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Kim Yaged

KIM YAGED

  
Nationality:    USA
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Kim Yaged is an award-winning playwright whose work has been performed throughout North America. She has written children's books for Random House, and her short stories and poetry have been included in anthologies published by Ballantine Books, Cleis Press and Arsenal Pulp Press. An excerpt of her one-person show Hypocrites & Strippers was recently published in Applause Books' the Best Women's Monologues of the Millennium. Hypocrites & Strippers was also a finalist in the Bay Area Playwrights Festival, included in the Fritz Blitz in San Diego, and part of Double X's festival in Baltimore celebrating women's Theater and urban living. Kim's chamber opera www.love was showcased by the New York City Opera and subsequently performed in Ann Arbor, MI. This production won four Best of Awards, including Best Musical and Best Original Production. Kim's play Vessels was commissioned for the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust in conjunction with an exhibit by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Vessels was also performed at the Renberg Theatre in Hollywood and included in the Native Aliens Theatre Festival in New York. Kim's musical Leading Lady was part of Dixon Place's Festival "Warning: Not For Broadway" in New York. Her play Never Said was included in Unity Fest at the Bank Street Theatre in New York and the Wild Plum Theater Company's One-Act Festival in Cleveland. Playwrights' Arena produced a reading of her play S'lichot in Los Angeles. S'lichot was previously produced at the Trueblood Theatre in Ann Arbor and as part of the Resident Theatre Company's Playwright's Festival at Fullerton College in California. Other productions of her work include the University of Mishegoss at the Athe Conference in Toronto and Fullerton College; Kim's Spot at the Performance Network in Ann Arbor; and HER at Bailiwick Theatre in Chicago and API Theatre in Kalamazoo, MI. Kim worked on Feature in 48 with film and television producer Jeff Goode, and there was a reading of her television pilot Jersey City at Sony Studios. She was a co-recipient of a grant from Artserve, the State of Michigan Council for the Arts, as well as a recipient of the Kennedy Center's Meritorious Achievement Award for the Diego Rivera Theatre's production of her Theatre/dance hybrid America. Unknown Theater in Los Angeles also did a reading of America. Kim's other honors include two Hopwood Awards, for her plays HER and Roomies, the Institute for Research on Women and Gender's "Community of Scholars" Fellowship, and the Center for Education of Women's Margaret Dow Towsley Award. Kim graduated from the University of Michigan with an MFA in Playwriting.

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         America         Birth Right         Embassy, The         Eterna Sonrisa         Fable of the Mermaids         Family Values         Hypocrites & Strippers         Jersey City         Leading Lady         Mates         Never Said         Operation Secret Santa         S'lichot         Suicide Blog, The         University of Mishegoss, The         Vast Mystery Of Who You Are         Vessels         wwwlove

America

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America explores ethnicity, race, religion, and culture in the United States by presenting and questioning stereotypes to create a provocative social commentary that challenges us to examine our belief systems.

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Gay/Lesbian, theme/character Choreopoem. - - Gay, theme/character, full length

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Birth Right

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Done Act

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Embassy, The

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Lies and spies

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Eterna Sonrisa

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Romy Coto is a pop art sensation whose work is all the buzz in the NYC art scene. When the NYPD makes a connection between a murder scene and her art, is it a coincidence, an obsessed fan or something more sinister? Eterna Sonrisa is a thriller that uses multimedia to examine society's infatuation with celebrity, especially through the eyes and experiences of women.

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Fable of the Mermaids

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Fable of the Mermaids is set in a gentlemen's club in New Jersey. It's an unusually slow night when Andrew Morgan, a swarthy businessman, walks in the bar. Andrew quickly starts waving around a lot of cash, paying the dancers--Moni, the Brazilian bombshell, Ze the feminist, and Tania the college student--not to dance. Andrew hits the women with a bunch of moral posturing, and they tease him in return. But, their play turns serious when Tania challenges Andrew to a game of quarters. If she wins, he has to strip for them. If he wins, she has to sleep with him.

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Comedic Drama

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Family Values

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Family Values is a comedy about what happens when a racist factory worker has to move in with his Muslim in-laws when the bank forecloses on his house.

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Hypocrites & Strippers

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Hypocrites & Strippers tells the story of a feminist who keeps dating strippers. You're gonna laugh your pants off. . .okay, maybe that wasn't the best choice of words.

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Lesbian, theme/character, one-person play Comedic Drama. - - Lesbian, theme/character, full length

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Jersey City

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A mafia boss' daughter runs off with a woman on the eve of her wedding.

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Leading Lady

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Leading Lady is a fictionalized account of the life of Peggy Entwhistle-the first person to commit suicide by jumping off the Hollywood sign.

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Genre:
contemporary song cycle

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Mates

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Mates finds three frat boy types and a dildo alone in an apartment. there's no telling what might happen, and that's what they're afraid of.

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Never Said

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Never Said finds a woman alone in her room musing over her last lover, the lover before that, the guy from last night, and her hand in her pants. Won't anyone leave her alone? Well, if not. . .

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Operation Secret Santa

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S'lichot

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S'lichot--the word means forgiveness in Hebrew. One family learns it's easier said than done.

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Suicide Blog, The

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Life and the ending of it

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University of Mishegoss, The

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the University of Mishegoss is a satirical, humorous and sometimes absurd exploration of the hierarchy, politics and power-structure of bureaucracy. Set on an imaginary college campus, the plot follows the entanglements of an incoming student, a zealous feminist instructor, the department director and his assistant. Ultimately, Mishegoss critiques the ineffectual "System" to which we too frequently succumb.

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Satire One Act

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Vast Mystery Of Who You Are

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Love, death and sex parties

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Vessels

Synopsis:
How would you describe yourself? Poetic or subordinate? Brave or complacent? What if it's Germany-1944? Are you a bitch or a whore? Is she your lover, friend, sister, acquaintance, colleague, or sin? Lesbians in the Holocaust-Who would you be?

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Los Angeles Museum Of The Holocaust    

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Contained in: "Lodestar Quarterly issue 13 Spring", 2005   

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Lesbian Choreopoem One Act. - - Lesbian, one act

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wwwlove

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www.love tells the story of Dan, an ordinary guy in his thirties-who can't get a date. After a bad night out, he stumbles upon a chat room while web surfing. Engrossed by the possibilities, he creates an alter ego for himself, Stan, who is quite a hit with the chat room gang. However, when Steve starts courting Dan-not Stan-even going so far as to ask Dan to meet him in person, Dan oscillates between self-doubt and self-assuredness-until the doorbell rings.

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Genre:
gay Opera. - - Gay/Lesbian, of interest

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