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Liz Duffy Adams

LIZ DUFFY ADAMS

  
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    The Gersh Agency, NY  

Liz Duffy Adams' agent is Kate Navin at abrams artists agency (kate@dandkartists.com). Liz Duffy Adams is a New Dramatists alumna (2001-2008) and a recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship award, a Will Glickman Playwright award, a Frederick Loewe award in Music Theatre, a Weston Playhouse Music Theater award, and a commission from Children's Theater Company, Minneapolis. Her work has been written, produced, or developed at the Humana Festival, the Women's Project, Portland Center Stage, Portland Stage Company, Syracuse Stage, Bay area Playwrights Festival, MacDowell Colony, Djerassi Resident artists Program, Millay Colony for the Arts, New Georges, Shotgun Players, Moxie Theater, Clubbed Thumb, and Crowded Fire Theater, among other places. Publications include Poodle With Guitar and Dark Glasses in applause's "Best American Short Plays 2000-2001," numerous short plays and monologues in anthologies from Heinemann and Smith & Kraus, and several plays published by Playscripts, Inc. Ms. Adams was profiled inAmerican Theatre magazine's December 2004 issue. BFa: NYU's experimental Theater Wing; MFA: Yale School of Drama.

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         Aphra Does Antwerp         Breathing Mars         Buccaneers         Cantaloupe From Ten         Discourse on the Wonders of the Invisible World, A         Dog Act         Last Woman On Earth, The         Lights Up!         Listener Of Junk City, The         Listener, The         Neon Mirage         One Big Lie         Or,         Poodle With Guitar And Dark Glasses         Reckless Ruthless Brutal Charge Of It, Or, The Train Play, The         Wet Or IsabElla the Pirate Queen Enters the Horse Latitudes

Aphra Does Antwerp

Synopsis:
antwerp, 1660. aphra Behn -- englishwoman, poet, spy, and soon to become the first professional female playwright -- is flat broke and waiting to meet her contact and ex-lover, the double agent William Scot. She must use all her wiles and wit -- and a dalliance with the landlord's daughter -- to pay off her inn bill and get safely back to London. a brief Restoration-style comedy in rhyming couplets.

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1st Produced:
The Women's Project And Productions Tandem Acts Festival (New York, NY, United States)     2001

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1st Published:
Playscripts, Inc - New York   -

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Genre:
12-15 min Restoration comedy in verse

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  1 male, 2 females

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Breathing Mars

Synopsis:
a lone American spaceman marooned on Mars when his mission goes wrong. He is proud to be the first American on Mars. He now considers himself a Martian - and then a real one turns up

Notes:
Music by Timothy Huang; lyrics And book by Liz Duffy Adams

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Genre:
Musical

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Buccaneers

Synopsis:
Down on their luck, enid arabella's parents have to send her away in order to survive. But enid arabElla refuses to be stuck in some home for children, so she runs off and is captured by the horrible pirate Captain Johnny Johne and his young crew. Using her wits, enid arabElla not only evades an early demise, but tricks the Captain into falling off the ship. Hooray! Now on their own, the child pirates claim themselves to be buccaneers and make enid arabElla their captain. But Captain Johnny Johne has other plans& This rousing pirate musical, with a score drawn from sea shanties and music from around the world, is an inspiring tale of empowerment and leadershipwith plenty of swashbuckling to boot.

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Music by ellen Maddow

1st Produced:
The Children's Theatre Company-Minneapolis.     2012

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Genre:
Musical TYA 90 min

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Cantaloupe From Ten

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1st Produced:
Summerworks Short Play Event     2005

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Discourse on the Wonders of the Invisible World, A

Synopsis:
Liz Duffy Adams has penned a sequel to Arthur Miller's the Crucible, called A Discourse on the Wonders of the Invisible World. In Adams' story, Abigail Williams  who set Salem ablaze ten years previous with her allegations of witchcraft and possession  talks with her childhood co-conspirator Mercy Lewis in an effort to understand the forces which put the Witch Trials into motion. But New england is on the edge of war, now, and not in the mood for reflection  and the devil is afoot. Kent Nicholson directs.

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1st Produced:
Frank Center Stage, 260 University Drive     03 Jul 2013

Organisations:
Contemporary American Theater Festival

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Dog Act

Synopsis:
Post-apocalyptic wilderness was never funnier. Follow the adventures of Zetta Stone, a traveling performer, and her companion Dog (a young man undergoing a voluntary species demotion) as they wander through the former northeastern United States. Zetta, Dog and their little troupe are on their way to a gig in China, assuming they can find it. . .and survive the journey. a theatrical, darkly comic variation on the classic doomsday genre, with five original songs.

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1st Produced:
Portland Stage Company (Little Festival Of The Unexpected, Workshop) (Portland, Or, United States)     2000

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1st Published:
Playscripts, Inc - New York   -

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Genre:
100-105 min Post-apocalyptic comedy

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  3 males, 3 females

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Last Woman On Earth, The

Synopsis:
It's the year 2509, exactly ten minutes before the end of the world -- and the Oldest Living Human, a 512-year-old earthling, refuses to evacuate. Can the Captain of the last transport and her Lunatic adjunct persuade the memory-choked old woman to leave her home?

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1st Produced:
The Women's Project And Productions Tandem Acts Festival (New York, NY, United States)     2000

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1st Published:
Playscripts, Inc - New York   -

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Genre:
10-12 min Science fiction comic-Drama

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Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  1 male, 2 females (3 actors possible: 1-2 males, 1-2 females)

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Lights Up!

Synopsis:
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Notes:
written by Arlene Hutton, Silvia Gonzalez S., Catherine Filloux, Neena Beber, Wendy Hammond, Liz Duffy Adams, Barbara Wiechmann

1st Produced:
Players Theatre, NY     2007

Organisations:
Wizard Oil Productions

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Listener Of Junk City, The

Synopsis:
The future. Most of the inhabitants of Earth have left for the Moon. Some stayed behind. Junk City is where some of them live. John an emissary from the Moon arrives but is treated with suspicion

Notes:
Music by John Hodian; lyrics and book by Liz Duffy Adams. Based on the play "The Listener" by Liz Duffy Adams

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Genre:
Musical

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Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Listener, The

Synopsis:
The future. Most of the inhabitants of Earth have left for the Moon. Some stayed behind. Junk City is where some of them live. John an emissary from the Moon arrives but is treated with suspicion

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Genre:
Science fiction

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Neon Mirage

Synopsis:
38 million people visit Las Vegas every year for the glitz, the tits and the gold. But what's it like to live and work in America's Disneyland for grown-ups? Could you tell what's real and what's just a mirage?

Notes:
written by Liz Duffy Adams, Dan Dietz, Julie Jenson, Lisa Kron, Tracey Scott Wilson And Chay Yew, Music And Lyrics by Rick Hip Flores. Venue 5: Henry Street Settlement - Harry de Jur Playhouse

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Organisations:
the 2006 apprentice Company from Actors Theatre of Louisville

1st Published:
Playscripts, Inc - New York   -

Music:
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Genre:
Comedy Musical Musical

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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One Big Lie

Synopsis:
Lulu the Goddess of Lies is banished and whilst she wanders amongst mortals she plots her revenge

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Music by David Rhodes. Originally entitles "All The Truth In The World"

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Male:  3            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Or,

Or,
OR, takes place (mostly) during one night in the life of aphra Behn, poet, spy, and soon to be the first professional female playwright. Sprung from debtors' prison after a disastrous overseas mission, aphra is desperate to get out of the spy trade. She has a shot at a production at one of only two London companies, if she can only finish her play by morning despite interruptions from sudden new love, actress Nell Gwynne; complicated royal love, King Charles II; and very dodgy ex-love, double-agent William Scott - who may be in on a plot to murder the king in the morning. Can aphra resist Nell's charms, save Charles' life, win William a pardon, and launch her career, all in one night? against a background of a long drawn-out war and a counter-culture of free love, cross-dressing, and pastoral lyricism, the 1660s look a lot like the 1960s in this neo-Restoration comedy from the playwright the San Francisco Bay Guardian called "an artist of playful and highly literate imagination, radical instincts, and sardonic but generous humor."

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1st Produced:
Julia Miles (Wpp) Theatre, NY     03 Nov 2009

Organisations:
Women's Project

1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY
New Playwrights: the Best Plays 2010, ed Lawrence Harbison, Smith & Kraus (November 1, 2011)   978-1575257754

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Poodle With Guitar And Dark Glasses

Synopsis:
Four late nights, five lost souls, one poodle gone Elvis. above an after-hours club in an urban art slum, a painter loses control of her brush, a romance writer loses control of her heroine, an eSL teacher loses control of the to-be verb, a neighborhood activist turns into a migratory sea bird -- and a photographer called Jerry is not what he seems. a dark rhapsodic comedy about the perils of living by formula.

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1st Produced:
Lincoln Center Directors Lab, Here (Workshop) (New York, NY, United States)     2002

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1st Published:
Playscripts, Inc - New York   -

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Genre:
45-55 min Comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  2 males, 3 females (5 actors possible: 0-5 males, 0-5 females)

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Reckless Ruthless Brutal Charge Of It, Or, The Train Play, The

Synopsis:
a scientist in flight from a terrifying truth she's only glimpsed. a twelve-year-old superhero in flight from her ordinary life. a goddess on the lam from boredom, and a trio of Russian brothers on a musical mission. eight strangers face the end of the universe one night on a train in America, hurtling along a comic-poetic collision course with time, history, and a supernatural climax.

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1st Produced:
Crowded Fire (San Francisco, Ca, United States)     2002

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1st Published:
Playscripts, Inc - New York   -

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Genre:
75-90 min Comi-threnody

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  3            Other:  5 males, 3 females

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Wet Or IsabElla the Pirate Queen Enters the Horse Latitudes

Synopsis:
Three women pirates and a drag queen seize Captain Joppa's ship.

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1st Produced:
-     2003

Organisations:
Cutting Ball Theatre

1st Published:
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Music:
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Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

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