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SEAN O'LEARY
(1956 - )Nationality: USA
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Sean O'Learyis the 2007 winner of the University of Alabama at Birmingham's Ruby Lloyd Apsey Award for plays confronting racial and ethnic issues. He has won a National Endowment for the Arts "Access to Artistic ExcEllence" grant. POUND, about the poet Ezra Pound, premiered at the Washington Stage Guild in Washington, DC and recently won the Ostrander Award as Best New Play of the 2006 2007 Theatre season in Memphis. Between them POUND and RAIN (CLAUDIE HUKILL) have won or been finalists in more than a dozen national playwriting competitions.
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Beneath Shelton Laurel Claudia Hukill Pound Rain in the Hollows Valu-mart Wine to BloodBeneath Shelton Laurel
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Thirty years after the American Civil War to ex-Confederate soldiers are confronted by the widow of one of their victims
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Southern Appalachian Repertory Theatre, Mars Hill, North Carolina 2005
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Top of PageClaudia Hukill
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Venus Theatre Play Shack, 21 C Street, Laurel, MD 28 Nov 2012
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Top of PagePound
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Ezra Pound was America's greatest poet, literary critic, fascist, and anti-semite. Charged with treason and judged insane, Pound dominated St. Elizabeth's psychiatric hospital much as he had the literary world until, at age 73, he suddenly retreated into an emotional shell from which he never fully emerged. the play, POUND, imagines what might have happened to irreversibly change the character of Ezra Pound.
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Winner of the Pittsburgh New Play Festival And nominated for the L. Arnold Weissberger At the Williamstown theatre Festival
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Pittsburgh, PA 2004
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Pittsburgh New Play Festival
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Top of PageRain in the Hollows
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Every family wrestles with its own myths. In RAIN IN the HOLLOWS a journalist returns to his native West Virginia hollow to confront his larger-than-life brother whose legendary deeds are accompanied by a maddening disregard for rules, laws, or the consequences for his struggling family. How can the journalist and his family reconcile themselves to someone who may be a saint, a sinner, a madman, or all of these?
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Winner of three national playwriting competitions. Professional premiere in June 2004
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Sussex, NJ 2003
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Tri-State Actors Theater
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Two black men in confrontation. One still cherishing the idealism of the Civil Rights Movement and one a young dropout with a criminal record
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Top of PageWine to Blood
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A character in WINE TO BLOOD says, "All forms of idealism, however well-intentioned, invariably lead to ruin." Perhaps, but what is the alternative? In WINE TO BLOOD a jaded BBC reporter covering the Spanish Civil War comes face to face with the consequences of unbridled cynicism. Only then can he find the strength to regain his convictions. Inspired by George Orwell's "Homage to Catalonia".
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Selected by Brandeis University for its special collection of literature inspired by the Spanish Civil War
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Wheeling, WV 1999
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Towngate Theatre
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