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Laura Harrington

LAURA HARRINGTON

  
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    Agency for the Performing Arts  represented by Beth Bickers

Laura HARRINGTON's award winning plays, musicals, operas, and radio plays have been produced regionally, Off-Broadway, in Canada, and in Europe. Some recent credits include: N (Bonaparte), Pilgrim Theatre Company at the Boston Center for the Arts, 2005, KO International Festival, 2006, LaMama, NYC, 2006; PROBABILITY (music: Jenny Giering) Suffolk University; ALMA MAHLER, (music: Deborah Drattell) Palm Beach Opera; FIFTeeN MINUTES AT MIDWaY, Tulane University, the BOOK OF HOURS, New Harmony Project Workshop, Portland Stage's Little Festival of the Unexpected, HALLOWED GROUND, Portland Stage Company, Boston Playwrights Theatre, Tulane University, etc; MARTIN GUERRE, (music: Roger Ames), Hartford Stage Company (directed by Mark Lamos); the HEART OF AN EMPEROR, DRESS RIGHT, UNIVERSAL SOLDIER, and FLaG GIRLS, Boston Playwrights Theatre; RESURRECTION, (Music: Tod Machover), Houston Grand Opera 1999, Boston Lyric Opera, 2001); JOAN OF ARC, (Music: Mel Marvin), Wellesley College, Manhattan Theatre Club Workshop, Boston Music Theatre Workshop; the PERFECT 36 (Music: Mel Marvin), Tennessee Repertory Theatre, Hartt School of Music; MARATHON DANCING, (directed by Anne Bogart) en Garde Arts, NYC, and Munich, Germany; LUCY's LAPSES (Music: Christopher Drobny), Playwrights Horizons, NYC, and Portland Opera Company; the SONG OF the SILKIE, (music: Elena Ruehr) Rockport Chamber Music Festival; BaBeS IN TOYLAND, Houston Grand Opera; and SLEEPING BeaUTY (Music: Roger Ames), North Shore Music Theatre. Ms. Harrington is on the faculty at MIT where she teaches playwriting and was recently a Visiting Briggs Copeland lecturer at Harvard. She will be a visiting guest artist at Tufts in 2006 - 2007. She is the winner of the 1998 and 2005 Massachusetts Cultural Council Playwriting award, and a two-time winner of the Clauder Playwriting Competition. Other awards include a Boston "IRNE" award for Best New Play, 2001 (for HALLOWED GROUND), a Bunting Institute Fellowship at Harvard/ Radcliffe, a Whiting Foundation Grant-in-aid, the Joseph Kesselring award for Drama, a New England Emmy, and a Quebec Cinemateque award.

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         Bathtub Diaries, The         Book Of Hours, The         Crossing Brooklyn         Dress Right         Fifteen Minutes At Midway         Flag Girls         Free Fall         Hallowed Ground         Heart Of An Emperor, The         HeArts On Fire         Life You Save, The         Listener, The         Mercy         N Bonaparte         Night Luster         Pickett's Charge         Probability         Round Midnight         Universal Soldier

Bathtub Diaries, The

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Notes:
Finalist, O'Neill theatre Conference, 2001

1st Produced:
Little Festival Of The Unexpected, Portland Stage    2001

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1st Published:
Portland Stage Organisations: Little Festival of the Unexpected, ed. Lisa DiFrANZa, Stage and Screen Books, 2002   -

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Book Of Hours, The

Synopsis:
set in the famous library of Louvain, Belgium, in august, 1914, during the German invasion of Belgium in the first days of WWI. the library becomes a crucible for those trying to save the priceless collections, themselves, and their country. the play explores questions of courage and faith and the human costs of war and resistance.

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1st Produced:
Wellesley Summer Theatre Workshop    2005

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Male:  2            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Crossing Brooklyn

Synopsis:
a modern musical that deals with the emotional aftermath of September 11 in New York, Crossing Brooklyn tells the story of Des and aJ, a young, idealistic couple, both public school teachers bent on changing the world one kid at a time," describe press notes, "Life is full of promise and endless possibility until Des begins to unravel under the weight of her fears, ignited from that fateful September day. Splitting apart from the pressure, they struggle to find their way back to each other. the lessons they learn, through the children they meet, change them forever.
- www.broadwayworld.com

Notes:
music by Jenny Giering And book And lyrics by Laura Harrington, And is directed by Artistic Director Jack Cummings III.

1st Produced:
Connelly Theatre, NYC    2007

Organisations:
Transport Group

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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  9 performers

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Dress Right

Synopsis:
about Civil War re-enactors and the power of dressing up and the imagination.

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1st Published:
Baker's Plays (Garbage Magazine, 2001), 2001   -

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play Ten Min

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Fifteen Minutes At Midway

Synopsis:
the Battle of Midway, told from multiple points of view

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1st Produced:
Tulane Univ    2005

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  8            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Flag Girls

Synopsis:
Waiting back stage to go on for the Memorial Day ceremony at the turn of the century. 6 teenage girls, wrapped and trapped in the American flag, fight their own Civil War

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Organisations:
Wellesley Theatre Company

1st Published:
in Boston Theatre Marathon of Ten Minute Plays Volume I, Bakers Plays, 2000   -

Music:
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Free Fall

Synopsis:
the battle of the sexes with motorcycles and airplanes

Notes:
theatre La Licorne, Montreal, 1985 (in French)

1st Produced:
Helicon Players, NYC    1992

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Genre:
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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Hallowed Ground

Synopsis:
Set in the last days of the Civil War, Hallowed Ground follows 4 luminous young characters through a long night on a battlefield as they come to terms with war, race, history, forgiveness, and hope.

Notes:
Winner of Boston's "IRNe" for Best New Play, the Clauder Playwriting Competition, 2001, And New Orleans' Big easy Award 2005

1st Produced:
Portland Stage    2002

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Portland Stage Organisations: Little Festival of the Unexpected, ed. Lisa DiFrANZa, Stage and Screen Books, 2002   -

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Heart Of An Emperor, The

Synopsis:
a farcical autopsy of the emperor Napoleon

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Organisations:
Boston Theatre Works

1st Published:
in Boston Theatre Marathon of Ten Minute Plays Volume 3, Bakers Plays,    -

Music:
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Genre:
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Male:  4            Female:  1            Other:  -

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HeArts On Fire

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Winner theatreworks National Playwriting Contest 1991

1st Produced:
Theatreworks, Univ. Of Co    1991

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Genre:
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Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Life You Save, The

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Pilgrim Theatre and Performance

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Listener, The

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Genre:
Screenplay

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Mercy

Synopsis:
a poetic look at death, magic and family memory.

Notes:
Winner 1996 Clauder Competition for Best New Play

1st Produced:
Shakespeare & Co, Lenox, Ma    1996

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Genre:
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Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

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N Bonaparte

Synopsis:
It is 1815 and Napoleon is in his final exile on St. Helena. as he caroms between the colliding realities of his new jailers and old retainers, he enters a strange new world where nothing is quite what it seems. Torn between power and its loss, history and memory, the ghost of Joan of arc falling through the ceiling, and an omnipresent chorus of sardonic rats, he becomes the pivot point for a vividly theatrical and darkly comic meditation on the nature and perils of greatness.

Notes:
Touring to the KO Festival, Amherst, Ma, July 2006, LaMama, October, 2006, Montreal And La, 2007

1st Produced:
Boston Center For The Arts    2005

Organisations:
Pilgrim Theatre Company

1st Published:
http://www.theatreforum.org, 2008   -

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Night Luster

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Winner Bay Area "Bernie" for 1 of 10 best new plays 1983

1st Produced:
Bay Area Playwrights Festival    1983

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1st Published:
available as pdf,    -

Music:
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Genre:
full length Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Pickett's Charge

Synopsis:
about Civil War re-enactors who get their fondest wish and fall through a hole in time

Notes:
Nora theater Company Workshop, 2006, Gecko Playreading Series, 2006

1st Produced:
New Voices Series, Geva Theatre    2000

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Music:
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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Probability

Synopsis:
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Notes:
by Laura Harrington with music by Jenny Giering

1st Produced:
Suffolk University    -

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Genre:
musical

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Round Midnight

Synopsis:
Love, loss, and longing set to a jazz score.

Notes:
Joseph Kesselring Award for Drama, 1985

1st Produced:
Urban Stock Company, NY    1986

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Play, 60 min One act

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Universal Soldier

Synopsis:
Somewhere in the mideast, 2 children try to cross a mine field.

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1st Produced:

Organisations:
Nora Theatre Company

1st Published:
in Boston Theatre Marathon of Ten Minute Plays Volume 4, Bakers Plays,    -

Music:
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Genre:
play Ten Min

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

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