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Eric Bland

ERIC BLAND

  (1979 - )
Nationality:    USA
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Eric Bland is a writer, director, performer, and producer. He was born on November 17, 1979 in Richmond, Va, where he was also raised. He attended Princeton University, where he graduated with a Bachelor's Degree in English with a Creative Writing concentration. He later earned an M.A. in Writing for Performance from Goldsmiths College, University of London. as an actor, eric has performed in his own work and for a number of downtown Theater directors (Michael Gardner, Matt Gray, Brian enk, Jeff Lewonczyk, and Shannon Sindelar). He is the artistic Director and Co-Founder of the Old Kent Road Theater, a collective that sets evocative ensemble pieces against the chaos and concrete of New York City, all the while seeking authentic, idiosyncratic performance that blends the absurd and the emotional with the new and the lonely (other members: Scott eckert, abernathy Bland, Charlie Hewson, Hollis Witherspoon, Jesse Liebman, Victoria Tate, and Siobhan Doherty). the OKRT has presented work at various downtown Theater venues, including the Brick Theater, the Ontological-Hysteric Theater, Dixon Place, and the Bushwick Starr. Upcoming performances include are We Bourgeois Mon amour? (a Psycho's analysis) at the Bushwick Starr in May and Jeannine's abortion: a Play in One Trimester at the Brick Theater in June. eric lives in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn. His play Death at Film Forum is published in Plays and Playwrights 2009.
- nyTheatre.com

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

         All the Indifferent Children Of the Earth         Bad Bruise Of Billy Macbean, The         Children Of Truffaut, The         Das Brat         Death At Film Forumis         Emancipatory Politics: A Romantic Tragedy         Great Americano         Gringo Of the Deli Acapulco, The         Here At Home         I Felt So Free         I Stand For Nothing         In Big Cities We Are Sentimental         Jeannine's Abortion: A Play In One Trimester         Make It Work! Keep Going!         Mock the Knife         Mother Mary Come To Me         Piper Mckenzie's Dainty Cadaver         Protestants, The         Swing State         Way That One Arrives, The

All the Indifferent Children Of the Earth

Synopsis:
Eric Bland's play finds three women and one man compulsively dissecting the likes of Dizzy Gillespie, human rights, and the gender identification rules of Vermont. It's as if four anxious, petit bourgeois strangers find themselves at 8am in the backyard of a mutual friend's August retreat, a half-mile from the coast of Cherbourg or Seattle. Or it's as if four precocious children were abandoned in a Math/Science Center on a rainy, late-autumn Saturday morning. Or as if people do theater, in 2012, despite. . .things.
- nytheatre.com

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1st Produced:
Brick theatre
575 Metropolitan avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11211    16 Feb 2012

Organisations:
Old Kent Road Theater

1st Published:
http://www.indietheaternow.com/Play/all-the-indifferent-children-of-the-earth   -

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Play/Drama 90 min

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Male:  1            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Bad Bruise Of Billy Macbean, The

Synopsis:
deconstructs a relationship with verbal sparring, poetic interludes and contemplative vignettes. Billy and Klare like each other very much, that much is clear, but he simply won't leave his basement. a former child chess prodigy, Billy has become agoraphobic since the death of his Father and no amount of coaxing can extract him from his home.
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Organisations:
Old Kent Road Theater

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One act

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Children Of Truffaut, The

Synopsis:
the Children of Truffaut thrusts eight characters drawn from 70's Continental cinema into a game of aroUSAl, angst, bluster, pontification, and whimsy.
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
part of Pretentious Festival

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Old Kent Road Theater

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Das Brat

Synopsis:
Das Brat offers an unusual take on love, loss, bratwurst, humiliation, illegitimacy, and one man's attempt at transformation and transcendence.
- nytheatre.com

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1st Produced:
Midtown International Theatre Festival, Ny    2006

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Death At Film Forumis

Death At Film Forumis
aspiring filmmaker/auteurs compete a la Project Runway in this very funny mixed media satirical Drama

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1st Produced:
Brick theatre
575 Metropolitan avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11211    07 Jun 2008

Organisations:
Old Kent Road Theater

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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama 80 min

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Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Emancipatory Politics: A Romantic Tragedy

Synopsis:
Emancipatory Politics: a Romantic Tragedy (eP: aRT) flings a large ensemble into a traumatic struggle to create an opening for sprawling thought and intimate embraces. Committed to the comedy of desire, the physicality of loss, and the potential for new spaces, this total-theater, contemporary ecstasy searches for the inextinguishable kernel of the radical-possible. eP: aRT takes its cue from contemporary philosophical tracts, recent movements in leftist politics, and the very real search for meaning surfacing in the lives of 20 and 30-something contemporary New Yorkers. Its collage-like form is open and sprawling but energy is focused on the creation of a movement forward, connectivity, and a sense of journey. amid the societal struggle (the emancipatory political struggle) comes the romantic tragedy (both the social one of our attempts and failures, and the very personal ones of finding connection in this time and place). amid the struggle love emerges.
- nytheatre.com

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1st Produced:
Incubator Arts Project
131 East 10th Street, New York, NY 10003    40514

Organisations:
Old Kent Road Theater

1st Published:
http://www.indietheaternow.com/Play/emancipatory-politics-a-romantic-tragedy-epart   -

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama 120 min

Parts:
Male:  7            Female:  9            Other:  -

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Great Americano

Synopsis:
What have Preacher Billy and Vladimir been up to? Why is Maggie in a coma? Did Vladimir poison his mother?

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1st Produced:
Red Room, New York    Aug 2004

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Genre:
One act

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Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Gringo Of the Deli Acapulco, The

Synopsis:
the Gringo of the Deli acapulco is a euphemism for outsiders. an insane tramp and a social worker fall instantly in love after locking eyes at an all-night deli in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. This magical moment, as it turns out, is just that as something more supernatural is in play. the entrance of Olivia's sister's ghost and the sudden appearance of a revolver from under a tablecloth pull the lovers into a deadly contest where identity, mortality, and even objective reality are questioned and blurred.
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1st Produced:
Under St. Marks, Ny    2007

Organisations:
Old Kent Road Theater

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
One act

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Here At Home

Synopsis:
31 Down's trademark hallucinatory audio visual landscapes fuel playwright Eric Bland's contemplative, poetic characters in the company's sixth full-length performance work.Here at Home offers a surreal interpretation of how wars abroad affect everyday lives in the homeland, tracing four hometown friends who are entrenched from afar in a modern-day war
- nytheatre.com

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1st Produced:
the Bushwick Starr
207 Starr Street, #4, 2nd floor, Brooklyn, NY 11237    12 May 2011

Organisations:
the Bushwick Starr

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Male:  4            Female:  -            Other:  -

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I Felt So Free

Synopsis:
Wendy is a puppet. Marty is a man. Can they find true happiness?

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1st Produced:
Tiny Theater Festival    May 2007

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I Stand For Nothing

Synopsis:
a theater-collage cobbled out of absurd, sentimental, and lyrical material, I Stand for Nothing explores the contemporary New Yorker's struggle with individuality and authenticity while negotiating the realms of love, politics, and solitude
- press release

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Organisations:
Old Kent Road Theater

1st Published:
http://www.indietheaternow.com/Play/i-stand-for-nothing   -

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Genre:
Piece 130 min

Parts:
Male:  8            Female:  7            Other:  -

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In Big Cities We Are Sentimental

Synopsis:
Sad love and suicide

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1st Produced:
Onthological-Hysteric Theater, New York    Mar 2008

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Jeannine's Abortion: A Play In One Trimester

Synopsis:
This show is part of the Brick theater's Too Soon Festival. This is the official blurb: Jeannine's abortion: a Play in One Trimester follows Jeannine and several of her peers over three months in New York City, during which time they exist with one another and Jeannine has an abortion.
- nytheatre.com

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Organisations:
Old Kent Road

1st Published:
http://www.indietheaternow.com/Play/jeannines-abortion-a-play-in-one-trimester   -

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama 90 min

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Make It Work! Keep Going!

Synopsis:
a short play full of puppets, the dream of emancipatory politics, and the isolation inherent in everyday life.
- nytheatre.com

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Mock the Knife

Synopsis:
Young man needs help. Perhaps a knife could cut the vocal chords--only the foolish speak of love. and let Kaius Caesar catalogue brother Julius' collapse in this comedic ghost sequence. Who died, who boozed, who farted, who loved? Whoever.

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Organisations:
the Lowlands Comedy Theater

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Genre:
Drama Performance art, 60 min

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Mother Mary Come To Me

Synopsis:
Mary did not birth Jesus. Sheila did. But Sheila died and Jesus needs a mother. and Joseph needs a lover. and Mary needs things too.
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
part of the Baby Jesus One-act Jubilee: Second Coming, A selection of world-premiere yuletide-themed plays

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Organisations:
the Brick Theater

1st Published:
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Music:
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Piper Mckenzie's Dainty Cadaver

Synopsis:
18 playwrights. 3 plays. One performance of each. Piper McKenzie's Dainty Cadaver is an exquisite Corpse-style playmaking project in which multiple playwrights collaborate on a single work without knowing what the hell the others are doing. each writer reads the previous scene, writes a new scene, and passes it on to the next writer - who doesn't see any of what came earlier. Beautiful madness ensues. For its inaugural edition, Piper McKenzie will present one-night-only performances of three new plays written in this unique collaborative style, with results ranging from inspired chaos to eerie synchronicity - all tied together by the unique voices of 18 hot playwrights, divided into three teams and staged by three directors. the teams and their performance details are as follows: TeaM a: Fri 1/28, 8pm: Johnna adams, Eric Bland, Jeff Lewonczyk, Mac Rogers, Crystal Skillman, art Wallace. Directed by Jordana Williams. TeaM B: Sat 1/29, 8pm: Danny Bowes, Matt Freeman, Qui Nguyen, Carolyn Raship, August Schulenburg, alexis Sottile. Directed by Hope Cartelli. TeaM C: Sun 1/30, 3pm: Maggie Cino, James Comtois, John DeVore, Cara Francis, Rich Lovejoy, Justin Maxwell. Directed by John Hurley.
- nytheatre.com

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1st Produced:
Brick theatre
575 Metropolitan avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11211    28 Jan 2011

Organisations:
Piper McKenzie Productions

1st Published:
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Music:
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Play/Drama

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Protestants, The

Synopsis:
When Scottie returns home to Virginia from his NYC sojourn for the marriage/departure of his chronically negligent mother, he discovers his biologically-ruined brother wilting, his emotionally-untethered brother firing, and his baby 'brother' Tippy becoming a woman and the family's final hope. Tippy's tough-as-nails best bud Ruby, a Nurse fallen from the pages of Chekhov, and Scottie's cosmopolitan girlfriend Virginia round out this frenetic yet heart-blooming world. Told in evocative, free-wheeling scenes, the Protestants penetrates the rural, central Virginian landscape with characters of big desire, personality, and problems-one part the Royal Tenenbaums, one part Faulkner. It delivers a South where pain and humor intertwine, with both aiming for the last laugh; where the need and the notion of God lurks throughout to order and illuminate things forgiven, things forsaken
- press release

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Organisations:
the Old Kent Road Theater

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Genre:
Southern gothic epic Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Swing State

Synopsis:
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1st Produced:
Battersea Arts Centre, London    -

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Way That One Arrives, The

Synopsis:
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1st Produced:
Young Playwrights Festival, Horizon Theatre, Atlanta    -

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