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Andy Bragen

ANDY BRAGEN

  
Nationality:    USA
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         243         Back To the Desert         Conversation And Grammar Exercises For American Students         Conversation Exercises PArts Xiii - Xvi         Conversation Exercises Vi - Vii         Conversation Exercises X - Xi         Coversation Exercises Part I - V         Don't You Say A Fucking Word         Events With Life's Leftovers         Food Porn         Formaldehyde         Game, Set And Match         Greater Messapia         Hairy Dutchman, The         Homeless Earth         In Spite Of the Devil         Lazy         Like A Butterfly, My Nostalgia         Loop Tape         Lover's Dismantling, A         Mobro         Mooshu         Mosesville         Mother Earth         Oneonta         Proud Son         Ranch Home         Sadness Of the Limes, The         Spuyten Duyvil         Sweet Dreams Of Paris         Tabataba         This Is My Office         Unfinished Business         Vengeance Can Wait         Visiting Day         Women In A Holy Mess

243

Synopsis:
a Puerto Rican mother with a trouble teenage son gets involved with a white man.

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1st Produced:
-    1998

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Back To the Desert

Synopsis:
a French provincial town in the 1960s towards the end of the algerian War for Independence

Notes:
Original Playwright - Bernard-Marie Koltes

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Male:  9            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Conversation And Grammar Exercises For American Students

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Eugene Ionesco

1st Produced:
Jean Cocteau Rep, New York    -

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Music:
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Genre:
Translation

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Conversation Exercises PArts Xiii - Xvi

Synopsis:
Learning French at the travel agents, on holiday and at the theatre

Notes:
Original Playwright - Eugene Ionesco

1st Produced:
Ionesco Festival, New York    2001

Organisations:
Turnip Theater Company

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Genre:
Translation

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Conversation Exercises Vi - Vii

Synopsis:
Learning French through scenes at a hospital

Notes:
Original Playwright - Eugene Ionesco

1st Produced:
Ionesco Festival, New York    2001

Organisations:
amensia Wars

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-   -

Music:
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Genre:
Translation

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Conversation Exercises X - Xi

Synopsis:
Learning French through scenes at a school

Notes:
Original Playwright - Eugene Ionesco

1st Produced:
Ionesco Festival, New York    2001

Organisations:
amensia Wars

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Genre:
Translation

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Coversation Exercises Part I - V

Synopsis:
Learning French - basic French

Notes:
Original Playwright - Eugene Ionesco

1st Produced:
Ionesco Festival, New York    2001

Organisations:
Random Arts

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-   -

Music:
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Genre:
Translation

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Don't You Say A Fucking Word

Synopsis:
A tennis match, a home cooked meal and a doughnut shop

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1st Produced:
Rehearsed Reading At Brooklyn Shakes, New York    Mar 2013

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-   -

Music:
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Genre:
Comedy

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Events With Life's Leftovers

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Alberto Villarreal Diaz

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Food Porn

Synopsis:
Doughnuts, war and haute cuisine.

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1st Produced:
-    2006

Organisations:
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-   -

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Formaldehyde

Synopsis:
a young girl is entranced by her science project.

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1st Produced:
-    1995

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Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Game, Set And Match

Synopsis:
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Organisations:
Clubbed Thumb

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-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Ten minute play

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Greater Messapia

Synopsis:
In elmhurst, Queens, the last Messapian family tries to find a bride for its only son before he turns eighteen. Will he make it to altar or face a ritual beheading? Is the next door neighbor truly out to erase the Messapians from the earth? and can anyone make it across Roosevelt avenue alive? a wild comedy about assimilation and ethnic identity, Greater Messapia explores the immigrant experience from an entirely unexpected angle.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Queens Theatre In The Park, Corona, NY    2004

Organisations:
Queens Theatre in the Park

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
dark comedy Comedy

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Hairy Dutchman, The

Synopsis:
Love, tennis and New York

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Male:  5 or 6            Female:  7            Other:  -

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Homeless Earth

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Genre:
Ten minute play

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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In Spite Of the Devil

Synopsis:
A beautiful girl and her jealous lover. A young man and his aged father

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1st Produced:
Leeds Theater, Providence, Ri    09 Jul 2008

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Lazy

Synopsis:
Whilst living with a rich New York family Jack works at a pizza place. Cockeye is sent to bring him back home.

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1st Produced:
-    2002

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
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Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Like A Butterfly, My Nostalgia

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
Original Playwright - Masataka Matsuda

1st Produced:
Playwrights Center, Minneapolis    Jul 2007

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Genre:
Translation

Parts:
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Loop Tape

Synopsis:
Memories clashing. 1980s New York and the present

Notes:
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1st Produced:
-    2011

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Genre:
Drama

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Lover's Dismantling, A

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
Original Playwright - Elena Guiochins

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Organisations:
-

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Music:
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Genre:
Translation

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Mobro

Synopsis:
the Jazz Gallery is proud to present saxophonist/composer John ellis and librettist/playwright andy Bragen's work Mobro. the 90-minute through-composed piece, for nine musicians and five singers, was created at the Gallery in April 2011. Mobro was inspired by the intriguing 1987 journey of a garbage barge of the same name that became a national news headline, sparking intense interest in, and action on, a multitude of environmental issues.
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
Lyrics By: Andy Bragen; Music By: John ellis

1st Produced:
The Jazz Gallery, 290 Hudson Street, New York    Apr 2011

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
piece 90 min

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  nine musicians and five singers

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Mooshu

Synopsis:
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Organisations:
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Music:
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Genre:
Ten minute play

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Mosesville

Synopsis:
Mosesville, a black comedy, takes place in a crumbling vertical city-state run by the aging autocrat Robert Moses. a rebellion brews in Mosesville's subterranean depths, with plagues bubbling up from down below. When Robert Moses abdicates, Helen of Mosesville, Robert's long forgotten daughter, is forced to choose between revolution and the mantle of state, between her convictions and her family, between love and power.

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Genre:
dark comedy Comedy

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Mother Earth

Synopsis:
a hot New York summer and Leo worries about the fate of the earth and his mother's chronic illness

Notes:
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1st Produced:
-    2006

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Oneonta

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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Organisations:
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Genre:
Ten minute play

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Proud Son

Synopsis:
A reclusive man decides to hide away from the World. He creates an imaginary country in his apartment populated with action figures and stuffed toys

Notes:
Original Playwright - Shu Matsui. Translated with Kyoko Yoshida

1st Produced:
Ohio Northern University    Apr 2013

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Translation

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Ranch Home

Synopsis:
Laurie is trying to find her missing sister

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Organisations:
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Genre:
Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Sadness Of the Limes, The

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
Original Playwright - Veronica Bujeiro

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Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Translation

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Spuyten Duyvil

Synopsis:
Struggling to keep their heads above water in the face of demanding relationships and difficult ambitions, Buddy Starlight and Lisa Martinez find that their only hope lies in each other. But can they come to terms with the dangerous desires and appetites that have come to define their identities before they tear themselves and each other apart?

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Seven Devils Playwrights Conference, Mccall, Idaho    2004

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama (reading)

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Sweet Dreams Of Paris

Synopsis:
Red Jane dreams of Paris - Leo says that he will take her there.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
-    2005

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Tabataba

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
Original Playwright - Bernard-Marie Koltes

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Organisations:
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Music:
-

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Genre:
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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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This Is My Office

Synopsis:
a man is given an office all by himself. at first he works but then lethargy and doughnuts take over

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Genre:
Monologue play

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Unfinished Business

Synopsis:
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Genre:
One act

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Vengeance Can Wait

Vengeance Can Wait
Influenced by anime and manga (Japanese graphic novels and comic books), Vengeance Can Wait takes a peek into Japanese sub-culture as it charts a different kind of love story. a couple has the perfect domestic relationship: he spends his days planning the perfect revenge, while she awaits her perfect punishment. Dark, twisted, and touching, the couple come to understand the 'kinks' in their relationship-and embrace them

Notes:
Original Playwright - Yukiko Motoya. Translated from the Japanese by Andy Bragen And Kyoko Yoshida. Vengeance Can Wait was originally performed in Japaese by the Yukiko Motoya theatre Company At the Shinjuku theater Morliere in Tokyo, Japan. the English translation of the play was developed At the 2006 PlayLabs Festival At the Playwrights' Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, As part of the U.S.-Japan Contemproary Plays And Playwrights exchange Project. This translation was further developed in 2007 in collaboration with the Guthrie theater in Minneapolis. It received A premier production At Performance Space 122 in Assocation with the Queenss theatre in April of 2008, directed by Jose Zayas.

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Organisations:
Queens Theatre in the Park and the Immediate Theatre Company

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Genre:
Translation

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Visiting Day

Synopsis:
When their son goes to summer camp a couple find themselves alone for the first time in years

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    2010

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Black comedy

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Women In A Holy Mess

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
Original playwright - Ai Nagai

1st Produced:
Playwrights Center, Minneapolis    Jul 2007

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
American adaptation

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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