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Mrinalini Kamath

MRINALINI KAMATH  

 Nationality:    USA
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Mrinalini Kamath Mrinalini Kamath's plays have been performed around the country as well as in the United Kingdom, Australia and IndiA. She was a semi-finalist for both the 2006 O'Neill and Seven Devils Playwrights Conferences and was Fluid Motion Theatre and Film's inaugural Start the Storycommission recipient (2006). She won first place in the 2005 east West Players (Los Angeles, Ca) Got Laughs? Asian-American Comedy Play Contest, was a Tennessee Williams Scholar at the 2003 Sewanee Writers' Conference in Sewanee, Tennessee, and a finalist for the 2004 Jerome Fellowship at the Playwrights' Center in Minneapolis, MinnesotA. Three of her short plays have been work-shopped at the New Play Development Workshop of the association for Theatre in Higher education and several have been published in the Smith and Kraus anthologies, Best Stage Scenes of 1999, Best Stage Scenes of 2000, the Best Ten Minute Plays for 3 or More actors, 2004and the upcoming the Best Ten Minute Plays for Two actors, 2007. She is a member of the Ma-Yi Theatre Writers' Lab, the Dramatists Guild, an alumnus of Youngblood, the emerging playwrights' collective at the ensemble Studio Theatre, and a Dramatists Guild representative to the board of the New York Coalition for Professional Women in the Arts and Media (NYCWaM). Ms. Kamath received her M.F.A. in playwriting from the actors Studio Drama School of the New School University.

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

         Bemused         Boom         Bunnicuba         Celestial Motions         Confessions From the Afterlife         Golden Fleece Project, The         Hart's Palpitations         Hiding the Pink         Instant Life         Roulette         Rush Of Wings, A         Sloppy Second Chances         Some Of All Parts         Some Of All the Parts         Sweet Dreams, Baby         Views         White Knight, The

Bemused

Bemused
Paul, a writer who can't seem to make up his mind about what he wants to write, ditches one muse and one city for another. But little does he know that hell hath no fury like a muse scorned.

Notes:
the third female can Also be represented As An off-stage voice, if the production calls for it.

1st Produced:
ensemble Studio theatre
549 West 52nd Street, 2nd floor, New York, NY 10019    2003

Organisations:
ensemble Studio Theatre

1st Published:
in the Best Ten-Minute Plays 2011, Smith & Kraus; (June 1, 2012)   978-1575257822

Music:
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Genre:
Comedy One act

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  2 or 3            Other:  -

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Boom

Synopsis:
ashok and Sheela, a newly-married Indian-American couple, find their lives changed when they go to India for a relative's wedding. What happens when the country your parents left for better opportunities becomes the new land of opportunity? BOOM is a rethinking of cultural and personal identities, based on a Dramatically changing global landscape.

Notes:
there is Also A one Act version

1st Produced:
Salaam!    2001

Organisations:
South Asian League of artists in America (SaLaaM)

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Bunnicuba

Synopsis:
a young gay man has a terrible problem. every night he is visited by a succubus in the shape of a half woman and half rabbit

Notes:
Published in Healthy Primates And Other Plays from the New Play Development Workshop (ed. M. Heather Carver And Jeffrey Ullom).

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
ensemble Studio Theatre

1st Published:
association of theatre in Higher education, 2004   -

Music:
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Genre:
Horror/comedy One act. - - Gay, one act

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Celestial Motions

Synopsis:
Celestial Motions tells the story of what happens when 25-year-old Leela's parents (immigrants from India) realize that they forgot to take daylight savings time into account when they had her Hindu astrological chart drawn at her birth. they have it redrawn, and the startling prediction sets the young woman on a journey of arranged dating and cyber romance, as her parents desperately try to control her fate. Little do they realize that Leela's destiny is closer than they (or Leela, for that matter) think. an intercultural romantic comedy.
- http://www.aatrevue.com

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1st Produced:
Salaam    2004

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Confessions From the Afterlife

Synopsis:
Steven and Rahul meet in the afterlife and one of them has a lot of explaining to do

Notes:
Play is published in its entirety in Smith And Kraus' Best Stage Scenes of 1999.

1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Smith and Kraus, 2000   -

Music:
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Genre:
Drama One act

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Golden Fleece Project, The

Synopsis:
the Quest is South Asian American playwright Mrinalini Kamath's adaptation of the stories of theseus and Orpheus as they intertwine in the mythic Quest for the Golden Fleece. the piece explores the theme of why we quest and how this drive transcends the desire for love, fame and immortality. This play was the inaugural 2006 commission in Fluid Motion's Start the Story commissioning program. the week-long workshop will culminate in three staged readings with artist talkbacks.
- press release

Notes:
with music by Little embers

1st Produced:
Fluid Motion's Start the Story commissioning program    2006

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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Hart's Palpitations

Synopsis:
a ten-minute musical that takes place in a clinic for the treatment of love-related injuries. Can Dr. Hart overcome his previous bad experience with love, save his love-struck patient and finally notice the loyal Nurse O'Plasty - all in ten minutes? Written as part of Raw Impressions Musical theatre event number seventeen (RIMT 17 - "love by degrees").
- http://www.aatrevue.com

Notes:
Music by Matthew S Anderson; lyrics by Matthew S Anderson; book by Mrinalini Kamath

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Genre:
Ten minute musical

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Hiding the Pink

Synopsis:
Sam tells Josh that he does not want to be gay anymore and wants to join "normal" society. He already has a girlfriend but he has not told her about Josh.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Bank Street Theatre, New York    2000

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
One act. - - Gay, one act

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Instant Life

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Written by Mrinalini Kamath And Nora Chau

1st Produced:
Walkerspace, 46 Walker Street, New York, NY 10013    16 Apr 2010

Organisations:
Part of 2G Theater Company's 13: Instant Vaudeville

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Piece

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Roulette

Synopsis:
Gina, a Westchester housewife, visits her aunt Loretta in Brooklyn, after Loretta's brother Frank passes away. While clearing out Frank's room, Gina comes across something that could cause a potentially explosive situation.

Notes:
Published in its entirety in Smith And Kraus' Best Stage Scenes of 2000.

1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Smith and Kraus, 2001   -

Music:
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Genre:
Drama One act

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Rush Of Wings, A

Rush Of Wings, A
emilie and Ishmael appear to be having the same dreams. there are some things that a couple just shouldn't share. . .

Notes:
Published in Smith And Kraus' Best Ten Minute Plays for Two Actors, 2007

1st Produced:

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Smith and Kraus, 2008   978-1-57525-589-7

Music:
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Genre:
Horror/Comedy

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Sloppy Second Chances

Synopsis:
When amita, a business-like thirty-something when it comes to dating, meets her latest desi website suitor, the seemingly strange Nikhil, will she chalk him up as another bad date or is there something more going on? a short comedy about two people who want the same thing but have completely different game plans.
- http://www.aatrevue.com

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Some Of All Parts

Synopsis:
If he seems too good to be true. . . he probably is. Dating in this city just got a whole lot weirder.
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
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1st Produced:
the Red Room
85 east 4th Street, 3rd floor, New York, NY 10005    23 Jul 2011

Organisations:
Rising Sun Production Company

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
short play

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Some Of All the Parts

Synopsis:
Margaret, who has been on three previous dates with Jonathan, decides to invite him back to her place after their fourth date. But when Jonathan seems less than eager to get things going, Margaret starts to wonder what's up. all is explained by the arrival of a third "person." Dating in this city just got a whole lot weirder.

Notes:
This play is published in Smith And Kraus' the Best Ten Minute Plays for Three or More Actors, 2004. It is Also published in Healthy Primates And Other Plays from the New Play Development Workshop, 2004.

1st Produced:
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Organisations:
Newtown Theatre, Sydney, NSW Australia

1st Published:
Smith and Kraus, 2005   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy One act

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Sweet Dreams, Baby

Synopsis:
Grace wakes up to find the man of her dreams has materialised

Notes:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
One act

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Views

Synopsis:
David and Diane were high school sweethearts who married after Diane became pregnant. Now they live in a cramped studio apartment in Manhattan, where Diane takes care of their two-year old son. When David announces that his boss has fired him, the couple spirals into an argument that forces them to reevaluate their married life together.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Turnip Theatre Competition (New York, NY, United States)    1998

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Playscripts, Inc - New York   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
15-20 min Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  1 male, 1 female

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White Knight, The

Synopsis:
the White Knight is a about a guy named eric, a graduate teaching assistant who is teaching Don Quixote as part of a freshman intro. class. He falls for Mina, an Indian-American art appraiser when her phone is stolen on the subway. But when Mina brings him home to meet her family, he finds himself drawn to her sister Tina, a pediatrician who has sworn off relationships after her first one went sour. Intercut with scenes from a student paper on Don Quixote, the White Knight is about following your ideals, however misplaced they may be.
- http://www.aatrevue.com

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Ma-Yi    2009

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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