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Lynne Elson

LYNNE ELSON

  
Nationality:    USA
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Lynne Elson is an award-winning playwright and much sought-after teacher. Her plays have been produced in New York, New Jersey, Los Angeles and NebraskA. She has won numerous awards including the Great Platte River Playwrights' Festival for Stolen Glorie. She is a founding member of the Stage One Playwrights Unit of Passage Theatre Company where her plays, Be the Change, Seven in Heaven, and My Abraham were recently produced. Ms. Elson's work appears in audition Monologs for Student actors II by Meriwether Publishing Co. Ms. Elson is also a teacher of Theatre and filmmaking for junior high school students. She directs the Drama club production each year. In her spare time, she is either teaching yoga or kayaking.

Research:    Member of the Dramatists Guild of America (as at 2015)

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below is a list of Lynne Elson's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Blessed Unrest, A         Crazy, Crazy on You         Cricket on the Hearth         Holiday Shmoliday         Stolen

Blessed Unrest, A

Synopsis:
What if a car accident took your ability to do what you most loved to do? Thats what happened to Jacob, who can no longer dance or hug his children. He wants to die, but his rehab nurse wont let him. Sparks fly between them, but will it be enough to ignite his will to live again? Or does the spirit of Martha Graham, have to force him to keep marching in order to be more alive than the others? This four-character play, is an uplifting drama about our innate need for passion in order to be fully alive.

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Crazy, Crazy on You

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1st Produced:
Philly Fringe Festival    2011

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published in The Kelsey Review, 2012   -

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Cricket on the Hearth

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adaptation of the Charles Dickens classic

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NOW Theatre Company and the East Brunswick Performing Arts Center    2010

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adaptation

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Holiday Shmoliday

Synopsis:
Samson is forced to find a "cool" Chanukah song for his choir to sing or else the school bully will beat him up. at first Samson is reluctant to celebrate his Jewish roots, but with a surprise visit from a magical Dreidel Man, he goes on a journey exploring other cultures' celebrations of the holidays. Through his travels, and with the help of his pet fish, Gefilte, Samson gains self-confidence and finds a new respect for his heritage. He finally returns home, equipped with an original holiday song, and faces the choir bully.

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1st Produced:
Manhattan Theatre Source (New York, Ny, United States)    2003

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Playscripts, Inc - New York   -

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Genre:
90 min Comedy/Drama

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Male:  5            Female:  9            Other:  5 males, 9 females, 3 either (7-20 actors possible: 3-8 males, 4-12 females)

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Stolen

Synopsis:
Glorie was living a comfortable, albeit sheltered life with her doting sweet father, when the mother she thought was dead tries to steal her back away from her father.

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1st Produced:
Pulse Ensemble Theatre in New York City as Stolen Glorie    1996

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Genre:
one act 75 min

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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