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Dale Andersen

DALE ANDERSEN

  (1943 - )
Nationality:    USA
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Dale andersen has been writing plays for the past eight years. He's a member of the Dramatists Guild. He's studied Dramaturgy and taken advanced playwrighting at the South Coast Repertory Theatre. In May 2004, his full- length play, a Better Place, made the Eugene O'Neill Playwrights Conference short list. In June 2004, his short play, Thank You, was selected for the Edward albee's Last Frontier Theatre Conference. In august 2004, he was artist in Residence at the Woodstock Guild in New York. In March 2005, his full-length, the Fourth Daughter, was given a staged reading at the South Coast Repertory Practicum. In June 2005, his one-act, a Team Player, was produced at the Ohio Fringe Fest. In February 2006, his political monologue, Starman, was produced Off-Broadway. In March 2006, his full-length, a Better Place, got an off-Broadway staged reading and in May 2006, his one-act, a Team Player, got a production at the Devanaughn Theatre in Boston. In September 2006, his full-length, Mohammed's Moon, got a staged reading on the Nicholas Stage. In September 2007, he wrote a new full-length, the Best Years of her Life, during a one-month residency at the Dorset Colony in Dorset, VT. In October 2007, the Best Years of her Life got a reading at aSF in Irvine, CA. In December 2007, his short play, Starman, got a reading at aSF in Irvine, CA. In July, 2008, Panndora Productions gave a reading of the Best Years of Her Life. In November, 2008, Missing received a reading on the South Coast Repertory's Nicholas Studio Stage.

Research:    Member of the Dramatists Guild of America

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         Acid Test         Best Years Of Her Life, The         Better Place, A         Bobby Monologue, The         Christmas Truce         Dead Angel         Dog's Christmas, A         Fourth Daughter, The         From Whore To Pimp To Crackhead         Half-eaten Chilidog         Leaving the Light On         Little Jimmy         Lost Nation Morning Show, The         Merry Christmas, Bitch!         Missing         Mohammed's Moon         Nine Ten         Once there Was A Boy Named David         Report From the Republican National Convention         Solidarity         Starman         Team Player, A         Thank You

Acid Test

Synopsis:
a look at polygamy from a woman's point of view. Nudity & toilet scene

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Best Years Of Her Life, The

Synopsis:
Henry, a successful and powerful man, frustrated by the drift and malaise in his life, weds Madeline, a woman half his age, because he wants to revive, renew, refresh, rejuvenate. But as the ravages of time and the shock of events conspire against him, Madeline is left alone to perform one final act of mercy. the Best Years of her Life is a full-length version of my award-winning short play, Team Player.

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Reading At ASF in Irvine, Ca, in October, 2007. June, 2008. PannDora Productions gave A reading in Long Beach, Ca.

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Better Place, A

Synopsis:
a Better Place is a full-length play about six dogs trapped in a pound. and what is a pound, but a kind of death camp. In which the culture is up or out. as in, move up to a new owner or be carried out paws first. a dog eat dog world. Introducing Becky, the high-spirited and courageous aussie Cattle Dog. She arrives at the pound, having been dumped there by her owners and immediately sets about shaking things up. there's Cyril, the sinister, power-hungry German Shepherd. and artie, the irrepressible Pug. and Brick and Shawna and ali. How these six interact to keep clear of the Grim Reaper serves to conjure up the magic of the play.

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a Better Place had readings At the Asylum theatre in Las Vegas in 2004 And Off-Broadway in 2006 by Ten Grand Productions. It was developed At the South Coast Repertory Practicum. And it made the 2004 O'Neill Playwrights Conference shortlist. the inspiration to write this play came from my short play, A Dog's Christmas (listed below).

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full length Play/Drama

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Bobby Monologue, The

Synopsis:
a monologue about war and peace and the brother you never knew

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This was written for A monologue competition At the University of Idaho. they gave out An extensive back story for the Bobby character, including that he was An injured veteran of Operation Desert Storm And now going to A university somewhere in the Midwest. I chose Kent State And used the massacre there in the early 70's As my theme.

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Monologue, Drama

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Christmas Truce

Synopsis:
Think of George and Martha from albee's "Virgina Woolf" and you'll have a fair idea of the yuletide lunacy in this short play.

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a Christmas play

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Comedy One act

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Dead Angel

Synopsis:
Two lovers spend a night of stolen love in a hotel room. they both wake up, but one of them is dead.

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First Stage, Hollywood, Ca    2005

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Genre:
Dark Comedy One act

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Dog's Christmas, A

Synopsis:
It's Christmas eve at the Dog Pound, the humans are all snug in their beds and four mutts gather together for a game of cards and to discuss life and death and God and what happens when your card comes up.

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This play, A Dog's Christmas, was the inspiration for my full-length, A Better Place

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Fourth Daughter, The

Synopsis:
What's in a name? Well, for starters, a name can define you. Or disguise you. Or hide you. Or defile you or destroy you. Or even change you. Introducing Cuarta, a twenty-something Hispanic woman. Cuarta means "the fourth daughter." Cuarta's three older sisters all have flower names. Yolanda which means violet. Orquidea which means orchid. Flor De Oro which means goldenrod. So something bad must have happened, right? Uh, did I forget to mention that the mother died giving birth to Cuarta? That's why there were no flowers for Cuarta. Just a number for a name for a bad luck girl. Cuarta goes to America and marries atilano. atilano is Spanish for atilla the Hun. Cuarta believes in luck. Both kinds of luck. the good and the bad. and throughout the play, there are signs and symbols and personifications of its hold over her. there's the psychic. and the deck of cards. and the lucky numbers and the feng shui. all of which culminate in Cuarta and atilano's going for all the marbles on a single spin of a roulette wheel.

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the Fourth Daughter had A staged reading At the South Coast Repertory Practicum in 2005

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Genre:
Drama, full length

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From Whore To Pimp To Crackhead

Synopsis:
a monologue about Barry Bonds, Hank aaron and why no one cares about baseball anymore.

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This monologue has been incorporated into my new full-length, the Best Years of her Life, As A scene.

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Monologue, Drama

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Half-eaten Chilidog

Synopsis:
Take a man and a woman and put them in a room together, each on a cellphone with the same third person. Would they ring off and get personal? Or would they keep chattering away on the cell?

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also produced At Stages in Fullerton, Ca, in 2003.

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Leaving the Light On

Synopsis:
This play is a what-if. It's twenty years into the future. a down-on-his-luck Kobe Bryant is now in his forties, long out of basketball and limping from a career-ending injury. He checks into a hotel in Colorado and meets up by sheer accident with the woman who sued him for sexual harrassment years before when he was a big sports star. except now, she's the hotel manager.

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Little Jimmy

Synopsis:
Three boys into video gaming react to a recent shooting at their high school

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This play was inspired by the high school shooting in Santee, Ca, in 2001

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Minnesota, Usa    2007

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Hill-Murray Young Performer's Workshop

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Lost Nation Morning Show, The

Synopsis:
an aging small-town radio personality, about to be fired, barricades himself in the on-air studio with his sidekick/girlfriend for one last roll of the dice.

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the entire play takes place in the on-air studio of A mom And pop radio station

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Genre:
Full-length Dark Comedy

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Merry Christmas, Bitch!

Synopsis:
a theatre owned by a Christmas Grinch is invaded by a troupe rehearsing Dickens' a Christmas Carol. and it isn't long before no one has the Christmas spirit.

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Missing

Synopsis:
Take two marginal characters, a blown-up Seven-eleven, and a man who stores his dead uncle in the walk-in freezer. Mix in some threatening phone calls from Sudan and a missing hand. Stir well.

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November, 2008. SCR Practicum gave A reading on the South Coast Repertory's Nicholas Stage.

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Genre:
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Mohammed's Moon

Synopsis:
Mohammed's Moon is about nine-eleven, the title inspired by the moon having been in waning crescent phase the morning of the attack. It's a 61 page, fast-paced piece, with eight actors taking on 29 roles and a landscape littered with witches, a street preacher, prophecies, omens, burning Bibles & Qur'ans & books on Dianetics. there's a commuter train and an airplane on collision course. and a man convinced Mia Farrow is sending him telepathic messages of love. at rise, it's early morning nine-eleven, as Mohammed atta boards a plane for the last time, while 300 miles to the south, a New Jersey Transit commuter train sets out from Gladstone station for Summit, NJ, with connections to the World Trade Center. the passengers we meet seem to be on weirdly destructive personal missions. Mister atta encounters four tempters, among them Santa Claus and Hitler. Santa shows him nude pictures of a martyr's brides. Hitler declaims on the "truth of lobsters." and all the while shining down, the moon spawns its own dark lunacy.

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This play had A reading At the South Coast Repertory Practicum in 2006. It was inspired by the events of Nine-eleven.

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Male:  4            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Nine Ten

Synopsis:
Nine Ten is a thirty-four page, three-character play. Two women, Molly and Erica, thirty-ish, cousins, roommates, one an American, the other British. their relationship is an unnourishing, unsatisfying, uncommunicative, mutually antagonistic one. This night, the night before nine-eleven, Molly comes home with bad news. She's been sacked from her job. Hafez, a friend, an arab man from work, will soon stop by to comfort her and try to cheer her up. and when he enters the apartment, all the submerged poisons in their relationship will bubble to the surface, giving us a foretaste of things to come. Of course, Erica, the American, represents the USA. Molly represents the UK. Hafez represents the arab world. This play contains nudity and violence and cruelty to animals.

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This play was developed At the South Coast Repertory Practicum in 2005. Scenes were read And critiqued there.

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Once there Was A Boy Named David

Synopsis:
Introducing a new musical about the Old Testament hero, David, designed for eight performers. there are seventeen songs. "Once there Was a Boy Named David" tells the story of the young David on his journey from Shepherd Boy to Giant Killer to Bandit Prince to Newly-Crowned King. Satan figures prominently. You can't have a good Bible story without the Prince of Darkness in there somewhere. early on, Satan recognizes David as a dangerous adversary. During the course of the Drama, Satan serves as an unreliable narrator. additionally he assumes various guises in his efforts to block or divert David from achieving his destiny.

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This play was developed At the South Coast Repertory Practicum in 2006. Scenes were read And critiqued there

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Full-length Musical

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Male:  5            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Report From the Republican National Convention

Synopsis:
a homeless man tells a story about crashing the 2004 Republican Convention on the night George W Bush was nominated and how he ended up sitting on stage right near George and Laura.

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Genre:
Monologue, Comedy

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Solidarity

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a banned artist's family tries to hang tough and survive in a dictatership.

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Short Play One act

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Starman

Synopsis:
a powerful man, who in life was a prominent politician, an astronaut and a gay-basher, is dead. His gay son, long estranged, has come home to pay his respects and heal. Based on a true story.

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This play was Also produced in Hollywood And Off-Broadway in 2004. Reading At ASF in Irvine, Ca, in December, 2007

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This Woman's Work Theatre, NY    2006

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Genre:
political monologue

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Team Player, A

Synopsis:
Henry, a successful man, frustrated by the drift and malaise in his life, weds Madeline, a woman half his age because he wants to revive, renew, refresh, rejuvenate. But as the ravages of time conspire against him, Madeline is left alone to make one last life or death decision.

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This play was the inspration for my full-length, the Best Years of her Life (see Above). Based on A true story. This play was Also produced in Orange County, Ca And in Ohio. It received readings in Hollywood And Off-Broadway. And it was A winner in the 2006 theatre In the Raw One-act Competition

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Boston, Ma    2006

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Devanaughn Theatre

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Thank You

Synopsis:
It is Christmas eve and Joan and Toni are about to have their Commitment Ceremony. But first, some unfinished business. a lesbian romance.

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This play was Also produced in Hollywood And Orange County, Ca. It received A reading At edward Albee's Last Frontier theatre Conference

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New York    2004

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Love Creek Productions

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