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Mark Leiren-Young

MARK LEIREN-YOUNG

  (1962 - )
Nationality:    Canadian
email:    n/a     Website:    n/a

Literary Agent:    Kensington Literary Representation  represented by Michael Petrasek

photo by Phillip Chin. Mark Leiren-Young is a playwright, screenwriter, journalist, performer and insomniac. as a playwright, Mark is best known for controversial Dramas like Shylock and articles of Faith and political satires - including his work as half of the satirical duo Local anxiety. Mark wrote and directed the feature film, the Green Chain - a series of monologues dealing with the issues defining and dividing modern logging communities. Greenpieces: an eco-Comedy, a TV special he wrote, produced and co-starred in, received an earthVision award for excEllence in environmental programming. Other TV credits include episodic Drama (Blood Ties, the Collector, Psi Factor), comedy (SketchCom, Terminal City), animation (Class of the Titans, ReBoot, RollBots) and documentary (Grand Illusions, Life and Times). as a journalist, Mark's work has appeared in such publications as Time, Maclean's and the Utne Reader.

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         Articles Of Faith         Basically Good Kids         Blueprints From Space         Canadian Content         Dim Sum Diaries         Easy Money         Escape From Fantasy Gardens         Greenpieces         If You Really Love Me         Jim         Night they Kidnapped Barrymore, The         Oprah Donahue Show, The         Shylock         Watchin'
Articles Of Faith

Synopsis:
an exploration of the issue of the blessing of same sex unions through the real-life Drama of one Canadian church.

Notes:
the premiere was directed by John Juliani.

1st Produced:
Christ Church Cathedral Vancouver, Canada     2001

Organisations:
Savage God

1st Published:
anvil Press, 2001   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Basically Good Kids

Synopsis:
Three "basically good kids" get caught up in a riot in this exploration of the causes and consequences of teen violence. Inspired by the Penticton Riot.

Notes:
Premiere directed by Kim Selody. It received its American premiere with the Walnut Street theatre in Philadlephia.

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Carousel Theatre

1st Published:
Playwrights Guild of Canada,    

Music:
-

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Genre:
TYA Drama Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Blueprints From Space

Synopsis:
a cross between Close encounter of the Third Kind and Field of Dreams, edmonton Sun review of the stage version of Blueprints from Space.Tyler Kirby loves to build and Mike Norris has always lived to be a part of his impossible projects that are the talk of their small island town. Now high school is almost over, Mike is getting ready to move to the city to go to university and Tyler has a new dream. . . a spaceship. and this time Mike isn't so sure he can come along for the ride. Like Wendy in Peter Pan, Mike is convinced that it's time for Tyler to grow up. especially after Tyler reveals that he received the blueprints in a vision from outer space.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Citadel Theatre

1st Published:
theatrum Magazine, 1994   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Drama fantasy Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Canadian Content

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
-    

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Playwrights Guild of Canada,    

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Dim Sum Diaries

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
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1st Produced:
-    

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Playwrights Guild of Canada,    

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Easy Money

Synopsis:
the rags to riches, to rags to riches, to rags to riches musical biography of legendary Canadian stock promoter Murray Pezim, a man who could sell almost anything - especially himself. Too strange to be fiction.

Notes:
Music by Bruce Kellett. Premiere directed by Bill Millerd.

1st Produced:
Arts Club Theatre (Stanley), Vancouver, Canada     1999

Organisations:
Arts Club Theatre

1st Published:
Playwrights Guild of Canada,    

Music:
-

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Genre:
musical comedy Musical

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  3            Other:  musicians

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Escape From Fantasy Gardens

Synopsis:
a satirical revue about B.C. politics in the age of Bill Vander Zalm. the style-over-substance Premier hosts his own late-night talk show.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:

Organisations:
White Trash Players

1st Published:
Playwrights Guild of Canada,    

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Greenpieces

Synopsis:
What happens when a kid's show host becomes an eco-radical, what kind of fairy tales do you tell in the post nuclear age and how do you atone for sins against nature in the eco-confessional?

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Vancouver Folk Festival     1999

Organisations:
Local anxiety

1st Published:
Playwrights Guild of Canada,    

Music:
-

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Genre:
environmental Comedy Revue Comedy

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  2

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If You Really Love Me

Synopsis:
Five teenagers dealing with sex and sexuality. This play was developed and created with teenagers for teenagers.

Notes:
Premiere directed by David L. Young.

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Carousel Theatre

1st Published:
Playwrights Guild of Canada,    

Music:
-

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Genre:
TYA Drama Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Jim

Synopsis:
a teenager makes a pilgrimage to the graveside of their hero, Jim Morrison, in search of answers. Or at least the right questions.

Notes:
a monologue / written by Leiren-young, Mark And Jim Bridger. the play is for one Actor  but works with A male or female. the premiere was directed by David L. Young

1st Produced:
Vancouver Fringe Festival     1990

Organisations:
ImPulse Theatre

1st Published:
Playwrights Guild of Canada,    

Music:
-

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Genre:
Drama One act

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  1

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Night they Kidnapped Barrymore, The

Synopsis:
Legend has it that when John Barrymore died, two actors working on a B-movie decided to kidnap the body and bring it to errol Flynn's home as a joke. the B-movie was Casablanca. the two actors were Peter Lorre and Humphrey Bogart.

Notes:
Premiered with A stage reading At New PlayFest.

1st Produced:
The Orlando-Ucf, Shakespeare Festival     2005

Organisations:
New PlayFest

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Oprah Donahue Show, The

Synopsis:
Hamlet's Mom, Juliet, Lady M. and the Shrew talk about fatal attractions. Four of Shakespeare's most famous women show up on modern day talk TV to discuss their lives in this controversial feminist comedy.

Notes:
written by Johnston, Kate And Leiren-Young, Mark

1st Produced:
Edmonton Fringe Festival    

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Playwrights Guild of Canada,    

Music:
-

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Genre:
comedy One act

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Shylock

Synopsis:
Shylock is an award-winning play about a Jewish actor who finds himself condemned by his own community for his portrayal of Shakespeare's notorious Jew.

Notes:
Shylock has been produced At theatres And Shakespeare festivals throughout Canada And the U.S. It has been translated into French And Danish (for A production in Denmark). the US premiere was At the Walnut Street theatre in Philadelphia. the world premiere was directed by John Juliani And starred David Berner.

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Savage God

1st Published:
anvil Press, 1996   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Watchin'

Synopsis:
a comedy revue about the media, religion, the theatre and other stuff - featuring "the Stage Manager's Nightmare", "Is Godot's Room Ready Yet?" and "Oedipus Was Framed".

Notes:
Premiere directed by Mark Leiren-Young

1st Produced:
Phoenix Theatre, University Of Victoria, Canada     1985

Organisations:
Phoenix alternate Theatre

1st Published:
Playwrights Guild of Canada,    

Music:
-

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Genre:
comedy revue Comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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