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TOM BAUM
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Plays: Wonk Love, Brief acts Festival, N.Y. (2008); Shock therapy, six-week L.A. production (2008); the Great Outdoors, L.A. production (2010). Movies: the Manhattan Project (Saturn award), the Sender, Simon, Carny, Hugo the Hippo. TV movies: Witness to the execution (WGa Long Form award), Journey to the Center of the earth (miniseries), the Dark Prince, Shattered Mind, In the Line of Duty: Kidnapped, Night Visions, the Haunting of Sarah Hardy, Secret Weapons, Drop Dead Gorgeous. TV series: Nightmare Cafe, the Hitchhiker (three Cable emmy nominations), three aBC afterschool Specials. Novels: Out of Body, It Looks alive to Me!, Counterparts, Carny, Hugo the Hippo. Seven short stories (Playboy, transAtlantic review). Member actors Studio L.A. Playwrights/Directors Unit, ensemble Studio Theatre L.A. playwrights unit.
Research: Member of the Dramatists Guild of America
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Alpha Dogs Ashley Saves the World Atheist On Trial Big Pieces, The Blondes With Black Eyebrows Champagne Room, The Cheap Red, A Dork Love Endangered Species Epicenter Ezra Hertz Returns Great Outdoors, The Last One Under Rumors Of An Asteroid Seesaw Principle, The Shock therapy Taps For Paps Wonk LoveAlpha Dogs
Synopsis:
In the full-length play, alpha Dogs, set in the rec room of an elite fraternity, at the end of first-semester Finals Week, an outsider arrives to take an exam for the fraternity president, setting in motion a series of psychologically embarrassing, increasingly violent, and ultimately lethal events. the time is the present. the entire action takes place in the fraternity rec room, in two scenes.
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Staged reading, Actors Studio L.a., 2009. Staged reading, ensemble Studio theatre L.a. Winterfest, 2010.
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Top of PageAshley Saves the World
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the Devil gives ashley three wishes. . .and a chance to get him back into Heaven. For 6,000 years, the DeVIL has been traveling the earth, granting women their fondest wishes. the catch: for every wish granted, a horror is visited on humanity. He pays a visit to aSHLeY, 20s, an attractive young woman with a bad dating history and progressive leanings. Will ashley marry the Devil and save the planet? Will God live up to God's end of the bargain?
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comedy Ten Min
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Top of PageAtheist On Trial
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In atheist on Trial, a full-length comic Drama about the state of religion in America, a popular professor of religion, in line to succeed to the department chair, runs a gauntlet consisting of a hard-shell Baptist businessman, a former student with delusions of divine grandeur, and a liberal chaplain with dreams of mass-media stardom.
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Staged reading, Actors Studio L.a., 2008. Public Reading, Santa Barbara, Ca, 2008. Finalist in Texas Nonprofit theatre POPS contest, 2008
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Top of PageBig Pieces, The
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Set in 1974, based on the author's widely anthologized Playboy story, the Big Pieces is a comic, two-character play about an ambitious young feminist (ROBeRTa, 20s) who reads for a publisher; her male chauvinist boss (PaUL, early 30s); and the hash pipe that brings them together.
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Based on the Author's Playboy story.
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Top of PageBlondes With Black Eyebrows
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Blondes with Black eyebrows is a play about the intersection between reality and dreams, set in an unnamed remote region, involving an unnamed tribe whose justice system is based on dreaming. Layla is a professor of anthropology with a particular interest in how cultures use dreams. the three men in the play-her research assistant, her Australian guide, and the tribal chief-are all in love with her. In the course of the play, she goes native, and what helps drive the play is the mystery of her ultimate fate.
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Staged reading, Actors Studio L.a., 2009
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Top of PageChampagne Room, The
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a handyman down on his luck. His just-fired stripper wife. His churchgoing mom. His brain-challenged brother. and the ex-debutante sister-in-law his mom gave up for adoption. a comic Drama about sex, money, and family secrets, set in the living room of a tract house in central Florida.
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Staged reading, eST L.a. Winterfest 2009, with Jim MacDonald, Kareem Ferguson, Jenny O'Hara, Lizzie Peet, Sophie Ullett, directed by Lisa James. Staged reading, the Hayworth theater, Bruno Kirby Celebrity Reading Series, scheduled for 2010
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Top of PageCheap Red, A
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Three couples. Three dinner parties. Three after-dinner games. Six personal crises. BRee, a wedding planner, is living with KeVIN, a Jewish lawyer. Unknown to Kevin, she's had an eye-opening sexual encounter with TeRReNCe, an African-American cop, (30s, African-American), whom Kevin is defending in a sexual harassment case. Unknown to Bree, who's gun-shy about having children, Kevin has donated his sperm to aMY, a preschool teacher (20s, ethnicity optional), whose upcoming wedding to LORRaINe, a professor (40s, white), is being organized by Bree. Unknown to amy, Lorraine has developed a serious crush on JaYNa, her massage therapist (20s-30s, ethnicity optional), Terrence's live-in girlfriend. In the course of the play, three dinner parties-complete with revealing after-dinner games-lead to the formation of three new couples with possibly rosier futures.
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Staged reading, ensemble Studio theatre L.a., 2010.
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Top of PageDork Love
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Virtual sex on a college campus. Via their webcam-equipped laptops, ZaK, late teens/20s, explores his erotic hangups with eMILY, late teens/20s, a sex worker. Or is she?
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5-minute play (comedy)
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Top of PageEndangered Species
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a philosopher confronts his worst nightmare-a student who takes his teachings seriously. endangered Species is a comic Drama about love, betrayal, and animal liberation, involving a bioethics professor, Father of the animal liberation movement; his animal researcher wife; the professor's former student, now a radical animal liberationist; and a call girl.
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endangered Species will have A staged reading At Celebrationworks, Boulder, CO, with An eye to A production.
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Top of PageEpicenter
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epicenter is a comic Drama about the clash between reason and delusion-and how they overlap. a PhD candidate in mathematics, convinced that he's responsible for a series of campus disasters, is forced to consult the college shrink-who becomes more and more persuaded that he's what he claims to be: a walking disaster area.
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Staged reading, Actors Studio L.a., 2008
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Top of PageEzra Hertz Returns
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ezra Hertz Returns reunites three high-school friends in a comic Drama of escalating menace, involving a writer-in-residence at a small college, the author of a novel about a love triangle involving himself, his live-in girlfriend, and his high-school friend and protector.
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Top of PageGreat Outdoors, The
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GReTCHeN, a college professor in her 40s, the sole emotional support of her widowed agoraphobic mother, eLeaNOR, 60s, is amazed to discover that her mother has ventured outside for the first time in decades. She uses the occasion to air a lifetime of grudges, only to have her mother, liberated from her prison, turn the tables on Gretchen's shortcomings. the setting is a public park. a park bench is the only set piece.
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Part of A six-week run of park-bench plays, starring Joanna Miles And Louise Davis.
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Tba (Los Angeles) early 2010
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Top of PageLast One Under
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Three people, arrested for various crimes, come to realize that they're on a pilot episode for a Snuff TV reality series, in which the last person to fall asleep will be electrocuted.
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Top of PageRumors Of An Asteroid
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Rumors of an asteroid is a full-length comic Drama about an L.a. family confronting twin challenges: the fears (and hopes) generated by the rumor of an impending asteroid collision; and a rich older man's offer of marriage to an idealistic young woman.
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Staged reading, Actors Studio L.a., 2009
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Top of PageSeesaw Principle, The
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Based on the author's widely anthologized short story, the Seesaw Principle is a comic fantasy about the conflict between career and family. a successful playwright--whose success seems to have come at the expense of his wife's and son's happiness-finds his entire career magically vanishing, while his wife's and son's fortunes skyrocket.
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Based on the Author's Playboy story.
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Top of PageShock therapy
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Shock therapy is a full-length comic Drama set in a Cape Cod summer house, involving a group of psychotherapists taken hostage by a parolee who claims to be revenging the drug-induced suicide of his cellmate. the setting is the family room of Colin and Becca's summer house. the action is continuous.
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ensemble Studio theatre Winterfest 2008; World Premiere L.a. 2008, Lillian theatre, with Scott Paulin, Lisa Robins, Sophie Ullett, Gregg Henry, Matthew Glave, Cece Antoinette, theo Breaux, directed by Jenny O'Hara
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Lillian Theatre, Los Angeles Oct 2008
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Top of PageTaps For Paps
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Top of PageWonk Love
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Wonk Love is a two-character comic Drama about love, politics, and race. JONaH, mid 30s, is a conservative Jewish blogger. CaMILLe, early 30s, is a liberal African-American speechwriter for an incumbent Democratic governor. Jonah and Camille meet, go to bed with each other, and become embroiled in the Governor's re-election campaign-sometimes on the same side, sometimes not, and never with the purest motives.
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Premiered At Love Creek Brief Acts festival 2008, NY, with John Borras And Stephanie Campbell, directed by theodore Hamblin. Public reading, Raconteur theatre, Columbus, OH 2009
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Brief Acts Festival, New York Mar 2008
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