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Robert Fieldsteel

ROBERT FIELDSTEEL

  
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    Wallis Agency  

Robert Fieldsteel's works have been produced in Los Angeles, New York, and Chicago. For his play Crazy Drunk, he received the L.A. Drama Critics Circle award for Best World Premiere Play and the Backstage West Garland award for Playwriting. also an L.A. Drama Critics Circle award-winning actor, he has guest starred frequently on television and acted in films for such directors as John Cassavetes, Sidney Lumet, and Joe Dante. Following a 28-year career in Los Angeles, he now lives and writes in Macon, Ga, where he teaches playwriting and acting at Wesleyan College. He is still a proud and active member of L.A.'s Dog ear Playwrights, www.dogear.org.

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

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         Bad Language         Boo-Who         Buddy System, The         Bug Brothers         Cotton         Crazy Drunk         Douglas         End Of the Bench, The         Essential Magick         Fabric         Fits For A King         House Of Humours         In the Shadow Of the North Eat Kingdom         Intelligience Measures         Isthmus, The         Smart

Bad Language

Synopsis:
Words make Lisa uncomfortable.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
The Side Project, Chicago    2005

Organisations:
the side project

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Solo - comedy/Drama One act

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Boo-Who

Synopsis:
an electrical blackout, two boys, a scary, dual-faced mask . . . and an unnerving meeting years later. a tale told by man and mask.

Notes:
Commissioned As A companion piece to Suzan-Lori Parkes' 365days/365plays project.

1st Produced:
The Side Project, Chicago    2007

Organisations:
the side project

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Comedy/Drama - short play

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Buddy System, The

Synopsis:
Two 13 year olds face their past whilst rock climbing.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Ucla Little Theatre, Los Angeles    2001

Organisations:
Virginia avenue Project

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Youth; Drama Ten Min

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Bug Brothers

Synopsis:
Two half-brothers 35 and 13 locked in a car driving across America.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Ucla Little Theatre, Los Angeles    1999

Organisations:
Virginia avenue Project

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Youth - comedy/Drama Ten Min

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Cotton

Synopsis:
Trying to sell fabric in Beijing on New Year's eve 2000 is making one American sales rep feel awfully insignificant. His wife finds solace in reading Gone With the Wind. a man, a woman, a hotel room, and the Decline of the American empire.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Theatre Of Note, Los Angeles    1998

Organisations:
Theatre of NOTe

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Comedy/Drama Ten Min

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Crazy Drunk

Synopsis:
Los Angeles, 1904. Philanthropist Griffith J. Griffith is on trial for the attempted murder of his wife. Brilliant, matinee-idol attorney earl Rogers creates a novel defense . . . that comes back to haunt him.

Notes:
Winner of L.a. Drama Critics Award for Best World Premiere Play; Backstage West Garland Award for Playwriting

1st Produced:
Inside The John Anson Ford, La    2002

Organisations:
Buffalo Nights Co.

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Drama, Historical

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Douglas

Synopsis:
a woman loses her husband's masterpiece: Douglas, a life-sized taxidermy elephant. How do you lose an elephant? What does this do to a marriage?

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Triangle Theatre, N.Y.    2005

Organisations:
Triangle Theatre Beast Festival

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Comedy/Drama Ten Min

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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End Of the Bench, The

Synopsis:
Major League Baseball. a jaded, faded veteran and an ambitious rookie at the end of the bench. Somebody has to be sent to the minors after today's game. Major League mind games ensue.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Ucla Little Theatre, Los Angeles    2000

Organisations:
Virginia avenue Project

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Youth; comedy/Drama Ten Min

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Essential Magick

Synopsis:
a suburban mom worries about her 13 year old daughter's immersion into witchcraft. as the daughter casts a spell with her own blood, the mother journeys into her own dark side and ultimately relives the bloody ecstasy of her child's birth.

Notes:
Finalist, Actor's theatre of Louisville Heidemann Award

1st Produced:
The Met Theatre, Los Angeles    2003

Organisations:
the MeT Theatre

1st Published:
the Loop (e-zine), Dec 2007   -

Music:
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Genre:
Drama Ten Min

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Fabric

Synopsis:
With an eye for fashion and a handy pair of scissors, Jewish-American textile designers Max and Rachel (alias "George" and "abigail") infiltrate the high society of the ascot Races, circa 1910. But is the hair-raising anti-Semitism they witness enough to make them blow their cover?

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Lankershim Arts Ctr., Los Angeles    2007

Organisations:
the Road Theatre Co.

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Drama/comedy Ten Min

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Fits For A King

Synopsis:
a socially-conscious, "arty" court jester and his cynical agent brother have radically different ideas about what should go into a debut act before the King.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Ucla Little Theatre, Los Angeles    2006

Organisations:
Virginia avenue Project

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Youth; comedy Ten Min

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

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House Of Humours

Synopsis:
Backstage and onstage during one evening's performance of a radical re-imagining of DR. JeKYLL aND MR. HYDe. Comic/romantic dualities played out in real time.

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Genre:
full length Comedy

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  1 voice recorded

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In the Shadow Of the North Eat Kingdom

Synopsis:
a local woman and her college-senior lover on the eve of his graduation. What makes a good day's work?

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Genre:
Drama Ten Min

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Intelligience Measures

Synopsis:
CIa recruitment in academia. "Professor" Beverly Dade recruited student Tessa DeCinces seven years ago; now they're on their first covert mission together. a reunion in which nostalgia is never far removed from menace.

Notes:
Part of workshop production of Dog ear Playwrights' Chatter, presented At the 24th St. theatre, Los Angeles, 2005.

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1st Published:
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Genre:
Drama One act

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Isthmus, The

Synopsis:
1906: a chipper, young U.S. army Corps of engineers officer experiences malaria, madness, and manifest destiny at the building of the Panama Canal.

Notes:
Presented As part of theatre of NOTe's Annual marathon, 2000.

1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Drama; soloTen min

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Smart

Synopsis:
an anatomy of a murder at a prestigious New england college. "What am I going to do with my life?" anxiety taken to bizarre extremes.

Notes:
Development: Lark Play Development Center, N.Y. - Playwrights' Week 2005, Studio Retreat 2006; the New Group, N.Y. 2006; Prop Thtr New Play Festival, Chicago 2005; Cypress College; Loyola Marymount College. Finalist, Pillars Playwriting Prize, 2007. Finalist, Trustus Play Festival, 2009

1st Produced:
The Side Project    2007

Organisations:
the side project

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Genre:
full length Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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