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Lucia Frangione

LUCIA FRANGIONE  (1969 - )

 Nationality:    Canadian
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Literary Agent:    Catalyst TCM Inc  represented by Catherine Knights


Award-winning playwright and actress Lucia Frangione (b at Calgary 23 July 1969) has emerged from Canada's independent theatre scene to take her place as an important, young post-feminist voice on the lives of women in the post-modern world, boldly questioning the institutions of family, religion and sexual iconography. Her accessible and entertaining plays persist in furthering an intelligent female voice in the theatre, utilizing satire as a tool for critical thought, and tackling complex themes with wit and courage. She is the recipient of the 2006 and 1998 Gordon Armstrong Playwright Awards and won the Sydney Risk playwright award for Cariboo Magi in 2001. Espresso was nominated for seven Jessie awards, toured Western Canada in 2004 and was translated into Polish and performed for a year at Teatr Jeleniogorski in 2007. Her twenty plays have been produced by theatres such as The Belfry Theatre, Alberta Theatre Projects, Lambs Players San Diego, Ruby Slippers, Solo Collective, Chemainus Theatre and Prairie Theatre Exchange. She is currently world premiering two new plays in 2010: Paradise Garden at the Arts Club Theatre and Leave Of Absence at Pacific Theatre. Her play Sanctuary is in development with co-writer and composer, Aaron Krogman. Frangione has performed in her own plays to much acclaim, notably earning Jessie Richardson Award nominations for her leading performances in Holy Mo and Espresso as well as winning the CAEA Stage West National Acting Award in 2003. She is screening her first film at festivals this year, Pop Switch, a short that received Kickstart funding. Lucia resides in Vancouver and is a member of the Playwrights Guild of Canada.

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 Cariboo Magi         Chickens         Christmas On The Air         Espresso         Frankie Armitage         FRESCO         Holy Mo         Leave of Absence         Maid For A Musket         Maybe Mary         Mistletoads         MMM         Paradise Garden         Sister Ella         Wobbling Madonna

Cariboo Magi

Cariboo Magi
a drunken anglican minister, an avarice saloon owner, a prgnant dancing girl and a man who claims to be the last of the Mohicans form a bedraggled troupe of desperate players. They head north, from San Diego, through the wilds of the Cariboo gold rush to perform a Christmas Pageant for the Theatre Royal in Barkerville, B.C., with hilarious results

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1st Produced:
Pacific Theatre, Vancouver, BC    2001

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Talonbooks (Sep 15 2005)   978-0889225275

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Chickens

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Pal escapes from his woes of bankruptcy and immerses himself in the world of raising exotic chickens while his wife, Liza, tries to keep the family farm afloat. meanwhile, in the chicken coop, two roosters and two hens parallel the couple's life and get down and dirty with the pressures of egg fertilization, the country poultry fair and the question of flying. Produced in Australia, USA and Canada.

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1st Produced:
Chemainus Theatre, Chemainus, BC    1995

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Comedy with music

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Christmas On The Air

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a small radio station, Christmas Eve, 1948 is performing a musical review over the air on location at the Chateau Cowichan ballroom for a live audience. Between the carols and stories, we see behind the scenes as various performers deal with an impending snowstorm, log cake candy sprinkles and a baby on set

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1st Produced:
Chemainus Theatre, BC    1993

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Espresso

Espresso
Sexy, provocative and challenging, Espresso is a rich, dark, bitter hit of comedy and sensuality. One of Lucia Frangiones blasphemy plays, it inverts the Catholic stereotypes of feminine sexuality to boldly examine their corresponding masculine sexual emblems of Father, Son and Holy Ghost. In an erotic world where men are traditionally cast as either fathers to be looked up to or sons to be looked after, where, for women, is the possibility of a flesh-and-blood lover, challenging her to open her heart without trespassing her willa lover as he appears in the Song of Solomon: passionate, earthy, creative, vulnerable and beautiful the avatar of the holy spirit? There has been a horrible car crash, and Vito, the patriarch of an immigrant family, has had his body smashed and his heart lacerated, his life hanging by threads of tubes and wires in an intensive care ward. His family has rushed in from all over the country for an anxious vigil of hope, prayer and memory by his bedside. In this crucible of anxiety, a single actress alternately narrates and enacts her own and her familys history along with an uninvited narrator/actor, Amante (lover in Italian). As Amante engages all the women of the clan Rosa plays in a swirl of sharply portrayed charactersVitos mother, Nonna, forced into marriage at thirteen but only now, at sixty-seven, experiencing the first intimations of her bodys desire; the pit-bull martyrdom of Vitos second wife, Vincenza; and Rosa herself in her own thin, urbane skin stretched tight to hold in the red, passionate blood that boils just below the surfacewe are never sure whether Rosa has created Amante or he has created her.

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1st Produced:
Pacific Theatre, Vancouver, BC    2003

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Talonbooks; 1 edition (March 15, 2004)   978-0889224957

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Frankie Armitage

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FRESCO

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Holy Mo

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a reverently irreverant post-modern romp through the Old Testiment from creation to King Solomon, not for the religously faint of heart. Three fools endeavor to shake the dust off of ancient tales and a bring a cast of thousands to life. Follie tries to keep the stories going, what she can remember of them, while Guff throws dinosaurs into Genesis and Bufoona demands to play a princess instead of King David. good for all ages and people of all faiths. Wildly acclaimed, sold out Vancouver hit, produced four times in five years.

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music by Marie Russell

1st Produced:
Potluck Productions, Vancouver    1997

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Playwrights Co-op, Toronto, 1998   -

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Leave of Absence

Leave of Absence
A small prairie community is blown apart when an audacious teenaged girl challenges long-held views of spirituality and sexuality. Suspected of being gay, she is brutalized by her classmates. This searing Drama of bigotry and transcendence challenges the fallout of the Catholic Church's response to the same-sex marriage rulings in Canada

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part of Unknown Country.

1st Produced:
WorkShop Theater Jewel Box
312 West 36th Street, 4th floor, New York, NY 10018    24 Jan 2013

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Talonbooks (2013) >>>    978-0889227538

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songs by Jim Hodgkinson

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Maid For A Musket

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Maybe Mary

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Mistletoads

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MMM

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Paradise Garden

Paradise Garden
In the gold-rush era of the 1850s, the McKinnons settled on an island off the west coast of Canada, where the first thing they did was to turn this wilderness into an English country garden complete with vegetables, flowers, fruit trees and an elegant gazebo. After six generations, times and circumstances have changed, the family estate has been subdivided, the flowers have gone wild, the pear-tree has rotted and the heritage house has been carved up into a duplex, the property now divided in two by an ugly hedge. The McKinnons now live in one side of the property, while the other has been sold to an immigrant family recently arrived from Turkey. The heirs apparent to both families, Day McKinnon and Leyla Zeki, fancy themselves to be sophisticated citizens of the world, tolerating with thinly disguised amusement their ancestors outdated formalities and rituals. So alienated are they that they spend much of their time only half-jokingly speaking of themselves in the third person. Yet Leyla recognizes something fundamental and mysterious in the vestiges of the old garden: its tumbled and overgrown ruins remind her of the Paradise Garden of Judeo-Christian/Islamic traditionits layout in the four cardinal directions, its allusions to the seasons and the elements, and its walls that surround a place of secret love. For Day, however, despite, or perhaps because of the fact that he has discovered a long-buried family secret, The problem with being born into paradise is: eventually you inherit it. Theres something to be said for the bedlam of hell. Heaven is a lot of upkeep. Abandoning their families for their careers, they are reunited years later having discovered that love is not just something that happens to us, but something that we must build by hand in the wilderness of our lives.

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1st Produced:
Arts Club Theatre Company, Stanley Theatre, Vancouver    11 Mar 2010

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Talonbooks; 1 edition (August 30, 2011)   978-0889226586

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Sister Ella

Synopsis:
a young girl from Grand Prairie reunites with her West Coast biological mother and her twin half sisters for the first time. a modern take on Cinderella

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1st Produced:
Chemainus Theatre, Chemainus, B.C.    1999

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Playwrights Co-op, Toronto, 2002   -

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Musical comedy Musical

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Wobbling Madonna

Synopsis:
Frances, a resilient, bird-like prairie mom, arrives at her daughter's crummy little apartment to wipe the blood off the bathroom walls after a suicide attempt. She tries to find the words to express her anger and fear and comfort her daughter by telling her about their first Christmas together

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1st Produced:
Festival House, Vancouver, BC    2002

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Playwrights Co-op, Toronto, 2002   -

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Drama One act

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