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Robert Askins

ROBERT ASKINS

  (1980 - )
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    William Morris Endeavor Entertainment, LLC  represented by Scott Chaloff

Robert askins was born in Cypress Texas in 1980. He moved to New York in 2005. Rob has received two eST/Sloan grants, and an arch and Bruce Davis award for Playwriting. He has been commissioned by Divercity Theatre and Baylor University. Rob's play Princes of Waco was produced and developed by Youngblood. His play Matthew and the Pastor's Wife was a part of Marathon 2010 at the ensemble Studio Theatre. Rob's play Doll PArts was read with the Write Club sponsored by Arlene Dahl. This Summer he was a part of the 52nd Streets Heads or Tail: the Chancey Plays and he can be found on the second Sunday of every month running around a fancy greek restaurant for his sight specific brunch serial all the Little Fishes about the trials and tribulations of working fine dining in Manhattan with Greeks. Rob is an I-73 and Youngblood alum. He has been around eST since he came to New York 6 years ago and is proud to say he is now a member.

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

         Anger And the Doughnut         Boxes         Clean Living         Committed         Doll Parts         Hand To God         I'd Leave You But We Have Reservations         Love Song of an Albanian Sous Chef         Matthew And the Pastor's Wife         P.S. Jones and the Frozen City         Princes Of Waco

Anger And the Doughnut

Synopsis:
part of Living Image Arts' 5th anniversary Festival of One-acts features the world premiere of 4 uniquely American new works about 4 distinctly American life experiences. From the love-struck brokers of Wall Street to immigration raids torn from today's headlines, from doughnut-hurling Grannies to Charlie's angels-obsessed housewives, Americanize will show you just what it is to be a Real American
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Lion theatre
410 West 42nd Street, New York, NY 10036     2009

Organisations:
Living Image Arts

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
One act

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Boxes

Synopsis:
a touching, yet darkly comic play about two siblings trying to bury the past.
nytheatre.com

Notes:
part of Committed A program of 3 One Act Plays

1st Produced:
Lion theatre
410 West 42nd Street, New York, NY 10036     2007

Organisations:
Living Image Arts

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
One act

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Clean Living

Synopsis:
an absurdist exploration of truth and men in the military where men can neither ask nor tell.

Notes:
part of the equality Plays Festival

1st Produced:
Clurman theatre
410 West 42nd Street, New York, NY 10036     2006

Organisations:
Diverse City Theater Company

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama. - - Gay, full length

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Committed

Synopsis:
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Notes:
William K. Powers | Tony Zertuche | Robert Askins

1st Produced:
Lion theatre
410 West 42nd Street, New York, NY 10036     2007

Organisations:
Living Image Arts

1st Published:
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Music:
-

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Doll Parts

Synopsis:
Ingrid hates her body, hates her job, hates her life. An old woman gives her an uncompleted life size doll. The doll gets hungry

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Read With The Write Club    

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
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Music:
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Hand To God

Synopsis:
Christian Puppet Ministries are, in fundamentalist Christian congregation, normally a great way to teach children about the Bible. each child gets a puppet, and each puppet gets its own personality. But in Hand to God children can be fooled by Satan's tricks. For even within the sanctuary of the Christian Puppet Ministry of Cypress, Texas, the devil lurks; Hand to God tells that story.
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
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1st Produced:

Organisations:
the ensemble Studio Theatre

1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, Inc. NY (2015)   978-0-8222-3292-6

Music:
-

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Genre:
dark comedy

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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I'd Leave You But We Have Reservations

Synopsis:
You slip the maître d' a twenty. You score the best table in the house. the meal is perfect, the ambience superb. Your eyes lock. What did you say? Yet another evening is shattered by public displays of rejection. Only this time everyone is going to get their just desserts
Press Release

Notes:
part of A program of four one-act plays by Jacqueline Christy, Stephanie Rabinowitz, Maria Gabrielle And Robert Askins

1st Produced:
Linhart Theatre, NY     2006

Organisations:
Living Image Arts

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Genre:
play One act

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Love Song of an Albanian Sous Chef

Synopsis:
Eddie the sous chef is secretly in love with Billy the waitress but has been unable to let her know. It is her last day and Eddie prepares a sumptuous meal for her to let her know through food how he feels. He is too shy to serve her himself so gets the busboy to do it. The first course is soup and it talks to her of love. Next come oysters who sing to her. Each course is richer and more delicious than the last. But Billy does not like the dessert and starts to leave the restaurant - changes her mind a kisses Eddie on the cheek and then leaves

Notes:
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1st Produced:

Organisations:
34th Marathon of One Act Plays

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
one act

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Matthew And the Pastor's Wife

Synopsis:
Matthew is a small town sinner. Dorothy is the pastor's wife. She's trying to save his soul. He's trying to let her. then he forgets his bible. then she leans in. When they kiss the world starts to fly apart and it's gonna take something awful to put it back together.

Notes:
part of Marathon of One-act Plays 2010

1st Produced:

Organisations:
ensemble Studio Theatre

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Genre:
One act

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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P.S. Jones and the Frozen City

Synopsis:
the World as we know it is long gone. Appetite and hubris have divided the world in three. Our hero, the diminutive and unassuming P.S. Jones, dreams of visiting the Frozen City, a utopian world just visible beyond the forbidden Burning Waste. Only thing worse than knowing he'll never set foot in the Frozen City is finding out that his handsome and incurably vapid brother is about be deified there on account of being so darn pretty. Soon after his brother's departure, P.S. stumbles upon something that will change his life forever. What will he do when the fate of all three worlds rests in his hand?
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
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1st Produced:
New Ohio Theatre, 154 Christopher Street, New York     06 Dec 2012

Organisations:
Terra Nova Collective

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Princes Of Waco

Synopsis:
In darkest Texas, an old man teaches a fatherless boy how to drink, fight and steal by a code. But when they love the same girl, that brings killing and dying into the picture. That's where the trouble starts. a fierce, viciously funny journey to a bloody, forgotten West.
- theatre

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Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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