, and first love all revolving around lunch period in this hilarious and heartwarming rock/grunge musical that reminds us just what middle school is all about. From Kelly, the most popular girl in school, to Mophead, the free-spirited lead singer of the school's own punk band, to Misty, the depressed outsider who always sits alone, everyone is preoccupied with improving their social status -- particularly with the all-important Annual Eighth Grade Dinner Dance looming in the near future.

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2005 Madcap Players' Winter Carnival (Washington, D.C., United States)     2005

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90-115 min Musical Comedy

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McBeth's McTragic McMusical

Synopsis:
Hubble, bubble. Toil and rock 'n' roll

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Music and lyrics by Christian Imboden; book by Shawn Northrip

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Midsummer Dyke's Dream, A

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Of All The Tests I Took In High School

Synopsis:
A group of High School girls enter a pact to get pregnant. When the school authorities hear about it they treat them as if they were a coven

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On The Rag To Riches

Synopsis:
Janey wonders why she has numerous dead boyfriends

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Written by Shawn Northrip and Katie Molinaro

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Paul Bunyan vs The Tree Conservation Coalition

Synopsis:
Conservationists to preserve trees steal Paul Bunyan's axe. Without his axe he has no work. He re-invents himself as a plastics tycoon

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H Street Playhouse, Washington D C     13 Jan 2011

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Playdoh Golem, The

Synopsis:
When a Jewish High School boy stars dating a Catholic girl some of his classmates make a Golem to go and kill her

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Ramona and Juliet

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Stolen Diamond, The

Synopsis:
Mae Thomas steals a diamond by hiding it in her mouth - but then she accidently swallows it

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Titus X: the Musical

Titus X: the Musical
Where were you guys? Did you not realize that there is no better way to open the Fringe than taking Bad Bill Shakespeare's great play, Titus Andronicus (in its day, a fringe festival in and of itself),and jazzing it up a little? I mean, you've got twenty dead guys even before the play starts! And after that, hands get hacked off, tongues get ripped out, severed heads roll out of the dustbins, and recipes Emeril never thought of get a workout. . .what more could you want? Wait, I know the answer - screaming guitars and a punk overlay written in the inimitable style of Shawn Northrip.
- Tim Treanor, dctheatrescene

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adapting Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare

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Very Grand Guignol Christmas Carol

Synopsis:
Scrooge gets his comeuppance

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Based on "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens. The Kennedy Center hosts its 10th annual Page-to-Stage festival, featuring more than 40 D.C.-area theater companies. This three-day event offers free readings and open rehearsals of plays and musicals being developed by local, regional, and national playwrights, librettists, and composers.

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Black comedy

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Wonderful World of Zidney

Synopsis:
The ruthless CEO of Zidney Corps trains his two subordinates Don Doughvitz and Jacob Fishberger in how to be ruthless and cutthroat in business. They are good learners and are soon outshining the CEO. Then they both disappear

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Music by Mike Petty; lyrics and book by Shawn Northrip

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