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Jessica Bowser

JESSICA BOWSER  (1975 - )

 Nationality:    USA
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Jessica Bowser has been writing, producing, and observing theatre for the past eight years in New York City. Prior she lived and wrote in Pittsburgh, Pa where she earned her BFa from Point Park University and co-founded Women's Work, a play festival of new work by and about women. Her multi-media plays fuse the abstract beauty, intrigue, and collage-like nature of performance art with the cohesiveness of story or plot present in more traditional theatre. Her work is often fragmented and non-sequitur moving effortless between reality, dream, and fantasy; when produced it is aesthetically captivating and mentally challenging without containing superfluous spectacle or being conceptually impenetrable. Jessica's work has received funding from The Heinz Foundation, The Queens Council on the arts, and The Puffin Foundation. She is a founding member and current Producing associate of Confluence Theatre Company. Produced works include: The Battle of the Thin Red Line, Through the Broken Glass, Relationship analysis 101: Sex Marriage and Roadkill (co-written with T. Protulipac), Wheel of Becoming, and It's about Time which was hailed "an ingenious mini-spectacle that combines live theatre with electronic music and both live and pre-taped video to create the surreal deconstruction of a depressed young man's personal epiphany" by nytheatre.com.

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

 (Re)Cycle Plays, The         Battle Over The Thin Red Line, The         It's About Time         Party Of One         Wheel Of Becoming         When No One's Listening

(Re)Cycle Plays, The

Synopsis:
This work-in-progress presentation was produced by Confluence Theatre Company. It consists of five staged readings of multimedia performances with social and environmental themes. Long term the project will be set outdoors in a community eco-festival setting complete with marketplace, art installation and live music. The full-scale production is planned for summer 2007. The writers involved in this incarnation included: Jessica Bowser, Bill Corsello, Clare Drobot, Brian Ferdman, and Hugh Ryan. The directors were adam Bernstein, Jessica Bowser, Jade King Carroll, and Bill Corsello.

Notes:
music by Jordan Shapiro

1st Produced:
workshop, Chocolate Factory, NY    2006

Organisations:
Confluence Theatre Company

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Genre:
Cycle of one-act theatre pieces One act

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Battle Over The Thin Red Line, The

Synopsis:
a performance piece that featured characterizations of three average-bodied women haunted by the images of their thin-perfects-selves which were manifested as nimble shadows projected on upstage screens.

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1st Produced:
Women's Work, Pittsburgh Playhouse, Pittsburgh, Pa    1997

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Genre:
One Woman Show Piece

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

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It's About Time

Synopsis:
It's about Time centers on Bang, a young man who hates his job and his nonexistent love life. Tired of running through life blindly, Bang commits himself to the strict, dogmatic life strategies prescribed in a self-help program called "The Praxis of IT." He believes that IT is about time. That, IT is all he needs. If Bang can just master his schedule and accomplish the goals he sets for himself, he knows that he can perfect a plan for success. But can he devise a plan for happiness? The original cast included Craig Fitzpatrick, David Lillich, Christine Ryndak, and Jenny Tibbels. It was directed by adam Bernstein.

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1st Produced:
workshop, Chocolate Factory, NY    2005

Organisations:
Confluence Theatre Company

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Multi-media Play Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Party Of One

Synopsis:
a non-sequitur unromantic comedy that centers around Jane and her unlikely infatuation with her uncouth landlord Jack.

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1st Produced:
Workshop Pittsburgh Playhouse, Pittsburgh, Pa    2003

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Genre:
Comedy One act

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Wheel Of Becoming

Synopsis:
Two beings unknowingly, or perhaps very knowingly, share the same space in different times.

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1st Produced:
Intrepid Production, The Producers Club, New York City    1999

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When No One's Listening

Synopsis:
Four monologues. Can be performed as a one woman show or by a variety of actresses. Characters range from Judy, an overweight woman who confesses her loneliness to her goldfish named Oprah, to Tori, a feisty 23 year old making a video for her unborn child.

Notes:
Was produced in Association with Blue Heron Arts Center As part of their "Out on A Limb" A special project for new And emerging funded by New York State Council on the Arts.

1st Produced:
Blue Heron arts Center, New York City    2001

Organisations:
Confluence Theatre Company

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Collection of Women's Monologues Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  4            Other:  -

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