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Bill Cosgriff

BILL COSGRIFF

  
Nationality:    USA
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Bill Cosgriff's full-length, Rio Rita, was a finalist for the Eugene O'Neill Playwrights Conference 2009 and his comedy, Deathclaw 7: the escape, was produced on Theatre Row and was a finalist in the Lark Theatre Company's Playwright's Week 2004. His most recent full-length, the eighth Wonder, was awarded a developmental grANT / Jerry Kaufman Award in 2010. His ten-minute play, What ever Happened To. . . the Three Sisters?, is published in Stage This, Too! (2007) and won the Audience Favorite Award in a competition showcase at the 78th St. Theatre Lab. He was an original member of Curt Dempster's Playwrights Lab at ensemble Studio Theatre and is a member Manhattan Oracles (a playwright's collective) as well as SAG, equity and the Dramatists Guild.

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

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

         Art Of Escape, The         Boiler Room, The         Deathclaw 7: the Escape         Eighth Wonder, The         Quick Cuts         Rio Rita         Whatever Happened To . . . the Three Sisters?

Art Of Escape, The

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Boiler Room, The

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Two guys in a bar trying to pick each other up but is either of them telling the other the truth?

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Gay, one act

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Deathclaw 7: the Escape

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Deathclaw 7: the escape is a comedy set in the world of low-budget exploitation filmmakers. Steve Klayman, the director/creator of the horror/slasher Deathclaw film series, has decided to break free from his never-ending contract with Morty Sobotnick, his producer. But Steve is being haunted by the central monster character of the series, Alvin, who has suddenly come off the screen and into Steve's life. Alvin is convinced that he is a great independent movie star and that, by ending the series, Steve is trying to kill him. Steve begins a desperate search for Lucy, his estranged mistress and former leading lady who, he believes, holds the key to Alvin's destruction. Ultimately, Steve must choose between Alvin and Lucy, between his own self-imposed limitations and the true freedom that only he can give himself.

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42nd St. Theatre    12 Aug 2000

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Mason entertainment

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comedy

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Eighth Wonder, The

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Sue Bouchard is a divorcee trying to raise her developmentally disabled son by herself while simultaneously juggling her own lawn-cutting business, a recently-begun affair with the daughter of her biggest client, and the remains of her relationship with her ex-husband (and son's father), an unemployed ne'er-do-well pothead. Suddenly, she is presented with a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity - an opportunity which will force her to choose between her obligations as a mother and her desire to pursue her long-delayed dream of becoming an artist. Sue must make decisions which will impact not only her own life, but also that of her extended family.

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Dramatic comedy

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Quick Cuts

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Divorce, denial, disability and nice neat lawns

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Short play

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Rio Rita

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Set in a dog kennel in Tampa Florida, Rio Rita is a noir romantic comedy involving a botched holdup; two criminals, Herb and Tico, on the lam; and a love affair gone awry. When the kennel robbery goes wrong, Rita flees with the money to Rio DeJaneiro, Herb follows her, and Tico follows him. Rita escapes them and returns to the U.S. to confront her mother, Uncle Wayne's twin sister, who abandoned her twenty years before and has been trying ever since, unsuccessfully, to become a nun. Learning unpleasant truths about herself and her long-lost mother / daughter relationship, Rita returns to Brazil and a final reckoning with Herb.

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Neighborhood Playhouse, NYC    06 Apr 2008

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American Renaissance Theater Co.

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Romantic comedy

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Whatever Happened To . . . the Three Sisters?

Whatever Happened To . . . the Three Sisters?
What ever Happened To . . . the Three Sisters? is a one-act fantasia on a "lost" scene from the Chekhov play as if refracted through the lens of Robert Aldrich.

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78th Street Theatre Lab
236 West 78th Street, New York, NY 10024    12 Jul 2007

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Fn productions

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Contained in: "Stage This Too - More Ten Minute Plays" published by iUniverse.com, Jan 2008   978-0595471843

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Ten Min comedy

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