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Donna Hoke

DONNA HOKE

  
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    Robert A Freedman Dramatic Agency  represented by Samara Harris

Western New York regional representative for the Dramatists Guild and ensemble playwright in residence at Road Less Traveled Productions, award-winning playwright Donna Hoke's work has been seen in 38 states and on five continents. Her full-length plays include THE COUPLE NEXT DOOR (Princess Grace semi-finalist, currently in its third year in rep in Romania), SEEDS (Artie award for Outstanding New Play), FLOWERS IN THE DESERT (AACT top 20 finalist), SAFE (winner of the Todd McNerney National Playwriting, Naatak National Playwriting, and Great Gay Play and Musical Contests), and BRILLIANT WORKS OF ART (2016 Kilroys List; winner, HRC Showcase and Firehouse Festival of New American Plays, Woodward/Newman and nuVoices finalist). Donna is also a New York Times-published crossword puzzle constructor; author of Neko and the Twiggets, a children's book; and founder/co-curator of BUA Takes 10: GLBT Short Stories. For three consecutive years, she was named Buffalo's Best Writer by Artvoice-the only woman to ever receive the designation.

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

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         Best Interests         Black And White         Brilliant Works of Art         Cake Top This         Cockeyed Today         Couple Next Door, The         Face Time         Flowers In the Desert         Gift Horse         Greater Good         Hard Cell         Last Call         Life Lines         Lost At Sea         On The Roof         Pee Test, The         Safe         Seeds         Slice of Life         Sold!         Stage Whispers         Two Puzzles Walk Into A Bar         Write This Way         You Haven't Changed A Bit

Best Interests

Synopsis:
A mutual attraction to a waiter helps mother and son come to terms with their relationships and each other.

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Ten Min

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Black And White

Synopsis:
Two puzzles argue over which of them should be solved.

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Best 10-Minute Plays 2013 Plays For Three Or More Actors. Published by Smith and Kraus, Inc.    -

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Brilliant Works of Art

Synopsis:
Law student Abby Gates has no qualms about becoming a sugar baby to get her tuition bills paid--until it means keeping a secret from the man she loves, an artist exploring confession and thresholds of shame. When Abby's two worlds collide, she discovers her sugar daddy has taught her about more than good wine.

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Fifth place finisher TADA!, top ten finisher Woodward/Newman Drama Contest, top three finisher Rising Sage Visiting Playwrights, semi-finalist Playwrights First, and WINNER OF THE FIREHOUSE FESTIVAL OF NEW AMERICAN PLAYS.

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Cake Top This

Synopsis:
Rhonda and Juliette agree they want to get married, but didn't realize they had different reasons for doing so.

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Box Wine Theatre's Raucous Caucus Iii    

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Genre:
Lesbian one act

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Cockeyed Today

Synopsis:
Maureen Stanton is the editor of a soap opera magazine, and her workplace is an appropriate backdrop for her life, which has been one of accidental happenstance. When Maureen finally decides to make life happen, she does the wrong thing, which ultimately may be the best choice.

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Couple Next Door, The

Synopsis:
When suburbanites Sadie and Vance try to remedy their marriage by hooking up with the swinging-savvy Janet and Rich, all four find that nothing - even chocolate - is as simple as it seems. This sexy, adult comedy asks: Can marriage survive a night with the Couple Next Door? and will there be awkwardness at the mailbox the morning after?

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1st Produced:
Road Less Traveled Theater     10 Sep 2010

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Road Less Traveled Theater

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Genre:
Dramedy 100 min

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Face Time

Synopsis:
Two old friends find catching up in person is a recap.

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Ten Min

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Flowers In the Desert

Synopsis:
After 14 years of marriage, Britt and Joe called it quits, so Joe is surprised when two years later, Britt asks him to try again. Cheater Joe still loves his ex and their triplet boys, but Britt has an agenda: Her cancer is back, and she wants a stable home for her children, as well as a Father who will raise them properly once she's gone.

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Genre:
one act 75 min

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Gift Horse

Synopsis:
a con man helps a woman buy a gift for her estranged son, and the two form an unlikely alliance.

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Greater Good

Synopsis:
Robbie is headed back to Afghanistan, and his girlfriend Jennifer pulls out all the stops to get him to stay-or does she?

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Ten Min

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Hard Cell

Synopsis:
an atheist convict on death row has his final showdown with the prison chaplain.

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Last Call

Synopsis:
a brief portrait of three people at the end of the evening, when melancholy, life's wisdom, and self-knowledge intersect.

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Life Lines

Synopsis:
When a mother discovers her late son's journal, she fights her conscience over her right to read it.

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Life Lines won First Place at the Driftwood Players Third Annual Festival of Shorts in edmonds, WA.

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Lost At Sea

Synopsis:
as a family prepares for a war hero homecoming, they explore their feelings about loss with help from an unexpected source.

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Male:  4            Female:  4            Other:  -

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On The Roof

Synopsis:
1955. Mitzi opens a cabaret and gay bar. The bartender is playboy Cruz. Among the customers are Levi who wants to be a Broadway composer, Mac who is more interested in his Coke, Bob a World War Two vet and Andy just past his law finals. Will any of them find love?

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Celebration Theatre New Play Reading Series     2016

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Genre:
Gay full length

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Pee Test, The

Synopsis:
Darla takes Matt's rideshare with an agenda but to carry it out, she must pass Matt's strange test.

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Safe

Synopsis:
In 1986, Nancy everett is a sheltered high school girl and if her best friend, Brett, is gay - - well, she'd rather not know about it. When Brett disappears, Nancy swallows her guilt at being unable to stand up for him in the face of her controlling Father and the school bullies. In 2011, Nancy is married to the controlling Kirk and the mother of an infant and a teenage son, Rex, who takes his cues from his Father and bullies not only his mother, but Todd, a gay classmate. When Todd commits suicide, Nancy is tormented by her culpability, which compels her to face her fears.

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Winner of the 2014 Todd McNerney and Naatak National Playwriting Contests, and the 2015 Great Gay Play and Musical Contest, as well as semi-finalist for Bay Area Playwrights Festival.

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Buffalo, NY     11 Mar 2016

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Genre:
Gay, one act

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Male:  9            Female:  2            Other:  doubling to 3m 2f

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Seeds

Synopsis:
Single mom Josephine has three children from different dads; identical and infertile twin Marjorie is pretty sure she's ready to be childless--until Jo offers to be her egg donor surrogate.

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1st Produced:
Road Less Traveled Productions in Buffalo, New York     2013

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Genre:
Play/Drama 135 min

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Male:  1            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Slice of Life

Synopsis:
Beginning with teens and ending with octogenarians, these eight plays present contemporary scenarios for each decade of life.

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one act 90 min

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Sold!

Synopsis:
a wannabe art collector learns a lesson about the value of art from a savvy historian.

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Manny Fried Theater     23 Jul 2010

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Stage Whispers

Synopsis:
Grandma finds packing to move to a patio home fraught with memories and pragmatism.

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Two Puzzles Walk Into A Bar

Synopsis:
Two puzzles vie for the attentions of the hot pencil at the end of the bar.

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Write This Way

Synopsis:
A writer allows characters to take the lead and, in doing so, not only breaks through writer's block but learns a thing or two.

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1st Produced:
Theatre Out, Santa Ana, Ca     2011

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2011 Briefs Festival

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Ten Min

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You Haven't Changed A Bit

Synopsis:
Len Hopes that Lottie will show up at their 70th renuion so he can finally have a date with her.

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