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PATRICK ELLSWORTH
Nationality: USA
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Literary Agent: The Marton Agency represented by Tonda Marton
Patrick ellsworth is a graduate of the Lila acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program at the Juilliard School. He has been the recipient of the John Golden award for Playwriting and two Lincoln Center LeComte du Nouy awards. His short film sunnyslope (2005) was awarded Best NY Short at the New York International Independent Film & Video Festival, as well as an honorable mention for Best of Fest at the Great Lakes Film Fest. His Theater productions include: Tiny Little (echo Theater Company, 2003), Full of Fire (echo Theater Company, 2004), and Don't Pet the Zookeeper (Rising Phoenix Rep, 2008). Other plays have been developed at the Juilliard School, Playwrights Horizons, the Syzygy Theater Group, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, the Laurie Beechman Theatre, New York Theatre Workshop, the Los Angeles Writer's Center, Theater for the New City, Second Stage, and the Sidewalk Studio Theatre. His adaptation of the Lars von Trier film, Dancer in the Dark, is having its world premiere at Die StaatsTheater Stuttgart in Stuttgart, Germany, November 2012.
Research: Member of the Dramatists Guild of America (as at 2015)
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Dancer In the Dark Don't Pet the Zookeeper Farewell Undertaker Full Of Fire Hunting For Game Tiny LittleDancer In the Dark
Synopsis:
an adaptation to the stage of Lars von Trier's Dancer in the Dark.
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Teatrul Sica Alexandrescu, Basrov, Romania, 2016; Gerhart Haupmann Theater Gorlitz-Zittau, Germany, 2016;Tonda Marton of the Marton Agency is representing this project.
1st Produced:
Die Staatstheater Stuttgart
28 Nov 2012
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Drama/Musical
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Synopsis:
Twyla interviews for the job of zookeeper and is immediately and deeply drawn to her prospective boss. their bizarre and inappropriate interview hints at sinister things to come.
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1st Produced:
Seventh Street Small Stage (Ny, NY, United States)
2008
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Rising Phoenix Repertory
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Genre:
Dark Comedy
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Top of PageFarewell Undertaker
Synopsis:
Nicholas, a sixteen year old boy, attempts to escape the insanity of his home life and pursue his dream of being a motivational speaker for the astronauts.
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Dark Comedy
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Top of PageFull Of Fire
Synopsis:
a hopelessly disenfranchised man channels al Green while his newly unemployed neighbors invade his home.
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1st Produced:
The Whitefire Theatre
2004
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the echo Theater Company (Los Angeles, Ca, United States)
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Dark Comedy
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Male: 2 Female: 2 Other: -
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Top of PageHunting For Game
Synopsis:
Suddenly aware that the memories he shares with his current band mates are, in fact, memories of different band mates from a different time Charles realizes what he must do: he must replace the members of his new and very successful band, one by one, with those from his old; and he must do so by murder if he must.
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Genre:
Dark Comedy
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Male: 6 Female: 1 Other: -
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Top of PageTiny Little
Synopsis:
Francine, pregnant and in her early twenties, is convinced that the child she's carrying is, in fact, her mother, a woman with whom she had an unspeakably bad relationship.
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1st Produced:
The Elephant Asylum Theatre
2003
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the echo Theater Company (Los Angeles, Ca, United States)
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Genre:
Dark Comedy
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Male: 1 Female: 2 Other: -
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