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Ava Karuso

AVA KARUSO  

 Nationality:    Australian
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Ava Karuso is a young playwright from Sydney. Her first writing credit was the short play Spoons and Forks, which was performed and published in 2008 as part of the Page-To-Stage festival. Since then her love of playwriting has grown, and last year her short play Guilt of the Vaudevillian was performed in the Short and Sweet festivals in Melbourne, Brisbane and Gold Coast and Sydney. Ava also has a play in this years Sydney Fringe Festival called Rope Burn, a two man show about life, death and men. Ava was also part of the Australian Improv Team who travelled to Ottawa to perform in the Canadian Improv Games. She has studied improvisation with Impro Australia, Second City L.A. and iO West (Los Angeles). Ava is greatly inspired by playwrights Edward Albee and Martin McDonough, and the darkly comic nature of her work reflects this. This year, Ava undertook an artistic residence at the Shopfront Contemporary Arts Centre where she developed the edible play Life.Death.Food.

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

 Guilt of the Vaudevillian         Life.Death.Food         Rope Burn         Spoons and Forks

Guilt of the Vaudevillian

Synopsis:
Painful memories. Shame? Feeling responsible? Who can you blame? God? When your world falls apart where do you turn? You turn to Vaudeville.

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1st Produced:
Chapel Off Chapel, Prahran, VIC    04 Nov 2011

Organisations:
Short & Sweet Wildcards Program 1

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Music:
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Genre:
short play

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/96168

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Life.Death.Food

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Genre:
edible play

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Rope Burn

Synopsis:
How far would you go for a friend? From the devious mind of Australian playwright Ava Karuso comes a dark comedy about friendship, boys and one of humanities most frightening diseases. Michael has been diagnosed with cancer, but its not the end of the world. Well, it might be, for Michael anyway. For Ben its a struggle to support his mate, to stay a real man and to decide whether a Filipino mail-order bride might actually a good idea in this circumstance.

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1st Produced:
Sydney Fringe Festival    2013

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1st Published:
Australian Script Centre   -

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Genre:
black comedy 70 min

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Spoons and Forks

Synopsis:
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1st Produced:
Page-To-Stage festival    2008

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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
short play

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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