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Courtney Baron

COURTNEY BARON

  
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    Creative Artists Agency NY  represented by Chris Till

Courtney Baron's play A Very Common Procedure premiered at the Magic Theater (director Loretta Greco) and then at MCC in New York (director Michael Greif). Her play Consumption was commissioned and produced by the Guthrie Theater in partnership with the University of Minnesota. Other productions include: Not Our Last Hurrah at the Kraine Theatre, NYC; These Three Here at the Actors Theater of Louisville; Earlstreetman and Confidence Man as a part of Christine Jones's Theatre for One; John Brown's Body with the Keen Company; In the Widow's Garden and Dear anton for the ChekhovNOW! Festival, NYC; and To Know Know Know Me as part of the KeenTeens, NYC. Her play with music composed by Juliana Nash was workshopped at Primary Stages. She has had plays read or workshopped at the Cherry Lane Theatre (mentored by David Auburn), The Atlantic Theater, MTC, MCC, the New Group, Famous Door Theater in Chicago, the Guthrie, EST, as part of the New Works Now series at the Public Theater, the Royal Court in London, and Theatre for the New City, among others. Courtney was nominated for the American Theater Critics' Osborne Award and was a winner of a Heideman at ATL. She is currently developing screenplays with Templehill Productions and Yarn Films. She is currently under commission by P2 Creations. Her play Eat Your Heart Out is part of the 36th Annual Humana Festival of New American Plays. She is a part of the Dorothy Streslin New American Writers Group. Courtney holds an MFA in playwriting from Columbia University.

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         Back Story         Blackfish         Blue Room, The         Consumption         Eat Your Heart Out         Here I Lie         Morbidity And Mortality         Not Our Last Hurrah         To Know Know Know Me         Very Common Procedure, A

Back Story

Synopsis:
When Ethan is born in the worst blizzard of the century, two-year-old sister ainsley nearly sacrifices a toe trying to clear a path for the baby's arrival. That initial gesture of devotion blossoms into a tale of sibling loyalty, rivalry and love that spans two decades. Inspired by Joan ackermann's narrative "Back Story," each of the eighteen playwrights in this collective creation puts a distinctive spin on ainsley's and Ethan?s amusing and poignant struggles with life, with each other, and with the phantom dad who abandoned them for the wilds of alaska

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by Joan Ackermann Courtney Baron Neena Beber Constance Congdon Jon Klein Shirley Lauro Craig Lucas eduardo Machado Donald Margulies Jane Martin Susan Miller John Olive Tanya Palmer David Rambo edwin Sanchez Adele edling Shank Mayo Simon Val Smith. Based

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Blackfish

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Actors Theatre Of Louisville     25 Mar 2000

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Contained in: "Back Story" published by Dramatic Publishing   -

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Blue Room, The

Synopsis:
adrift in the South Pacific, a sailor longs for terra firma and the company of his beloved

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part of Life Under 30, An evening of ten-minute plays

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Humana Festival 1999: the Complete Plays, ed Michael Bigelow Dixon & amy Wegener, Smith & Kraus, 1999
in Ten Minute Plays From Actors Theatre Of Louisville, Vol 5, Samuel French NY   -

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Ten Min

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Consumption

Synopsis:
In a single moment, four young strangers are coughing. a reverend, a mother, a nurse, and a college student inhabit different places, but are the same in youth and illness. they tell us their vividly intertwined stories so that we might remember them, together dreaming of what they'll leave behind and who they might have become. a beautifully poetic evocation of young people succumbing to the devastation of tuberculosis in the 19th century.

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Guthrie Theatre (Minneapolis, Mn, United States)     2005

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Playscripts, Inc - New York   -

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50-60 min Play/Drama

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  2 males, 2 females

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Eat Your Heart Out

Synopsis:
Alice and Gabe are desperate to adopt a child. Nance, a single mom just starting to date, struggles to connect with her teenage daughter, evie. And evie wishes her best friend, Colin, could fall for her rather than just trying to fix things. With both humor and aching insight, these lives are woven together in a tale of parental hopes and fears, and of hearts consumed by longing.

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Dramatists Play Service, NY   978-0822227335

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comedy/Drama

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Here I Lie

Synopsis:
Two ex-lovers scoring points of each other in a seedy bar. A play about two people with Factitious Disorder, a condition that causes them to feign illness.

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1st Produced:
Seventh Street Small Stage at Jimmy's No. 43, New York City     07 Nov 2010

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Morbidity And Mortality

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Not Our Last Hurrah

Synopsis:
explores the relationship between the United States and Australia

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part of the Australia Project

1st Produced:
Kraine Theatre, NY, Usa     2006

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To Know Know Know Me

Synopsis:
Jahnesha is dying to be famous. emily is pretending to be famous. Mariah's brother is infamous. ashley is famous. and Elizabeth and avrian are finding out that who and what we know can change everything. To Know Know Know Me deftly captures the inner-workings of nine teenagers as they grapple with the challenging concept of public (and self) recognition. (This play was specially commissioned by Playscripts for high school actors.)

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1st Produced:
Keen Teens At The Kirk Theatre (New York, NY, United States)     2008

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Playscripts, Inc - New York   -

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25-30 min Comedy/Drama

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Male:  3            Female:  6            Other:  3 males, 6 females (5-9 actors possible: 2-3 males, 3-6 females)

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Very Common Procedure, A

Synopsis:
Carolyn Goldenhersch begins an extra-marital affair with Dr. anil Patel that takes them from Indian restaurants in Queens to Jewish delis on the Lower east Side. Not an unusual New York story - until you find out how they met. In facing the horrific moment that has brought them together, these three New Yorkers must come to a final confrontation in which faith, love and the truth are put to the test
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originally presented in March, 2006 under the title Morbidity And Mortality At the Magic theatre (San Francisco).

1st Produced:
Lucille Lortel Theatre, NY     2007

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MCC Theater

1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY, 2008   -

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