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Karen Hartman

KAREN HARTMAN

  
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    ICM Partners  represented by Diana Glazer

Karen Hartman is an award-winning playwright and librettist whose work has been supported by the Rockefeller Foundation, the N.e.A., the Helen Merrill Foundation, a Daryl Roth "Creative Spirit" award, a Hodder Fellowship, a Jerome Fellowship, a Fulbright Scholarship to Jerusalem, a New Dramatists residency, and Core Membership at the Playwrights Center. Her plays, Goliath, Donna Wants, Gum, Going Gone, anatomy 1968, Troy Women, aLICe: Tales of a Curious Girl, Leah's Train and others have been commissioned and/or staged by dozens of Theaters including the Women's Project, McCarter Theater, ACT in San Francisco, Center Stage, the Magic Theater, and Dallas Theater Center, and are published by TCG, DPS, Backstage Books, and Playscripts, Inc. Current projects include the musical book for a Sea Change, score by annMarie Milazzo, which the araca Group will workshop in December 2008, directed by Leigh Silverman. NaaTCO (National Asian-American Theater Company) will premiere her play Leah's Train in early 2009. Carmen, La Gitana, a pop musical from Bizet's opera for which Ms. Hartman co-wrote the book, is scheduled for a commercial run in Madrid, Fall 2009. She holds a B.A. from Yale University and an M.F.A. from the Yale School of Drama. She has taught playwriting in a wide range of settings including four years at the Yale School of Drama.

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

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         Alice: Tales Of A Curious Girl         Alice's Wild Ride: the True Story Of A Pioneer On Wheels         Anatomy 1968         Antigone Project, The         Dancing With Abandon         Girl Under Grain         Going, Gone         Goldie, Max And Milk         Goliath         Gum         Leah's Train         Mother Of Modern Censorship, The         Some Kind Of Catch         Supertrue         Troy Women         Wild Kate: A Tale Of Revenge At Sea

Alice: Tales Of A Curious Girl

Synopsis:
On a hot spring day, alice leaps from a stifling photographer's studio into Wonderland, a world where cakes talk, cats smoke, and little girls change size. In Part Two, she tries to repeat the adventure by stepping Through the Looking Glass. alice's second journey is more inversion than fantasy, a place of fleeting memories and mismatched childhood dreams. an invigorating race through the brain of a curious girl, based on Lewis Carroll's alice books.

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1st Produced:
Dallas Theater Center (Dallas, Tx, United States)    1999

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1st Published:
Playscripts, Inc - New York   -

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Genre:
90-100 min Serious comedy with songs

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  3 males, 2 females (5-46 actors possible: 0-42 males, 2-46 females)

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Alice's Wild Ride: the True Story Of A Pioneer On Wheels

Synopsis:
alice Huyler Ramsey was the first woman to drive across America.

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1st Produced:
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Genre:
Childrens play

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Anatomy 1968

Synopsis:
a young couple try and enjoy their honeymoon whilst he is on leave from fighting in Vietnam

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1st Produced:
-    2004

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Genre:
Comedy

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Antigone Project, The

Synopsis:
By Tanya Barfield, Karen Hartman, Chiori Miyagawa, Lynn Nottage and Caridad Svich

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1st Produced:
Women's Project Theater, NY    2004

Organisations:
Women's Project

1st Published:
No Passport Press, Ca (2009)   -

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Dancing With Abandon

Synopsis:
the "Oprah of Opera" hits rock bottom when her crazed abandoned rocker son returns and moons her at the Kennedy Center Honors! Scandal ignites, landing her diva ass in the nuthouse! a Rock 'n' Opera bio musical based on a true story.

Notes:
written by Karen Hartman And Phil Lebovits

1st Produced:
Dixon Place, New York International Fringe Festival    2009

Organisations:
Small Pond entertainment

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Genre:
2h 0m Musical Comedy

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Girl Under Grain

Synopsis:
When they are abandoned by their men Sugar tells her daughters-in-law to go back home. Orpah starts off straightaway but Ruth clings to Sugar

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1st Produced:
-    2000

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  1            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Going, Gone

Synopsis:
Desire and baseball in a Jewish home in the 1930s. This is the story of a sports commentator in the States in the 1930s, and is an affectionate and warm portrait of this very imperfect man, his growing family and the immediacy of live sport.

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Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Goldie, Max And Milk

Synopsis:
Max a single lesbian has just given birth but has no idea how to look after her child. Goldie is an Orthodox Jewish lactation consultant who has been sent to look after Max. Can the two opposing cultures work together?

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1st Produced:
Rinker Playhouse, West Palm Beach, Florida    40527

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Genre:
Drama. - - Lesbian, full length

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Goliath

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1st Produced:
Open Fist Theatre Company, Los Angeles    Aug 2009

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Gum

Synopsis:
In this violent fairy tale, two cloistered sisters discover new appetites. GUM takes place in a fictional fundamentalist country, inspired by a true scandal in which young egyptian women were rumored to have had sex with boys in cars. the explanation? Tainted gum, part of a foreign plot to undermine the virtue of traditional girls. Too outrageous to be real, too terrifying to be anything else, GUM depicts the glee and the horror of sexual awakening in a fiercely restrictive culture. explicit sexual content.

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1st Produced:
New York    1999

Organisations:
Women's Project

1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY,    -

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Genre:
Drama One act

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Leah's Train

Synopsis:
In Leah's Train, three generations of love and anger are ignited when a young doctor refuses to attend her grandmother's funeral and what transpires after she boards a train, and its destination mysteriously becomes her Russian Jewish family's untold history

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1st Produced:
Yale University. New Haven, Ct    01 Apr 1994

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1st Published:
Playscripts, Inc (2010)   -

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  1 boy 11 1 girl 12

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Mother Of Modern Censorship, The

Synopsis:
tells the story of a power grab in a world where purity is the ticket to success. the setting is the Music Censorship Headquarters of a fictional fundamentalist country. In the face of ever-shifting rules and restrictions, the chief music censor and her loyal assistant must prove they are worthy to screen out the smut.

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1st Produced:
-    1996

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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY,    -

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Genre:
Play One act

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Some Kind Of Catch

Synopsis:
When the Red Sox broke their curse and won the World Series, what happened next? 98-year-old Nathan experiences their last championship and attempts to find what else there is to live for now that they have won again. He meets Samantha Power, an accomplished journalist and fan, who is wrestling with similar questions. Together, they explore the pressing matters outside of the ball field and grapple with the life-and-death implications of becoming winners.

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Celebrating And exploring themes from America's favorite pastime, the Baseball Plays: 7th Inning Stretch is A collection of short comedies And Dramas from the Mile Square theatre's Annual event. From A couple Arguing over the use of steroids (Off Base by Theresa Rebeck) to A priest's fight to preserve the Abandoned lot where the local children play ball (asphalt Green by Rogelio Martinez), to A marriage dissolved over fantasy baseball (Fantasy League by Lee Blessing), this collection captures the love, frustration, And nostalgia surrounding this beloved sport.

1st Produced:
Mile Square Theatre, Hoboken, Nj    18 Jul 2005

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1st Published:
in the Baseball Plays: 7th Inning Stretch, Playscripts Inc   -

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Genre:
10 min comedy Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Supertrue

Synopsis:
On the porch of an almost-charming cabin in the Catskills, two New Yorkers reckon with the moment when Plan A fades away but Plan B has not emerged. In other words, they're turning forty. How will they make a new truth?

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Nominated for The Kilroys 2015. The Kilroys is a group of playwrights and producers in LA who publish an annual industry survey of excellent new plays by female and trans playwrights. It is a tool for producers committed to ending the systemic underrepresentation of female and trans playwrights in the American theater.

1st Produced:
Reading, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (under title "The Fruit")    2011

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Genre:
dark comedy

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Troy Women

Synopsis:
Hecuba and the women of Troy mourn and celebrate their city on the morning after its destruction. Together, they grieve the deaths of their husbands and children as they await their fates at the hands of their Greek captors. With modern elements adapted into euripides' classic, Troy Women is a chilling, brutal, but accessible portrait of women during war.

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Original Playwright - euripides

1st Produced:
Trapdoor Theater Company (Chicago, Il, United States)    1996

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Playscripts, Inc - New York   -

Music:
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Genre:
65-85 min Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  9            Other:  3 males, 9 females (12-20 actors possible: 3-5 males, 9-15 females)

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Wild Kate: A Tale Of Revenge At Sea

Synopsis:
"Call me Isabel." a brainy teen with a chip on her shoulder seeks adventure and escape when she enrolls in High School on the High Seas. But soon Isabel, her new pal Quinn, and a rag-tag collection of classmates and crew find themselves swept off course in an extracurricular payback mission led by the boat's strange and formidable captain, Wild Kate. In this fast-paced contemporary adventure inspired by Melville's Moby Dick and the Deepwater Oil Rig disaster, these young sailors are forced to consider whether saving the ocean is worth risking their lives.

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1st Produced:
American Conservatory Theater, San Francisco, Ca    21 Oct 2010

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1st Published:
Playscripts, Inc   -

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Genre:
comedy Drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  7            Other:  3 either

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