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Matthew Ethan Davis

MATTHEW ETHAN DAVIS

  
Nationality:    USA
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Matthew Ethan Davis's plays including biography, theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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

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         16 Characters Who Found An Author         Coffee Dreams         Compasses Pointing Past the Past And Present         Dark Suit In Honolulu, A         Down the Hall         Eddie         Falling Awake         Forensics Of Breath         Garden Street         Head Of Hedda, A         Highway 59         Inverse, The         Little Class, A         Looking Back         Midlife's Dreams, A         Moon In the Man, The         Pieces Of A Playwright         Prometheus All Bound         Salty Tears         Sinking         Sinking         Sitting Crosslegged On A Leaf         Sleep At Your Own Risk         Standing Up Upside Down         Super Romantic!         Three Minute Hamlet, The         Through the Floor         Ticket To Eternity         Tracking         Walker         Water's View Of Each Other, A         Whatever

16 Characters Who Found An Author

Synopsis:
This is a festival of one-act plays by Matthew Ethan Davis.
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Theaterlab 3
137 W. 14th Street, 2nd floor, New York, NY 10011    40525

Organisations:
Playing with M.e.D.'s

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
One

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Coffee Dreams

Synopsis:
An actor is on the brink of stardom when he realises that he really wants to be a waiter

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
www.indietheternow.com/Plays/coffee-dreams   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Compasses Pointing Past the Past And Present

Synopsis:
1 Writer. 16 actors. 8 Directors. Matthew Ethan Davis, one of New York's most cutting edge playwrights brings you 10 one act plays from the past and present. . . Davis's plays presents a night of theatre busting with theatricality and heightened language, making the most of the actors' abilities to create realities and super realities. This is everything theatre is supposed to be.
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Richmond Shepard theatre
309 East 26th Street, New York, NY 10010    02 Mar 2011

Organisations:
Ticket to eternity Productions

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
10 one act plays

Parts:
Male:  8            Female:  8            Other:  -

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-

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Dark Suit In Honolulu, A

Synopsis:
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Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Down the Hall

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
Oasis Theatre Co, NYC

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Eddie

Synopsis:
A hard of hearing High School student's relationship with the school bully turns them both around

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Midtown International Theatre Festival, New York    2014

Organisations:
Ticket 2 Eternity Productions

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

Music:
-

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Genre:
Gay full length 90 min

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Falling Awake

Synopsis:
Two women become allies when they help each other find men in their lives that have died in the after-life, prying open Reality to explore the spiritual world. Two actors play all the characters they encounter.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Expanded Arts Theatre Company, New York    2000

Organisations:
-

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

Music:
-

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Genre:
comedy 90 min

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Forensics Of Breath

Synopsis:
a discourse between the gasp and grasp, the living and non, the delight of discord and smell of bliss; Forensics of Breath reveals the nuances of human behavior in a humorous escapade of uncanny mystery and chopped onions.
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
aka Close To the Bone

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Lucid Impact Theatre

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
One act

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Garden Street

Synopsis:
adam and eve encounter the devil, as a business-man who wants to use their land to develop and build, for harvesting hatred

Notes:
Originally performed with two other one Acts under the overall title "Within Touching Distance". Also produced by Oasis, NY

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
Ticket to eternity Productions, NYC.

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
One act.

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Head Of Hedda, A

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
Ticket to eternity Productions, NYC.

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Highway 59

Synopsis:
a tacky night club singer, singing at the Highway 5.9 Diner at 3 aM, Christmas eve, both entertains at this Diner lost somewhere in America, and recalls her marriage, how is was destroyed by debt, but love lives on.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Expanded Arts Theatre Company, New York    1999

Organisations:
Oasis Theatre Co, NYC

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Inverse, The

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
Ticket to eternity Productions, NYC.

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Little Class, A

Synopsis:
a gay journalism student threatens his Professor with a sexual harassment suit, only to have the teacher completely turn the student's life inside out, both destroying it and saving it at the same time.

Notes:
Semi-Finalist 1999 Samuel French One Act Competition

1st Produced:
Long Wharf Theater    -

Organisations:
Ticket to eternity Productions, NYC.

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
One act. - - Gay, one act

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Looking Back

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
Ticket to eternity Productions, NYC.

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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-

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Midlife's Dreams, A

Synopsis:
a young couple become engaged, brimming with hope. We encounter them many years later when their marriage has been destroyed by debt, and how they copy, trying to salvage their ruined love.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Gorilla Repertory Company, New York    2000

Organisations:
Ticket to eternity Productions, NYC.

1st Published:
Play and Playwrights, 2000   -

Music:
-

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-

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Moon In the Man, The

Synopsis:
a romantic comedy about Kenny, an spontaneous young man falls head over heels in love with Paul, the definition of conservative, just as Kenny's alcoholic, suicidal mother decides it would be a fabulous idea to move in with Kenny.

Notes:
aka All Tied Up In Love

1st Produced:
Expanded Arts Theater, New York    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
http://www.indietheaternow.com/Play/the-moon-in-the-man   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
romantic comedy 90 min

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Pieces Of A Playwright

Synopsis:
This is a program of existing works by playwright Matthew Ethan Davis (including Highway 5.9 andSalty Tears) and works developed specifically for Oasis.nytheatreGroup (including Down the Hall andSinking). Pieces of a Playwright is a result of the collaboration of Oasis.ny founder albert Insinnia with actors, writers, and other contributors in an ongoing process, with the purpose of exploring and developing work in a creative and supportive forum which is in perpetual motion.
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
-

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Oasis.nyTheatreGroup

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  9            Female:  5            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Prometheus All Bound

Synopsis:
an exploaration of current day meanings of the Zeus and Prometheus story. Zeus falls clouds over heels in love with Prometheus

Notes:
Originally performed with two other one Acts under the overall title "Within Touching Distance"

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
Ticket to eternity Productions, NYC.

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
One act. - - Gay, one act

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Salty Tears

Synopsis:
What happens when Christpher Columbus has a complete anxiety attack the night before he is about to sail and is going to cancel the trip, but Sandy, his map-maker, has very different, very romantic ideas in mind.

Notes:
Originally performed with two other one Acts under the overall title "Within Touching Distance"

1st Produced:
West Bank Cafe Theatre, New York    -

Organisations:
Ticket to eternity Productions, NYC.

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
One act. - - Gay, one act

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Sinking

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
Oasis Theatre Co, NYC

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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-

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Sinking

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
Ticket to eternity Productions, NYC.

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Sitting Crosslegged On A Leaf

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Ticket To Eternity Productions, NYC.    -

Organisations:
Oasis Theatre Co, NYC

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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-

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Sleep At Your Own Risk

Synopsis:
When playwright Matthew Ethan Davis began sleepwalking as an adult, he'd wake up with no memory of eating a bunch of food, starting a fight with his boyfriend or even walking out of his apartment naked. Davis sought professional help and found surprisingly few resources for sleepwalkers, so he decided to write a play to help cope with his condition. In "Sleep at Your Own Risk", a one-man show starring Brendan Wahlers, the main character discusses the absurdities of sleepwalking -- weaving comedy and compassion into compelling theater.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Ticket 2 Eternity Productions in New York City    Spring 2011

Organisations:
Ticket to eternity Productions, NYC.

1st Published:
http://www.indietheaternow.com/Play/sleep-at-your-own-risk   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
short play 50 min

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Standing Up Upside Down

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
Ticket to eternity Productions, NYC.

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Super Romantic!

Synopsis:
What happens when true love happens, while waiting for a bus!

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Group Repertory Company Of North Hollywood    -

Organisations:
Ticket to eternity Productions, NYC.

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Three Minute Hamlet, The

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
also produced At the Cell theatre And the Network Festival

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
Ticket to eternity Productions, NYC.

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Through the Floor

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
Ticket to eternity Productions, NYC.

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Ticket To Eternity

Synopsis:
Driven by his parents' insane need for him to be famous, Dan finds himself hurdling from his past to present as an over-eager reporter forces him to reveal his real desire - to be a waiter. Chasing fame never tasted so good!

Notes:
aka Perilous Appetite

1st Produced:
West Bank Cafe Theatre, New York    1995

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
http://www.indietheaternow.com/Play/ticket-to-eternity   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
1h 30m Comedy

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Tracking

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
Oasis Theatre Co, NYC

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Walker

Synopsis:
Four young people trying to find the meaning of life

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
www.indietheternow.com/Plays/walker   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Gay absurd comedy 90 min

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Water's View Of Each Other, A

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
Ticket to eternity Productions, NYC.

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
-

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Whatever

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
Ticket to eternity Productions, NYC.

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
-

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