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SARAH BURGESS
Nationality: USA
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Literary Agent: William Morris Endeavor Entertainment, LLC represented by Scott Chaloff
Sarah Burgess's plays including biography, theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates
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below is a list of Sarah Burgess's plays - click on a Play Title for more information
Camdenside Dry Powder Earthsiege Commerce Liquidation Play, The Tenant, TheCamdenside
Synopsis:
A great white shark named Doug drives around Florida in a motorized wheelchair, hunting for the person who killed his wife in a boating accident. When he takes temporary shelter in the basement of an apartment building, he disrupts the lives of the humans who reside there.
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Nominated for The Kilroys 2015. The Kilroys is a group of playwrights and producers in LA who publish an annual industry survey of excellent new plays by female and trans playwrights. It is a tool for producers committed to ending the systemic underrepresentation of female and trans playwrights in the American theater.
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comedy drama
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Male: - Female: - Other: cast of 5
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Top of PageDry Powder
Synopsis:
Dry Powder is the viciously, deliciously funny new drama about the people molding, and messing with, the American economy. The same week his private equity firm forced massive layoffs at a national grocery chain, Rick threw himself an extravagant engagement party, setting off a publicity nightmare. Fortunately, Seth, one of Rick's managing directors, has a win-win deal to invest in an American-made luggage company for a song and rescue his boss from the company's PR disaster. But Jenny, Seth's counterpart, has an entirely different plan: to squeeze every last penny out of the company, no matter the human toll. The game is on in SARAH BURGESS' gripping, razor-sharp new play about the price of success and the real cost of getting the deal done.
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Top of PageEarthsiege Commerce
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Chelsea Doors is under house arrest and confined to two rooms with her father. With the internet and a phone she is planning to take over the World
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Top of PageLiquidation Play, The
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A family owned suitcase manufacturers are bought out by a private equity firm
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Top of PageTenant, The
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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.
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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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