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Suzanne Bachner

SUZANNE BACHNER

  
Nationality:    USA
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Suzanne's award-winning play, Circle, ran for five months Off Broadway, was performed nationally, optioned for production in Australia and called "ingenious" by the New York Times. She wrote and directed two long-running original cult hits in NYC: the irreverent Icons & Outcasts and the choose-your-own adventure comedy,BITE, as well as her celebrated kaleidoscopic memoir play, We Call Her Benny, which BroadwayWorld.com called "the future of Theatre". Other plays include Screwdrivers & Sunday Brunch, Don't Let Destiny Push You Around, Jump Start, Alice Through the Looking Glass, Icons Y2K, Temptation, Sex Ed, Twin Studies, Flirting with Realityand Alexandra Triptych. Her plays have been seen at PS NBC@HERE, the Duplex, the National Arts Club, the Samuel French Short Play Festival, the Michael Weller Theatre, the Raw Space, Pulse Ensemble Theatre, Zeitgeist Stage Company, Mercury Players Theatre, Arena Stage in Portland, OR and 20th Century Fox at the Coronet Theater in LA, among others. She is thrilled to be the director and developer of Bob Brader's internationally acclaimed, multi-award-winning solo show, Spitting In the Face Of the Devil. Directing credits also include Frank D. Gilroy's the Subject Was Roses at the Celebration Theatre in Los Angeles and the short film, Jennifer Monroe, P.I., a finalist in Flicks on 66. Suzanne studied playwriting with Romulus Linney and Adrienne Kennedy and holds an MFA from the Actors Studio Drama School at the New School. She is a four-time OOBR Award-winner, a Resident Artist Emeritus at the Actors Institute and Horse Trade and a member of the Dramatists Guild. As Artistic Director of the John Montgomery Theatre Company, Suzanne has produced over 50 shows in New York and one in LA. She is a native New Yorker and loves actors (one in particular!).

Research:    Member of the Dramatists Guild of America

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         Alexandra Triptych         Alice Through the Looking Glass         Benny         Bite         Circle         Diving Kitty         Dont Let Destiny Push You Around         Flirting With Reality         Icons And Outcasts         Icons Y2K         Jump Start         Screwdrivers & Sunday Brunch         Sex Ed         Temptation         Twin Studies         We Call Her Benny

Alexandra Triptych

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Alice Through the Looking Glass

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Benny

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a diagnosis, a broken marriage and a lifetime of displacement send a young woman on a reluctant journey of self-discovery. Benny is a kaleidoscopic theatrical portrait of anna: a girl looking for a road to her birth parents and one that will take her home. the New York Times raved that Bachner and Minskoff's last Dramatic collaboration was "ingenious. . .it is no accident that so many of the sharp jokes come as complete surprises."

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June Havoc Theatre, Ny (Midtown International Theatre Festival)    2009

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John Montgomery Theatre Company

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90 minutes with no intermission

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Bite

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In Bite, comic sex farce meets choose-your-own-adventure. It intertwines the tales of two competing dentists, two dominatrixes, and a Southern belle. the action begins in a sterile 5th avenue dentist's chair and ends down in the cavities of a secret dominatrix-run dungeon with the audience in control all the way. Unlike most 'interactive' theatre experiences, Bite is intricately scripted and meticulously plotted with multiple outcomes at every turn
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Red Room, NY, USA >>>    21 Apr 2005

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Dysfunctional Theatre & the John Montgomery Theatre Company

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Interactive Comedy

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Circle

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10 diverse charactersgay, straight and biare linked through a daisy chain of sexual contact, hooking up in Starbucks, an S&M dungeon, a bedroom, a kitchen and cyberspace, as they strive for a deeper connection with one another.

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Off Broadway, Ny    2002

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one act 90 min

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Diving Kitty

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In Diving Kitty, Steve's 15 year-old lover and high school ethics student, alex, decides that being his affair-of-the-semester is not the "class" in which she enrolled.

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Peter Jay Sharp Theatre, Ny    2009

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34th Off Off Broadway Samuel French Short Play Festival

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Dont Let Destiny Push You Around

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Flirting With Reality

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Contestants auditioning for a reality dating programme

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Icons And Outcasts

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Set in the heart of Chelsea, 8 eccentricsa vampire, a hustler, a redneck, an angel, a loner, a bimbo, a goddess and an actorrandomly intersect during one unforgettable day in New York City.

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Nyc    1998

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one act 80 min

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Icons Y2K

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Jump Start

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Screwdrivers & Sunday Brunch

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Sex Ed

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It's 1984. Three innocent New York City sixth-graders and their private school educators explore the often hilarious and frequently frightening world of sexual education in the classroom and beyond. the classroom heats up as pictographic nudity abounds in this clever and poignant account of sexual stirrings
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WHERE Eagles Dare
347 West 36th Street, 13th floor, New York, NY 10018    40075

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the John Montgomery Theatre Company

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Temptation

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Twin Studies

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We Call Her Benny

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We Call Her Benny features a 10-actor ensemble and bold theatrical techniques to create a visceral, exhilarating, and kaleidoscopic portrait of one adopted woman's struggle for identity and intimacy. themes of replacement and betrayal saturate the play, which explores family, identity, illness, adoption, sexuality and intimacy

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FRIGID New York, and the John Montgomery Theatre Company

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one act 60 min

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Male:  6            Female:  4            Other:  -

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