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Alex Goldberg

ALEX GOLDBERG

  
Nationality:    USA
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Alex Goldberg's plays including theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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

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

         America's Brightest Star         Breakdown in Babel         Broad Daylight         Dinner Theatre         Election Day         Fearsome And Such         Fearsome: Look At That!         Guellen, Kansas         I'm In Love With Your Wife         It Is Done         Lying Naked         Stock Home         Third Date, The         Very Fearsome Holiday Rampage, A

America's Brightest Star

Synopsis:
Addressing issues of humanity's differing relationships with fame, fortune and social media, this dark comedy tackles fleeting fame, dying towns, and raw talent.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Railroad Playhouse, 27 South Water Street, Newburgh     18 Oct 2012

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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  4            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Breakdown in Babel

Synopsis:
about three hit men in an international job gone wrong

Notes:
Neo Ensemble Theatre's Motel 8 Play series

1st Produced:
Studio/Stage Theatre, Los Angeles, CA     14 Mar 2014

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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
ten min comedy

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Broad Daylight

Synopsis:
a son takes his aging mother for a walk

Notes:
part of Spring eaTFest 2010

1st Produced:

Organisations:
emerging Artists Theatre Company

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Genre:
Short play

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Dinner Theatre

Synopsis:
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Notes:
part of the "INFIDELITY, in Pieces" series, developed through The Actors Studio Playwright/Director Unit

1st Produced:
Greenway Court Theatre, 544 North Fairfax Avenue     09 Jun 2016

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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
short play

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Election Day

Synopsis:
Liberal womanizing president elliott Goodrich runs for re-election against the dim but charismatic Governor Nathan Burke of Wyoming. Complicating matters are the overly ambitious Chief of Staff/First Lady Fiona Goodrich, first son and potential revolutionary Chadwick, the not-so-innocent intern Heather Rosenbloom, an egocentric news anchor, and the mysterious third world nation of eudemonia.

Notes:
written by Alex Goldberg And Joel Stein

1st Produced:
Chernuchin - American Theater Of Actors, NY     2005

Organisations:
Uncommon Cause Theatre (formerly Jointed Stock Theater alliance)

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Fearsome And Such

Synopsis:
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Notes:
by Katherine Bryant, Shayna Ferm, Alex Goldberg, Jaime Hayes, Chris O'Connor, Dan Zalevsky

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Fearsome

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Katherine Bryant, Shayna Ferm, Alex Goldberg, Jaime Hayes, Chris O'Connor, Dan Zalevsky

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Fearsome: Look At That!

Synopsis:
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Notes:
by Katherine Bryant, Shayna Ferm, Alex Goldberg, Jaime Hayes, Chris O'Connor, Dan Zalevsky

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Fearsome

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Katherine Bryant, Shayna Ferm, Alex Goldberg, Jaime Hayes, Chris O'Connor, Dan Zalevsky

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Guellen, Kansas

Synopsis:
Kansas was inspired by The Visit by Friedrich Durrenmatt

Notes:
Kansas will be performed as part of the Antaeus Theatre Company Playwright's Lab Classic Redux Series (Group A), inspired by classic works of art. Guellen

1st Produced:
[reading / workshop] Antaeus Theatre Company. North Hollywood, CA     04 Feb 2016

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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I'm In Love With Your Wife

Synopsis:
a lightning-paced comedy about multiple seductions where everybody's getting some. . .except Gary. When Gary's friend Paul confesses to an affair with Gary's wife, and Paul's wife confides in Gary her own dirty secrets, Gary must face his demons in this story of sexually obsessed urbanites.

Notes:
Winner of three Awards At 2007 Midtown International theater Festival including Outstanding Playwriting for A New Script. Nominated for four other Awards At same festival.

1st Produced:
Jewel Box Theater, New York     2007

Organisations:
Changuitos Productions as part of the Midtown International Theater Festival

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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It Is Done

It Is Done
During a howling windstorm, three strangers are trapped inside a desolate bar in the middle of nowhere. Hank the bartender has a dirty mind. Jonas, a man on the run, has a dirty secret. Ruby, marooned at the bar with car trouble, has a dirty job. This site-specific production is performed in the bowels of a Times Square bar with the tunes of Hank Williams running throughout, It is Done allows the audience to be flies on the wall in the middle of the action as the actors move among them.
- nytheatre.com

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1st Produced:
The Mean Fiddler Bar & Grill, 266 West 47 Street, NY     08 Nov 2011

Organisations:
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1st Published:
https://www.originalworksonline.com/ItIsDone   -

Music:
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Genre:
comic thriller

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Lying Naked

Lying Naked
Lily and Carter have an incredibly sexually compatible relationship. However, only one of them is married. they share a Grand Canyon of emotional distance, their shared secret the only thing keeping them together. On this night, new secrets are casually yet brutally revealed.

Notes:
This play is part of the Planet Connections theatre Festivity. This is their official description: A series of six short works About love, friendship, family, And the secrets that Are All-too-often part And parcel of Any relationship. Written by Glory Bowen, Ann Gillespie, Alex Goldberg, Duncan Pflaster, Nandita Shenoy, And Jonathan Wallace.
- nytheatre.com

1st Produced:

Organisations:
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1st Published:
in Turn the Page: Two One-act Plays about Closure by Alex Goldberg, 2010, http://www.originalworksonline.com/turnthepage.php   -

Music:
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Genre:
Short Play

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Stock Home

Synopsis:
a darkly explicit story about Conrad, a mechanic, and Tammy, his live-in girlfriend, who decide to start a family by abducting a 14-year-old girl from the local mall.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
New School For Drama Theater, New York     2007

Organisations:
Changuitos Productions as part of the New York International Fringe Festival

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Drama comedy Comedy

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Third Date, The

Third Date, The
Bradley is about to have angela over for their third date, when he receives a surprise visit from his father. . .who is dead.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Pittsburgh New Works Festival     25 Sep 2008

Organisations:
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1st Published:
in Turn the Page: Two One-act Plays about Closure by Alex Goldberg, 2010, http://www.originalworksonline.com/turnthepage.php   -

Music:
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Genre:
Short Play

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Very Fearsome Holiday Rampage, A

Synopsis:
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Notes:
by Katherine Bryant, Shayna Ferm, Alex Goldberg, Jaime Hayes, Chris O'Connor, Dan Zalevsky

1st Produced:
Laurie Beechman Theatre, NY     2004

Organisations:
Fearsome

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
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Parts:
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