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Melissa Gawlowski

MELISSA GAWLOWSKI

  
Nationality:    USA
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Melissa Gawlowski's New York credits include: the Frankophile (City attic Theatre), the Cellar (5th annual Festival of Samhain; Semi-finalist, 2007 Strawberry One-act Festival), On the Line (City attic Theatre; Brooklyn College Directors Showcase), Mimi Meets Her Match (the 52nd Street Project), and Metis (a collaboration with Marie evelyn, presented by analogous at the Tank). Other plays: Spring Tides (Cardboard Box Collaborative, Philadelphia), the Summer That God Paid a Visit to Hell (Central Michigan University; Hong Kong Cultural Center, Hong Kong), the True Story of Harold Tubbsman (Region III American College Theatre Festival), a Beer Goggle aria (Finalist, Collaboraction Sketchbook Festival, Chicago). Publications: New Monologues for Women, By Women II (Heinemann), two volumes of audition arsenal (Smith and Kraus). Melissa is the education assistANT for Teaching artists at Lincoln Center Institute for the Arts in education. She has served as Literary and education Coordinator of Premiere Stages in Union, NJ, followed by a term on the company's advisory Board. She is the resident playwright and literary manager of City attic Theatre and an artist-in-residence of analogous, Inc. MFA in Playwriting from Ohio University.

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

         Cellar, The         Frankophile, The         Spring Tides

Cellar, The

Synopsis:
Two teens sneak into an abandoned house for a cheap thrill, but their game takes a deadly turn in this play performed entirely in the dark.

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1st Produced:
Henry Street Settlement    2007

Organisations:
City attic Theatre

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Genre:
Short play

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Frankophile, The

Synopsis:
the story follows alceste, the infamous misanthrope, who left his place in Moliere's play in search of a world up to his standards. after four centuries of refusing change and running from play to play, he is confronted by Moliere, returned from the dead and hell-bent on rewriting him entirely. Faced with the deadline of his life, alceste must swallow his pride, face his past, and discover whether even stock characters have the power to change.
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Organisations:
City attic Theatre

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Genre:
Farce

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Spring Tides

Synopsis:
Jane, newly pregnant, escapes onto a beach through a closet door and finds a strangely-familiar world under attack. as she, a greaser, and a Spanish nun battle monsters and brandish swords and stones, the line between real and imaginary blurs, and to save them all, Jane will have to make the decision of her life.

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1st Produced:
Cardboard Box Collaborative, 117 South St., Philadelphia    2009

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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