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Benjamin Graber

BENJAMIN GRABER

  (1944 - )
Nationality:    USA
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Benjamin Graber at sixty-four is appearing as a playwright. In past performances he has been a hippie doctor, a sex doctor, a psychiatrist, and a neurobiologist. as a playwright he has had a ten-minute play, "end of Limerence," produced three times (at PS Collective, the Shelterbelt Theatre and University of Nebraska at Omaha Theatre New Ways New Works Festival; his co-authored one-act play, Snipped, produced twice (Shelterbelt Theatre Instant Play Festival and PS Collective), and another ten-minute play, the Hippie and the Guru produced once (PS Collective). His ten-minute play the Banana Republic was recently read at the Community College Humanity association's conference in OmahA. Three of his plays have been read at the Great Plains Theatre Conference: 2007 Party Favor, 2008 Wedding Party, and 2009 Warpaint (co-authored with Michael Oatman). Warpaint was a finalist for the National KCaCTF John Cauble Playwriting award. He is currently in the Masters Program in the Theatre Department at University of Nebraska at Omaha where his Masters thesis Play, Hippie Doctor will receive a full production in Fall 2009 as a Participatory entry in the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival and an entry for the David Cohn National Playwriting award.

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

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

         Banana Republic         Bluebird         End Of Limerence         Guru And the Turtle, The         Hippie Doctor         Masque         Party Favor         Snipped         Warpaint         Wedding Party

Banana Republic

Synopsis:
an expressionistic farce borrowing from Comedia.

Notes:
Public Reading.

1st Produced:
Central College Humanities Assoc. Conference    2008

Organisations:
Scott Working

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Ten Min

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Bluebird

Synopsis:
a postmodern deconstruction of theatre and the two playwrights writing the play.

Notes:
written by Benjamin Graber And Geoffrey Stienblock

1st Produced:
Shelterbelt Theatre    2008

Organisations:
Shelterbelt Theatre Instant Play Festival

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Dramedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  4            Other:  -

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End Of Limerence

Synopsis:
a short dialogic piece with single word dialog exchanges "18 months after first love."

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Ps Collective    2007

Organisations:
andrew McGreevy Prod.

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Dramedy

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Guru And the Turtle, The

Synopsis:
a caricature of an "epic" play. a hippie seeks the meaning of life from a guru.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Ps Collective    2007

Organisations:
andrew McGreevy Prod.

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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-

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Hippie Doctor

Synopsis:
Hippie Doctor follows a young intern's journey into the heart of the Sixties counterculture from the 1967 March on the Pentagon through the tumultuous events following the student shooting by National Guardsman at Kent State in 1971. Sid is a 23-year-old middle-class Jewish son of a Liberal Democrat physician working for President Lyndon Johnson's Surgeon General. Sid's post-demonstration sexual acting out leads to a separation from his wife, Marsha, but the two continue as road buddies heading west in search of a rock festival. Later, in 1968, we find Sid as a full-blown hippie doctor joins a free clinic in a converted firehouse renamed the earth Station. Sid's initial joy in his break with the establishment begins to be complicated as he clashes with those willing to compromise with the system and has to confront the impracticalities of revolutionary medicine without a revolution. Confused by his chaotic life, Sid flees medicine in a converted truck dubbed the Hippiemobile. after further encounters with himself, his dying father, and a draft dodger in hiding whose brother has just died in Vietnam, Sid contemplates an overdose of hallucinogens in a frantic attempt to find meaning in the choices he has made.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
University Of Nebraska At Omaha Theatre Department    2009

Organisations:
University of Nebraska at Omaha Theatre Department

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Dramedy

Parts:
Male:  7            Female:  6            Other:  -

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Masque

Synopsis:
a masqued character masquerades as the angel of Death until he (or she) "takes" him but not before he rapidly transits the stages of death and dying.

Notes:
MaN may be played by woman dressed As male; then end touch should be A kiss.

1st Produced:
Shelterbelt Theatre    2008

Organisations:
Shelterbelt Theatre Shelterskelter

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Party Favor

Synopsis:
Ten years earlier, Barry had pimped out his then-girlfriend Katie to his older friend and colleague, Nathan. the action begins when the death of Barry´s beloved dog is the precipitant for Barry to look up Katie for reasons unclear to either of them at first. Katie overcomes her own reluctance to talk with Barry because of her need to show him a retained item from their shared past. Through reminiscence and flashback, they view the road taken at that past moment in time. Barry´s attempts to apologize collide with Katie´s disclosure of the uncashed check written by Nathan, underscoring the uneraseable nature of the choices they each made at the time.

Notes:
Staged Reading

1st Produced:
Great Plains Theatre Conference    2007

Organisations:
Great Plains Theatre Conference

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Snipped

Synopsis:
Steve is recollecting to MaN some past events regarding him and the women his has interacted with including three different versions of what happened when his finance reveals to him that she is pregnant, unaware of the fact that he has had a vasectomy.

Notes:
Kim And eliza may be doubled.

1st Produced:
Shelterbelt Theatre    2006

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Dramedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Warpaint

Synopsis:
an intense at times surrealistic interaction professor and a social worker strike up a very unusual and ultimately destructive relationship with Rosenholm ending.

Notes:
Staged Reading

1st Produced:
Great Plains Theatre Conference    2009

Organisations:
Great Plains Theatre Conference

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Wedding Party

Synopsis:
the play begins in the aftermath of an unexpected appearance of an old friend of the bride´s mother at the rehearsal dinner the night before the wedding. the disclosure of the mother's past time 'in the life' provokes intense interactions and consequences for the members of the Wedding Party.

Notes:
Staged Reading

1st Produced:
Great Plains Theatre Conference    2008

Organisations:
Great Plains Theatre Conference

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Dramedy

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  5            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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