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Alan Brody

ALAN BRODY

  
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    Graham Agency  

Alan Brody is a professor of Theater at MIT. His plays have won numerous. Invention for fathers and sons, was the first winner of the annual Rosenthal award at the Cincinnati playhouse in the park in 1989. It was subsequently produced at the American Jewish Theater in New York City. the company of angels was the recipient of the 1990 eisner award from the Streisand center for Jewish culture in Los Angeles. It had its world premiere at the new repertory Theater in Massachusetts in the spring of 1993, and has been produced at the T. Schreiber studio in New York, Theater emory in Atlanta and the Janet King Horn Theater at Skidmore college. the housewives of Mannheim was cited as the best play of 1995 at the harvest festival of plays at the live oak Theater in Austin, Texas and was produced at the Boston playwrights Theater in January 1998. It subsequently won the Revs Shiner award at the Bloomington playwrights conference. Three of his plays, five scenes from life, greytop in love and one-on-one, were developed at the Missouri repertory Theater. Greytop in love was produced at the Walnut Street Theater in Philadelphia in march of 1998 starring Kim Hunter in one of her last performances. His play medea's nurse was presented at the Riverside stage Theater in Norwalk, Connecticut in September 1998. the Dramatic oratorio, reckoning time: a song of Walt Whitman, which he wrote in collaboration with composer Peter Child, had its world premiere at Jordan Hall with the john Oliver chorale in march of 1995. Mr. Brody is also the author of two novels, coming to (1973) and Hey Lenny, Hey Jack (1975).

Research:    Member of the Dramatists Guild of America (as at 2015)

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         Abraham And Sarah         Annie And Issie         Are You Popular?         Auditor, The         Company Of Angels, The         Dog With the Head Of A Dragon, The         Eckstein And Sons         Five Scenes From Life         Greatest Singer In the World, The         Greytop In Love         Hotel Room In Cleveland, A         Housewives Of Mannheim, The         Invention For Fathers And Sons         Matchpoint         Medea's Nurse         Moses         One-On-One         Operation Epsilon         Saturday Memories         Sitting Shivah         Twentieth Century Hero

Abraham And Sarah

Abraham And Sarah
Now an annual tradition, the Boston theater Marathon utilizes hundreds of actors and dozens of directors to sponsor 50 ten-minute plays in 10 hours (five plays per hour!), each one supported by a different New england theatre company

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Boston theater Marathon XI - 2009 anthology - 50 Ten Minute Plays Boston theater Marathon XI - 2009 anthology - 50 Ten Minute Plays ~ By Kate Snodgrass (ed) - Smith and Kraus, 2010   978-15752577164

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Annie And Issie

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Theatre Cooperative

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Are You Popular?

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aRe YOU POPULaR is the third in the VICTORY BLUeS TRILOGY, a cycle of three plays that also includes the HOUSeWIVeS OF MaNNHeIM and VICTORY BLUeS. the three plays cover the time from 1944 to 1956. they begin in Brooklyn and follow the move to the suburbs of three Jewish-American families before and after the men return from World War Two. aRe YOU POPULaR introduces the children of those families who are now in high school.

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Comedy/Drama Comedy

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Male:  4            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Auditor, The

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a study of a man in isolation who lives his life through the voices he hears from the next apartment.

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Drama One act

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Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  Two Voices, one male, one female

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Company Of Angels, The

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Based on the true story of actress Rita Karpinovicz (Rita Karin), the Company of angels tells the story of a group of young actors in the Yiddish theater who find each other after the holocaust and create a touring company in eastern europe. Beginning in Lodz, Poland, the company tours to the urban centers where survivors come looking for news of family and friends. With a Dramatic and musical revue called "Yesterday and Today", they rehearse under impossible conditions, but the young people are finally able to bring Yiddish language and culture back to the surviving Jews, along with a message of hope.

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Fluid, non-realistic setting

1st Produced:
Newton, Ma     1994

Organisations:
New Repertory Theater

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Play with Music

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Male:  6            Female:  4            Other:  1b, doubling

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Dog With the Head Of A Dragon, The

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the Dog with the Head of a Dragon is based on a true story about two women, one American and one Chinese, who were friends and roommates at MIT in the late 1940's and then lost contact with each other when the Chinese woman, Gao Xiang, returned to China to join Mao's revolution. Before the events at Tiennanmen Square the American woman, Jenny, becomes convinced that her friend has survived and starts on a journey to find her and to refind herself and their past together. the play is about that search, moving back and forth in time and ending in Tienanmen Square just before the demonstrations.

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Play/Drama

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Male:  2            Female:  4            Other:  inc 1 Asian m 2 Asian f

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Eckstein And Sons

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Underground Railway Theatre

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Five Scenes From Life

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a woman teaching in a college course in a maximum security prison becomes involved with one of her students and the two of them find themselves in an unlikely love story

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One set with An insert

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Kansas City, Mo     1991

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Missouri Repertory Theatre

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Greatest Singer In the World, The

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Pilgrim Theatre Company

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in Boston Theatre Marathon of Ten Minute Plays Volume 4, Bakers Plays,    -

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Greytop In Love

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a tough, legendary liberal journalist has decided to retire and leave his famous Newsletter to his talented young assistant. Her conservative boyfriend has other ideas. With the help of Greytop's first wife, the explosive actress, BElla Fiedler, Greytrop gets what he wants - once he finds out what it is.

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One Interior Set

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Kansas City, Mo     1992

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Missouri Repertory Theatre

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Comedy

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Hotel Room In Cleveland, A

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Speakeasy Stage Company

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in Boston Theatre Marathon of Ten Minute Plays Volume I, Bakers Plays,    -

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Housewives Of Mannheim, The

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the Housewives of Mannheim is the first in the victory blues trilogy a cycle of three plays that includes Victory Blues and are You Popular?. the three plays cover the time from 1944 to 1956. they begin in Brooklyn where three women whose husbands are away at war live in the same apartment house and discover new dimensions of friendship. Victory Blues deals with what happens when the men come home. are You Popular? Follows the families' move to the suburbs and their children, now in high school. each of the plays stands alone, but if produced together they trace the changes America experienced during those crucial years and planted the seeds for today.

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Bloomington Playwrights Project, 2006

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Invention For Fathers And Sons

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Max and Joel Marowitz, a Father and his son meet. they are both 48 years old. Meeting as men, they are able to speak to each other about memories, thoughts and feelings that were closed to them as simply Father and son. the action ranges over memories of four generations of fathers and sons and the women who have played important roles in their lives. at the end, Max is able to find peace in the decisions he has made in his life and Joel finds the courage to reaffirm his capacity for love.

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Male:  5            Female:  3            Other:  doubling

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Matchpoint

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Set against the background of of the world of professional tennis, this play traces the relationship between Frank altman, a former star, Dori, his wife who was a star of women's tennis, and Frank's protege, Kevin Raider. When Kevin reappears in Frank's life after a twenty year absence, old tensions and conflicts resurface and find their resolution, at last.

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One Interior Set, with non-realistic inserts

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Medea's Nurse

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Bette Warren still lives inn her own home although she knows she has the early symptoms of alzheimer's. Her grandson, who has been away for ten years returns and this sets off a series of self discoveries for Betty, her daughter Charlotte, and adam, her grandson.

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One Interior Set

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Stamford, Ct     2007

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Riverside Theatre Company

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Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Moses

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African Repertory Troupe

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in Boston Theatre Marathon of Ten Minute Plays Volume 2, Bakers Plays,    -

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One-On-One

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the play takes place in an urban gym during the time when it mostly used by senior citizen members. the men have created a small community that reflects their childhood lives on the streets of the city. Through the action of the play, two of the men who have been fierce competitors all their lives discover the option of cooperation and friendship.

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the Action takes place primarily in the men's locker room, but A space should be used to suggest other Areas in the gym.

1st Produced:
Kansas City, Mo     1990

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Missouri Repertory Theater (Staged Reading Only)

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Genre:
Comedy

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Male:  7            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Operation Epsilon

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At the end of the Second World War a number of German nuclear scientists were taken to England. They were kept in a house under surveillance and had all their conversations recorded.

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Drama

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Male:  11            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Saturday Memories

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Saturday Memories is a memory play structured around the morning and evening of a young man's bar mitzvah. all the action occurs in the reception room between the synagogue and the grand dining room of a modern Long Island synagogue. as three generations prepare to celebrate the coming of age of a fourth, all the adults discover they have some growing up of their own to do, as well.

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One Interior Set

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Underground Railway Theatre

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Comedy

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Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  1b, 13; 1g, 9 and a non-speaking character of Photographer

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Sitting Shivah

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Underground Railway Theatre

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in Boston Theatre Marathon of Ten Minute Plays Volume 3, Bakers Plays,    -

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Twentieth Century Hero

Synopsis:
Nearing the end of his life Clifford Odets looks back. Acompanying him on his journey is his son Walt, best friend Jean Renior and a rather odd nurse

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Rehearsed reading at New Jersey Repertory Theater     May 2012

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Genre:
Drama

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Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  -

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