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Gene Lesser

GENE LESSER

  
Nationality:    USA
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GeNe LeSSeR has written some two dozen television scripts. To support his survival while writing he also served as a commodities broker, a Certified Financial PlAnner, and as a registered principal for an investment company. He has been a magazine photographer, an agent as well as a personal manager for several notable performers, writers, producers and directors. In addition, he has been a publicist and ran his own major PR firm in Hollywood. In the hours between he writes plays. He is graduate of Goddard College, VT, and a member of the Dramatists Guild of America, Inc., the Alliance Of Los Angeles Playwrights (ALAP) and of Theatre 40 in Beverly Hills, CA

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

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

         Animal         Appointment, The         Ben And Jenny         Boxes         Cloud Of Suspicion         Doughnut Shop         First Date         For Rent         Head Of the Household         Head Shot         How To Pick Up A Man         It's Only Money         Jazz Man         Just You And Me         Lucy Wares         Nesting         Painting         Passing the Reins         Postcards         Quick 'N' Ready         Return, The         Sending Postcards         Service, The         To Heather         Tour Of Duty         What's the Difference?         Where the Hell Are the Birds?

Animal

Synopsis:
a woman is about to be unfaithful to her artist boyfriend

Notes:
a semi-finalist in the NJ Reparatory 2006 competition

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Genre:
Fifteen minute play

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Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Appointment, The

Synopsis:
a man has his self esteem destroyed

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Genre:
Fifteen minute play

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Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Ben And Jenny

Synopsis:
a young man searching for his Father befriends an older woman

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Genre:
Fifteen minute play

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Boxes

Synopsis:
Two workmen try to figure out their place in life

Notes:
a semi-finalist un the Secret Rose theatre, NoHo, Ca competition (2006.)

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Cloud Of Suspicion

Synopsis:
an ex-student threatens to destroy the reputation of a professor

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  3            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Doughnut Shop

Synopsis:
an out of work cowboy in desperation holds up a doughnut shop

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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First Date

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1st Produced:
Theatre 40, Beverly Hills Ca    2006

Organisations:
in Shortages

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For Rent

Synopsis:
a woman tries to get a room at the house where her friend's ex-boyfriend lives

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Genre:
Fifteen minute play

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Head Of the Household

Synopsis:
a thief breaks into a middle aged couple's home

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Head Shot

Synopsis:
Unhappy with the photographs she has had done a woman gets her boyfriend to sort out the photographer

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  -

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How To Pick Up A Man

Synopsis:
a secretary wants to become a quick draw artist

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Actors Art Theatre, Los Angeles, Ca    2007

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Genre:
Fifteen minute play

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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It's Only Money

Synopsis:
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1st Produced:
Theatre 40, Beverly Hills    40951

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Jazz Man

Synopsis:
a writer is threatened with death by his new room mate

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Genre:
Fifteen minute play

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Just You And Me

Synopsis:
Widow plans to marry again - but her son thwarts her plans

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Lucy Wares

Synopsis:
a widow tries to keep her position in society

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Genre:
Thirty minute play

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Nesting

Synopsis:
a professor is implicated in the suicide of a student.

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Painting

Synopsis:
an artist waits to see if he has sold one of his works

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Genre:
Comedy

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Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Passing the Reins

Synopsis:
a young Latino finds he is sharing his hotel room with a business man

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Genre:
Twenty minute play

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Postcards

Synopsis:
People from various professions struggle to survive

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Quick 'N' Ready

Synopsis:
Side effects of patent medicine

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Theatre 40, Beverly Hills Ca    2007

Organisations:
Staged as part of Deskapades

1st Published:
JAC Publishing   -

Music:
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Genre:
Fifteen minute comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Return, The

Synopsis:
a son who ran away fourteen years ago plans to return

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Genre:
Twenty minute play

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Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Sending Postcards

Sending Postcards
An ambitious actor, searching for his identity, changes the lives of those closest to himself.

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1st Published:
JAC Publishing & Promotions (2012)   978-1605131764

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Genre:
play

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Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Service, The

Synopsis:
a 60 year old widow hires an escort

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Theatre 40, Beverly Hills Ca    2005

Organisations:
part of Benchmarks

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Music:
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Genre:
Fifteen minute play

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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To Heather

Synopsis:
He has finally decided it is time to scatter his wife's ashes - but he cannot find them

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Genre:
One act

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Tour Of Duty

Synopsis:
a woman soldier is raped.

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Genre:
One act

Parts:
Male:  7            Female:  2            Other:  -

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What's the Difference?

What's the Difference?
a rollicking, fun-loaded view of today's family structure. a widowed father, with his housekeeper's help, attempts to foil his young son's marriage to a much older woman.

Notes:
One set - A living room with A small dining Area.

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1st Published:
JAC Publishing & Promotions, Nov 2009   1605130370

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Where the Hell Are the Birds?

Synopsis:
a soldier faces the contradictions of war

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1st Produced:
Theatre West, Los Angeles, Ca    -

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Genre:
anti war One act

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Male:  4            Female:  -            Other:  -

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