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Peter Gil-Sheridan

PETER GIL-SHERIDAN

  
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    Abrams Artists Agency  

Peter Gil-Sheridan is a multidisciplinary artist whose plays include the Deadly Belles, everyday I Wake the Fool, Glow, Vanishing Son, and Topsy Turvy Mouse which has been produced by Cherry Lane Theatre, Borderlands, and Gustavus adolphus, developed at Sundance Institute, New York Theatre Workshop and was named the winner of the Smith Prize from National New Play Network for outstanding political work. Topsy Turvy Mouse is published by Playscripts, Inc. His play, What May Fall, was commissioned by the Guthrie Theatre and was performed in their Dowling Studio in 2009. the play will have a production with Fordham alumni Theatre Company in July, 2010. Residencies: Jerome Fellowship (Playwright's Center, Minneapolis), a Theatre Group in Silverton, CO (annual), the Millay Colony (austerlitz, NY) and the Ucross Foundation (Clearmont, Wyoming). Other work with: Lark Theatre, Kennedy Center, NY Fringe Festival, and Prospect Theatre Company. Mr. Gil-Sheridan recently completed a new play, Ritu Comes Home, for the Interact Theatre 20/20 Commission in PhiladelphiA. He also directed Dog act by Liz Duffy Adams at Fordham and History of the Word, an interactive hip-hop/spoken word musical, presented at the Cleveland Playhouse and now on tour across the U.S. He received his MFA from the University of Iowa's Playwright's Workshop and his Ba from Fordham University at Lincoln Center where he's been on the faculty since 2005. He is also in his third year as teaching artist for the LeaP Fidelity FutureStage Program where he teaches playwriting to students at three NYC public schools in the Bronx, Bushwick, and Crown Heights. the program culminates with his students performing the winning plays at the Imperial Theatre on Broadway. the 2010 event was hosted by academy award-winner Hilary Swank.

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below is a list of Peter Gil-Sheridan's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Cockfight         Glow         Ritu Comes Home         Top Ten         Topsy Turvy Mouse         What May Fall

Cockfight

Synopsis:
Juan has a giant egg. He hopes that a prize fighting cock will hatch out of it and that he can get it fighting of the underground cock fighting circuit. The cock proves to be on the gentle side and Juan decides that he must toughen the bird up. His son Juanie an artist finds out that most cocks die at this fights and pleads with his father to save it

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Glow

Synopsis:
Two couples. Lee and Veronica are free spirits and have never settled down. Corrine and Harry have good jobs a nice house and a baby on the way. Then the couples meet

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1st Produced:
Stella Adler Studio Theater, NY    2006

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the Figments

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Ritu Comes Home

Synopsis:
30 something couple, Kevin and Zane have been sponsoring a child in the Third World. Now aged fifteen Ritu one day arrives at their apartment

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Inter Act Theatre, Philadelphia    2008

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Drama. - - Gay, full length

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Top Ten

Synopsis:
The lives of ten different people including an innocent soldier, a racist mother and a corrupt evangelical priest

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1st Produced:
Sanford Meisner Theatre, NY    2005

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Working For Tips Productions, tim aumiller (assoc. Producer)

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Topsy Turvy Mouse

Synopsis:
a disturbing photograph of Richie's parents' service in Iraq is posted to his locker. When his life begins to unravel, with the help of his friend amit and a digital camera, Richie decides to take matters into his own hands.
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What May Fall

Synopsis:
When a window washer falls to his death from the tallest building in Minneapolis, it forces nine strangers to face the slippery and terrifying reality of living in a world made of ice. Loosely and lyrically based on actual events, What May Fall explores what keeps us grounded when everything can change in an instant.

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Gutherie Theatre, New York    2009

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