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Sean Graney

SEAN GRANEY

  
Nationality:    USA
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Sean Graney is the artistic Director and Founder of the Hypocrites. Sean has directed most of the Hypocrites productions. He was born and raised in Boston. He received his BFa in Theater and Writing from emerson College in Boston. He teaches various Theater classes at University of Chicago and Columbia College Chicago. as well as directed with Redmoon, Collaboraction, Chicago Department of Cultural affairs, the Side Project, and Chicago Childrens Theater. awards and Recognitions: Joseph Jefferson Citation for Outstanding Direction: Machinal (2003) and equus (2005), after Dark award for Direction: Machinal (2003) New Play- 4th Graders Present an Unnamed Love-Suicide (2005), Nea/TCG Career Development Program for Directors (2004-06), Chicago Tribune Chicagoan of the Year (for Theater, 2004), Chicago Magazine Best avant-Garde Director (2004).

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

         4th Graders Present An Unnamed Love Suicide, The         After-Rhyme         Ajax         Antigone         Autophagy         Camille         En Mortem         Final Moments Of A Suicide Bomber, The         Frankenstein         Imaginary Invalid         It's Lonely Out In Space         Leonce And Lena         Miss Julie         Oedipus         Oedipus At Colonus         Oedipus Rex         Peer Gynt         Philokteles         Pirates of Penzance         Porno         Sugarward         Tartuffe         These Seven Sicknesses         Without         Women Of Trachis         Woyzeck

4th Graders Present An Unnamed Love Suicide, The

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the 4th Graders Present an Unnamed Love-Suicide explores a world of adolescent turmoil-bullies, eating disorders, and alienation-when a boy commits suicide and leaves a play behind as his suicide note, which his classmates perform

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Brutal Readings for Back to School

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Playscripts, Inc   -

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After-Rhyme

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Ajax

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Original Playwright - Sophocles

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Antigone

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Original Playwright - Sophocles

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Autophagy

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Side Project Theatre, Chicago     18 Nov 2008

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Short play

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Camille

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Original Playwright - Alexandre Dumas fils

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En Mortem

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a couple's relationship is hitting the rocks. In an hotel they meet their exact doubles

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Final Moments Of A Suicide Bomber, The

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Side Project Theatre, Chicago     06 Aug 2004

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Frankenstein

Synopsis:
a man becomes obsessed with the story of "Frankenstein". He starts to build his own man. He is visited by Elizabeth from the original novel and the drowned girl from the original talkie version

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Inspired by "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley

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Imaginary Invalid

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Original Playwright - Moliere

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Translation

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It's Lonely Out In Space

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On a rainy night in a spaceship bar, Rocketman buys drinks from an astronaut and contemplates making a phone call that could change the fate of the universe. Sean Graney, Founder and artistic Director of Chicago's the Hypocrites, takes us on a beautiful journey to a lonely place.

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Leonce And Lena

Synopsis:
the rulers of two countries decide that their heirs should marry. Both the Prince and the Princess are appalled by the idea and run away. By chance they meet in the same tavern and. . .. . ..

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Original Playwright - Georg Buchner

1st Produced:
Athenaeum Theatre, Chicgao     2004

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the Hypocrites

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Genre:
Translation

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Male:  11            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Miss Julie

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Original Playwright - August Strindberg

1st Produced:
Chopin Studio Theatre, Chicago     17 Jan 2008

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the Hypocrites

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Oedipus

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Original Playwright - Sophocles

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Oedipus At Colonus

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Original Playwright - Sophocles

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Oedipus Rex

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Original Playwright - Sophocles

1st Produced:
Building Stage, Chicago     31 May 2009

Organisations:
the Hypocrites

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Peer Gynt

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Original playwright Henrik Ibsen

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Philokteles

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Original Playwright - Sophocles

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Pirates of Penzance

Synopsis:
Join the party in our new Osher Studio on Center Street with a delightfully immersive, lovingly loopy, and fantastically eccentric 80-minute takethink banjos, beach balls, and guitarson Gilbert and Sullivans preposterous, topsy-turvy world. Frederic was mistakenly apprenticed as a young boy to a band of sentimental pirates. Now 21, he falls head-over-heels for the Major-Generals daughter and forswears the buccaneers life forever, or so he thinks.

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Book by W.S. Gilbert; Music by Arthur Sullivan; Directed and adapted by Sean Graney; Co-adapted by Kevin O'Donnell

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the Hypocrites

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musical adaptation 80 min

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Porno

Synopsis:
a director wants to put on Christopher Marlowe's "Dido Queen of Carthage" but they only way he can get backing is to make it into a porno production

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1st Produced:
Side Project Theatre, Chicago     14 May 2006

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Sugarward

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Colonel Daniel Parke governor of Leeward Islands was assonated in 1708 by a group of angry sugar tycoons

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Genre:
Historical drama

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Tartuffe

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Original Playwright - Moliere

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These Seven Sicknesses

Synopsis:
Greece suffers in turmoil. War has erupted, paranoia is rising, and sanity is thinning. there's death everywhere and the foul smell of disease is uneasy to shake. action demands consequence and there are harsh lessons to endure, redemption to be earned, and clarity to be evoked. Yet still, despite the greatest of efforts, there are no cure for the sicknesses. In these Seven Sicknesses, Sophocles' seven surviving plays - Oedipus, In Trachis, Philoktetes, In Colonus, ajax, elektra & antigone - combine to create a stunning portrait of the human condition, where the intermingling of chance & fate yields disquieting results. a witty & relevant interpretation of the classics, these Seven Sicknesses is an epic examination of the past & a window on the present. the Flea is partnering with neighborhood favorite, Macao Trading Co., to provide dinner for the show each night. the main entree will be vegan and gluten-free, and will be included in the cost of the ticket. the acting company will serve audience members at this unique event.
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Original Playwright - Sophocles

1st Produced:
Flea
41 White Street, New York, NY 10013     19 Jan 2012

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Genre:
adaptation

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Without

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1st Produced:
Goodman Theatre, Chicago     12 Sep 2008

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Women Of Trachis

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Original Playwright - Sophocles

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Woyzeck

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Original Playwright - Georg Buchner

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