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Christopher Cartmill

CHRISTOPHER CARTMILL

  
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Christopher Cartmill received a B.A. in Chinese and east Asian Studies at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia, and an M.F.A. in acting from the University of VirginiA. He also did graduate work in Chinese at Fu Ren University in Taipei, R.O.C., and was accepted to the Royal Scottish academy for Dramatic Arts in Glasgow. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild, actors equity association, the Screen actor's Guild, and aFTRA. Mr. Cartmill spent time writing at the Tyrone Guthrie Center in Ireland and the Kimmell Harding Nelson Arts Center in NebraskA. His plays include: Incorruptible: the Life, Death, and Dreams Of Maximilien De Robespierre. Incorruptible premiered at the Bailiwick Repertory in Chicago and received a Joseph Jefferson Citation for Outstanding New Work. Light In Love, which premiered in Chicago, received the Society of Midland authors award for Drama and the Joseph Jefferson Citation for Outstanding New Work. Light In the Heart Of the Dragonreceived a Jeff nomination and was awarded the John W. Schimd prize for Best New Play. His play La Chasse had a successful run in Los Angeles garnering a Drama-Logue award for Outstanding New Play. the play has continued in New York readings and workshops with David Strathairn. In 1999,Romeo's Dream was given the Roger L. Stevens award from the Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays. Benjamin Constant was presented in a reading by the Blue Light Theatre company with Joanne Woodward. Mr. Cartmill is part of a small writer's collective called Groop with Barbara Hammond, Adam Langer and Jane Gennaro. He has been working with the One arm Red Theater company and artistic Director Adam Adams, creating new work and performing existing material. This has included the production of Light On the Golden Slipperin the Berkshires. With the Gad's Hill Theater Company, he created and directed a new version of Moliere's Tartuffe which premiered at New York City's arcLight Theatre. Christopher's adaptations of Tennyson's Idylls Of the King andLancelot and Elaine continue to air on New York's WNYC. He has participated in an ongoing guest artist program at Lincoln Southeast High School in Lincoln, NebraskA. Currently, Mr. Cartmill is an adjunct professor at the Gallatin School of New York University, teaching Theater courses (Romantics and Revolutionaries: theatricality in the age of Revolution, Asian Theater: Ritual and Performance) He has also created a series of integrated-Arts programs for the New York Public Schools, in association with "Learning through an expanded Arts Program" and continues to write and perform special programs for the art Institute of Chicago, the Metropolitan Museum of art and the Yale Center for British art.

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

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         Apotheosis Of Vaclav Drda, The         Benjamin Constant         Choir, The         End Of. . .         Haunted Man, The         Historiola         Incorruptible - or The Life, DeathAnd Dreams Of Maximillien de Robespierre. Part One: On Innocence 1789         Incorruptible - or The Life, DeathAnd Dreams Of Maximillien de Robespierre. Part Two: On Experience 1794         Laws - or The Light Before Darkness         Legend Of Sleepy Hollow, The         Light In Love         Light in the Heart of the Dragon         Light on the Golden Slipper or Lavina's Story         Lights of London or The Slave of Fortune         Nebraska Dispatches, The         Passion, The         Robbers Of Madderbloom or What Does It Matter As Long As No One Gets Hurt?         Romeo's Dream         Saint George and the Dragon         Spectre Bridegroom, The         Way Home, The

Apotheosis Of Vaclav Drda, The

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This is a darkly comic new play by Christopher Cartmill that follows the misfortunes of a group of actors staging the work of an obscure Czech playwright. apotheosis follows the story of Joanna, a down-on-her-luck actress who's borrowed money from her parents to self-produce her favorite play. as she juggles a clueless director, egotistical costars, and a venue requiring a Sherpa guide to reach, despair becomes overwhelming. It takes a mysterious visitor to remind her of what's important, what she really wants, and why she's an artist in the first place.
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Access Theatre, 380 Broadway, 4th Floor, New York, Ny 10013    2007

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Gads Hill Theater Company

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Comedy/Drama Comedy

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Benjamin Constant

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Literary agent Rosalind Amory is throwing a party to celebrate the publication of the twelfth "Fringolo the Vampire" book written by Cindy Grendal. Rosalind's p a is chasing up the caterer who may have forgotten to bring food. Drama critic Alan van Zuylan arrives he is breaking up with his long term partner Dr Martin Rhys and has brought his "nephew" along with him. Then the lift in the building breaks down

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Drama

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Choir, The

Synopsis:
The school choir prepare for the State Choir Competition

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Youth play

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End Of. . .

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Should Jeff buy a burrito for breakfast? Should he go on this business trip for a company that may be about to let him go? Should he go home and make it up with the wife?

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Genre:
Short play

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Haunted Man, The

Synopsis:
Chicago 1948. Professor Charles Latham is haunted by ghosts from his past

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Loosely based on "The Haunted Man" by Charles Dickens

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Drama

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Historiola

Synopsis:
The Emperor cannot sleep. He spends his nights aimlessly wandering through the palace - and where the Emperor goes his courtiers must go too. One night a wizard walks through the palace walls and claims he has the solution to the Emperor's problems

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One act

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Incorruptible - or The Life, DeathAnd Dreams Of Maximillien de Robespierre. Part One: On Innocence 1789

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The rise and fall of Robespierre from idealism of the Age of Reason to violence and betrayal of the Reign of Terror

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Genre:
Historical drama

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Incorruptible - or The Life, DeathAnd Dreams Of Maximillien de Robespierre. Part Two: On Experience 1794

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The rise and fall of Robespierre from idealism of the Age of Reason to violence and betrayal of the Reign of Terror

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Genre:
Historical drama

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Laws - or The Light Before Darkness

Synopsis:
The Light family in Richmond Virginia at the end of the Civil War desperately trying to hang on to the home they love and keep the family from tearing itself apart

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Part One of "The Light Series"

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Genre:
Historical drama

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Legend Of Sleepy Hollow, The

Synopsis:
In this wickedly funny adaptation of Washington Irving's classic tale of superstition and village rivalry, gawky schoolmaster Ichabod Crane fancies himself a dashing, worldly man of learning, capable of winning the heart of Katrina Van Tassel. Will this beautiful daughter of a wealthy local farmer return Ichabod's affections, or does she have other ideas? What will be the outcome when Ichabod confronts his desires, fears, and of course, the Headless Horseman of Sleepy Hollow?

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Gad's Hill Theater Company - Staged Reading (New York, Ny, United States)    2001

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Genre:
35-45 min Comedy/Drama

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Male:  9            Female:  7            Other:  9 males, 7 females, 3 either (8-25 actors possible: 4-13 males, 4-12 females)

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Light In Love

Synopsis:
Templeton Light the youngest son looks back to his first love

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Part of "The Light Series"

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Genre:
Historical drama

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Light in the Heart of the Dragon

Synopsis:
Templeton Light becomes a missionary but it is only a ploy - he wants to get in to the drug trade

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Part Four of "The Light Series"

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Genre:
Historical drama

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Light on the Golden Slipper or Lavina's Story

Synopsis:
Lavin Light elopes with a handsome cowboy to Texas where she finds a treasure

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Part Five of "The Light Series"

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Genre:
Historical drama

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Lights of London or The Slave of Fortune

Synopsis:
Templeton Light and his wife travel to London. At the D'Oly-Carte he meets a young soprano has they have a dalliance. Meanwhile his wife is also dallying with the handsome Captain Darcy

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Part of The Light Series

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Genre:
Historical drama

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Nebraska Dispatches, The

Synopsis:
Commissioned to write a play about the trial of Chief Standing Bear the playwright goes to Nebraska to do some research

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Written by Christine Marie Brown and Christopher Cartmill

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Genre:
Monologue play

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Passion, The

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Based on the Four Gospels and scholarly research by Raymond E Brown

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Genre:
Religious play one act

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Robbers Of Madderbloom or What Does It Matter As Long As No One Gets Hurt?

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Not everything or anyone in the village of Madderbloom is what it or they seem

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Genre:
Comedy

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Romeo's Dream

Synopsis:
Ansell works in a music shop with the eccentric Gordon. Gordon's jacket is covered with slips of paper with prophetic words on them. Everything changes when one evening a man comes in looking for the building next door

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Genre:
Drama

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Saint George and the Dragon

Synopsis:
The Dragon has an insatiable lust for flesh. The King's daughter is his next meal

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Genre:
Verse play

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Spectre Bridegroom, The

Synopsis:
High in the Odenwald, young Louisa von Landkurz waits to marry the Count von altenberg, a man she has never met. When the Count appears, she is smitten -- but is he the real Count, a murderer, or a ghost? and for that matter, is the second Count real? Or the third Count? a gothic comedy full of mistaken identities, mysterious messages and ghostly appearances.

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Lincoln Southeast High School (Lincoln, Ne, United States)    2004

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Genre:
100-120 min Gothic comedy

Parts:
Male:  11            Female:  5            Other:  11 males, 5 females, 2 either (14-25 actors possible: 8-13 males, 5-10 females)

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Way Home, The

Synopsis:
The owner and guests in a boarding house in the 1920s. Owner Emma Caswell and her son Robby who has polio. New guest Faith Kusmaresh who is trying to build a new life for herself. A German refugee who was forced to take a job as a janitor and a Russian wanting to be part of the American Dream

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Genre:
Drama

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