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Mara Lesemann

MARA LESEMANN

  
Nationality:    USA
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Mara Lesemann attended Brown University, and received her Ba in Media Studies and Film from the New School University. Her full-length play the Fertility Factor was produced off-off-Broadway in NYC in July 2005 by the Guild of Italian American actors (www.giaA.us) under the direction of Carlo FiorlettA. Getting In was a semi-finalist in the Riant Theatre's Winter 2007 Strawberry One act Play Festival; the screenplay version won an abbreviated Screenplay Contest and is being produced by Silver Penny Productions. the romantic fantasy one act play a Temporary Cat premieres in the Crown Theater at the Producers Club in Manhattan in March 2009. the screenplay version was nominated for the Hollywood Scriptwriter 2008 Written Word award at the action on Film Festival in 2008. Mara lives in Jersey City, NJ with her husband and their four cats.

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

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below is a list of Mara Lesemann's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Fertility Factor, The         Model Girlfriend, A         Temporary Cat, A

Fertility Factor, The

Synopsis:
the Fertility Factor poses the question: How far would you go for your dreams? Two married couples and a gay man struggle to balance what they have and what they want (which isn't necessarily what they think they want). as the characters struggle with jobs, love, and high tech reproductive technology, their choices have unexpected consequences.

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1st Produced:
Royal Theater At The Producers Club In NYC    2005

Organisations:
Guild of Italian American actors (GIaa - www.giaa.us)

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Music:
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Genre:
Romantic comedy

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  1 m/f

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Model Girlfriend, A

Synopsis:
a Model Girlfriend is a comedy about how money changes the power structure in a relationship. When aspiring actress Nancy gleefully tells her live-in boyfriend Jimmy that she's going to be photographic model for a new line of lingerie, she expects him to share her happiness. Instead his new-found prudishness leads to a sharp turn in their relationship as she relishes her financial independence.

Notes:
First produced As part of the Ten Minute Play Festival of Where eagles Dare Studio

1st Produced:
Where Eagles Dare Theatre, NYC    2009

Organisations:
Where eagles Dare

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Music:
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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Temporary Cat, A

Synopsis:
a Temporary Cat is a romantic fantasy about a guy with writer's block, money trouble, and the cat who loves him. It takes a light-hearted look at love in 21st century America, and the assumptions that we make about the people around us.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Crown Theater At The Producers Club, NYC    2009

Organisations:
Larralley Productions LLC

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Romantic fantasy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  4            Other:  1 f voice

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