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Nikole Beckwith

NIKOLE BECKWITH

  
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    ICM Partners  

Nikole Beckwith is a playwright and screenwriter based in New York City. Nikole's play everything is Ours was produced by the Chautauqua Theater Company. Her screenplay adaptation of her play Stockholm, Pennsylvania garnered her a 2012 Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting and was included in the 2012 Black List of best, unproduced screenplays.

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

         Bridge, The         Connectivity         Dig Dig Dig         Echo Echo Echo         Everything Is Ours         Ghost Play         Have Your Cake         Holiday Play         How It Tastes         Imagine My Sadness         Let Me Collect Myself         Nice Place To Visit         Play For An All White Stage, A         Quiet Crying         Seven Sisters         Stockholm, Pennsylvania         Stuck In A Cave         Untitled Matriarch Play (or Seven Sisters)

Bridge, The

Synopsis:
A young woman climbs on the parapet of a bridge intent on throwing herself off. She finds someone else is already there

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Genre:
Five minute play

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Connectivity

Synopsis:
Conjoined twins are finally seperated when they are sixteen

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Ten minute play

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Dig Dig Dig

Synopsis:
Three teenagers dig a hole to get out of the one they have been put in

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Genre:
Ten minute play

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Echo Echo Echo

Synopsis:
Echo and her new boyfriend Nathan and couples counselling

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Genre:
Ten minute play

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Everything Is Ours

Synopsis:
Mitchell and Sara are internet multi-billionaires - they have everything. One day an orphaned ten year old girl turns up - the result of an egg donation made by Sara when she was a college

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Chautauqua Theater Company    

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Genre:
Drama

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Male:  3            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Ghost Play

Synopsis:
A support group for people who have faked their own deaths

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Genre:
Ten minute play

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Have Your Cake

Synopsis:
Boy meets girl. Boy falls in love with girl. Boy and girl move in together. Girl eats an entire sheet cake in the middle of the night and moves out

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Originally performed in an evening of short plays by various playwrights under the overall title "Too Much Too Soon"

1st Produced:
Theater for the New City
155 First aVenue, New York, NY 10009     29 Sep 2011

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Lesser America and Red elevator Production

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Genre:
Ten minute play

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Holiday Play

Synopsis:
Most of the guests at a party are obnoxious. Several plan their escape and end up in the attic

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part of Holiday Stucco which will feature new one-act plays by members of the Public theater's emerging Writers Group including playwrights Nikole Beckwith, Chris Craigin Day, Deen, Sevan Kaloustian Green, aaron Wigdor Levy, Mona Mansour, Don Nguyen, Jerome Parker, Stalla Fawn Ragsdale, akin Salawu, and Pia Wilson. every winter holiday is up for grabs in this seasonal spectacular!
- nytheatre.com

1st Produced:
Kraine theater
85 East 4th Street, New York, NY 10003     15 Dec 2011

Organisations:
Horse Trade Theatre Group

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Genre:
Ten minute play

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Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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How It Tastes

Synopsis:
Two people get lost in the woods whilst on a corporate team building course. To survive one eats the other

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Genre:
Monologue play

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Imagine My Sadness

Synopsis:
Frank and Sandy's eldest son Craig is killed whilst committing a crime. How do they grieve for him? Remember him as he was or how they wanted him to be. The reaming siblings try to work out the new pecking order. Sandy paints the house black and goes to bereavement classes. An adult orphaned man comes into their lives and looks like he will replace Craig

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Drama

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Let Me Collect Myself

Synopsis:
Obsessive collectors

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Genre:
Short play

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Nice Place To Visit

Synopsis:
The furthest suburb of Arden is Farden. In Farden all your wants come true but not every want is a wish

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Genre:
Ten minute play

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Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  2 visible stage hands

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Play For An All White Stage, A

Synopsis:
Four people in the tundra lost. One dies do they others eat him?

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Part of "The Old Vic New Voices"

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Genre:
Ten minute play

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Quiet Crying

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Genre:
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Seven Sisters

Synopsis:
Loraine is about to be 55. She invites her four daughters over. She tells them they are about to have another sibling. Via a surrogate the new sibling will be a boy. Lorraine is convinced that daughters grow apart from their mothers whereas sons grow closer

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Genre:
Drama

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Stockholm, Pennsylvania

Synopsis:
Leia has spent nineteen years locked in a basement when she is returned to her parents. She finds out that her name is Leanne. She tries to adjust to her new life and misses the man who had kept her a prisoner

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Genre:
Drama

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Stuck In A Cave

Synopsis:
Gary and Lisa are trapped after an earthquake. Will Gary ever get Lisa to shut up? Will Lisa be reconciled with her mother, keep her promotion, see her cat again? Will she get Gary's telephone number?

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Genre:
One act

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Untitled Matriarch Play (or Seven Sisters)

Synopsis:
On the eve of her 55th birthday Lorraine gathers her four daughters around her and announces a new sibling is on the way. Utterly sick of her daughters she is determined to have a son. . .by surrogate. A biting and witty family comedy in broody and bumpy times.

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Genre:
family comedy

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