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August Schulenburg

AUGUST SCHULENBURG

  
Nationality:    USA
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Augusts plays include Carrin Beginning, Kidding Jane, Rue, Riding the Bull, Good Hope, Other Bodies, Honey Fist, Dark Matter, Jacobs House, Deinde, Dream Walker, Denny and Lila, The Hand That Moves and The Lesser Seductions of History. His plays have been produced and developed at The Lark, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, Reverie Productions, Penobscot Theatre, Chelsea Playhouse, Theater for the New City, Portland Stage Company, Dayton Playhouse, Colonial Players, Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, Contemporary Stage Company, Abingdon Theater Company, Gideon Productions, Impetuous Theater Group, Decades Out, Soundtrack Series, Wolf 359, Blue Box Productions, Piper McKenzie, Boomerang Theatre Company, Adaptive Arts, Nosedive Productions, and Flux Theatre Ensemble, where he is the Artistic Director. His work has also been published in the New York Theater Review, Stage and Screen, Midway Journal, and in two upcoming issues of Carrier Pigeon.

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         19 Words         All Good Ending         Amen Abandon         America, or God Shed His Grace On Thee         App of Paradise, The         Be Happy Be Happy Be Happy         Blame Game, The, Part 2         Blueprint Project, The         Carrin Beginning         Channeling         Dark Matter         Deinde         Denny and Lila         Do It Yourself         Dream Walker         Encryption         Endless Song of Happiness         Far Away Daughter of Athens, The         Fields of Blue and Glow, The         Ghost Light         Good Hope         Green Show, The         Guidance         Hand That Moves, The         Honey Fist         It's A Wonderful Opportunity         Jacob's House         Jane the Plain         Kidding Jane         Kisses and Other Natural Disasters         Lesser Seductions of History, The         Let Slip         Lightning Walks         Lipstick and Wrenches         Midas Touch, The         No Business         No Second Acts: A Collection of Short American Lives         Other Bodies         Perfect Children         Perse         Piper McKenzie's Dainty Cadaver         Presents         RabbitWolfBird         Refrigerator Hums, The         Riding the Bull         Rue         Rumplestiltskin         Salvage         Sea Concerto, The         Single Crumb Forever, A         Six Beers In         So We Beat On         Stepping         Symbolic Gestures         Tidal Devices         Under a Better Sky         Very Nosedive Future, A         Wake to Dream         What Is Outside         Where It Comes and Where It Goes

19 Words

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A wife tries to stop her husbands cult from ending the world.

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Half Hour Verse Drama

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All Good Ending

Synopsis:
Two English settles deal with the consequences of the 1637 Mystic massacre.

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written for The Bricks Democracy Festival

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Genre:
15 Minute Play

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Amen Abandon

Synopsis:
A biographical look at my love for Jolie Hollands song, Amen

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Genre:
10 Minute Monologue

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America, or God Shed His Grace On Thee

Synopsis:
A cyborg and American agent fight enemies and their growing attraction to rescue Americas stolen groove.

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Genre:
10 Minute Comedy

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App of Paradise, The

Synopsis:
Two friends decide whether or not to use a new technology to bring their dead friend back to (online) life.

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10 Minute Play

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Be Happy Be Happy Be Happy

Synopsis:
In a country where the government forcibly guarantees the happiness of its citizens, Sherris depression may turn out to be a revolutionary force.

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Play/Drama

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Male:  4            Female:  6            Other:  -

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Blame Game, The, Part 2

Synopsis:
An unhappily married couple overcomes their differences (cannibalism, sibling murder) through hip-hop and rhyming verse.

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Genre:
15 Minute Musical Sketch

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Blueprint Project, The

Synopsis:
part of a program of new short plays presented by Gideon Productions. This description is from the Organisations: "Gideon's producers, composed a single-paragraph plot synopsis-about the clashing agendas of a group of people surrounding a body in a room, awaiting the arrival of a 'medium' who would awaken the body-and gave it to four Dramatists with highly diverse playwriting voices to see how differently they would realize this plot as a short play. the result is four suprising plays, each with a unique style, moving characters and a different twist ending

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1st Produced:
the Puffin Room, NY    2008

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Gideon Productions

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short play

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Carrin Beginning

Synopsis:
In 1927 Donegal, a band of misfit patrons of Mullins Pub meet the last of the great bards of Ireland who changes their lives forever.

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New Church, 114E 35th St, NY 10016    01 Dec 1999

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Play/Drama

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Male:  4            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Channeling

Synopsis:
The Gods of Television and Internet war against each other through their precocious teen avatars.

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Genre:
10 Minute Epic Farce

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  2

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Dark Matter

Synopsis:
Maxine Clerk is a physicist chasing after the mysterious dark matter and energy that make up 95% of our known universe. As a rival colleague undermines her efforts, her personal life also begins to unravel. Facing the illness of her daughter and father, the distance of her lover and mentor, and the dangers of her own darkness, Maxines struggle to understand the universe becomes a matter of personal survival.

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Read as part of Penobscot Theatres Northern Writes Festival

1st Produced:
Bangor Opera House    30 Jun 2011

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Deinde

Synopsis:
In the not-too-distant future, the pressure to cure a global pandemic spurs the creation of DEINDE, a device that allows a team of brilliant quantum biologists to think directly into a powerful computer. At first, they use this prosthetic for the mind under strict rules of engagement, but soon noble ideals and personal passions lead a few to break the rules. they discover that DEINDEs power is far greater than anyone first imagined, and their world spins out of control, raising questions of morality, consciousness, and what it means to be human in an age of rapid technological change
- nytheatre.com

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1st Produced:
the Secret theatre
4402 23rd Street, NY 11101-5000    27 Apr 2012

Organisations:
Flux theatre ensemble

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http://www.indietheaternow.com/Plays   -

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Play/Drama

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Denny and Lila

Synopsis:
Jabber tells us what happened to legendary con artists Denny and Lila when an Alabama con went wrong.

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workshopped as part of The Lark Play Development Center's 19th Annual Playwrights' Week

1st Produced:
Lark in New York City, New York    28 Sep 2013

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Play/Drama

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Do It Yourself

Synopsis:
A group of artists is seduced into starting a theatre company by a Goddess of ambiguous intention.

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Genre:
7 Minute Play

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Dream Walker

Synopsis:
A poignant, comedic play that tells the story of two brothers and the woman they love, and how the arrival of a strange new superpower changes all of their lives.
- nytheatre.com

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1st Produced:
Kraine theater
85 East 4th Street, New York, NY 10003    09 Nov 2011

Organisations:
SweetPea Productions

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Encryption

Synopsis:
Agents Feehan and Lydie race to catch the cyber-criminal Sunanokubi in this darkly comic noir where the closer you get to someone, the less you really know about them.

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Play/Drama

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Endless Song of Happiness

Synopsis:
A knight reaches the tower to rescue an unknown prize from a fell sorcerer.

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Genre:
1 Minute Play

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Far Away Daughter of Athens, The

Synopsis:
Demetrius and Egeus, captured by Amazons, remember Athens (and Hermia)

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Genre:
10 Minute Verse Play

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Fields of Blue and Glow, The

Synopsis:
Old friends reunite after a long time apart, with one of the friends bearing bad news and a transcendental offer.

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Ghost Light

Synopsis:
A playwright with writers block is visited by a character ready to be written.

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Genre:
15 Minute Play

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Good Hope

Synopsis:
In 1856 South Africa, unexpected allies try to stop the apocalyptic prophecies of a Xhosa girl. Based on the real Xhosa cattle killing.

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[reading] Theatre Barn, NY    08 Jun 2008

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  with doubling

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Green Show, The

Synopsis:
An Elizabethan playwright rallies his rag-tag ensemble to impress a critic as increasingly absurd obstacles arise.

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Genre:
1 Hour Farce

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Male:  7            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Guidance

Synopsis:
A guidance counselor demonstrates how she cures children of what is wrong within them.

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10 Minute Site-specific Horror Play

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Hand That Moves, The

Synopsis:
When rock and roll journalist Lois Baker becomes accidentally pregnant with her fifth child, she looks for a way out of motherhood.

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1st Produced:
Flux theatre ensemble retreat    2011

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Honey Fist

Synopsis:
A group of old friends gather for their annual bender honoring a high school buddy who died young, when an old adversary who turned Hollywood shows up to cast doubt on how he died.

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1st Produced:
4th Street Theatre, 83 East 4th Street New York, NY 10003    30 Apr 2013

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Flux theatre ensemble

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It's A Wonderful Opportunity

Synopsis:
Written In Tribute To Nosedives Production Of Infectious Opportunity

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1st Produced:
Bowery Poetry Club, New York City    07 Mar 2011

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Nosedive Red Ribbon Gala

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in "Nosedive Red Ribbon Gala 2011", http://www.indietheaternow.com/Plays   -

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Genre:
15 Minute Absurdity

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Jacob's House

Synopsis:
Jacob's House, a play inspired by the loss of J.B. Playwright August Schulenburg has taken the themes, style, design elements, staging concept, and cast from Flux's planned production of J.B., and used them as inspiration to write his own unique riff on the story of Jacob wrestling the Angel. When three siblings argue over a strange provision in their Father Jacob's will, allegiances shift, as secrets of his past are uncovered. As the full danger of his power is revealed, Jacob's son and daughters must decide what to do with their enigmatic inheritance. This darkly comic riff on the Biblical story of Jacob explores the legacies of violence and power, and the cost of wrestling with the divine.
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Play/Drama

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Jane the Plain

Synopsis:
When Jane saves a mysterious glowing girl from death, her social status at school takes a dangerous rise in this fairy tale about beauty, death and popularity.

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Play/Drama

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Kidding Jane

Synopsis:
A grieving couple begin to fall apart after adopting a kid who reminds them of their daughters killer.

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Staged as part of Dayton Playhouses 2005 FutureFest    2005

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in anthology form by Stage and Screen   -

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Play/Drama

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Kisses and Other Natural Disasters

Synopsis:
A new couple deals with the consequences of a kiss with dark powers.

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Genre:
1 Minute Comedy

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Lesser Seductions of History, The

Synopsis:
the Lesser Seductions of History, follows ten characters through each year of the 1960s. History becomes as intimate as a lover when the decade's fracture points of race, sex, and war break and remake the characters in this coming-of-age story. Written, directed and performed by the children of those that lived during the tumultuous '60s, the Lesser Seductions of History asks the question "what does it mean to be part of something greater than yourself?"
- nytheatre.com

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1st Produced:
Cherry Pit, NY    07 Nov 2009

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Flux theatre ensemble

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  5            Female:  5            Other:  1 gender neutral

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Let Slip

Synopsis:
When Renna, a dramaturg in the far away future, discovers that her companys Passion Play of Bush, Saddam and Osama is based on a false history, she must decide if the show should go on.

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Genre:
10 Minute Play

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Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Lightning Walks

Synopsis:
After an environmental accident in New Orleans, activist Rebekah and her daughter Tanyah find unlikely allies in a platform workers daughter and a chemical companys crisis manager.

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Lipstick and Wrenches

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After her favorite sitcom star dies unexpectedly, teenage loser Palmer Harris decides to save the world.

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Midas Touch, The

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A failed comic book writers life changes when he gains the power to turn things into gold.

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5 Minute Monologue

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No Business

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A biographical look at my relationship to show business.

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No Second Acts: A Collection of Short American Lives

Synopsis:
F. Scott Fitzgerald said that there are no second acts in American lives, and the Brick sets out to prove him right with this collection of one-act plays. Taking on themes of U.S. history, politics and culture, these little nuggets of Americana take full advantage of our constitutional right to free speech in their wild, varied and often uncouth takes on our national experience.
- nytheatre.com

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part of A collection of short plays written by Gyda Arber, James Comtois, Jeff Lewonczyk, Justin Maxwell, August Schulenburg, Trav S.D., Crystal Skillman, Alexis Sottile, Stephanie Swirsky, Art Wallace

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Brick theatre
575 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11211    01 Jun 2012

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Other Bodies

Synopsis:
the creators of last year's FringeNYC Village Voice Audience Favorite Riding the Bull return with this seductive battle of the sexes between a notorious player and mysterious woman that deepens into a haunting parable of how our bodies betray us. www.fluxtheatre.org 2h 25m, Manhattan, NYC Drama, Comedy
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2h 25m, Drama, Comedy

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Perfect Children

Synopsis:
When a mysterious girl wearing the mask of a U.S. president kidnaps Jenin, his rescuers discover unsettling truths about their city in this sci-fi fantasy.

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Perse

Synopsis:
Melinda remembers tutoring Perse and what happened between them when their music made Perse famous.

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Piper McKenzie's Dainty Cadaver

Synopsis:
18 playwrights. 3 plays. One performance of each. Piper McKenzie's Dainty Cadaver is an Exquisite Corpse-style playmaking project in which multiple playwrights collaborate on a single work without knowing what the hell the others are doing. Each writer reads the previous scene, writes a new scene, and passes it on to the next writer - who doesn't see any of what came earlier. Beautiful madness ensues. For its inaugural edition, Piper McKenzie will present one-night-only performances of three new plays written in this unique collaborative style, with results ranging from inspired chaos to eerie synchronicity - all tied together by the unique voices of 18 hot playwrights, divided into three teams and staged by three directors. the teams and their performance details are as follows: TEAM A: Fri 1/28, 8pm: Johnna Adams, Eric Bland, Jeff Lewonczyk, Mac Rogers, Crystal Skillman, Art Wallace. Directed by Jordana Williams. TEAM B: Sat 1/29, 8pm: Danny Bowes, Matt Freeman, Qui Nguyen, Carolyn Raship, August Schulenburg, Alexis Sottile. Directed by Hope Cartelli. TEAM C: Sun 1/30, 3pm: Maggie Cino, James Comtois, John DeVore, Cara Francis, Rich Lovejoy, Justin Maxwell. Directed by John Hurley.
- nytheatre.com

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Brick theatre
575 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11211    29 Jan 2011

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Presents

Synopsis:
An amateur astronomer has a a brush with Santa Claus and eternity.

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10 Minute Monologue

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RabbitWolfBird

Synopsis:
A woman tells us how a trauma transformed her into a shapeshifter.

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written for CAPSLOCKs PussyFest

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Refrigerator Hums, The

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In a haunted hotel room, an exorcism is called for by unusual allies.

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Riding the Bull

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A love affair between a devout rodeo clown and a hellraising rancher leads to Graceland, prophetic sex, and cows that rise from the dead.
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Rue

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Rue, a whimsical dark comedy, is about the madness of desire and the clarity of love. In the sinful Southern half of a mythical island, we meet Handsome, a poor charismatic bartender; his jilted lover Pip; and the rich and powerful Boss McReis. When McReis hires Handsome as the front-man of his swankiest hotel and bans Pip from following, she goes undercover as a boy to win Handsome back. then Candace, desperate for a child, arrives at the hotel with her unhappy husband. What follows is a farce of epic proportions, complete with slamming doors, unlikely marriages, and a nearly immaculate conception. Beyond the farcical elements, however, lurk darker themes of obsession, exploitation and regret. At its heart, Rue is about the fragility of beauty, our basic need for human contact and why we should be forgiven for chasing these so compulsively.
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Dark Comedy Comedy

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Rumplestiltskin

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A musical version of the classic that also incorporates string theory.

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60 Minute Musical for Children

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Salvage

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After New York City suffers a catastrophic event, Noma and Akiko attempt to find whatever of value is left in the rubble, and make sense of their new lives.

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Sea Concerto, The

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Lynnie conjures the memory of her family to find out how her father went from being an up-and-coming jazz musician to a man that turned off music when he walked in a room.

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Single Crumb Forever, A

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Contribution To Dainty Candaver

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10 Minute Scene

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Six Beers In

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A sister tries to drink her way into her prodigal brothers graces.

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15 Minute Site-Specific Drama

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So We Beat On

Synopsis:
Rose pays her annual visit to Jakes grave with important news.

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Stepping

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Bahiya and Daudi are siblings growing up in Harlem with the power to step into alternate worlds. That power is tested after their mother dies, their father takes on her persona, and their uncle goes on a bender of mythic proportions. And just who is the Man with the Umbrella?

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Symbolic Gestures

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Three activists have their civil disobedience shaken by more intimate desires.

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Tidal Devices

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Al, a visual artist, is forced to move back to Marthas Vineyard and wait tables at the Grey Cat because of her mothers illness. Her friend Amada, her lover Jamie, and a rookie server named Glory grow close under the pressure of a wild summer.

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Under a Better Sky

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A commission for Hall High School: students in a wasteland attempt to pass into a walled city or bring the walls down.

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Very Nosedive Future, A

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written for Nosedive Productions 2012 Gala

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10 Minute Farce

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Wake to Dream

Synopsis:
A futuristic exploration of the nature of love and reality
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part of the Dream Project, which is described As "an exploration of Pedro Calderon de la Barca's La Vida es Sueno through A series of staged readings of Adaptations of Calderon's masterpiece

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Arthur Seelen Theatre, NY    2007

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What Is Outside

Synopsis:
An ideal community is undone when a twin sister takes her brothers place in a ritual sacrifice.

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Opera

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Where It Comes and Where It Goes

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A British researcher believes shes found the secret to the Holy Grail  in Aerosmiths song, Dude Looks Like A Lady.

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