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Jaclyn Backhaus

JACLYN BACKHAUS

  
Nationality:    USA
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Jaclyn Backhaus is a playwright and performer living in Brooklyn. Resident playwright at Theater Reconstruction Ensemble; plays for TRE include Set in the Living Room of a Small Town American Play (Walker Space/Semifinalist, O'Neill Conference), Three Seagulls or MASHAMASHAMASHA! (HERE), and You On The Moors Now (HERE, February 2015). Other recent credits: Men On Boats (Clubbed Thumb's Falcons, CT/Playwrights Horizons SUPERLAB), The Incredible Fox Sisters (2014 Ice Factory Festival), Shoot the Freak (Not Just 3 New Plays), F Train (Woodshed Collective's Empire Travel Agency), and the books for the musicals Folk Wandering (Joe's Pub/Ars Nova) and Bull's Hollow, both written with composer Mike Brun and director Andrew Neisler. Co-Founder of Fresh Ground Pepper, an incubation system for new artistic work, and a member of the 2014-2015 Civilians R&D Group. BFA: NYU. www.fgpnyc.com

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

         Bull's Hollow Part Ii: The Princess Alaska         Forgetting Of Things         Incredible Fox Sisters, The         Men On Boats         Set In The Living Room Of A Small Town American Play         Three Seagulls, The or MASHAMASHAMASHA!

Bull's Hollow Part Ii: The Princess Alaska

Synopsis:
Going on a cruise with your mom and her new boyfriend. Asking a girl to prom and promptly fainting. Communicating at a different frequency than everyone else in your species. Growing up is totally epic. A freewheeling adventure story with music, told in the style of the great epic trilogies.

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Written by Jaclyn Backhaus; Music and Lyrics by Mike Brun

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Forgetting Of Things

Synopsis:
Forgetting of Things is a new play by Jaclyn Backhaus, follows the journey of Peter Pan as he lives and relives an age-old story that everybody knows their place in, save for himself. While he may escape the uncertainty and the hardships of adulthood, those around him see what he will lose-the heartache that gives way to true love, the silence found in fond memory-and they also see one girl with the power to make him remember. In this fast-paced, whimsical, multi-disciplinary theatre experience, the Centrifuge explores the nature of stories, their power to construct the past, their liberation of the present, and their crucial role in growing up.
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Bushwick Starr, NY    2009

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the Centrifuge

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Incredible Fox Sisters, The

Synopsis:
The Fox Sisters discover the house they now live in has a ghost of a man murdered five years ago

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Rehearsed Reading At New Ohio Theater, New York    30 Mar 2014

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Men On Boats

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Nominated for The Kilroys 2015. The Kilroys is a group of playwrights and producers in LA who publish an annual industry survey of excellent new plays by female and trans playwrights. It is a tool for producers committed to ending the systemic underrepresentation of female and trans playwrights in the American theater.

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Set In The Living Room Of A Small Town American Play

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Struggling to achieve the American Dream

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Walkerspace, New York    21 Feb 2013

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Theatre Reconstruction Ensemble

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Three Seagulls, The or MASHAMASHAMASHA!

Synopsis:
Masha finds herself being pursued by three men: the boring one she married too early in life, the depressed one she spent her youth unrequitedly pining for, and the dashing model of perfection she meets far too late. She struggles to take action to remedy her past mistakes and choose the path that holds the key to her future. Will she ever break this cycle of stasis and sadness? Anton Chekhov, famous for his use of subtext and samovars, gave the modern world a new form of theatrical expression through such monumental works as The Seagull and Three Sisters. Drawing upon such similarities as unrequited love, a relentless yearning to escape to Moscow, and a central character named Masha, Theater Reconstruction Ensemble has created an elaborate experiment of truly Russian proportions. A MASHA-up unlike any seen before!

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Here - Dorothy B. Williams Theater, NY    01 Mar 2012

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Theater Reconstruction Ensemble

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Male:  9+            Female:  9+            Other:  -

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