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Christina Ham

CHRISTINA HAM

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

Christina Ham. Ms. Ham's plays have been produced and developed with Mark Taper Forum, the Guthrie Theater, the Goodman Theater, the Summer Play Festival, the Fountain Theater, Los Angeles Theater Center, the Falcon Theater, the Illusion Theater, Stepping Stone Theater, A.S.K. Theater Projects, and the StElla adler Theater among others. Ms. Ham is the recipient of a 2005 MariAnne Murphy Women & Philanthropy award in Playwriting, a 2005-06 Jerome Fellowship from the Playwrights' Center in Minneapolis, and a 2006 MacDowell Colony residency. She has been commissioned by the Guthrie Theater, ensemble Studio Theatre/Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the Stepping Stone Theater. Her full-length plays includeTumbleweeds, 626 Broadway, after Adam, a Wive's Tale, Cul de Sac, Crawlspace, and Mad Cow. a monologue from her play Tumbleweeds is published by Heinemann, and she is also published by Playscripts Inc. Ms. Ham is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America.

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

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         626 Broadway         After Adam         Back Bay         County Line         Crash Test Dummies         Crawl Space         Cul De Sac         Four Little Girls         Glymph         Go Up Together         Henry's Freedom Box         Hollow, The         Lion's Tale, A: Somali Folktales         Nina Simone: Four Women         Priceless         Root Of the Home Team         Ruby! The Story Of Ruby Bridges         Scapegoat         Tar's Children         Tiny Soldier, The         Wives' Tale, A

626 Broadway

Synopsis:
Five bookies jockey for position in a South Central Los Angeles basement. This gritty morality play is an examination of the men whose lives and values are warped by an environment in which they must lie, cheat, and steal in order to survive.

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1st Produced:
Staged Reading By Audrey Skirball-Kenis Theatre, Los Angeles     1996

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Genre:
full length Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  -            Other:  -

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After Adam

Synopsis:
a dynamic, but subtle take on the Oedipus myth as conceived in a working class neighborhood in San Pedro, California. Two estranged brothers must learn to cope with their father's suicide as psychological warfare ensues in an effort to reclaim family legacy, psyche, and identity. a Dramatic meditation on death, grief, mourning, and its cyclical nature, this play is a vigil to one man's life and its self-fulfilling purgatory.

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1st Produced:
Staged Reading By The Playwrights' Center, Minneapolis, Mn     2005

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Genre:
Full-length Supernatural Drama Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Back Bay

Synopsis:
Violet fresh off the farm goes to live with her bother Lowell and his socialite wife at their mansion. Their best friend Alton wants to write a true crime book and asks her to help research an unsolved murder. Her investigations lead her to the killer but it puts the ones around her in danger

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1st Produced:
Workshop at University of Minnesota Kilburn Arena, Minneapolis     Nov 2014

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Genre:
Thriller

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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County Line

Synopsis:
Seven high school friends witness their relationships disintegrate after their post-Homecoming game caravan has a mysterious encounter on a deserted highway.

Notes:
Running time: 25-30 minutes

1st Produced:
Staged Reading By The Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis, Mn     2006

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1st Published:
Playscripts, Inc - New York   -

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Genre:
Drama One act

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Crash Test Dummies

Synopsis:
A family headed for a crash with reality

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1st Produced:
RedEye Theater, Minneapolis     Apr 2012

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Genre:
Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Crawl Space

Synopsis:
A game of sexual cat and dog

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1st Produced:
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Organisations:
Table Salt Productions

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Ten minute play

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Cul De Sac

Synopsis:
as the quest for Homeland Security leads to continued xenophobia across our nation, a nascent tribe of suburban Red-Imported Fire ants decide their mad as hell and not going to take it anymore. a post-modern look at the war on terror

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Staged Reading By Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Washington, Dc     2007

Organisations:
the actors' Center

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Music:
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Genre:
Full-length absurdist Drama/Comedy Comedy

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Four Little Girls

Four Little Girls
Birmingham Alabama 1963. The Ku Klux Klan pace a bomb the 16th Street Baptist Church. It goes off killing four of the choir girls who were in the basement preparing for the Sunday service

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1st Published:
Dramatic Publishing   -

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Genre:
Youth play

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  4 girls plus extras

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Glymph

Synopsis:
Evil plantation owner Ezekiel Pomery is dying after three hundred years. H e was particularly violent toward the black slaves. He fathered children and one of the remaining descendants, Elizabeth, comes to get answers before he dies

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1st Produced:
Workshop at Workhaus Collective, Minneapolis     Jul 2011

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Genre:
Thriller

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Go Up Together

Synopsis:
After the assassination of Martin Luther King, at the Memphis garbage strike the older Charlie decides to cross the picket line. The younger Gus tries to dissuade him

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1st Produced:
History Theatre, St Paul, MN     Jan 2013

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Genre:
Ten minute play

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Henry's Freedom Box

Synopsis:
Henry "Box" Brown a slave in Virginia escaped to Philadelphia by hiding in a box

Notes:
Music by David Simmons; lyrics by Christina Ham; David Simmons; book by Christina Ham

1st Produced:
SteppingStone Theatre, St Paul, MN     Feb 2010

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Genre:
Youth musical

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  11 boys, 4 girls, chorus

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Hollow, The

Synopsis:
Olivia and her boyfriend Wes go to live in her father's mansion in New Orleans. There was a terrible crime committed there

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1st Produced:
Workhaus Collective, Minneapolis     26 Sep 2013

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Genre:
Supernatural

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Lion's Tale, A: Somali Folktales

Synopsis:
Cultures collide as two young Somali immigrants attend their first American birthday party. What their friends see as generous and fun, ali and aasha take as materialistic and greedy. This fantasy-musical incorporates exciting Somali stories and traditional music in a play that celebrates generosity, friendship, and cultural understanding.

Notes:
written by Christina Ham, Said Salah Ahmed; music by Gary Rue

1st Produced:
Steppingstone Theatre, St. Paul, Mn     2007

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Genre:
Children's Musical for ages 8-15 Youth audience

Parts:
Male:  8            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Nina Simone: Four Women

Synopsis:
Story of singer Nina Simone

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1st Produced:
Park Square Theatre, st Paul MN     08 Mar 2016

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Genre:
Play with music

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Priceless

Synopsis:
Two insurance adjusters try to make sense of the value of life in a post-9/11 America. Naturally, the numbers just don't add up.

Notes:
Running time: 30 min

1st Produced:
Stella Adler Theater, Los Angeles     2006

Organisations:
Unity Players ensemble

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Drama One act

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Root Of the Home Team

Synopsis:
Can the concept of physical reality as seen through the eyes of einstein and his associates be used to fix the World Series?

Notes:
Recipient of the ensemble Studio theatre/alfred P. Sloan Foundation Science & Technology Project Commission

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Genre:
full length Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Ruby! The Story Of Ruby Bridges

Synopsis:
Ruby Bridges was integrated in 6os New Orleans into an all white school. When the white parents found out they withdrew their children from class. For the rest of the school year. This just left Ruby and teacher Mrs Henry the only ones left

Notes:
Music by Gary Rue; lyrics by Christina Ham; Gary Rue;book by Christina Ham

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Genre:
Youth musical

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  8 - 10 boys, 13 - 17 girls

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Scapegoat

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
Playwrights' Center's 30th Annual Playlabs Festival     21 Oct 2013

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Tar's Children

Synopsis:
The temperature is 30 bellow. In a remote truck stop one man sits frozen in his chair with his throat cut. The other two men Zeremiah and Brady are wondering how they are going to survive. A glamourous teenager - Ash -turns up

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1st Produced:
Playwrights Center, Minneapolis     Oct 2010

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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Drama

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Tiny Soldier, The

Synopsis:
Olivia and her no-good husband are squatting in the family home on an estate in New Orleans. their presence in the house stirs up secrets of past murder and magic

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Wives' Tale, A

Synopsis:
an island of women off of the coast of South Carolina survive a nuclear holocaust and conspire to create the perfect society.

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1st Produced:
Workshopped By The Summer Play Festival, NYC     2006

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Full-length Futuristic Drama Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  8            Other:  -

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