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MARJORIE DUFFIELD
Nationality: USA
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Off-Broadway: Ice Island: the Wait for Shackleton (the Melting Pot Theatre Company). New York and regional credits include: Sit-In at the Five and Dime with composer Janice Lowe (the New Harmony Project, Barrington Stage Company, Voice & Vision envision Retreat, Coastal Concerts and the Henlopen Theatre Project, and Dixon Place), In a Lake of Fire (WilliamsTheatre - Winner of the Moss Hart award and Finalist for the Richard Rodgers awards) and Tit Tales with composer Greg Pliska (WilliamsTheatre, WOW Cafe), Lucky Hans with Danny ashkenasi (White Bird Productions), Cyber-alice with composer Sunmee Cho (Lincoln Center Directors Lab at HeRe), On the Road To Last Chance (Dixon Place), and Fever (La Mama La GalleriA. Marjorie received her MFA from the Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program, Tisch School of the Arts, NYU, where she was a Jacob Javits Fellow. She is a member of the Dramatists Guild and a 2003-2004 recipient of the Jonathan Larson Memorial Musical Theatre Fellowship.
Research: Member of the Dramatists Guild of America (as at 2015)
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Cyber-Alice Fever Ice Island: the Wait For Shackleton In Lake Of Fire Lucky Hans On the Road To Last Chance Tit Tales Viva La Evolucion!Cyber-Alice
Synopsis:
a 'cyber-opera' about memory, forgetting, love, and loss -- set in the futuristic nightclub of the oracle-like alice.
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Written with composer Sunmee Cho.
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Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab
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Sci-fi musical, 70 minutes
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Male: 2 Female: 3 Other: -
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a comic one-woman coming out disco monologue.
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Women's Project & Productions
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Disco-monologue Ten min. - - Gay/Lesbian, of interest
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Male: - Female: 1 Other: -
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Based on the 1914 Shackleton expedition to the South Pole, the play lyrically retells this thrilling adventure while exploring the themes of heroism, brotherhood, and dignity. Set against the haunting beauty of the ice, the play chronicles the ship's journey and the harrowing wait for rescue as the men left behind use humor and Shakespeare to survive.
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Melting Pot Theatre Company
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Genre:
Drama/adventure - 90 minutes
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Male: 7 Female: - Other: -
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Top of PageIn Lake Of Fire
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IN a LaKe OF FIRe is a music-theatre/media piece based on the 1994 Susan Smith case that borrows from the tragedy of Medea. the piece thematically explores perception; racist accusation; the nature of desperation; lying and the need to tell the truth; and what it is to unravel psychologically and spiritually. It also examines what community does in the face of tragedy, and how it moves beyond it.
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Winner of the Moss Hart Award (New england theatre Conference). Written with composer Greg Pliska.
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Williams College, Williamstown, Ma (Usa) Apr 2000
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WilliamsTheatre
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Genre:
Musical/Drama - 90 minutes
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Male: - Female: - Other: -
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Top of PageLucky Hans
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Based on the Brother's Grimm fairytale "Hans in Luck," and set in Brooklyn (New York), this family musical follows Hans through a series of wacky encounters and comic business deals as he sets out for home to see his mother.
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Written with composer Danny Ashkenasi
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White Bird Productions
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Genre:
Family musical - 40 minutes
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Male: 3 Female: 4 Other: -
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Top of PageOn the Road To Last Chance
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Hobby Sage has a truck to drive and a load to deliver -- and this evening will be his last. His wife, ever conscious of how he has disappeared into himself and into time, begs him to stay. But staying doesn't come easy to Hobby. Set against the backdrop of time and the midnight arizona desert, this play chronicles a man's desire to disappear into the universe.
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New York, Ny 1994
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Theatre 133
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Genre:
30 min One act
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Male: 1 Female: 2 Other: -
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Top of PageTit Tales
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a comic body politics cabaret that follows the adventures of three characters as they deal with being female, and more specifically, having breasts.
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Written with composer Greg Pliska.
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Genre:
a Body-Politics Cabaret - 60 minute comedy
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Male: - Female: 3 Other: -
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Top of PageViva La Evolucion!
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Don't tell my mother about my one-woman show! First generation Cuban-American comedian Diana Yanez makes 'mojitos out of the limones' of her life with hilarious yet poignant tales of growing Cuban and queer in Miami. (1st Prize, Drama Queens Competition)
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Diana Yanez, developed by Diana Yanez And Marjorie Duffield
1st Produced:
The Soho Playhouse 19 Aug 2010
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atomicTuna Productions & Travel Large
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Genre:
1h 15m National Los Angeles, Ca
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Male: - Female: - Other: -
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