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Joseph Goodrich

JOSEPH GOODRICH

  
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    William Morris Endeavor Entertainment, LLC  

Joseph Goodrich is a writer and actor from MinnesotA. His plays have been produced in New York City (Jean Cocteau Repertory, HeRe Arts Center, New York Fringe Festival, Six Figures Theatre Company), Los Angeles (Padua Hills Playwrights Festival, Circus Minimus, Theatre of NOTe, Sharon's Farm, and others), San Francisco (SF Fringe Festival), New Orleans (Zeitgeist Center for the Arts), Minneapolis/Saint Paul (Red eye Collaboration, Minneapolis College of art and Design, Study Cow Productions, and others) and Portland, Me (Portland Stage Company). His play White Russian is included in the Back Stage Book of New American Short Plays 2005 (Craig Lucas, editor; Back Stage Books); Steak Knife Bacchae is included in Padua: Plays from the Padua Hills Playwrights Festival(Padua Hills Publications, distributed by TCG). His poetry has appeared in theVenice West Review, his fiction in Bulletmagazine, Shots magazine and VacANT Funhouse e-zine, and he is a contributor toConducting a Life: Reflections on the Theatre of Maria Irene Fornes (Smith and Kraus). His work runs the gamut from opera libretti (the art of eating, music by Jeffrey Lependorf, which received its premiere in Hudson, NY in October 2004) to comic books (Human Interest, written for Marvel Comics' Spider-Man Unlimited series, January 2004). His screenplay Symbioticawas filmed in July-august, 2005 in IndianA. He is a member of New Dramatists, the Mystery Writers of America, the Screen actors' Guild and actors' equity association.

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

         Captain 11         Medea         My Pants         Panic         Polar         Quasi Un Fantasia         Red Box, The         Smoke And Mirrors         Terminal Exit         White Russian

Captain 11

Synopsis:
Because he's been drinking too much, Dave loses his job as Captain 11, the host of a space-themed afternoon cartoon show for children, and is forced back into a violent, surreal world he had hoped to abandon forever. He and his once-and-former partners in crime Cal and Jocko pursue their less-than-legal pursuits until their nemesis, the mysterious Sorge, returns to the scene. Dave, Cal, and Jocko face a fight to the death. . .if they're lucky.

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1st Produced:
Portland Stage Company (staged reading) (Portland, Me, United States)    1999

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Playscripts, Inc - New York   -

Music:
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Genre:
90-115 min Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  7            Female:  1            Other:  7 males, 1 female

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Medea

Synopsis:
a new adaptation of euripides' classic -- a lean, mean, vibrantMedea for our times.

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1st Produced:
artists of Tomorrow Festival, Six Figures Theatre Company (New York, NY, United States)    2002

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1st Published:
Playscripts, Inc - New York   -

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Genre:
95-105 min Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  7            Female:  3            Other:  7 males, 3 females (9-10 actors possible: 6-7 males, exactly 3 females)

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My Pants

Synopsis:
the Old Man is dying. the family's falling apart. Booze, sex, fairytales, Louisville sluggers, and orange juice won't postpone the inevitable. But death is not the end. . .or is it?

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1st Produced:
Theatre of NOTe (Los Angeles, CA, United States)    1993

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Playscripts, Inc - New York   -

Music:
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Genre:
80-100 min Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  3            Other:  5 males, 3 females (6-9 actors possible: 4-7 males, 2-5 females)

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Panic

Panic
Paris, 1963. Director Henry Lockwood has come to the City of Light for the premiere of his new film, Panic. accompanied on the trip by his wife Emma and his secretary Miriam, Lockwood expects nothing more than to enjoy another cinematic success and to bask in the adulation of young French film critic alain Duplay. But when Lockwood is accused of a hideous crime---a crime that could destroy his career and his marriage---he's forced to confront the truth about himself and those closest to him. Lockwood, known the world over as the Sultan of Suspense,' is caught in a nightmare straight out of one of his own films.

Notes:
Recipient of the 2008 Mystery Writer's of America edgar Award for Best Play

1st Produced:
RiverPark Center, Owensboro, KY    2008

Organisations:
International Mystery Writers Festival

1st Published:

Music:
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Genre:
mystery Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Polar

Synopsis:
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-   -

Music:
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Quasi Un Fantasia

Synopsis:
Lucy disappeared for 36 hours. Upon her return, she can't -- or won't -- tell Toby where she's been. Toby's attempts to discover the truth about her absence propel them both to the edge of psychic and physical violence. . .and over.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Little Festival of the Unexpected (Portland, Me, United States)    1999

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Playscripts, Inc - New York   -

Music:
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Genre:
30 min Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  1 male, 1 female

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Red Box, The

Synopsis:
A difficult case for Nero Wolfe - a lovely but dead young woman and a box of candied fruits laced with cyanide

Notes:
Based on the novel "The Red Box" byRex Stout

1st Produced:
Park Square Theatre, St Paul, MN    June 2014

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Adaptation

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Smoke And Mirrors

Smoke And Mirrors
Set in the break room of a quasi-governmental organization, Smoke and Mirrors follows anita and a handful of her co-workers through the course of a seemingly normal day, complete with bad cafeteria food, inept bosses, inappropriate e-mails and blood-stained lab-coats. Smoke and Mirrors mingles the comic with the nightmarish, creating a world composed of patriotism and cupcakes, of paranoia and air freshener---a world uncomfortably close to our own.

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Organisations:
the Flea Theater

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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Terminal Exit

Synopsis:
a neo-noir meditation on love, loss, and the weight of the past.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Little Festival of the Unexpected (Portland, Me, United States)    1999

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Playscripts, Inc - New York   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
30 min Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  -            Other:  3 males (3 actors possible: 2-3 males, 0-1 females)

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White Russian

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Contained in: "the Backstage Book Of New American Short Plays 2004" published by Back Stage,    -

Music:
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Genre:
One act

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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