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Maurice Chauvet

MAURICE CHAUVET

  (1965 - )
Nationality:    USA
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Maurice Chauvet (born 18 April 1965): Produced plays include Ascension, A Safe Distance, Bobby Zero, All Night Radio and Wild Kingdom. A Safe Distance received an Ovation Award Nomination (Los Angeles) for best world premiere play in 2004. A revised version was presented in a staged reading by The New Group in New York in 2009. His play Cousin Fred received a staged reading at the Skylight Theater in Los Angeles. Maurice is the co-founder and co-artistic director of Apartment A, a theater company based in Los Angeles, CA. Maurice wrote the screenplay for the film Owning Mahowny (2003, Sony Pictures Classics), based on the book "No Limit" by Gary Ross and received a Genie Award (Canada) nomination for best adapted screenplay. Maurice has written feature films for 20th Century Fox, Paramount Pictures/Nickelodeon and several independent film companies. He's written television for Fox TV. He wrote and directed two award-winning short films, Three-Fifty and Suicide Sam, which played in film festivals worldwide.

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

         All Night Radio         Ascension         Bobby Zero         Safe Distance, A         Wild Kingdom

All Night Radio

Synopsis:
A young woman is torn between two brothers trying to reconcile their violent upbringing while returning home for a holiday gathering.

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1st Produced:
Electric Lodge, 1416 Electric Ave., Venice, CA 90291     29 Mar 2002

Organisations:
Apartment A

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Ascension

Synopsis:
A child's shoplifting arrest exposes festering secrets in a well-to-do Los Angeles family, sending them into a desperate moral spiral.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Electric Lodge, 1416 Electric Ave., Venice, CA 90291     02 Sep 2005

Organisations:
Apartment A

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Drama

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Bobby Zero

Synopsis:
A broke performance artist takes a job at an advertising agency, discovers it's his true calling and is wildly successful there, much to the horror of his idealistic musician girlfriend.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Lyric-Hyperion Theatre, 2106 Hyperion Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90027     17 Jan 2002

Organisations:
Lyric-Hyperion Company

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Safe Distance, A

Synopsis:
A tech mogul returns to his family's Central California home for his younger sister's wedding, unhappy with her choice in life partner and unwilling to let the festivities proceed without disruption.

Notes:
Nominated for an Ovation Award (Los Angeles), Best World Premiere Play. LA Critic's List, Backstage West. Revised version, Staged Reading, The New Group, New York, NY 2009.

1st Produced:
Electric Lodge, 1416 Electric Ave., Venice, CA 90291     22 Apr 2004

Organisations:
Apartment A

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Comedy/Drama

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Wild Kingdom

Synopsis:
A man and woman stranded in a hotel near the airport spend a dangerous, drunken night recalling lost loves, squandered futures and the peril of intimacy.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Ivy Substation, 9070 Venice Blvd. Culver City, CA 90232     14 Jun 1999

Organisations:
Hidden Theater Company

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Comedy/Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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