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Jack Karp

JACK KARP

  
Nationality:    USA
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Jack Karp has had plays produced in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Pittsburgh, Ohio, Massachusetts, and Delaware. His most recent full-length play, Irreversible, won the Theatre SLAM competition at the Tank. Jack has also won the Mamet Playwrighting Competition at the American Conservatory Theatre and was a finalist in the Samuel French Short Play Festival. Jack is a founding member of Crosstown Playwrights and the Nylon Fusion Writer's Collective.

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

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         Colonial Diner, The         Don't Write A Bad Play, Or A Cautionary Tale About the Brutality Of the War On Terror And the Futility Of Using Violence To Stop Violence         Famous Elephant Play, The         Feeding the Kitty         Incendiary Agents         Irreversible         Miss Hope's         Multiple Choice         One Night Stand         Photo Album, The         Sex And Money And Money And Sex         Shacking Up         Sleeping With Strangers         Tell Me You Love Me         You Are Here

Colonial Diner, The

Synopsis:
Three people in a diner in a small town. A lonely old man and the cook urge the waitress to get her savings and go to the big city and become an actress. But the savings have gone

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Don't Write A Bad Play, Or A Cautionary Tale About the Brutality Of the War On Terror And the Futility Of Using Violence To Stop Violence

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part of International CringeFest '10

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short play

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Famous Elephant Play, The

Synopsis:
This is the first play ever written by an elephant and it has had a sold out run. Now the lead actor has left and a new one taking over

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part of the 2008 Long Island City One Act Play Festival. Featuring 12 One Acts in 2 sets

1st Produced:
Secret Theatre, NYC    2008

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the Queens Players

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Feeding the Kitty

Synopsis:
8 playwrights take comic, whimsical, and sometimes poignant looks at the humor and heartbreak of the different stages in a relationship.
- nytheatre.com

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part of Smitten & Bitten : 8 Stages of a Relationship

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Lightyear Productions

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Incendiary Agents

Synopsis:
1969. Five friends including a Roman Catholic priest plan a raid on a draft board office in an attempt to disrupt call-ups. The FBI have found out about it and try to get one of the men to help them in return for getting his son back from Vietnam

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Drama

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Irreversible

Synopsis:
Robert and Frank Oppenheimer and the Manhattan Project

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won the theatre SLAM competition at the Tank

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Theater at the 14th Street Y. New York, NY 10003    12 Mar 2015

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Miss Hope's

Synopsis:
Somewhere amidst the cracked asphalt and overgrown weeds on the highway to nowhere is Miss Hope's, a small-town Diner where wistful wannabes with half-forgotten dreams meet, mingle and tell their stories. Consisting of three timeless tales with more than a little laughter, tears, irony and a pinch of the Twilight Zone, and told against the backdrop of the presidential inaugurations of Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama, Miss Hope's is written by Jack Karp, alisha Silver and Joseph Samuel Wright of the Nylon Fusion Writers Collective. everyone comes to Miss Hope's Diner, the place people end up when they have nowhere left to go. Prom queens and football heroes, school teachers and businessmen, housewives suffocated by their well-ordered lives, young people trying to come to terms with their sexuality, the ones who couldn't make it in the big city, those who still want to try and an old man who has seen all this happen over and over again. Miss Hope's is where plans for the future become a march from innocence, where passing through temptation can lead to either vice or virtue, and where broken promises come from broken dreams.
- nytheatre.com

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written by Jack Karp, Alisha Silver And Joseph Samuel Wright

1st Produced:
American Theatre Of Actors, 314 West 54th Street, New York, NY 10019    23 May 2012

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Nylon Fusion Collective

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  8            Female:  8            Other:  -

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Multiple Choice

Synopsis:
a world in which people can only communicate with pr-written multiple choice questions

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part of the 2008 Long Island City One Act Play Festival. Featuring 12 One Acts in 2 sets

1st Produced:
Secret Theatre, NYC    2008

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the Queens Players

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One Night Stand

Synopsis:
In a dark apartment two drunken people fail to get together

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Photo Album, The

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Written by The Story Gym: Holly Hepp-Galvan, Jack Karp, C S Hanson, Daniel Ho and Lisa Reinke

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New York International Fringe Festival. New York, NY    08 Aug 2014

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Sex And Money And Money And Sex

Synopsis:
an absurd take on the way couples have the same arguments over and over as relationships progress from the first blush of love through frustration and anger to violence.

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part of Crosstown Playwrights Spring Forward

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Ignited States

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Genre:
short play One act

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Shacking Up

Synopsis:
a company are putting on a murder mystery. But things start to go wrong - starting with the star's ex-boyfriend turning up and taking over one of the lead roles. then some of the actors decide to change the title of the play and then rewrite their scenes.

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Comedy

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Sleeping With Strangers

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Everything that is said by the characters about other characters comes true

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Tell Me You Love Me

Synopsis:
the relationships of two couples in the aftermath of 9/11

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You Are Here

Synopsis:
You Are Here follows three central story lines about home and finding and creating your own family: a troupe of drag queens and celebrity impersonators touring across middle America; an American woman fighting to stay in London permanently; and a young married couple on a less than ideal honeymoon in Japan. Woven into the fabric ofthese stories are reflections of the nature of travel, self-exploration and transformation. Created collaboratively during workshops over the summer, You Are Here explores themes of rootlessness and alienation and features a rich ensemble of memorable characters.
- nytheatre.com

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Author: Jack Karp, Kate Mulley, Alisha Silver and Joseph Samuel Wright

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Nylon Fusion Collective

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You Are Here follows three central story lines about home and finding and creating your own family: a troupe of drag queens and celebrity impersonators touring across middle America; an American woman fighting to stay in London permanently; and a young married couple on a less than ideal honeymoon in Japan. Woven into the fabric ofthese stories are reflections of the nature of travel, self-exploration and transformation. Created collaboratively during workshops over the summer, You Are Here explores themes of rootlessness and alienation and features a rich ensemble of memorable characters.   -

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  5            Female:  3            Other:  -

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