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GREG FREIER
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Greg is the author of the Last Dinner Party, atrophy, and Oh God, It's My Birthday again! He also has two story collections, Sleepy Town and Thinking for Distance, both available online, and is working on his first novel, the Optimistic Pessimist. He currently resides in the Midwest with his wife, two teenage boys, and a white thing named Phil the Dog.
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Big Dog Likes Chocolate
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A fire at a toy factory brings two men together
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Phoenix Stage Company One Act Play Festival
May 2013
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Contained in: "Cruel: Three Ten Minute Plays" published by One Act Play Depot
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Fade To Black
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A Broadway opening - "The Last Cocktail Party". The cocktail party took place just before the Last Supper
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Grand Delusion
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Stupidity, incompetence and lots and lots of paperwork
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Thriller
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I Love You, Mrs. Claus
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An oversexed elf lusts after Mrs Claus
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World Players Inc.
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One act Play Depot
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Intentional Deception
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Best 10-Minute Plays 2013 Plays For Two Actors. Published by Smith and Kraus, Inc.
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Invisible Patriach, The
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Mary and Abe live with her very wealthy father. They have taken to ignoring Norman so that he almost feels invisible. They are also planning to put him in a home
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It's The End Of The Beginning
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Richard and Marsha sell up their family home and move to the big city to be near son Kevin manager of a high class hotel restaurant and daughter Elaine an aspiring actress. Their new apartment is still being renovated so they move into the hotel where Kevin works. Richard's luggage has not turned up, the toilet in the room does not work. Richard is mistaken for a pervert. Elaine's boyfriend tries to burgle Richard and Marsha's room
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Last Dinner Party, The
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Misery Of Happiness
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When Elise and Tim show up for Maxwell's birthday party they find that his wife has locked him in the closet
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Oh God, It's My Birthday Again!
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Shadows
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An elderly man deals with the death of a family member
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Snap
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American Theatre of Actors, New York
Apr 2001
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There's A Legend In The Room
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A man is playing imaginary baseball in his bedroom much to the annoyance of his mother
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Contained in: "In A Vacuum" published by the One Act Play Depot
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To Grandmother's House We Go. . .Against Our Better Judgment
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emerging Artists Theatre Company
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Trapped In My Own Life
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Wannabe writer Augie is trapped with his dysfunctional family. Parents who spend all their time shouting, a brother who wants to kill him and a sister who steals his pay cheque. Then one of his stories sells for a vast amount
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We Appear To Have Company
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In We appear to Have Company, a proper, elderly British couple finds an uninvited clown in their living room. a British approach to a silent intruder has international repercussions.
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Roy Arias Studios & Theatres, NY
2008
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emerging Artists Theatre Company
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One act Play Depot
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