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Cassandra Lewis

CASSANDRA LEWIS

  (1978 - )
Nationality:    USA
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Cassandra Lewis is the writer at Bastille Arts. Her plays have been performed in London, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Valdez, alaska, and Kitchener, CanadA. Notable book publications: the Best Plays of the Strawberry One-act Festival anthology, International Centre for Women Playwrights' Mother/Daughter Monologues Volume 1: Babes and Beginnings, and an excerpt from Migrations, which was a finalist in the New By Northwest play competition, will be published in the editions Bibliotekos literary anthology called Common Boundary. Other notable publishing credits include: the Stanford Social Innovation Review, expatica, apparatus Magazine, annalEmma, and she has received numerous reporting credits in the Village Voice. Forthcoming publications include: Boston Literary Magazine, Tattoo Highway, and Fractured West. Cassandra is a member of the Dramatists Guild, ICWP, and PeN usA.

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

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         Altered State Of the Union         American Family         American Lullaby         Beef Season         Caught         Charging Bull         Cross Guns Confession         Detail Man         Elevator Mystique, The         Marked         Migrations         Terror Act         Transparent Sting         Two Women On the Shore         Uneven Surfaces will receive a staged reading at The Brick Theatre in Williamsburg, Brooklyn by The Obligatory Theatre Company on October 28, 2013 at 8:00 pm. In Uneven Surfaces an estranged family reunites for a funeral, including a prison guard who escorts one of the family members. The family is haunted by trauma involving train tracks, madness, and addiction. The play explores what it means to take responsibility for our actions and questions how much of our decisions and circumstances a         Waiting For A Fix

Altered State Of the Union

Synopsis:
God tries to reason with George Bush as he rehearses his speech, but Bush can't hear a word.

Notes:
the character of God may be played by Any gender And Any ethnicity.

1st Produced:
Off-Market Theater    30 Jan 2006

Organisations:
Playwrights' Center of San Francisco

1st Published:
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Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy One act

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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American Family

Synopsis:
When Ouida People, a public school teacher, shows up at the home of Mr. Senate and Mrs. House to confront the negligent parents about their troubled sons, George and Dick, a comedic exploration of social responsibility ensues.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
The Exit Theatre In San Francisco    39485

Organisations:
Playwrights' Center of San Francisco

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Genre:
Comedy One act

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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American Lullaby

Synopsis:
When a black history professor shows up at a retired Congressman's southern plantation secrets spill, revealing how their lives are intimately tangled through trauma and a history that haunts every American.
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Manhattan Repertory theatre
303 West 42nd Street, New York, NY 10036    40583

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Beef Season

Synopsis:
When Kelly offers her home as a hiding place to one of her high school students whose life has been threatened at gunpoint by a local gang, she risks losing her marriage and future. Beef Season explores how class, race, and history collide with individual aspirations.

Notes:
Casting needs: one African American female, 17, two African American males, 18 And 19, one Caucasian female, 39, And two Caucasian males early And late 40s.

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Caught

Synopsis:
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Notes:
an original monologue written for The Break-Away Project's Connecting Creativity II, a transatlantic theatre collaboration bringing together actors and writers from Ireland and the US, will be produced in both Dublin (Centre for Creative Practices, 15 Pembroke Street, Lower Dublin 2 at 8:00 pm) and New York (Stage Left Studio, 214 W 30th Street, 6th floor, New York, NY

1st Produced:
Dublin & New York    16 Nov 2013

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Charging Bull

Synopsis:
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Notes:
written for The Break-Away Project's Connecting Creativity

1st Produced:
Centre For Creative Practices, Pembroke St Lower, In Dublin, Ireland    16 Aug 2013

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
monologue

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Cross Guns Confession

Synopsis:
Set in a pub made out of an old confessional in Cross Guns, Dublin. Two characters, an accomplished Irish writer and a novice American writer stand off about art, gender, and what it takes to succeed.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Staged Reading, Marsh Cafe, San Francisco    11 Mar 2007

Organisations:
Marsh Cafe

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy One act

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Detail Man

Synopsis:
Detail Man is a comedy about how truth and public health are compromised in order for the pharmaceutical industry to profit.

Notes:
Only one character (the CeO) has A gender And ethnicity Assignment (white male), the other roles Are completely open.

1st Produced:
Flush Ink Productions, Kitchener, Canada (Staged Reading)    -

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
comedy One act

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Elevator Mystique, The

Synopsis:
Four characters: Betty Friedan, Darwin's beloved tortoise Harriet, sexologist Dr. Money, and infamous kidnapper Joe amsler, examine the purgatorial afterlife, which is set in a stuck elevator overlooking a shopping mall.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
The Exit Theatre In San Francisco    39115

Organisations:
Playwrights' Center of San Francisco

1st Published:
Weave Magazine, Jun 2010   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy One act

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Marked

Synopsis:
When Lana fakes her death to make a point about privacy and the authorities order her son, Francis, an aspiring artist who has a thing for doctors, to take action or else Lana will be institutionalized. This dark comedy explores the connection between love, insanity, and social responsibility.

Notes:
Marked was Also included in the 33rd Annual Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Short Play Festival, Peter Jay Sharp theater in New York, July 19, 2008, And will be produced by Second Wind theatre in San Francisco As part of the BOa Festival in February 2009.

1st Produced:
The Strawberry One-Act Festival The American Theatre Of Actors In The Chernuchin Theatre In NYC    2008

Organisations:
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1st Published:
the Best Plays of the Strawberry One-act Festival, Vol. 5, iUniverse   978-0595513239

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy One act

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Migrations

Synopsis:
When Solana refuses to pay "garbage fees" to her landlord she is arrested for living in the U.S. without a green card. She is faced with the decision of leaving her American-born baby behind with her neighbors or bringing him with her to prison. a two-act play about two families living next door to each other in San Francisco's Mission District explore the connection between blood origins and lives created by individual aspirations

Notes:
Unproduced, finalist in Coho Productions' New By Northwest Play Competition

1st Produced:
The Strawberry One-Act Play Festival In New York    39494

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Terror Act

Synopsis:
an actor on his way to receive an award is detained in an airport basement and interrogated about his role in a film that questions detainment practices at Guantanamo.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Victory Gardens Greenhouse Theater, Chicago    06 Mar 2008

Organisations:
the Rasaka Theatre Company in Remy Bumppo's thinkTank Project

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama One act

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Transparent Sting

Synopsis:
Transparent Sting is a three-act comedy about a scientist's quest for truth and how it turned him into a fugitive and brought his estranged family together.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Staged Reading - The Exit Theatre In San Francisco    14 Jun 2005

Organisations:
Playwrights' Center of San Francisco

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Two Women On the Shore

Synopsis:
Inspired by the edvard Munch woodcut prints of the same title, a young woman struggles for freedom from the present incarnations of her haunting past. evie negotiates between real and imagined ghosts, paying more than she thought possible in her pursuit of a moment's peace.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Valdez Civic Center Auditorium    21 May 2010

Organisations:
Prince William Sound Community College: the Last Frontier Theatre Conference, Valdez, alaska

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Drama One act

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Uneven Surfaces will receive a staged reading at The Brick Theatre in Williamsburg, Brooklyn by The Obligatory Theatre Company on October 28, 2013 at 8:00 pm. In Uneven Surfaces an estranged family reunites for a funeral, including a prison guard who escorts one of the family members. The family is haunted by trauma involving train tracks, madness, and addiction. The play explores what it means to take responsibility for our actions and questions how much of our decisions and circumstances a

Synopsis:
In Uneven Surfaces an estranged family reunites for a funeral, including a prison guard who escorts one of the family members. The family is haunted by trauma involving train tracks, madness, and addiction. The play explores what it means to take responsibility for our actions

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Staged Reading At The Brick Theatre In Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY    28 Oct 2013

Organisations:
Obligatory Theatre Company

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
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Parts:
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Waiting For A Fix

Waiting For A Fix
Waiting for a Fix is a story about two homeless men and their struggle for redemption.

Notes:
part of 16th Annual New York City 15 Minute Play Festival

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Turnip Theatre Company and American Globe Theatre

1st Published:
in the Best Ten-Minute Plays 2011, Smith & Kraus; (June 1, 2012)   978-1575257822

Music:
-

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Genre:
comedy 15 Min

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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