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James Bosley

JAMES BOSLEY

  
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    The Gersh Agency, NY  

James Bosley is the artistic director of Northern Manhattan's UP Theater Company where All the Best Ingredients, directed by Rik Walter, was it's inaugural production. His previous plays have been produced by MCC Theater, The Williamstown Theatre Fringe Festival, Qwirk Productions, Emerging Artists, The Ice Factory, Fay Simpson Dance Theatre, Bad Rep, Red Earth, PROP (Chicago) She's In The Attic (San Francisco) among others. His play Fun, developed at the Eugene O'Neill National Playwrights Conference, has had many productions in the U.S. including its premiere at MCC directed by Brian Mertes. It has been translated into German, Romanian, Flemish and Australian for productions in those lands. Fun is published by Dramatic Publishing Company. The film version of Fun, for which he wrote the screenplay, was shown in competition at Sundance and other festivals, and opened commercially at the Film Forum in NYC. His screenplay for it was nominated for an IFP Spirit Award. His latest play, Broad ChAnnel was runner up or finalist in several prominent festivals and competitions, and was produced in the Spring of 2014 by UP Theater Company to much acclaim. He has won fellowships from Yaddo, The MacDowell Colony and the Edward Albee Foundation. LIPSTICK, his PSA on literacy was a Gold Plaque Award at the 1998 Chicago TV Fest. He has an MFA from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. He is proud to be a native New Yorker.

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         All the Best Ingredients         Code 34         Cooties         D-Train         Epic Poetry         Fun         Marital Bliss Of Francis And Maxine, The

All the Best Ingredients

Synopsis:
In a tiny prison deep underground three guards try to break three political subversives by using the most delicious cupcakes anyone has ever dreamt of.

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1st Produced:
UP Theater Company, New York City     2011

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play 88 min

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Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Code 34

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Lucille Lortel Theatre, New York     1987

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MCC Theater

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One act

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Cooties

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Written by James Bosley And Fay Simpson

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D-Train

Synopsis:
Gangsters, murder and deceit in New York

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Written James Bosley And Fay Simpson

1st Produced:
Mcc Theater, New York     1992

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Drama

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Epic Poetry

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Fun

Fun
Two teenager girls decide to run away and to do so they must have a car. they break into a house to steal car keys - but are confronted with the house owner whom they brutally murder

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Dramatic Publishing Company   978-0871297221

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Play/Drama

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Male:  1            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Marital Bliss Of Francis And Maxine, The

Synopsis:
The 1920s. Francis and Maxine sing advertising jingles on the radio. As a publicity stunt they get married on air. But Francis is gay and Maxine a lesbian. Now that they are married they wonder if in fact they are in love. Francis' lover gets jealous and murders him

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Music by Earl Wentz

1st Produced:
Ohio Theatre, New York     1997

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Genre:
Gay full length play with music

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