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Sharr White

SHARR WHITE

  (1970 - )
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    William Morris Endeavor Entertainment, LLC  represented by Jonathan Lomma

Plays by Sharr White include: Six Years (30th Anniversary Humana Festival of New American Plays at Actors Theatre of Louisville, 2006 New York Foundation For the Arts Fellowship); Iris Fields (Lincoln Center Theatre Directors Lab, Key West Theatre Festival); Satellites of the Sun (finalist, Princess Grace Award); the Escape Velocity of Savages (Dr. Henry and Lillian Nesburn Award as part of the Julie Harris Award in Playwriting). Sharr is a member of the Ensemble Studio Theatre's Playwrighting Unit in New York, and a company member of Apartment A Productions in Los Angeles. White's Sunlight (premiering in January, 2010 at Marin Theatre Company) was commissioned by South Coast Repertory; workshopped at SCR's Pacific Playwrights Festival; Marin Theatre Company's Nu Werkz reading series; is a participANT in the National New Play Network's Continued Life Fund; and was a recipient of Marin's 2009 Skye Cooper New American Play Prize.

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below is a list of Sharr White's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Achilles in Sparta         Heaven And All Things Lovely         Annapurna         Dream Canvas, The         Escape Velocity Of Savages, The         Iris Fields         Last Orange Dying, The         Other Place, The         Safe From the Future         Satellites of the Sun         Six Years         Snow Geese, The         Sunlight         Sunrise in Times Square, A

Achilles in Sparta

Synopsis:
A tragedy has befallen a great city. A country girds for war. Helen, the national figurehead of beauty and hope, has been abducted from Sparta, and its young men and women-those most likely to do the fighting, and mourning-ready themselves for struggle. Developed expressly for young actors, ACHILLES IN SPARTA uses short, highly theatrical scenes and monologues to tell the story of a nation marching towards inevitable conflict and the fall of a hero. With variable casting possibilities intended to meet the needs of a group of any size, from small class productions to conservatory productions with large casting demands, ACHILLES IN SPARTA provides an engrossing entryway into the classics through an emotionally accessible and linguistically rich theatrical experience that explores the joys and challenges of stagecraft and acting.

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Dramatists Play Service Inc, NY, 2007   978-0-8222-2216-3

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TYA

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Male:  8            Female:  6            Other:  flexible

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Heaven And All Things Lovely

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(far above Broadway in the Mariott Marquis, room 3806, NY    -

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Annapurna

Synopsis:
After twenty years apart, Emma tracks Ulysses to a trailer park in the middle of nowhere for a final reckoning. What unfolds is a visceral and profound meditation on love and loss with the simplest of theatrical elements: two people in one room. A breathtaking story about the longevity of love.

Notes:
2012 finalist for the Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award.

1st Produced:
Magic Theatre, CA, USA >>>    02 Nov 2011

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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service Inc, NY, 2014   978-0-8222-2959-9

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Play/Drama

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Dream Canvas, The

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Todo Con Nada, NY    -

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Escape Velocity Of Savages, The

Synopsis:
1950's America in a troubled family where a coyote is never far from the door.

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Dr. Henry and Lillian Nesburn Award as part of the Julie Harris Award in Playwriting

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Iris Fields

Synopsis:
about the devastating effects of the Civil War on a Midwestern family

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1st Produced:
Key West Theatre Festival, Lincoln Center Theatre    -

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Last Orange Dying, The

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off-Broadway at the Ohio, NY    -

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Other Place, The

Synopsis:
Just as Juliana Smithton's research leads to a potential breakthrough in Alzheimer treatment drugs, her life takes a disorienting turn. During a lecture to colleagues at an exclusive beach resort, she glimpses an enigmatic young woman in a yellow bikini amidst the crowd of business suits. One step at a time, a mystery unravels as contradictory evidence, blurred truth and fragmented memories collide in a cottage on the windswept shores of Cape Cod.

Notes:
the Other Place was developed At the Lark Play Development Center in New York; the Jar reading series in Los Angeles;

1st Produced:
MCC Theatre, NY    28 Mar 2011

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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, Inc, 2011   978-0-8222-2539-3

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Genre:
75 min one act

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Safe From the Future

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Raw Space, New York    -

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Satellites of the Sun

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finalist, Princess Grace Award

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Six Years

Synopsis:
It is 1949 when Phil Granger finally reappears in the small Missouri town he left six years earlier for the unspeakable horrors of World War II. His wife, Meredith, is there to meet him, put him back together. . .and keep him home. In five scenes spanning twenty-four years of Postwar life, Sharr White takes us on an intimate journey to an unspoken side of the Greatest Generation, chronicling Meredith and Phil Granger's struggles to survive together through the boom of the 1950s, the hope and unbearable losses of the 1960s, and the resounding search for redemption following the Vietnam war.

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Dramatists Play Service Inc, NY, 2007
Playscripts, Inc - New York   -

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Play/Drama

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Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Snow Geese, The

Synopsis:
With war raging abroad, newly widowed Elizabeth Gaesling gathers her family for their annual shooting party to mark the opening of hunting season in rural, upstate New York. But Elizabeth is forced to confront a new reality as her carefree eldest son comes to terms with his impending deployment overseas and her younger son discovers that the father they all revered left them deeply in debt. Together, the family must let go of the life theyve always known.

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MCC Theatre

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Sunlight

Synopsis:
Matthew Gibbon, liberal lion and university president, may have finally gone too far in his battle against the conservative Dean of the law school - his son-in-law and former protege. His daughter is caught between them and the entire university community is up in arms. the personal and political collide in this stunning new play about loyalty, power and torture memos.

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1st Produced:
Marin Theatre Company    26 Jan 2010

Organisations:
commissioned by South Coast Repertory

1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, Inc, 2011   978-0-8222-2538-6

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Genre:
Play/Drama 105 min two act

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Sunrise in Times Square, A

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34th Marathon of One Act Plays

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Genre:
one act

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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