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Jacob M Appel

JACOB M APPEL

  
Nationality:    USA
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Jacob M. Appel's first novel, The Man Who Wouldn't Stand Up, won the Dundee International Book Award in 2012. His short story collection, Scouting for the Reaper, won the 2012 Hudson Prize and was published by Black Lawrence in November 2013. He is the author of five other collections of short stories: The Magic Laundry, The Topless Widow of Herkimer Street, Einstein's Beach House, Coulrophobia & Fata Morgana and Miracles and Conundrums of the Secondary Planets; an essay collection, Phoning Home; and another novel, The Biology of Luck. Jacob has published short fiction in more than two hundred literary journals including Agni, Alaska Quarterly Review, Conjunctions, Colorado Review, Gettysburg Review, Iowa Review, Pleiades, Prairie Schooner, Shenandoah, Southwest Review, StoryQuarterly, Subtropics, Threepenny Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, and West Branch. He has won the New Millennium Writings contest four times, the Writer's Digest "grand prize" twice, and the William Faulkner-William Wisdom competition in both fiction and creative nonfiction. He has also won annual contests sponsored by Boston Review, Missouri Review, Arts & Letters, Bellingham Review, Briar Cliff Review, North American Review, Sycamore Review, Writers' Voice, the Dana Awards, the Salem Center for Women Writers, and Washington Square. His work has been short listed for the O. Henry Award (2001), Best American Short Stories (2007, 2008), Best American Essays (2011, 2012), and received "special mention" for the Pushcart Prize in 2006, 2007, 2011 and 2013. Jacob holds a B.A. and an M.A. from Brown University, an M.A. and an M.Phil. from Columbia University, an M.S. in bioethics from the Alden March Bioethics Institute of Albany Medical College, an M.D. from Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons, an M.F.A. in creative writing from New York University, an M.F.A. in playwriting from Queens College, an M.P.H. from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. He has most recently taught at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, where he was honored with the Undergraduate Council of Students Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2003, and at the Gotham Writers Workshop in New York City. He also publishes in the field of bioethics and contributes to such publications as the Journal of Clinical Ethics, the Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, the Hastings Center Report, and the Bulletin of the History of Medicine. His essays have appeared in The New York Times, The New York Daily News, The New York Post, The Chicago Tribune, The Detroit Free Press, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Washington Times, The Providence Journal and many regional newspapers. Jacob has been admitted to the practice of law in New York State and Rhode Island, and is a licensed New York City sightseeing guide.

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

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         Arborophilia         Causa Mortis or The Medical Student         Helen Of Sparta         In the Floodplain         Marriage of Inconvenience, A         Mistress Of Wholesome, The         Replacement, The         Resurrection Of Dismas And Gestas         Thirds         Three Belles Of Eden, The         Woodpecker, The
Arborophilia

Synopsis:
Judge Gwendolyn Gage, a lifelong Democrat, has two daughters: One has fallen in love with a tree and the other has fallen in love with a Republican. arboreal mayhem ensues

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1st Produced:
Detroit Repertory Theatre     2006

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https://jacobmappel.com/arborophilia-free-play   

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Genre:
full legth Comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  4            Other:  1

Further Reference:
https://twitter.com/hashtag/jacobmappel

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Causa Mortis or The Medical Student

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Detroit Repertory Theatre     05 Nov 2009

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Helen Of Sparta

Synopsis:
comedic retelling of Homer's Iliad from the point of view of the kidnapped Helen of Troy. after a casual fling with the Spartan queen, Prince Paris carries his lover off to the Trojan capital and soon discovers that Helen is more difficult than he had ever imagined-for example, she refuses to consume foods that begin with any letter other than Z. Meanwhile, the rescue expedition led by Helen's husband, Menelaus, runs into immediate difficulties when the Spartan king finds himself on the Pan-Hellenic do-not-sail list. . .
- lorraine treanor, dc theatre scene

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1st Produced:
Venus Play Shack, Laurel, Md     29 Oct 2009

Organisations:
Venus Theatre+

1st Published:
https://jacobmappel.com/helen-of-sparta-free-play   

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Genre:
Comedy

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Male:  3            Female:  4            Other:  -

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In the Floodplain

In the Floodplain
apollo Hopewell, the world's least memorable human being, has fallen in love with Helen, the world's most attractive woman. apollo sees only one possibility for romantic success: Building an ark and hoping for a cataclysmic flood during which he may rescue his beloved. So begins his attempt to construct this large wooden vessel on his mother's suburban front yard in Connecticut.

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1st Produced:
Playground Stage Of The Adrienne Theatre, Philadelp     2006

Organisations:
Vagabond acting Troupe

1st Published:
Contained in: Conclave: A Journal of Character 2" published by Wolfsword Press   

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Genre:
play One act

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Marriage of Inconvenience, A

Synopsis:
It is Agatha's birthday Agatha is ninety. She decides to have her will changed - leaving all her property to herself

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Mistress Of Wholesome, The

Synopsis:
a cardiologist's wife, preparing to welcome an adoption agent, has her plans upset when her husband's mistress breaks into her apartment.

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1st Produced:
Little Theatre Of Alexandria     2008

Organisations:
Little Theatre of alexandria

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Genre:
Comedy

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Male:  -            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Replacement, The

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Margery Stacy Barn, Waterford, CT     26 Sep 2008

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Resurrection Of Dismas And Gestas

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Thirds

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1st Produced:
Lion Theatre at Theatre Row, New York     Mar 2012

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Three Belles Of Eden, The

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Heller Theater, Tulsa, OK    

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Woodpecker, The

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