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Carson Kreitzer

CARSON KREITZER

  
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    Bret Adams Ltd  represented by Bruce Ostler

Carson Kreitzer's plays include the Love Song of J. Robert Oppenheimer, SeLF DeFeNSe or death of some salesmen, 1:23, Flesh and the Desert, the Slow Drag (New York and London), Freakshow, Slither, Dead Wait and Take My Breath Away, featured in BAM's 1997 Next Wave Festival. Her plays have been produced or developed by Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, the Public Theater, the Royal Court Theatre, Guthrie Theater, Portland Center Stage, Perishable Theatre, Clubbed Thumb, New Georges, Mabou Mines, Frank Theatre, Actors Gang and Next Theatre, among others. She is currently working with composer Matt Gould on a musical inspired by art deco artist Tamara de Lempicka, commissioned by Yale Rep through Full Stage USA, a program of New Dramatists and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. She is also working on Runway 69, a musical about strippers, gentrification and the Times Square cleanup.Carson has received numerous grants, including: NeA New Play Development Program, NYFA, NYSCA, TCG, Jerome and McKnight Foundations, Loewe Award in Musical Theater and the first Playwrights Of New York (PONY) Fellowship at the Lark Play Development Center. She has a Bachelor Arts from Yale University and an MFA from the Michener Center for Writers, UT Austin. Ms Kreitzer is a resident playwright at New Dramatists, an associated artist with Clubbed Thumb and New Georges, and a member of the Workhaus Collective, the Playwrights Center and the Dramatists Guild. Her collection, SeLF DeFeNSe and other plays, is now available from No Passport Press.

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

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         1:23         Be Here Now         Behind the Eye         Caravaggista         Dead Wait         Enchantment         Flesh And the Desert         Freakshow         Funny, Strange, Provocative: Seven Plays From Clubbed Thumb         Glory Of God, The         Halfway to Paradise         Heroine (Keep Us Quiet)         Lasso Of Truth         Lempicka         Love Song Of J Robert Oppenheimer, The         Mercury         Oh, Gastronomy!         On Time         Parachute Silk         Runway 69         Self Defense, Or Death Of Some Salesmen         Slither         Slow Drag, The         Slow Drag, The         Take My Breath Away         Tiny Rooms         Valerie Shoots Andy

1:23

Synopsis:
Two women in two times stand accused of murdering their own children. One drowned all five of hers in a bath. another claims her two sons were in her car when it was stolen

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Cincinnati Playhouse In The Park    38751

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Drama

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Be Here Now

Synopsis:
Wherever you go, there you are. the intertwining lives of three sisters, running from themselves and each other, come full circle in this contemporary tale of life, love, loss, sibling rivalry, risk, and getting burned - or not. 70 minutes

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1st Produced:
Guthrie Theater    2008

Organisations:
Guthrie Theater for their graduating BFa students.

1st Published:
Dramatics Magazine   -

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Genre:
one act comedy

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Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Behind the Eye

Synopsis:
Vogue model. Surrealist muse. Combat Photographer. Lee Miller lived several distinct and extraordinary lives, each to the fullest. Man Ray's lover and muse, her torso is familiar from some of his most arresting photos, and other pieces of her from other works (her lips floating above the skyline, her eye affixed to a pendulum. . .), but the story behind the enigmatic gaze is largely unknown. Behind the eye is a portrait of this beautiful, brave, magnetic, impossible woman.

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1st Produced:
Cincinnati Playhouse In The Park    02 Mar 2011

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Drama

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Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Caravaggista

Synopsis:
Caravaggista traces the early life of the baroque artist artemisia Gentileschi, focusing on the events surrounding the scandalous rape trial brought by her father, Orazio Gentileschi, against agostino Tassi, another artist he had hired to teach his daughter Perspective. Caravaggio, artemisia's spiritual mentor, spars with her in her studio, toughening up his young charge, watching with pride the creation of her wonderfully bloody Judith Slaying Holofernes, a work that still shocks today with its violence and anger.

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Workshop: Public theater. Semi-finalist for the Julie Harris Playwright Award.

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Genre:
Drama

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Male:  6            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Dead Wait

Synopsis:
Languishing in Limbo, two dead waiters and Jayne Mansfield share the intimate details of their lives, and the violent tragedies that brought them to their current state. a sly and haunting meditation on being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

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1st Produced:
Clubbed Thumb, Here Arts Center (Summerworks) (New York, NY, United States)    1997

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1st Published:
Playscripts, Inc - New York   -

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Genre:
35-40 min Dark comedy/Drama

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Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  2 males, 1 female

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Enchantment

Synopsis:
Bruno Bettelheim was born in Vienna in 1903 and died in Chicago in 1990, barbituates in his bloodstream and a plastic bag over his face. In the time between, he studied Freudian psychiatry, spent time in Dachau and Buchenwald, put forth (and then disavowed) the theory that autism was caused by bad mothering, and wrote the Uses of enchantment, a popular and somewhat scandalously Freudian book on fairy tales. Temple Grandin is a high-functioning autistic woman who designs more humane slaughterhouses. Widespread implementation of her designs has revolutionized the meat industry. enchantment explores the reverberations between these two extraordinary lives.

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Workshops: the Lark, the Playwrights' Center, the Women's Project.

1st Produced:
Julia Miles Theater, New York    Apr 2009

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Genre:
Drama

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Flesh And the Desert

Synopsis:
Flesh and the Desert is a kaleidoscopic portrait of Las Vegas. We follow the intertwined stories of three couples: one ghostly, one long-lasting, and one just starting tonight. along the way we meet Elvis and Liberace, slot machines and Siberian white tigers, and of course, those glittering creatures, the Showgirls. the eye in the Sky watches, the mirrorball spins. as long as youre gambling, the drinks are free. Welcome, Conventioneers.

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1st Produced:
Summer Play Festival At The Public Theatre, New York    Jul 2007

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Genre:
Drama

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Male:  4            Female:  4            Other:  with extensive doubling

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Freakshow

Synopsis:
at the turn of the last century, a traveling Freakshow grinds to a halt. Things are changing. the anger of being stared at, trapped, caged, is at war with the comfort of knowing your place in the universe. But the growing defiance of the freaks is no act. Will the Dog Faced Woman break her bonds from the show, collapsing the fragile bubble of sustaining interdependence? Can the jaded Ringmaster, a profoundly broken man, find redemption through his love for the Woman With No arms and No Legs? In this poetic, gritty world, there may only be one way out.

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1st Produced:
Clubbed Thumb/Here Arts Centre (Summerworks) (New York, NY, United States)    1999

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1st Published:
Playscripts, Inc - New York   -

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Genre:
70-80 minDrama

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Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  4 males, 3 females

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Funny, Strange, Provocative: Seven Plays From Clubbed Thumb

Synopsis:
This anthology includes seven plays produced by Clubbed Thumb, the Obie award-winning downtown New York City theater company that burst onto the new play scene in 1996. edgy and thought-provoking, each play is funny, strange, and provocative in surprising, widely varying ways -- including an apartment that both adores and despises its inhabitants in Crumble (Lay Me Down, Justin Timberlake), a metropolitan housewife who senses that something is watching her in 16 Spells to Charm the Beast, and a group of traveling freak show performers who reveal a deep humanity underneath their crowd-drawing deformities in Freakshow,among other uniquely inventive stories. For over a decade, Clubbed Thumb has had its finger firmly planted on the Pulse of new work, and these plays prove it. To purchase this book of 7 plays, click "add to Shopping Cart" above. To perform an individual play, click on its title below:

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Genre:
Various Drama/Comedy

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Glory Of God, The

Synopsis:
In the present: the Scholar has lost her data. She's writing about the Monk. She flirts with the Techie to get it back; her girlfriend calls her on it. In the past: the Monk copies down the story of Daphne and apollo. a girl sneaks in the window to steal him away. In the distant past, and now: Daphne lives inside her tree, breathing eternal in the writing of her. the Glory of God is sought. Love is found.

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Playscripts, Inc - New York   -

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Genre:
10-12 min Comedy

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Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  2 males, 3 females (5-6 actors possible: exactly 2 males, 3-4 females)

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Halfway to Paradise

Halfway to Paradise
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1st Published:
in the Best Ten-Minute Plays 2011, Smith & Kraus; (June 1, 2012)   978-1575257822

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10 min play

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Heroine (Keep Us Quiet)

Synopsis:
the story of anna Frued, who killed herself and ellie Nesler who killed her son's rapist. Intertwining monologues from two women at either side of this century: one commits suicide, the other homicide.

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1st Produced:
Tiny Mythic Theatre At Here    1995

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Genre:
One act. - - Gay/Lesbian, of interest

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Lasso Of Truth

Synopsis:
Who is Wonder Woman and where did she come from? One of the US's most incisive and adventurous playwrights turns her lyrical, hard-hitting eye to the knotty origin story of the first-ever female comic book hero. there she finds William Marston - renowned early 20th-Century psychologist, inventor of the lie-detector machine, and creator of the legendary character. Kreitzer's hallucinatory script crashes Marston's ideas and biography together with onstage manifestations of the two women he actually lived with in a polyamorous relationship: the Wife and the Amazon.

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1st Produced:
National Play Festival, Perth    23 Feb 2013

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Play/Drama

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Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Lempicka

Synopsis:
The life of artist Tamara de Lempicka

Notes:
Music by Matt Gould; lyrics and book by Carson Kreitzer

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Genre:
Musical

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Male:  4            Female:  4            Other:  ensemble

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Love Song Of J Robert Oppenheimer, The

Synopsis:
Do I dare disturb the Universe? Jews, Commies, Spies, and the soft-spoken man who became the destroyer of worlds, then had his security clearance revoked

Notes:
won the Lois And Richard Rosenthal New Play Prize, the American theatre Critics Steinberg Citation, the Barrie Stavis Award

1st Produced:
Cincinnati Playhouse In The Park    2003

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1st Published:
in Smith and Kraus New Playwrights: Best Plays of 2004 and by Dramatic Publishing   -

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Genre:
Drama

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Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  doubling

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Mercury

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Play/Drama

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Oh, Gastronomy!

Oh, Gastronomy!
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Notes:
written by by Michael Golamco, Carson Kreitzer, Steve Moulds, Tanya Saracho, et al.

1st Produced:
Humana Festival Of New American Plays At Actors Theatre Of Louisville    2012

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1st Published:
in Humana Festival 2012: the Complete Plays, Actors Theatre of Louisville   978-1623840006

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Genre:
short play

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On Time

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1st Produced:
Summerworks Short Play Event    2005

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Parachute Silk

Parachute Silk
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Genre:
Ten Min

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Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Runway 69

Synopsis:
Times Square 1990. a new dancer arrives at the raunchy club Runway 69.

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Music erin Kamler; lyrics by erin Kamler; Carson Kreitzer; book by Carson Kreitzer

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Genre:
Musical

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Self Defense, Or Death Of Some Salesmen

Synopsis:
Seven white men have been found dead along I-95 in Florida. a prostitute is arrested and charged with their murders. the police say she's a serial killer. She claims seven separate acts of self-defense. Inspired by the true story of aileen Wuornos, Self Defense, or death of some salesmen is a whirlwind seven acts in 95 minutes. the play is fast and furious, shocking and funny, and at its center, a portrait of a very complicated human being. She is complex, charismatic, dangerous, damaged, full of love and anger; above all else, she is alive. an investigation of capital punishment, destitution, violence against (and by) women, and whether a prostitute is considered a person under our justice system,Self Defense gives a long, hard look at an America most of us don't want to admit exists.

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1st Produced:
Perishable Theater (Providence, Ri, United States)    2001

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Playscripts and in Smith and Kraus Women Playwrights: Best Plays of 2002.    -

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Genre:
95-100 min Drama

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Male:  3            Female:  5            Other:  3 males, 5 females (8-24 actors possible: 3-10 males, 5-14 females)

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Slither

Synopsis:
Four women and power, religion and snakes. eve the first woman; a Cretan priestess; a preacher's wife and a carnival snake dancer

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1st Produced:
Eye Of The Storm Theatre, Minneapolis    2003

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  2            Female:  4            Other:  doubling

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Slow Drag, The

Synopsis:
a jazz cabaret about a woman who passed as a man to play the music she loved. Live jazz band onstage.

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1st Produced:
American Place theatre
630 9th aVenue, Suite 809, New York, NY 10036    1996

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Genre:
Two-act Jazz Cabaret Play

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Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  (one woman who can pass as a man, one woman who can bring down the house singing Blues in the Night, one light-skinned black man.)

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Slow Drag, The

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New York    -

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Take My Breath Away

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1st Produced:
In Bam's 1997 Next Wave Festival    1997

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Tiny Rooms

Synopsis:
Two Chicago socialites are obsessed with making small rooms

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1st Produced:
Flatiron Building, Chicago    08 Oct 2010

Organisations:
XYZ Festival of New Work

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Genre:
Drama

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Valerie Shoots Andy

Synopsis:
an assassination fantasia.

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1st Produced:
40 Feet Under, American Place Theatre    1993

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Genre:
Drama

Parts:
Male:  7            Female:  6            Other:  with doubling

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