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Victor L Cahn

VICTOR L CAHN

  
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    Robert A Freedman Dramatic Agency  

Victor L. Cahn (Playwright) has written numerous plays produced off-Broadway and regionally, including Roses in December, Embraceable Me, Fit to Kill, Dally with the Devil, A Dish for the Gods, Getting the Business, Sheepskin/Bottom of the Ninth, and Sherlock Solo, a one-man show that he performs. He has appeared onstage throughout the capital region of New York, taking leading roles in plays by Shakespeare, Pinter, Coward, Ayckbourn, Simon, Gurney, and Knott. He is Professor Emeritus of English at Skidmore College, and author of five books on Shakespeare, critical volumes on Tom Stoppard and Harold Pinter, Conquering College: A Guide for Undergraduates, the memoir Classroom Virtuoso: Recollections of a Life in Learning, Polishing Your Prose (with Steven M. Cahn), and two novels, Romantic Trapezoid and Sound Bites. His articles and reviews have appeared in such varied publications as Modern Drama, The Literary Review, The New York Times, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and Variety. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild, Inc.

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

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         Dally With the Devil         Dish For The Gods, A         Embraceable Me         Fit To Kill         Roses In December         Sherlock Solo         Villainous Company

Dally With the Devil

Synopsis:
Charlotte runs an influential political blog from her home on Cape Cod. Irene, working for a long-time Senator in the midst of a tough campaign, supplies Charlotte with damaging material about the Senator's opponent. Megan, an aide to that opponent, arrives with new reports, and these three power-brokers lock horns in a battle of manipulation and political intrigue. As charges escalate and the battle swerves in unexpected directions, these highly intelligent and articulate women serve up blackmail, power plays, and plenty of media spin. In other words, politics as usual!

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1st Produced:
Beckett theatre
410 West 42nd Street, New York, NY 10036     14 Sep 2011

Organisations:
Rachel Reiner Productions

1st Published:
Steele Spring Stage Rights, www.stagerights.com   -

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama 90 min

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Dish For The Gods, A

Synopsis:
Julia uses the meeting she was to address about women writers to talk of her relationship with Greg that has just ended

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1st Produced:
Theatre Row Theatre, New York     16 Sep 2013

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Genre:
Drama

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Embraceable Me

Embraceable Me
Edward is smart, shy, and quirky. allison is sexy, Dramatic, and vulnerable. embraceable Me is a witty and touching "He said / She said" that traces the journey of these unlikely friends along many surprising detours and byways.
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
an early version of embraceable Me was given A staged reading by theater Voices of Albany in Albany, NY on May 29, 1998

1st Produced:
Kirk Theatre, NY     28 Oct 2009

Organisations:
Rachael Reiner Productions, LLC

1st Published:

Music:
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Genre:
Dramatic comedy

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Fit To Kill

Fit To Kill
Fit to Kill is a thriller about strategy, deception, and betrayal. adrian, a charming but self-indulgent chess master, enjoys a life of luxury thanks to his marriage to Janice, an older but still sexy and vibrant woman who has made her fortune as the CeO of an exercise empire. the arrival of amy, a reporter with an agenda of her own, unleashes a whirlwind of deadly schemes that will keep audiences guessing until the final seconds.

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1st Produced:
Harold Clurman Laboratory Theater, NY     2005

Organisations:
Rachel Reiner Productions

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Music:
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Genre:
Thriller

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Roses In December

Roses In December
In this play of letters, a young official in a college alumni off ce invites a celebrated but reclusive author to the thirty-fifth reunion of his class. When he declines, she charmingly prods him, and thereby begins a witty and revelatory correspondence that becomes part mystery, part memory, and part romance.

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1st Produced:
United Stages
NY, USA     25 Feb 2003

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Music:
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Genre:
Dramatic comedy

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Sherlock Solo

Synopsis:
Sherlock Solo brings the great detective Sherlock Holmes out of retirement to tell the story of a previously undisclosed case that unfolded during the absence of his customary narrator, Dr. Watson, involving a mysterious woman who proves to be an unsettling presence in Holmes' life.
- nytheatre.com

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1st Produced:
Kirk Theatre, NY     2008

Organisations:
Resonance ensemble

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Villainous Company

Synopsis:
When Claire returns from an afternoon of shopping, she discovers that one of her packages is missing. Before long, larceny and trickery abound when three women are drawn into a scintillating and suspenseful game of cat and mouse.

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1st Produced:

Organisations:
Rachel Reiner

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Music:
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Genre:
caper

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  3            Other:  -

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