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Madeleine George

MADELEINE GEORGE

  
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    The Gersh Agency  represented by Seth Glewen

Madeleine George's plays The Zero Hour, Precious Little, and Seven Homeless Mammoths Wander New England are published by Samuel French. Her work has been produced and developed by 13P, Clubbed Thumb, Soho Rep, Playwrights Horizons, New York Theatre Workshop, Shotgun Players, and Berkeley Rep in Berkeley; City Theatre in Pittsburgh; About Face Theatre in Chicago; The Playwrights' Center in Minneapolis; Two River Theater Company in New Jersey; and the O'Neill Playwrights Conference, among other places. She has received a MacDowell Fellowship, the Princess Grace Playwriting Award, and the Jane Chambers Award, as well as commissions from Manhattan Theatre Club and Playwrights Horizons. Seven Homeless Mammoths was a finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Award; The Zero Hour was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award. Madeleine is an alum of the Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab and the Lark Playwrights' Workshop, and a founding member of the Obie-Award-winning playwrights collective 13P (Thirteen Playwrights, Inc.), which recently imploded after nine years and thirteen productions. She grew up in Western Massachusetts and now lives in Brooklyn.

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

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         (Curious Case Of The) Watson Intelligence, The         Flip Turn         Milk 'N' Honey         Most Massive Woman Wins, The         Precious Little         Seven Homeless Mammoths Wander New England         Zero Hour, The

(Curious Case Of The) Watson Intelligence, The

(Curious Case Of The) Watson Intelligence, The
Watson: trusty sidekick to Sherlock Holmes; loyal engineer who built Bells first telephone; unstoppable super-computer that became reigning Jeopardy! champ; amiable techno-dweeb who, in the present day, is just looking for love. These four constant companions become one in this brilliantly witty, time-jumping, loving tribute (and cautionary tale) dedicated to the peopleand machinesupon which we all depend.

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1st Produced:
Playwrights Horizons Mainstage
416 West 42nd Street, 2nd floor, New York, NY 10036    15 Nov 2013

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Flip Turn

Flip Turn
A fantastic blending of the under and above water worlds at a public pool, when an ordinary day calls for extraordinary feats of daring and trust.

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Flip Turn was presented as part of Keen Teens 2013, a unique and free educational theatre program, run by the Drama Desk and Obie award-winning Keen Company. Keen Teens seeks to improve the quality of plays written for high school students by commissioning scripts from highly regarded playwrights, and gives students the opportunity to work with professional artists in an Off Broadway setting.

1st Produced:
Theatre Row, NYC    03 May 2013

Organisations:
Keen Company - Keen Teens Season 7

1st Published:
http://www.samuelfrench.com/p/12725/dance-company-the-keen-teens-volume-1   978-0573702051

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Genre:
short comedy

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Milk 'N' Honey

Synopsis:
Part fiction, part documentary, and based in part on interviews conducted with people whose backgrounds are as diverse farmers, food scholars, hunters, waiters, ad men, immigrant workers, diabetics, and dumpster divers (known as 'freegans'), Milk 'N' Honey is a large-scale multimedia play that looks at food and appetite in the 21st century: the play's interweaving storylines follow a couple whose marriage is at stake as they differ about what food to put on the table, a grocery store clerk who forages through dumpsters, immigrant farm workers, a family that struggles with diabetes, and a flavor chemist who attempts to capture the flavor of light
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written by Madeleine George, Bray Poor, C. Andrew Bauer, ellen Beckerman

1st Produced:
3Ld Art & Technology Center, NY    2007

Organisations:
LightBox & the Food Theater Project

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Genre:
multimedia Play/Drama

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Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Most Massive Woman Wins, The

Synopsis:
Challenging, brutal and hilarious, four women of various shapes and sizes sitting in the waiting room of a liposuction clinic explore their perceptions of body image. the women reveal their experiences dealing with their weight issues through monologues, short scenes, and even school yard rhymes. From painful childhood memories to frustrations with the opposite sex, these experiences both haunt and empower these women as they imagine their way to a new vision of themselves as beautiful and whole.

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1st Produced:
The Public Theater (Young Playwrights Festival) (New York, NY, United States)    1994

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1st Published:
Playscripts, Inc - New York   -

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Genre:
30-40 min Comedy/Drama

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Male:  -            Female:  4            Other:  4 females

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Precious Little

Precious Little
When Brodie, a gifted professor of linguistics and a lesbian, learns the child she's carrying may have a genetic abnormality, she returns again and again to the zoo, where she finds unexpected comfort sitting at the cage of a strange, compelling gorilla. a play that looks at the limits of language-and what lies beneath its surface.
- press release

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part of Clubbed Thumb's Summerworks Festival

1st Produced:
Ohio Theatre, NY    2009

Organisations:
Clubbed Thumb

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Genre:
dark comedy

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Male:  -            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Seven Homeless Mammoths Wander New England

Seven Homeless Mammoths Wander New England
Dean Wreen is not having a good week. Her college is in dire financial straits and a plan to close its tiny, all-but-forgotten natural history museum is sending unexpected shock waves across campus and out into the local community. at home, her ex-lover, Greer, is staying with her - sending shock waves of a different sort through her relationship with her current (and much younger) girlfriend, andromeda. Town-gown relations are in tatters! the local newspaper is erupting in violent protest! even the awful, historically inaccurate dioramas in the museum have started mouthing off. a screwball sex comedy about the perils of monogamy, certainty, and academic administration

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1st Produced:
Red Bank, New Jersey    2011

Organisations:
Two River Theater Company

1st Published:
Samuel French, Inc   978-0573700859

Music:
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Genre:
comedy

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  3            Other:  2 women or men

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Zero Hour, The

Zero Hour, The
Rebecca and her chronically unemployed butch girlfriend, O, have created a happy nest in their run-down walk-up in Queens, but things are starting to unravel. the more O pushes Rebecca to stop hiding their relationship, the more Rebecca's work lifewriting a textbook for seventh graders about the Holocaust begins to bleed into her personal life: She starts meeting World War II Nazis on the 7 train, passing as hipster professionals in New York City but hungry to come out about who they really are. Back home in Queens, O is also sparring with convincingly real visions: her long estrangedand recently dead?mother keeps showing up to argue with her about her choices. This almost-love story explores the relationship between honesty and cruelty: How do you tell the truth about yourself when that truth might devastate the people you love? a tour-de-force for two actors playing eight different roles.

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Genre:
dark comedy. - - Lesbian, full length

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Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

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