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Mike Folie

MIKE FOLIE

  
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    Graham Agency  

Mike's plays have been produced Off-Broadway, regionally around the U.S. and internationally, winning several awards. Dramatist Guild Magazine named him one of "Fifty Playwrights to Watch." Born and raised on the New Jersey shore, Mike graduated from Rutgers University with B.A.s in English and Theatre. He later studied acting and related disciplines at H.B. Studios in New York City with Carol Rosenfeld and Sandy Dennis, among others. After working professionally as an actor for ten years, including two seasons in rep at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Mike began writing plays. He studied playwriting with Milan Still at Circle Rep in the early '90s. Mike's play The Adjustment was produced Off-Broadway, starring Tony nominee Liz Larsen, directed by Pam Berlin; a subsequent First Class Tour of Great Britain starred Stefanie Powers. Naked by the River has been produced at several theaters in the U.S., appeared in production at London's Tristan Bates Theater in the West End and, as Nacht Am Fluss, at Cologne's Moving Theatre, Germany. NJ Rep premiered Mike's wildly comic road-trip farce, Panama, which went on to play at several U.S. theaters before moving on to the Dublin Fringe. A production of Mike's New-Age bedroom farce, Lemonade, took the stage at Hollywood's Tamarind Theatre, starring Maxwell Caulfield. The Algonquin Theater in NYC produced Mike's corporate hostage drama Slave Shack,directed by Debra Whitfield. London's well-known Hen and Chickens comedy pub theater (Islington) producedLove in the Insecurity Zone, directed by Niki Flacks. Mike was commissioned to write Alfred Kinsey: A Love Story, by the late Broadway and film producer George George, who originated Memphis and produced the film My Dinner With Andre.

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         3 Men         Adjustment, The         Alfred Kinsey: A Love Story         American Pastime         Bluff         Boxes         Hardball         Home Movies         Human Resources         Lemonade         Lionhearted Players Comedy Cabaret Show, The         Love In the Insecurity Zone         Meeting Of Minds         Naked By the River         Naked Mole Rats In the World Of Darkness         Panama         Sexual Perversity In Connecticut         Slave Shack         Sloth         Unhappy Woman

3 Men

Synopsis:
A middle-aged playwright/speechwriter given one more chance to have a play produced on Broadway remembers three charismatic older men who influenced his life and art.

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1st Produced:
Hudson Theatre Works, Weehawken, NJ, at the Historic Weehawken Water Tower     17 Oct 2015

Organisations:
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1st Published:
http://www.indietheaternow.com/Play/3-men   -

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama 80 min

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Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Adjustment, The

Synopsis:
Brash city lobbyist SHaRON GRaY is both fascinated and repelled by MaTtheW COHeN, the Jewish Orthodox chiropractor who relieves her chronic neck pain. Matt struggles with Parkinson's Disease and follows the strict teachings of a charismatic rabbi. Sharon, the child of Holocaust refugees, is hostile to all religion and believes only in the primacy of raw power. Initially she taunts Matt for his beliefs and argues with him. Soon, however, she becomes his friend and then his protector, using her great influence to save his faltering practice. they fall in love. Matt's reaction is to break off the relationship. Her reaction is to plot and scheme -- to use all of her lobbyist tricks -- in an attempt to seduce Matt away from his family and religion. For once, Sharon may not get what she wants, but she may get something far more valuable.

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1st Produced:
Playhouse 91, NYC     1998

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  One actor plays five different roles

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Alfred Kinsey: A Love Story

Synopsis:
alfred Kinsey: a Love Story is a fictionalized biography that places Kinsey's own erotic voyage under examination, revealing the raw, hot emotions that often hide beneath his seemingly cold search for scientific knowledge. Through the wreckage of his memories and hallucinatory fragments, the play dissects the unreliability of objective truth and lays bare one man's obsessive fascination with sex and sexual orientation
- press release

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1st Produced:
Michael Weller Theatre, NY     2007

Organisations:
the New York Theatre Collective

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Music:
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Play/Drama

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American Pastime

Synopsis:
Based on a true story. 1969 - Curt Flood is a player for the St Louis Cardinals. He has been bought by Philadelphia Phillies. He feels that he is not a piece of property to be bought and sold. His case goes to the Supreme Court

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Rehearsed Reading At Boomerang Theatre Company, New York     26 Mar 2009

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Genre:
Drama

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Bluff

Synopsis:
In a family of three, how do you live your life when the mother is no longer there? Bluff paints a very gripping picture of the father-daughter relationship in a new family structure.
- press release

Notes:
part of the 2nd Annual Salute UR Shorts New Play Festival

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Organisations:
the Rapscallions

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Short Play One act

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Boxes

Synopsis:
a Vietnam Vet and former drug addict is shocked when his niece overdoses

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Play/Drama

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Hardball

Synopsis:
Part of the Derek Jeter Plays. Writers were asked to come up with plays which centered on some aspect of the Yankee shortstop, including his fans, his teammates, his rivals, etc. Plays are: "Screw Loose" by Wende O'Reilly, "Hardball" by Mike Folie, "Pasta Diving Jeter" by Paul Buzinski, "3000 Reasons" by Robin Rothstein, "I'm Derek Jeter" by Bo Wilson, "the Jeter Report" by Susan Barsky, and "Instant Replay" by Tony Sportiello.
- nytheatre.com

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1st Produced:
Algonquin Seaport Theater On Pier 17, South Street Seaport, NY     29 Sep 2011

Organisations:
algonquin Productions

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Genre:
short play

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Home Movies

Synopsis:
a movie maker discovers a film of Marilyn Monroe and albert einstein having sex and he hopes it will make his name

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Genre:
Black Comedy

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Human Resources

Synopsis:
an unusual job interview between a cowboy and a bureaucrat

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Short play

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Lemonade

Synopsis:
a New-age bedroom farce with a twist. Carl is married to Jane but having an affair with office-mate Betsy. Betsy wants Carl to leave Jane and marry her - something he continually promises to do, but never does. When Carl's college friend Jim is invited to dinner, the unsuspecting Jane invites Betsy, too, in an attempt to play matchmaker. But Jim falls madly in love with Jane at first sight. When he inadvertently overhears Carl and Betsy on the baby monitor and learns of their affair (and her frustrations), Jim suggests to Betsy that they fake a torrid love affair with each other. This way they can see Carl and Jane socially as a couple. Betsy can use these occasions to make Carl jealous, while Jim woos Jane on the sly. But just as the plan begins to work and the Carl/Jane marriage is on the verge of break-up, Jim and Betsy discover that their "phony" love affair is a lot more real than they think.

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1st Produced:
Hollywood, Ca Usa     2001

Organisations:
Tamarind Theatre

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Bedroom Farce

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Lionhearted Players Comedy Cabaret Show, The

Synopsis:
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1st Produced:

Organisations:
PowElla Productions

1st Published:
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Music:
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Love In the Insecurity Zone

Synopsis:
In a future U.S. characterized by Security Zones, personal bar code tattoos, and armed commuters, Gayle finds life either boring or terrifying. Her mood is improved by a sudden romance with Hank, a secretive government agent on a mission to find very happy women. When Hank meets Gayle's sister, the perennially happy Pearl, he spirits both women off to Washington, D.C., where they become entangled in a sinister government plot to bottle happiness

Notes:
first produced by the New Jersey Repertory Company under the title "Unhappy Woman" in 2001

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Boomerang Theatre Company

1st Published:
http://www.indietheaternow.com/Play/love-in-the-insecurity-zone   -

Music:
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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Meeting Of Minds

Synopsis:
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1st Produced:
Studio Theatre, Oakland University, Rochester, Mi     2004

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Naked By the River

Synopsis:
PEGGY RYERSON is a young corporate lawyer on the fast-track; TIM GRANT is the freelance paralegal assigned to work with her on her first big case. TIM works in law firms only when he has to. His mission in life is to complete the book he's been working on for eight years, a supposedly spiritual masterpiece so original he will not show a word of it to anyone, lest it be corrupted by commerce. Peggy is as disdainful of his artistic pretensions as he is of her corporate careerism. Yet the attraction between them is strong. TIM lets her read his book and she is profoundly affected. they fall in love. But Peggy cannot accept that Tim is an unpublished writer. She begins secretly shopping his book to every publisher in town. the only one to bite is GaBRIElla ROSSINI, a tough-talking and very pregnant publisher who sees the book for what it really is: a New-age business book about scheming your way to the top of the corporate ladder.

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1st Produced:
Long Branch, Nj, Usa     2001

Organisations:
New Jersey Repertory Company

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Genre:
Romantic Comedy Comedy

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Naked Mole Rats In the World Of Darkness

Synopsis:
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1st Produced:

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Panama

Synopsis:
a middle-aged man becomes so enraged when his DOCTOR tells him he will die someday that he embarks on a cross-country crime spree in desperate search of California scientists whom, he believes, will enable him to live forever. along the way he and his WIFe pick up a pair of Gen-X hitchhikers (YOUNG MAN and YOUNG WOMAN) and a WWII-era generation couple (GRaNDPa and GRaNNIe, played by young actors in bad age makeup), who may or may not be MAN's parents. they all find what they are looking for at Happy Days, the new Samuel Beckett theme park at Disneyland, when they come face to face with the SCIENTIST who promises to make them immortal.

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1st Produced:
New Jersey Repertory Theatre, Long Branch, NJ     01 Jun 2002

Organisations:
CaLRep at the edison Theatre

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

Music:
-

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Genre:
Farce 100 min

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  3            Other:  Some trans-gender casting is possible

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Sexual Perversity In Connecticut

Sexual Perversity In Connecticut
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
in 2008: the Best Ten-Minute Plays 3 or More actors, Smith & Kraus, (2009)   978-1575257105

Music:
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Genre:
Ten Min

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Slave Shack

Synopsis:
Slave Shack is a provocative tale of betrayal, loss and revenge set against the backdrop of global corporate power. Senior executive Jack Blake has fought his way to the top of a worldwide corporation only to see his career destroyed by a racially insensitive act. On the eve of his retirement party, African American speech writer Janice Churchill arrives to put the finishing touches on his farewell remarks. Instead, she finds herself caught up in an emotionally and racially charged confrontation that will leave audiences guessing until the very end about who is the true aggressor and who the real victim.
- nytheatre.com

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Sloth

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
the New Jersey Repertory Company presents its 3rd Annual theatre Brut Festival of Short Plays. This season's theme is the Seven Deadly Sins.

1st Produced:
New Jersey Repertory Company     2006

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Short Play One act

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Unhappy Woman

Synopsis:
: In a near-future U.S. characterized by Security Zones, personal bar code tattoos, and armed commuters, Gayle finds life either boring or terrifying. Her mood is improved by a sudden romance with Hank, a secretive government agent on a mission to find very happy women. When Hank meets Gayle's sister, the perennially happy Pearl, he spirits both women off to Washington, D.C., where they become entangled in a sinister government plot to bottle happiness hatched by Marjorie, a fanatical First Lady look-alike, and Manuela, her large and loyal henchwoman.

Notes:
later produced As Love in the Insecurity Zone. Nominated for two L.a. Weekly theatre Awards, winning the Award for Best Actress in A Comedy.

1st Produced:
Long Branch, Nj, Usa     1997

Organisations:
Moving Arts

1st Published:
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Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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