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Andrew Dainoff

ANDREW DAINOFF

  
Nationality:    USA
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Andrew Dainoff lives in New York City where the distractions are immense. With the help of a fantastic group of friends, co-workers, family and an exceptional therapist, he bickers with the demons that stop him from writing. He graduated from the fiction program at Miami University in his hometown of Oxford, Ohio. Professors eric Goodman, John Romano, and Jim Reiss were helpful to his progress along with: Bill Cosby, Wallace Shawn, andre Dubus, erika Sheffer, David Rakoff, Craig Lucas, Jeff Baron, and Bob Gosse. "all We Can Handle" was produced at the 2006 Cincinnati Fringe Festival, directed by Andrew Lazarow; and published in the Back Stage Book of New American Short Plays 2005. His play "amuse Bouche: To Please the Mouth," was read at Joe's Pub in the Public Theater in December, 2005. another play, "the 8-Hour Father," was read at Playwrights Horizons in May 2006, and produced at Williams College in May, 2007.

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

         8-Hour Father, The         All We Can Handle

8-Hour Father, The

Synopsis:
In a provincial college town two couples find their realities intertwined by family, guilt, obligation, sex and college football as they attempt to exorcise their pasts. the 8-Hour Father takes an acerbic look at whom we fall for and why. If you have sex with someone who pays you $3,000 does that make you a whore?

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1st Produced:
Adams Memorial Theater, Williamstown, Ma    2007

Organisations:
Williams College

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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All We Can Handle

Synopsis:
David meets Sally and follows her to New York. Beauty ensues. then David's journey is accelerated by terrorism, grief-stained sex, chain-drinking, murder, jazz, and phone sex culminating on the edge of the Brooklyn Bridge

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1st Produced:
New Stage Collective, Cincinnati, Ohio    2005

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1st Published:
in New American Short Plays 2005, by Back Stage Books and Watson Guptill, editors, Criag Lucas and Mark Glubke., 2005   -

Music:
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Genre:
80-90 min Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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