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Sean O'Connor

SEAN O'CONNOR  

 Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    Anderson Office, 33 Central Avenue, Staten Island, New York 10301 Telephone: 718 448 5477

A recipient of Grants/Fellowships from the Puffin and Ludwig Vogelstein Foundations, the Pilgrim Project and Blue Mountain center, Sean O'Connor received his B.A. from Columbia University. He was a member of NYCs Circle Rep as a playwright, and teaches a seminar in Dramatic Writing/Performing at NYU every summer. He has acted in dozens of plays in New York and regional Theater, portraying leading roles in television's All My Children and Another World, as well as features in the films Copy Shop, All Fall Down and Trust Us. O'Connor spent two years as head-writer and performer for the cable TV show 3BTV, and has written and performed several radio commercials.

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         Broken Birds         How To Lose Your Lover in 6 short plays         Juliet and her Romeo         Kidnapped         Knitting Club         Marnie         New Truck For Paulie, A         There Is An Angel In Las Vegas         Vertigo         Who Collects the Pain         Whole House Full Of Babies, A         World Of Sinatras

Broken Birds

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Samuel French One Act Festival    -

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Next Stage Press   -

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How To Lose Your Lover in 6 short plays

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written by Cherie Vogelstein, Andrew Bergh, J. Holtham, Sean O'Connor, David Stott

1st Produced:
Theatre Row Theatre, NY    2005

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Living Image Arts

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Juliet and her Romeo

Juliet and her Romeo
A story of a flourishing love affair in one generation, crushed by the financial and political concerns of another. What family has not wrestled with the question of how we care for our parents as they become older and frailer? Who will love them? Who will support them? Who will pay for their care? And with that care, what controls should we apply? If we have taken power of attorney, what about the freedom to fall in love, to give gifts, to marry unwisely?

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Original Playwright - Shakespeare. Adapted by Sean O'Connor And Tom Morris from An idea by Sean O'Connor.

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Oberon Books, London >>>    978-1849430814

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Adaptation

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Kidnapped

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Circle Rep, New York    -

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Next Stage Press   -

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Knitting Club

Knitting Club
Two lost soul-mates, Bud and Lou, join a Knitting Club to meet girls. Its the Clubs Sadie Hawkins Night and the two arrive with needles in hand. Bud, just back from Kandujar and suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress, becomes obsessed with Norma, a distant beauty he spots across the room. Lou, traumatized because a homeless man called him bald, spends the evening obsessing by putting on wigs, rubbing bald creme into his head, and seeking constant reinforcement from Bud. Over the course of the evening, Bud is upset and recounts how its his birthday and his estranged daughter didnt call. Lou is devastated by his relationship (or non-relationship) with his ex-girlfriend. the music begins... Norma appears and starts crossing the room. Bud is ready yet terrified to deal with what is to follow. She arrives... but crosses right past the hopeful Bud to the devastated Lou and asks him to dance. Lou looks to Bud. Bud nods sadly, and Lou walks away with the alluring Norma. But all is not lost. Just as Bud picks up his knitting, the door opens and in walks Buds daughter. Happy Birthday, Daddy. I was looking all over for you... and they walk off into the night. the Knitting Club is a story of faith and friendship, telling how things even infinitely small can be a persons entire world.

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the Knitting Club was nominated by L.A.'s FirstStage Productions for Best New One-Act of 2011. It was first performed by FirstStage Productions in December, 2011 as a staged reading, as part of their Best New One Act Festival. Literary Manager, Dennis Safren. Directed by Pavel Cerny, the cast included Gregor Manns (Bud), Mark Deliman (Lou) and Chauntel Blowden (Dinah).

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JAC Publishing & Promotions   1-60513-177-6

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One act

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Marnie

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This girl...To look at her you'd think butter wouldn't melt. But Marnie is unlike any girl you ever met. No one knows her real name, where's she's from or where she's going. Which is just the way this girl likes it. For behind the cool manner, the bedroom eyes and the winning smile, there's something different about this girl - she's hard and bitter, a calculating thief and compulsive liar. She has no feelings but a base contempt for the world and everybody in it. Only this time she has met her match....Based on the 1961 novel by the author of 'Poldark', this tense psychological thriller was made famous by Alfred Hitchcock's 1964 film.

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from novel by Winston Graham

1st Produced:
Haymarket, Basingstoke    16 Jan 2001

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Co-production with the Gateway Chester

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New Truck For Paulie, A

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Southern Appalachian Repertory theater    1994

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Next Stage Press   -

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There Is An Angel In Las Vegas

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Source Theatre, Washington DC    1986

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JAC Publishing   -

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Vertigo

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Provocative and disturbing thriller about an ex-cop with a fear of heights who is hired to trail the wife of a desparate friend. Obsession, possession and a fatal fear of heights in a plot that twists and turns to a desparate climax. Made into a film by Alfred Hitchcock.

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adapted from works by Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac

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Chester: Forum Studio Theatre (formerly the Chester Gateway)    24 Oct 1997

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Play/Drama

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Who Collects the Pain

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Mazur Theatre, New York    -

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Next Stage Press   -

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Whole House Full Of Babies, A

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A young woman gave up her baby for adoption. She is now drunk and wants the baby back

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Contained in: "Take Ten II: More Ten Minute Plays" published by Vintage Books 2003   -

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World Of Sinatras

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JAC Publishing   -

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