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Adam Bock

ADAM BOCK

  
Nationality:    Canadian
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Literary Agent:    Creative Artists Agency NY  

Adam Bock's plays include Phaedra (Shotgun Players) a Small Fire (Playwrights Horizons, Drama Desk nomination), book for We Have always Lived in the Castle, with music by Todd almond (Yale Rep), the Flowers (about Face Theatre), the Receptionist (MTC, 2008 Outer Critics nomination, Best Plays of 2007-2008, the evidence Room with Megan Mullally), the Drunken City (Playwrights Horizons, 2008 Outer Critics nomination), the Thugs (Soho Rep, 2007 OBIe award for Playwriting), the Shaker Chair (2005 Humana Festival), Swimming In the Shallows (Shotgun Players, Second Stage Uptown, 2000 BaTCC award, Clauder Prize), Five Flights (encore Theatre and Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, 2002 Glickman award, aCTa nomination, Osborn nomination), Marcy Comes Home, and the Typographer's Dream (encore Theatre/Shotgun Players). Adam is the resident playwright at encore Theatre, and a Shotgun Players artistic associate. He is a Nea grantee, a three-time resident at Yaddo, a former member of the Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab, a NYTW Usual Suspect, and a TDF Open Doors mentor. Adam's plays are published by Samuel French, Dramatists Play Service and Playscripts, Inc. He is a proud member of New Dramatists.

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         Colby Sisters of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, The         Drunken City, The         Five Flights         Flowers, The         Gayboy Nutcracker         Life, A         Medea Eats         Percy Stripped Down         Receptionist, The         Roadside Garden         Shaker Chair, The         Small Fire, A         Swimming In the Shallows         Three Girls And Bob         Three Guys And A Brenda         Thugs, The         Thursday         Typographer's Dream, The

Colby Sisters of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, The

Colby Sisters of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, The
Nobody knows us. They think they do. But they don't. In a world of champagne and canapes, the five Colby sisters are the glamorous faces of New York high society. With wealth, style and desirable husbands, they appear to have it all. But privately, the sisters' squabbles distort the picture of this perfect family. Image is everything and struggling to maintain it could have life-changing consequences.

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black comedy

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Drunken City, The

Drunken City, The
Off on the bar crawl to end all crawls, three twenty-something brides-to-be find their lives going topsy-turvy when one of them suddenly begins to question her future after a chance encounter with a recently jilted handsome stranger. the Drunken City is a wildly theatrical take on the mystique of marriage and the ever-shifting nature of love and identity in a city that never sleeps.
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Playwrights Horizons Peter J Sharp, NY     2008

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Genre:
Comedy

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Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Five Flights

Synopsis:
Siblings ed and adele inherit an enormous aviary that their late Father built for his deceased wife, whose soul, he believed, had transformed into the body of a wren. the grown children are faced with the dilEmma of what to do with the crumbling structure -- sister-in-law Jane wants to build tidy new houses; friend Olivia wants to build the Church of the Fifth Day honoring birds and the Fifth Day of creation; ed wants to let the building fall to the ground. Folded into this debate are issues of religious conviction, fear of commitment, the way Russian ballet resembles a hockey game, and the courtship of ed by Tom, a gay professional hockey player.

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1st Produced:
Playwrights Horizons (Staged Reading) (New York, NY, United States)     2001

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Playscripts, Inc - New York   -

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85-95 min Comedy/Drama

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Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  3 males, 3 females

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Flowers, The

Synopsis:
Back stage rivalry and bad Shakespeare.

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1st Produced:
Commonwealth Club, San Francisco     2007

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Magic Theatre

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Gayboy Nutcracker

Synopsis:
An antidote to the loneliness a lot of gay people feel at Christmas with the "Dance of the Butchies", "A Dyke Ballet" and "The Fairy School Teacher"

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Music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky

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Genre:
Gay/Lesbian, musical

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Life, A

Synopsis:
Nate Martin has had yet another in a long line of break-ups. He wonders if the solution is in the stars. He consults astrological charts. A big surprise awaits him there

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1st Produced:
Playwrights Horizon, New York     30 Sep 2016

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has had yet another in a long line of break-ups. He wonders if the solution is in the stars. He consults astrological charts. A big surprise awaits him there   -

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Drama

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Medea Eats

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1st Produced:
Summerworks     2000

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Percy Stripped Down

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Receptionist, The

Synopsis:
at the start of a typical day in the Northeast Office, Beverly deals effortlessly with ringing phones and her colleague's romantic troubles. But the appearance of a charming rep from the Central Office disrupts the friendly routine. and as the true nature of the company's business becomes apparent, the Receptionist raises disquieting, provocative questions about the consequences of complicity with evil.

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Genre:
Comedy

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Roadside Garden

Synopsis:
Jamie mourns his dead lover lost to cancer. He creates a garden by the roadside. His friends drop by to see him and the garden. Yaz who pursues tough love. Queenie a lesbian friends. Jamie is one of triplets and his sisters also visit

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Genre:
Gay full length

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Shaker Chair, The

Synopsis:
Marion's sister Dolly is staying with her; Dolly is distraught because her husband is having an affair. Jean - an environmental activist - invites Marion on an action. Marion, surprising herself, accepts and sets out on a journey to answer the question: How big should your circle of concern be? a play about three women in their sixties truly engaging their worlds.

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Productions: Humana Festival of New American Plays; encore theatre/Shotgun Players. Workshop: ACT, San Francisco.

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Dramatists Play Service 2006   978-0822220916

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Drama

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Small Fire, A

Small Fire, A
adam Bock's meticulously crafted a Small Fire follows John and emily Bridges, a long-married couple whose happy, middle-class lives are upended when emily falls victim to a mysterious disease. as her senses are slowly stripped away - smell, taste, sight - emily resolves to remain engaged with her community, relying on John to help her run her company and experience her daughter Jenny's wedding. But her stoic outlook reaches a breaking point when the disease steals her hearing, leaving her with nothing but touch to communicate with the world. Suddenly, she is completely dependant on the husband whose endless devotions she had always taken for granted.

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1st Produced:
Playwrights Horizons Mainstage
416 West 42nd Street, 2nd floor, New York, NY 10036     06 Jan 2011

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Playwrights Horizons

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Play/Drama

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Swimming In the Shallows

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Barb finds out that Buddhist monks in Thailand only own eight things -- and wonders if that is all she wants. She starts giving away her things but her husband Bob keeps buying her new ones. Donna wants Carla Carla to marry her, but Carla Carla doesn't like that Donna smokes. Nick meets a shark at the aquarium -- they go on a date to the beach and Nick tries not to sleep with the shark too fast. Plus dream sequences. Plus a wedding.

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1st Produced:
Coyote Theater (Boston, Ma, United States)     2000

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Playscripts, Inc - New York   -

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Genre:
80-85 min Comedy

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Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  3 males, 3 females

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Three Girls And Bob

Synopsis:
Three women friends are complaining about the talk they have just attended on women and intimacy. Bob walks by and the three try and hit on him

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Part of "Twenty Four Hour Plays 2006"

1st Produced:
American Airlines Theatre, New York     23 Oct 2006

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Three Guys And A Brenda

Three Guys And A Brenda
Three guys sit around while one tries to screw up the courage to talk to a female co-worker. He does, and more. It may be hard being a guy, but these three manage to find a bit of bliss. (This play is available in the collections Great Short Comedies: Volume 1,Humana Festival 2006: the Complete Plays and 24 by 24: the 24 Hour Plays anthology.)

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In 1995, A group of writers, directors And Actors gathered on Manhattan's Lower east Side for what was supposed to be A one-time-only event: write, direct, produce And perform new plays with the span of 24 hours. More than A decade And just over 300 plays later, the 24 Hour Plays have been produced on Broadway, in London, Los Angeles, Chicago And Across the globe.

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24 Hour Plays (Showcase) (New York, NY, United States)     2004

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Playscripts, Inc - New York   978-0970904690

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Genre:
10 min Comedy

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Thugs, The

Synopsis:
the Obie award winning dark comedy about work, thunder and the mysterious things that are happening on the 9th floor of a big law firm. When a group of temps try to discover the secrets that lurk in the hidden crevices of their workplace, they realize they would rather believe in gossip and rumors than face dangerous realities

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Genre:
Dark Comedy Comedy

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Male:  3            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Thursday

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Typographer's Dream, The

Synopsis:
a typographer, geographer, and stenographer strive to explain their work in this examination of art and business, boundaries and learning to tell your own story. Most importantly, if you are what you do -- what happens when you hate your job? a funny, honest look at how we define ourselves.

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1st Produced:
Brightchoice Productions - Edinburgh Festival (Edinburgh, , Scotland)     2002

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1st Published:
Playscripts, Inc - New York   -

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Genre:
85 min Comedy/Drama

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Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  1 male, 2 females

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