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Scot Lahaie

SCOT LAHAIE

  (1961 - )
Nationality:    USA
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after earning a BFa in Drama in 1983 from Sam Houston State University, Scot Lahaie worked as Theater Manager for the Keller Theater in Giessen, Germany (a part of the US army entertainment Program in Europe). He was later promoted to entertainment Director for the Giessen Military Community, which included the responsibilities of artistic Director for the Keller Theater. In that capacity, he has participated as either director, designer, or actor in over 60 shows. He returned to the US in 1995 to pursue graduate studies in Theater Arts at Baylor, where he earned a Masters of Arts in Theater History and Dramatic Criticism with thesis in 1996 and a Masters of Fine Arts in Stage Directing in 2000. Upon completing his graduate work, Professor Lahaie taught for three years at Baylor University before joining Gardner-Webb University's faculty as Director of Theater in January 2003. He is also the Vice President of the Horton Foote Society and the founding editor of the Horton Foote annual.

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

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         Big Brother 2014         Cattleman's Suite, The         Cubicle! the Office Musical         Dogfall         Dressing For the Occasion - Or the Rise And Fall Of Architect James         Gadfly: An Ironic Cabaret         Gloria Dei         Grasshoppers And Bettlebugs         Lear Reloaded         Luminarium         Martyr         Meeting Mr Wright         Old Man And His Will         Purging Mary         Six Soldier Junction: A Soldiers' Anthology         Translation, The

Big Brother 2014

Synopsis:
the American government takes more and more control of peoples lives

Notes:
Inspired by "1984" by George Orwell

1st Produced:
Millennium Playhouse, Gardner-Webb University    02 Mar 2010

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Drama

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Cattleman's Suite, The

Synopsis:
Located on the thirteenth floor of the Dallas Grand Hotel, the cattleman's suite is the chosen site of Julie Drithers' not-so-happy engagement party. Her father, a once wealthy but now almost bankrupt Texas oilman, has rented the old suite again to celebrate his daughter's engagement in the same place and manner that he had celebrated his own engagement thirty years earlier. Only this time, the engagement is the father's idea, not the bride's. Through the calculated wedding of his daughter to Matt Snooker, the son of his best friend and founder of the industry's leading pipe and rigging company, Mr. Drithers hopes to save his own ailing oil company and avoid disaster. However, he gets more disaster than he can handle when Bobby, Julie's true love, sets out to rescue his one-and-only. Drithers' problems seem small compared to Julie's wrath when she learns of the deception played upon her. add an untimely pregnancy, two clumsy villains, a hotel staff from hell, and the recipe for comedy is complete!

Notes:
a riotous full-length Texas comedy, perfect for Any Dinner theater

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Genre:
Comedy in Two acts Comedy

Parts:
Male:  9            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Cubicle! the Office Musical

Synopsis:
a wry look at life in the office, this Musical tells the story of Alan Zookowski in his battle against management's attempt to reduce the workforce by ninety-five percent. the music for the show is by Roger Lowe.

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Genre:
Musical Comedy

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Male:  18            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Dogfall

Synopsis:
the action of the play takes place in a mostly abandoned tenement building in Dallas, Texas. Mike Howard--a radical from the far religious right--has kidnapped Dr. Jake McKenzie--Dallas' famed suicide doctor--with the intent to serve his own homegrown justice upon the doctor, since the courts have yet to convict him of any wrongdoing. Mike presents evidence of McKenzie's wrongdoing in a mock trial while silencing McKenzie's attempt to justify his actions. Underestimating his elderly captive, Mike lets his guard down and is overpowered by the wily physician. Instead of escaping his captor, McKenzie placing the now chained radical on trial in like manner, an opportunity the doctor uses to defend his own actions and give voice to the radical left. the plot takes an unexpected turn as the play reaches its climax, throwing both characters into turmoil. Constructed as a dialectic, this play explores the extreme positions (both politically and socially) represented in the Right to Die debate active in the United States over the last twenty-five years. although the play's focus is on doctor-assisted suicide, the author explores the whole of the ethical quagmire represented in the right to die movement--abortion, euthanasia, sanctity of life, the life to come, religious zealously, and more.

Notes:
won Charles Getchell New Play Award for 2004/05(SeTC), the North Carolina theater Conference (NCTC) New Play Award for 2004, And the Mark Gilbert New Play Award from Greensboro (NC) Playwrights Alliance.

1st Produced:
Gardner-Webb University    2003

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1st Published:
Fall, 2005 in Southern Theatre Magazine,    -

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Dressing For the Occasion - Or the Rise And Fall Of Architect James

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Genre:
One act

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Gadfly: An Ironic Cabaret

Synopsis:
Gadfly is an ironic comedy with music that explores the power of the establishment to determine what we call accepted truth, and chronicles how it has historically been the outsider that has moved our understanding of truth forward. the play is a cosmic Cabaret where special guests are invited to defend their teachings or actions, to include Socrates, Galileo, & Darwin. Backed by a ukulele and a squeeze box, a Poet Guide named Virgil keeps the action moving forward as the "Idols of the Institution" play judge and jury over the minds of our history's greatest thinkers.

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Written for An intimate space And limited scenery.

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Genre:
Ironic Comedy

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Male:  13            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Gloria Dei

Synopsis:
This Drama explores the ethical choices surrounding the starvation of a young woman diagnosed as being in a Persistent Vegetative State or PVS. although a fictional story, this play echoes the Terry Schaivo court case from 2005.

Notes:
This play may be purchased At: http://stores.lulu.com/scot_lahaie

1st Produced:
Dover Theater On The Campus Of Gardner-Webb University    2008

Organisations:
Gardner-Webb University Theater

1st Published:
Clay Tablet Publications at Lulul.com (2008)   -

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  9            Female:  7            Other:  Note: Several roles may be cast as either male or female.

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Grasshoppers And Bettlebugs

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Genre:
Comedy One act

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Lear Reloaded

Synopsis:
This retelling of the King Lear myth explores the weak dualities of god/man and blessing/cursing in order to underline the medieval mindset of the original work and reposition the narrative as a post-modern Dramatic event. although the play is a derivative work, it preserves much of the Bard's original language.

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1st Produced:
Dover Theater On The Campus Of Gardner-Webb University    2007

Organisations:
Gardner-Webb University Theater

1st Published:
Clay Tablet Publications at Lulul.com (2008)   -

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Male:  10            Female:  3            Other:  Flexible Chorus of circa 14

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Luminarium

Synopsis:
LUMINaRIUM is a Dramatic retelling of the conversion of King Drtad, the first of the armenian kings to embrace the Christian faith. the play moves past the genre of historical Drama as it follows Drtad's encounters with the Most High God and his prophet Gregory the Illuminator.

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the play has been translated into Armenian.

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Genre:
Historical Drama

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Male:  17            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Martyr

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Notes:
Original Playwright - Pierre Corneille

1st Produced:
Dover Theatre, Gardner-Webb University    14 Nov 2007

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Genre:
Translation

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Meeting Mr Wright

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Old Man And His Will

Synopsis:
2005 New Plays Festival: New One-act Plays By emerging American Playwrights, iUniverse, Inc

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William Jefferson Makepeace, Age 83, is terminally ill. He has experienced great success in A high-level business career And has Amassed A considerable fortune. Unfortunately, he has not enjoyed it And has had no one with whom he could share it. At the end of his life, he summons the four people closest to him for An Afternoon tea--his purpose is to read his living will And divide his fortune with them before his illness takes his sanity And Autonomy. Not understanding the gravity of the invitation, not even one of his invited guests Appear for the reading of the will. Speaking to An empty table, the old man disinherits the four friends And gives his fortune to his servants. He then kills himself in despair.

1st Produced:
Gardner-Webb University    2005

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New Plays Festival: New One-act Plays By emerging AmericanPlaywrights, iUniverse, Incorporated, 2003   -

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Genre:
Play, 22 min One act

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Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Purging Mary

Synopsis:
This play may be purchased at: http://stores.lulu.com/scot_lahaie

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1st Produced:
Millennium Playhouse    -

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Gardner-Webb University Theater

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Six Soldier Junction: A Soldiers' Anthology

Synopsis:
Written about the first American conflict in Iraq (Desert Storm), this 25-minute post-modern Drama looks at the atrocity of war through the eyes of the soldiers that were there. the media coverage hailed Desert Storm to be a major American victory--almost no blood shed by the allied force, while hundreds of thousands Iraqi soldiers were wiped away or captured. This play reveals that no military conflict is without repercussions for the individuals who fought it.

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1st Produced:
Gardner-Webb University    2003

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1st Published:
New Plays Festival: New One-act Plays By emerging AmericanPlaywrights, iUniverse, Incorporated, 2003   -

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Genre:
Play One act

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Male:  5            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Translation, The

Synopsis:
a university professor is drawn unwittingly into a covert investigation of a colleague suspected of ties to terrorism. Dr. Schmidthauser, a German native and professor of German literature, agrees to translate a questionable e-mail from German to english, only to discover that it belongs to her colleague and best friend Hans Weizan - unlikely candidate for terrorism. Only after her friendship with this dear colleague is destroyed by her involvement with the authorities does she discover that her office has been bugged and that she too has been object of this investigation.

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1st Produced:
Gardner-Webb University    2004

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1st Published:
New Plays Festival: New One-act Plays By emerging AmericanPlaywrights, iUniverse, Incorporated, 2004   -

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Genre:
Play One act

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Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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