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Dan Duling

DAN DULING

  
Nationality:    USA
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Dan Duling's plays including theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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         3:15         Alias Jak/Jyl         All Singing All Dancing         Bid or Bunch         Butcher papers, The         Cry Mama!         Doc and Pat         Dream Of Frankenstein, The         Going Down         Great Hippie Riot/Guilt, The         Half-Eaten Heads         Handful Of Lights         Hard Road Home         Household Hints         I, Changeling         Monstrosity         Morgue or Less         Ollie's Star         Prowler, The         Second Wind         Sex TheRapist         Snowbounf Bus         Stranglehold         Tesla, A Radio Play for the Stage

3:15

Synopsis:
A woman is kept awake by a nightmare she has in which a welder in a flannelette nightshirt attacked her

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Genre:
Short play

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Male:  -            Female:  3            Other:  1 girl

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Alias Jak/Jyl

Synopsis:
Jak is obsessed with internet porn. Jyl goes online and pretends to be a dominatrix. Jyl looks after her comatose father who shot himself in the head but did not succeed in killing himself. Her mother lives in the refrigerator

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Genre:
Drama

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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All Singing All Dancing

Synopsis:
Auditioning - having to do a soft shoe shuffle to "The Old Rugged Cross" with your shorts and pants around your ankles

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Short play

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Male:  3            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Bid or Bunch

Synopsis:
Two thirty year olds declare their love for each other before bumping off the parents

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One act

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Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Butcher papers, The

Synopsis:
Carson is a great fan of Sigmund Freud. There have been a series of grisly murders and he uses Freudian methods to try and solve them

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Male:  5            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Cry Mama!

Synopsis:
Carson Larue discovers who the Back Street Butcher is. Sometimes knowing the truth can be a dangerous thing

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Part One of "The Butcher Papers"

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Doc and Pat

Synopsis:
A doctor and patient talk about their problems - and men

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Genre:
Short play

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Dream Of Frankenstein, The

Synopsis:
How could a nineteen year old write a horror story such as "Frankenstein"?

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Genre:
Drama

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Male:  6            Female:  3            Other:  1 boy

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Going Down

Synopsis:
A has been rock star has a near death experience due to taking an excess of drink and drugs. He believes that he should make a come back tour

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Theatre Rapport, Los Angeles    

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Genre:
Drama

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Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Great Hippie Riot/Guilt, The

Synopsis:
Based on a true story. Kabul 1971. A drug smuggler is thrown into the Black Hole of Kabul. With other prisoners he organises a non violent riot

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Genre:
Drama

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Male:  16            Female:  2            Other:  doubling

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Half-Eaten Heads

Synopsis:
Whilst his parents are away Jeremy plays out one of his violent fantasies - "Let's Kill Mum and Dad". However one of the non-speaking characters begins to take over

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Drama

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Handful Of Lights

Synopsis:
A comedian has had three sons by three different women. Grown up now one is a rock star, one a writer and one a television star. They are coming to see him - the first time they have ever met

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Genre:
Drama

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Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  1 boy

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Hard Road Home

Synopsis:
A house painter checks into the motel he used to call home to find his estranged wife selling sex for favours

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Household Hints

Synopsis:
The last broadcast of a home hint programme. This week home decor, looking after your gun and how to get blood stains out of the carpet

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Genre:
Monologue play

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I, Changeling

Synopsis:
A psychologist tries to prove with a convicted serial killer that being criminally insane is no fun

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Part Two of "The Butcher Papers"

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Monstrosity

Synopsis:
Rachel Winters answers a Craig's List advertisement for a live in personal assistant. She gets the job and moves in bringing her adult son with her. Something seems to be going on between her son and employer. And just what is in the cellar?

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Morgue or Less

Synopsis:
Maury has a flashback to a childhood trauma with fruit. He meets a lost love - too late

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Genre:
Play with music

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Male:  5            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Ollie's Star

Synopsis:
A teenage boy is drawn out of his isolation in video games when his grandfather moves in

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Prowler, The

Synopsis:
A burglar comes across what deeply twisted values hold a husband, wife and impressionable son together

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Genre:
Short play

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Second Wind

Synopsis:
Rebecca escapes to the woods of Oregon when her marriage breaks up. She wants to get away from everything - but her mother wants to help. Rebecca does not want her to do that

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Rehearsed reading at ART, Portland, Oregon    

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Sex TheRapist

Synopsis:
A psychologist convinces a man that there is only one way to cure his very over active sexual hunger

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Genre:
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Snowbounf Bus

Synopsis:
The bus gets stranded in a snow storm on the way to a ski resort. Do you stay on the bus or walk to the resort?

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Genre:
Youth one act

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Male:  4            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Stranglehold

Synopsis:
A young girl works in a strip club to get money to keep the rest of her family off the streets

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Genre:
Drama

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Tesla, A Radio Play for the Stage

Synopsis:
TeSLA, A Radio Play for the Stage tells the story of Nikola Tesla's life as a brilliant but controversial inventor and futurist during the late-19th and early-20th century. the play is excitingly staged as a radio drama featuring live sound effects. Tesla's volatile relationship with Thomas edison, his allegiance with George Westinghouse, and his confrontation with the power brokers of American business are recounted from the perspective of the possible implications of his work to national security

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the experimental Performance Laboratory at Caltech and the Pasadena Playhouse present Tesla, a radio play for the stage. Directed by acclaimed Los Angeles director Michael Arabian with live sound effects by the sfx artist Tony Palermo, Tesla will run for one day only on the Mainstage of the Pasadena Playhouse, Saturday May 4th, 6:00pm. Special guest stars include Phil Proctor (Big Brother, Toy Story) as Thomas edison; French Stewart (3rd Rock from the Sun) as Tesla; Sandra Tsing Loh (Caltech alum and NPR's the Loh Life) as Katherine; and, playing multiple roles, Dr. Ashley Stroupe, JPL Mars Rover Opportunity Driver; Dr. Steven Collins, JPL Mars Rover Curiosity engineer; and Brian Brophy (Star Trek: the Next Generation), director of theater Arts at Caltech.

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