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Anne Harris

ANNE HARRIS

  
Nationality:    USA
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Anne Harris is a playwright, Dramaturg and teacher currently based in Melbourne. Her plays have been produced primarily in New York City, and since 1998, regionally in Australia. Most recently, she composed and musical directed the score to TRAIN DANCING by Michael Watts, which was produced by Red Dust Theatre for Adelaide Festival 2002. Her one-woman show DUST was also produced by Red Dust Theatre for alice Springs Festival 2002 and excerpted by Darwin Theatre Company. Her latest play SURVIVING JONAH SALT was co-written and produced by members of JUTe Theatre Co in Cairns and Knock em Down Theatre, Darwin in 2004, and is published by Playlabs Press. Ms Harris has worked as Dramaturg and/or script assessor for New York Theatre Workshop, New Dramatists, Soho Rep, Young Playwrights' Festival Inc., Playworks, and the Australian National Playwrights' Centre. She has received support from the Jerome Foundation, New York Foundation for the Arts, and the Australia Council. She was co-founder and artistic director of LeND Theatre in New York, and of the Central Australian Young Playwrights' Festival. She holds an MFA in Dramatic Writing from New York University.

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         Anna O - A Dream Play         Birdgirl         Bitter         Coming In         Dead Zoo, The         Dust         Dyke Is Not A Dam, A         Eight Bucks An Hour         Endsville         Falling         He's So Lucky         In the Garden         Mary Went         Scenes From the Penitentiary         Strike A Match And Blow         Suicide By Sushi         Surviving Jonah Salt         Your Hand To My Mouth

Anna O - A Dream Play

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1st Produced:
Courtyard Playhouse, NYC    1995

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60 min One act

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Male:  -            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Birdgirl

Synopsis:
Bessie Coleman, 30, has a dream of flying airplanes and teaching other Blacks to fly. But in the first quarter of the twentieth century, opportunities for a Black woman are slight. In pursuit of that dream she saves tips from her job at Bo's Chili Parlor on Chicago's South Side, and - to the consternation of her Black friends - enlists the help of Willie Wills, a White mechanic. Despite the racism and mysogyny of flying schools in the U.S., Bessie eventually earns enough money to go to Paris where she becomes the first Black woman in the world to earn her pilot's license. there, too, she renews her friendship with Josephine Baker, a hot new personality, and begins an affair that ignites her heart and political ideas. When Josephine chooses to stay in the lights and money of gay Paris, Bessie returns to Chicago and barnstorms to raise money for an all-Negro flight school. On the eve of her establishment of the school, she falls to her death from a plane piloted by Wills. Set in the glamour and chaos of 1920's Chicago, Harlem, and Paris, Bessie Coleman's story is representative of many Negroes of the time who wanted something better and were willing to pay any price to achieve it.

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1st Produced:
New York Theatre Workshop (Workshop)    1997

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full length Play/Drama

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Male:  1            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Bitter

Synopsis:
gay and lesbian parenting themes

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1st Produced:
Soho Repertory Co, NYC    1996

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One act

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Coming In

Synopsis:
a lesbian couple are heartbroken when their daughter comes out to them as heterosexual and they have difficulty coming to terms with their role in her choice

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1st Produced:
Nat Horne Theatre, NY    1994

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Torch to the Heart anth, 1994   -

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Ten Min

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Dead Zoo, The

Synopsis:
Welcome to the nightmare world of FrEddie McCoy: Melbourne Museum Founder, defender of the faith, and lousy fuck. Charles Darwin is his nemesis, and FrEddie's going to disprove his idiotic notions with an exhibition of his own: Australia's first gorilla family! If FrEddie believes this will convince the Australian public that they have nothing in common with apes, he's wrong. Darwin, McCoy and his wife Lizzie fight it out in this animal kingdom where economics vie with philosophy to win the media spotlight in 19th century Melbourne. In this absurdist romp through Australia's not-so-distant past, the evolution vs creation theory debate is reignited to remind us that some things never die: religious zealotry, Australian culture cringe, and animal magnetism.

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full length Play/Drama

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Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Dust

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Lola's a woman on the edge. In fact, she's gone over the edge, but she's not quite sure where she's landed. It could be the Hudson River, off the edge of Manhattan, or it might be considerably further. the only thing that's clear is that nothing will ever be the same again. a foiled suicide attempt? Or the beginning of a slow bathtub to Australia? Leaving the familiar may not be as easy as it looks, but Lola's going to give it a hell of a try.

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1st Produced:
Red Dust Theatre    2003

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Genre:
75 min Play/Drama

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Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Dyke Is Not A Dam, A

Synopsis:
a Dyke Is Not a Dam pokes fun at being lesbian in a world where straight is the new bisexual. This sexy six-character play makes a tongue-in-cheek symbolic reclamation of Bette Midler music from gay men and defines aspects of love and life in a hilariously accessible way.

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1st Produced:
Tribeca Lab, New York    1995

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full length Play/Drama

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Eight Bucks An Hour

Synopsis:
immigration theme

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1st Produced:
Mardi Gras Culture Festival    2000

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Genre:
15 min One act

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Endsville

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Frank is impotent and Loretta's a whore. It should be a match made in heaven, but when mechanic Tommy flips over Loretta's 1965 Valiant, trouble begins to brew. It's Frank Sinatra and ava Gardner all over again. Is it fifties puritanism or pre-millenial ennui? Somebody wants to settle down, somebody wants to pick up, and somebody wants desperately to overhaul Loretta's engine. everything else is up for grabs once you end up in endsville.

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1st Produced:
Totem Theatre, Alice Springs Nt    -

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Genre:
Full-Length 90 mins Play/Drama

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Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Falling

Synopsis:
Dorothea sells hotdogs on the Observation Deck of the empire State Building. Dorothea loves her job, lives for tourists, but when she witnesses a man jump - or fall - to his death, Dorothea's ready to move to the World Trade Center. In this poignantly funny view from a broad from above, New York is a Sam Spade movie, the long-distance viewers still cost a quarter, but the empire State Building is getting smaller all the time. Life is hard, people are stupid, but up here on the eighty-sixth floor - far from the ground but close to the edge - Dorothea keeps it all in perspective.

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1st Produced:
Soho Repertory Co, NYC    1996

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Ten Min

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Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

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He's So Lucky

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Lucille Dubus thinks she's a fish. ever since her Father first called her Fish when she was eight years old, Lucille has been trying to shake it. Now that he's dead, and Lucille is all grown up, things should be improving. But they're not. Not, that is, until Sal, the physical therapist, appears. Sal knows Lucille isn't a fish. Sal understands Lucille, makes love to Lucille, and even calls her Lucille.It's a match made in heaven. But when you come from white trash New Jersey, your jailbait brother wants to marry you, your mother becomes a dominatrix, and there's no room in the cemetery for your dead father, even heaven seems like just another rest stop on the interstate. In this absurd tale of liberation and love, Mount Rushmore and Frank Sinatra hold the key, and Lucille is finally learning how to turn it.

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1st Produced:
The Playwrights' Center, Minneapolis (Workshop)    1997

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full length Play/Drama

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Male:  1            Female:  3            Other:  -

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In the Garden

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in the 1984 Young Playwrights Festival

1st Produced:
New York Shakespeare Festival Public Theater    1984

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One act

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Mary Went

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Scenes From the Penitentiary

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Father Jack esposito, a Roman Catholic priest, is having a spiritual crisis. When the answer to his prayers is a "90's" Virgin Mary wearing a red sequined evening gown, it's just about all he can take. the problem is, he's undeniably drawn to her, and she is clearly his Savior. Mary G. would like for Jack to believe she is the second coming, but his doubts may win out. Meanwhile, Runaway Mary makes her way to New York City where she is assisted as a new street person by Just Richard, a kindly southern gentleman who knows his way around the streets of Brooklyn. Father Jack's parents, Mare and Joe esposito, are having their own crises. Bensonhurst is not the same to Mare and Joe after Bishop O'Brien comes bearing bad news, and Runaway Mary comes bearing good. Three Mary's; three views into modern life; three kinds of penitents and penitentiaries, and of course, heaven lies somewhere between Bensonhurst and Vegas.

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1st Produced:
Case Western Reserve Univ., Cleveland    1993

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Genre:
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Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Strike A Match And Blow

Synopsis:
the non-naturalist tale of Sean O'Casey and his near- non-involvement in the Irish Revolution in Dublin 1910-1925. His acrimonious relationship with activist Constance de Markievicz is explored with humour

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1st Produced:
Primary Stages, New York (Workshop)    1995

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Genre:
full length Play/Drama

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Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Suicide By Sushi

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1st Produced:
Perishable Theatre, Providence Ri    1994

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Genre:
45 min One act

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Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Surviving Jonah Salt

Surviving Jonah Salt
Jonah is dumped in the Outback desert by his alcoholic mother. there he runs into three women who each seem bent on sending him mad under the brutal Australian sun. This is a road trip, a mystery, a psychotic folly, a singular account of dying alone.

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by Kathryn Ash, Stephen Carleton, Gail Evans and Anne Harris

1st Produced:
Jute (Just Us Theatre Ensemble)    2004

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Co-produced by JUTe (Just Us Theatre ensemble) and Knock 'em Down Theatre, Darwin

1st Published:
(Flutter & Surviving Jonah Salt) Playlab Press, Australia, 2004   0908156820

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  1            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Your Hand To My Mouth

Synopsis:
Gail makes peace with her cantankerous dad before he dies

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1st Produced:
Cleveland Public Theatre    1997

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Genre:
60 min One act

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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