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Tom Donaghy

TOM DONAGHY

  
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    The Gersh Agency  

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

         Beginning Of August, The         Boys And Girls         Cherry Orchard, The         Dadshuttle, The         Down the Shore         From Above         Minutes From the Blue Route         Northeast Local         Portfolio

Beginning Of August, The

Synopsis:
the story of Jackie, a man whose wife has abruptly and mysteriously left him and their infant daughter. Confounded by his wife's unexplained absence and unable to pay for daycare, Jackie accepts the free services of his stepmother, Joyce, to babysit until his wife returns. the involvement of a neighbor who knows more than he should and a house painter who finds countless excuses not to finish the job compound a Drama of crossed boundaries and increasingly complex family dynamics.

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Dramatists Play Service, NY,    -

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Genre:
full legth Comedy. - - Gay, theme/character, full length

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Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Boys And Girls

Synopsis:
a contemporary look at family. Two couples in their early thirties, with a complicated history of love and loss, reach across vast obstacles in order to grow up, settle down and raise a child. But not necessarily in that order.

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Genre:
Comedy/Drama, full length Comedy

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Cherry Orchard, The

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Original Playwright - Anton Chekhov

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Play/Drama

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Dadshuttle, The

Synopsis:
Junior lives in the big city, works in a club and likes performance art. Senior lives in the suburbs, puts roofs on buildings and attends family picnics on battlefields. after a holiday meal, Father drives son to the train station. On this drive, they navigate not only the roads, but each other as Junior delivers news that turns a familiar journey into an unrecognizable one to them both

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Genre:
Play One act. - - Gay, full length

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Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Down the Shore

Synopsis:
Lucy's renamed herself "Luke" and, at sixteen years old, wants out of nowhere, Podunk, suburban America. She's hiding out from yet another of her mother's weddings with her soulmate, a statue of St. Bernadette of Lourdes, and she is waiting for Phippsy to finish delivering pizzas so they can escape to the Jersey Shore forever. But then M.J. shows up claiming to be her older brother. Together they travel back to a place of real-or imagined-memory, before the world fell apart.

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Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  -

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From Above

Synopsis:
evvy, in her fortiess, was married to Jimmy, in his seventies. She has been in mourning a year since he died, and now her friends want her seclusion to end. Sean, a local social worker, has been trying to woo her, to no avail. evvy's neighbor, Linny, seems to have a crush on her. the only other people evvy interacts with in this small lakeside community are Peaches, the town handyman, and Roz, a big mouthed co-worker of evvy's who's been organizing the town to vote in favor of a hotel-casino referendum. What shocks evvy out of mourning is the arrival of an attractive young man who says he's her late husband. He knows details about their house, her favorite foods, even where he stores his pipe tobacco. Unnerved by this new Jimmy's accuracy, evvy gives way to the stranger even though he's clearly disoriented and possibly dangerous. But the chance to spend time with her husband again is too good to pass up, even if it is only make-believe. When evvy's neighbors show up, Jimmy flees and isn't heard from again until months later, on the night of the referendum. Upon his return, he tells evvy he's come from the local mental hospital and that her late husband was an old and trusted co-worker. With the mystery solved, Jimmy leaves with the kitten, now a cat, that he gave evvy when he first showed up. evvy settles down with Sean to watch the referendum returns while news helicopters fly over her cabin. She sees the roof of her own house on TV and realizes her perspective has been just as detached as the young man who claimed to be her husband. She looks at Sean and resolves to experience, at close range, what might be next.

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Genre:
Drama, full length

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Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Minutes From the Blue Route

Synopsis:
unfolds over the course of one weekend as a family packs and unpacks their house, trying to consolidate four lives into one U-Haul truck. While tripping over each other on the way to work, weddings, picnics, trains and planes, each family member discovers more about themselves and each other. Tempers flare, truths emerge, and dreams collide with reality, as they all wrestle with their fears and defend their definition of "home."

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Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1997   -

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Genre:
Comedy/Drama, full length Comedy

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Northeast Local

Synopsis:
the story follows Mickey and Gi from their meeting in the late summer, 1963, until their parting thirty years later. He is a steel worker who cannot foresee the approaching end of that industry. She, sensing emerging possibilities for women, hopes soon to find her calling. By the end of the first scene they have already conceived Stefan, and over the next decades they will struggle to stay afloat as time-and the times-move more quickly than either would have imagined. Other influences in Mickey and Gi's lives are Jesse, who's moved North from New Orleans to open a pastry shop, and Mickey's immigrant mother, Mair, who finds so many things about her new world impossible to accept. NORtheaST LOCaL is an elegy for a certain time, place, and class in America, as much as it is for the movement of time itself.

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Genre:
Drama, full length

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Portfolio

Synopsis:
This amusing satire was produced to acclaim and mirth at the comedy theatre Punch Line in Manhattan. at a photo shoot for an ad campaign, the photographer (present only in voice) has the brilliant idea of decking his model with live pigeons. He has hired a man to bring a truckload of birds. He becomes annoyed when the pigeons (which are mimed) will not take direction, much to the distress of the hapless pigeon man. Meanwhile, the model remains unflappable she is used to anything and everything in this job.

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Samuel French, NY, 1991   -

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Genre:
Comedy

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  voice

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