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HILLY HICKS JR
(1970 - )Nationality: USA
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Hilly Hicks, Jr. is a graduate of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and the Columbia University Graduate School of the Arts. He is the author of the children's playthe Breeze, the Gust, the Gale and the Wind, which was commissioned and produced by La Jolla Playhouse. Mr. Hicks' new play artists & Criminals was commissioned by South Coast Repertory. His play a Hole in the Dark was presented in Manhattan Theatre Club's reading series 6@6: Discovering the Next Generation, and was workshopped at the Lark Theatre Company in New York City. a Hole in the Dark was subsequently produced at the Horizon Theatre Company in Atlanta and at City Theatre in Pittsburgh. His short playNote to Self was presented in the 2001 Humana Festival at the Actors Theatre of Louisville. His play the Home Life of Polar Bears was developed at New York Theatre Workshop and the O'Neill National Playwrights Conference, and was further workshopped in the New Works Festival at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles. Mr. Hicks' other plays include the Trophy Room. He was a staff writer for the Fox television series Pasadena with Dana Delaney. Mr. Hicks is the recipient of the 2001 Berilla Kerr Foundation award for playwriting and a Van Lier Playwriting Fellowship from New York Theatre Workshop. In addition to South Coast Rep and La Jolla Playhouse, he has been commissioned by Manhattan Theatre Club. Mr. Hicks is a Usual Suspect (affiliated artist) at New York Theatre Workshop and a member of Drama Dept., the Dramatists Guild, and the Writers Guild of America.
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Blamco Heaven And Hell (On Earth): A Divine Comedy Hole In the Dark, A Home Life Of Polar Bears, The Note To Self Trophy Room, The Uncle Sam's Satiric SpectacularBlamco
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Latin American woman and her American dream
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Originally performed with five short plays under the overall title "You People (Short Plays About Those People)
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Interart, New York
30 Nov 2007
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Top of PageHeaven And Hell (On Earth): A Divine Comedy
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In this comic anthology - a collection of scenes and monologues - an array of devilishly talented playwrights put a contemporary spin on a fascinating eternal obsession. Grappling with their own diverse experiences of vice and virtue, salvation and damnation, characters from the twentysomething generation interpret their world with amusing revelations and surprising insights
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written by Robert Alexander, Jenny Lyn Bader, Elizabeth Dewberry, Deborah Lynn Frockt, Rebecca Gilman, Keith Glover, Hilly Hicks, Jr., Karen Hines, Michael Kassin, Melanie Marnich, Jane Martin, William Mastrosimone, Guillermo Reyes, Sarah Schulman, Richar
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Top of PageHole In the Dark, A
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as the Rosehues, a white 20th-century family, anxiously prepare to have their black neighbors, whom they have just sued, over for lunch, the Rosehues' itinerant son returns home with the news that their ancestors once owned slaves. the shock of the revelation sends the Rosehues' naive daughter on a time-bending journey back to the plantation of her randy forefather, Nigel O'Neill. there it becomes evident that the Rosehues are descended not only from the plantation owners, but also from the slaves.
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Horizon Theatre Company (Atlanta, Ga, United States)
2000
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90-120 min Comedy
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Male: 3 Female: 3 Other: 3 males, 3 females
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Top of PageHome Life Of Polar Bears, The
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Top of PageNote To Self
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Top of PageTrophy Room, The
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On the brink of manhood, allen Porter finds himself faced with a fateful decision: follow in his late brother's footsteps and aim for military heroism, or fulfill his demanding father's wish for him to become the first in the family to attend college. Hoping to make his Father happy, allen gains admission to Stanford. But when his Father learns that he was admitted through an affirmative action program, the family is split in unexpected ways.
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110-120 min Play/Drama
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Male: 3 Female: 3 Other: 3 males, 3 females
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Top of PageUncle Sam's Satiric Spectacular
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the astounding Krispinsky! the all-American Feminem! the amazing Screaming Vegan, the Formerly amazing Bob, and Mr. McBuffer the Renegade Puppet! With American culture and politics growing increasingly surreal, Actors theatre of Louisville commissioned seven marquee playwrights to create a variety-show satire in the grand old vaudeville tradition -- from ventriloquists to contortionists to Lady Liberty on a trapeze. With songs!
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Actors Theatre Of Louisville (Louisville, Ky, United States)
2005
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80-95 min Satirical musical comedy
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Male: 8 Female: 8 Other: 8 males, 8 females (10-30 actors possible: 5-15 males, 5-15 females)
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