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Sarah Gubbins

SARAH GUBBINS

  
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    United Talent Agency  represented by Mark Subias

Sarah Gubbins' plays include The Kid Thing (Jeff Award and Edgarton Foundation New American Play Award), fml: how Carson McCullers saved my life, Fair Use, In Loco Parentis, The Drinking Problem, I am Bradley Manning, A Sense of Things and Cocked. Her plays have been produced at the Steppenwolf Theatre, Actor's Express, Next Theater, About Face Theater and Chicago Dramatists among others. Her plays have been developed at The Steppenwolf Theater, The Plawrights' Center, Center Theatre Group, O'Neill Theatre Center, and Berkeley Rep's Ground Floor among others. She's has been a Carl J. Djerassi Fellow and Jerome Fellow a past member of the CTG 2013-14 Writers' Workshop and the Playwrights' Union, currently an Artistic Associate at About Face Theater and a Core Writer of the Playwrights' Center. She holds a M.F.A. from Northwestern University in Writing for the Screen + Stage. And is a proud member of The Kilroys.

Research:    https://www.facebook.com/gubbins

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

         Cocked         Drinking Problem, The         Fair Use         fml: How Carson McCullers Saved My Life         I Am Bradley Manning         In Loco Parentis         Kid Thing, The         Out Of Order         Vanishing Act
Cocked

Synopsis:
Attorney Taylor and her journalist girlfriend Izzie live a comfortable life in Andersonville. Their apartment, relationship and strong anti-gun beliefs are shattered when Taylor's troubled brother Frank crashes, uninvited, into their lives. As secrets and betrayals rise to the surface, the line between self-defense and safety is blurred.

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Nominated for The Kilroys 2015. The Kilroys is a group of playwrights and producers in LA who publish an annual industry survey of excellent new plays by female and trans playwrights. It is a tool for producers committed to ending the systemic underrepresentation of female and trans playwrights in the American theater.

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IGNITION Festival of New Plays     2014

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Lesbian drama full length

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Drinking Problem, The

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part of the Golden Age Project

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(Reading) Aurora Theatre Company, 2081 Addison Street, Berkeley, Ca 94704     11 Feb 2013

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Fair Use

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at a legal firm Sy is in love with her fellow counsellor Maddi. Maddi is in love with her fellow counsellor Chris. Chris is finding it hard to express himself. then during a complicated case steamy love letters surface

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1st Produced:
Steppenwolf Garage Theatre, Chicago     25 Jul 2008

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Comedy. - - Lesbian. Full length

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fml: How Carson McCullers Saved My Life

fml: How Carson McCullers Saved My Life
Jo's senior year and the new English Literature teacher assigns her class Carson McCullers' "The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter". Jo immediately sees a strong parallel between herself and the central character. Being different, and misunderstood. Then she gets beaten up because of her sexuality. With encouragement from her friend Mickey she starts writing and drawing a graphic novel about her life

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Lesbian drama full length

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I Am Bradley Manning

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In Loco Parentis

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A group of college friends try to come to terms with a friend who has overdosed

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Kid Thing, The

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a cordial dinner party with two long time friend lesbian couples ceases to be cordial when they find out that one of the couples are going to be parents. Mark Jeffries "Spotlight"

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Chicago Dramatists, Chicago     01 Sep 2011

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Comedy. - - Lesbian, full length

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Out Of Order

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Vanishing Act

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Short play

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