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MICHELLE KHOLOS BROOKS
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Michelle Kholos Brooks is an award-winning playwright with work staged across the country. Family Planning made its world premiere at the Colony Theatre with additional support from EST-LA and Pacific Resident Theatre. It was a finalist for the Riva Shriner Comedy Award, Bloomington Playwrights Project. Kalamazoo, co-written with Kelly Younger, was the winner of the Riva Shriner Comedy Award and premiered for a sold-out, extended run at Bloomington Playwrights Project. Pacific Resident Theatre in Los Angeles ran a three-time extended, 6-month run, followed by a record-breaking run at Adirondack Theatre Festival, July 2015, with additional productions planned for the upcoming season. Brooks' play, Chair was a finalist for the Firehouse Theatre's Festival of New American Plays. Hostage, was presented at the Skylight Theatre's INKubator series. Izzy is Sick was recently featured in the Fall Fruit Reading Series at Pacific Resident Theatre. Other select works for the stage include: Two Parents, Two Weddings, Two Years, (Wings Theatre, New York City; Laurelgrove Theatre Company, Los Angeles); See How We Are (Laurelgrove Theatre Company); Love and Other Allergies (Vox Humana Theatre Ensemble); and Famous in Luxembourg (Rogue Machine, Around-the-Clock Short Play Festival), among others. Additional staged readings of various works have been produced at Snapshots, a benefit to raise funds for the Susan G. Komen Foundation; Venue 9 Theatre, San Francisco; The Barrow Group, New York; Drama West, Los Angeles; and the Bay Street Theatre, Sag Harbor, New York. Bad Outfit Productions produced Brooks' plays, Cab and Allergic to Walnuts as short films. Brooks earned a B.A. from Emerson College and an M.F.A. in Fiction from Otis College of Art and Design. She is a member of The Dramatists Guild of America and Pacific Resident Theatre in Los Angeles, CA. She lives in Venice, California with her husband and son.
Research: Member of the Dramatists Guild of America (as at 2015)
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Alergic To Walnuts
Synopsis:
An elderly couple discover they are in love - and it is the first time for both of them
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Originally performed under the overall tile: "Love and Other Allegies"
1st Produced:
Lounge Theatre, Hollywood
08 Oct 2010
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Allergy Shot
Synopsis:
An older and a younger actress meet in the allergist's waiting room
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Originally performed under the overall tile: "Love and Other Allegies"
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Lounge Theatre, Hollywood
08 Oct 2010
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Bars
Synopsis:
A serial killer and a young Puerto Rican woman meet online
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Originally performed under the overall tile: "Love and Other Allegies"
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Lounge Theatre, Hollywood
08 Oct 2010
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Cab
Synopsis:
A cab driver and his fare argue but then they realise that both their marriages are in trouble
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Originally performed under the overall tile: "Love and Other Allegies"
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Lounge Theatre, Hollywood
08 Oct 2010
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Kalamazoo
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Peg and Irv, two quirky but endearing baby-boomers bravely venture into the world of modern dating. But when these opposites attract, they discover love isn't any easier the second time around. Kalamazoo is a romantic-comedy about life's second act and learning you're never too old to be young.
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by Kelly Younger and Michelle Kholos Brooks
1st Produced:
Stella Adler Theatre, Hollywood
28 Sep 2011
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Preschool
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A mother is told by her son's teachers that he is different from other boys. But what they suggest to change him seems rather drastic
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Originally performed under the overall tile: "Love and Other Allegies"
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Lounge Theatre, Hollywood
08 Oct 2010
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Two Parents, Two Weddings, Two Years
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Wings Theatre, New York
2004
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