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Hal Corley

HAL CORLEY

  
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    The Barbara Hogenson Agency, Inc  represented by Barbara Hogenson

Hal Corley is an active member of the Dramatists Guild and the Writers Guild of America (east). Long a New Yorker, Hal and his family now live in Summit, New Jersey.

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

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         Atop Illyria         Brush the Summer By         D Word, The         Death Bite, The         Dolor         Easter Monday         Executive Order 10450         Fiery Furnace, The         Finding Donis Anne         Font, The         In the Charge Of An Angel         Last Noel, The         Legion         Mama And Jack Carew         Married North         Menaissance         Midcentury Modern         Odd         Ounce Of Prevention         Peoria         Treed         Two Turtle Doves         Weak Trembles

Atop Illyria

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1st Produced:
[staged reading] Writers Theatre of New Jersey. Summit, NJ     Feb 2016

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Brush the Summer By

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a divorcee encounters a barman sunbathing in the nude. She reluctantly succumbs to his charms.

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1st Produced:
Adirondack Theatre Festival     01 Jul 2010

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D Word, The

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Joriah Production Mainstage, New York     20 Jun 2013

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Death Bite, The

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Theatre Artists Studio, Az    

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Dolor

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The Best American Short Plays (2014-2015). Applause Books   -

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Easter Monday

Easter Monday
an eccentric widower, Mack has been a stay-at-home dad for twenty years, his daily existence revolving around his son Billy. Not only can't he let go, Mack's convinced he's more needed than ever. First up is pulling Billy from a dead-end copy shop job and enrollment in culinary school-after all, he was a finalist in the Pillsbury Bake-off. then Mack discovers that Billy, adopted from infancy, has contacted his birthmother, a Washington, DC secretary about to make a first trip to New York City. Panicky Mack spends a sleepless three days coaching his son, determined to impress adela with Billy's upbringing-and their indestructible father-son bond. Over a snowy easter weekend, these three square off. Confronting timid adela, Billy's romanticized ideas about his identity are turned inside out, as Mack's deepest insecurities surface. Mack is convinced the woman will psychologically lay claim to the child she gave up two decad

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1st Produced:
Pendragon, Saranac Lake, NY     22 May 2003

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Dramatic Comedy

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Executive Order 10450

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In this play a son (Eric Humphries) confronts his Father (T. Anthony Quinn) about the man's role approximately 25 years earlier in helping ferret out homosexuals at the State Department pursuant to President eisenhower's executive Order 10450. the matter has particular salience to the son because another family known to both has a son dying of aIDS and the victim's Father refuses to visit his son in the hospital.
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part of the Source festival "Heroes And Villains"

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Source, 1835 14th Street Nw, Washington, Dc     01 Jun 2011

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10 min play

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Fiery Furnace, The

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Named Semi-Finalist In the Spotlight On: A One Person Playwriting Competition; Los Angeles, CA

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Finding Donis Anne

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Syracuse Stage    

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Font, The

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ive Minute Mile festival

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Cone Man Running Productions. Houston, TX     09 Dec 2015

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In the Charge Of An Angel

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Stageworks, Hudson NY    

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Last Noel, The

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Tada Theater, New York     12 Dec 2012

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Legion

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Jonah and Sylvester are having a secret affair - a secret from their wives that is. Burton is very promiscuous and out to everyone - apart from his wife.

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San Francisco's New Conservatory Theater Center    

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Mama And Jack Carew

Mama And Jack Carew
In the summer of 1969, Beau Stanley's last hurrah before heading off to study architecture in college, doting Mama Lillian vows to help him finally lose his baby fat. armed with a supply of diet pills and a food-free regimen that includes tearing down a family room wall, 3 a.m. trips to Dulles airport and blazing, amphetamine-fueled days on the beach, mother and son spend a memorable vacation together. But Beau's weight loss isn't restless Lillian's only project, and in an unguarded moment, she reveals her just-begun affair with a travelling defense contractor, Jack Carew. Once Lillian introduces son and lover, Beau's caught in the oedipal crossfire of a covert and explosive new alliance, forced to cover his Mama's many absences from home. Over the next decade, Jack's repeated pledge to end his own loveless marriage and sweep Lillian away proves a hollow promise. as increasingly beleaguered Beau sacrifices his own independence to help his mother confront her disillusionment and finally, betrayal, parent-child roles are turned upside down. Mama and Jack Carew is a harrowing, oftentimes black-comedic portrait of an unlikely triangle.

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Married North

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One Of the Winners Of the HRC Showcase theater's 2012-2013 Playwriting Contest; Hudson, NY

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Menaissance

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Asphalt Jungle Shorts XII, Flush Ink Productions. Kitchener, ON, CAN     17 Sep 2015

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Midcentury Modern

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New Playwrights Series. GUP's annual staged reading series

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[staged reading] Ground Up Productions. New York City, NY     22 Feb 2016

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Odd

Odd
anna Marie has raised her surly, contentious son Micah alone. Though Micah has long been pharmaceutically treated for his O.D.D. - Oppositional Defiance Disorder - she's desperate to introduce a paternal influence. anna Marie hires Joe eskin, an itinerant waiter with a vague past and take-no-prisoners tutoring style. Over one critical autumn Joe brings focus and structure to Micah's daily life. But as he opens incurious Micah's eyes to a world outside his sleepy New Jersey suburb, Joe ingratiates himself into the family and inadvertently stirs in anna Marie dormant romantic longing. In a revelatory battle royal, Micah realizes that equally combative Joe is a kindred spirit - likely "O.D.D." himself. When Micah attracts the brilliant but volatile Ilona, Joe's Cyrano-like coaching to help Micah romance the older girl segues into near obsession. Though smitten anna Marie remains oblivious, Ilona slowly realizes that Joe's emotional investment in Micah is invasive and threatening. During a Halloween trip into rain-drenched New York City, Ilona ends Joe's control by confronting him in front of Micah, with life-altering results. exploring the challenges of teen isolation, single parenting, and our dependence on drug therapy as a panacea, ODD illuminates the terror and heartbreak that bind a unique quartet.

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Premiere Stages     07 Sep 2007

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Kean University

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Ounce Of Prevention

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Syracuse Stage    

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Peoria

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Two middle-aged men in rural Mid-West try to find love.

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Theatre Artists Studio, Az     01 Jan 2009

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Treed

Treed
Three distinctly different ornaments -- a hand-carved St. Nicholas figurine, an all-American angel, and a mass-produced snowman -- relish the first night of their annual re-appearance on the family Christmas tree. However, when news of a potential divorce in the family threatens their status as beloved decorations, anxiety and conflict begin to upstage the celebration.

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in "Great Short Plays: Volume 10", Playscripts Inc, 2014   -

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Short Christmas Play

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Two Turtle Doves

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cripted, short play festival

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Willits Community Theatre. Willits, CA     04 Dec 2015

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Weak Trembles

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one of the winners in the 2012 Panndora's Box, Santa Ana, CA; Festival October 12-14, 2012

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