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Bekah Brunstetter

BEKAH BRUNSTETTER

  (1982 - )
Nationality:    USA
email:    n/a     Website:    Click here

Literary Agent:    William Morris Endeavor Entertainment, LLC  represented by Derek Zasky

Bekah Brunstetter hails from North Carolina. She received her BA in Theater with an Honors thesis in Fiction Writing from UNC Chapel Hill in 2004. as of May, she proudly holds an MFA in Dramatic Writing from the New School for Drama. Her plays have been read and staged by the Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, NYU's HotINK Festival of New Plays, Canada's NeXTFeST, the Alliance Theatre, SPF, the emerging Artists Theatre, Boston Theater Works, Working Man's Clothes Productions, Manhattan Theatre Source, the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival, Old Vic New Voices, the Soho Think Tank, and in venues such as the Ohio Theatre, the Atlantic, and Galapagos art Space. Her works have been honored by the Cherry Lane Mentorship Program (nominee), the Jane Chambers Student Playwriting award, the Tennessee Williams New Orleans Literary Festival, KCaCTF, Actors Theatre of Louisville, and the Alliance Theatre. Her play To Nineveh received six New York Innovative Theatre awards in September 2006, including Best New Full-Length Play. Her play Sick won the 2006 Samuel French Short Play Competition. Most recently, she was honored as a finalist for the Alliance Theatre's Kendeda Graduate Playwriting award for her play Green. She was a semi-finalist for the 2007 O'Neill Playwrights Conference, and the 2007 Princess Grace award. a founding member of Working Man's Clothes Productions, she currently serves as its Director of New Play Development. Her plays are published by Samuel French, United Stages, Smith & Kraus, and Playscripts, Inc. She is a contributing member of Working Man's Clothes Productions, Old Vic New Voices, the Dramatists Guild and the Playwrights' Center. She is proudly the most recent addition to the Ars Nova Play Group. Ms. Brunstetter is currently working on a self-commissioned commission for Brunstetter, Inc. about elephant violence. For a "living," she inspects furnished apartments and fixes temperamental microwaves. She lives in Williamsburg with her bikes, Roberta and Tony, and her cat, the Baby Kitty.

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         +30NYC         10 For the Tatas         After Breakfast, Maybe         Arms         Avocado         Be A Good Little Widow         Bedmaker's Revenge, The         Before Never Again         Binge: Short Plays With All the Fixins!         Cake, The         Celebrity         Connecticut         Crank That         Cuddle         Cutie And Bear         Daddy Took My Debt Away         Dead Soap         Dear Darkness. . .Plays That Go Bump in the Night         Dishwar / How are you         Drunk         Easy Way to Quit Smoking, The         Exit Plato         Fat Kids On Fire         Final Rose, The         Fucking Art         Fuckplays         Global Cooling: the Women Chill         Going to a Place Where You Already Are         Gorgeous         Green         Grimm Reality, A         Gums         Happen         Happy Birthday, I'm Dead         Help Me, Save Me         Hey Brother         Home         House Of Home         I Have It         I love you, I think         I Used To Write On Walls         Le Fou         Lets all say Asinine Things         Leviticus         Leviticus Tattoos         Like         Little Man         Long and Happy Life, A         Marriage Play         Mine         Miss Lilly Gets Boned, Or the Loss Of All Elephant Elders         Missed Connections         Mom, Stoned         Nothing is the End of the World (except for the End of the World)         Oohrah!         Oregon Trail, The         People Don't Change (they Just Change their Hair)         Playing In Traffic         Pretty Pretty and the Asshead McGe         Public Servant         Pulitzer Prize for Drama, The         Roberta Laughs         Short Love At the Ohio         Sick         Something True         Space         Space         Stuff         Take Her To See the Maco Lights         Tenant, The         This Night         To Nineveh: A Modern Miracle         Too Little Too Late         Torch Number Two         We Be All Night         Yes         You May Go Now
+30NYC

Synopsis:
a sustainable project, this evening of short plays examines how our actions today will directly affect our lives in 30 years. as per the mission of Red Fern theatre Company, that each production is paired with a philanthropy whose work relates to the social themes of the play, +30NYC is paired with Material For the Arts.
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
written by Bekah Brunstetter, Victor Ismael Cazares, Christine evans, Michael John Garces, Ashlin Halfnight, Mac Rodgers, Tommy Smith

1st Produced:
Center Stage, NY     06 Mar 2010

Organisations:
Red Fern Theatre Company

1st Published:
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Music:
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Short Play

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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10 For the Tatas

Synopsis:
With help from famed writers Theresa Rebeck, Cindy Chupack, Tony Glazer, Bekah Brunstetter, Lisa ebersole, and Suzanne Bradbeer, 10 for the Tatas highlights the six original works these authors have contributed in dedication to Breast Cancer awareness. Through a series of touching, outrageous, and hilarious 10-minute works, these playwrights and Graveyard Productions aim to encourage support for a serious issue. all proceeds from the production will benefit the work of Susan G. Komen for the Cure.
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
author: Theresa Rebeck, Cindy Chupack, Tony Glazer, Bekah Brunstetter, Lisa ebersole, Suzanne Bradbeer

1st Produced:
TBG Arts Complex, 312 West 36th Street, 3rd Floor, New York, NY 10018     16/2011

Organisations:
Graveyard Kiss Productions

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
ten min

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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After Breakfast, Maybe

Synopsis:
a young woman plots to take over the world, while her mother serves her blueberry smiley-faced pancakes
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
part of More Of Our Parts: theatre Breaking Through Barriers presents six new plays About disability

1st Produced:
Clurman theatre
410 West 42nd Street, New York, NY 10036     21 Jun 2012

Organisations:
Theatre Breaking Through Barriers

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
short play

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Arms

Arms
separation and truth in a distorted, fickle world

Notes:
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Organisations:
Working Man's Clothes Productions

1st Published:
in 2007: the Best Ten-Minute Plays For 2 actors, Smith & Kraus; Lawrence Harbison edition (July 15, 2008)   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play One act

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Avocado

Synopsis:
eclectic evening of colourful character monologues set either side of the pond. a New York - London fusion, come and meet a series of characters who may win your heart, freak you out, challenge your preconceptions. . .

Notes:
written by Bekah Brunstetter And Lily Bevan

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Oslip Theatre

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
monologues

Parts:
Male:  7            Female:  6            Other:  -

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Be A Good Little Widow

Be A Good Little Widow
Young wife Melody has never been to a funeral - until her husband dies in a plane crash. expected to instantly assume proper widowhood, Melody is left to wonder, what's the right way to grieve? Fortunately, her mother-in-law is a professional. Widow, that is. Under her guidance, Melody must try her best to be a good little widow. a sad comedy about loss and longing.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Ars Nova
511 West 54th Street, New York, NY 10019     02 May 2011

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Bedmaker's Revenge, The

Bedmaker's Revenge, The
A couple fights over their morning routine. A disgruntled sleep fairy narrates.

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Ten Min

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Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Before Never Again

Synopsis:
Before Never again is a comedy about couples. It consists of five short plays, each providing a new, awkward topic to enjoy. Intimate subjects, ranging from sexual curiosity at church camp, to more serious matters such as middle-aged booty dancing and erotic-jargon-phobia. ensconced in multimedia and soundscape interplay, Before Never again allows us to confront unavoidable issues and laugh them off for 90 minutes.
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
written by Bekah Brunstetter And Phillip Gerson

1st Produced:

Organisations:
the tank

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Binge: Short Plays With All the Fixins!

Synopsis:
In these short plays food is a character, a metaphor, a Dramatic force of its own. Binding the plays together is a series of provocative videos that address the grotesque reality of today's food politics
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
written by Michael John Garces, Kara Lee Corthron, Sibyl Kempson, Kirk Lynn, Bekah Brunstetter, Mando Alvarado

1st Produced:
Interart Theatre, NY     2008

Organisations:
the Shalimar

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
short plays

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Cake, The

Synopsis:
Della makes cakes, not judgment calls  those she leaves to her husband, Tim. But when the girl she helped raise comes back home to North Carolina to get married, and the fiancé is actually a fiancée, Dellas life gets turned upside down. She cant really make a cake for such a wedding, can she? For the first time in her life, Della has to think for herself.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Echo Theatre Company in Los Angeles, CA     Jun 2017

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Samuel French, NY   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Dramatic comedy

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Celebrity

Synopsis:
A Brittney esque character looses her shiz after accidentally dropping her infant child, landing him in a coma. At the end of her rope, she shows up at the home of who she perceives to be her biggest fan  desperately in search of safety and normalcy. Paparazzi are hot on her trail, quickly showing up at the Hood River, Oregon house.  Once she learns that her son has died from his injuries, she threatens to kill herself on live TV. The question is  will anyone stop her?

Notes:
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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  4            Other:  1

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Connecticut

Synopsis:
takes the audience on a train ride of her quarter-life crisis
- press release

Notes:
part of Femme Fest

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Waverly Writers and Wanderlust Productions

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
short play

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Crank That

Synopsis:
Hubby and Sweetie, our favorite married couple,  are at it again. This time, they are Booty dancing. Or Sweetie Wants to, at least.

Notes:
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Organisations:
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Genre:
10 min play

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Cuddle

Synopsis:
two lonely co-workers take to secret, anonymous cuddling in the office place  until one of them takes it too far.

Notes:
-

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Organisations:
-

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
short play

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Cutie And Bear

Synopsis:
Successful commercial real estate developer Henry has just survived prostate cancer and all of the sudden, his wonderful wife Gail seems cold and strange. Leigh Leigh hates her apartment and  her job. And whats worse, Melissa, her best friend from high school, has moved back to town and is expert at making Leigh Leigh feel like her life is a mess, comparatively. Henry and Leigh Leigh make an arrangement. An uncanny tale of uncanny love and the impulses we have, but would never follow. Or would we?

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
commissioned by the Roundabout Underground. Raleigh, North Carolina.    

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-

1st Published:
-   

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Daddy Took My Debt Away

Daddy Took My Debt Away
two recent college grads with massive debt find themselves working for a student loan debt collector. When a girl calls into pay off her loans entirely  their training gets thrown out the window.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:

Organisations:
34th Marathon of One Act Plays

1st Published:
in 2009: the Best 10-Minute Plays for Two or More actors, Smith & Kraus (December 1, 2009)   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Ten Min

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Dead Soap

Synopsis:
a bright eyed and hopeful new Soap Star gets an eye opener on his first day on the set - on and off screen

Notes:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
-

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Genre:
comedy ten min

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Dear Darkness. . .Plays That Go Bump in the Night

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
Jade Lane and Michael Puzzo present an evening of one-act plays, embodying all the glorious disguise and mystique of the eeriest holiday. With all new plays by John Patrick Shanley, Michael Puzzo, Bekah Brunstetter, Adam Szymkowicz, Halley Feiffer, David Bar Katz, and a few spooky surprises.

1st Produced:
New Ohio theatre
154 Christopher Street, Ste. 1e, New York City, NY 10014     04 Oct 2012

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
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Music:
-

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Genre:
short play

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Dishwar / How are you

Synopsis:
2 roommates  one depressed, the other busy  brawl over the dishes collecting in the sink.

Notes:
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-    

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Genre:
15 min play

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Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Drunk

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
Part of the Spring Fling: 8 Brand New Plays. F*It Club presents A program of eight new short plays: French Toast And Parsley by Brooke Berman, Drunk by Bekah Brunstetter, A Short, Sad Biography of the Magician's Assistant by Ashlin Halfnight, Our Trip to Ohio by Greg Keller, Minotaur Scavenger Huntby Caroline V. McGraw, Come Here by Isaac Oliver, We Have the Music by Mark Schultz, And If by Anna Ziegler.

1st Produced:
Irt, 154 Christopher Street #3B     21 Apr 2011

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-

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
short play

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Easy Way to Quit Smoking, The

Synopsis:
24 hours into cold turkey quitting, a young woman is visited by her son from the future, who begs her to quit.

Notes:
-

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-    

Organisations:
-

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-   

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Genre:
14 min play

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Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Exit Plato

Synopsis:
Grace died in a house fire that her husband and daughter escaped. But they, as well as her delirious father (who enjoys conversations with invisible cats), still talk to her. She is not haunting them; rather, they will not let her go. The family is given one last chance to reconcile as the truth comes out about Grace as a living woman.

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Fat Kids On Fire

Synopsis:
Back at home, Bess is just another angst-ridden teenager trying to fit in. But this summer, things are going to be different. Campers and counselors alike are automatically drawn to the new skinny fat girl who's a definite shoo-in for the illustrious title of Camp Princess. Popularity, power, and self-worth get mixed up as Bess struggles to find her identity. Will she return to school a new woman or will her new self fade like the summer? Colored with sweat stains, stashed sweets, and the awkward innocence of first loves, Fat Kids on Fire is a candid telling of fitting in, living big, and feeling small.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Phare Play Productions (New York, NY, United States)     2008

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Playscripts, Inc - New York   

Music:
-

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Genre:
120 min Comedy/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  6            Other:  3 males, 6 females

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Final Rose, The

Synopsis:
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part of Kenn teens. This is A program of three short plays: the Final Rose by Bekah Brunsetter, directed by Carlos Armesto; the Victorian by Marcus Gardley, directed by Blake Lawrence; And Aliens Vs. Cheerleaders by Qui Nguyen, directed by Robert Ross Parker. Keen Teens features 26 NYC Area teen

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Organisations:
Keen Company

1st Published:
Playscripts, Inc - New York   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Short comedy Drama

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Male:  4            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Fucking Art

Fucking Art
a pretty cheerleader who has her heart set on goodness visits a cancer ridden classmate, determined to take his virginity.

Notes:
Winner, Sam french short play festival, 2008.

1st Produced:
Peter Jay Sharp Theatre, NYC     2008

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Genre:
Dramatic comedy

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Fuckplays

Synopsis:
This is a program of eight new plays that collectively take a voyeuristic journey through eight playwrights' most private places and offer a sincere examination of our most basic carnal desires. It's a co-presentation of Soho Thinktank, Galapagos art Space, Working Man's Clothes Productions, the Thursday Problem, and Jeffrey Schulman.
nytheatre.com

Notes:
authors: Bekah Brunstetter, Justin Cooper, Joshua Hill, Kyle Jarrow, William Charles Meny, Greg Romero, eric Sanders, Casey Wimpee

1st Produced:
Ohio Theatre, NY     2007

Organisations:
Working Man's Clothes, the Thursday Problem, Soho Thinktank, Galapagos art Space eVOLVe Series, and Jeffrey Schulman

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-   

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-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  large cast

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Global Cooling: the Women Chill

Synopsis:
For these plays, there is no curtain, no footlights, no stage. Just six site-specific, short related plays from Women's Project theater Company written for the lobbies, mezzanines, escalators, bridges, nooks, and crannies of the World Financial Center complex, 220 Vesey Street, that people pass through every day. the plays, grouped under the title Global Cooling: the Women Chill, share one topic: global warming is not so hot. all written, directed, and produced by women, these plays take place in real time and touch on the issues of Global Cooling that affect not only real people but scientists and mother nature. Global Cooling: the Women Chill is the third site-specific theatrical event Women's Project has delivered to ArtsWorld Financial Center and is another installment of 'hit and run theater' where business people, tourists and shoppers traveling through the World Financial Center may walk around, through or in a play without even knowing they have a role in the performance. Part of this experiment from Women's Project's playwright, director and producer lab is to see how real people react as a play happens next to them or around them or even with them
- press release

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1st Produced:
World Financial Center Complex, 220 Vesey Street, NY     2009

Organisations:
Women's Project

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short Play

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Going to a Place Where You Already Are

Going to a Place Where You Already Are
Is there a heaven? Joe says no; its all a bunch of hokum. His wife, Roberta, has always claimed to agree. But lately shes beginning to wonder, especially when they find themselves in church a lot, having reached the age when funerals are more frequent than weddings. Their granddaughter, Ellie, doesnt have time in her own busy life to ponder the after-life. But when mortality confronts them, her grandmothers claim to have gone to heaven and back doesnt sound so crazy after all. With thoughtful storytelling and quiet wit, Brunstetter looks at beginnings, endingsand an enigmatic angel.

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South Coast Repertory Theatre in Costa Mesa, CA     Mar 2016

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Dramatic Comedy

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Gorgeous

Synopsis:
set in a gym locker room, post-yoga, where two disabled women confront Gorgeous, a woman who is perfect -- or so they think.
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
part of Some of Our Parts A program of seven ten-minute plays About disabilitiesand the people Affected by them

1st Produced:
Clurman theatre
410 West 42nd Street, New York, NY 10036     22 Jun 2011

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-

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ten min play

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Green

Synopsis:
Clint returns home from Iraq and attempts to regain a sense of normalcy; but haunting memories of Iraqi boys, guns and cigarettes make this extremely difficult.

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Grimm Reality, A

Synopsis:
a Grimm Reality consists of five modernized fairytales of the Brothers Grimm. Woven into a single narrative by five playwrights, a Grimm Reality celebrates the diversity, the excitement, and the "magic" of New York City and your favorite Grimm's tales. Taking place outdoors in Bryant Park and free to the public, this immersive, 3-dimensional experience happens all around the audience, in an exciting theatrical journey that will be enjoyable for both families and the discriminating theatergoer. Performances are free to the public and intended for adults and children 8 and up.
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
written by Bekah Brunsteter, Zack Friedman, Chisa Hutchinson, Cassandra Hume, Dan Kitrosser

1st Produced:
Bryant Park Reading Room, North Side Of Bryant Park     24 Jul 2010

Organisations:
Theatre 4the PeOPLe

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adaptation

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Gums

Synopsis:
It starts when the dentist gently kisses the little girl. When Lyda was young, she trained to be an competitive figure skater. But when a tragic accident abruptly curbs this dream, her angst translates itself into phantom mouth pains and hurls her into the seemingly sympathetic arms of her troubled, reserved dentist, Dr. Morgan.

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Happen

Synopsis:
A young woman, with the assistance of Marvin (that guy who beat her in the third grade spelling bee, which ruined her life) calls upon various scenes from her life to illustrate that nothing has ever truly happened to her. 

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Happy Birthday, I'm Dead

Synopsis:
Eliza comes home shit canned on her birthday to her empty apartment, but finds it occupied by a mysterious stranger who claims to be her husband from the future.

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Help Me, Save Me

Synopsis:
a fund raiser for survivors of genocide in a bar.

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Ten minute play

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Hey Brother

Synopsis:
The vicious love/hate relationship between two brothers is put to the test when a mysterious Asian girl enters their lives   with her eyes set on both.

Notes:
part of Vibrant  A Festival of Finborough Playwrights 2011

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Home

Synopsis:
a temp worker disturbs the Home of an international businessman.

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House Of Home

Synopsis:
Inspired by the true story of the tragedy of the Maxwell family murder / suicide, House of Home is a play for a large ensemble. Welcome to Campbell Hills annual Peanut Festival featuring live music, peanuts, and games!   A small Southern town forced to examine itself after a shocking tragedy, and must look to their faith and sense of community to carry on.  Our Town meets Krispy Kreme meets my brain.

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1st Produced:
Williamstown Theater Festival     2010

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-

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I Have It

Synopsis:
a first date. With herpes.
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
part of Summer Shorts, A program of new short plays

1st Produced:
American Theatre Of Actors, 314 West 54th Street, New York, NY 10019     2007

Organisations:
Phare Play Productions

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-   

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-

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short play One act

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I love you, I think

Synopsis:
An evening monologues about the oddities and awkwardness of love.

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monologues

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I Used To Write On Walls

Synopsis:
Diane, Georgia, and Joanne are three modern women living very different lives. Diane, a catastrophically lonely cop in her mid-30s, struggles to find love in the city. Georgia, an early 20s beat/street poet, frequents open-mike nights to vent the heartache of a missing boyfriend. Joanne, 30, is a makeup artist for Sears Roebuck who suffers from a severe case of Kolpophobia (she's terrified her vagina is too ugly to bear'. Unknowingly, their romantic infatuations center on one individual. . .Trevor, age 24, a sexy, stoned surfer/skater who is on a 'rad, rad philosophical journey.' When a beautiful 11-year-old girl named anna, and Mona (a sexy, widowed astronaut' are thrown into the crosswinds of Trevor's diverse romantic affairs, hearts will be broken, loves will be lost, and youthful cries of hope, anger, and sadness will be written on walls
- press release

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Working Man's Clothes

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-

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Le Fou

Synopsis:
Paris, 1899. The bell epoch. A parlor in the first department store ever, where the ladies sit, mid- shopping, getting drunk, writing letters to their illicit lovers. Loves are lost and hearts are born as the delicious scandal  surrounding John Singer Sargents paiting of Madame X unfolds.

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Lets all say Asinine Things

Synopsis:
An eighteen year old is pressured into registering to vote as a democrat by a friend, who might be a Zombie.

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13 min play

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Leviticus

Synopsis:
Church camp. Virginity. Also, some Questions.

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12 min play

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Leviticus Tattoos

Synopsis:
A troubled woman mourns the random murder of her brother, a missionary.

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Like

Synopsis:
on a date with her happy couple friends, a girl tries to stop saying Like.

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Little Man

Synopsis:
Howie, or Little Man, attends his High School reunion with his best friend Andy. Hes suppressed his tragic high school experience. After all, now hes a millionaire. Little does Little Man know the truth and whiskey to be had at the convention hall as the evening and his memories unfold in this dark, funny play with nametags and karoake.

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developed in the writers group at Primary Stages.

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Long and Happy Life, A

Synopsis:
When a tragic freak accident disrupts the promising life of the blissful Cass, the results travel like a shockwave through the halls of her renovated brownstone and the NYC high school where she volunteers. Suddenly Cass is forced to confront her fate and the scope of her fears while struggling to maintain relationships with both her new husband and her students. In this lively and thought-provoking tale of a seemingly perfect life suddenly confronted with reality, no one is safe from the randomness and chaos inherent in our world.

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Vibrant 2013  A Festival of Finborough Playwrights

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Marriage Play

Synopsis:
Sweetie and Hubby try to work out their problems. This play contains suggestive sausage eating

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Ten minute play

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Mine

Synopsis:
annie, a poet with no time for poems, is caught between her wonderful, successful boyfriend and her magnetic, brokeass, aspiring musician, coffee shop co-worker. Set to the addictive, rollicking tunes of acclaimed singer-songwriter Joe Pug's Nation of Heat eP, Mine is a sharp-witted Drama exploring love, identity, and the fine line between loving someone and getting what you want.
- nytheatre.com

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1st Produced:
Sanford Meisner Theatre, NY     12 Nov 2009

Organisations:
Slant Theatre Project

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-   

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75 min Play/Drama

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Miss Lilly Gets Boned, Or the Loss Of All Elephant Elders

Synopsis:
Miss Lilly, a Sunday school teacher, has been waiting patiently for God to drop a man in her lap. When a new student - a young South African boy whose mother was killed by an elephant - disturbs the harmony of her classroom and his Father disturbs the harmony of her heart, Miss Lilly is forced to re-examine her own sense of faith and self. Right or wrong, sinful or holy - a natural force is at work in Miss Lilly's classroom where her hymns are accompanied by the rumble of angry elephants and her prayers are answered by a stranger to her god. Nominated for the L. Arnold Weissberger Playwriting award in the US, Miss Lilly Gets Boned is a wild exploration of love, courage, family, sex and religion from one of America's most exciting new playwrights.

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Osip Theatre in association with Neil McPherson

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Play/Drama

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Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Missed Connections

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Part of A program of short plays And killer live music inspired by Ads for the ones that got Away. Featuring plays by Annie Baker, Bekah Brunstetter, Dylan Dawson, Kristoffer Diaz, Zayd Dohrn, Tasha Gordon-Solmon, Amy Herzog, Samuel D. Hunter, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Steven Levenson, Matthew Lopez, Janine Nabers, And Samuel Brett Williams, All of the play titles Are taken directly from Actual Craigslist Missed Connections Ads.
- nytheatre.com

1st Produced:
Ars Nova, NY     26 Jan 2010

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Mom, Stoned

Synopsis:
Bess, frustrated with her sexually repressed Mother and Grandmother, takes the Thanksgiving turkey hostage, forcing them all to be honest with each other about their carnal desires.

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1st Produced:
Theater Five, NY     2006

Organisations:
emerging Artists Theatre

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-   

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Short Play One act

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Nothing is the End of the World (except for the End of the World)

Synopsis:
In the near-distant future, a New York City charter school becomes the first to welcome artificially intelligent students. the social experiment becomes a reality show and suddenly priorities and moralities turn inside out as the AIs try to integrate and everyone tries to survive junior year. High school dramedy meets invasion sci-fi in this new play from one of the USA's hottest new writers.

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1st Produced:
Waterwell Theatre ensemble
NY, USA     02 May 2012

Organisations:
Vibrant 2012  A Festival of Finborough Playwrights

1st Published:
Playscripts Inc   

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-

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90 min one act

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Oohrah!

Oohrah!
In Fayetteville, North Carolina, home to one of the South's largest military bases, practically everybody has somebody 'Over there'. Sara is relieved when her husband Ron returns home from an uneventful tour in Iraq, but he's finding it difficult to settle back into the domestic bliss that is 'home improvement'and 'Rachael Ray's 30-minute meals'. Sara's sister abby has set herself up for an uneventful life with a civilian fiance who's more interested in PlayStation than the battlefield. But when a hot, mysterious Marine walks into their lives, all bets on stability are off

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1st Produced:
Atlantic Stage 2
330 West 16th Street, New York, NY 10011     01 Sep 2009

Organisations:
Atlantic Theater Company

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Dramatic Comedy

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Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Oregon Trail, The

Synopsis:
Powerful, heartwarming play about covered wagons, computer keyboards, and coping with life's difficulties. The year is 1997, and 13-year-old Jane Goodrich is a bona fide expert at The Oregon Trail. The undisputed master of her characters' destinies, she knows just when they should embark on their journeys, she knows the best professions to select for her characters, and she knows every trick in the book so her characters avoid dying of dysentery. She's beaten the game over 100 times. Her own life, though? Unfortunately, she can't just control-alt-delete herself whenever she wants to start over. If only life were as seemingly simple as The Oregon Trail. Ten years later, Jane finds herself crashing on her sister's couch, simultaneously looking for a job while binge-watching reality TV shows. The sadness she has felt since her pubescent years has only deepened over time. Rediscovering the game and booting it up in an attempt to reclaim a realm where she can succeed, the play splits into past (Missouri 1848) and present (Oregon 2007). As her characters make the arduous journey west, Jane confronts the harsh realities of both eras. The Oregon Trail is an honest reflection of depression as well as a moving testament to the power human beings have to rise to the challenges we all face.

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1st Produced:
La Val's Subterranean, 1834 Euclid Ave, Berkeley     02 May 2015

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Play/Drama

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People Don't Change (they Just Change their Hair)

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the Best 10-Minute Plays Of 2012. Published by Smith and Kraus, Inc.    

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ten min

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Playing In Traffic

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Pretty Pretty and the Asshead McGe

Synopsis:
a celebrity stumbles into an eyeglass store after having swallowed her contacts, and falls for the homely optomotrist. Inspired by Midsummers Bottom.

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Public Servant

Synopsis:
about a woman who borrows money from her politically conservative father under false pretenses to pay for an abortion

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1st Produced:
Clurman Theatre in the Theatre Row Building, NY     06 Jun 2019

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Pulitzer Prize for Drama, The

Synopsis:
A young playwright finds out hes been nominated and freaks the H out  escaping the Prague to track down the 12 year old playwright hes up against.

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Roberta Laughs

Synopsis:
Roger doesn't know his Grandma Roberta very well - but he knows she's "wicked awesome." In an effort to impress the girls at school he's decided to take up the accordion, just as his Grandma played when she was his age. But when the fiercely independent Roberta suffers a debilitating stroke and is close to death - Roger takes action to know her better, even if it means getting to know her "boyfriend" Billy too.

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Short Love At the Ohio

Synopsis:
This is a program of short works by Bekah Brunstetter, Dan Kitrosser, and Justin Swain, all woven together into that big wicker basket we call Love. Some plays are funny, some touching, some far out there, some close in here, but after an evening where you'll encounter the love for Harry Potter, a big gay storytelling frog, two guys taking a road trip, an abortion and a girl on a subway, you'll see that while love is a vast, complicated thing, the best kind of love is quick and cheap.
- nytheatre.com

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written by Bekah Brunstetter, Dan Kitrosser, Justin Swain

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Sick

Synopsis:
B drags her promiscuous best friend e with her to the clinic to get tested after an unfortunate drunken encounter with Birthday Man. as the two girls are stuck waiting for their test results, they are haunted by their previous sexual encounters, and confronted with the realities of their futures. Developed by the class of 2007 of the New School for Drama, this is a hilarious ensemble piece with an eye-opening message

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Thirty-First Off-Off Broadway Original Short Play Festival     2007

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Something True

Synopsis:
It is My job to make You Cry, but whatever I Do, I Cannot. A small, mildly embarrassing and poetic look at what it is to Write Truthfully.

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16 min play

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Space

Synopsis:
Tim spends his days indoors perfecting his myspace page. When his girlfriend, finally fed up with his inaction, abandons him, his loneliness leads him on a treacherous journey of online seduction that takes from Lebanon to high school to Lebanon to eye-opening humiliation.

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Space

Synopsis:
Tim is the son of a Southern Senator leaving the privileged life in New York, spending his time perfecting his Myspace page. When his long term girlfriend him abandons him for being so stale, his actions thereafter  (a torrid cyber affair with a Lebanese orphan,  a saucy encounter with that hot girl from high school, news of an abortion) are discovered by his fathers political opponent, who spitefully Googles him. When Tim is cut off, he is left to his own devices, and is forced to re-examine his sense of love, morality, and the rest of the world..

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Stuff

Synopsis:
A lonely, bitter lady accuses the maid of theft.

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11 min play

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Take Her To See the Maco Lights

Synopsis:
Tobacco land, North Carolina: A boy with a guitar, trapped in time, lurks near the abandoned railway tracks, waiting for a glimpse of an infamous ghost train- the legend of the Maco Lights. 50 years earlier, the white son of a tobacco magnate woos Mattie, his father's beautiful young black receptionist. A play about money and power, love and ghosts, with music.
nytheatre.com

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The Invisible Dog Art Center, 51 Bergen Street In Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, NY     14 Nov 2012

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Tenant, The

Synopsis:
Set in Paris and inspired by the novElla that was famously adapted into a film by Roman Polanski, the Tenant is a thrilling, haunting and grotesquely hilarious investigation into the relationship between who we are and where we live. When Monsieur Trelkovsky rents a room recently vacated by a woman who fell from her window, he soon finds his world changing in bizarre ways. Haunted by images of the previous tenant's apparent suicide and terrorized by his new neighbors, Trelkovsky begins a slow descent into paranoia and delirium. Staged and installed by Woodshed Collective over five building stories in the historic West Park Presbyterian Church parish house, the Tenant features an original script by a team of New York's brightest up-and-coming playwrights - Bekah Brunstetter, Sarah Burgess, Paul Cohen, Dylan Dawson, Steven Levenson, and Tommy Smith. each playwright has written the story of a separate denizen of this Parisian tenement, and collaborated with Woodshed Collective to create a living building.
- nytheatre.com

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written by Bekah Brunstetter, Sarah Burgess, Paul Cohen, Dylan Dawson, Steven Levenson, And Tommy Smith

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West-Park Presbyterian Church, 86th Street And Amsterdam AVenue, NY     24 Aug 2011

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Woodshed Collective

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This Night

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Lucy and Roberta dont seem to share much more than a high school.  But one evening in the parking lot outside a movie theatre can change their perspectives on a lot of things.

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To Nineveh: A Modern Miracle

Synopsis:
Gods holy family on earth is threatened when its patriach is striken with prostate cancer for revealing the secret of his gifts to a sexy waitress, Delilah. The family must struggle through their own moral bewilderment and attempt to find their own path.

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Too Little Too Late

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Too Little Too Late is the first theatrical venture from the young company, Red elevator Productions. Featuring original And premiere short plays from six of the most promising And Arresting young writers on the New York theater scene, Too Little Too Late explores the problem of (dis)connect in A complicated world-because in our breakneck lives of over-stimulus media, instant mass communication, restlessness, And expectation, how does Anyone really connect?
- nytheatre.com

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Torch Number Two

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In Prague, 1969, Jan Pallach lits himself on fire in protest of Soviet reinvasion. After lighting fire to himself, he ran around Wenceslas Square for a near three minutes before someone could pin him down and put him out. He lived three days after without a face, and died a hero. Some 20 students followed suit, including a young man who called himself  Torch Number Two. This young man lit himself on fire and died  immediately.  In Prague, 2005, a young, privileged American girl excapes her troubled past, seeking refuge in the mystery of unknown places and new friends. In August, 2004, hurricanes ravage the United States. And it all somehow fits in one room. In Prague. And some people might turn in to dinosaurs.

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We Be All Night

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After a concernt, JayZ and Beyonce unwind, or try.

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Yes

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part of A Girl Wrote It

1st Produced:
Richmond Shepard theatre
309 East 26th Street, New York, NY 10010     19 Apr 2012

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Wide eyed Productions

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You May Go Now

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Dottie has trained young Betty to be the perfect 1950s housewife; to cook the perfect pot roast, to bake a gorgeous seven-layer cake, to remove any stain. and tonight, Betty's 18th birthday, it is time for Betty to go out into the world. Only Dottie has failed to mention that the year is 2007, that the world is a vast and complex place, and that there is s reason she cannot abide being called 'mother'. Ghosts from the past haunt the women and shatter their idyllic, if odd, existence. When a mysterious traveler is stranded at their home, he brings a revelation that forces Betty to choose between the love of her 'mother' and her freedom and sanity
- press release

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1st Produced:
Upstairs At The 45th Street Theatre, NY     2007

Organisations:
Babel Theatre Project

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http://www.originalworksonline.com/youmaygo.php   

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