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Peter Deanda

PETER DEANDA

  (1938 - )
Nationality:    African American
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Literary Agent:    Self: Tel. 323-392-4884 Los Angeles

the actor/director/playwright is produced by Theaters in America and abroad, his plays taught in university Theater departments. Published by Columbia University Press, New American Library, Meridien, and Press West Books, his articles pertaining to film and TV read in the New York Times Sunday Arts and Leisure section and Los Angeles Times Sunday Calendar. Five of his plays are included in the Audrey Skirbal-Kenis permanent collection housed at Los Angeles Central Library, and seperatedly held at the NYC Library of Performing Arts at Lincoln Center. DeAnda is a producer and director, producing and directing the premieres of most of his plays, and has helmed works by other Dramatists. His play Ladies In Waiting was first produced in 1973 by Woodie King Jr's New Federal Theater, and directed by Shauneille Perry. the first Mexican/Cherokee Indian/Black to become a matinee idol in a soap opera (joking, but true) he played Dr. Price Trainor in the original cast of One Life To Live. electing to leave the serial after a year to co-star in movies with George C. Scott, Sophia Loren, and others of stature, then receiving top billing in the Samuel Goldwyn Jr., Warner Brother's release Come Back Charleston Blue. He was titular star Frank Cutter, a Chicago private eye, in Cutter, the fourth entry of the popular NBC Sunday Mystery Movies. the roster beginning with Colombo, starring Peter Falk, Macmillan & Wife, starring Rock Hudson, and McCloud with Dennis Weaver. He guest starred in the late Larry Gelbart's final TV pilot, the Corsairs, starring John Laroquette, and co-starred in the Universal TV pilot Advice to the Lovelorn, starring Cloris Leachman. He was special guest star as TV husband to TV wife Dihann Carroll, in the Lifetime Network series Strong Medicine, and guest starred in (among many others) Crusade, Beulah Land, Cannon, Barnaby Jones, Dan August, Beverly Hills 90210, Finder of Lost Loves, Strike Force, and Joe Forestor, with Lloyd Bridges.

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

         Adam         Beautiful Cloud, A         Giants' Tale         I D         Ladies In Waiting         Race To Olduvai         Remembering Blue Velvet         Sweetbread         they Were Doin' A Jig But Mr Bones Didn't Feel Like Dancin'         Used         Walls

Adam

Adam
the play is a bio-Drama depicting the life of Adam Clayton Powell Jr. former congressman and pastor of the famed Absynnian Baptist Church of Harlem. the congressman censured and removed from congress but not running for election and still receiving 80 per cent more votes than his declared opponents. constituents. Starring Timothy Simonson as Adam, and directed by Shauneille Perry.

Notes:
Adam has had three (3) separate productions in New York: 1. Schomberg Library of Black Culture, 1992, 2. Dwyer Cultural Central, Harlem, 2012, and again at Dwyer Cultural Center, Feb. 2013.

1st Produced:
B. Smith's Restaurant Theater, NYC.    1988

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Genre:
Bio-play Biographical

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Male:  -            Female:  8            Other:  -

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Beautiful Cloud, A

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1st Produced:
Los Angeles Actors theater's Festival of World Premieres    1979

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Play/Drama

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Male:  -            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Giants' Tale

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1st Produced:
Inner City Cultural Center, Los Angeles    1986

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Play/Drama

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Male:  -            Female:  6            Other:  -

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I D

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Collective title for three one Act plays: Changing Winds, the Sculptor, And I. D.

1st Produced:
Inner City Cultural Center, Los Angeles    1987

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Genre:
3Three 1 act plays One act

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Ladies In Waiting

Ladies In Waiting
a liberal-minded white girl gets an inside view of prison conditions while incarcerated with a black lesbian, a prostitute and a psychotic

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the play is sometimes listed as being first produced by the Negro ensemble, Peter Deanda comment: "That was a NeC playwright's workshop thing, audience response thrilling and wonderful which led to Woodie King Jr's New Federal theater (Actors equity) first production at the 3rd Street theater, since renamed LaMama theater. Confusion likely stemming by NeC including Ladies in Waiting in their produced listing, And that it was not. Lonne elder III ran the playwrights workshop. An aside: I was a founding member of NeC with Robert Hooks when the incipient company was Group Repertory Workshop, later evolving to the Negro ensemble Company. A lot of history here." the play has had more than 2,000 productions since first presented.

1st Produced:
Woodie King, Jr's New Federal Theater, 240 East Third Street, NY    Oct 1973

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1st Published:
in Black Drama anthology, ed Woodie King Jr and Ron Milner, New Amer Lib, NY, 1971 (now published by Meridian)   -

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Genre:
Domestic Drama, 2 acts Play/Drama

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Male:  -            Female:  7            Other:  -

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Race To Olduvai

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1st Produced:
Inner City Cultural Center, Los Angeles    1988

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Genre:
Play/Drama. - - Lesbian, theme/character, full length

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Remembering Blue Velvet

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1st Produced:
Inner City Cultural Center, Los Angeles    1982

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Play/Drama

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Sweetbread

Synopsis:
ernest, a young man, finds self pride in the Muslim religion in spite of his brother's opposition; he is finally shot by a white policeman for refusing an order to leave the park.

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1st Produced:
Actors equity Showcase, Martin, Beck Theater, Broadway, NYC    1964

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Genre:
Drama, 3 acts

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  9BM 1BF

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they Were Doin' A Jig But Mr Bones Didn't Feel Like Dancin'

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1st Produced:
WBaI-FM radio, NYC    1994

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Genre:
Radio Play

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Used

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Unproduced    -

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Genre:
Play two acts

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Walls

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1st Produced:
Los Angeles Actors theater's Festival of World Premieres    1980

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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