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David Hansen

DAVID HANSEN

  
Nationality:    USA
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David Hansen is a 2010 Creative Workforce Fellow, a program of the Community Partnership for Arts and Culture, generously funded by Cuyahoga Arts and Culture. Plays include solo performances I Hate This: a Play Without the Baby and and then You Die (How I Ran a Marathon in 26.2 Years) as well as the Great Lakes Theater's outreach touring productions On the Dark Side of Twilight and an adaptation of agatha Christie's the Mysterious affair at Styles. Other works include the Lady, the Vampyres, and collaboration on the plays the Gulf and This Vicious Cabaret. He is associate Supervisor of the Great Lakes Theater School Residency Program, and GLT Grants Writer. He has been a contributor to Muse, angle and Cleveland magazines. He lives in Cleveland Heights.

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

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         Adventures In Slumberland         And then You Die (How I Ran A Marathon In 26.2 Years)         Breaking Point         Cole Cuts         Double Heart (the Courtship of Beatrice and Benedick)         Great Globe Itself, The         Gulff, The         I Hate This: A Play Without the Baby         Lady, The         Lombardo         Mysterious Affair At Styles         Mystery Of Hamlet, The         On the Dark Side Of Twilight         Rosalynde and The Falcon         Seven Ages         Shakespeare Who?         This Vicious Caberet         Vampyres         You Have The Right To Remain Silent
Adventures In Slumberland

Synopsis:
Nemo has very vivid dreams. He has an appointment to play with the Princess of Slumberland and to help Santa and bring World peace

Notes:
based on the comic 2adventures in Slumberland" by Winsor McCoy

1st Produced:
Tailspinner Children's Theatre, Cleveland    

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Genre:
Adaptation

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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And then You Die (How I Ran A Marathon In 26.2 Years)

Synopsis:
What races through a man's mind? Hit the road with cartoonist Pengo in pursuit of the finish line - dashing through relationships, hurdling heartbreak, and threading through the Five Boroughs in a record quarter-century . . . and time is running out.

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1st Produced:
Cleveland Public Theatre in Cleveland Ohio     01 Jan 2009

Organisations:
Cleveland Public Theatre

1st Published:
http://www.indietheaternow.com/Play/and-then-you-die-how-i-ran-a-marathon-in-262-years   

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Genre:
60 min Solo Show Comedy

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Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Breaking Point

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Cole Cuts

Synopsis:
Love and loss

Notes:
Written by David Hansen; David Bell; Suzanne L Miller; Toni K Thayer. Music and lyrics by Cole Porter

1st Produced:
Dobana's Night Kitchen, Cleveland     Oct 1998

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Genre:
Play with music

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Male:  10            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Double Heart (the Courtship of Beatrice and Benedick)

Synopsis:
Behold this Rom-Com of the Renaissance! How Shakespeare's sharp-tongu'd lovers met as teens, (a prequel to accomp'ny "Much Ado") with parties, pranks, conspiracies endearing; anachronistic flair and bawdy wit, a tale of love, yes -- and its opposite.

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1st Produced:
Connelly Theater, New York Festival Fringe     01 Aug 2013

Organisations:
Great Lakes Theater

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Genre:
1h 0m National Cleveland, OH

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Great Globe Itself, The

Synopsis:
After performing magic tricks on a replica of the Globe inspire a young man to rebuild the original in London

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1st Produced:
Tailspinner Children's Theatre, Cleveland     03 Mar 2015

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Genre:
Youth play

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Male:  3            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Gulff, The

Synopsis:
Emotions and conflicts of America's first video war

Notes:
Written by Joshua D Brown; Kelly Elliott; Brian Fox; Margi Herwald; Derek Koger; Leah D Krauss; Heather N Stout; Sean Sullivan and David Hansen

1st Produced:
Dobana's Night Kitchen, Cleveland     26 Jan 2001

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Genre:
Drama

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Male:  4            Female:  4            Other:  -

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I Hate This: A Play Without the Baby

Synopsis:
Join David for a trip from when his son was stillborn and through the year that follows. . .but not in that order.

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1st Produced:
Cleveland Public Theatre     28 Feb 2003

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1st Published:
http://www.indietheaternow.com/Play/i-hate-this   

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Genre:
Monolgue play

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Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Lady, The

Synopsis:
The family tree of Michelle Obama

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1st Produced:
Noble Elementary School, Cleveland     03 Mar 2011

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Genre:
Childrens play

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  10 - 14 boys or 10 - 14 girls

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Lombardo

Synopsis:
In New York in 1956 Guy Lombardo is struggling to decide whether to move his popular New Year's Eve radio programme to television

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1st Produced:
Fine Arts Association, Willoughby, OH     28 Mar 2014

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Genre:
Ten minute play

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Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Mysterious Affair At Styles

Synopsis:
Summer, 1917. essex, england. Back from the war, Captain arthur Hastings convalesces at Styles Court. But when the lady of the house suspiciously dies, the tranquil manor turns treacherous. the cause is murder and the killer could be anyone: her unappealing new husband, her ne'er-do-well son, the blunt female groundskeeper, even the local toxicologist. enter Hercule Poirot, Belgian refugee and detective extraordinaire, who applies his famous brain to the seemingly unsolvable mystery. a cunning stage adaptation of the novel that launched agatha Christie's career.

Notes:
Based on the book "the Mysterious Affair At Styles" by Agatha Christie

1st Produced:
Great Lakes Theater, Cleveland, Oh     14 Feb 2012

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1st Published:
Playscripts, Inc (2012)   

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Genre:
Mystery

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Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  extras

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Mystery Of Hamlet, The

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Inspired by the movie "Hamlet" (1921) directed by Svende Gade And Heinz Schall

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On the Dark Side Of Twilight

Synopsis:
An homage to four pivotal moments in the history of classic vampire literature, this work describes the complete, two century epic of the vampire Aubrey Porlock.

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1st Produced:
Cleveland Ohio     01 Feb 2010

Organisations:
Educational Outreach Tour for Great Lakes Theater

1st Published:
http://www.indietheaternow.com/Play/on-the-dark-side-of-twilight   

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Genre:
Satire 60 min

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Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Rosalynde and The Falcon

Synopsis:
An evil uncle takes over his niece - the princess' country. She flees to the woods and is befriended by three incompetent robbers. Her friend the prince accidently lets the uncle know where she is

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1st Produced:
Tailspinner Children's Theatre, Cleveland     28 Mar 2015

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Genre:
Youth play

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Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Seven Ages

Synopsis:
Four characters from "As You Like It" are lost in a forest

Notes:
Written by Nina Dominique; Christine Howey; Anne McEvoy; Michael Oatman; Toni K Thayer and David Hansen

1st Produced:
Alcazar, Cleveland, OH     11 Feb 2014

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Genre:
Drama

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Shakespeare Who?

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This Vicious Caberet

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Written by Erin Lazzaro; Mike Schmidt; Toni K Theyer; Jenna Weiss and David Hansen

1st Produced:
Dobana's Night Kitchen, Cleveland     19 Oct 1996

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Vampyres

Synopsis:
Witness as a young doctor enters a mysterious coffee house, encountering an old flame, two musicians with a taste for blood, and the seeds of his own destruction. Sex, blood and rock n' roll.

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1st Produced:
Dobama's Night Kitchen in Cleveland Heights, Ohio     1997

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1st Published:
http://www.indietheaternow.com/Play/the-vampyres   

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Genre:
one act 60 min

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Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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You Have The Right To Remain Silent

Synopsis:
Politics as a game show including "The Wheel of Misfortune"

Notes:
Written by Marie Andrusewicz; Erin Cameron; David Litz; Rich Weiss; Lee T Wilson; Betsy Zajko and David Hansen

1st Produced:
Guerilla Theater Company, Cleveland     23 Oct 1992

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Genre:
Satire

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

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