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Alan Berks

ALAN BERKS

  (1973 - )
Nationality:    USA
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Alan Berks is an assistant Professor of English at St. Cloud State University where he teaches Composition and Rhetoric, Writing for the Professions, and Playwriting. He is also a co-founder and creator ofThirst, a project designed to make live Theater more daring, raw, and accessible for both audiences and professional artists. In 2003-2004, he was a Jerome Fellow at the Playwrights' Center of Minneapolis, where he developed his play Music Lovers. His solo show Goats premiered at the Festival of emerging American Theatre at the Phoenix Theatre in Indianapolis. It will be seen at the Production Company in New York in January and February. His other plays include the Big Bang, produced with the Riverside Repertory Theatre in Albuquerque, New Mexico; and Mourning Rituals,produced by Blackball ensemble in Phoenix, arizonA. He has a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing with an emphasis in Playwriting.

Research:    Member of the Dramatists Guild of America (as at 2015)

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         # Ringtone         Almost Exactly Like Us         Complicated Fun         Feast of Wolves         Goats         Great Divide, The         Home Of the Brave         How To Cheat         Isaac         Music Lovers         Six Characters In Search Of An Author
# Ringtone

Synopsis:
Internet, social media, skype so how come so many people are lonely and unhappy?

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1st Produced:
Fallout Arts Initative, Minneapolis     06 Aug 2010

Organisations:
Minnesota Fringe Festival

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Genre:
Comedy

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Almost Exactly Like Us

Synopsis:
If your world were different, would you be different, too? almost exactly Like Us shows us four people in different realities, from a totalitarian regime to an evangelical college and a post-apocalyptic war zone, and examines how the world around us shapes who we are and who we will become.
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Theatre of the expendable

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Complicated Fun

Synopsis:
1980s Rubik's Cube, Ronald Reagan and punk rock

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Genre:
Drama with music

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Feast of Wolves

Synopsis:
Betrayals and manipulations a family uses them with military precision. When son Eric comes home from the War things escalate. Even the clairvoyant housekeeper cannot see a way to stop things

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Genre:
Drama

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Goats

Synopsis:
Goats is the journey of one young man to a place where the personal and political intersect and almost everyone dines with God. after the historic Oslo accords, after a year and a half of relative peace, an extremist assassinates Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, re-igniting the cycle of violence in the region. an urban, secular American Jewish boy finds himself living on a mountain outside Jerusalem, tending to the goats of a mysterious hermit. Before he can discover his destiny as a man, he must first learn to think like a goat

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1st Produced:
Indianapolis     2005

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Great Divide, The

Synopsis:
Twin Cities election time. The underdog Republican agrees to an interview with a liberal blogger. He hopes that he can get money from the Tea Party. She has her own agenda

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Genre:
Drama

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Home Of the Brave

Synopsis:
a soldier named Luke returns home from battle to discover that no one in Goodland is allowed to speak. Fascist Hounds, wily ghosts, and limping, love-struck mayors chase Luke, his high school sweetheart, and some rebellious Gabbers through the forests of the Minnesota Iron Range -- making love and war with words. Home of the Brave is about the fight for freedom where you least expect it.

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1st Produced:
Guthrie Theater (Reading) (Minneapolis, Mn, United States)     2004

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1st Published:
Playscripts, Inc - New York   

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Genre:
30-35 min Comedy/Drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  6            Other:  4 males, 6 females, 3 either (13-20 actors possible: 4-14 males, 6-16 females)

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How To Cheat

Synopsis:
A playboy scientist and a married woman meet at a party. The two find themselves in a strange room and the sparks fly

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Isaac

Synopsis:
Isaac Greenfield loved a joke good, bad or indifferent. His three sons Adam, Ben and Michael reunite for his funeral. But Isaac would have his little joke

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Genre:
Comedy

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Music Lovers

Synopsis:
Love stories with the tracks of your life

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1st Produced:
Playwrights Center, Minneapolis     27 Mar 2010

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Genre:
Comedy

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Six Characters In Search Of An Author

Synopsis:
"The Chrystal Maze" it is the live final when suddenly six people uninvited arrive on the set. They say they are not people but characters looking for the author who thought them up

Notes:
Original Playwright - Luigi Pirandello

1st Produced:
Andy Boss Thrust Stage, Minnesota     19 Apr 2016

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Genre:
Adaptation

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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