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Ross Howard

ROSS HOWARD

  (1978 - )
Nationality:    British
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Ross Howard's work has been seen across the UK, Ireland and the United States; and developed at Last Frontier Conference and Great Plains Theatre Conference. Hailing from Lancashire, in 2002, he was invited to join the Royal Court Theatre Young Writer's Group. In 2008 he received a Playwright Fellowship from the Edward F. Albee Foundation. ARTHUR AND ESTHER was awarded "Best of Fringe" at Las Vegas Fringe Festival in 2010 while NO ONE LOVES US HERE was a finalist for the New York Stage and Film Founders Award 2012. FRISKY & THE PANDA MAN was a winning finalist in the 38th Samuel French Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival in 2013, while PICTURE OURSELVES IN LATVIA was listed in New York's L Magazine's "Best of Theater 2014". He is the Resident Playwright of New Light Theater Project (Indie Theater Hall of Fame/People Of The Year 2014 - NYTE) in New York. ARTHUR AND ESTHER, NO ONE LOVES US HERE, PICTURE OURSELVES IN LATVIA and his evening of short plays OUR WALK THROUGH THE WORLD are published by Samuel French.

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         11am With Dr. Rupert, The         Arthur And Esther         Enlightened         Frisky & the Panda Man         Funhouse Of Mirrors, A         Hankerbox, The         No One Loves Us Here         Our Prospects For the Coming Season         Our Walk Through The World         Picture Ourselves In Latvia         Relinquish         Rules Of Assortment         Staying At Dr. Brown's         Tilly (An Introduction)         Two of Us         Viewing, The         Who We Found Instead

11am With Dr. Rupert, The

Synopsis:
the dying minutes of the eleventh hour with Dr. Rupert and Nurse Whitehall.

Notes:
As part of An evening of short plays "Made In Britain"

1st Produced:
Lost Theatre, London     01 Nov 2011

Organisations:
Made From Scratch Theatre Company

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
One act

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Arthur And Esther

Arthur And Esther
In the wake of public spending cuts, Arthur wrestles with the methods set out in Montgomery Swank's "28 Ways to Terminate Your Existence and Questions You May Have", the one book he has salvaged from the closure of his beloved library. In the wake of her own death, his wife Esther reconciles the ghosts of the past with a hope for the future. A play of two worlds. This elemental and affecting two-hander explores love, its loss, and the lives we inherit and impose on others.

Notes:
Facebook.com/arthurandesther. Winner of "Best of Fringe" At Las Vegas Fringe Festival 2010

1st Produced:
The Studio @ Cherry Lane, New York International Fringe Festival     21 Aug 2007

Organisations:
New York International Fringe Festival

1st Published:

Music:
-

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Genre:
dramatic comedy

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Enlightened

Synopsis:
It's been months since Rupert's funeral and young widow Jane hasn''t heard a peep out of "friends" Margaret and alan. at a coffee shop, plain Jane discovers why she has been omitted from their progressive social circle and how she just might be too Caucasian.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Linton Theatre Workshop     01 Apr 2011

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
One act/Satire

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Frisky & the Panda Man

Frisky & the Panda Man
Lost love, lost world, last panda.

Notes:
Winner at Samuel French Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival 2013

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Palimpsest Theatre

1st Published:

Music:
-

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Genre:
One act dark comedy

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Funhouse Of Mirrors, A

Synopsis:
Intimacy can lead to distortion. Six people. Familiar environments transformed by laughs, silences, touches, and glances. attraction caught up in manipulation. the said and the unsaid are pieces in a puzzle. an immersive experience in the obsessive games that can rule us.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Menier Gallery, London     01 Mar 2012

Organisations:
Flying Orchard

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
One act

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Hankerbox, The

Synopsis:
Janice brings a box to husband Kenneth's workplace at lunchtime. What is it?

Notes:
Staged reading At ADC theatre, Cambridge As part of "Naked Stage" October 2011

1st Produced:
-    

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
One act/Surrealist

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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No One Loves Us Here

No One Loves Us Here
Central Valley, California. When the Native American Washington is invited to stay in the Beaumonts' guest house, Mr. Beaumont thinks he'll get one thing from the arrangement. But just as Mrs. Beaumont avidly tends to her front yard, so Washington decides to do some pruning himself. A contest for territory, No One Loves Us Here is a black comic portrait of love and obsession, the aspiration of displaced youth and a crumbling white collar class.

Notes:
Finalist for the New York Stage And Film Founders Award 2012

1st Produced:

Organisations:
New Light Theater Project

1st Published:

Music:
-

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Genre:
Black Comedy

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Our Prospects For the Coming Season

Our Prospects For the Coming Season
A Latin American footballer arrives in Milton Keynes, while a young woman goes into labour some place else nearby.

Notes:
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1st Produced:

Organisations:
Ash Angel

1st Published:

Music:
-

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Genre:
One act comedy

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Our Walk Through The World

Our Walk Through The World
Dark, irreverent and very funny, Our Walk Through The World is a collection of six short plays examining the absurdities, tragedies and small triumphs of modern life. In Tilly (An Introduction), a young woman films herself auditioning to become a surrogate mother. Colour-coded jelly beans prove the saving of one man's career in Rules of Assortment, and a football manager introduces his latest acquisition to an assembled press in Our Prospects For The Coming Season.A son is reunited with his biological mother in Relinquish, while in The Viewing an estate agent shows a couple around their dream home to a soundscape of gunfire and screaming. Finally, in Frisky & The Panda Man, a conservationist struggles to rationalise his feelings for the last female panda on earth.

Notes:
Includes: Tilly (An Introduction), Rules of Assortment, Our Prospects For The Coming Season, Relinquish, The Viewing and Frisky & The Panda Man

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Ash Angel

1st Published:

Music:
-

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Genre:
Short Plays

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  flexible

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Picture Ourselves In Latvia

Picture Ourselves In Latvia
A contemporary comedy on contemporary England. Desires are suppressed and aspirations thwarted for both the staff and patients of a psychiatric ward. Orderly Oliver pines for Margaret Thatcher. Dr Rupert wants Nurse Whitehall who wants Dr Rupert. But Dr Rupert and his wife are trying for a baby and Nurse Whitehall, who is also married, has just returned from maternity leave. As for the patients, Duncan secretly loves Anna who secretly loves Martin who openly loves no one. Both a love story and a modern allegory of the state, Picture Ourselves in Latvia confronts the impossibility of categorising people as either sane or insane.

Notes:
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1st Produced:

Organisations:
New Light Theater Project

1st Published:

Music:
-

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Genre:
Dramatic comedy

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Relinquish

Relinquish
A mother meets her son for the first time since she gave birth to him. But there is an unusual condition to the reunion

Notes:
Recipient of Davey Marlin-Jones Award for Best Short Play

1st Produced:
Paul Harris Theatre     01 May 2005

Organisations:
-

1st Published:

Music:
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Genre:
One act/ Serio-comedy

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Rules Of Assortment

Rules Of Assortment
at a bank's sorting centre a new employee's ambivalence to the confectionery around the office raises suspicion of his commitment to the company.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Linton Theatre Workshop     01 Apr 2011

Organisations:
-

1st Published:

Music:
-

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Genre:
One act/Comedy

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Staying At Dr. Brown's

Synopsis:
a literature professor and Robert Browning aficionado holds a student hostage in his basement, convinced that she's his Elizabeth Barrett. Emma just won't play along and it's been four days now . . . or five, depending on who you believe, and the power struggle is about to end.

Notes:
Staged reading At ADC theatre, Cambridge As part of "Naked Stage" January 2010

1st Produced:
Paul Harris Theatre     01 Apr 2005

Organisations:
Nevada Conservatory Theatre

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
One act/Thriller

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Tilly (An Introduction)

Tilly (An Introduction)
A young woman films herself auditioning to become a surrogate mother.

Notes:
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1st Produced:

Organisations:
Ash Angel

1st Published:

Music:
-

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Genre:
Dramatic comedy/monologue

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Two of Us

Synopsis:
Flashing between Honolulu and New York City, Two of Us shines a spotlight on the lives of Him and Her and the social and domestic pressures leading to His destructive act of assassinating John Lennon in December 1980. A showdown between the real and the fantastic, through a haunting cast of characters, Two of Us is a mind bending parable of contemporary relevance speaking to economic hardship, gender equality, mental health, celebrity culture and gun violence.

Notes:
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1st Produced:

Organisations:
New Light Theater Project

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Viewing, The

Viewing, The
a dream house in an occupied foreign land. Is it worth what it costs?

Notes:
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1st Produced:

Organisations:
In Company Theatre/Off Cut Festival

1st Published:

Music:
-

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Genre:
One act/ Black comedy/Drama/political allegory

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Who We Found Instead

Synopsis:
US intelligence has found a miniature golf course in the mountains of Tora Bora. Surveillance has captured what appears to be a tall man roaming around the area with a stick. they think it could be Osama Bin Laden. It could be just someone playing miniature golf. It could even be Osama Bin Laden playing miniature golf. Private Garfunkel and Private Simon are sent to check it out and discover that war can be quite romantic.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Pillsbury House Theatre, Minneapolis     01 Aug 2007

Organisations:
Minnesota Fringe Festival

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
One act/Romance

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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