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Gary Garrison

GARY GARRISON

  
Nationality:    USA
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Gary Garrison is the executive Director of the Dramatist Guild of America, the national organization of playwrights, lyricists and composers. Prior to his work at the Guild, Mr. Garrison filled the posts of artistic Director, Producer and full-time faculty member in the Department of Dramatic Writing at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, where he produced over forty-five festivals of new work, collaborating with hundreds of playwrights, directors and actors. Mr. Garrison's plays include Verticals and Horizontals, Storm on Storm, It Belongs on Stage (and Not in My Bed), Crater, Old Soles, Padding the Wagon, Rug Store Cowboy, Cherry Reds, Gawk, Oh Messiah Me, We Make a Wall, the Big Fat Naked Truth, Scream With Laughter, Smoothness With Cool, empty Rooms, Does anybody Want a Miss Cow Bayou?, and When a Diva Dreams. His work has been featured at the Boston Theatre Marathon, Primary Stages, the Directors Company, Manhattan Theatre Source, StageWorks, Fourth Unity, Open Door Theatre, African Globe Theatre Company, Pulse ensemble Theatre, expanded Arts and New York Rep. His recent work as guest artist or master teacher of playwriting involve such institutions as Sewanee Writer's Conference, the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Inkwell in D.C., Goddard College, Texas Tech University, Southeast Theatre Conference, Northwest Theatre Conference and Boston Playwrights. He is the author of the critically-acclaimed, the Playwright's Survival Guide: Keeping the Drama in Your Work and Out of Your Life, Perfect Ten: Writing and Producing the Ten Minute Play, two volumes of Monologues for Men by Men(all Heinemann Press), and the KCaCTF's Best Student Plays of 2006. He is the program coordinator for the Summer Playwriting Intensive for the Kennedy Center, the former National Chair of Playwriting for the Kennedy Center's American College Theater Festival and recipient of the Outstanding Teacher of Playwriting from the association of Theatre in Higher education.

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

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

         Big Fat Naked Truth         Cherry Reds         Dump         Game On         Gawk         It Belongs On Stage And Not In My Bed         Oh, Mesiah Me         Padding the Wagon         Rubber Room, The         Rug Store Cowboy         Sweep, The

Big Fat Naked Truth

Synopsis:
Five women set out for different appointments and destinations find themselves locked in the same room.

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Cherry Reds

Synopsis:
Lonnie is leaving her lover and everything else behind

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1st Produced:
Bank Street Theatre, New York    2000

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Genre:
One act. - - Lesbian, one act

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Dump

Synopsis:
Pauley and Corrina enter the subway car, only to realize that Pauley's father, a man in the later stages of alzheimer's, is suddenly nowhere to be found. the question of why he's not with them becomes just as important as the question of his whereabouts. Corrina battles Pauley for the answer to her question: Did Pauley leave him outside on purpose?

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1st Produced:
Neighborhood Playhouse (New York, NY, United States)    2004

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Playscripts, Inc - New York   -

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Genre:
10-15 min Comedy/Drama

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Game On

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Dramatists Guild members whose plays are being produced in City Theatre and Island City Stages production of "SHORTS GONE WILD" include CAREY CRIM (Glamping), TONY FINSTROM (The Last Time I Saw Bathhouse Betty), GARY GARRISON (Game On), MICHAEL LEEDS (The Emporer Is Naked) and MICHAEL MCKEEVER (Lion In A Bear Bar and Sarah Stein Sends A Selfie).

1st Produced:
City Theatre & Island City Stage At Empire Stage. Ft. Lauderdale, Fl 33304    07 Aug 2014

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Genre:
short play

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Gawk

Synopsis:
Winapeg's son has been shot in a gang related crime.

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Genre:
Ten minute play

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Male:  -            Female:  2            Other:  -

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It Belongs On Stage And Not In My Bed

Synopsis:
Donnie and Ted have met through the small ads but things have not worked out.

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Genre:
One act. - - Gay, one act

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Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Oh, Mesiah Me

Synopsis:
Christmas eve and Ted has agreed again to make a big donation to a Catholic Girls School

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Padding the Wagon

Synopsis:
after 9/11 a man who lost his partner in the collapse of the Towers has not been to Ground Zero. He is finally persuaded to go by a tourist who turns out to be an angel

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1st Produced:
Bank Street Theatre, New York    2002

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Genre:
One act. - - Gay, one act

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Rubber Room, The

Synopsis:
In the late '60s, the United Federation of Teachers, the Department of education, and the Mayor's Office of New York instituted Reassignment Centers where teachers accused of infractious behavior were sent to vegetate while their "cases" were being slowly adjudicated. the Rubber Room puts three infamous teachers in a new Reassignment Center and introduces a reporter in their midst. they are each accused of a serious infraction about which each of them claims innocence. the reporter is on a Reconnaissance Mission. the new Security Guard already resents them. the production is being staged in a unique way: Five directors have been given the script. they will each cast their five characters and begin the month of rehearsals. at no time during this rehearsal period will the actors or directors of each separate cast work with each other or communicate on their process. For each performance, the Production Stage Manager will call one actor/character from each of the five companies. each actor thus notified will arrive at the theatre pre-show and be kept isolated from the other actors. Thus, when the actor steps on stage, and enters the Rubber Room, he/she will be meeting the other actors for the first time - as do the characters in the play.
- nytheatre.com

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written by Gary Garrison And Roland Tec

1st Produced:
Theatre 54 @ Shetler
244 West 54th Street (12th floor), New York, NY 10019    40583

Organisations:
artistic New Directions

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Rug Store Cowboy

Synopsis:
Bradley is the new employee and is put with veteran Nolan. Nolan has a novel way of testing rugs.

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1st Produced:
Bank Street Theatre, New York    2001

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Genre:
One act. - - Gay, one act

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Sweep, The

Sweep, The
Now an annual tradition, the Boston theater Marathon utilizes hundreds of actors and dozens of directors to sponsor 50 ten-minute plays in 10 hours (five plays per hour!), each one supported by a different New england theatre company

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Boston theater Marathon XI - 2009 anthology - 50 Ten Minute Plays Boston theater Marathon XI - 2009 anthology - 50 Ten Minute Plays ~ By Kate Snodgrass (ed) - Smith and Kraus, 2010   978-15752577164

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Ten Min

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