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Jesse Kellerman

JESSE KELLERMAN

  
Nationality:    USA
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Jesse Kellerman received his Ba in psychology from Harvard University and a Master's of Fine Arts in playwriting from Brandeis University. His plays have won several awards, including the Harold and Mimi Steinberg Prize for Best New Play (Fafrotskies, 2003), the Princess Grace Foundation award (Things Beyond Our Control, 2003), and the Best of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival (Very, Very Small Things, 2001). He recently signed a two-book deal with Putnam/Berkeley; his first novel, Sunstroke, will be published in 2006.

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

         3M1W (Or, Very, Very Small Things)         Crossed Wires         Formidable Task Of Execution, The         Metaphor, A         Moda         Poker And the Declaration Of the Rights Of Man         Smaller         Things Beyond Our Control         Til Death Do Us Part         Very, Very Small Things)         Whatever, Whenever

3M1W (Or, Very, Very Small Things)

Synopsis:
What happens when a woman with unbelievable beginner's luck ruins her husband's perfectly manly poker game (Poker and the Declaration of the Rights of Man)? Or when a businessman stays at the world's best hotel where the world's most polite bellhop will fetch any possible thing, at any time, instantly (Whatever, Whenever)? Or when a professor assigns her students to interpret the phone book (a Metaphor)? the six short comedies of 3m1w have their way with the Great Pillars of American Life: government, science, literature, fashion, poker, and room service. To purchase this book of 6 plays, click "add to Shopping Cart" above. To perform an individual play, click on its title below:

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1st Produced:
Harvard College's adams House Pool Theater (Cambridge, Ma, United States)    2000

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

Music:
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Genre:
100-120 min Comedy

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  3 males, 1 female

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Crossed Wires

Synopsis:
an elderly man just wants a glass of club soda. Why do his lights keep turning on and off? Why is his wife suddenly speaking Italian? Why is He suddenly speaking Italian? This play--about the unexpected results of an experiment gone awry--is a rapid-fire and hilarious comment on the scientific method. (Really, it is.) (This play can also be performed as part of the full-length play 3m1w.)

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1st Produced:
Harvard College, adams House Pool Theater (Cambridge, Ma, United States)    2000

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

Music:
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To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

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Genre:
10-12 min Comedy

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  3 males, 1 female

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Formidable Task Of Execution, The

Synopsis:
Takes place in a government office in charge of. . .well, young Solomon can't figure out WHaT it is they actually do. But when people start exploding, and they won't let him call the police--because it's not their department--he decides to take matters into his own hands. Will he escape--or will he explode, too? (This play can also be performed as part of the full-length play 3m1w.)

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1st Produced:
Harvard College, adams House Pool Theater (Cambridge, Ma, United States)    2000

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

Music:
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To Buy This Play:
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Genre:
10-15 min Comedy

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  3 males, 1 female

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Metaphor, A

Synopsis:
Three graduate students jockey for status in the eyes of their sultry--and totally incomprehensible--professor. Her challenge: interpret the phone book, and give it some sexy verve. (This play can also be performed as part of the full-length play 3m1w.)

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1st Produced:
Harvard College, adams House Pool Theater (Cambridge, Ma, United States)    2000

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

Music:
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To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

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Genre:
18-21 min Comedy

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  3 males, 1 female

Further Reference:
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Moda

Synopsis:
Three newbie fashion designers are at the mercy of their psychotic boss. He wants new, he wants hip, he wants to eat their innards. Today's the day that people get cut, and all their heads are on the chopping block. the winning design? Let's just call it minimalist. (This play can also be performed as part of the full-length play 3m1w.)

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1st Produced:
Harvard College, adams House Pool Theater (Cambridge, Ma, United States)    2000

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

Music:
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To Buy This Play:
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Genre:
15-20 min Comedy

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  3 males, 1 female

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Poker And the Declaration Of the Rights Of Man

Synopsis:
Ray, Chuck, and Phil just want to play poker and enjoy their inalienable rights as red-blooded American men. When Phil's wife, Francie, insists on sitting in on a hand, all hell breaks out. Francie's never played before. So why is she beating their pants off? (This play can also be performed as part of the full-length play 3m1w.)

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1st Produced:
Harvard College, adams House Pool Theater (Cambridge, Ma, United States)    2000

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

Music:
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To Buy This Play:
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Genre:
24-28 min comedy

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  3 males, 1 female

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Smaller

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:

Organisations:
Stoneham Theatre Company

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
play Ten Min

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Things Beyond Our Control

Synopsis:
Kellerman's play begins on a rainy Texas night, when a cabbie commits a hit-and-run. Though they try to forget it happened, guilt draws the driver and his passenger together and seven lives change forever. the characters include a lesbian airline employee, a doctor with the bedside manner of a mannequin, a waitress who always carries a burn kit, a single Father whose only happiness hovers near death, a high-strung business woman, an ex-con terrified of Texas justice, and a street magician whose verbal contortions hide a 30-year battle to recitfy his past. This is a play about Dallas, love, fate, magic, and peach pie

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1st Produced:
LinhArt Theater, 440 Lafayette Street, 3rd floor, NY    2006

Organisations:
Grid Theater Company

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Til Death Do Us Part

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:

Organisations:
Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theatre

1st Published:
in Boston Theatre Marathon of Ten Minute Plays Volume 4, Bakers Plays,    -

Music:
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To Buy This Play:
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Genre:
play Ten Min

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Very, Very Small Things)

Synopsis:
What happens when a woman with unbelievable beginner's luck ruins her husband's perfectly manly poker game (Poker and the Declaration of the Rights of Man)? Or when a businessman stays at the world's best hotel where the world's most polite bellhop will f

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Harvard College's adams House Pool Theater (Cambridge, Ma, United States)    2000

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Playscrips, Inc - 625, 2006   -

Music:
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To Buy This Play:
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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  1 female, 3 males; Running time: 100-120 mins

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Whatever, Whenever

Synopsis:
Welcome to the world's best hotel, where the world's most polite bellhop will fetch you anything you want. at any time. Instantly. Want a new shirt? No problem. How about a waffle? Sure thing. a middle-aged businessman's efforts to stump the staff turn against him, proving that service CaN be too good.(This play can also be performed as part of the full-length play 3m1w.)

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1st Produced:
Underbelly Theater, Edinburgh Festival Fringe (Edinburgh, , United Kingdom)    2001

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

Music:
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To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

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Genre:
25-30 min Comedy

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  3 males, 1 female

Further Reference:
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