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Daniel Elihu Kramer

DANIEL ELIHU KRAMER

  
Nationality:    USA
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Daniel elihu Kramer is an award-winning playwright and director. He is Associate Artistic Director at Chester Theatre Company, and a member of the Theatre faculty at Smith College. His other produced plays include Love Suicide, Coyote Tales, the Story of Babar, and Many Moons. His latest work is Jane eyre: An Adaptation, commissioned and produced by Available Light Theatre in 2013. Mr. Kramer's first feature film, Kitchen Hamlet, won multiple honors as an official selection at film festivals throughout the United States. Recent directing work includes the Swan and the Turn of the Screw, both at Chester Theatre Company, the Pillowman at Contemporary American Theatre Company, and A Midsummer Night's Dream at Boston Theatre Works, which won an elliott Norton award for Outstanding Production. Mr. Kramer was a Founding Artistic Director of Salt Lake Shakespeare, and served as assistant to the Artistic Director of Circle Repertory Company in New York. He holds an MFA in directing from Yale School of Drama.

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

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below is a list of Daniel Elihu Kramer's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Coyote Tales         James Thurber's Many Moons         Jane Eyre: An Adaptation         Love Suicide         Many Moons         Pride@Prejudice         Story of Babar, The

Coyote Tales

Synopsis:
a lively journey through Native American stories of Coyote, the trickster. Coyote is always trying to trick someone, but things rarely turn out quite as he plans. Coyote tries to get a new name from the Spirit Chief. Coyote makes human beings, and poses as a baby to steal light for them. Coyote tries to stop his friends Lizard and Cottontail from making fingers for the humans. Coyote steals salmon from five arguing sisters. Coyote disguises himself as a handsome young man, and tries to marry the most beautiful woman in the world. Coyote learns the trick of throwing his eyes, but has a little trouble getting them back. Traditional stories come to life in this engaging play for young audiences.

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1st Produced:
Creede Repertory Theatre    1994

Organisations:
Creede Repertory Theatre

1st Published:
Baker's Plays, 2008   -

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Youth audience

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James Thurber's Many Moons

Synopsis:
Many Moons tells the story of Princess Lenore who is ill from eating too many raspberry tarts. She believes that possessing the moon is the only thing that will cure her, so the King issues a command to the most learned and high-ranking members of his royal court to find a way to bring the moon to the princess. When none of them is clever enough to devise a way to deliver the moon, the King thinks all is lost until his crafty court jester sparks a bit of hope-with classic Thurber wit.

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1st Produced:
Riffe Theatre, Columbus, Oh    2009

Organisations:
Phoenix Theatre Company

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Genre:
Youth audience

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Male:  4            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Jane Eyre: An Adaptation

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Available Light Theatre    2013

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Love Suicide

Synopsis:
Love Suicide is an adaptation of Chikamatsu's classic Japanese play the Love Suicides at Sonezaki. the tragic tale of two lovers who run away to end their lives together is retold in combination with contemporary fragments from a wide range of sources, including websites where people search online for suicide partners. the mix of classic and contemporary sheds new light on both the past and the present.

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1st Produced:
Cleveland Public Theatre    2004

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Cleveland Public Theatre

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Play/Drama

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Many Moons

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Pride@Prejudice

Synopsis:
Watch Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy fall in love all over again -- this time filtered through the world of the internet. Modern voices interject and build on this classic love story in the form of blog posts, chat room discussions, quotes from film adaptations, and even letters from Ms. Austen herself to create a delightfully postmodern view of 19th century england. Written for five actors to play every role, Pride@Prejudice is a hilarious and moving homage to Jane Austen's most beloved novel, as well our love affair with reading.

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1st Produced:
Available Light Theatre, Columbus, Oh    14 Jan 2010

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1st Published:
Playscripts, Inc   -

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Genre:
comedy

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Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Story of Babar, The

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