KEN URBAN (1974 - )
| Nationality: | USA |
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Plays by Ken Urban
2 Husbands |
| 1st Produced: | The Chocolate Factory, New York City (work in progress) | 2006 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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: | multimedia theatre piece | Piece | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | conceived by Ken Urban; directed by Brian Rogers | |||||
| Synopsis: | In a Florida hospital room, a husband - who shall remain nameless for legal reasons - keeps vigil at the bedside of his ex- wife, now forced to live in a vegetative state. In an expensive apartment in New York, the grieving Philip hires a woman to deliver a message to his recently deceased wife. Then the letters start arriving. For both men, their beloveds won't die, and something has to give. Things end badly, and songs are sung in this meditation on wives and death. | |||||
Absence of Weather, The |
| 1st Produced: | Moving Arts, Los Angeles, CA | 2005 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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 | 4 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Developed as part of the Annex Theatre's (Seattle, WA) Hothouse Development Program (May 2001). Readings in NYC, Seattle, WA and New Jersey. Named the winner of the 2004 Moving Arts One-Act Playwriting Award | |||||
| Synopsis: | James Forrestal, President Truman's Secretary of Defense, is committed to an institution after he attempts suicide. The architect of cold-war hysteria now fears that Russians have not only infiltrated the highest ranks of the U.S. government, but are hiding in the bushes outside his home. A young man joins Forrestal in his hospital room, but this mysterious figure may bring about an untimely end for the first Secretary of Defense | |||||
Burners |
| 1st Produced: | Kraine Theatre, NYC | 1999 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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: | Full-length (2 Acts) | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 |
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| Synopsis: | A young painter named Edgar answers a personal ad placed by Kathy, an older business woman. But Kathy hasn't placed a typical personal, and at her urging, Kathy and Edgar exchange stories about why they are contemplating the impossible. A dark comedy about sex, success and suicide. | |||||
Female Terrorist Project, The |
| 1st Produced: | The Chocolate Factory, New York City | 2004 | ||||
| Company: | The Committee | |||||
| 1st Published: | in the anthology New York Theater Review (Ed. Brook Stowe), 2005 Original Works, Los Angeles (2009) >>> | ISBN/ASIN | 978-1-934962-32-9 | |||
| 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 | 1 | Female | 6 |
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 | In an America where bombings and kidnappings are daily occurrences and civil liberties a thing of the past, Amelia documents the lives of famous female terrorists, from a homegrown anti-abortion assassin to a Palestinian hijacker. After a visit by Agent from the Office of Homeland Security, Amelia finds herself drawn into a world more frightening than she could possibly have imagined. | |||||
Halo |
| 1st Produced: | Present Company Theatorium, NYC | 2001 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN | 09670234-3-2 | ||||
| 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 | 6 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | More actors can be cast, 10 actors is the smallest ensemble | |||||
| Notes: | Recently produced at Rude Guerrilla Theatre, August 2003; the third play of the New Jersey Trilogy. A monlogue from Halo is featured in The Best Women's Stage Monologues 2001 Ed. D.L. Lepidus) | |||||
 | A pageant in 29 scenes. A mother talks to herself at four different moments in her life. A young man and woman in a working-class suburb play a violent game of senseless murder. And in an update of the medieval morality play, Death visits a corporate Everyman and forces her on a journey throughout the Garden State to make amends for a life of only material gains. | |||||
Happy Sad |
| 1st Produced: | 2008 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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 | 0 |
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| Synopsis: | Stan loves Annie, but Annie doesn't love Stan. Marcus loves Aaron, but Marcus doesn't like monogamy - nytheatre.com | |||||
I (Heart) Kant |
| 1st Produced: | Moving Arts, Los Angeles, CA | 2001 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN | ow-kant | ||||
| 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 | One Act | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
 | Four women who call the Garden State home are lost, stifled by sex, drugs, dead-end jobs and unfinished dissertations. In a play that weaves together four stories, and features a talking stuffed cat and the ideas of philosopher Immanuel Kant, the women search for happiness and instead stumble upon the sublime. | |||||
Jesus Side, The |
| 1st Produced: | Nautilus Milkshake, LA, CA | 2003 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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 | 2 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Also produced by Singularity and the committee at the Manhattan Theatre Source, NYC, May 2003 | |||||
| Synopsis: | Haunted by memories of molestation, Alexander is encouraged by his therapist Mary to seek out the perpetrator. More than a bad touch bubbles to the surface when son confronts would-be father Frank. A twisted comedy about love and mass murder. | |||||
Mushroom |
| 1st Produced: | Kraine Theatre, NY, USA | 2006 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | Andrew and Laura sit in a waiting room, thinking the worst has happened. But things get much worse. What has happened to Mark? And what's behind that door, the door that begs to be opened? | |||||
Nibbler |
| 1st Produced: | Rude Guerrilla, CA | 2003 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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 | 4 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | The second play of the New Jersey Trilogy. Readings in Seattle, WA and NYC. | |||||
| Synopsis: | Five teenagers spend the summer before college dabbling with sex, drugs, space aliens and Republican politics. A comedy about those awkward days when verything and nothing seems possible. | |||||
Or Polaroids (Version 2.x) |
| 1st Produced: | HERE Arts Center, NYC | 2002 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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: | Hour-long drama for voices | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | Variable, can be done with an ensemble of 5 to 15 | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | Haunted by political executions, performance art and porno, a group of insomniacs discover that justice and sleep come only at a price. A meditation on violence for five or more speakers inspired by first-hand accounts of the Rwandan genocide as well as cases of insomnia following the World Trade Center disaster. | |||||
Private Lives of Eskimos, The |
| 1st Produced: | 440 Studios, NY | 2007 | ||||
| Company: | The Committee Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN | 978-1-934962-36-7 | ||||
| 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 | 2 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | with doubling | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
 | Marvin's life is thrown into chaos when he receives the news that his sister has been killed in a tragic train bombing. His only remaining connection to her is the voice mail she left on his cell phone, which he has just lost. His hunt to find it leads Marvin down a cyber rabbit-hole, filled with mysterious SPAM- speaking Eskimos, black black snow, a violent Detective, and a strange woman in a distant land who claims to have acquired his phone through 'dishonorable means.' Fans of the surreal are sure to love this funny and poignant story of loss and life after anti-depressants. | |||||
Sense of an Ending |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
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| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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: | Full-length (2 Acts) | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Developed as part of the 2002-2003 Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab, NYC. Readings in NYC at Soho Rep and the Epiphany Theater Company. | |||||
| Synopsis: | Charles, an African-American journalist, travels to Rwanda, five years after the genocide, to interview two nuns about to stand trial for crimes against humanity for their presumed role in the murder of thousands of Tutsis at a church. Charles arrives, thinking he knows who is guilty and who is innocent, but his two guides help Charles understand that things are never that simple. An Easter play for non-believers. | |||||