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Renee Calarco

RENEE CALARCO

  
Nationality:    USA
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Renee Calarco lives and works in Washington, DC. Her play SHORT ORDeR STORIeS received the 2007 Charles Macarthur award for Outstanding New Play. Her full-length play GOOD COUNSeL was read as part of Charter Theatre's First Draft Reading Series in March 2007 and was read as part of Geva Theatre Center's Regional Playwrights Festival in April 2008. a ten-minute version of GOOD COUNSeL was read at the 2004 Source Theatre Ten-Minute Play Competition, where it received an Honorable Mention. Other ten-minute plays include WaRRIORS, HeaVY MeTaL, and the SeVeN HaBITS OF HIGHLY DeFeCTIVe PeOPLe. Renee is an artistic associate at Charter Theatre and an associate Member of the Dramatists Guild of America. She teaches improvisational comedy for the Theatre Lab.

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

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         12 Days of Christmas, The         Family Values         First Stop: Niagara Falls         G-ds Honest Truth         Good Counsel         Heavy Mettle         If You Give A Cat A Cupcake         Mating Of Angela Weiss, The         Religion Thing, The         Seven Habits Of Highly Defective People, The         Short Order Stories         Sparks: Short Works by The Welders         Warriors

12 Days of Christmas, The

12 Days of Christmas, The
Christmas is just around the corner, and Shirley the Partridge is a bit nervous because it's her very first time carrying out the ancient family traditiongathering the French Hens and the Calling Birds and & oh & everyonefor the official singing of "The Twelve Days of Christmas." With strict instructions from her mom, Grammy and Great Grammy to guard the Five Golden Rings, Shirley sets off on a quest to find the song participants. But there are some bumps in the road. The sweet and sappy Turtledoves get injured while doing their adorable mating dance. The manic and overworked Calling Birds decide to postpone Christmas until spring when shipping and fuel costs are lower. The Six Geese a-Laying have flown south to Florida for the winter, taking most of the Seven Swans a-Swimming with them. And just when things can't possibly get any worse for Shirley, the evil Christmas Hoarder steals the Five Golden Rings, adding them to his growing holiday collection of Christmas ornaments, Hanukkah menorahs, Kwanzaa fruits, Diwali candles & and entire Thanksgiving dinners. But things begin looking up when Alyssaa super-cool steampunk swanbefriends the grumpy Shirley and joins her on her quest. Will they be able to save Christmas? Or will they decide to break with tradition and "mix things up a little?" With fresh dialogue and vivid characters, The 12 Days of Christmas is a playful, modern interpretation of the classic Christmas song

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Family Values

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The Kennedy Center hosts its 11th annual Page-to-Stage festival, featuring more than 40 D.C.-area theater companies. This three-day event offers free readings and open rehearsals of plays and musicals being developed by local, regional, and national playwrights, librettists, and composers

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First Stop: Niagara Falls

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part of the Source Festival

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G-ds Honest Truth

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Roberta and Larry always try to do the right thing  for their son (two and a half years into his engagement); for their marriage (never go to bed angry); and especially for their synagogue (which is always trying to build its membershiptheyd be happy to tell you more&). When they have the opportunity to help rescue a Holocaust Torah, they know they have to bring it to Temple Beth David. Inspired by the true story of Rabbi Menachem Youlus, the self-dubbed Jewish Indiana Jones, this story, which hits close to home, explores how the Jewish community deals with, responds to and heals from scandal.

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Genre:
one act comedy 90 min

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Good Counsel

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Mo's a workaholic lawyer with a wiseass husband and a baby fetish. When her best friend Patti announces she's putting her brilliant career on hold for marriage and kids, Mo contains her envy pretty well. Until Patti's husband admits that he used to be gay. and then things get complicated. GOOD COUNSeL is a comedy that examines the compromises that people make to stay together. Or not.

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Play was Also read As part of Geva theatre Center's Regional Playwrights Festival in April 2008. (Rochester, NY)

1st Produced:
Warehouse Theatre, Washington, Dc    2007

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Charter Theatre (First-Draft Reading Series)

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Full-length comic Drama

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Heavy Mettle

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Sometimes you hit the lottery and sometimes you don't.

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Playwrights residing in D.C., Maryland, And Virginia present A series of short plays set in A standard American diner At Christmas. Playwrights include Renee Calarco, Audrey Cefaly, Joe Dennison, Deborah Finkelstein, Lynne Lerych, Mark Harvey Levine, Steve Lewis, John Shanahan, Gwydion Suilebhan, Jeffery Sweet, And Walter Thinnes.

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comic Drama Ten min

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If You Give A Cat A Cupcake

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If you give a cat a cupcake, he'll ask for some sprinkles to go with it. When you give him the sprinkles, he might spill some on the floor. Cleaning up will make him hot, so you'll give him a bathing suit . . . and that's just the beginning!
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Based on the book by Laura Numeroff

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Adventure Theatre, 7300 Macarthur Blvd In Glen Echo Park, Glen Echo, Md.    Mar 2011

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adaptation TYA

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Mating Of Angela Weiss, The

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weaves various storylines together in a funny tapestry of life, or more precisely, angela's life, with ruminations about motherhood, mothering, and nurturing, even panda style. angela is a studious and serious animal scientist preparing to give her first important presentation and is coached to get it just right. Only later do we learn that all her meticulous preparation was to address middle-school kids prone to asking off the chart questions about the teacher instead of the animals. It is while being subjected to a barrage of unexpected, adolescent questions that angela reveals her travel plans to visit China, the land of her heritage. although hints popped up in early scenes about her having been adopted, finally getting her to admit plans to travel and find her birth-mother was an intriguing revelation that helped spin the tale into even more fascinating territory, especially with the various scenes involving angela's interactions with her devoted and patient adoptive mom.
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Source Festival, Washington Dc    2009

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Religion Thing, The

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Mo and Brian are a picture-perfect DC couple: they're smart, they're witty, and they have a beautifully remodeled kitchen. But when Mo's best friend Patti announces she's found Jesus and is putting her own career on hold, Mo must take a closer look at the harder truths surrounding her own marriage. a brand new comedy about relationships, faith and the fine line between compromise and regret.

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the Religion Thing is the centerpiece to theater Js new festival, Locally Grown, celebrating the work of Washington Area playwrights.

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Theater J, 1529 Sixteenth Street, Nw Washington, Dc    04 Jan 2012

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comedy

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Seven Habits Of Highly Defective People, The

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Source Theatre Company, Washington, Dc    2003

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Source Theatre Company - Ten-Minute Play Competition

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comedy Ten min

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Short Order Stories

Synopsis:
What happens to people when they leave the place they hate and the people they love? and what happens to the people who stay? SHORT ORDeR STORIeS is a comic Drama that explores the rifts between those who leave home and those who stay.

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Winner: 2007 Charles Macarthur Award for Outstanding New Play

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Theatre On The Run, Arlington, Va    2006

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Charter Theatre

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Sparks: Short Works by The Welders

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The company presents excerpts from several original works.

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written by Bob Bartlett, Renee Calarco, Allyson Currin, Caleen Sinette Jennings, Gwydion Suilebhan. Page-to-Stage Festival 2014. The three-day, Center-wide Page-to- Stage event offers a series of free readings and open rehearsals of plays and musicals being developed by local, regional, and national playwrights, librettists, and composers.

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Warriors

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Jackie is having the worst day of her life: her son Brandon has been wounded in Iraq and Brandon's best friend Matt is in love with her. as Jackie prepares to fly to Germany to be with Brandon, he shows up. and so does Matt.

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1st Produced:
Source Theatre Co., Washington, Dc    2008

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Cultural Development Corp. - 2008 Source Festival

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Drama Ten min

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