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MARY LEA FLODEN
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MaRY Lea FLODeN's first play, STaR OF HOPe, was awarded Best Original Play by the Portland, Oregon Critics' Drammys in 1995 (Stark Raving Theatre). Theatres where her plays have been produced or workshopped include ensemble Studio Theatre- Los Angeles. the asolo State Theatre in Sarasota, FL, Los Angeles' Playwrights Arena, aRCaDe (Los Angeles), Women's Interart (NYC), and Sowelu Theatre in Portland. Ms. Floden was the alternate at Sundance Screenwriting Institute, and her MouseWorks book, I BeLIeVe IN Me, has been on the Pediatrician's Top Ten Books for Building Self esteem in Children for over ten years. as an actress, Lea was at NYC's Circle Repertory Company for over 15 years, working on development of projects with noted playwrights including A.R. Gurney and Lanford Wilson. Ms Floden's work has been financially supported by California's Flintridge Foundation, Washington's Paul G. allen Family Foundation, Oregon's Collins Foundation, the Kinsman Foundation, the Miller Foundation and Portland's Regional Arts and Culture Council.
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Curse Of the Great Eleven Great Eleven, The Headless Speed Of Light Star Of Hope Throw the Chi Chi Virgin ForestCurse Of the Great Eleven
Synopsis:
a newcomer makes a family come to terms with it's murderous past.
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Sowelu Theatre, Portland, OR (reviewed workshop) 2003
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Dark comedy
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Top of PageGreat Eleven, The
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In the present, Lera May is trapped in the house with some deadly family secrets. She has spent this entire life like that, denying reality, lying, and not facing murderous truths. But Lera May cannot stay in the present. Literally. She keeps flipping to the 1920's- where her family's sinister religious cult began. So when her sister Curse returns after 18 years to reveal that past, Lera May is shaken. But Curse has brought along her fiancee, Chance- who is just that for Lera May- a chance at love and redemption. Chance helps Lera May to find the courage to face and acknowledge what has been going on. But in the process, he realizes that her past self is in danger, and goes against everything he believes in an attempt to save that past-life Lera May's life. (Based on, but a completely different play than Curse of the Great eleven)
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Top of PageHeadless
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1930's. Dustbowl. Frank, from a tragic, wealthy family, stumbles from his father's funeral into a carnival. there he encounters the headless woman, who calls up memories he has spent a lifetime burying. ". . . an odditorium of scarred souls: gaunt carnies, damaged showgirls. . . Headless is a mystery- a seamless weave of dream and memory."-Willamette Weekly ". . .darts and disorients like a Wizard of Oz tornado across the scorched psyche of Depression era America. . ." -What the Butler Saw "Floden works the characters' superstitions and obsessions into what could have been a murder mystery laced with eroticism. . . although the plot is complex, as befits a good murder mystery. . .the lyric Dramatic writing expresses it's theme: What actually happens doesn't really matter as much as how we felt about it." -Curtain Up
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Sowelu Theatre, Portland, OR Mar 2000
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ensemble Studio Theatre-Los Angeles
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Play/Drama
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Top of PageSpeed Of Light
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a group of friends angsts threaten their traditions: Jools is sure she is cursed, Cyd thinks she's invislble, Drew finds love impossible, and the perfect-seeming Sam is crumbling on the inside. When these four are joined by Sam's toy train obsessed husband and a de-frocked fireman, their July 4th celebration becomes a near death experience.
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comedy
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Top of PageStar Of Hope
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Wisconsin. Sam is in the perfect marriage, but unable to have a baby. But when Tootie, an unmarried mother, comes to stay, Sam realizes that no one is what they seem, not even herself. WINNeR 1995 Drammy- Outstanding [Best] Original Play, Portland Critics
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Stark Raving Theatre, Portland, OR 1995
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Sowelu Theatre Company
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comedy
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Top of PageThrow the Chi Chi
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a shy foreigner changes the lives of two women.
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Friends and artists Theatre, Los Angeles, Ca 1994
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Top of PageVirgin Forest
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Len, 17, is certain that she is not at all special. Her pianist mother is reeling from their father's suicide, and her older sister has a condition that keeps her out of the sun and childlike. So when the family moves to an electricity and carless island off the coast of Maine, Len is sure her life is over. But in the island's woods, she meets some societal outcasts, who help her wrestle with love, death, God, and allowing/acknowledging the existence her own very special gifts. a magical, gritty and twisted coming of age.
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