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Mara Lathrop

MARA LATHROP

  
Nationality:    USA
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Mara Lathrop's work has been described as: "beautifully realized" by Variety, "flawless in its simplicity and understanding" by Backstage, and "wickedly witty" by The Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Her full length plays include The Visible Horse (developed at the Eugene O'Neill National Playwrights Conference), The Urn of Drew (finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and developed at Seven Devils Playwrights Conference), The Eighteenth Mitzvah (Richard Hugo House New Play Prize), Hell on Wheels (commissioned by the Philadelphia Festival Theatre), Dreams of Baby (Best New Play, 1993 Seattle Times Footlight Awards), Tales from the Salt Mines(commissioned by A Contemporary Theatre, developed at the Ojai Playwrights Conference, and finalist for the Jane Chambers Playwriting Competition), The Six Basic Rules(Mill Mountain Theatre New Play Prize), The Lily and Lou Show, and Ees Story Uff Poor Sea Village Gerl. She has received Fellowships from the Washington State Arts Commission, the Seattle Arts Commission, and Artists Trust. The Visible Horse is published by Smith & Kraus in the collection Women Playwrights: Best Plays of 2001. She is the Literary Manager of Key City Public Theatre in Port Townsend, WA.

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

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         All By Feel         Birth Of Good And Evil, The         Bris Is Still A Bris, A         Chicken Fight         Dreams Of Baby         Ees Story Uff Poor Sea Village Gerl         Eighteenth Mitzvah, The         Fantasyland         Garden of Monsters, The         Golden Oldies         Hell On Wheels         It Cuts Both Ways         Lily & Lou Show, The         Menstruating Waitress From Hell         Now Or Never         One Magic Moment         Overweight Sperm Versus the Cranky Ovaries, The         Perfect Reading, The         She Always Liked To Travel         Six Basic Rules, The         Table Stakes No Limit         Tales From the Saltmines         Undead         Urn Of Drew, The         Visible Horse, The         Way Inside, The

All By Feel

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Reading, Here, There & Everywhere, Key City Public Theatre, Port Townsend, WA    08 Mar 2012

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Birth Of Good And Evil, The

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the Gods are making rules for us.

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Ten minute play

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Bris Is Still A Bris, A

Synopsis:
Lillie and Lou arrive at the hospital to see their new grandson when the arguments start - to cut or not to cut?

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1st Produced:
Mae West Fest    1999

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One act

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Chicken Fight

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James and Louise come to blows over how to cook a chicken.

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Dreams Of Baby

Synopsis:
As her waters break and she goes into labor, it occurs to Anne that it might just be a little too late to back out! A farce about labor & delivery.

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1st Produced:
Theatre Off Jackson, Seattle, Washington    1993

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Jane Doe Theatre Ensemble

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http://www.indietheaternow.com/Play/dreams-of-baby   -

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Genre:
farce 100 min

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Ees Story Uff Poor Sea Village Gerl

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Can poor gerl from teenytiny sea village become verymuch faymoose, find happiness, excitement, maybe even luff? Please to join thees gerl on travels from village to mountain to brothel and beyond.

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1st Produced:
Reading, Winterfest, Ensemble Studio Theatre / Los Angeles    29 Jan 2012

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play 90 min

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Eighteenth Mitzvah, The

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A fable of the Old World, a story set in a Ukrainian shtetl in the year 1820. The play weaves together the journey of an itinerant scribe who is commissioned to hand write a copy of the Torah, a tale about an orphan girl of fifteen married against her will to a much older man, and stories from the Talmud which illustrate Jewish law and human frailty.

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1st Produced:
Workshop Production, Freehold Studio Theatre, Seattle    1998

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Genre:
fable 200 min

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Male:  5            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Fantasyland

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a woman's fantasies as her husband snores in bed next to her.

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Garden of Monsters, The

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In the waning days of WWII, a Jewish GI encounters a Holocaust survivor and the last shred of hope in all the world. In the year 2045, a theatre director rehearses a new play about the liberation of Dachau and forgets how to hope when she learns she has a fatal disease. In a 16th century Italian garden, hopeful lovers make irrevocable choices. In present-day London, a woman crosses paths with a mysterious clown on a secret mission to heal the world. Intermission promises the end of the universe and dirty vodka martinis for everyone! As the stories and lives intertwine, hope, itself, travels a perilous journey.

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1st Produced:
Key City Public Theatre in Port Townsend, Washington    21 jun 2011

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http://www.indietheaternow.com/Play/the-garden-of-monsters   -

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Genre:
Play/Drama 120 min

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Golden Oldies

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On their Golden Wedding anniversary James and Louise discover the secret of a happy marriage.

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Hell On Wheels

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Marta & Greg have the perfect solution for salvaging their crumbling marriage-pack up the kids and head out to discover America in a used motor home. A comedy about children, divorce, and very large vehicles.

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1st Produced:
Empty Space Theatre, Seattle    1993

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Genre:
comedy 120 min

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Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  -

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It Cuts Both Ways

Synopsis:
Who is farting? James or Louise?

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Lily & Lou Show, The

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In the ongoing battle for control over Allison's life, her parents Lily and Lou know just how to play it when everything hits the fan. It's uphill for Allison all the way in a comedy about the adult child of. . .parents.

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Mae West Fest, Settle    -

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Menstruating Waitress From Hell

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a waitress seeks revenge.

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Now Or Never

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Reading, Swan Day Celebration, ACT Theatre, Seattle, WA    30 Mar 2012

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One Magic Moment

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What would your spouse learn if he or she could read your mind?

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Overweight Sperm Versus the Cranky Ovaries, The

Synopsis:
Getting pregnant is no fun.

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Perfect Reading, The

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the playwright and the read through

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She Always Liked To Travel

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What made Granny emigrate? Was she running away from something?

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Six Basic Rules, The

Synopsis:
Marriage can be hell unless you know the six basic rules. Please join newlyweds James & Louise Pettigrew as they spend the rest of their lives figuring out the rules and attempting to achieve marital bliss.

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1st Produced:
Annual Mae West Fest at the Union Garage in Seattle, Washington    2000

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http://www.indietheaternow.com/Play/the-six-basic-rules   -

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Genre:
play 110 min

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Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Table Stakes No Limit

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a high stakes game of gossip - who has the best?

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Tales From the Saltmines

Synopsis:
On her first day in an anonymous office, an artist-slash-temporary-secretary butts heads with American mass culture's rabid aversion to creativity. A farce about art, sex, and the transmigration of souls.

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FirstACT Commission, ACT Theatre, Seattle    -

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play 120 min

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Undead

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Urn Of Drew, The

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When everybody's favorite relative turns up dead, the Fink family can't quite figure out how to let him go. How will they ever come to terms with their loss, with themselves and with each other when they can't even fiugre out what to do with the, er, um, ah ...ashes. A black comedy about grief.

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1st Produced:
Workshop, Seven Devils Playwrights Conference, Mccall, Idaho    2001

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Genre:
black comedy 110 min

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Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Visible Horse, The

Visible Horse, The
On the first anniversary of his father's death in a car accident, Scott accidentally conjurs Dad back from the great beyond. Unfortunately, Dad arrives as a monster who sets up shop under the bed.

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1st Produced:
Whidbey Island Center for the Arts in Langley, Washington    2011

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1st Published:
Contained in: "Women Playwrights the Best Plays of 2001" published by Smith and Kraus 2002
http://www.indietheaternow.com/Play/the-visible-horse   978-1575252964

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play 90 min

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Way Inside, The

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James and Louise trip over the threshold on their way into the Bridal Suite.

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One act

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