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John Jiler

JOHN JILER

  (1946 - )
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    Elaine Devlin Literary, Inc.  

Born in New York City on April 4, 1946. B.A., Uni-versity of Hartford, CT in English. John has acted and written for experimental Theaters throughout Europe and North America before returning here several years ago to seek a pro-fessional career. Since then he has appeared often on the New York stage and written his first body of new work since 1971. Recipient: Chicago Drama Critics League, Best Supporting actor. address (in 1981) : 93 Nassau St., 4.915, New York, NY 10038

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

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

         African Star         Avenue X         Ball         Big Red Sun         Channel         Dark Wind         Early Bird         Explicit Vows         Guava Lagoon         Icetown         Library, The         Ripe         Sirocco         Sleeping With the Mayor         Snowflakes         Sour Springs         Where there's A Will

African Star

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Two Americans stowaway on a freighter. On board is a museum curator who is taking a French Cathedral to the States brick by brick

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Avenue X

Avenue X
Set in a racially divided Brooklyn neighborhood in 1963, avenue X captures both the nostalgic harmonies of an innocent age and the rumblings of future discord. as in New York and other American cities in the late 1950s and early 1960s, teenagers gather on stoops and sidewalks to pass the time singing together-the best groups win contests and dream of record deals. In avenue X, the Italian American and African American groups wouldn't think of singing together-until Pasquale and Milton find that their shared love for the music transcends the escalating racial tension.
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Music by Ray Leslee, Book by John Jiler

1st Produced:
Playwrights Horizons, New York     1994

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Original cast recording: RCa (9026-63208-2) 1997

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Genre:
Musical

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  cast of 8

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Ball

Synopsis:
the conflict between New York mayor ed Koch and thirty homeless people

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New One Act Theatre, Hollywood     1982

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Big Red Sun

Synopsis:
Big Red Sun is the story of a family fractured by the Second World War. a son searches for his Father through the bewildering landscape of post-war America, where the simple melodies of Kern and Berlin have been replaced by the dizzying energy of jazz and the budding of rock-and-roll.

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Book & Lyrics by John Jiler; Music by Georgia Stitt

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Channel

Synopsis:
A child's illness throw together a white actor and a black doctor

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Dark Wind

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Early Bird

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the paths of a vulgar/poetic newsvendor and a young black ballerina cross briefly and sadly in New York.

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Play One act

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Explicit Vows

Synopsis:
explicit Vows takes a wry yet affectionate look at marriage, dating, and romance from a distinctly male perspective as it traces the story of one man and the lifetime of roadblocks he encountered on his way to the altar. the play opens with a middle-aged, soon-to-be groom in a church, nervously sweating out the final few minutes before his wedding begins. While he waits, the Man reflects on the varied-and often quite funny-experiences he's had with women over the course of his life. Guided at times by the spirit of Noel Coward (whose song 'I'll Follow My Secret Heart' serves as a mantra), the Man's journey takes some unexpected turns: a strange experience with a grossly overweight prostitute; a bad period spent in a mental institution; the accidental meeting of his fiancee Molly; and a fateful trip to Tennesee where he falls in love with a woman who threatens his newfound bliss
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Play with Music

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Guava Lagoon

Synopsis:
a tale about a mental institution in the thickest part of the Jamaican rain forest, run by natives for wealthy white neurotic Americans

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Icetown

Synopsis:
Life in Manhattan

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Library, The

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Ripe

Synopsis:
Manhood takes on a very different meaning for baby boomers who waited until middle age to marry. Having committed late in life, they got newborn babies and dying parents at the same time. Such is the situation of the protagonist in "RIPe," a new solo show by playwright/actor/journalist John Jiler, which begins with him on the phone to a pharmacist, ordering three boxes of diapers at the same time: two for his aging parents, and one for his new-born son. Throughout the play, Jiler plays a dozen unforgettable New York characters swirling around his dying, Runyonesque father. they include Irish nurses, pharmacists, psychiatrists, funeral home personnel, and even the ghost of David Niven. they also include his own family: his Father and grandfather, his mother and his baby son.
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Theater for the New City
155 First AVenue, New York, NY 10009     11 Oct 2012

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75 min one act

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Sirocco

Synopsis:
A family tries to save the life of their mother by putting on a Broadway show

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Sleeping With the Mayor

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Snowflakes

Synopsis:
A commodity trader meets a homeless man who can se into the future - predicting disasters that can bring huge profits. His price for helping the trader is his wife

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Sour Springs

Synopsis:
A coal miner who is suffering from black lung retires and goes to an exclusive spar where they bathe in minerals that caused his complaint

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Genre:
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Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Where there's A Will

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