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Bathsheba Doran

BATHSHEBA DORAN

  
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    United Talent Agency  represented by Mark Subias

Bathsheba Doran. Bathsheba Doran's first play, Feminine Wash, was produced at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival while she was a student at Cambridge University. She came to the United States on a Fulbright Fellowship and received her M.F.A. from Columbia University. Her most recent play,Nest, was commissioned and produced by Signature Theater in Washington, DC and is published by Samuel French. Her play Living Room in Africa, also available from Samuel French, was developed at the O'Neill Playwrights Conference and produced Off-Broadway by the award-winning edge Theater. Other plays by Ms. Doran include 2 Soldiers (various), the Parents' evening(Cherry Lane), Until Morning (BBC Radio 4); adaptations of Maeterlinck's the Blind(Classic Stage Company), Dickens' Great expectations (starring Kathleen Chalfant at the Lucille Lortel; published by Playscripts, Inc.), and Ibsen's Peer Gynt (directed by andre Serban at the Theater of the Riverside Church). Ms. Doran is the recipient of three Lecomte du Nouy Lincoln Center Playwriting awards, and she is a Blackburn award finalist. Her work has been developed by Lincoln Center and Sundance Theater Lab among others, and she is currently under commission from the Atlantic Theater in New York and South Coast Repertory in California. Ms. Doran is a former playwriting fellow of Juilliard and lives in New York City.

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         2 Soldiers         Blind, The         Great Expectations         Kin         Living Room In Africa         Mystery of Love & Sex, The         Nest         Nowhere In America         Parents' Evening         Time / Unstuck

2 Soldiers

Synopsis:
Two soldiers, one from 1412 and one from 1974, debate honor, courage, and sacrifice while waiting to battle an unknown and unseen enemy.

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1st Produced:
The Red Room, NY     2006

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1st Published:
Contained in: "the Backstage Book Of New American Short Plays 2004" published by Back Stage,    -

Music:
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Genre:
Play One act

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Blind, The

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Maurice Maeterlinck

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Organisations:
the Vortex Theatre

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Genre:
adaptation

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Great Expectations

Synopsis:
Based on Dickens' classic story of a young orphan, Pip, who comes into a mysterious fortune. Rejecting the love and squalor of his childhood, he attempts to win the heart of snobbish estella, who was raised by her aunt Miss Havisham "to wreak revenge on all the male sex." a concise and accessible adaptation for both adults and young audiences.

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1st Produced:
Lucille Lortel Theatre (New York, NY, United States)     2006

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1st Published:
Playscripts, Inc - New York   -

Music:
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Genre:
90-100 min Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  8            Female:  4            Other:  8 males, 4 females, 4 either (6-30 actors possible: 4-20 males, 2-15 females)

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Kin

Kin
anna, an Ivy League poetry scholar, and Sean, an Irish personal trainer, hardly seem destined for one another. But as their web of disparate family and friends crosses great distances - both psychologically and geographically - an unlikely new family is forged. Bathsheba Doran's play sheds a sharp light on the changing face of kinship in the expansive landscape of the modern world.
- nytheatre.com

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1st Produced:
Playwrights Horizons Mainstage
416 West 42nd Street, 2nd floor, New York, NY 10036     21 Mar 2011

Organisations:
Playwrights Horizons

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Music:
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Genre:
Drama comedy

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Living Room In Africa

Living Room In Africa
UK transplants Edward and Marie relocate to remote African village, intent on opening an art museum. Weeks after arriving, they are stuck with the realization that they have settled in an area devastated by poverty and aIDS. In turn, questions about personal and political responsibilities surface and they are forced to confront what the experience in Africa means to them, and what they mean to each other

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1st Produced:
Beckett Theatre, NY     2006

Organisations:
edge Theater Company

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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Mystery of Love & Sex, The

Mystery of Love & Sex, The
Deep in the American South, Charlotte and Jonny have been best friends since they were nine. She's Jewish, he's Christian, he's black, she's white. Their differences intensify their connection until sexual desire complicates everything in surprising, compulsive ways. An unexpected love story about where souls meet and the consequences of growing up.

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1st Produced:
Mitzi E. Newhouse Theatre at the Lincoln Center, NYC     02 Mar 2015

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Music:
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Genre:
Full Length Play, Dramatic Comedy 120 min

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Nest

Nest
Based on historical fact, Nest is a taut domestic love triangle set against the landscape of a fledgling nation on the verge of realizing its manifest destiny at a terrible bloody cost. the play re-imagines the real life story of Susanna Cox, a young indentured servant from Pennsylvania who murdered her baby in 1809, and the story of the man who wrote the ballad that was sold at her hanging. the play is a searing exploration of American dreams and violence and their place in the national psyche.

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Organisations:
Signature Theatre

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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Nowhere In America

Synopsis:
Fred wants to stop watching TV; Gracie wants a Barbie leg; four friends drink on a rooftop; and a prostitute tries to imagine a better life. On a dark night, a group of Americans separated by time and space all ask the same questions: What's out there waiting for us? Who controls the future? (This play was specially commissioned by Playscripts for high school actors.)

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1st Produced:
Keen Teens At The Kirk Theatre (New York, NY, United States)     2008

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Playscripts, Inc - New York   -

Music:
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Genre:
25-30 min Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  8            Female:  5            Other:  8 males, 5 females (9-13 actors possible: 5-9 males, 4-5 females)

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Parents' Evening

Parents' Evening
Its dusk. Mother and father are in their bedroom, dressing in preparation for Parents Evening at their only daughters primary school. During this rare opportunity to check in, the couple embarks on a volatile, passionate and surprising confrontation that challenges every one of their life choices. The play is a painfully witty, perceptive exploration of the landlines of parenting in modern marriage.

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1st Produced:

Organisations:
the Flea Theater

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Full Length Play, Dramatic Comedy

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Time / Unstuck

Synopsis:
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Notes:
written by Neal Bell And Bathsheba Doran

1st Produced:

Organisations:
ensemble Studio Theatre and Horse Trade

1st Published:
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Music:
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