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Diana Amsterdam

DIANA AMSTERDAM

  
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    Elaine Devlin Literary, Inc.  represented by Elaine Devlin

Diana Amsterdam. Ms. Amsterdam's work has been produced at American Stage Company, MCC, Cucaracha Downtown, American Jewish Theatre in New York, the Source Theatre in Washington D.C., and at numerous regional and European Theatres. She began her writing career after working full-time as a caregiver for family members, making Beautiful Clear-eyed Woman the most autobiographical of her plays. Her work has been published by Playscripts, Inc, Samuel French, and her work anthologized by Smith & Kraus. She is a winner of a New York State Council on the Arts grant, and, after winning the American Search BBC Radio Play Contest, was frequently commissioned to write BBC radio plays for broadcast in London. Ms. amsterdam's screenplay Impossible is currently under option with Big Fish Productions, UK, and her new screenplay the Other Woman was selected as New York Women in Film and Television's 25th anniversary Screenplay.

Research:    Member of the Dramatists Guild of America (as at 2015)

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

         Beautiful Clear-eyed Woman         Carnival Round the Central Figure         Dodgers, The         Fast Girls         Iken's Perversion         Letting Billy

Beautiful Clear-eyed Woman

Synopsis:
Franny wants to be a writer but she doesn't have the time -- she's constantly busy taking care of a big old country house, an ailing father, a teenage son and his pals, and a troubled young niece. Indeed, Franny takes care of everyone. then, as fate often does have it, she gets the chance for some freedom just when the love of her life comes along, wanting her to start the family thing all over again. everyone agrees Franny can't let this love pass her by, not in her forties. With her niece on the run, her wealthy jerk of a brother in pursuit, and the clock ticking, what will Franny do?

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1st Produced:
Abingdon Theatre Company, Theatre Row (New York, NY, United States)     2001

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1st Published:
Playscripts, Inc - New York   -

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Genre:
110-130 min Comedy/Drama

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  4            Other:  5 males, 4 females

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Carnival Round the Central Figure

Synopsis:
Diana amsterdam's Carnival Round the Central Figure brings the macabre back to New York City. In a staging by Karen Kohlhaas reminiscent of the carnal exorbitance of carnivale's heyday, featuring a cast of characters pulled straight from the murky depths of the human psyche, Carnival is a hilarious, bizarre, and poignant story of the meaning of death, of dying with dignity, and the ancient dilEmma of living for a life after death. amsterdam sets a young dying man as unwitting ringmaster to a circus of denial, fear, and religious fervor.
- nytheatre.com

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1st Produced:
Irt Theater, 154 Christopher Street, 3B, NY     14 Jan 2011

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1st Published:
Broadway Play Publishing
Two Monologues From This Play Selected For the Best Women's Stage Monologues and Scenes 2012 From Smith and Kraus.   -

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  9            Other:  -

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Dodgers, The

Synopsis:
there's A Lottery To Attend A War, And Hell No! With the Help Of Girlfriends, Drugs, Music, And An Infamous Antiwar Doctor, Four Members Of A Rock Band Break All Bounds To Dodge the Vietnam Draft

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1st Produced:
The Hudson Theater. Los Angeles, CA     21 Jan 2016

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Fast Girls

Fast Girls
single woman with a healthy sex life accepts challenge to get a steady boyfriend

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1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1990   -

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Iken's Perversion

Synopsis:
artist Michael Iken has his would-be lover Omana Jones over to his apartment one cold winter night, demonstrating the extreme perversion of his painting -- and trying to convince her that he's entirely narcissistic and incapable of love. But Omana, a street-smart young poet who's had some troubles of her own, isn't having it. their free-verse verbal fireworks are interrupted by a mysterious someone from Iken's past, who's insistently ringing the buzzer. . .

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1st Produced:
Theatre Cucaracha (Workshop Production) (New York City, NY, United States)     1998

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1st Published:
Playscripts, Inc - New York   -

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Genre:
110-120 min Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  1 male, 1 female

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Letting Billy

Synopsis:
In the middle of the night, Franny gets a call from her young lover, who also happens to be a recent ex-student. He wants to come over, but she has many reasons he shouldn't, including her sleeping children, work responsibilities, and the nearness of dawn. Is his need strong enough to overcome her practicality?

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1st Published:
Playscripts, Inc - New York   -

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Genre:
10-12 min Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  1 male, 1 female

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