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Bob Bartlett

BOB BARTLETT

  
Nationality:    USA
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Bob Bartlett is a Washington, DC-based dramatist whose plays have been performed or developed at Seven Devils Playwrights Conference, Lark New Play Development Center, Kennedy Center's Page-to-Stage Festival, Source Festival, DC's First Draft, Active Cultures, Rorschach Theatre, The Theatre Lab, and the Capital and Edinburgh Fringe Festivals. He lives in historic downtown Annapolis, teaches theatre at Bowie State University in Maryland, and is a founding member of The Welders.

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

         Accident Bear, The         Bareback Ink         Death By Hibachi         Drummer, The         Falwell         Greetings From Youngstown         Happiness (And Other Reasons To Die)         Kansas         Kuchu Uganda         Matt, Listen! A Rhythm Experiment         Sparks: Short Works by The Welders         Swimming With Whales         Theater Alliance Bake-off

Accident Bear, The

Synopsis:
Bear has accidents. One a month, every month, without fail. Fender benders, broken ankles, a busted this or that - abrasions, lacerations, punctures, a broken heart. Try as he might, he can't shake the accident bug until Chance, an unemployed paramedic living in her 1978 Volkswagen Beetle, wanders in.

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Genre:
full length comedy

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Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Bareback Ink

Synopsis:
A mysterious, powerful man commissions an isolated and withdrawn tattoo artist to create a large work of "ink" on the back of his beautiful, restless boy-toy. Greek mythology serves as inspiration for this modern, erotic tale of desire and possession.

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Edinburgh Fringe Festival (August 2012)

1st Produced:
Capital Fringe Festival, Washington Dc    13 Jul 2012

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Bob Bartlett

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Genre:
Gay, full length

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Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Death By Hibachi

Synopsis:
Mistletoe meets blood splatter in this dark comedy about three strangers whose online plans for a New Year's Eve group suicide are interrupted when the fourth member of their pact shoots herself in the head on a snowy Christmas morning.

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Genre:
full length comedy

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Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Drummer, The

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1st Produced:
Wonderworks Theatre For Young Audiences, Bowie State University, Bowie, Md    Oct 2014

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Genre:
childrens

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Falwell

Synopsis:
It's been over eight years since Harlan has left his tiny apartment. But when his hateful dog, Falwell, an obese black labrador retriever, unexpectedly expires and twenty-something newlywed interns Stephen and Sarah move in next door, the outside world like never before beckons - and Harlan hears.

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1st Produced:
Reading At Active Cultures As A Part Of Their Diving Board New Play Festival    24 Mar 2012

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Genre:
full length comedy

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Male:  4            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Greetings From Youngstown

Synopsis:
Sheldon and Bick, like many Americans, were happily raising their son and working in the manufacturing industry until the worst economic downturn since the great depression forces them to move home with a parent who hardly approves of their family.

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Genre:
Gay full length

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Male:  7            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Happiness (And Other Reasons To Die)

Synopsis:
Four friends have a suicide pact but things go awry when one of them does it before the others

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Genre:
Comedy

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Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Kansas

Synopsis:
An army vet and his thirteen-year-old daughter set out on a drive from our nation's capital to Wichita to murder an abortionist in this piercing snapshot of radicalized America.

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1st Produced:
Reading At First Draft    13 Mar 2012

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Genre:
full length drama

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Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Kuchu Uganda

Synopsis:
Set in the spring of 2009 and shortly before Uganda's legislature passed a bill making homosexuality punishable by death, the violence of homophobia destroys two households - one in Kampala and the other in an average American city.

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1st Produced:
The 3rd Annual Dc Queer Theatre Festival, The Anacostia Playhouse, Washington, Dc    Oct 2014

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Genre:
Gay, full length drama

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Male:  2            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Matt, Listen! A Rhythm Experiment

Matt, Listen! A Rhythm Experiment
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A collection of 24 short plays by top playwrights from Washington, DC. An astonishing variety of 10-minute plays, supplying great scene and monologue material for students, and all available for production (subject to royalty). All of the plays were first produced as staged readings for the Dramathon, an annual event benefiting the scholarship programs of The Theatre Lab School of the Dramatic Arts. Playwrights represented include Keith Bridges, Joe Calarco, Kathryn O_Sullivan, Norman Allen, Bob Bartlett, Renee Calarco, Allyson Currin, Amy Freed, Caleen Sinnette Jennings, Pamela Leahigh, Jennifer Nelson, Elizabeth Pringle, Ari Roth, John Strand, Mary Hall Surface, David Emerson Toney, and Laura Zam.

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in "Plays of the Dramathon", CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (May 2, 2014)   978-1499247794

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Genre:
ten min play

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Sparks: Short Works by The Welders

Synopsis:
The company presents excerpts from several original works.

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written by Bob Bartlett, Renee Calarco, Allyson Currin, Caleen Sinette Jennings, Gwydion Suilebhan. Page-to-Stage Festival 2014. The three-day, Center-wide Page-to- Stage event offers a series of free readings and open rehearsals of plays and musicals being developed by local, regional, and national playwrights, librettists, and composers.

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Swimming With Whales

Synopsis:
While visiting his family's secluded cottage on the lower Outer Banks of North Carolina, Owen, a typically urban fourteen-year-old boy, and his fisherman father clash until an unlikely and healing communion with an injured whale awakens in Owen a forgotten boyhood and connection with the sea.

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aka "Whales"

1st Produced:
Catholic University Of America    18 Nov 2010

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Genre:
full length comedy 100 min

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Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Theater Alliance Bake-off

Synopsis:
Bake-off playwrights are given a list of "ingredients"--people, places, things, ideas, etc.--that they must incorporate into their piece. These ingredients are sometimes given weeks in advance to allow the writers to outline and brainstorm, though sometimes playwrights only know their ingredients at the beginning of the 48-hour writing period. With such a short timetable to create their pieces, bake-off writers are encouraged to allow their instincts guide them through and are forced to ignore the nagging urge to rewrite as they go. After two days, the playwrights print out what they've got, in whatever form they've got, and the pieces are read.

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written by Kathleen Akerley, Bob Bartlett, Tearrance Chisholm, and Katherine Clair. Page-to-Stage Festival 2014. The three-day, Center-wide Page-to- Stage event offers a series of free readings and open rehearsals of plays and musicals being developed by local, regional, and national playwrights, librettists, and composers.

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