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Jeffery Scott Elwell

JEFFERY SCOTT ELWELL

  (1957 - )
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    Farber Literary Agency Inc.  

DR. JEFF ELWELL serves as Professor and Dean of Arts and Sciences at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. He served as Provost and Professor of Dramatic Arts at Auburn University at Montgomery from (2010-2012). Prior to that, he served as Professor and Dean of the College of Fine Arts and Communication at East Carolina University (2004-2010); Professor and Chair of the Department of Theatre Arts at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Executive Artistic Director of the Nebraska Repertory Theatre (1999-2004), as Professor and Chair of the Department of Theatre and Director of the Joan C. Edwards Performing Arts Center at Marshall University (1996-99); and as Professor and Director of Theatre at Mississippi State University (1989-96). Elwell received his Ph.D. from Southern Illinois University in 1986 and has a Mississippi Arts Commission Playwriting Fellowship, a Nebraska Arts Council Individual Artists Fellowship, a Tennessee Williams Scholarship, and an NEH Summer Seminar Fellowship. He has received over $730,000 in grants and fellowships. Professional theatres in Chicago, Los Angeles, Memphis, New Orleans, and New York as well as Australia, Canada, Poland, and Sweden have produced his plays, including twenty-three productions of his plays in New York. THE ART OF DATING was a winner in the 1995 Off Off-Broadway Original Short Play Festival and EVENING EDUCATION, was a winner in 2000. Samuel French publishes both. Heinemann publishes his monologue, THE NIGHT WE MET in Monologues for Men, Vol. 2. Two of his monologues are in BASEBALL MONOLOGUES, also published by Heinemann. Playscripts, Inc publishes his adaptation of Dickens's A CHRISTMAS CAROL. He has directed more than fifty-five plays, including THE GUYS, PROOF, OTHELLO and AMERICAN BUFFALO. He was the Producer and Director of the Nebraska Lewis and Clark Bicentennial Signature Event, one of 15 events held nationally. Elwell has served in leadership positions for the International Council of Fine Arts Deans, the Association for Theatre in Higher Education, the National Association of Schools of Theatre; the Kennedy Center/American College Theatre Festival (KC/ACTF), the Southeastern Theatre Conference; and as a member of the Editorial Board of SOUTHERN THEATRE.

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         Art Of Dating, The         Being Frank         Christmas Carol, A         Conversation In Center Field, A         Dead Fish         Escape From Bondage         Evening Education         Ghost Of A Chance, A         Stepping Out

Art Of Dating, The

Synopsis:
Two lawyers meet to discuss their clients in an upcoming court case. they begin to be attracted to each other

Notes:
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1st Produced:
New York     1995

Organisations:
Pulse

1st Published:
Samuel French, NY, 1996   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  gender numbers can reverse

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Being Frank

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
Underacme Greenwich Village     28 Sep 1992

Organisations:
Mystic Theatre

1st Published:
Palmetto Play Service, 1995   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Christmas Carol, A

Synopsis:
This adaptation of the Dickens holiday classic follows ebenezer Scrooge on his exhilarating and terrifying journey to discover the true meaning of Christmas -- with a twist at the end of the journey.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Lied Center For The Performing Arts (Lincoln, Ne, United States)     2000

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Playscripts, Inc - New York   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
80-90 min Holiday Drama

Parts:
Male:  13            Female:  9            Other:  13 males, 9 females, 6 either (17-50 actors possible: 10-30 males, 7-20 females)

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Conversation In Center Field, A

Conversation In Center Field, A
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
-    

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
in Baseball Monologues, Heineman educational (ed Lavonne Mueller), 1997   978-043507070212

Music:
-

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Genre:
monologue One act

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Dead Fish

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Masquers Cafe And Dinner Theatre     17 Jan 1995

Organisations:
Next Generation Theatre Company

1st Published:
Palmetto Play Service, 1997   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Escape From Bondage

Synopsis:
A historical drama about the early life and times of Frederick Douglass.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Perry Theatre, Aurora University     02 Feb 1989

Organisations:
Aurora Theatre Ensemble

1st Published:
Palmetto Play Service, 1995   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Historical Drama

Parts:
Male:  33            Female:  8            Other:  -

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Evening Education

Synopsis:
This forty minute play Dramatizes a confrontation between polar opposites: a young, white professor and a fifty year old black janitor. Working late one evening, Toppman accuses aaron of breaking the marble obelisk on his desk. aaron asserts his innocence, first calmly and then more vehemently, and in the process reveals his own past as well as the professor's. a bond based on mutual understanding and respect is forged between the two men - or is it?

Notes:
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1st Produced:
New York     1995

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
in Off Off Broadway Festival Plays, 25th Series, French, NY,    -

Music:
-

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Genre:
40 min One act

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Ghost Of A Chance, A

Ghost Of A Chance, A
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
-    

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
in Baseball Monologues, Heineman educational (ed Lavonne Mueller), 1997   978-043507070212

Music:
-

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Genre:
monologue One act

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Stepping Out

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Love Creek Productions     02 Feb 1997

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Palmetto Play Service, 1997   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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