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John Kuntz

JOHN KUNTZ

  
Nationality:    USA
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John Kuntz is a Boston-based writer and performer. His plays have been produced in New York (Ohio Theatre, New York Fringe, Solo Arts Group), Boston (Huntington Theatre Company, Boston Playwrights Theatre, Boston Theatre Works, Centastage, Coyote Theatre Company, Speakeasy Stage Company), Cambridge (American Repertory Theatre), Wellfleet, Ma (Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theatre), Vermont (the Unadilla Theatre Company) and Provincetown (the Iguana). His plays Freaks! and Sing Me To Sleep both received the elliot Norton award (Boston) for Best Fringe Production and his one-man show Starfuckers received the Norton for Outstanding Solo Performance. Starfuckers was also part of the 2002 New York International Fringe Festival, where it received the Best Solo Show award. His plays Jump Rope and Jasper Lake were part of the Breaking Ground series at the Huntington Theatre Company, where he was a Playwrighting Fellow. Jasper Lake went on to win both the National Student and Paula Vogel Playwrighting awards from the American College Theatre Festival, with a production at the Kennedy Center and a ten day residency at the O'Neill Center in Connecticut. Jasper Lake was an official selection of the 2004 New York Fringe Festival and was recently published by Samuel French. John's short plays have been a part of the Boston Playwrights Theatre Marathon for the last five years.

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         Cantaloupe Girlfriend         Claire         Jasper Lake         Jump/Rope         Kix         Mystery Of Worcestershire Manor, The         Ordinary Guy         Oscar         Salt Girl         Sing Me To Sleep         Smurf
Cantaloupe Girlfriend

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Theater Offensive

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Claire

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Huntington Theatre Company

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in Boston Theatre Marathon of Ten Minute Plays Volume 2, Bakers Plays,    

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Jasper Lake

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Haunted by a violent past, Liz Sloane awakens to the voice of a girl she has never met, beckoning her to a place called Jasper Lake. Two affluent families reside along this beautiful, exclusive body of water: the abusive Mitchell, his long-suffering wife Nora and her teen-age daughter, Jennifer. Next door is loquacious Mid-western new-comer Deb, her workaholic husband Jerry and their disturbed son Caleb. a 'meet the new neighbors' party ensues that will change these families forever, as their secrets and betrayals bubble to the surface. Someone will drown in Jasper Lake tonight, unless Liz and her new boyfriend, an unemployed roadie named Drake, can make it there in time. 'the gated community abutting Jasper Lake is the site of adultery, incest, seduction, psychosis, wrist slitting, apparent drowning, closeted homosexuality, cat killing, cheerleading and other potential sins. . .

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Playwrights' Theatre, Boston University     2005

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Boston Playwrights Theatre

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Jump/Rope

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at the opening of Jump/Rope, the long relationship between Martin and Alex has begun to sour as a mysterious third party enters their lives. What ensues is both a hilarious puzzle and a murderous game as these three men compete for power and love. It is a bizarre triangle rooted in attraction, violence, and the fear of being alone
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1st Produced:
Urban Stages, NY     2007

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Square Peg Productions

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comic thriller Thriller

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Kix

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the Nora Theatre Company

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Mystery Of Worcestershire Manor, The

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Commonwealth Shakespeare Company

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in Boston Theatre Marathon of Ten Minute Plays Volume 4, Bakers Plays,    

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Ordinary Guy

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New Repertory Theatre

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in Boston Theatre Marathon of Ten Minute Plays Volume 3, Bakers Plays,    

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Oscar

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Pilgrim Theatre & Performance Collaborative

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Salt Girl

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Roberts Theatre, Boston     16 Jul 2010

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Company One

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Short play

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Sing Me To Sleep

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the play is a series of monologues that touch on a traumatic childhood experience. Menaced by a bully named Stanley, Jimmy is rescued by his older sister, Candace, who says she can't always be around to protect him from the world's threats. From that epiphany about the reality of human vulnerability emerges a quartet of tragicomic stories on the vagaries of circumstance, the haphazardness of fate, and the self-destructive twists of the human heart. "Sing Me to Sleep" gleans chuckles and chills out of the collusion of cosmic uncertainty and psychic disturbance. Dad died on the toilet - hit by a bolt of lightning - so Jimmy becomes obsessed with staying safe at his home, trying to control his fear of irrational destruction. Mom is dying in a hospital, prattling to a sympathetic doctor rather than her kids, who haven't shown up. Stanley, a violent weirdo, prowls the bars for female companionship. Candace learns her mother is dead on the day she finds her husband, dressed as Santa Claus, at home with his mistress, who is wearing rabbit ears and is covered in chocolate. . . Kuntz takes big risks with this mordant play, suddenly jumping from the ridiculous to the ugly. the payoff is that "Sing Me to Sleep" is a haunting lullaby.
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1st Produced:
Boston Center For The Arts     1999

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Coyote Theatre

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Smurf

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Coyote Theatre Company

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