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Arthur Giron

ARTHUR GIRON

  
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    The Barbara Hogenson Agency, Inc  

Arthur Giron is the author of such plays as Money, Becoming Memories and Moving Bodies. His most recent work is the Broadway musical Amazing Grace, which tells the story of the slave trader John Newton  a prominent figure in the eighteenth century abolitionist movement. He has won two Los Angeles Critics' Awards, the Galileo Prize, and received commissions from the New York Shakespeare Festival and the Metropolitan Opera Guild.

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

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         Amazing Grace         Becoming Memories         Boy Dies Dancing the Mambo         Campus Security         Charley Bacon And His Famiy         Coffee Trees, The         Dream Of Wealth, A         Edith Stein         Emilie's Voltaire         Flight         Garden Of Paradise         Love And Murder         Money         Moving Bodies
Amazing Grace

Synopsis:
The story of John Newton. Slave trader who converted to Christianity and became an Anglican minister and abolitionist. He wrote the hymn "Amazing Grace"

Notes:
Music and lyrics by Christopher Smith; book by Arthur Giron; Christopher Smith

1st Produced:
New 42nd Street Studio, New York     10 Feb 2011

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Genre:
Musical

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Male:  5            Female:  5            Other:  ensemble

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Becoming Memories

Synopsis:
a richly textured portrait of small town America from 1911 to the present

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music by Kim D Sherman

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Samuel French, NY,    

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Boy Dies Dancing the Mambo

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Campus Security

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1st Produced:
New Jersey Repertory Company     04 Mar 2005

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Charley Bacon And His Famiy

Synopsis:
Charley gives up being a Manhattan banker and becomes a dancer. His family: his mother has a Carmen Miranda fixation; his Father kills himself; his uncle make sexual advances and the girlfriend's family don't like him

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Coffee Trees, The

Synopsis:
the Coffee Trees takes place on a GuatemAlan coffee plantation following the country's 35-year civil war between communist guerilla forces and conservative landowners. the play examines one family's struggle to find its place in a new society that threatens to leave some of them behind

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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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Dream Of Wealth, A

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1st Produced:
Boyer Theatre, Mill Valley, Ca     1991

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Edith Stein

Synopsis:
true story of Jewish intellectual who converted to Roman Catholicism, joined a Carmelite nunnery and was martyred at auschwitz

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Samuel French, London, 1991   

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Male:  4            Female:  7            Other:  -

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Emilie's Voltaire

Emilie's Voltaire
Set during the French enlightenment, the play chronicles the volcanic, law-breaking, sexually-driven, intellectually-fuelled, 16-year love affair between Francois-Marie arouet (Voltaire) and Gabrielle emilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, Marquise du Chatelet. It is an absolutely true account of what could be termed the 18th century's sexual Bonnie and Clyde. He was a philosopher. an upstart poet. a staggeringly prolific writer. an essayist. a free thinker. a civil libertarian. a blasphemer. a worshipper of Venus. Corrupter of morals. a playwright. He is on fire at the peak of his powers both intellectual and financial. He is running from the law. She is arguably the most beautiful woman in France suffering the most tedious marriage in europe. She is an independent upstart who bullied her Father into secreting the finest minds on the Continent to their country estate in order to quench her undying thirst for knowledge; the result being that she has emerged as one of the most profound physicists in the world. She is broke and has been applying her mathematical wizardry and her famously rouged decolletage at the royal gambling tables. To no avail. the Queen of France cheats at cards and wants to collect on the debt that amounts to a small fortune. She is running from the law. the play begins as emilie breaks into Voltaire's Parisian apartments through a secret door with a key she convinces Madame de Pompadour to fork over. as emilie sees it; she's got brains and beauty, and Voltaire's got money. It is New Year's eve 1733. the bells of Notre Dame are ringing eleven. the rest is history.
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1st Produced:
Beckett Theatre     15 Jan 2009

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Living Image Arts Theatre Company

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Genre:
Dramatic comedy

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Flight

Synopsis:
period 1900s not a documentary explores the lives of the aviator Wright family in theatrical terms

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Samuel French, London, 1998   

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Genre:
Comedy/Drama Comedy

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Garden Of Paradise

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Love And Murder

Synopsis:
Love and Murder follows the lives of Dr. Tuttle, the most prominent member of a community still stuck in the 1950s, and that of his wife, Tex, an aspiring singer. their relationship appears to be stable on the surface but dark passions and frustrations seethe beneath, ready to be unleashed at any moment. the catalysts for the inevitable crisis are Helen, the couple's illegal South American maid, for whom Tuttle harbors a repressed desire, and Blackie, a Cree Indian policeman with a dark past.
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New Jersey Repertory Company

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Money

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Moving Bodies

Moving Bodies
Moving Bodies is about Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman as he explores nature, science, sex, anti-Semitism, and the world around him. This epic, comic journey portrays Feynman as an iconoclastic young man, a physicist with the Manhattan Project and confronting the mystery of the Challenger disaster.

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1st Produced:
Ensemble Studio Theatre, NY     14/2000

Organisations:
2nd annual First Light Festival

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Full play recording: L A Theatre Works (9781580815383)

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Genre:
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Male:  6            Female:  4            Other:  Possible Cast expansion

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