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Joanne Koch

JOANNE KOCH

  
Nationality:    USA
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Born in Chicago, IL on March 28. BA., Cornell University, Phi Beta Kappa, Woodrow Wilson Fellowship. M.A., English and Comparative Liter-ature, Columbia University. Syndicated colum-nist, Newspaper enterprise association, 1970-75. articles in Psychology Today, Chicago Tribune, Parade, McCalls. Co-author with Lewis Z. Koch of the Marriage Savers (1976) and Mar. riage & Family (1981, Houghton Mifflin). Colum-nist, Washingtonian magazine. Recipient: Fami-ly Service association, Media award; American Psychoanalytic association, Media award; Barnes Shakespeare Prize, Cornell University; Forbes-Heerman Playwriting Contest.
address (in 1981) : 343 Dodge ave., evanston, IL 60202 (312) 864-5660
agent (in 1981) : Audrey Wood, c/o 1CM, 40 West 57th St., New York, NY 10019 (212) 556-5722

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

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         American Klezmer         Belle Barth: If I Embarrass You, Tell Your Friends         Car Pool         Coming Out         Genderella         Haymarket: Footnote To A Bombing         Mammaries         Mentor, The         Safe Harbor         Socks         Soul Sisters         Teeth

American Klezmer

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Evanston, Illinois    2013

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Belle Barth: If I Embarrass You, Tell Your Friends

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Falcon Theatre In Los Angeles    2013

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Car Pool

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Coming Out

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a young woman prepares to introduce her parents to the parents of her fiance. She learns that Mom and Dad, who run a health food store and always seemed very conventional, are swingers. the engagement party proceeds, as the fiance takes this news rather badly. Outside a blizzard rages, bringing into the house an old man who has pretended to collapse in the snow: he got tired of being a recluse. He turns out to be the perfect person to deal with this dilEmma, help-ing the priggish young fiance when he realizes that his own parents seem to know these future in-laws all too well. the young couple manages to make a graceful exit from the loving but misguid-ed older generation.

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Chicago Women's Theatre Group, Il    -

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Genderella

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Next Theatre In Evanston, Illinois    2013

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Haymarket: Footnote To A Bombing

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On May 4, 1886, a bomb was thrown during a worker's protest meeting in Chicago. Seven policemen died. Four men were executed for the bombing, though no conclusive evidence was found. One cheated the hangman by blowing himself up in prison. Years later the widow of one of the executed men commits her sane son to an insane asylum. This last event remains only a footnote to the bombing, yet it is organically related to the tragic episode known as Haymarket. This play explores that connection.

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Midwest Playwrights Laboratory, Madison, Wi    -

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Mammaries

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Part of 8 Minute Madness. eighteen new provocative And engaging plays will be presented in groups A And B of 9 plays each. the plays, directed by innovative directors, Are produced by A select team of New York's finest designers. Attending industry members will vote for who will win the coveted Award of 8 Minute Madness Playwright of 2011. the participating Audience will Also vote on the best performance by An Actor And best over-all show. the plays Are: . . .Last And Always by Allan Baker, First Half by Ron Burch, the Intervention by Ron Burch, Last Words by Jeff Carter, the Family That Plays Together by Gigi eng, Magnolia Day by SD Graubert, Bottom of the Ninth by Rand Higbee, the Wedding Ring by Tony Howarth, Duet in Platinum by Allston James, A Change of Plans by Dennis Jones, Mammaries by Joanne Koch, Bona Fide by Nina Mansfield, It's the Jews by John Minigan, Out of Time by Barbara And Carlton Molette, Dead Body by Barry M. Putt, Jr., Short Division by Fred Sahner, Zero Point by Jeff Schwamberger, And Slipping into Anarchy by Jeffrey Wolf.

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Turtle Shell Theater, 300 West 43rd Street, 4th Floor, New York, NY 10036    21 Jan 2011

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Mentor, The

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Safe Harbor

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[In Greek Translation] At The University Of Macedonia In Salonika (Thessaloniki) Greece    2013

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Socks

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Soul Sisters

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Songs of Billie Holiday, George Gershwin, Debbie Friedman and original numbers by Mark Elliott are delivered by two great performers-one African American, one Jewish--who help each other through public success, personal tragedy and a rediscovery of their roots

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by Joanne Koch & Sarah Blacher Cohen

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cabaret

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Teeth

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the battle of the sexes is put in a new perspective when a female journalist tries to help women combat unwanted advances. With the help of her amateur inventor brother and her lawyer love, she discovers a new method for keeping male intruders at bay. But the device must be tested. the heroine finds the perfect man for the job, but it takes a surprising denouement to make all those concerned realize that some vulnerabilities just can't be protected.

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