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TOM HAYES
(1970 - )Nationality: USA
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Hayes is an award-winning playwright and co-founder of Playwrights Local.Tom's playwriting credits include The Appalachian Trail staged in CSU's annual play festival at the Factory Theatre in 2004; Only Sing for Me which appeared in the CSU play festival in 2005; and co-writing credits on Lost Prospect (a moving play through downtown Cleveland) at the Ingenuity Festival of Art and Technology in 2006. Tom's play A Howl in the Woods was one winning entry in Cleveland Public Theatre's Little Box competition in 2007; and Tom had co-writing credits on Know Your Future at the 2008 Ingenuity Festival of Art and Technology. Tom also had the winning entry (A Howl in the Woods) in the 2008 New Plays Competition at convergence-continuum-now renamed Lord of the Burgeoning Lumber-the play was awarded Best Original Script by a Local Playwright - 2008 by Rave and Pan. Tom's play Patterns received a workshop production at CPT in March of 2011. In 2016, Tom co-authored with Playwrights Local, Objectively/Reasonable, which the Cleveland Critic's Circle named the Most Socially Significant Play of 2016. Tom earned his bachelor of arts in creative writing from Ohio University, and his masters in library science from Kent State University.
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Lord Of the Burgeoning Lumber Objectively/Reasonable Only Sing For Me PatternsLord Of the Burgeoning Lumber
Synopsis:
When a very nearsighted forest ranger stumbles upon a campsite where two rough-and-tumble cowboys are having a really good time roughly tumbling in the woods, all manner of surreal gender-bending, shape-shifting, psyche-shattering mayhem erupts. Can the wily Ranger counter the campy carnal craziness, or will the howling power of the spirits of the eternal forest overcome them all? Lord of the Burgeoning Lumber is a magical-realism comedy that takes some bizarre surrealistic turns as it plays merry havoc with the malleable nature of identity.
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written for 3 male characters; As staged, used 2 females to enhance the presence of one of the characters (i.e. 5 Actors but 3 characters)
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Genre:
Comedy
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Male: 3 Female: - Other: -
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Synopsis:
A documentary play on the impact and aftermath of the Tamir Rice shooting, expressing unheard voices from the Cudell neighborhood and Greater Cleveland. This powerful new work is based on original interviews with legal experts, social critics, police officers, parents, and other Greater Clevelanders who express their fears, reservations, and hopes-- fueling monologues drawn from the original interviews. Created by an ensemble of playwrights-Mike Geither, Tom Hayes, Lisa Langford, Michael Oatman, and David Todd-Objectively/Reasonable features direction by Terrence Spivey, former artistic director of Karamu House.
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ensemble of writers-Mike Geither, Tom Hayes, Lisa Langford, Michael Oatman, and David Todd.
1st Produced:
Creative Space at Waterloo Arts
18 Aug 2016
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Playwrights Local
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Genre:
Documentary Play
Parts:
Male: 5 Female: 5 Other: -
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Synopsis:
a bachelor party/reunion goes awry when three old friends meet up. the one used to dominating is in for a surprise, as one of his 'old birds' is singing a new song.
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1st Produced:
Factory Theatre
2005
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Factory Theatre
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Genre:
Play/Drama
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Male: 3 Female: - Other: -
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Top of PagePatterns
Synopsis:
What do you author and what authors you? One young woman's life is explored via the metatheatrical act of play creation. By combining myth, fairy tale, personal history, dress making and play making, layers of conscious reality are laid bare and meaning in one woman's life is prodded, crucified, drawn and quartered, and reconstructed again and again and again.
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Cleveland Public theatre, Workshop Production, MFA thesis; 7 Actors play 21 characters. Two women should be in their late 20's up to 40. Two women should be older than that. One man should be late 20's to 40. the other two men should be older than that.
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Cleveland Public Theatre
11 Mar 2011
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Cleveland Public Theatre
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Genre:
One act Drama, 95 minutes
Parts:
Male: 3 Female: 4 Other: -
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