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SUSAN HAYDEN
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In addition to being a playwright, Susan Hayden is a fiction writer and poet. Her short story, You Are What You Drive, was recently published in Storie: all Write, an Italian/American literary journal based in Rome. She has completed work on her first novel, a Young adult book, set in the San Fernando Valley in the 1970s. She is also the author of a gift book, The Enchanted Bath (Peter Pauper Press). Her poetry has appeared in numerous publications, including arete, Hollywood Review, Venice Magazine, Atlanta Journal, and can be heard on two spoken word c.d.'s, Innings and Quarters and DisClosures: Voices of Women. a screenplay version of her one-act play Tent Show, entitled Sweetheart of the Rodeo, was a Finalist in the Sundance Screenwriters Competition. She is a producer of literary events, including two tributes to the late writer Raymond Carver. She is also the co-founder of L.A.'s first performance fiction series, Gas/Food/Lodging, where writers, actors and directors would come together to dramatize short stories. She is the creator/producer of Library Girl, a mixed-genre, monthly literary series at the Ruskin Group Theatre. She lives in Santa Monica with her son, Mason.
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Advantages Of A Steep Roof, The Borderline Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves Haslam Project, The Tent Show Tomorrowland We Just Want You To Be HappyAdvantages Of A Steep Roof, The
Synopsis:
While sitting in a car and watching a fire, a couple examines their own spark and finds out what drives them, what's turned to ash and what can be re-ignited.
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One of twelve short plays picked from A nationwide competition for Collision Festival West
1st Produced:
Ruskin Theatre, Santa Monica, Ca 2007
Organisations:
Regroup Theatre/Ruskin Theatre
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Ten Min
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Top of PageBorderline
Synopsis:
a middle-aged widow, in the throws of fresh grief, goes on her first "date" in eighteen years and finds that the man she's been fixed up with needs a lot more help than she does.
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1st Produced:
Ruskin Theatre, Santa Monica, Ca 2008
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Ruskin Group Theatre
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Genre:
Fifteen minute play
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Top of PageGypsies, Tramps and Thieves
Synopsis:
In a quest for answers, a grieving, middle-aged widow seeks comfort and counsel in the hands of a clairvoyant and in the midst, uncovers her roots as a restless Roma Gypsy.
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Performed As part of Cafe Plays, A monthly event where playwrights write A ten minute play in four hours based on A theme, with two characters And A cafe setting.
1st Produced:
Ruskin Theatre, Santa Monica, Ca 2008
Organisations:
Ruskin Group Theatre
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Genre:
Ten Min
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Male: - Female: 2 Other: -
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Top of PageHaslam Project, The
Synopsis:
This piece was based on the writings of Gerald Haslam and, as a work-in-progress, had a mixed cast
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written by Christopher Allport And Susan Hayden
1st Produced:
South Coast Repertory Theatre in Costa Mesa, Ca 1994
Organisations:
workshop setting through the Nexus Project
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Genre:
Play/Drama
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Male: - Female: - Other: -
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Top of PageTent Show
Synopsis:
involves a singer in a traveling carnival, caught in a love triangle with a drifter/cowboy and a pareplegic magician. It is about the search for home and reconciling one's past.
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1st Produced:
Met Theatre in Hollywood 1993
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Genre:
Play One act
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Top of PageTomorrowland
Synopsis:
In the food court of Topanga Plaza on Christmas Eve, a mall-style Santa Claus and a recognizable TV actor rekindle an old alliance and find out their projections of each other's lives--and their own have been entirely inaccurate.
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1st Produced:
Santa Monica, Ca 2006
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Ruskin Group Theatre
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Genre:
20 min One act
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Male: 2 Female: - Other: -
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Top of PageWe Just Want You To Be Happy
Synopsis:
a young widow reunites in a most awkward encounter with a formerly close friend who has since abandoned the relationship out of fear. It is revealed that the friend was-and still is-- really in love with the widow's now-deceased husband.
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Written And performed As part of Ruskin Group Theatre's monthly Cafe Plays
1st Produced:
Ruskin Group Theatre Fall 2009
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Genre:
Fifteen minute play
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Male: - Female: 2 Other: -
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