doollee banner
The Playwrights Database
contact doollee


Craig Calman

CRAIG CALMAN

  
Nationality:    USA
facebook     email:    Click here to contact     Website:    Click here

Literary Agent:    n/a

Craig Calman has been creating movies and writing screenplays since the age of 12. During high school he wrote, directed and edited a number of 8mm and Super 8mm films, one of which, "The Canyon," received Honorable Mention in the Kodak Teenage Movie Awards. He also wrote and produced a 40 minute documentary filmed in Mexico. Craig graduated from the UCLA Motion Picture/Television Department. Realizing that great movies must start with great scripts, he embarked on a career in the theatre to learn first hand the secrets of dramatic writing. He was invited to joined Ralph Waite's Los Angeles Actors Theatre Playwrights Workshop and then became an actor for the National Shakespeare Festival in San Diego, winning acclaim and a Best Actor award. This launched him on a career as a professional stage actor, and he performed primarily for classical repertory companies throughout the U.S., including a highly successful season with the Boston Shakespeare Company. For the next seven years Craig concentrated on writing and while living in New York City he continued to act, as well as direct plays and video projects. Mr. Calman returned to Los Angeles where he has worked in an administrative capacity for the major motion picture studios and top entertainment law firms. He was also an assistant to legendary pioneer film producer Hal Roach. From 2000 to 2005 he was a member of the Playwright/Director Unit of the Actors Studio West, headed by director Mark Rydell and Academy Award winning actor Martin Landau. Since 2005 Mr. Calman has been a script analyst for the Beverly Hills Theatre Guild. Craig Calman is listed in Who's Who In The West, Who's Who in America and Who's Who in the World. His book 100 Years of Brodies with Hal Roach was published in April 2014 by BearManor Media and he has been contracted to write a second Hal Roach-themed book by BearManor.

Buy Plays with Doollee

Each page of doollee.com has links to play/book outlets, either directly to the Publisher, through Stageplays.com and Amazon to the second hand and 1st editions of AbeBooks. These links will automatically take you to the relevant area obviating the need for further search.
AbeBooks.co.uk   AbeBooks.com   Stageplays.com   amazon.com   amazon.co.uk   amazon.ca
whether you are a Playwright who wishes to make their entry definitive, an unlisted Playwright or a User with a tale to tell - we want to hear from you.
download WORD submission template

below is a list of Craig Calman's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Grandfather's Amber Locket         Icy Waters         In Concert         Life Without Father         Longing Lodge         Malagasy Figs         Marksmen         Patterns Woven In A Park         Skidoo Ruins         Strangled Nocturne         Turn Of the Century, The

Grandfather's Amber Locket

Synopsis:
nostalgic tale about a grandson and grandmother's last meeting

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
One act

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Icy Waters

Synopsis:
a nasty lunch shared by a porno-loving Nurse and her dirty old man patient

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
One act

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

In Concert

Synopsis:
a hobo saves a concert pianist from attempting suicide and an unusual relationship develops

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
One act

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Life Without Father

Synopsis:
about the first woman U.S. President

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
Futuristic political fantasy

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Longing Lodge

Synopsis:
set far in the future in a cave where three survivors attempt to piece their lives back together

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
One act

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Malagasy Figs

Synopsis:
a strange couple meet in the park one late afternoon

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
One act

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Marksmen

Synopsis:
two young men in an edgy urban Drama

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
One act

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Patterns Woven In A Park

Synopsis:
about three sets of couples who meet at the same park bench, different times of the day, whose lives are unexpectedly interwoven

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
3 act Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Skidoo Ruins

Synopsis:
comedy about a bunch of low-lifes who go to Hollywood and get entangled in many misadventures

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
Serious Comedy Comedy

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Strangled Nocturne

Synopsis:
Fiji Island Drama set in 1925

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Turn Of the Century, The

Synopsis:
set in 1899 California

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
Victorian murder mystery-comedy

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  6            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page