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TJ ELLIOTT
(1951 - )Nationality: USA
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T.J. co-wrote 2019's Alms with Joe Queenan, which was staged as an Equity Showcase at TheaterWorks in NYC. That SRO comeback ended a 35-year hiatus from Off-Broadway. In those lost years, he produced, directed, and performed among casts of thousands in a mélange of corporate telenovelas and tragic, comic, melodramatic, and absurd organizational performance art. Earlier stage-works included Lazy Eye at Warren Robertsons Studio Theatre, as well as writing, directing, and producing two unexpected break-even Off-Off Broadway runs of the Captive Audiences revues. He also appeared regionally as an actor in The Devils Disciple (Reverend Anthony Anderson), Sexual Perversity in Chicago (Bernie), and The Dumbwaiter (Ben). In the early 1980s, T.J. studied with Alan Brody, Terry Schreiber, and Jill Andre. In the Spring and Summer of 2020, T.J. produced (creatively and contingently) live on Zoom for 11 performances the dark comedy, Grudges, also cowritten with Queenan to whom he owes his return to playwrighting. In November 2020, he directed a reading of Within The Context of No Context celebrating the 40th anniversary of The publication of this momentous essay by the late George W.S. Trow. He lives in Princeton, NJ with his wife, Marjorie Phillips Elliott, with whom he co-founded Knowledge Workings Theater
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Alms
Synopsis:
Beliefs collide in darkly comic but ultimately meaningful look at faith and forgiveness ways in this late-night meeting of a zealous young Catholic convert, an involuntarily retired sportswriter, and the nun who taught him fifty years earlier as they assemble packages for the homeless alms for the poor.
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written by TJ Elliott and Joe Queenan
1st Produced:
Theaterworks New York City
01 May 2019
Organisations:
Knowledge Workings Theater
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Synopsis:
In Grudges, two brothers whose friendship has been sundered by the 2016 election get together for a bury-the-hatchet dinner. They solemnly agree to never let the words Trump or Obama pass through their lips during the course of the evening. But promises are made to be broken. And hatchets rarely stay buried for long. Grudges is a problem comedy for our times
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1st Produced:
Theaterworks New York City
01 May 2020
Organisations:
Knowledge Workings Theater
1st Published:
-
Music:
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To Buy This Play:
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Genre:
Problem comedy
Parts:
Male: 3 Female: 2 Other: -
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