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Reina Hardy

REINA HARDY

  (1981 - )
Nationality:    USA
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Reina Hardy is a playwright with credits in Chicago, New York, and Muncie, IndianA. Her play "erratica" will make its professional world premiere in July 2009 with Sacramento's Capital Stage. Reina, a 2007 finalist for the Clubbed Thumb Biennial Commission, has also had readings with Orlando Shakespeare, algonquin Theatre, the Side Project, Write act Rep, the House Theatre, Flush Ink, Infamous Commonwealth and many others. Her play, "Susan Swayne and the Bewildered Bride," which received an honorable mention from KCaCTF Region III, is currently participating in the Babes with Blades New Play Development program. Reina has also been an artist in residence at Ball State University and New albany High School. Look for her poems in various magazines, look for excerpts from her plays in "audition arsenal," "the Ultimate audition Book" and "Best Scenes for Two actors," and look for her Theatre reviews on the Sun Times website. Once, Reina resolved to see a show in every Chicago fringe venue during the course of a year. Her failure is chronicled at wayoffloop.blogspot.com. Reina is a 2003 graduate of Columbia University, where she won the Brick Memorial Prize for playwriting. She is also founder and artistic director of the Viola Project, Chicago's best Shakespeare performance workshop for girls.

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

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         Andalusia         Celestial Liquor         Changelings         Daughters Of Doherty, The         Erratica         Fanaticals         First Song I Learned (And Other Things About Me), The         Glassheart         Juvenilia         Map to Somewhere Else, A         Michigan, Or the Duchess Of Duck Creek         Other Felix, The         Ray Play, The         Smooth Criminal         Stars And Barmen         Susan Swayne And the Bewildered Bride         Viking/Mermaids
Andalusia

Synopsis:
axel, a small-town loser, throws the shredded pages of his novel from a bell tower. ant, his parole officer/friend, tries to stop him from throwing his life away with it.

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Ten Min

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Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Celestial Liquor

Synopsis:
an astrophysicist crashes a party of the glitterati, and meets a woman who used to date a star.

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1st Produced:
Chicago, Il     2009

Organisations:
Dramatis Personae

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5 minute

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Changelings

Synopsis:
This is a play about a fairy princess. Not the kind who lives in a pink castle, and wears chiffon, and sings, but the kind who steals babies, and doesn't give them back. She does do a little singing though.

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Genre:
Full Length Dramatic Comedy Fantasy

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Daughters Of Doherty, The

Synopsis:
amanda, a reluctant participant in her half-sister's fairy tale wedding, finds out she's her father's daughter after all.

Notes:
review here: http://chicagotheaterblog.com/2009/06/11/review-gorilla-tangos-the-24-hour-plays-chicago/

1st Produced:
Chicago, Il     2009

Organisations:
Just Say Yes

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Genre:
Ten Min

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Male:  1            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Erratica

Synopsis:
Professor Samantha Stafford is trying to write a book on Shakespeare. But one of her students is madly in love with her, her publicist wants her to do something more commercial, and she is persistently haunted by an entity claiming to be the ghost of Christopher Marlow. Meanwhile, Jack Hooper, a librarian who just might be a match for Dr. Stafford, has lost a prized manuscript to a mysterious thief. It's all connected. But how?

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Orlando Shakespeare Playfest 2008

1st Produced:
Sacramento, Ca     2009

Organisations:
Capital Stage

1st Published:
http://www.originalworksonline.com/erratica.php   

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Genre:
full length Comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Fanaticals

Synopsis:
The fans of a television sci-fi programme want to make sure there will be a series two

Notes:
Music and lyrics by: Matt Board; book by Reina Hardy

1st Produced:
Playground Theatre, London     2018

Organisations:
Fat Rascal Theatre

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Genre:
Musical

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First Song I Learned (And Other Things About Me), The

Synopsis:
John and June confront each other over the wreckage of their relationship.

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5-minute

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Glassheart

Synopsis:
Beauty never showed up. after centuries under the curse, the Beast and his one remaining magical servant have moved into a shabby apartment near a 7-11, hoping for a lower cost of living and better luck with girls. In the threatening, impossible, completely ordinary world of paying rent and taking public transportation, is a happy ending even possible?

Notes:
Seabury Quinn Jr. Playwrights' Festival 2009

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Genre:
Full Length Tragicomedy

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Male:  1            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Juvenilia

Synopsis:
Juvenilia is a comic Drama with fantastic elements and three or four songs. It deals with the tender, heroic, stupid, elaborate imagined worlds that many supposed ordinary people spent half their lives in as children, and abandoned as they grew. So what happened to them? are they still there? Do they miss us?

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New Albany High Production, May 2009

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Genre:
Full Length Dramatic Comedy Fantasy

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Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  2 cross castable

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Map to Somewhere Else, A

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1st Produced:
33rd Street Arts Center Lab, New York, NY     2014

Organisations:
Everyday Inferno Theatre Company

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Michigan, Or the Duchess Of Duck Creek

Synopsis:
Trapped in a dying town, beaten up by love, a world-weary woman and a punchy young geek find a moment of escape right where they stand.

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1st Produced:
Chicago, Il     2009

Organisations:
Infamous Commonwealth

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Genre:
Ten Min

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Other Felix, The

Synopsis:
Felix Bettleman lives on the hustle, and has, for professional reasons, changed his name. Someone steals his old one, along with his SS, his voice, his face, and his more flamboyant personal habits. Marlow Sharp, a young woman who claims to be a detective, insists on helping Bettleman track down the other Felix, but her motivations appear to be far more complex. a mystery/dark comedy about obsessive love and the creative process.

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Reading At Capital Stage, Sacramento, July 2009

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Genre:
Full Length Comedic Drama

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Ray Play, The

Synopsis:
the Great God Ray, a barista who works at a Starbucks in Chicago, performs a series of rituals in order to battle his demons and get to sleep. This five-minute epic uses the format of an ancient egyptian passion play.

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Materials needed to create this epic: A tambourine, A black sheet, And enthusiasm.

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Smooth Criminal

Synopsis:
elaine, who writes a fraudulent blog about the life of a high-end hooker, decides how far she is willing to go to become a successful writer.

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part of Questionable Content A program of four new plays About life in these modern times

1st Produced:
Kraine Theater, NY, USA >>>     17 Sep 2008

Organisations:
Co-Op Theatre east

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Genre:
5- Minute

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Stars And Barmen

Synopsis:
Stars and Barmen tells the story of Rupert, an astrophysicist in a city where the streetlights hide the stars, spends his nights manning a dim telescope and a computer, waiting to observe spectacular events in distant galaxies. Rupert tries to cross the boundary between life as it is observed or represented, and life as it is actually lived. He also has to get his doctorate, avoid the wrath of his advisor and find a date for his sister's wedding, but he never lets go of his two main goals: truly experiencing the stellar event of his lifetime, and having a really good time at a party. "Stars and Barmen" is inspired in part by Hardy's own experience studying "astrophysics for Poets" in college. according to Hardy, "That's when I started to understand that astrophysics isn't just poetic, it's poetry. It's the process of leashing something inconsequential as a word around something as monumental as a star, so that when you tug the leash, you see the star. and what we needed to do was learn how to look at words, numbers, collections of metaphors, dots. . . and see stars. Understand stars."

Notes:
part of the Collider New Play Project pairs three playwrights with three scientists to develop new works that focus on the mysteries of the universe As they relate to human existence. the three playwrights And their respective plays Are Reina Hardy of Chicago with "Stars And Barmen," K. Frithjof Peterson of Saginaw, MI with "a Scientist's Guide to Love And Poetry", And Garret C. Schneider of Nashville, TN with "Clockwork Child."

1st Produced:
Reading At Pheasant Run Resort, St. Charles, Il     16 Jul 2011

Organisations:
St. Charles Summer Theater Fest

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Susan Swayne And the Bewildered Bride

Synopsis:
a cross-dressing, bodice-ripping, duel-happy Victorian mystery featuring a cast of fighting female detectives.

Notes:
Babes with Blades New Play Development program, 2009. As one-act: KCaCTF Region III One-act Competition Honorable Mention

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Genre:
Full Length action Comedy

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  6            Other:  -

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Viking/Mermaids

Synopsis:
a teenage loner sketches a fantasy girl and connects with a real one. Takes place entirely on kayaks.

Notes:
Kayaks Are easily And rather delightfully represented by office chairs straddled backwards.

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Genre:
5-minute

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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