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Joshua Fardon

JOSHUA FARDON

  (1965 - )
Nationality:    USA
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JOSHUA FARDON's play The Condition was workshopped as a Naked Angels LATuesdays Angels in Progress in March 2015. Do Not Disturb - An Evening of Plays by Joshua Fardon, which included Rise, Blanks, Due Diligence and Soon My Angel Came Again was produced in Los Angeles by Theatre of NOTE as part of its 2014 season and was subsequently extended into the 2014 Hollywood Fringe. Also at NOTE: Shake (2010), Tenant (short, 2009) and This Contract Limits Our Liability - Read It (2008). In 2013: a workshop of Julia Arbuck at the Brand Studio Theatre. He has also written and directed one-acts for The Naked Angels, the Ensemble Studio Theatre, Emerging Artists, Sacred Fools, Saturn and Vine, The Secret Rose, Slap n' Tickle, Stevedore, the Yale Cabaret, the Yo! Yo! Theatre Company, and the Ace Broadcasting Network. graduate of Northwestern University and the acting department of the Yale School of Drama, he is currently working on his first full-length musical. He lives in Chicago

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         Again         Age of Darkness         Alegebra         Argument For Oblivion         Arizona         Blanks         Burning Of Kenneth Carrion, The         Condition, The         Cult Musical, A         Dove, The         Due Diligence         Invisible Worm, The         Julia Arbuck         Kindly Omit Flowers         Publishers, The         Rattle         Red Bouquet, The         Rise         Separation Anxiety         Shake         Something Not Real         Soon My Angel Came Again         This Contract Limits Our Liability - Read It!         Understudy

Again

Synopsis:
a recently wealthy woman visits her former boyfriend in jail on Christmas.

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1st Produced:
Saturn And Vine At The Elephant Theatre In Los Angeles    2010

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Genre:
Short Musical

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Age of Darkness

Synopsis:
After isolating themselves in their highrise apartment, Jennifer and David enlist the help of Grace and Waldo to defeat the terrifying unseen forces which have wreaked havoc on their lives, health and sanity.

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Dramedy

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Alegebra

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Short play

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Argument For Oblivion

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Short play

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Arizona

Synopsis:
a troubled woman meets a psychiatrist on a train. He has a very dark secret.

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1st Produced:
Stevedore Theatre Company At The Edgemar Center, Santa Monica, Ca    2003

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Genre:
Short musical

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Blanks

Synopsis:
Bill and June have something their wealthier friends Pat and Sandy want, but they're unlikely to give it to them.

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1st Produced:
Theatre Of Note, Los Angeles    May 2014

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Theatre of NOTE

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Genre:
Short - Dramedy

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Burning Of Kenneth Carrion, The

Synopsis:
Twenty years ago, Kenneth Carrion was accused of murdering his sister by setting her on fire. addy McLean, a reporter from the Knoxville News-Sentinel, struggles to separate memory from truth as she investigates Ken's past.

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Play/Drama

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Condition, The

Synopsis:
As Dr. Kick examines her, it becomes apparent that Ruthie can't remember the purpose of the clinical study she's undergoing. It doesn't help that Dr. Kick's questions grow increasingly invasive and personal, even breaking boundaries of logic and time.

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The play was presented as a staged workshop by the Naked Angels' LATuesdays in Los Angeles.

1st Produced:
Atwater Village Theatre, Los Angeles, CA    18 Mar 2015

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Naked Angeles / LATuesdays Angels in Progress

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Genre:
Comedy/Drama

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Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Cult Musical, A

Synopsis:
An ageing and lonely man meets a beautiful woman who is part of a Cult

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Genre:
Musical

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Dove, The

Synopsis:
A couple with a long history decide to play an extremely dangerous game with the truth.

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1st Produced:
Lillian Theatre, Los Angeles    Dec 2015

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Slap and Tickle

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Genre:
Short / drama

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Due Diligence

Synopsis:
a micromanaging single Father interrogates his future daughter-in-law over dinner. What he finds out disturbs him.

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1st Produced:
Theatre Of Note, Los Angeles    May 2014

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Theatre of NOTE

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Genre:
Short - Dramedy

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Invisible Worm, The

Synopsis:
When an up-and-coming actor's career hits a snag, his resourceful talent manager tries to convince him to repair the damage by ending his marriage and starting a relationship with a porn star. This maniacally cynical comedy investigates the nature of love, ambition and the ruthlessness often employed in pursuing both.

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Genre:
Comedy

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Julia Arbuck

Synopsis:
A famous acting teacher is killed violently. Some of her students try to piece together their experiences in class to figure out how and why.

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a finalist for the 2012-2103 Alec Baldwin Fellowship At the Singer's Forum

1st Produced:
Workshop Production Brand Studio Theatre    06 Apr 2013

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Connotation Press: http://www.connotationpress.com/drama/1016-joshua-fardon-drama (2012)   -

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Genre:
Drama

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Male:  3            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Kindly Omit Flowers

Synopsis:
A couple discover a drink that wipes out parts of their lives

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Publishers, The

Synopsis:
Desperate to save their small publishing business, two brothers decide to hear a pitch for a children's book by a writer of hardcore pornography.

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1st Produced:
Sacred Fools, Los Angeles    2011

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Sacred Fools Fast n' Loose

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Genre:
Short - Comedy

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Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Rattle

Synopsis:
Ten years after separating, a couple reunites and finds that a decade-old crime committed on a sociopathic saleswoman continues to haunt them and their child.

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Red Bouquet, The

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Music, lyrics And book by Joshua Fardon

1st Produced:
Secret Rose Theatre, North Hollywood    2009

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Genre:
Ten minute musical

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Rise

Synopsis:
Elizabeth rings Kevin's doorbell and announces she's a Facebook friend. Kevin has no memory of her, but that doesn't stop the manic, determined Elizabeth from entering his house and giving him a birthday present which will change the course his life and wreak havoc on his soul.

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1st Produced:
Theatre Of Note, Los Angeles    May 2014

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Theatre of NOTE

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Connotation Press : http://www.connotationpress.com/drama/1576-joshua-fardon-drama-01 (2013)   -

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Genre:
Drama

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Separation Anxiety

Synopsis:
a couple attempts to lure their young, poor pregnant neighbor into a bizarre ritual in which they commemorate the death of their son.

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1st Produced:
Sacred Fools Fast And Loose    2010

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Genre:
Ten Minute comedic Drama

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Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Shake

Synopsis:
a recovering alcoholic, his increasingly unhinged best friend, his actress girlfriend and her enigmatic female lover contend with the challenges presented by a post-9/11 environment. Shake happens backwards, exploring from hindsight the influences that profound loss, unassailable hope and unrelenting denial can have on a deeply troubled yet caring group of people.

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Workshop production At the elephant theatre Lab, 2007

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Theatre of NOTe

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Something Not Real

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Music, lyrics And book by Joshua Fardon

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Genre:
Ten minute musical

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Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Soon My Angel Came Again

Synopsis:
A couple is haunted by a foul-mouthed, truth-speaking angel.

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1st Produced:
Sacred Fools, Los Angeles    2009

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Sacred Fools Fast n' Loose

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Genre:
Short - Comedy

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This Contract Limits Our Liability - Read It!

Synopsis:
a young couple places an ad in a local sex rag. When the responding couple arrives and happily announces a different and much darker agenda, the evening takes a twisted and comic turn. This Contract Limits Our Liability: Read It! traverses the boundaries of sex comedies while asking fundamental questions about the sanctity of marriage, fidelity and life itself.

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Genre:
Dramedy Play/Drama

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Understudy

Synopsis:
Joseph, a mysterious man in his late 30's, gets cast as the understudy of both roles in a controversial off-Broadway play. as alex, a renowned Broadway actor and the play's star, faces the death of his real-life mother and the risks that taking on the material has posed to his career, he feels increasingly haunted by Joseph's presence. a backstage look at what can be a cruel process, Understudy investigates issues of abuse, madness, alcoholism and paranoia - but it's also funny.

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  6            Female:  1            Other:  -

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