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Leslie Bramm

LESLIE BRAMM

  (1963 - )
Nationality:    USA
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Leslie Bramm's plays have been produced at the Kraine, Currican, Theatre Off Park, Todo Con Nada, the theotorium, the Lucille Lortel, the Beckett and CBGBS 313. He is a recipient of a Stanley Drama award (Oswald's Backyard), a Tennessee Williams award (Big Ball) and a Paul. T. Nolan award (Island's of Repair.) Which was also read as a radio play on NPR-WJFF. Big Ball was a finalist in the Edward albee 2002 Last Frontier Playwright Competition, while A.B.C. (or the man in the red suit) was shot as an indie film by Pick UP Sticks Productions. Real Beatlemaniacs was selected as producer's pick at the 2004 Bare Bones Festival in North Carolina and was recently published by One act Play Depot. Mr. Bramm is a five time Fringenyc vet and wrote 23 gripe columns for Insight for Playwrights. He co-authored the screen play This is Not Here (about John Lennon) with Kevin Corrigan. He was the lead singer and played guitar for Diz Dam. He is currently developing the Hummingbird Play for Three Crows Theatre, slated for sometime in 2005. Mr. Bramm is a member of the Dramatist Guild.

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

         A B C         Big Ball         Christmas Carol, A         Islands Of Despair         Islands Of Repair         Left-Handed Hofner         Lovers Leapt         Marvelous Shrine         McNaughtin & Son         Mexican Cleaning Lady (Or How I Almost Offended the Dalai Lama)         Minute Man, The         Oswald's Backyard         Real Beatlemaniacs         Two Toms         Uncaring Dog, The         Venus And Mona         Want Of Wednesday

A B C

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1st Produced:
Theatre For A New Voice, New York    1993

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Genre:
Black comedy

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Male:  -            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Big Ball

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Billy's eighteenth birthday party. When his parents stop torturing their heroin addicted daughter for a while they start wondering if Billy is really their son.

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JaC Publications,    -

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Genre:
Black comedy

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Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Christmas Carol, A

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Based on "a Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens

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Penobscot Theatre, Maine    2005

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Genre:
adaptation

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Male:  10            Female:  10            Other:  -

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Islands Of Despair

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JaC Publications,    -

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Islands Of Repair

Synopsis:
A husband and wife are stranded at sea in a rubber raft. They battle sharks, the elements and each other. How will they survive?

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part of emerging Artists theatre's Spring 2008 edition of their semi-annual new works festival

1st Produced:
Roy Arias Studios & Theatres, Ny    2008

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emerging Artists Theatre

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http://www.indietheaternow.com/Play/islands-of-repair   -

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Genre:
one act 35 min

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Left-Handed Hofner

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part of 16th Annual New York City 15 Minute Play Festival

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Turnip Theatre Company and American Globe Theatre

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Genre:
15 Min

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Lovers Leapt

Synopsis:
Two lovers leap from the 83rd floor of the World Trade Center. as they fall they realise the life that they may have had

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1st Produced:
Present Company at the Theatorium, NY    2001

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http://www.indietheaternow.com/Play/lovers-leapt   -

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Genre:
One act 19 min

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Marvelous Shrine

Marvelous Shrine
Peter builds a shrine and watches as his prideful choices spiral out of his control, leading to his families destruction. Bobbie plans a M.a.D.D. cocktail party fundraiser, and Marvelous contemplates his transgendered-lesbian-rabbi-rock-n-roll future.

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1st Produced:
The New School For Drama, New York International Fringe Festival    11 Aug 2007

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Three Crows Theatre

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Genre:
1h 33m Drama

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Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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McNaughtin & Son

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Peter McNaughtin has spent an uneventful career in the Coast Guard. He is separated from his A-type wife Bobbie, who sees very little outside of the world shes involved in. Like a good WASP Bobbie over strives, drinks too much and has the tendency to say mean things. Peters life is quickly slipping out of control. 23 years in a meaningless job. Only rising to a moderate rank. Peter feels on the verge of truly becoming what his wife has called him. A nowhere man. He places all hope in his teenage son a track star and state champion on the verge of winning the biggest race of is life. If he does this he gets a slot on the Olympic team, a chance at an athletic scholarship, and most importantly he becomes the hero his Father needs him to be. This would give Peter a sense of the meaning his life has been lacking. Peter McNaughtin, Jr., who prefers to be called Marvelous, has grown up past the grade school track star his Father saw him as, and now at 17 idolizes Kurt Cobain and has decided to have a sex change operation, convert to nihilism and become the first ever post-op, Nietzschian, transgender, rock n roll guitar god. He might very well be gay. Peter plans to make a different kind of hero out of his son. A soldier worthy of a shrine. After he wins the meet its off to Officers Candidate School and a life in the Military. Hell rise to the rank Peter never did see places in the world, met the perfect woman and settle down to give him grand children. the only problem with this plan. . .Marvelous is already dead.

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JAC Publishing & Promotions   1-60513-170-9

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Mexican Cleaning Lady (Or How I Almost Offended the Dalai Lama)

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1st Produced:
Second Cringe Festival, New York    2007

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Genre:
One act

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Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Minute Man, The

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Oswald's Backyard

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In his backyard, Leo Oscar is the United States of America. Naive, petulant and ultimately violent. Leo is at the center of our national obsessionthe search for identity. He battles between idealism and a desire for fame. the television, the media, is his ultimate confirmation. the play is set in New Orleans, September of 1963, in and out of Leo Oscars mind. He has managed to create a political commotion around himself that lands him a shot on a local TV talk show. It is the day the show airs, and it has become Leos passionhis big break. However, Leos story is complicated by a television that wont work, the arrival of some unexpected house guests, and the return of an old friend. Leo is frustrated and humiliated until it is inevitable that he lashes out. While the events in this play may closely resemble the real life Lee Harvey Oswald, this is fiction. the play does not address or rebut any particular conspiracy, but instead explores the psychological landscape of a young American man, driven to extremely desperate actions.

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1st Produced:
Present Company, Ny    2001

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1st Published:
JaC Publications
http://www.indietheaternow.com/Play/oswalds-backyard   1-933159-057

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Genre:
One act 90 min

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Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Real Beatlemaniacs

Real Beatlemaniacs
a "boy meets his girlfriend's sister" story. the one he could have fallen in love with. Maybe the one he should have. they share a moment in the music and a bond they cannot pursue. She is the one he has to let get away.

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One act Play Depot >>>, 2003   1894910354

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Genre:
One act

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Two Toms

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Genre:
Fifteen minute play

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Uncaring Dog, The

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One act

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Venus And Mona

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Venus and Mona tells the story of identical twin sisters who meet atop the Olympus trailer park to face each other in the ultimate hate/rage battle. Mona is a washed-up child star and Venus never ventured far from home. they are both forced back together by the pending death of their mother who they affectionately call 'junky/drunk'. they must also thwart the clutches of the Gala Damy, a demon that lives in the garbage heap. Done in the style of a graphic novel, Venus and Mona punch, kick, bite, pummel, and pound one another, all in hopes of finding just a little forgiveness

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Workshop Production - Spoon Theatre, NY 2008

1st Produced:
Variations Theatre Group at the Chain Theatre, Long Island City, New York    Mar 2013

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http://www.indietheaternow.com/Play/venus--mona   -

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Genre:
graphic play Black comedy 90 min

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Want Of Wednesday

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Three Crows Theater

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Genre:
One act

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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