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David Allyn

DAVID ALLYN  (1969 - )

 Nationality:    USA
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David allyn began writing plays at Georgetown Day School and continued at Brown University and Harvard University. His play Baptizing Adam, which won the James H. Wilson award for Best-Full Length Play from the Deep South Writers Conference, was produced in New York in 2002; Writers Colony was the highest-grossing play in the 2009 Fresh Fruit Festival in New York in 2009. Commencement was developed through the Pulse ensemble Theatre Lab and the Woodstock Fringe Playwrights Unit and was selected for a reading at the 2010 Baltimore Playwrights Festival.

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         Arab, The         Baptizing Adam         Commencement         Punctuated Equilibrium         Writers Colony

Arab, The

Synopsis:
Two couples spedning the weekend in the country face a crisis when a vistor seems like he may be a terrorist.

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Baptizing Adam

Synopsis:
On the anniversary of her rape, a woman's best friend, a gay actor, ends up in a tryst with an evangelical christian, and two teenage boys play peeping tom out her window.

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Organisations:
Bus Stop Productions

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Genre:
Black Comedy Comedy

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Commencement

Synopsis:
a high-powered, divorced couple discover their daughter has converted to Islam and dropped out of college causing a crisis for the entire family.

Notes:
Minimal set requirements.

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Punctuated Equilibrium

Synopsis:
Love, lust, god and fruit flies.

Notes:
Minimal set requirements. Suitable for A black box theatre.

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Writers Colony

Synopsis:
a group of writers come close to blows in this farce set in a writers colony.

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1st Produced:
Hudson Guild, 441 West 26th Street, New York, NY 10035    2009

Organisations:
Fresh Fruit Festival

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Arthur M Jolly

ARTHUR M JOLLY  (1969 - )

 Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    Brant Rose Agency  

arthur M. Jolly was recognized by the academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences with a Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting in 2006, and is the screenwriter of Under the Same Sky (post production), eight Ball (Top ten finalist - Pavaline Short Screenplay Competition) and is also the playwright of the full length plays Past Curfew (2008 aOPW fellowship winner) and a Gulag Mouse (2009 Joining Sword with Pen winner, scheduled premiere Chicago 2010), and the radio play Thicker than Water, broadcast on NPR 2009.

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         Almost Christmas         Better By Candlelight         Bricklayer, The         Christmas Princess, The         CoPilot, The         Curfew         Fine Print, The         Four Senses Of Love, The         Gulag Mouse, A         How Blue Is My Crocodile         Howie's Last Words         I Shoulda Eaten My Peas And Carrots         If You Could Go Back         If You Could, Would You         One Booth Joint Finale, The         Past Curfew         Secret Of Jahlsburg, The         Tiger In A Cage         Very Modern Marriage, A         Zombified

Almost Christmas

Synopsis:
a waitress tries to get money out of customers and her boss so that she can buy a ticket to go kill her father

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1st Produced:
17th One act Festival at Venture Theatre, Billings, MT    10 Feb 2012

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Genre:
One act

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Better By Candlelight

Synopsis:
a widower gets a prostitute to help recreate his wedding anniversary

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1st Produced:
Rockland Theatre Co, Los Angeles    01 May 2006

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1st Published:
Original Works Press, 2010   -

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Genre:
Drama Ten Min

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Bricklayer, The

Synopsis:
 a bricklayer talks to his son about the importance of each individual brick, about small parts playing a role in larger issues. . . as he builds an industrial chimney in a concentration camp.

Notes:
This play can be downloaded from www.arthurjolly.com 

1st Produced:
atlantis Playmakers, Ma    20 Jul 2006

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Christmas Princess, The

Synopsis:
Having been forced to marry a handsome but dim prince, the princess tries to find a way out of the marriage

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1st Produced:
Black Box Theatre, SAnta Monica    -

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Genre:
Childrens play

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  4            Other:  extras

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CoPilot, The

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1st Produced:
North Park Playwright Festival @ North Park Vaudeville Stage, San Diego    04 Oct 2013

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Ten minute play

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Curfew

Synopsis:
a teenager is confronted by her mother when she arrives home late

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Fifteen minute play

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Fine Print, The

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Organisations:
Playwrights Round Table

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Music:
Recording of stage play: http://www.youtube.com/user/thePRTFL

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Four Senses Of Love, The

Synopsis:
a man with no feeling falls for a woman with no taste at a support group for the sensory deprived.  

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1st Produced:
Nufan ensemble, Chicago    16 Mar 2010

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1st Published:
the Best 10-Minute Plays Of 2012. Published by Smith and Kraus, Inc.    -

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Genre:
Comedy ten min

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Gulag Mouse, A

Synopsis:
a newcomer's arrival at a Siberian gulag destroys the intricate web of hierarchy, alliance and treachery among the other four inmates of her bunkhouse. 

Notes:
Joining Sword And Pen Competition Winner, 2009/2010.  Off-Broadway Competition Winner, 2010. 

1st Produced:
Trapdoor Theatre, Chicago    Mar 2010

Organisations:
Babes With Blades

1st Published:
Next Stage Press   -

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  5            Other:  -

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How Blue Is My Crocodile

Synopsis:
Two young girls play games that explore and reveal their hidden concerns, while waiting for their father, a wounded veteran, to return home from the hospital.

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1st Produced:
Cruthaigh  New Plays Festival, Los Angeles    12 Jun 2009

Organisations:
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1st Published:
YouthPLaYS,  Inc, 2009   -

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Howie's Last Words

Synopsis:
a stuntman returning home late after a fire stunt that went disastrously wrong is confronted by his wife - who  wants him to quit the business.     

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1st Produced:
Summer Shorts Festival,   Miami City theatre    02 Jun 2005

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Original Works Press, 2010   978-1-934962-29-9

Music:
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Genre:
Drama Ten Min

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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I Shoulda Eaten My Peas And Carrots

Synopsis:
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1st Produced:
Black Box Theater, SAnta Monica    -

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If You Could Go Back

Synopsis:
Two friends invent a time machine and change the past

Notes:
in "Take Off Your Shorts."

1st Produced:
Gold Venue (Theatre Downtown) of the Orlando International Fringe Festival in Orlando, FL    18 May 2013

Organisations:
Playwrights Round Table

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
Recording of stage play: http://www.youtube.com/user/thePRTFL

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Genre:
Fifteen minute play

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If You Could, Would You

Synopsis:
a play about death, violence, adolf Hitler and living in Mom's basement. a comedy
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
part of Vignettes for the Apocalypse V, the 5th Annual edition of New York's oldest And largest Sci-fi/Horror themed theater festival

1st Produced:
Kraine theater
85 east 4th Street, New York, NY 10034    11 Jun 2011

Organisations:
endTimes Productions

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
short comedy sci fi

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One Booth Joint Finale, The

Synopsis:
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1st Produced:
Black Box Theater, SAnta Monica    -

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Music:
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Past Curfew

Synopsis:
Years of bitter conflicts erupt as a single mother and her teenage daughter confront the unspoken issues between them in a night of vicious headgames.

Notes:
2008 AOPW Fellowship winning play.

1st Produced:
Pacific Resident Theatre, Los Angeles    Apr 2010

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Next Stage Press, 2009   -

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Secret Of Jahlsburg, The

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
North Park Vaudeville and Candy Shoppe, San Diego    28 Oct 2011

Organisations:
North Park Playwrights Festival

1st Published:
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Music:
Recording of stage play: http://www.youtube.com/user/thePRTFL

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Genre:
Ten minute play

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Tiger In A Cage

Synopsis:
a Female Psychiatrist gets trapped in a jail cell with a  former patient - a recidivist sex offender.  

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1st Produced:
Rudyard Kipling Theatre, KY    02 Mar 2010

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Original Works Press, 2010   978-1-934962-29-9

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Very Modern Marriage, A

Synopsis:
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Notes:
selected as a top ten finalist for the Actor's theatre of Charlotte's nuVoices for a nuGeneration Play Festival

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Zombified

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
Gene Frankel Theatre, New York    29 Oct 2012

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Short play

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