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Frank D Gilroy

FRANK D GILROY

  (1925 - 2015)
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    William Morris Endeavor Entertainment, LLC  

Born in New York City on October 13, 1925, died 12 Sep 2015. B.A., Dartmouth College, also attended Yale School of Drama. Has written novels; Private, From Noon till Three. For TV, he wrote for Playhouse 90, Omnibus, Kraft Theatre, etc. Films; the Fastest Gun alive, Desperate Characters, From Noon till Three, Once in Paris. President of the Dramatists Guild, 1969-71. Recipient: Obie award, 1962; Pulitzer Prize, 1964; New York Drama Critics Circle award, 1965; Berlin Film Festival, 1971.

Research:    Member of the Dramatists Guild of America (1962 - 2015)

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         Any Given Day         Come Next Tuesday         Contact With the Enemy         Dreams Of Glory         Far Rockaway         Fore         Getting In         Give the Bishop My Faint Regards         Golf Ball         Housekeeper, The         Lake, The         Last Licks         Match Point         Middle World         Next Contestant, The         Only Game In Town, The         Piscary         Present Tense         Real To Reel         So Please Be Kind         Subject Was Roses, The         That Summer-That Fall         Twas Brillig         Way With Words         Who'll Save the Plowboy?

Any Given Day

Any Given Day
eighteen months in the life of family during 1942 and 1943, follow on to 'the Subject Was Roses'

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1st Produced:
Longacre Theatre, New York    16 Nov 1993

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1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1990   978-0573694281

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Play/Drama

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Male:  6            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Come Next Tuesday

Synopsis:
Louise is reminiscing about their eighteen year marriage with husband Harvey - when he hears a noise coming from the bedroom

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1st Produced:
-    1972

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1st Published:
in Present Tense, French, NY,    -

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Play One act

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Contact With the Enemy

Contact With the Enemy
the Smithsonian Holocaust Museum in Washington provokes diametrically different recollections from two men recalling their sight of concentration camps

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1st Published:
Samuel French, NY,    978-0573627304

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Dreams Of Glory

Dreams Of Glory
Many years ago at the High School Prom the Tommy Dorsey Band was engaged to play. When the piano player fell ill George took his place. Tommy Dorsey gave him his card with his home telephone number and asked George to 'phone him some time. Now in his forties and the chairman of his company George has finally made the telephone call

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1st Published:
Samuel French, NY, 1980   978-0573621322

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Far Rockaway

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1st Produced:
Chanel 13, NYC    -

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1st Published:
Samuel French, NY,    -

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Fore

Synopsis:
Two screenplay writers are diverted by the game of golf

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1st Produced:
New York    1991

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1st Published:
in a Way With Words, French, NY,    -

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Getting In

Getting In
a returning GI finds life difficult upon returning from the Second World War

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1st Published:
Samuel French, NY,    978-0573627304

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Give the Bishop My Faint Regards

Synopsis:
Two squabbling film screenwriters carry on

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1st Produced:
New York    1991

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1st Published:
in a Way With Words, French, NY,    -

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Golf Ball

Golf Ball
George is bored of playing golf each day with a group of his wealthy retired friends. He fantasies about committing great crimes

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1st Published:
Contained in: "ensemble Studio Theatre Marathon '99" published by Faber and Faber 2000   978-0571199815

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One act

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Housekeeper, The

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1st Produced:
Apollo, London    1982

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Lake, The

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ensemble Studio theatre presents Project 35, A festival celebrating their 35th Anniversary season. It consists of concert readings of 35 new plays in 35 days by 35 e.S.T. members And guest Artists

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Last Licks

Synopsis:
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aka the Housekeeper

1st Produced:
Broadway, New York    1979

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Match Point

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1st Produced:
New York    1990

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1st Published:
in a Way With Words, French, NY,    -

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Middle World

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1st Produced:
Dartmouth College, Nh    -

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Next Contestant, The

Synopsis:
a telephone converstion between a jilted girlfriend and a manipulative game-show contestant

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1st Published:
Samuel French, NY, 1978   -

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Genre:
One act

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Only Game In Town, The

Synopsis:
In Las Vegas a compulsive gambling piano player falls in love

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1st Produced:
Broadway, New York    1968

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1st Published:
Random House, New York, 1968   -

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Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Piscary

Synopsis:
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Notes:
part of the 30th Annual marathon of new short plays

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Genre:
short play

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Present Tense

Synopsis:
the wife knows that the person ringing the doorbell is her husband's other woman and refuses to open the door. the husband wont open the door either.

Notes:
includes Come Next Tuesday, Twas Brilling, So Please Be Kind

1st Produced:
Sheridan Square Playhouse, NYC    1972

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1st Published:
in Present Tense, French, NY,    -

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Real To Reel

Synopsis:
a film critic has been saved from a mugging by a young film director. the critic has never liked any of his films and is due to review his latest.

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1st Produced:
New York    1987

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1st Published:
in a Way With Words, French, NY,    -

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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So Please Be Kind

Synopsis:
a man and woman in an hotel room in New York. She is desperately trying to remember the name of an actor and finally telephones her ex to ask him

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1st Produced:
-    1972

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1st Published:
in Present Tense, French, NY,    -

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Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Subject Was Roses, The

Synopsis:
after three years in the army during the second world war a son returns home.

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1st Produced:
Broadway, New York    1964

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1st Published:
Samuel French Inc, New York   -

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Genre:
Comedy Drama Comedy

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Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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That Summer-That Fall

Synopsis:
the Phaedra-Hippolytus myth transposed to day New York.

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1st Produced:
Broadway, New York    1967

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1st Published:
Random House, New York, 1967   -

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Genre:
Tragedy

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Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Twas Brillig

Synopsis:
Bob is the new writer at the film studio. His co-workers drive him mad

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1st Produced:
-    1972

Organisations:
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1st Published:
in Present Tense, French, NY,    -

Music:
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Genre:
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Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Way With Words

Synopsis:
Two friends an accountant and a writer meet each year for a meal. The writer has always asked after the accountant's wife. The accountant always says she is fine. At the latest meeting the accountant confesses his has been divorced for ten years. The accountant says that his wife might be having troubles with her new marriage and he asks the writer to intercede with her and see if they can get back together

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1st Published:
Contained in: "the Best American Short Plays 1991 - 1992" published by Applause   -

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Genre:
Comedy

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Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Who'll Save the Plowboy?

Who'll Save the Plowboy?
about a middle aged failure, he was going to be a farmer so his wartime buddies called him Plowboy, but he failed at this as in all else

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1st Produced:
Phoenix Theatre, NYC    09 Jan 1962

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1st Published:
Random House, New York, 1962   B0007I1ICY

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  -

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