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Jordan Beswick

JORDAN BESWICK  

 Nationality:    USA
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Beswick, born in L.A., is a well-know casting director/playwright. He has had several of his short plays produced in New York. His first play, "CLUB HeLL," was produced first as a rehearsed reading by Tamara Hinchco and Vanessa Redgrave as part of London Riverside Studios Theatre season. It also received a staged reading in New York at New Dramatists. It premiered at the Celebration Theatre in Los Angeles. Other plays have had staged readings in New York at the Vineyard Theatre, Playwrights Horizons and New Dramatists. His play "the F word" was first presented as a rehearsed reading by the Actors Theatre of Washington as part of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts' New Play Network's "Journey From Page to Stage" Festival. aTW subsequently premiered the play at the Source Theatre in D.C. Beswick co-wrote (with Obie Scott Wade) the pilot episode of "aL ROaCH: PRIVaTe INSeCTIGaTOR" for Turner Classic Movies (L.A. Short Film Festival, 2004 Palm Springs International Festival of Short Films [audience & Critics pick, Best of Fest], Dragon Con 2004 Independent Short Film Festival, Beverly Hills Film Festival). His play "Youth In asia" was recently presented as a rehearsed reading at the Vineyard Theatre in New York.

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

         Club Hell         F Word, The         Inconcevable         Splitting the Atom         Youth In Asia

Club Hell

Synopsis:
east meets West in a most unusual way when an American Jewish man falls for an ex-neo Nazi east German skinhead. Nothing in life is only skin deep

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Celebration Theatre in West Hollywood    1995

Organisations:
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1st Published:
in "gods peculiar grace",,    -

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  1            Other:  -

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F Word, The

Synopsis:
When a gay man decides to create a home and family with his lesbian best friend it forces him to deal with his unreconciled feelings about the family he left behind.

Notes:
there is now A new French translation Available by Marianne Groves

1st Produced:

Organisations:
actor's Theatre of Washington

1st Published:
4i1n "gods peculiar grace",,    -

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama. - - Gay, full length

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Inconcevable

Synopsis:
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Notes:
French version of the F Word

1st Produced:
Manufacture des abbesses, Paris, France    2007

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Genre:
Play/Drama. - - Gay, full length

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Splitting the Atom

Synopsis:
adam is fast approaching a dangerous fork in the road, his fifteenth birthday. When his father leaves his mother and moves in with his gay uncle things begin to unravel for everyone.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
staged reading at the Vineyard Theatre in New York City    1997

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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama. - - Gay, full length

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Youth In Asia

Synopsis:
a family reunion. Part 2 of the trilogy begun with the F WORD

Notes:
French translation/adaptation of it by Marianne Groves.

1st Produced:
Vineyard Theatre, NY (staged reading)    -

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama. - - Gay, full length

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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