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Jan Buttram

JAN BUTTRAM  

 Nationality:    USA
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Jan Buttram (Playwright) began her professional theatre career as an actress with the New Orleans Repertory Theatre under the direction of June Havoc. She has since acted Off Broadway, Off-Off Broadway, and in regional theatres. Her plays have been produced in New York by the York Theatre, Pulse Ensemble Theatre, Circle Rep Lab, Lightning Strikes Theatre Co., and Abingdon Theatre Company, which introduced her "comedy with hymns," Glory Girls. Other plays include Zona, The Ghost of Greenbrier, Private Battles, The Parker Family Circus, Phantom Killer, and Lost on the Natchez Trace. Her plays Captive and The Parker Family Circus are published by Samuel French (The Parker Family Circus was selected by Smith & Kraus for The Best Scenes for Actors of 2001-02). Her play Texas Homos (directed by TonyŽ award winner Melvin Bernhardt) was presented on Abingdon's mainstage and is published by Smith and Kraus in Best New Playwrights of 2005. "HX Magazine" nominated Texas Homos as the "Best Gay Themed Play of the Season." She received commissions to create original scripts for Capital Rep and Greenbrier Valley Theatre. Her play Backwoods won the 1995 Roger L. Stevens Award from the Kennedy Center's Fund for New American Plays. Her short plays are published in several anthologies by Heineman Books and included in Smith and Kraus' Best Ten Minute Plays of 2011. A founding member and Artistic Director of Abingdon Theatre Company, a not-for-profit company located in Manhattan dedicated to developing and producing new plays by American playwrights, she has led the company for 19 seasons. She is a University of North Texas graduate.

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 Captive         Elvis And My Little Brother         Glory Girls         Laverne         Lost On The Natchez Trace         Parker Family Circus, The         Pascal And Martin         Phantom Killer         President And Her Mistress, The         Private Battles         Texas Homos         Zona, The Ghost Of Greenbrier

Captive

Synopsis:
Sally Pound returns home to borrow money from her older brother (and refuge from a personal and professional life that's a total disaster). Instead of help, she finds a distraught elderly father a mother who is a potential hostage in the Middle East and an older brother who is completely unsympathetic

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Comedy

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Elvis And My Little Brother

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Glory Girls

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three estranged sisters reunite to recreate their childhood glory as gospel music singing stars

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Comedy With Hymns

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Laverne

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Lost On The Natchez Trace

Synopsis:
about the meeting of a slave auctioneer and a runaway slave.
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Dorothy Strelsin Theatre
312 West 36th Street, 2nd floor, New York, NY 10018    03 Feb 2012

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Parker Family Circus, The

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312 W. 36th Street , Sixth Floor, New York, NY 10018-7570    2001

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Pascal And Martin

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

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Phantom Killer

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In Phantom Killer, on a scorching hot Texas night in 1946, Luke parks on a deserted country road with his new wife Jessie. a Texas Ranger searches the same road, hunting a serial killer. Before the three part ways, plans change, a deal is struck, a heart breaks, and everyone is guilty.
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Dorothy Strelsin Theatre, NY    31 Jan 2010

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President And Her Mistress, The

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In 2155 a.D., The Year of Our Goddess, women rule. Beck Shine is President of the World. Insurgent men have taken 10,000 women hostage in Australia and, for the first time since the femme revolution, women are in danger; Beck's mother convinces her that 'nano-probe technology' will give her the energy to save her presidency; and Beck's husband and her mistress vie for her allegiance. What's a woman president to do?

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Private Battles

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based on the last days of albert D.J. Cashier of Company G. 95th Illinois Regiment (the only woman who served as a Union soldier in The Civil War and was mustered out without being discovered).

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Texas Homos

Synopsis:
In the hilarious aftermath of a police sting operation in a public restroom, three men face the music when the morning paper announces their arrests. a prominent doctor, a Methodist preacher and a young wannabe-superstar dispute the truth while their lawyer prepares for their arraignment.

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Havoc abingdon Theatre New York    2005

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Play/Drama. - - Gay, full length

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Zona, The Ghost Of Greenbrier

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based on the West Virginia legend of The Greenbrier Ghost. Trout Shue, an outsider, woos and marries Zona Heaster (a local beauty). Months later, she is found with a broken neck. after her untimely death, Zona's ghost appears to her mother and names her husband as her murderer. Nine actor/musicians play multiple roles.

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play with traditional music Play with Music

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