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Michael Golamco

MICHAEL GOLAMCO  

 Nationality:    Asian American
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Literary Agent:    Creative Artists Agency NY  represented by Corinne Hayoun


Michael Golamco is an LA-based playwright and screenwriter. His play, Year Zero, received acclaimed runs at Victory Gardens Theater in Chicago and New York Citys Second Stage Theatre; it was also the Grand Prize Winner of Chicago Dramatists Many Voices Project. His play, Cowboy Versus Samurai, has had several productions since its premiere in NYC, including in Canada and Hong Kong. Michael is the recipient of a 2009 Helen Merrill award and is a member of New Dramatists. He is currently working on new play commissions for South Coast Rep and Second Stage Theatre. as a screenwriter, Michaels film, Please Stand By, was presented at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festivals On Track film development program. His short film, Dragon of Love, was awarded Best Short Film at the Hawaii International Film Festival and ran in regular rotation on the Sundance Channel.

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

 Achievers         Build         Cowboy Vs Samurai         Heartbreaker         Oh, Gastronomy!         Pho 29         Please Stand By         Shadows On The Moon         Year Zero

Achievers

Synopsis:
a play about five college graduates who must confront their own pasts in order to proceed on with their futures.
- http://www.aatrevue.com

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1st Produced:
Joe Papp Public Theater, New York    2000

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Build

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Kip and Will are video game designers. Kip lives with his grandmother, rides the bicycle he had in sixth grade and keeps his money in the fridge. Will throws celebrity parties at his mansion and drives a Ferrari. He is about to loose everything. Can their technological and creative skills bring back everyone and everything they had?

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Cowboy Vs Samurai

Michael Golamco
a laugh-out-loud, romantic comedy exploring the sexual dynamics that surface around race when an attractive Korean American woman moves to town. The play is a politically edgy examination of inter-racial dating and identity through irony, humor, and social commentary. Travis Park is a high school English teacher and the only Korean American man living in a dusty cowboy town known as Breakneck, Wyoming. When a gorgeous, whip-smart Asian American woman moves into town, he immediately falls for her; the only problem is that she only dates white men. In this savagely funny and often moving comic re-telling of Edmond Rostand's Cyrano De Bergerac, one man must choose allegiance between his cowboy friend (a dim, handsome, Caucasian P.E. teacher named Del) and his Asian Brother-with-a-Capital-B (crazed, militant Asian of Unknown Origin, Chester). He must choose between the Asian American and the American within himself - between Cowboy Vs. Samurai - in a pursuit of a love that may only be as real as the love letters he writes for someone else.

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adapted from Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac By Michael Golamco

1st Produced:
asia    2002

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Contained in: "New Playwrights: The Best Plays 2006" published by Smith and Kraus,
Samuel French, Inc - New York (2010) >>>    978-0-573-69940-5

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Genre:
Comedy

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Heartbreaker

Michael Golamco
Now that his mother is dead Vulthy tries to get his siter to take him in.

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1st Produced:
Joe Papp Public Theater, New York    2007

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in 2007: The Best Ten-Minute Plays For 2 actors, Smith & Kraus; Lawrence Harbison edition (July 15, 2008)   978-1-57525-589-7

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Ten minute play

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Oh, Gastronomy!

Michael Golamco
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written by by Michael Golamco, Carson Kreitzer, Steve Moulds, Tanya Saracho, et al.

1st Produced:
Humana Festival of New American Plays at Actors Theatre of Louisville    2012

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in Humana Festival 2012: The Complete Plays, Actors Theatre of Louisville   978-1-62384-000-6

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short play

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Pho 29

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Finding himself recently dead, 56 year-old Bernard Chan spends his afterlife watching the world go on without him. His eldest son Freddie is still working at the Copymat; his 19 year-old runaway daughter Caitlin has come home pregnant, father unknown. and his middle son Charlie is turning the family's Chinese restaurant Vietnamese -- a temple to his girlfriend, whose name also happens to be Charlie. Pho 69 is a new serio-comic play about building temples and tearing them down, and searching for a God who may likewise still be searching for us. It's a play about a silence that seems absolute, and a family whose silence must be broken.
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asia    2001

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Please Stand By

Synopsis:
a one act play, about Wendy, a young autistic woman who has been institutionalized by her sister, audrey.
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Thumping Claw    2008

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Shadows On The Moon

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a SHaDOW ON THE MOON takes place in an eerily snowbound Los Angeles, where siblings reunite for a battle over newly sacred ground; it is a battle about obligation, devotion, and a place where spirituality and mental illness collide.
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1st Produced:
2G Productions    2005

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Year Zero

Michael Golamco
Vuthy Vichea is sixteen years old, Cambodian American. He loves hip hop and Dungeons and Dragons. He has thick-ass glasses. He is a weird kid in a place where weirdness can be fatal: Long Beach, California. Since his best friend moved and his mother died, the only person he can talk to is a human skull he keeps hidden in a cookie jar. Year Zero is a comedic Drama about young Cambodian Americans - about reincarnation, reinvention, and ultimately, redemption.

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Genre:
Dramatic Comedy

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Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  -

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