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Creighton James

CREIGHTON JAMES

  (1975 - )
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    Abrams Artists Agency  

Literary agent Kate Navin at abrams. Creighton James is a native Ohioan, living in New York City. He is the author of nine full-length plays and several shorts. He co-founded ensemble actors' Theatre (Columbus, Ohio) in 1999 and New York Theatre experiment (NYC) in 2004. Creighton is also an actor who has studied at Circle in the Square Theatre School (NYC), the Ohio State University and has an MFA from the Graduate acting Program at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University

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below is a list of Creighton James's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Am I Born To Die?         Apartment         Brando         Burn         Dirt         Dog Juice         Feud         Holly         New York Christmas Carol         She's the Man         Sound Of Rain, The

Am I Born To Die?

Synopsis:
"His funeral was on a Sunday. I have to begin somewhere. It might as well be there. His funeral was on a Sunday. I remember thinking how strange that was. No one get's buried on a Sunday. I remember that I didn't know what to wear. You're dead and I didn't know what to wear." - Opening lines of am I Born to Die?

Notes:
written by Creighton James, Amanda Fulks And Kadence Fulks

1st Produced:
Shubert Theatre, 721 Broadway, NYC    2007

Organisations:
New York University

1st Published:
in the appalachian Plays, iuniverse.com, 2008   -

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Play/Drama

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Apartment

Synopsis:
an unapologetic, detestable, disturbing, dark-comic stream of consciousness play drowning in misogyny, sex and violence.

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Genre:
Comedy

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Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Brando

Synopsis:
Three demented documentary filmmakers kidnap Marlon Brando and force him to act out scenes from his movies. This mixed genre tale combines the dark comedy of Martin McDonagh and the twisted suspense of M. Night Shymalan.

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Comedy

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Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Burn

Synopsis:
a chilling appalachian ghost story, sown from the darkest hours of America's past

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1st Produced:
Lafayette Street Theatre, New York City    2007

Organisations:
New York Theatre experiment

1st Published:
in the appalachian Plays, iuniverse.com, 2008   -

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Genre:
2h 0m   New York   New York   Drama Play/Drama

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Male:  7            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Dirt

Synopsis:
Seven years ago Jimmy and Rusty killed their Father and buried him beneath the dirt floor cabin where he was born. When they return for his remains, they unearth a mountain of family secrets. Straying from his large cast, 19th Century appalachian tragedies, Creighton James plunges into dark comedy, exposing the hilariously violent side of modern day mountain life.

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Genre:
dark comedy

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Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Dog Juice

Synopsis:
a group of well-to-do teens get their kicks on a cross-suburb crime spree. as detective Gerald Raines closes in, haunted by the spirits of the wronged, he finds this to be his most personal case yet.

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  15            Female:  6            Other:  -

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Feud

Synopsis:
the Civil War has ended and the lynching of a returning Union soldier sets off a bloody war between two appalachian families. Thus begins the Hatfield-McCoy feud.

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1st Produced:
Village Theatre, New York City    2005

Organisations:
New York Theatre experiment

1st Published:
in the appalachian Plays, iuniverse.com, 2008   -

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Play/Drama

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Male:  15            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Holly

Synopsis:
In Holly, a brutally injured Civil War soldier, stumbles into the cabin of his estranged mother. as she nurses him back to health, the vengeful spirits of the hills lead him to the crossroad of his hardest battle yet.

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  15            Female:  4            Other:  -

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New York Christmas Carol

Synopsis:
Dickens' Classic with a Manhattan twist.

Notes:
written by Creighton James And Joseph Schultz

1st Produced:
Blue Heron Arts Center, NY, NY    2006

Organisations:
New York University

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  4            Other:  -

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She's the Man

Synopsis:
the classic story of boy meets girl, boy falls in love with girl, boy finds out girl is a boy, boy says "screw it" & stays girl/boy, and the Dramatic complications ensue.

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Sound Of Rain, The

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