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JUDITH GLASS COLLINS
(1951 - )Nationality: USA
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Judith, b 12 Jan 1951, studied Theatre and acting at Northwestern University, New York University, and Wynn Handman's studio at the American Place Theatre, New York. She studied playwriting with Will Dunne in San Francisco. Judith taught her own playwriting class at Centrum Writers' Conference in Port Townsend, Summer, 2015. She comes to the role of playwright through early years as an actor, and more recent work as a drama therapist and psychodramatist. She is a member of the International Centre for Women Playwrights and the Dramatists Guild of America, as well as a member of the National Association for Drama therapy and the American Society for Group Psychotherapy and Psychodrama. Judith is the winner of several playwriting competitions, including Port Townsend's One-Act Play Competition, Baltimore Playwright's Festival, and KNOCK Magazine's International Play Contest, sponsored by Antioch College and Freehold Theatre in Seattle. Judith's first full-length play, Tribe, was a semi-finalist for 7 Devils Playwright's Conference. Her short play, Glass Kingdom, an elegy for her sister Susan, received a Jeffy, for best locally-written play of Jefferson County, in 2011. Judith was one of the featured writers in the 2012 summer fundraisers for Paradise Theatre, Chimacum, WA-"Humor in Paradise." Her one-act, iChat, was one of the plays featured in the Port Townsend Playwright's Festival March, 2013. iChat, the 10-minute version, was produced at the Island Theatre's "Festival of 10-Minute Plays" on Bainbridge Island August, 2013. Her short play, Of Poisoned Pens and Palates, was a winner of the "Find You're your Own Voice" competition at Peninsula College in Port Angeles, and was produced Spring, 2013. A monologue, Strange Bedfellows, was performed at Key City Public Theatre in Port Townsend as part of Swann Day in March, 2015. Judith is published by Next Stage Press and KNOCK Magazine.
Research: Member of the Dramatists Guild of America (as at 2015)
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Clearing the Aisle Glass Kingdom iChat Of Poisoned Pens and Palates Taste Tribe Veterans' DayClearing the Aisle
Synopsis:
A middle-aged woman, contemplating a second marriage, tries to "clear the aisle" of obstacles (from her childhood and past relationships) in order to get married and embrace happiness,
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California Institute Of Integral Studies, San Francisco, Ca Jan 2005
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California Institute of Integral Studies
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One-Woman Comedy/Drama
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Male: - Female: 1 Other: -
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Synopsis:
Two sisters. One sister, the Glassblower, lives her life in the present with the help of demon rum. Her sister, the Storyteller, remembers the past, but is afraid to accept the truth, and escapes into a fairy tale. Both share a secret and can't let go of the other. the Husband and the Storyteller engage in a power struggle for the life of the Glassblower. the Glassblower finally accepts her fate and the Storyteller learns to let go and dance.
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Winner of the 15th Annual Playwright's Festival One-Act Play Competition in Port Townsend, WA, March 2011; Jeffy Award: Best Original Play for Jefferson County, WA, 2011
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Key City Public Theatre, Port Townsend, Wa Feb 2100
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Key City Public Theatre, Port Townsend, WA; Changing Scene Theatre, NW, Bremerton, WA
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One-Act Drama
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Top of PageiChat
Synopsis:
Two women, with opposing political views, discover each other, accidentally, on an ichat. A conversational joust ensues, in which each woman discovers secrets about the other, and a mutual familial connection, who turns out to be a "double agent." the women find out that they are not so different after all, that "blue and red" could possibly blend to make a pleasing shade of purple!
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Winner of 17th Annual Playwright's Festival, One-Act Play Competition in Port Townsend, WA, March 2013. Winner of 10-Minute Play Competition-Island theatre, Bainbridge Island, WA, August , 2013
1st Produced:
Key City Public Theatre, Port Townsend, Wa Mar 2013
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Key City Public Theatre, Port Townsend, WA; Island Theatre, Bainbridge Island, WA
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One-act Comedy/10-Minute Play
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Male: - Female: 2 Other: -
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Top of PageOf Poisoned Pens and Palates
Synopsis:
A man and woman, supposedly strangers, meet at a restaurant, on an internet date. As the "mystery" date unfolds, the audience learns that the man is a journalist, who writes critiques of literary works, and that the woman is a writer and the daughter of a woman who dealt in pesticides. Periodically, an intrusive waitress tries to eavesdrop on her customers' conversation. the man becomes increasingly disoriented and ill, until the denouement of the play reveals that the man was actually no stranger to the woman, who sought him out in revenge for a devastating critique of her first novel. the waitress, also the woman's mother, colludes with her daughter in bringing about the demise of the poisoned penned critic.
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Winner of KNOCK Magazine's International Play Contest, Seattle, WA May 2010; Winner of "Find Your Own Voice" Competition, Peninsula College, Port Angeles, WA Spring, 2013
1st Produced:
Little Theatre, Peninsula College, Port Angeles, Wa 31 May 2013
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Little Theatre, Peninsula College, Port Angeles, WA; Freehold Theatre, Seattle, WA-Staged Reading May 2010; Key City Public Theatre-"Here, there, & Everywhere"-Staged Reading, March 2009
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Genre:
10-minute Play
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Male: 1 Female: 2 Other: -
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Top of PageTaste
Synopsis:
This is an off-beat comedy, which embraces the question: who indeed is in charge of the creative process? A man and a woman meet on a blind date in a mysteriously empty restaurant, with a very pushy waitress. Romance bubbles to the surface as well as a soupcon of revenge and a kettle of power struggles.
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Winner of the 14th Annual Playwright's Festival One-Act Play Competition in Port Townsend, WA, February 2010-Received Staged Reading
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Changing Scene Theatre, Nw, Bremerton, Wa Sep 2010
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Changing Scene Theatre, NW-Summerplay, 2010-Short Play Festival, Bremerton, WA
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Genre:
One Act Comedy
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Male: 1 Female: 2 Other: -
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Top of PageTribe
Synopsis:
the time is 1969. Homosexuality is still considered a mental illness. the Stonewall riots have just occurred. Two army psychiatrists(Abe and his younger colleague Adam) are working on a presentation about "full inclusion into the tribe"-how a sense of belonging to the majority group prevents soldiers from breaking down in combat. Adam has a secret: Will he be turned away from his "tribe" if his friends and colleagues find out that he is gay? Adam's "secret" is set in relief as the older psychiatrist receives an emergency phone call about one of his patients-a soldier being dishonorably discharged for having a male lover. Two ghosts from the future help Adam take a stand to test the system that preaches solidarity. Too late, Abe realizes that he has been blind to Adam's plight and to the greater meaning of their work together.
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Semi-finalist: 7 Devils Playwrights Conference
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Genre:
LGBT full length
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Male: 4 Female: 2 Other: -
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http://vimeo.com/70227886, video trailer
Top of PageVeterans' Day
Synopsis:
Three male Vietnam veterans are slated to have a reunion on Veterans' Day, 2003, at the bar owned by one of the three. One veteran does not show up to the reunion. An Asian American woman arrives unexpectedly. In the course of the play, we discover that the woman is also a veteran and the daughter of the third veteran who did not show to the reunion, because he has killed himself. By the end of the play, we discover that the woman in the play is actually the product of a rape, an atrocity from the Vietnam War in which the three Vietnam Veterans colluded. the two surviving veterans have denied this atrocity until the present.
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Winner of the 12th Annual Playwright's Festival One-Act Play Competition in Port Townsend, WA, February-March, 2008
1st Produced:
Key City Public Theatre, Port Townsend, Wa Feb 2008
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Key City Public Theatre, Port Townsend, WA; Baltimore Playwright's Festival-Staged Reading at Audrey Herman Spotlighters Theatre, Baltimore, MD March, 2011; Darien Players Unplugged-the Actors/Playwrights Workshop, Darien, CT July, 2008-Staged Reading
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Genre:
One-Act Drama
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Male: 2 Female: 1 Other: -
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