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Kevin Armento

KEVIN ARMENTO

  
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    ICM Partners  represented by Diana Glazer

Kevin Armento's play Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally premiered Off-Broadway in 2015 (59E59 Theaters/One Year Lease, New York Times Critics' Pick, Drama Desk Nomination). Recent work includes Good Men Wanted (New York Stage and Film), Balls (co-written with Bryony Lavery, Stages Repertory Theatre), Playing Hot (Pipeline Theatre), killers (Tom Noonan's Paradise Factory), and Companion Piece (Pleasance Theatre, London). He's a current member of Ars Nova's Makers Lab and the Working Farm at SPACE on Ryder Farm, a previous Artist-in-Residence at The Drama League, and was recently awarded grants from The Jerome Foundation and Brooklyn Arts Council. Other work has been presented at Arena Stage, Cape Cod Theatre Project, Dixon Place, Seaview Productions, and Seattle Repertory Theatre. He is currently under commission from Ars Nova, and his spec script Comfortably Numb was recently optioned by CBS Studios and The Mark Gordon Company.

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         Balls         Bets And Blue Notes         Companion Piece         Devil With The Blue Dress         Diner Alliances         Good Men Wanted         killers         Let Me Be Clear         Playing Hot         Please Excuse Me Dear Aunt Sally         way to reach me, a
Balls

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written Kevin Armento and Bryony Lavery

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Bets And Blue Notes

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an "odd" couple share an apartment. Gay Pianist Dean and straight office worker Sammy. after arguing at a bar they agree to swap sexualities to see who has a better love life. Sammy goes to a gay bar and picks up Peter. Dean goes to a book club and meets Frankie. Things are fraught between Sammy and Peter but Dean and Frankie realise that they are soul mates rather than ever being lovers. they all meet at a restaurant where Dean and Sammy's subterfuge is unmasked.

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Fritz Theater, San Diego     2007

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Gay, full length

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Companion Piece

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After many months in an online relationship, Dolores has come to New England for a work conference and meets Leonard face-to-face for the first time. But when she starts to unravel a secret about his lonely existence, their transition to love in the flesh becomes a wholesale struggle over the nature of love itself - a struggle that will shape both of them for the rest of their lives.

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Pleasance Theatre    

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play 90 min

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Devil With The Blue Dress

Devil With The Blue Dress
Exhuming the little blue dress that launched the biggest media circus of a generation, this barbed spin on a political drama conjures the five women who collided in what became known as The Lewinsky Scandal. Hillary Clinton and Monica Lewinsky find themselves centre stage in a theatrical feat that takes us through the corridors of power and behind the closed doors where the abuse of that power took place. Devil with the Blue Dress grapples with one of the most challenging questions in American political history: How do we respond to women seeking power, and the men who abuse it?

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Bunker Theatre, London     04 Apr 2018

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Diner Alliances

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Fritz Theater, San Diego     2005

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Good Men Wanted

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Good Men Wanted brings to life the true stories of five women who fought in the Civil War disguised as men. This adrenaline-fueled show blends drama, movement, and modern pop music to chronicle an untold chapter of American history, and an electrifying portrait of bad bitches suiting up for war.

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killers

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Miranda has had the urge to kill since she was a little girl, but when she befriends Bobby Barrett and they start making booby traps together, her desire seems quelled - at least for now. Decades later, a nameless woman in a cubicle tries to suppress her grim fantasies of dying, while negotiating an interoffice romance. killers breaks down theatrical boundaries, exploring a world of language and images, and as these two stories unfold side-by-side, they reveal intricate links - between each other, and between two of our basest urges.

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Let Me Be Clear

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Part of ObamAmerica: An Algerian prisoner is finally freed from Guantanamo Bay but what awaits him? An African-American university graduate campaigns for Obama in rough East Cleveland, Ohio but keeps getting stopped by armed and racist state troopers. A drone pilot in Arizona hides out in a nail bar. Edward Snowden chats to an Obama souvenir salesman in Washington DC. Bradley Manning dances in his jail cell. An ineffectual gun law is hotly debated on a TV news show. The voices of fourteen different playwrights are heard in ObamAmerica, the first theatre festival to focus purely on the effect this iconic American president has had on his country and on the world. ObamAmerica will give snapshots of the challenges that Barack Obama faces and the sometimes controversial choices he has made during his term of office. Playwrights include renowned TV and film writers Charles Evered (Adopt a Sailor starring Peter Coyote, USA's Monk) and Jacquelyn Reingold (NBC's Smash and Law and Order, HBO's In Treatment), many award winning playwrights from around the United States whose work has been seen at Primary Stages, Naked Angels, Manhattan Repertory Theater (NYC), Milwaukee Rep, Kennedy Center and New Jersey Rep as well as several American writers who have studied at the Royal Court Young Writers Programme and had work produced in London. Seven fifteen minute plays will be performed each evening for a week with seven different plays presented the following week.

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Theatre503 and Over Here Theatre Company

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Playing Hot

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Set within a brassy dance hall, Playing Hot deconstructs the incredible story of the birth of jazz in New Orleans. Retracing the rise and fall of Buddy Bolden, the little-known trumpeter who pioneered the radical sound that would become Americas Art Form, the show is neither biography nor period piece, neither play nor musical, but an explosive and innovative theatrical event in the style of jazz. With the help of a live brass band, Buddy's legend and infectious songs are conjured to life, riffing on history and pop culture the same way his music riffed on the notes on the page.

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Pipeline theatre    

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Male:  5            Female:  3            Other:  brass band

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Please Excuse Me Dear Aunt Sally

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A turbulent affair between a teenage boy and his math teacher is brought to life from the surprising perspective of the boys best friend: his cell phone. Red McCray is a troubled fifteen-year-old, furious that his parents split has forced him to transfer schools. His new algebra teacher has just moved in with her boyfriend, a wannabe tech entrepreneur happily living off her steady paychecks. As Reds phone gets sucked into a breakneck journey from pockets to purses, and through text messages and photo galleries, it takes us inside an utterly unique view on human interaction, struggling to unpack some of lifes most complex equations.

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Dramatists Play Service, Inc. NY   

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way to reach me, a

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Set against the backdrop of the battle for marriage equality in 2011, a way to reach me tracks the digital communications of four New Yorkers in the build-up to the historic vote, painting an innovative portrait of 21st century relationships.

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play 90 min

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