MARY STEELSMITH
| Nationality: | USA |
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Plays by Mary Steelsmith
"M" Word, The |
| 1st Produced: | Ten Minute Play Festival, White Bear Lake, MN | - | ||||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Ten minute play | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | - |
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| Synopsis: | The curse of uttering Shakespeare's "M" play is true as three actors find that they must perform it as the Three Stooges for Eternity | |||||
Bedside Companion |
| 1st Produced: | Theatre 40 One Act Festival, Beverly Hills | - | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Players Press, | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | One act | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 3 |
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| Synopsis: | In the final stages of an AIDS related illness Charlie believes that only people telling him stories will keep him alive. | |||||
Behold a Pale Bronco |
| 1st Produced: | Actors Repertory Theater, Rancho Palos Verdes, California | - | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Players Press, | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 |
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| Synopsis: | O J Simpson is riding in a cavalcade past his house - Billy cannot decide whether to watch from his balcony or watch on television | |||||
Come What Mae |
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Monologue play | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 |
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| Synopsis: | The story of Mae West | |||||
Duty Call |
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | One act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Fertility |
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
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Gals |
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Homecoming |
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
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Isaac, I am |
| 1st Produced: | Jacksonville, Florida | 2006 | ||||
| Company: | Jacksonville University | |||||
| 1st Published: | Players Press(playerspress@att.net), | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | 3 roles can be either M or F | |||||
| Notes: | Winner of the 2006 Helford Prize in Playwriting. | |||||
| Synopsis: | Set in the world of seductive cyber chat rooms and instant messaging, Angela finds herself torn between a budding "real life" romance and a darker online relationship with a family seemingly bent on its own destruction. As she struggles to come to terms with her own feelings of insecurity and loneliness, she is simultaneously pulled deeper into a bizarre cyberspace by the perplexing and emotionally elusive family of Josh, his younger sister Katie and their obsessive father, Isaac. Eventually, Angela's dual worlds of reality and "virtu-ality" begin to blur together, until her computer life threatens to devour her whole. | |||||
List of Honor |
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | One act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Miraculous Day Quartet |
| 1st Produced: | L.A., Chicago, NYC | 2004-2006 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Players Press(playerspress@att.net), | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | 10-15 min Drama | Ten Min | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | 1 role can be either M or F | |||||
| Notes: | Honorable mention for best author at The Second Annual Chester Horn Short Play Festival 2006, Theatre Rats in New York City | |||||
| Synopsis: | Four people are late to their appointed destinations on a significant day in recent history. | |||||
Old Man and the Seed, The |
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| 1st Published: | Players Press, | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | Ten minute play | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 |
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| Synopsis: | An elderly man rants that he asked for a miracle and got the wrong one | |||||
Open House |
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | One act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Our Home For The Holiday |
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
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Outing Audie |
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | One act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Outsourcing Christmas |
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | One act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Paperback Books |
| 1st Produced: | Hyperion Theater, Los Angeles | - | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Players Press, | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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| Synopsis: | Can a self help paperback do anything for these two people? | |||||
Seldom Is Heard |
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
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Shelia's Last Hayride |
| 1st Produced: | ALAP West Hollywood Gay Play Reading Festival | - | ||||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
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Shoe In |
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | One act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Spit and Polish |
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | One act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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They's Weywulves |
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| 1st Published: | Players Press, | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | Ten minute play | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 3 |
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| Synopsis: | Should a female member of the clan hunt with the males? | |||||
This Isn't Exactly How I Expected It |
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| 1st Published: | Published, | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 4 |
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This Isn't Exactly How I Expected It |
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| 1st Published: | Pioneer Drama Service, | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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| Synopsis: | Oscar is dead. He finds himself in a waiting room and he is sure that his exemplary life will see him all right for what will come next | |||||
True Blue |
| 1st Produced: | Single Carrot Theater, Baltimore, MD | - | ||||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | - |
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| Synopsis: | Two soldiers are on guard on either side of the line dividing their warring countries | |||||
WACs In Khaki |
| 1st Produced: | Company Theatre, Los Angeles | - | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Players Press, | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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| Synopsis: | It is War and Dotty, Veronica and Loretta - army nurses - are going to save our boys from the Nazi-Communists. | |||||
What Can Brown Do For You? |
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | One act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Women With Casseroles |
| 1st Produced: | Torrance, California | 2000 | ||||
| Company: | PvPlayers | |||||
| 1st Published: | Players Press, 2002 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 3 |
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| Synopsis: | Laura and Emily, former high school homecoming princesses have come to pay their last respects to Janie, their fallen queen, who ruled over them long after school let out. In their best Martha Stewart manner, they bring casseroles as offerings to Janie's husband, competing to see who will succeed her. Diane strides in with an offering of her own -- the truth about Janie's bizarre household accident' and other sunrises. | |||||