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Monica Flory

MONICA FLORY

  
Nationality:    USA
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Monica Flory is a Brooklyn-based playwright, director, and teacher. She is the Resident Playwright at the New acting Company in Greenwich Village, where her play ONCe UPON a PaNDORa's BOX was recently produced. Other recent productions include THIRD WHeeL at Manhattan Comedy Collective and emerging Artists Theatre; JUNGLE BOOK at Youth Theatre Northwest, Southern Oregon University, and New acting Company; La LLORONa at University of Maryland, SCRATCH at Theatre-Studio, Inc., and WILD THING at the New acting Company. She is a member of the Dramatists Guild, and is published by Playscripts and Smith & Kraus.

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

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

         Afterlight         Americans in Breshkistan         Jungle Book, The         La Llorona         Leaving Ikea: A Play In Two Cantos         Once Upon A Pandora's Box         Scratch         Seduction         Third Wheel

Afterlight

Synopsis:
Twilight. a flutter, quick and light. a wolf howls. an accident. Ordinary lives collide with the supernatural. Inspired by surrealist photography, afterlight is the story of a small community clinging to hope amidst unsettling events.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
The Cherry Lane, New York International Fringe Festival     2009

Organisations:
Threads Theater Company

1st Published:
http://www.indietheaternow.com/Play/afterlight   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
1h 30m Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Americans in Breshkistan

Synopsis:
Teens awake, captive in a windowless room. As they attempt to escape through drug-induced hallucinations, they explore the landscape of the American body, the dream of claiming one's identity, and the hope of finding a promised land.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Church Hill Theatre " 33 Morningside Road, EH10 4DR (Main Theatre) B0131 226 0000 V137 GH2, Edinburgh Festival Fringe     Aug 2015

Organisations:
American High School Theatre Festival KP

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Physical theatre, New writing http://www.edfringe.com/event/2015AMERICA_C1

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Jungle Book, The

Synopsis:
In this action-packed adaptation of the classic adventure story, precocious Mowgli grows up believing he's as fierce a wolf as any of the members of his pack. When he learns he is actually a human, he must discover how to reconcile these very different identities, and decide whether to remain with the pack, or return to the human world from which he was born. What will he choose? and will he be trained in the Law of the Jungle in time to defeat Shere Khan, the most feared animal of all?

Notes:
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1st Produced:
New Acting Company In Greenwich Village (New York, NY, United States)     2005

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Playscripts, Inc - New York   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
60-75 min adventure comedy/Drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  5            Other:  4 males, 5 females, 10 either (12-22 actors possible: 0-22 males, 0-22 females)

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La Llorona

Synopsis:
a young woman asks her sister to care for her son while she enlists in the army.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
University Of Maryland Baltimore County     2006

Organisations:
In-10 Festival

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
dram Ten Min

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Leaving Ikea: A Play In Two Cantos

Synopsis:
a coming out gone wrong, an angry gnome, and two hundred pounds of Swedish meatballs: welcome to IKea, friends. as two couples venture through their local Swedish superstore, they become trapped in a blue and yellow purgatory, unable to escape until they solve the problems in their ailing relationships. Will they be able to put all of the parts together without any instructions? Will they ever get home? Join two ordinary couples as they take an extraordinary journey to find the arrows that will lead them out of the relationship inferno that is IKea.
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
written by Monica Flory & Dano Madden

1st Produced:
Brooklyn Lyceum
227 4th aVenue, Brooklyn, NY 11215     07 Jun 2012

Organisations:
the artful Conspirators

1st Published:
http://www.indietheaternow.com/Play/leaving-ikea   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama 120 min

Parts:
Male:  7            Female:  6            Other:  -

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Once Upon A Pandora's Box

Synopsis:
Once upon a time in New York City, Tabitha and her brother Louis discover a box sitting in the hall of their apartment. Curious, Tabitha opens the box, allowing five imprisoned fairy tale villains to escape. Free at last, the dastardly villains begin to wreck the apartment, but when they discover that writing in Tabitha's notebook will give them control of other fictional characters, things really get dicey. Will Tabitha harness the power of her storytelling? Or will the fairy tale villains run wild in New York? a clever comedy that demonstrates the importance of villains in every story.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
The New Acting Company (New York City, NY, United States)     2007

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Playscripts, Inc - New York   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
60-75 min Comedy

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  7            Other:  3 males, 7 females, 3 either (11-16 actors possible: 3-9 males, 7-13 females)

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Scratch

Synopsis:
Help, harassment or paranoia? Hellbent aIDS nurse corners confused client!

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Theatre-Studio, Inc     2003

Organisations:
Theatre-Studio, Inc

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Seduction

Synopsis:
an adulterous affair loses its adultery.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Theatre-Studio, Inc     2004

Organisations:
Theatre-Studio, Inc

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Third Wheel

Synopsis:
Dating becomes so much more interesting when there's a third.
nytheatre.com

Notes:
part of emerging Artists theatre's 8th Annual Spring eaTFest, A festival of new one-act plays.

1st Produced:
Theater Five, NY     2007

Organisations:
emerging Artists Theatre

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
play One act

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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