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Brian Golden

BRIAN GOLDEN

  (1982 - )
Nationality:    USA
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a native Iowan, Brian Golden received his B.A. in acting/Drama from Washington University in St. Louis. He is now a resident of Chicago, and is the artistic Director of Theatre Seven of Chicago, a company devoted to developing new, intelligent, literate, delightfully complicated work for the stage. His plays have been produced in New York, Chicago and St. Louis

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

         Above the Old Blues Bar         Burying Miss America         Cooperstown         Fragments         Six Seconds In Charlack         We Live Here

Above the Old Blues Bar

Synopsis:
How impossible is it to let go of a love gone bad? at their vacation beach house, Nora and James rehash a fight they've probably had hundreds of times. . .will the result be different?

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1st Produced:
Cast n' Crew    2004

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Burying Miss America

Synopsis:
at a funeral home in the fourth largest town in Nebraska, siblings Boxer and Jeanie Russell meet for the first time in six years. Boxer has returned to attend the funeral of their mother, a former Miss America; the visit is his first appearance back home since leaving for New York the day after his high school graduation. Jeanie has never left Nebraska, living at home with her mother and the two children she was left to raise after her divorce. Boxer is a talented jazz musician, content to live a poor, itinerant life in Manhattan. they rarely speak, and Boxer's only communication is a monthly postcard. It is, by turns, funny, touching, provocative, poetic and savage.

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1st Produced:
Theatre Seven of Chicago (staged reading)    2006

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Play/Drama

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Cooperstown

Synopsis:
1962. Afro-American Junior runs the Coopertown Diner. He has hopes of promotion to manager. He keeps a notebook to show the diner's owner of the success they have had. Owner Jimmy Fletcher has not been seen for years

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Drama

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Fragments

Synopsis:
Fragments of a woman's shattered mind, fragments of memory, a fragmented heart.

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1st Produced:
Collaboraction: Sketchbook VI    2006

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Genre:
absurd Ten Min

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Six Seconds In Charlack

Synopsis:
Young Bard is a writer who finds more success at his girlfriend's father's law firm -- so much success that the couple must contemplate a move to New York City. But who'd want to leave St. Louis for the Big apple? Bard discovers that maybe his life can't be defined by writer's block, a comfortable relationship and a good living. - Riverfront Times, April 2005

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1st Produced:
Washington U. in St. Louis    2005

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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We Live Here

Synopsis:
Eight Chicago playwrights write a play about an aspect of their life in Chicago

Notes:
Written by Scott T Barsotti; Molly Each; Laura Eason; Brian Golden; Kristin Idaszak; Kim Morris; Nick Ward; Doug Whippo

1st Produced:
Greenhouse Theater Center, Chicago    Aug 2011

Organisations:
Theatre Seven

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Genre:
Drama

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