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John Crutchfield

JOHN CRUTCHFIELD

  
Nationality:    USA
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Born in Austin, Texas, raised in rural Watauga County, North Carolina, and educated in the public schools of North Carolina and at Cornell University, John Crutchfield is a writer and performer currently based in Berlin, Germany. His plays Ivory, The Songs Of Robert, Ruth, Twelve Treatises On Memory, The Labyrinth, Solstice, Landscape With Missing Person, Come Thick Night, and The Strange And Tragical Adventures Of Pinocchio have been produced regionallyin the U.S., as have numerous shorter works. He has collaborated and performed with X Factor Dance, Sans Pointe Dance, Legacy Butoh, Asheville Contemporary Dance Theatre, and Anemone Dance Theatre, and has been an artist-in residence at the Djerassi Artists Foundation, Headlands Center for the Arts, the Association dArt de La Napoule (France), and the Pädagogische Hochschule Karlsruhe (Germany). At present, he teaches creative writing part-time through Lenoir-Rhyne University's Center for Graduate Studies, freelances as a literary translator, and serves as Associate Artistic Director at The Magnetic Theatre.

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         Bob Agonistes         Brother John         Come Thick Night         Die Physiker/the Physicists         Everything And God         Flowers Of Evil: An Immorality Play         Going Home         Ivory         Jack-In-the-Park Tales         Labyrinth, The         Landscape With Missing Person         On the House         Opus Postumous         Prologue In Heaven         Ruth         Sleep No More         Solstice         Songs Of Robert, The         Tenebrae         Twelve Treatises On Memory:An Epistemological Slapstick (With Sock Puppets)

Bob Agonistes

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1st Produced:
Playcrafters New Play Festival, Boone, Nc    2005

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One act

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Brother John

Synopsis:
Bob suddenly starts getting everything he ever wanted

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1st Produced:
-    1994

Organisations:
endymion Theater Company

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Come Thick Night

Synopsis:
In this postmodernist mashup of Elvis, Sartre, and Shakespeare's "Scottish play," a young woman awakes from a nightmare about killing her father-- only to discover she is still in it.

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1st Produced:
Asheville Fringe Arts Festival in Asheville, North Carolina    2013

Organisations:
My Favorite Leg Theatrical Comapany

1st Published:
http://www.indietheaternow.com/Play/come-thick-night   -

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Genre:
1h 15m Drama Comedy

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Die Physiker/the Physicists

Synopsis:
every scene alternately played in english and then German. the english as vaudeville, the German straight

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Original Playwright - Friedrich Durrenmatt

1st Produced:
Appalachian State University    Mar 2007

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Genre:
Translation

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Everything And God

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Inspired by "Stories Of God" by Rainer Maria Rilke. Play Also known As "and Other Stories"

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Flowers Of Evil: An Immorality Play

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Going Home

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1st Produced:
North Carolina Governor's School, Raleigh, NC    2002

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One act

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Ivory

Synopsis:
A drama in two acts about a group of young graduate students who must choose between personal loyalty and professional ambition in the perilous halls of Academia.

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1st Produced:
BeBe Theatre in Asheville, North Carolina    Jun 2008

Organisations:
Corpus Theatre Collective

1st Published:
http://www.indietheaternow.com/Play/ivory   -

Music:
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Genre:
Drama 80 min

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Jack-In-the-Park Tales

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Based on the book "Jack Tales" by Richard Chase

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Organisations:
Blowing the Rock Stage Company

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One act

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Labyrinth, The

Synopsis:
A phantasmagorical verse drama about a young mans journey to the Underworld to understand the suicide of his best friend.

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1st Produced:
Magnetic Theatre in Asheville, North Carolina    09 Apr 2011

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1st Published:
http://www.indietheaternow.com/Play/the-labyrinth   -

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Genre:
3 acts 120 min

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Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Landscape With Missing Person

Synopsis:
A teenage railroad-punk, a strange middle-aged man, and a road-trip across America: what begins as a chance encounter turns into a wild and unpredictable quest in search of True Love.

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1st Produced:
Magnetic Theatre in Asheville, North Carolina    04 Aug 2012

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1st Published:
http://www.indietheaternow.com/Play/landscape-with-missing-person   -

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Genre:
2 acts 110 min

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  7            Other:  -

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On the House

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1st Produced:
Offstage Theatre, Charlottesville, Va    2004

Organisations:
Barhoppers

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One act

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Opus Postumous

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1st Produced:
Amerikanische Bibliothek, Karlsruhe, Germany    2004

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Prologue In Heaven

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1st Produced:
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Ruth

Synopsis:
A lyric drama in which the Biblical story of Ruth is re-imagined in a contemporary, Southern Appalachian setting.

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1st Produced:
North Carolina Governor's School, Raleigh, NC    2000

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1st Published:
http://www.indietheaternow.com/Play/ruth   -

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Genre:
Verse play 90 min

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Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Sleep No More

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1st Produced:
-    2009

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Solstice

Synopsis:
A volatile black comedy for the darkest night of the year.

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1st Produced:
Magnetic Theatre in Asheville, North Carolina    Jan 2012

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1st Published:
http://www.indietheaternow.com/Play/solstice   -

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Genre:
black comedy 80 min

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Songs Of Robert, The

Synopsis:
A folk musical for one performer with a motley cast of characters that tells the story of a lonely teenager growing up in the mountains of southern Appalachia.

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1st Produced:
North Carolina Governor's School, Raleigh, NC    2009

Organisations:
A folk musical for one performer with a motley cast of characters that tells the story of a lonely teenager growing up in the mountains of southern Appalachia.

1st Published:
http://www.indietheaternow.com/Play/the-songs-of-robert   -

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Genre:
Verse play 75 min

Parts:
Male:  8            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Tenebrae

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1st Produced:
-    2001

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Genre:
One act

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Twelve Treatises On Memory:An Epistemological Slapstick (With Sock Puppets)

Synopsis:
Two lovers meet after many years. She has moved on, he still clings to the past

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1st Produced:
Shakespeare Festival, Montgomery, Al    2004

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1st Published:
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