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Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

JONATHAN CAWS-ELWITT  (1962 - )

 Nationality:    USA
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after graduating from Harvard University, Jonathan Caws-Elwitt (born Jonathan Elwitt) slowly began to make a name for himself as an alternative-pop songwriter (with his group the Silly Pillows), a prose humorist, and a playwright. His work can be seen places like Verbatim: the Language Quarterly, the Omnificent english Dictionary in Limerick Form, and the language-oriented comic strip Shoecabbage. among his claims to fame have been selling a gag to cartoonist Bil Keane, writing magazine ads for the Rolling Stones, and appearing on Steve Allen's radio show.

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 As Long As It's In the Script: A Sex Farce Within A Sex Farce         Can Of Yams, The         Daylight Savings Crime         Drop By Anytime: A Slight but Charming Little Comedy That's Perfect for 10-Minute Play Festivals         Seventies Sex Comedy         Surely, You Jest!         Waffle Truth, The

As Long As It's In the Script: A Sex Farce Within A Sex Farce

Synopsis:
Helen has seen every sex comedy in the repertory, and she's decided that staging a private bedroom farce of her own is the key to revitalizing her sex life. enter indulgent husband Mark and reluctantly cooperative best friend Julie. and just when it seems that they may be playing their parts a little too well, the action is complicated by the unscripted arrival of Julie's ex-boyfriend Fred, not to mention a cantankerous hotel plumber. From out-of-order bathrooms to double-booked suites, the cast and director grapple with the comical challenges of getting through the scripted business of a make-believe affair before it becomes real.

Notes:
Finalist, Cheshire Comedy's "Funniest Play on earth 2008" contest. Finalist, 2006 Mountain Playhouse Comedy Playwriting Contest

1st Produced:
Passport Theatre Co. [staged reading], Popcorn Noir, Easthampton, MA    2013

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Farce

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Can Of Yams, The

Synopsis:
there's only one thing standing between egotistical painter Alan Plum and the fame he craves . . . and it's a can of yams! To his sister Delphinia's dismay, Alan has cherished the can of yams since childhood. He has even chosen it as the subject of his unfinished masterpiece. But when gallery owner Heather Lyme announces a visit to alan's studio, his insecurities rise to the surface, and an artistic crisis erupts around the still-incomplete still life. With Heather and her assistant on the premises, the panicked Alan makes frantic, ridiculous attempts to impress, stall, and paint. Meanwhile, the fast-talking, sardonic Delphinia tries to salvage her brother's career-and straighten out her own love life. Sharp-witted dialogue drives this frivolous, one-act farce.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Montrose, Pa    2002

Organisations:
endless Mountains Theatre Company

1st Published:
Baker's Plays,    -

Music:
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Genre:
Farce One act

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Daylight Savings Crime

Synopsis:
If you die sometime between setting your clock ahead in the spring and turning it back in the fall, what happens to your lost hour?

Notes:
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1st Produced:
The Elevens, Northampton, MA    2013

Organisations:
A Shot of Theater

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Comedy Ten Min

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Drop By Anytime: A Slight but Charming Little Comedy That's Perfect for 10-Minute Play Festivals

Synopsis:
Danny's friends invite him over on a regular basis, yet they seem strangely uninterested in entertaining him.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
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1st Published:
Contained in Custom Made, Adult Size: Assorted Humor Writing by Jonathan Caws-elwitt [Wayzgoose Press], 2012   -

Music:
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Genre:
Comedy Ten Min

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Seventies Sex Comedy

Synopsis:
Leonard and Janice push the boundaries of classic neurotic-romance comedy.

Notes:
Commissioned As part of the Jason Miller Playwrights' Project Dyonisia '11 invitational.

1st Produced:
Olde Brick Theatre, Scranton, Pa    2011

Organisations:
Scranton Public Theatre

1st Published:
Contained in Custom Made, Adult Size: Assorted Humor Writing by Jonathan Caws-elwitt [Wayzgoose Press], 2012   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy Ten Min

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Surely, You Jest!

Synopsis:
As the house jester at a small consulting company, Jeremy Quip keeps his co-workers tittering. But when the parent corporation eliminates his position, it's no joke. Will levity triumph and frivolity prevail? (Hint: It's a comedy!)

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Jason Miller Summer Theater Festival, Scranton, Pa    2004

Organisations:
Scranton Public Theater

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
10-min. Farce Ten Min

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Waffle Truth, The

Synopsis:
Maxine Manx is an inventor intent on selling the world a machine that extrudes the perfect waffle-her WaffeWonder. But before she can get her brainchild into the hands of home wafflemakers, she must sell the patent to a kitchen equipment company. While she schemes to impress Anthony Crebbs of Crebbs Kitchen Concepts, an eccentric poet, Professor edgar Tiswell, is scheming his way into the Manx attic, where he believes the rare night-flying phalarope to be nesting. Maxine mistakes Tiswell for Crebbs, while two of her bickering daughters think that Crebbs' right-hand man is a courier in possession of the WaffleWonder's missing part. Meanwhile, eldest daughter Precocia thinks the executive has been sent by the New Yorker to buy her unfinished short story. Precocia's boyfriend Gene is certain he can help Maxine negotiate if he impersonates a rival kitchen equipment executive, but his charade only serves to scare the real buyers off. Mistaken identity and mysterious squeaking noises lead to hasty exits, absurd accUSAtions, contentious Scrabble contests, and-finally-the sale of one patent to an unexpected purchaser.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
New Milford, Pa    2003

Organisations:
endless Mountains Theatre Company

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Farce

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  7            Other:  or 5m/6f

Further Reference:
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