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Carol Carpenter

CAROL CARPENTER

  
Nationality:    USA
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Carol Carpenter was raised Southern Baptist, came out of the closet at 18, and grew up in the trans-Pecos oil and ranching plains of New Mexico  where the Bible Belt, the Mexican border, the oil business, the West Texas cowboy, and the poor collide to form a landscape of conflict. It is about this world that Carpenter writes. Carpenter holds a master's degree in dramatic writing from the University of Southern California and taught playwriting and screenwriting at College of Santa Fe (Santa Fe University of Art & Design). She is a company playwright at MTWorks, has published five young adult novels under a pen name with Random House, and spent her twenties working as a story editor and television ad writer at Paramount Pictures.

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

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

         Good Lonely People         Sweet, Sweet Spirit         Wild Dogs

Good Lonely People

Synopsis:
On election night, the only white democratic family in a conservative town holds a secret Obama party. But when their gay daughter arrives from the city for the celebration, they discover they are split on a California issue that hits close to the core, raising questions about their own sense of "family."

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Planet Connections Theatre Festivity, at the Robert Moss Theater    04 Jun 2010

Organisations:
Maieutic Theatre Works

1st Published:
http://www.indietheaternow.com/Play/good-lonely-people   -

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama 90 min. - - Gay/Lesbian, of interest

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  5            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Sweet, Sweet Spirit

Synopsis:
A conservative West Texas family struggles to cope with the reality that their teenage boy is gay, and has been beaten into a coma by his own father.

Notes:
he play was originall developed and produced as a college production at New Mexico State University in collaboration with American Southwest Theater

1st Produced:
14th Street Y Theater, NY    Oct 2014

Organisations:
MTWorks / Goode Productions

1st Published:
http://www.indietheaternow.com/Play/sweet-sweet-spirit   -

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama 90 min.

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Wild Dogs

Synopsis:
Small-town locals sabotage a visiting Disney movie production.

Notes:
Wild Dogs was first produced in 2007 as a staged reading at the Greer Garson Theater Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico as part of the Claire Stewart Williamson Reading Series. It was directed by Aaron Vattano and produced by Pete Zapp. It was produced in New York City in 2008 as a staged reading at Manhattan Theater Club's Studio Theater, where it was directed by Carol Carpenter and produced by Jesse Merz and Fernando Dovalina. It received a third staged reading in New York City in 2009 at the Arclight Theater as part of MTWorks' National NewBorn Play Festival.

1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
http://www.indietheaternow.com/Play/wild-dogs   -

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama 100 min.

Parts:
Male:  8            Female:  3            Other:  -

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