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Fernanda Coppel

FERNANDA COPPEL

  
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    William Morris Endeavor Entertainment, LLC  represented by Scott Chaloff

Fernanda Coppel is a playwright and a screenwriter. Her new play King Liz will have its world premiere at Second Stage Theatre this summer. Her play Chimichangas and Zoloft premiered at the Atlantic Theater Company in 2012 and was published by Samuel French. In 2015, Fernanda recieved the inaugural Williamstown Theatre Festival New Play Comission. Her work has been developed at New York Theatre Workshop, Pregones Theater, INTAR Theatre, The Juilliard School, The Lark Development Center, the Flea, the Old Vic (London), Naked Angels, and at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater. Fernanda is a member of the MCC Playwrights' Coalition and was a member of the Old Vic's US/UK TS Eliot Exchange Program. Her work has won the Asuncion Queer Latino Festival at Pregones Theater, the 2012 HOLA Award for Outstanding Achievement in Playwriting, and the 2012 Helen Merrill Award. She was a three-year Lila Acheson Wallace Playwriting Fellow at The Juilliard School and received her MFA in Dramatic Writing from NYU. Fernanda's television credits include "The Bridge" on FX and "Kingdom" on DIRECTV.

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

         Chimichangas And Zoloft         King Liz

Chimichangas And Zoloft

Chimichangas And Zoloft
Suffering from a profound sense of disappointment after her 40th birthday, Sonia flees her family and goes on a binge of prescription Zoloft and greasy chimichangas. Sonia's rebellious daughter Jackie and her best friend Penelope atch a plan to lure Sonia back home, while their fathers struggle with a secret association of their own. This irreverent story examines the search for happiness and the mysteries of sexuality through the eyes of two brazen teenagers.

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1st Produced:
Atlantic Stage 2
330 West 16th Street, New York, NY 10011     23 May 2012

Organisations:
Atlantic Theater Company

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Genre:
dramatic comedy 90 min

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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King Liz

King Liz
Sports agent Liz Rico has money and an elite client roster but a woman in a man's industry has to fight to stay on top. She's worked twice as hard to get where she is and wants to take over the agency that she's helped build. Enter Freddie Luna, a high school basketball superstar with a troubled past. If Liz can keep this talented yet volatile young star in line, she just might end up making not only his career, but her own as well. But at what price?

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Nominated for The Kilroys 2015. The Kilroys is a group of playwrights and producers in LA who publish an annual industry survey of excellent new plays by female and trans playwrights. It is a tool for producers committed to ending the systemic underrepresentation of female and trans playwrights in the American theater.

1st Produced:
McGinn Cazale Theatre, 2162 Broadway, 4th floor, New York, NY 10024     27 Jul 2015

Organisations:
Second Stage Theatre

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Genre:
comedy drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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