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Michael Elyanow

MICHAEL ELYANOW

  
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    Agency for the Performing Arts  represented by Beth Bickers

Michael Elyanow. Mr. Elyanow's first play was the 10-character dark comedy the Idiot Box. Directed by Jeremy B. Cohen and produced by Chicago's Naked eye Theatre Company, it received its world premiere in 2003. It received a second production in 2007 at La's Open Fist Theatre, where it went on to receive three Garland award honorable mentions and was named best comedy by LaStageScene.com. Mr. elyanow simplified things next by writing a 4-character comedy/Drama titled Lullaby,which went on to become a finalist for the Lark Playwrights' Week as well as a nominee for the Cherry Lane Theatre Mentor Project. Lullaby has been workshopped at Hartford Stage Company, the Blank Theatre and Bristol Riverside Theatre. 12 Volt Heart, a theatrical collage co-written with Jeremy B. Cohen, was workshopped at Hartford Stage and was performed at Northwestern University's Struble Theatre (thanks to a major CIRa grant) in 2004. Mr. elyanow's ten-minute play Banging ann Coulter was a finalist for the 2004 Humana Festival Heideman award and was performed at Chicago Dramatists. His most recent play, the Children, an updating ofMedea, was a nominee for Cherry Lane's Mentor Project, and was workshopped at Shakespeare & Company as well as, most recently, Hartford Stage's Brand New Plays Festival. Mr. elyanow is currently working on a play commissioned by Hartford Stage Company as part of their Hartford Heritage Project. He has led playwriting workshops at Hartford Stage and about Face Youth Theatre, and has taught writing courses at Northwestern University, emerson College, and Hampshire College.

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

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         12 Volt Heart         Banging Ann Coulter         Children, The         Few More Dumb Propositions, A         Game/Over         Idiot Box, The         Lasting Mark, A         Lullaby         Robyn Is Happy         Split Seconds

12 Volt Heart

Synopsis:
a theatrical collage interweaving text, dance, music, and puppetry to celebrate the life and legacy of Dan eldon, a brilliant artist and photojournalist who was tragically killed in Somalia at the age of 22.

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12 Volt Heart was performed At Northwestern University's Struble theatre in the spring of 2004. the workshop production was made possible by A grant through the Center for Interdisciplinary Research in the Arts. the play was Also workshopped At Hartford Stage Company later that year.

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Banging Ann Coulter

Synopsis:
a group of people talk about what it was like having a sexual encounter with the notorious conservative pundit.

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Chicago Dramatists (Reading) (Chicago, Il, United States)     2004

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Playscripts, Inc - New York   -

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9-12 min Comedy

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Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  2 males, 3 females

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Children, The

Synopsis:
When a member of the Greek chorus kidnaps Medea's children to save them from their murderous mom, she ends up accidentally transporting them to present-day athens, Maine instead of ancient athens, Greece. the play combines live actors & puppets with high tragedy & broad comedy to tell a tale of survival, hope, and love.

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the Children was first workshopped At Shakespeare & Company in the spring of 2008, And was directed by Jeremy B. Cohen. the play received it second workshop (with puppets!) later that year At Hartford Stage Company, with direction by Leah C. Gardiner.

1st Produced:
The Boston Court Performing Arts Center, Pasadena, Ca     12 May 2012

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Contained in: "Theatre Forum Number 42"   -

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Few More Dumb Propositions, A

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Two same sex couples want to get married - but the law keeps changing

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Contained in: "Great Short Plays Volume Nine" published by Playscripts Inc   -

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Genre:
Fifteen minute gay play

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Game/Over

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Game/Over is set in a video arcade where Nikhil (arturo Tolentino) and Ray Ray (Kenneth J. Ray) contemplate their post-high school graduation future. Cleverly reinforcing the anxieties about that future is the opening of Zombie Zone shooter game, Welcome to your worst nightmare. also hanging around the arcade is the Predator (played with creepy charm by John Geoffrion), who funds a few video games while putting the moves on Ray Ray.
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Source Festival, Washington Dc     2009

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Ten min

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Idiot Box, The

Idiot Box, The
the Idiot Box tells the story of six sitcom characters whose lives are shaken when reality crashes into their perfect world. as the artifice of their lives unravels, each character discovers powerful truths about race, love, sexuality and the America outside they never knew existed

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The Theatre Building, Chicago     15 May 2003

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Comedy

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Lasting Mark, A

Synopsis:
Two families next door neighbours, one Jewish and one Afro-American prepare for the worst after the assassination of Martin Luther King. Forty years later they have moved to the suburbs but still live next door to each other. Even forty years on there are still problems to face

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Genre:
Drama

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Lullaby

Synopsis:
Set during the 2000 election's Florida recount, Lullaby is a Drama with music, about a widowed mom whose two-year-old son can't sleep and the lesbian guitar tutor she hires to teach her to play lullabies. Thrown in the mix are the woman's enabling Father and late-husband's doctor (with whom she had an affair), all coming together to tell a story about betrayal and powerless during a time in our country when both reigned supreme.

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Lullaby has had workshops And received readings At the Lark Development Center (NY), the Blank theatre (La), the Lyric Stage (Boston), Hartford Stage Company, And Bristol Riverside theatre. Lullaby was A finalist for the O'Neill Conference And was nominated for the Weissberger Award As well As the Cherry Lane theatre Mentor Program.

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Theater Latte Da at The Ritz Theatre. Minneapolis, MN     13 Jan 2016

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Robyn Is Happy

Synopsis:
about three women whose lifelong friendship falls apart when of them embarks on an unusual romance.

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Workshopped At the Hangar theatre's 2011 Pilot Reading Series And Hartford Stage Company's 2010 Brand: New Plays Festival

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Genre:
dark comedy

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Split Seconds

Synopsis:
A group of college seniors on the eve of Obama's first victory and bringing in Proposition Eight

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Genre:
Gay theme/character full length

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