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Jane Anderson

JANE ANDERSON

  (1954 - )
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    Bret Adams Ltd  

Jane Andersons plays have been produced Off-Broadway and in theaters around the country, including Actors Theater of Louisville, Arena Stage, Williamstown, The McCarter Theater, Long Wharf, and The Pasadena Playhouse. Plays include: The Quality of Life (2008 Ovation Award, Best New Play), Looking for Normal (2001 Ovation Award, Best New Play), The Baby Dance, Defying Gravity, Food & Shelter, Tough Choices for the New Century, Lynette at 3AM, and The Last Time We Saw Her. Her most recent play, The Escort (nominated for an LA Drama Critics Circle Award) was commissioned by the Geffen Playhouse and had its premiere in 2011. Works written and directed for film and television: The Prizewinner of Defiance Ohio; Normal (Emmy nominations for best writing, directing and best made-for-TV film, three Golden Globe nominations and Directors Guild and Writers Guild nominations for best directing and writing); When Billie Beat Bobby; The Baby Dance (Peabody Award, a Golden Globe nomination and three Emmy nominations for best writing, directing and made-for-TV film); the first segment of If These Walls Could Talk II, starring Vanessa Redgrave (Emmy nomination for best writing). She wrote The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom for which she received an Emmy, a Penn Award and Writers Guild Award for best teleplay. Her other screenwriting credits include: How to Make An American Quilit and It Could Happen to Your.

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

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         Autophobia         Baby Dance, The         Batting Cage, The         Defying Gravity         Escort, The         Food And Shelter         Last Time We Saw Her, The         Looking For Normal         Lynette At 3Am         Lynette Has Beautiful Skin         Mother Of The Maid         Pink Studio, The         Quality Of Life, The         Reprimand, The         Tough Choices For the New Century: A Seminar For Responsible Living

Autophobia

Synopsis:
autophobia is a short comedic play cycle, offers a painfully funny glimpse into the hilarious reality of male-female relationships and modern living. With an emphasis on the feminine perspective, autophobia offers six vastly different situations that present the absurd plights of contemporary men and women.
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written by Kate Hoffower, Jon Jory, John Stinson, Charles Forbes And Jane Anderson

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Lay It Down Productions

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short comedic play cycle Play/Drama

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Baby Dance, The

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childless couple locate poor couple who agree to have their prospective baby adopted, but money cannot buy everything

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Batting Cage, The

Synopsis:
the last wishes of an extraordinary young woman have a secret design. at a Florida Holiday Inn, two estranged sisters struggle to carry them out, each marooned in a deep state of despair. a sip from the Fountain of Youth, speeding hardballs and bicycle couriers, a semi-gallant conquistador and a bouquet of roses all conspire to lead a brilliant engineer and her recently divorced sister to a new sense of themselves. and to each other. In this charming offbeat comedy, a family that has lost its bearings is restored

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Smith & Kraus in Humana Festival '96, the Complete Plays.,    -

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Two acts Play/Drama

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Defying Gravity

Defying Gravity
This free structured look at the 1986 Challenger disaster places the teacher who died with six others as they hurtled into space at the center of an exploration of our need to reach beyond ourselves and dare the universe. Defying Gravity artfully interweaves the past with the present and the lives of participants and bystanders, drawing parallels among painter Claude Monet's artistic quest, the zest of the teacher selected to the first civilian astronaut, the perspectives of her grieving daughter, the aspirations of elderly tourists who drive their Winnebago to Florida to watch the space shot and dream of hotels in space, the guilt felt by a NASA mechanic and his girl friend's fear of heights.

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Dramatic Comedy

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Escort, The

Synopsis:
Nothing is taboo in this world premiere about a high-class call girl. Charlotte is charged with escorting us through this titillating tale as members of one seemingly liberal family test the limits of their own sexual morality. What happens when social ideals are in direct conflict with personal choices in the bedroom? While this provocative new Geffen commission is laced with sex, bad language and nudity, don't expect some bawdy farce from this emmy and Ovation award winning writer. This sexually charged roller coaster ride takes us down a path of unexpected thoughtfulness and depth that asks the question: How far are you willing to go to prove your open-mindedness?

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Dramatists Play Service, NY,    978-0822225546

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Play/Drama

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Food And Shelter

Synopsis:
reduced to living in his car, an unemployed factory worker wins a small lottery prize and treats his family to a day at Disneyland, after a disastrous day he leaves his family and the eventual reconciliation is too late

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Samuel French, London, 1992   -

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Last Time We Saw Her, The

Synopsis:
Does personal prerogative end when company policy begins? That's the delicate question at hand when a valued employee seeks her supervisor's approval to share a long-kept secret with her staff. the ensuing discussion illuminates the value systems of those who make the rules and those who must live by them--or not.

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in Ten Minute Plays From Actors Theatre Of Louisville, Vol 3, Samuel French NY   -

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Looking For Normal

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Roy and Irma have been married for twenty-five years. they have two children. they live in the heartland. they're respected members of their church and their community. When Roy and Irma go to their pastor for marriage counseling, Roy confesses that he's a woman trapped in a man's body and would like to have a sex change. as would be expected, Irma throws Roy out of the house. But their bond as a couple is stronger than either of them imagined, and eventually Irma finds a way to make peace with this unfathomable situation and accept her transformed husband as her lifelong mate. they not only have to wrestle with the meaning of their marriage, they must deal with the delicate dynamics of their family as well. Roy is burdened by his father's stubborn assessment of his manhood and his mother's sad acceptance of life's cruelties. Irma, in the midst of menopause, is struggling with her adolescent tomboy daughter, Patty ann, who is raging against the injustices of her own budding hormones. and the grown and absent

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Dramatists Play Service, NY, 2002   -

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Comedy Drama Comedy. - - Lesbian, theme/character, full length

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Lynette At 3Am

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Things are not going well for Lynette and Bobby; she's contemplating the abyss and he's asleep. as Bobby snores the Brooklyn night away, Lynette turns her restless thoughts to salsa music, a gunshot, and the mystical appearance of a kindred soul. For her, if not for Bobby, it's a night to remember

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Samuel French, Inc. in More Ten-Minute Plays from Actors Theatre of Louisville and in the journal art Teatral: Cuadernos de Minipiezas Ilustrades,    -

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Ten Min

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Lynette Has Beautiful Skin

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in Ten Minute Plays From Actors Theatre Of Louisville, Vol 3, Samuel French NY   -

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Mother Of The Maid

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The story of Joan of Arc as seen through the eyes of her mother

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Genre:
Drama

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Pink Studio, The

Synopsis:
Sometimes artists walk a tightrope between life and art, as is the case with Henri Matisse. In this fantasy journey through Matisse's mid-life crisis, the great Fauvist painter (fauve is French for "wild beast") experiences passions as extreme as the colours on his canvas. Desire, jealousy, confusion and love imbue the Matisse paintings that introduce each scene of this whimsical, sensual comedy

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Two acts Play/Drama

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Quality Of Life, The

Quality Of Life, The
explores hot-button issues of life and death. When a religious Midwestern couple, Bill and Dinah, visit free-spirited cousin Jeannette and her husband, Neil, in their Northern California home, both couples confront loss and survival in the face of explosive circumstance.

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Genre:
Dramatic comedy

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Reprimand, The

Synopsis:
audience members enter one of several phone booths, pick up the receiver and listen to a three-minute play unfold in conversation

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Genre:
Phone Play

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Tough Choices For the New Century: A Seminar For Responsible Living

Synopsis:
If natural disaster struck your homestead, would you know what to do? Sign up for a seminar with Bob and Helen Dooley who, with a nationally recognised authority on personal defence--arden Shingles--take the idea of "preparedness" to its funniest and darkest conclusion

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Smith & Kraus in 20/20: Twenty One-act Plays from the Twenty Year History of the Humana Festival of New American Plays and by Smith & Kraus in Humana Festival '95, the Complete Plays, 1995   -

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Genre:
One act

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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