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Catherine Filloux

CATHERINE FILLOUX

  
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    Elaine Devlin Literary, Inc.  

Catherine Filloux. Catherine Filloux's recent plays include: Killing the Boss (the William Inge Center for the Arts, KS, 2006);Lemkin's House (McGinn Cazale Theatre and 78th Street Theatre Lab, NYC, 2006; Kamerni Theatre, Sarajevo, Bosnia, 2005);the Beauty Inside (New Georges, NYC, 2005); eyes of the Heart (National Asian American Theatre Co., NYC, 2004);Silence of God (Contemporary American Theater Festival, WV, New Play Commission, 2002); Mary and Myra(CaTF, 2000 and Todd Mountain Theater, NY, 2002); arthur's War(Theatreworks/usa, NYC, 2002);Photographs From S-21, a short play which has toured the world; escuela Del Mundo(Commission toured by OSU, Columbus, 2005-2006.) the Beauty Inside was translated into arabic for a workshop at ISaDaC in Morocco (2004). She is currently writing a play about Hurricane Katrina to premiere at Southern Repertory Theater in New Orleans in august 2007 (she is collaborating with playwrights Joe Sutton and Tarell McCraney.) Ms. Filloux's other plays have been produced in New York and around the U.S. Opera libretto: the Floating Box (Composer Jason Kao Hwang, Critics Choice, Opera News, 2005, CD New World Records, Premiere Asia Society 2001); Opera libretto commission from Cambodian Living Arts for Where elephants Weep (Composer Him Sophy) awards: PeaceWriting award (Omni Center for Peace), Roger L. Stevens award (Kennedy Center), eric Kocher Playwrights award (O'Neill), Callaway award (New Dramatists), Fulbright Senior Specialist (Cambodia and Morocco), Thurber Playwright-In-Residence, Asian Cultural Council Grant, Winner Nausicaa Franco-American Play Contest, Rockefeller MaP Fund (for Southern Rep project andFloating Box), five-time Heideman award Finalist, Actors Theatre of Louisville. Oral History Project: Circle of Grace with Cambodian Women's Group, Bronx, NY. French-English Translation: Ubu Rep, NYC; various periodicals. eyes of the Heart(Development for Lifetime TV). Juror for 2004 MeS International Theater Festival, Sarajevo. Ms. Filloux's plays are published by Playscripts, Inc., Smith & Kraus, Vintage, Dramatic Publishing, Seagull, and Prentice Hall. articles in American Theatre, Manoa, TDR and CTR. M.F.A. Dramatic Writing, Tisch, NYU, and French Baccalaureate with Honors in Toulon, France. She is a co-founder of Theatre Without Borders.

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

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

         All Dressed Up And Nowhere To Go         Beauty Inside (One-Act), The         Dog And Wolf         Eyes Of the Heart         Killing the Boss         Lemkin's House         Lessons Of My Father, The         Luz         Mary & Myra         Mary & Myra         Mu Sochua (Cambodia)         Photographs From S-21         Price Of Madness         Selma '65         Seven         Venus In the Birdbath         White Trash

All Dressed Up And Nowhere To Go

Synopsis:
a quirky comedy about a group of amish and a group of transvestites stranded together at a motel during a blizzard. Jacky, a stressed-out businessman who cross-dresses on weekends, hopes to have a relaxing retreat with his friend Barbie -- only to discover he's never been closer to home.

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1st Produced:
Playwrights Theatre Of Baltimore (Baltimore, Md, United States)    1994

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1st Published:
Playscripts, Inc - New York   -

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Genre:
90-110 min Dark comedy

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  4 males, 2 females

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Beauty Inside (One-Act), The

Synopsis:
a young girl in southeastern Turkey becomes the target of an honor killing. In a terrifying clash of value systems, the girl's traditionalist mother and her Westernized female lawyer struggle with one another to seal her fate.

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1st Produced:
Hb Playwrights Foundation & Theatre (New York, NY, United States)    2001

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Playscripts, Inc - New York   -

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15-20 min Play/Drama

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Male:  -            Female:  3            Other:  3 females

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Dog And Wolf

Synopsis:
In Dog and Wolf, when refugee Jasmina-an enigmatic woman traumatized by the death of family and the experience of mass graves-suddenly disappears, her wheelchair-bound attorney Joseph travels to eastern europe to track her down. With its underpinnings of psychological and political intrigue, Dog and Wolf poses the question, "How can you live your life in fear?" the play draws its title from the French expression, "entre chien et loup," which describes that time before night, when the light is so dim one can't tell a dog from a wolf.
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Watson Arts

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Play/Drama

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Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Eyes Of the Heart

Synopsis:
When Thida arrives from Cambodia to join her brother and niece in the U.S., she refuses to speak and is completely blind, although her family's doctor cannot find any physical reason for her loss of sight. Thida suffers from a psychosomatic blindness developed by hundreds of Cambodian women after witnessing the atrocities collectively known as the "killing fields" in the chaos of Cambodia during the 1970s. as the family comes to understand her pain and her courage, Thida teaches her sophisticated American doctor the ways of the human heart. With humor, poetry, and gorgeous theatricality, east and West intersect in this story of survival and hope.

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1st Produced:
National Asian American Theatre Company (Naatco) At Intar (New York, NY, United States)    2004

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1st Published:
Playscripts, Inc - New York   -

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Genre:
80-90 min Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  4            Other:  2 males, 4 females

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Killing the Boss

Synopsis:
Killing the Boss follows eve-a typically peaceful American playwright with a grant to work in a nuthouse of a country-as she plots to assassinate the country's head of state a.k.a. the Boss out of fury, frustration, and addiction to her fight against social injustice
- nytheatre.com

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thea Productions

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Play/Drama

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Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Lemkin's House

Synopsis:
In 1944, Raphael Lemkin invented the word "genocide" and spent his life fighting to have it recognized as an international crime. But when the U.S. finally signs his law -- decades after his death -- the Rwandan and Bosnian genocides erupt and torment Lemkin in the afterlife. If genocide cannot be stopped, how will Lemkin rest?

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1st Produced:
Kamerni Teatar - In Rep (Sarajevo, , Bosnia)    2005

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1st Published:
Playscripts, Inc - New York   -

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Genre:
80-90 min Drama with humor

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

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Lessons Of My Father, The

Synopsis:
Odile, a French-algerian woman, vividly recollects her just-deceased father, through the eyes of her childhood self. How can you go on breathing when the man who taught you how is gone?

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1st Produced:
Hb Playwrights Foundation & Theatre (New York, NY, United States)    2000

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1st Published:
Playscripts, Inc - New York   -

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Genre:
15-20 min Play/Drama

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Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  1 male, 2 females

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Luz

Synopsis:
From the garbage dump in Guatemala City, to the tent cities in Haiti, to the toxic oil ponds where birds expire, Luz, Helene and Zia--survivors of targeted violence--with the help of human rights lawyer Alexandra search for hope in the unlikeliest, in-between places. A play that is at once volatile and tender, entertaining and surreal.
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1st Produced:
La MaMa First Floor theatre
74A East 4th Street, New York, NY 10003    28 Sep 2012

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Play/Drama

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Male:  3            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Mary & Myra

Synopsis:
In the summer of 1875, Mary Todd Lincoln (the President's widow) resides in an insane asylum, sent there by her only living son. Her progressive friend Myra Bradwell (America's first woman lawyer) arrives to help Mary gain her release by exposing the injustices of her trial. But Myra's motives and Mary's sanity are both up for debate, as they grapple with their pasts and their perceptions of freedom and womanhood.

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1st Produced:
Contemporary American Theater Festival (Shepherdstown, Wv, United States)    2000

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1st Published:
Playscripts, Inc - New York   -

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Genre:
90 min Play/Drama

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Male:  -            Female:  2            Other:  2 females

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Mary & Myra

Synopsis:
In the summer of 1875, Mary Todd Lincoln (the President's widow) resides in an insane asylum, sent there by her only living son. Her progressive friend Myra Bradwell (America's first woman lawyer) arrives to help Mary gain her release by exposing the injustices of her trial. But Myra's motives and Mary's sanity are both up for debate, as they grapple with their pasts and their perceptions of freedom and womanhood.

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Running time: 90 mins

1st Produced:
Contemporary American Theater Festival (Shepherdstown, Wv, United States)    2000

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1st Published:
Playscripts, Inc., 2005   -

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Genre:
Drama

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Male:  -            Female:  2            Other:  2 females

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Mu Sochua (Cambodia)

Synopsis:
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part of Journeys is A series of stirring monologues from courageous women Around the world engaged in the dangerous struggle for human rights. each of these remarkable And heroic leaders tells An inspiring story of commitment.

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Organisations:
Vital Voices Global Partnership

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Photographs From S-21

Synopsis:
Two photos come to life in an exhibit at the Museum of Modern art, New York City. they are a young Cambodian woman and man whose photos were taken by the Khmer Rouge right after removing their blindfolds, moments before their execution.

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1st Produced:
Hb Playwrights Foundation & Theatre, "The Museum Plays" (New York, NY, United States)    1998

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1st Published:
Playscripts, Inc - New York   -

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Genre:
15-20 min Play/Drama

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  1 male, 1 female

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Price Of Madness

Synopsis:
Henri, a young painter, enjoyed early success in the roller-coaster New York art scene, but now he finds himself creatively blocked and increasingly alienated from his wife. He turns for inspiration to his reclusive, schizophrenic aunt, aloise. Her drawings thrill and challenge Henri, tempting him with thoughts of selling her work as his own. aloise is based on a Swiss "outsider artist" born in 1886, who spent most of her life in an asylum and whose work was exhibited by Jean Dubuffet as part of the art Brut movement.

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1st Produced:
Emerging Artists Theatre Company, Intar (New York, NY, United States)    1996

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1st Published:
Playscripts, Inc - New York   -

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Genre:
80-100 min Play/Drama

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

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Selma '65

Synopsis:
In anticipation of the 50th anniversary of the Selma Voting March, award-winning playwright Catherine Filloux brings to life the often forgotten stories of Viola Liuzzo, white civil rights activist, and Tommy Rowe, FBI informant, undercover with the Ku Klux Klan.

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1st Produced:
La MaMa First Floor theatre
74A East 4th Street, New York, NY 10003    26 Sep 2014

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Seven

Synopsis:
a collaboration of seven award-winning women playwrights, SeVeN is based on personal interviews with seven women leaders of the Vital Voices Global Partnership network who have triumphed over huge obstacles to create major changes in human rights in their home countries. In the seven interwoven stories we see the commonality of challenge and of bravery, and in the individual monologues that follow, we experience each fascinating whole true story.

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written by Paula Cizmar, Catherine Filloux, Gail Kriegel, Carol K. Mack, Ruth Margraff, Anna Deavere Smith And Susan Yankowitz

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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY (2009)   978-0822223511

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Genre:
Documentary

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  7            Other:  -

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Venus In the Birdbath

Synopsis:
a darkly comic menage of characters revolves around Salome, a woman who can't get out of bed. the country singer from Tennessee, the disturbed sitcom writer, Salome's fashionable mother, the polite New Yorker hoping to evict Salome, the young California Senator who can't stay out of her bed -- all of them are lost at sea, endearingly unable to cope with the world.

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1st Produced:
Alleyway Theatre (Buffalo, NY, United States)    1990

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1st Published:
Playscripts, Inc - New York   -

Music:
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Genre:
90-100 min Dark comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  4            Other:  2 males, 4 females

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White Trash

Synopsis:
Based on a true story: at a wildlife refuge in Cape Cod, thousands of common seagulls are poisoned in order to save their endangered cousin, the piping plover. In this play, one of these gulls spends its final moments alongside a plover, equally traumatized but chosen for survival.

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1st Produced:
Women's Project & Productions (New York, NY, United States)    1997

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Playscripts, Inc - New York   -

Music:
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Genre:
10-15 min Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  2 either (2 actors possible: 0-2 males, 0-2 females)

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