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Lisa Giordano

LISA GIORDANO

  
Nationality:    USA
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Lisa Giordano is a fourth-generation Brooklynite who spent her formative years in the town of Ronkonkoma, NY. aka Marcy Wallabout, Angie Giordano, others

Research:    Member of the Dramatists Guild of America

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

         Confectioner, The: A Boro Park Fantasy         East New York         Hail the Mythic Quaalude         Miss Ronkonkoma Of the Klan         Old Pervert Goes to Heaven         Resistible Rise Of Fatlinda Paloka, The         Scald And Smirch, The         Sleepy         Tammany Terror, The         Upheaval On Hudson         Why, This Is An Outrage!

Confectioner, The: A Boro Park Fantasy

Synopsis:
The middle-aged Schwister siblings traverse the heart of Brooklyn to concoct the ultimate candy.

Notes:
Written in 2014

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Genre:
Drama

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Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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East New York

Synopsis:
The dreariest station in the Long Island Railroad system is quietly celebrated.

Notes:
Written in 2013

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Genre:
Drama / Short Play

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Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Hail the Mythic Quaalude

Synopsis:
A frenzied musing on the effective, but long-outlawed phamaceutical.

Notes:
Written in 2011

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Genre:
Comedy / Drama / Short Play

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Miss Ronkonkoma Of the Klan

Synopsis:
Situated midpoint between Manhattan and Long Island's glamorous east end, the working-class town of Lake Ronkonkoma is harboring untapped potential. Can a calculating real estate agent get rich by persuading Suffolk County legislature to change the name "Lake Ronkonkoma" to the more upscale-sounding "Mid-Hampton?" How does the bi-polar Native American shapeshifter lurking around town feel about this? also, can the dirtbags who sneak cigarettes behind the 7-11 be convinced to help the cause? Perhaps most vexing, is the 106-year-old Lake Ronkonkomian who loves flaunting pictures of her young self at long-forgotten Ku Klux Klan meetings, which were held at a lakeside pavilion in the 1920s. a story based on fact. Kind of.

Notes:
Produced As part of the Brooklyn Playwrights Collective's VeRY COOL WINTeR ReaDINGS, A collection of 15 new plays.

1st Produced:
The Brecht Forum, NYC    Sep 2008

Organisations:
Brooklyn Playwrights Collective

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Genre:
Comedy / Short Play

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Old Pervert Goes to Heaven

Synopsis:
A beloved producer of fetish videos shuffles off this mortal coil and is rewarded with further excitement in the great beyond.

Notes:
Written in 2014

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Genre:
Comedy / Short Play

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Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Resistible Rise Of Fatlinda Paloka, The

Synopsis:
a very loud albanian immigrant dispenses a special. . . something. . . to the people of Greenville, Ga.

Notes:
This production first ran in November of 2007 As part of the Brooklyn Playwrights Collective's "Beyond Brecht" festival of short plays. It was An Abbreviated 15-minute version of the full-length play. Produced three times: 1. the Brecht Forum (as part of Brooklyn Playwrights Collective's BeYOND BReCHT Festival of New Plays: Works Inspired by Bertolt Brecht), NYC (2007) 2. theater for the New City, NYC (2008) 3. the Producers' Club, NYC (2010)

1st Produced:
Brecht Forum, NYC    Nov 2007

Organisations:
Brooklyn Playwrights Collective / extrabold Productions

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Genre:
Comedy-Drama / Full-Length Play

Parts:
Male:  8            Female:  10            Other:  -

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Scald And Smirch, The

Synopsis:
the time has come for venerated director, Carlo Tanzi, legendary for his raising the brutality bar on giallo films, to contemplate his own demise.

Notes:
Produced As part of the Brooklyn Playwrights Collective's DramaTIZING DaNTe, A collection of 10 new plays inspired by the work of Dante Alighieri.

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Brooklyn Playwrights Collective

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Genre:
Drama / Short Play

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Sleepy

Synopsis:
a wealthy couple's newborn is left in the care of their abused, dangerously sleep-deprived servant girl. a Dramatized version of Chekov's 1888 short story, SPaT KHOCHeTSYa (SLeePY).

Notes:
Produced As part of the Brooklyn Playwrights Collective's CONFRONTING CHeKHOV, A collection of 12 new plays inspired by the work of Anton Chekhov.

1st Produced:
Various Theaters In Manhattan, Brooklyn, And Queens, NYC    Dec 2008

Organisations:
Brooklyn Playwrights Collective

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Genre:
Drama / Short Play

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  3 offstage voices

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Tammany Terror, The

Synopsis:
Nineteenth-century political cartoonist Thomas Nast encounters 21st-century political cartoonist Danny Hellman at an undisclosed point in the space-time continuum.

Notes:
Commissioned to be written for a proposed short play festival at the Vault at Pfaff's, NYC. the festival never came to fruition, but the play did!

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Genre:
Drama / Short Play

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Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Upheaval On Hudson

Synopsis:
a good idea goes spectacularly wrong in the hamlet of Rhinecliff, New York.

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1st Produced:
Christopher Street Pier, NYC (Site-Specific Performance)    May 2012

Organisations:
ego actus Productions

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Genre:
Drama / Short Play

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Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Why, This Is An Outrage!

Synopsis:
Internet access has finally arrived in the afterlife. Long dead - and researching herself on the Internet Movie Database, actress Margaret Dumont (famous for her work with the Marx Brothers) discovers that she has a new generation of fans. But, there is a matter her fanbase cannot agree on: the prevailing myth that she did not get the jokes. She briefly returns on stage - to the world of the living - to settle a score.

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This play was first performed with the Brooklyn Playwrights Collective.

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Brooklyn Playwrights Collective

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Genre:
Comedy / Short Play

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

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