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Catty Corner, The
Synopsis:
Two Gen-Y social climbers have their friendship tested after one of them experiences schadenfreude over the other's crush on a gay man.
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1st Produced:
Cherry Lane/Philadelphia Fringe Festival Jul 2005
Organisations:
Cherry Lane/azuka Theatre Company
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Genre:
Short Play/Comedy
Parts:
Male: 2 Female: - Other: -
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For the Duration
Synopsis:
an American intelligence officer leaves Iraq early to tend to his dying son. When it is revealed that the son might be a victim of Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy, the soldier's loyalties are torn between family and country
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1st Produced:
June Havoc Theatre (Staged Reading) 20 Jul 2010
Organisations:
Midtown International Theatre Festival
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Genre:
Military Drama/Family Drama
Parts:
Male: 4 Female: 1 Other: -
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Kryptonite City
Synopsis:
Two ne'er-do-wells are trying to make it New York as con men. their grift: comic books. all is well until one of them swindles a small-time gangster, and the other falls in love with a teenager
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1st Produced:
Hypothetical Theatre Company In NYC 2003
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Genre:
Noir Drama
Parts:
Male: 3 Female: 1 Other: -
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Members Of the Tribe
Synopsis:
a Christian woman yearns to convert to Judaism in order to appease her husband-to-be. the process is running smoothly, until the future step-daughter appears. Her Marxist-Leninist leanings will put everything into question, including the concept of God and, more important, loneliness.
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1st Produced:
Makor/92nd Street Y In NYC 2003
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Genre:
Comedy/Drama Comedy
Parts:
Male: 1 Female: 3 Other: -
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Push Polling
Synopsis:
a political satire about the 2004 Presidential election and job outsourcing
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1st Produced:
Organisations:
American Living Room Festival
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Music:
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Genre:
Sketch comedy Sketch
Parts:
Male: 1 Female: 1 Other: -
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Semi-Colon Right Parenthesis
Synopsis:
a man and a woman find out that Internet dating has a lot more surprises than what they bargained for.
Notes:
winner of 5 Awards At the New York City 15-Minute Play Festival, including "audience Favorite" And "Best Play."
1st Produced:
New York 2003
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Genre:
comedy One act
Parts:
Male: 1 Female: 1 Other: -
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Semper Hi Fi
Synopsis:
a satire on Americans during the invasion of Iraq
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1st Produced:
Kraine Theatre In NYC 2003
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Sketch Comedy Sketch
Parts:
Male: 4 Female: 1 Other: -
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Shoebox Of Ebbets Field, The
Synopsis:
One day in 1957, the Brooklyn Dodgers baseball team announces that they are leaving New York for Los Angeles. On that same day, a Brooklyn family suffers a departure of a family member that will forever change their lives
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1st Produced:
Cherry Lane Theatre 2001
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Genre:
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male: 1 Female: 1 Other: 1b
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Whitetail Season, The
Synopsis:
While preparing for a hunting trip, a man gets into a car accident while hitting a whitetail deer. His life starts to unravel when, later, his drug addict son returns home for money.
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winner of the Dasha epstein Next-Step Fellowship
1st Produced:
Ensemble Studio Theatre 2001
Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Genre:
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male: 4 Female: 2 Other: -
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