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Barbara Blumenthal-Ehrlich

BARBARA BLUMENTHAL-EHRLICH

  
Nationality:    USA
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Barbara's work has been produced or developed in New York at Playwrights Horizons, Second Stage, Roundabout, Rattlestick, Women's Project, Ensemble Studio Theatre, New Georges, Six Figures, AracaWorks, The New York International Fringe Festival (extended off-Broadway in the Fringe NYC Encore Series), and The Off-Broadway Summer Play Festival; Regionally, at Actors Theatre of Louisville, Trinity Rep, the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Hangar Theatre, Victory Gardens Theatre, Boston Playwrights Theatre, Boston's One-Minute Play Festival, LA's Elephant Theatre, Long Beach Playhouse, Provincetown's Universal Theatre, Bostonia Bohemia, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, and Chicago's Collaboraction Theatre. Plays published by Smith & Kraus. She has won or placed in contests that include the O'Neill Playwrights Conference, Sundance Playwriting Lab, Princess Grace Award, the Heideman Award, Labyrinth Theatre Summer Intensive, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, Phoenix Theatre's New Works Festival, Long Beach Playhouse Festival of New Works, Capital Stage's Playwrights Revolution, Bloomington Playwrights Project, HotCity Greenhouse, Beverly Hills Theatre Guild Julie Harris Playwright Award, and Reverie Productions Next Generation. She is an affiliated artist with New Georges in NYC and a member of Boston's Interim Writers' group, The Accomplice.

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below is a list of Barbara Blumenthal-Ehrlich's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Absolute Flight: A Reality Show With Wings         Big City         Body Clean, The         Captives, The         Cleavage         Double Vision         Featherweight         Hitting the Wall         Leaving Earth: Taking Flight In Pakistan         Next Big Thing, The         Romeo Chang         Sister, Sister         Still Life         there Is No Present         Woman With Orange Hands, The

Absolute Flight: A Reality Show With Wings

Synopsis:
Fly or Die! aBSOLUTe FLIGHT is the ultimate reality show. One lucky winner will be fitted with wings and dropped from an airplane. Certain death or eternal celebrity? the backstage backstabbing is only the beginning. Tune in tonight and see!

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Venue 16: Classic Stage Company

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Don't Say Miami and Joshua P. Weiss

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Genre:
Comedy Drama, 135 min Comedy

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Big City

Synopsis:
Jane and Joe are just room mates - except for Friday nights and sometimes on a Sunday morning

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Genre:
Drama

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Body Clean, The

Synopsis:
An incapacitated man has had a falling out with his nurse and his girlfriend has left him. He now has to ask his neighbour who he does not get on with to perform an intimate procedure - give him a bath

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1st Produced:
Fly On The Wall Festival     06 Nov 2012

Organisations:
Bostonia Bohemia

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Genre:
Short play

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Captives, The

Synopsis:
W.T. is a closeted artist/academic at an Ohio university, who paints images of death-row meals on china plates. She creates each plate after the executions  without meeting the prisoners. Because of pressure from her tenure committee, she now has her first face-to-face with an inmate whos about to die -- Texas prisoner Trevor Monroe. But Trevor wants a stay of execution  not a final meal setting in motion a series of life-altering events for the artist, the prison warden, and the man about to die. HE CAPTIVES is inspired by the work of artist Julie Green and the botched execution of Oklahoma inmate Clayton D. Lockett. All characters appearing in this work are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

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Winner, Beverly Hills Theater Guild Julie Harris Playwright Award, 2016

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Genre:
dark comedy

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Cleavage

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Notes:
Originally performed with five other plays under the overall title "Six Playwrights In Search Of A Stage"

1st Produced:
Roxbury Community College Main Stage Theatre, Roxbury, Ma     26 Apr 2013

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Genre:
Short play

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Double Vision

Synopsis:
Love hurts. Running from it can leave you half-crazy and riding the subway nude. Six singles navigate the tricky waters of urban, modern relationships in this quirky tale of love on the lam. a dark romantic comedy. Note: Contains nudity, no one under 18 admitted.
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1st Produced:
Bleecker Street Theatre, NY     2007

Organisations:
Don't Say Miami and Joshua P. Weiss

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Genre:
120 min Play/Drama

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Featherweight

Synopsis:
A terminally ill woman hires a boxer to help her fight her disease. She believes that the disease stems from a feather she once swallowed

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1st Produced:
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Genre:
Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Hitting the Wall

Synopsis:
about a pair of neighbors putting their lives back together after the death of one of their children
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1st Produced:
Clurman Theatre, NY     2006

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Genre:
Dark Comedy Comedy

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Leaving Earth: Taking Flight In Pakistan

Synopsis:
Two women triumph over oppression

Notes:
Part of the Harold Clurman Festival of the Arts

1st Produced:
Stella Adler Studio Of Acting, New York     20 Oct 2014

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Genre:
Short play

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Next Big Thing, The

Synopsis:
John and Jenna are struggling to save their marriage after a violent rape in a car park. A Congolese woman, Tammy is suffering from fistula as a result of a rape. Ty commits a violent attack on John

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Romeo Chang

Synopsis:
Jen is dying - she is also pregnant. She thinks the only one who can help live long enough to have the baby is mystic healer Romeo Chang. But Chang prefers a bottle of Jack Daniels these days and is burnt out

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1st Produced:
Boston Theater Marathon     2014

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Genre:
Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Sister, Sister

Synopsis:
For Dirdra and Janice, Mom's dead and it's a great day. There's going to be a celebration, and hopefully nothing will go flying out the window  including one of them. A viciously comic and tense fifteen-year reunion between two sisters on the day of their mother's unforgettable death.

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Genre:
drama 85 min

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Male:  -            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Still Life

Synopsis:
Three strangers have their lives inextricably linked when they get caught up in a terrorist subway bombing

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1st Produced:
-     2008

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Genre:
Drama

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Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

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there Is No Present

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Woman With Orange Hands, The

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1st Produced:
Fly On The Wall Festival     24 Apr 2013

Organisations:
Bostonia Bohemia

1st Published:
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Genre:
Short play

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