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Allston James

ALLSTON JAMES

  (1947 - )
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    Deborah Warren / East-West Agency  

Allston James is the author of three full-length plays. the Pink Brothers, a Dramatic comedy, was produced in 2005 at the Carl Cherry Center for the Arts in Carmel, California. Two years later, Foreign Women, a Drama, was also produced by the Carl Cherry Center for the Arts. In 2009 the Lated Traveler and Foreign Women were both given readings at the abingdon Theatre Company in New York. the Lated Traveler and the Pink Brothers received earlier readings at the 45th Street Theatre in New York in 2008. the Lated Traveler was a Semi-finalist in Pacific Repertory Theatre's 2009 Hyperion Project Competition. the play was also named Semi-finalist by the 2009 Seven Devils Conference/id Theatre, New York. One act plays were selected for the New York Collective for the Arts Short Plays Festivals in 2004 and 2005. the Dramatists Guild of America selected Duet in Platinum, published in Porter Gulch Review (Santa Cruz), for its evening of New Works at the Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts, Scottsdale, arizonA. Other shorts and monologues have been staged in Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York.allston is the author of the novel, attic Light, as well as two poetry chapbooks,Paris Beach and the Mile away ContessA. His fiction and non-fiction have appeared in a wide range of publications and anthologies. He divides time between homes in New York and California.

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

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         Duet In Platinum         Foreign Women         I Knew King When He was Nobody         Initial Descent         Lated Traveler, The         Our Lady of Palmyra         Pink Brothers, The         Suribachi

Duet In Platinum

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Part of 8 Minute Madness. eighteen new provocative And engaging plays will be presented in groups A And B of 9 plays each. the plays, directed by innovative directors, Are produced by A select team of New York's finest designers. Attending industry members will vote for who will win the coveted Award of 8 Minute Madness Playwright of 2011. the participating Audience will Also vote on the best performance by An Actor And best over-all show. the plays Are: . . .Last And Always by Allan Baker, First Half by Ron Burch, the Intervention by Ron Burch, Last Words by Jeff Carter, the Family That Plays Together by Gigi eng, Magnolia Day by SD Graubert, Bottom of the Ninth by Rand Higbee, the Wedding Ring by Tony Howarth, Duet in Platinum by Allston James, A Change of Plans by Dennis Jones, Mammaries by Joanne Koch, Bona Fide by Nina Mansfield, It's the Jews by John Minigan, Out of Time by Barbara And Carlton Molette, Dead Body by Barry M. Putt, Jr., Short Division by Fred Sahner, Zero Point by Jeff Schwamberger, And Slipping into Anarchy by Jeffrey Wolf.

1st Produced:
Turtle Shell Theater, 300 West 43rd Street, 4th Floor, New York, NY 10036     21 Jan 2011

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Foreign Women

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Newly released from a long stay in a juvenile detention center and jail, a young man goes to live with his sister. the two have a life-bond in their witnessing as children of their mother's death at the hand of the father. He meets identical twins-one a Jehovah's Witness, the other a recovering addict. He and he sisters come to grips with horrific childhood abuse and emerge as strong young adults. This is not a 'victim' story. It is a story of transformation.

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the play had A successful run And received good notices.

1st Produced:
Carl Cherry Center For The Arts, Carmel, California     2007

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Carl Cherry Center for the Arts, Carmel, California

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Play/Drama

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I Knew King When He was Nobody

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Finalist in the 2016 Shakespeare in the 'Burg Play Festival. Work commissioned by Abingdon Theatre Company, New York.

1st Produced:
Stage-Reading At The Abingdon Bay Ridge One-Act Festival     17 Aug 2013

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commissioned by Abingdon Theatre in New York

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Initial Descent

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Eastbound Theatre Of Milford, Connecticut     25 Jul 2014

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Lated Traveler, The

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arrogant venture capitalist is stranded in a storm-lashed carnival where a carnie and mysterious beauty transform him from a fast-talking jerk into a human being. the carnie turns out to be a Yale classics professor there for mysterious reasons, the woman there because the professor is there . . . black humor, serious introspection, a play that explores the nature of intimacy.

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the play has had Off-Broadway readings At the Abingdon theatre in 2009 And the 45th Street theatre in 2008.It was semi-finalist in the 2009 Seven Devils Conference And Also semi-finalist in the Hyperion Project Competition (Pacific Repertory theatre-Ca) in 2009

1st Produced:
[Reading] Barnard College's Glicker-Milstein Theatre, NY     19/2013

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New York Stage and Film

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Our Lady of Palmyra

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Our Lady of Palmyra, drama is about a London antiquities collector and his dealer transit the moral crossroads where cultural terrorism meets the cultural market.

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1st Produced:
Santa Cruz Actors Theatre. Santa Cruz, CA     07 Jan 2017

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Pink Brothers, The

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Two brothers share their 'knowledge' of women in an exploration that involves a transgression that utterly alters their relationship

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the play enjoyed A month run with A one week extension. Favorably reviewed, well-attended, the play Actually made A profit. It received A stage-reading At Off-Broadway's 45th Street theatre in New York in Oct. 2008

1st Produced:
Carl Cherry Center For The Arts, Carmel, California     2005

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Carl Cherry Center for the Arts, Carmel, California

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Genre:
Dramatic comedy

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Suribachi

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Marine Corps Heritage Foundation 2015 Broyes Award for Stage or Screenwriting. Allston James Winner. Marine Heritage Foundation

1st Produced:
Lost Theatre. London, UK     23 Oct 2015

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