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JOHN DOBLE
Nationality: USA
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John Doble is an award-winning playwright living in New York City. His plays include Coffee House, Greenwich Village (LaBute New Play Festival, 59E59); A Serious Person (Best Play, Belper Arts Festival, UK); Tatyana and the Cable Man (One Space, London, and Best Play, Midtown Short Play Festival, NYC); Reunion Run (FringeNYC); To Protect the Poets (FringeNYC); The Mayor Who Would Be Sondheim (FringeNYC); and Three Blind Dates. They've been performed in the Neil LaBute Festival, FringeNYC, MITF, and the Samuel French OOB Festival, in London and elsewhere in the UK, in New York, Los Angeles and points in between. They have been recognized semi-finalists by the Bay Area Playwrights' Foundation, Playwrights First, Reverie Productions and finalists in the Playwrights' Center New Play Competition and New Works of Merit. His short stories have appeared in numerous literary magazines and a collection of them, Lefty and Other Stories (Clemson University), was nominated for the Southern Book Award. He is a member of The Dramatists Guild and The Playwrights' Center.
Research: Member of the Dramatists Guild of America (as at 2015)
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Coffee House, Greenwich Village Mayor Who Would Be Sondheim Reunion Run Serious Person, A Tatyana and the Cable Man Ten Commandments To Protect the PoetsCoffee House, Greenwich Village
Synopsis:
On a blind date in a coffee house, an ordinary man meets a beautiful femme fatale. A rude waiter appears and the woman gradually prods the man to confront his dark side.
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Production/awards history: LaBute New Theater Festival, 59E59 Theater, NYC Jan-Feb 2016; Neil LaBute New Theater Festival, St. Louis Actors' Studio, St. Louis, 2014; Drip Action Theatre Arundel Trail Festival, Arundel, UK, 2014; Finalist, Best Play, Short Play Festival, Nantucket, MA, 2013; Finalist, Best Play, Midwinter Madness Theatre Festival, 2012; Finalist, Best Play, Manhattan Rep, NYC, 2012; (as Blind Date) Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Short Play Festival.
1st Produced:
Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Short Play Festival
Organisations:
Manhattan Repertory Theatre
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One act drama
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Top of PageMayor Who Would Be Sondheim
Synopsis:
The mayor of small New Jersey city is enamored of Broadway tunes and never met a crisis that couldn't be addressed with some well-chosen lyrics. His love of Stephen Sondheim and other songwriters is put to a test as he attempts to lead the troubled city through a plethora of crises while running for another term. [HRC Theatre]
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Original music by Adam Gwon. Production/Awards History: HRC Showcase Theatre, Hudson, NY, 2006; Finalist, Best New Play, Playwrights' Center, Minneapolis, MN, 2005; The New York International Fringe Festival, NYC, 2005; Finalist, Best Play, Stage 3 Theatre Company Festival, Sonora, CA, 2004.
1st Produced:
Mazer Theater, NYC, FringeNYC
Aug 2005
Organisations:
Dawn elane, Carpe Dream Productions
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Male: 5 Female: 1 Other: -
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Top of PageReunion Run
Synopsis:
Reunion Run is a love story about healing. Two cousins in their late 20s meet at a family reunion. He's an inner-city school teacher and she's a career Army officer. They haven't seen each other in years but, when young, they secretly had a crush on each other. When the play opens, he's going through a painful divorce and she's unhappily married to a philanderer. They confess their youthful attraction and have a tender affair in which she helps rebuild his self-esteem. At the end of Act I, we learn that she's been ordered to serve in Iraq. Act II begins two years later. She's returned from Iraq suffering from PTSD, and this time it's his turn to heal her. Or try to. On another level, Reunion Run can be seen as representing the divisions in the country. The two characters are, and have always been in love with each other; but their differences are dramatic: he's a northern liberal and an educator, while she's a southern conservative and a career Army officer. The play raises questions about whether their differences, and whether the country's cultural and political differences, can be bridged or whether the gap is too wide and the obstacles too formidable.
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[In Reunion Run] there is much to learn from the struggle of these convincing characters. These friends and lovers are different in outlook and core beliefs and their differences provide the kind of moral ambiguity that sweetens dramatic plots. Their struggle for center and clarity is an extended metaphor for all reunion runs, individual, corporate, and political. Too often the race to enter combat recklessly is accompanied by the knowledge that death is likely to result. Yet we forge ahead exercising our humanity and our hubris. Thanks to playwright John Doble for the unsettling yet necessary reminder. David Roberts, Theatre Reviews Limited
1st Produced:
Teatro Sea, New York Festival Fringe
01 Aug 2013
Organisations:
Michael Palmer and 11 West Productions
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Top of PageSerious Person, A
Synopsis:
A Serious Person "focuses on a blind internet date in which a man must deal with an eccentric and admittedly bipolar airline ticketing agent. Rather than spend time with typical first date small talk, she shares her strange and laughable theories which include speculating that cannibalism is a basic part of human nature& As zany as some of the lines are, the script rings true as an accurate depiction of the ways we fumble for human connection in this era of disconnection." Adrienne Urbansky, TheEasy.com
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Production History: Write Angles Playwriting Festival, Westcliff-on-Sea, UK, February 2015; Belper Arts Festival, Belper, UK, 2014 (Winner Best Play); Nantucket Short Play Festival, Nantucket, MA, 2014; Haylofters Theater, Burlington, WI, 2014; Nantucket Short Play Festival, Nantucket, MA, 2014; Hurricane Festival, Eclectic Company Theatre, Los Angeles, 2013 (Winner: Best Actress, Best Actor, Best Playwright, Audience Favorite Play); Manhattan Rep Winter One-Act Festival, NYC, 2013.
1st Produced:
Midtown Short Play Lab, NYC
05 Jul 1905
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Top of PageTatyana and the Cable Man
Synopsis:
East meets West when a beautiful young Russian meets a Fox-news-loving cable man.
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Production History: One Summer, The Space, London, January and July 2015; 200 Miles Off Broadway Festival, Darkhorse Dramatists, Binghamton, NY, 2104; Midtown Short Play Lab, NYC, 2013.
1st Produced:
The Space, 269 Westferry Road. London E14 3RS, UK
31 Jul 2015
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Top of PageTen Commandments
Synopsis:
A sexy French journalist gets the Republican's foremost behind-the-scenes political operative to reveal his Ten Commandments, his never-fail formula for winning an election. But just who is being seduced here? As he becomes more and more smitten, it looks like they may team up for the long term.
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Also included in New York New Works Theater Festival. Remounted in Lovecraft Arts Festival in 2015 and 2016.
1st Produced:
303 Manhattan Rep Theatre, 303 W 42 St., 6th floor, New York, NY
15 Jul 2015
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Top of PageTo Protect the Poets
Synopsis:
Violence against women. Police brutality. Two burning issues are the focus of To Protect the Poets. A lonely poetry teacher finds love with a detective solving a rape-murder. But after learning he committed an act of brutality, she must choose between love and her convictions.
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Teatro SEA, FringeNYC, Aug 2016. To Protect the Poets is a beautifully written and crafted production that will stay with you days after seeing it. John Doble's characters are masterfully written. Mary-Anne Wright, Theatre is Easy.
1st Produced:
AEA Showcase, Arias Theater, NYC
03 Jul 1905
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Full length drama
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Male: 4 Female: 3 Other: -
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