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Les Hunter

LES HUNTER

  
Nationality:    USA
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Les Hunter. Les Hunter's work has been performed at Bates College, Tribeca Performing Arts Center, artistic New Directions, St. Joseph's College, Theater for a New City, Jackson Rep, Galapagos, Siberia, Impact Theater, Bowery Poetry Club, Macalester College, Collective: Unconscious, and Brooklyn College. Mr. Hunter has written articles for American Theatre, offoffonline.com, the Stony Brook Statesman, Serf City, Comparative Drama, and the Loop. He is the recipient of the 2007 Foundation for Jewish Culture New Play Development Grant for To the Orchard. His screenplay Lion of the eastwas accepted to the "Dubai Film Connection" in the 2008 Dubai International Film Festival. MFA, Playwriting: Boston University. Ma, English ed.: Brooklyn College. PhD in progress, English: Stony Brook University. Member: Dramatists Guild, America in Play. Co-founding member: Brooklyn Playwrights Collective. Official website: www.leslielarshunter.com

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

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         167 Tongues         Biggest Break         Cruel And Unusual: Works Inspired By Antonin Artaud         Cyrano De Bergen County, New Jersey         Down By Contact         Dream Play         Frisking Happy Gaylord         Goat Song         I Like To Be Here: Jackson Heights Revisited, Or, This Is A Mango         Jackson Heights 3Am         Lion Of the East         To the Orchard         Two Fall Readings         You Are Now the Owner Of This Suitcase

167 Tongues

Synopsis:
167 Tongues explores the emotional geography of Jackson Heights, the most culturally diverse neighborhood in the world. Intermittent street scenes weave together alongside continuous stories in this 37-character play. an Indian sweet shop vendor struggles to keep her store going and her suitors at bay, a Nepali woman and a Mexican man fall in love across a linguistic divide, an Irish ghost befriends an troubled ecuadorian girl and her Bangladeshi best friend, a Dominican manicurist wonders whether her Jewish Chinese boyfriend will propose before she is deported by the INS, and a Rwandan night nurse attempts to understand the 167 distinct languages spoken in the local emergency Room. This theatrical experience combines street scenes with continuous narratives, found sounds, and movement in an exploration of Jackson Heights, Queens, the most diverse neighborhood in the world.
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
conceived And directed by Ari Laura Kreith. the piece is written by 11 writers: Jenny Lyn Bader, Meny Beriro, Alvin eng, Steven Fechter, Jennifer Gibbs, Les Hunter, Anna Kushner, Rehana Mirza, Jeffrey Solomon, Suzanne Sheptock, And Stefanie Zadravec.

1st Produced:
P.S. 69, 77-02 37th Ave, Jackson Heights (Queens), NY     07 May 2010

Organisations:
Jackson Repertory Theatre

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Biggest Break

Synopsis:
Wherever you're from, it always sucks.
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
part of Confronting Chekhov, eleven new short one-acts by inspired by the work of Anton Chekhov

1st Produced:
Various Locations In Brooklyn And Manhattan, NY     2008

Organisations:
Brooklyn Playwrights Collective

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One act

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Cruel And Unusual: Works Inspired By Antonin Artaud

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written by Jeffrey Skinner, Will Cordeiro, Les Hunter, Maria Micheles, Cornelius Chapman, Al Lefcowitz

1st Produced:
New York     2006

Organisations:
Brooklyn Playwrights Collective

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Cyrano De Bergen County, New Jersey

Synopsis:
When it's discovered that two likable jocks, Gene and Ralph, haven't read Cyrano de Bergeracfor a big test the next period, Ridgewood High's cafeteria is thrown into disarray as the assembled students rack their brains to help them. Claire, a whiz kid with a ridiculously oversized unibrow and a secret crush, devises an elaborate plan to stage the entirety of the play in order to help the hapless athletes. an uproarious, fast-paced spoof of edmond Rostand's classic.

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1st Produced:
Center Stage (Reading) (New York, NY, United States)     2009

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1st Published:
Playscripts, Inc - New York   -

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Genre:
35-40 min Comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  9            Other:  2 males, 9 females (11-16 actors possible: 2-5 males, 9-13 females)

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Down By Contact

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1st Produced:
Rehearsed reading at Dobama Theatre, Cleveland     May 2016

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Dream Play

Synopsis:
Part of Cruel and Unusual, this is a festival of one-act plays inspired by the work of French Dramatist, thinker, and madman antonin artuad

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1st Produced:
Siberia Bar, NY     2006

Organisations:
Brooklyn Playwrights Collective

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Genre:
Short Play One act

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Frisking Happy Gaylord

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1st Produced:
Baldwin Wallace University Ten Minute Play Festival     Oct 2015

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Ten minute play

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Goat Song

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I Like To Be Here: Jackson Heights Revisited, Or, This Is A Mango

Synopsis:
Theatre 167's Jackson Heights Trilogy  collaboratively written by 18 playwrights  featured 37 actors in 93 roles speaking 14 languages ("an epic song of America's most diverse neighborhood"Theatermania). I LIKE TO BE HERE is the newest, edgiest piece from this multilingual, multicultural company. In the span of one very late night, new faces encounter existing characters and re-imagined scenes from the Trilogy. Drag queens, car dispatchers, under-slept parents, gamblers, insomniacs, and dreamers find one another on the streets of Jackson Heights.

Notes:
written by Jenny Lyn Bader, J. Stephen Brantley, Ed Cardona, Les Hunter, Tom Miller, Melisa Tien And Joy Tomasko; conceived by Laura Kreith. Part of E PLURIBUS, the 2nd Annual Theater:Village Festival

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Theatre 167

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Jackson Heights 3Am

Synopsis:
Seven playwrights explore the most culturally diverse neighborhood in the world from 10pm-4am - its brightest lights and loneliest corners - in dance clubs, all-night bakeries, sex shops, laundromats, side streets, and alleyways. they ate arepas prepared by the "sainted arepa lady" and, two blocks away, saw the homeless fed by the local hero a.k.a. "angel of Queens" under the elevated trains. they interviewed numbers-players, sex trafficking experts, bartenders, cops, and cross-dressers. they were invited to dance, to gamble, and to watch an undercover police operation. . . and they were invited to let their imaginations run dark, funny, sexy, and very very late. It was written using collaborative methods developed by theatre 167, with the seven playwrights sharing characters and storylines, melding distinct voices and languages into one whole.
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
written by Jenny Lyn Bader, J. Stephen Brantley, ed Cardona, Les Hunter, Tom Miller, Melisa Tien And Joy Tomasko; conceived by Laura Kreith

1st Produced:
Ps 69, 77-02 37th Ave And Queens Theater In The Park, NY     13 Jan 2012

Organisations:
Theatre 167 in association with Queens Theatre

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Lion Of the East

Synopsis:
In the Middle east an American lieutenant tries to convince local leaders to allow him to round up suspect villagers.

Notes:
Inspired by the play "Lion of the West" by James K Paulding

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To the Orchard

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1st Produced:
Playwrights Local 4181, Cleveland, Ohio     May 2016

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Two Fall Readings

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Notes:
written by Allen Lefkowitz, Maria Micheles, Will Cordeiro Les Hunter, Thomas Cork, And Andy Millon

1st Produced:
A.R.T./New York Spaces, NY     2005

Organisations:
Brooklyn Playwrights Collectve

1st Published:
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You Are Now the Owner Of This Suitcase

Synopsis:
a young woman arriving from ecuador accidentally switches suitcases with a mysterious stranger. Her quest to recover the missing suitcase will lead her to encounter lovers, dreamers, fighters, a magical cell phone, books that come to life, and the best guitar player in the world. Picking up where last year's 167 Tongues left off, You are Now the Owner Of This Suitcase is the second part of a trilogy exploring the emotional geography of Jackson Heights, Queens, the most culturally diverse neighborhood in the world.
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
author: Mando Alvarado, Jenny Lyn Bader, Barbara Cassidy, Les Hunter, Joy Tomasko, Gary Winter, Stefanie Zadravec. Conceived And Directed By: Ari Laura Kreith

1st Produced:
P.S. 69, 77-02 37th Ave., Jackson Heights (Queens), NY     11 Mar 2011

Organisations:
Theatre 167

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  8            Female:  5            Other:  -

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