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Padraic Lillis

PADRAIC LILLIS

  
Nationality:    USA
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Padraic Lillis was born and raised in Fairport, a suburb of Rochester, NY. He graduated SUNY New Paltz. Padraic has lived in Brooklyn, NY for over twenty years. His play How to Survive Crack Addiction is his first solo play and his first venture into acting since college. Padraic's play Lights Up on the Fade Out was named one of the top ten plays of 2011 in L.A. Two Thirds Home is published by Dramatists Play Services, originally produced in New York by Broken Watch Theater Company. Pooter McGraw is Not Dead Party was commissioned and produced at Clark University in 2012. His play Lake Effect has been developed at GEva Theater's Festival of New Works as well as part of Bristol Riverside Theatre's America: Voices of today series. He was the Featured Guest Artist for NY MADNESS, where his play Heart Lake premiered. His ten-minute play; Ronnie's Mask was produced in Chicago at the Steppenwolf Performance Garage. He is currently writing his first screenplay, based on the best selling novel STRANGERS ON A BRIDGE, for Palermo Productions. Padraic is also a director and teacher. He has been an adjunct professor with NYU's Department of Dramatic Writing for over ten years and teaches an independent play development workshop. Padraic was awarded the Dayton Hudson Distinguished Artist Fellowship to be in residency at Carlton College. He is a member of the Labyrinth Theater Company, a Drama League Director's Fellow, and a life long Yankee fan.

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

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

         F.I.G.         Hand Over Hand         How to Do a One Person Show         How to Survive Crack Addiction         If I Had. . .         Lights Up on the Fade Out         Recreating Keiter: I Saw Dad Make the Whole Thing Up         Two Thirds Home

F.I.G.

Synopsis:
Three intimate three-character plays that were originally staged in a living room environment.

Notes:
The Living Room Series: Three new plays by Padraic Lillis (If I Had&, F.I.G., Hand Over Hand)

1st Produced:
Poverty Rows Studios in New York City    2013

Organisations:
Vertigo Theater Company

1st Published:
http://www.indietheaternow.com/Play/the-living-room-series   -

Music:
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Genre:
short play

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Hand Over Hand

Synopsis:
Three intimate three-character plays that were originally staged in a living room environment.

Notes:
The Living Room Series: Three new plays by Padraic Lillis (If I Had&, F.I.G., Hand Over Hand)

1st Produced:
Poverty Rows Studios in New York City    2013

Organisations:
Vertigo Theater Company

1st Published:
http://www.indietheaternow.com/Play/the-living-room-series   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
short play

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

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How to Do a One Person Show

Synopsis:
A celebrated solo performer is invited to present a new work and while appearing to spontaneously create the show in the moment, she comes to the realization that the lesson isnt how we create but why.

Notes:
written by Kelly Kinsella and Padraic Lillis

1st Produced:
10th Annual soloNOVA Arts Festival at IRT Theater, NYC    22 May 2013

Organisations:
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1st Published:
http://www.indietheaternow.com/Play/how-to-do-a-one-person-show   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
one act 50 min

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

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How to Survive Crack Addiction

Synopsis:
A solo show that is the reading of a self-help guide for addicts that want to keep using.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Access Theater, New York City    05 Mar 2013

Organisations:
LabRats Theatre Company and KMA Productions

1st Published:
http://www.indietheaternow.com/Play/how-to-survive-crack-addiction   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
piece 40 min

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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If I Had. . .

Synopsis:
Three intimate three-character plays that were originally staged in a living room environment.

Notes:
The Living Room Series: Three new plays by Padraic Lillis (If I Had&, F.I.G., Hand Over Hand)

1st Produced:
Poverty Rows Studios in New York City    2013

Organisations:
Vertigo Theater Company

1st Published:
http://www.indietheaternow.com/Play/the-living-room-series   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
short play

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Lights Up on the Fade Out

Synopsis:
Steven, a 40-year old filmmaker, achieves the romance and fantasy he has been searching for, only to discover, when forced to care for his father with dementia, that holding onto love in every moment is the challenge and where beauty resides.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Lillian Theater, Los Angeles, California    Jun 2011

Organisations:
Sternman Productions in Association with Delta Highway Productions

1st Published:
http://www.indietheaternow.com/Play/lights-up-on-the-fade-out   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
play 110 min

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Recreating Keiter: I Saw Dad Make the Whole Thing Up

Synopsis:
Cindy Keiter's one-woman multimedia show reveals what life was like away from the diamond for one of the game's greatest broadcasters, her Father Les Keiter. For a generation of sports fans, Les Keiter was the most trusted voice in radio and television, calling some of the past century's defining boxing matches and pioneering the baseball re-create, where, alone in a studio with only game stats and a microphone, he created the atmosphere of a live game with just his voice and minimal sound effects. 50 years after Les Keiter's heyday in New York, his youngest child Cindy offers a hilarious and moving tribute about his accomplished career, the disappointments each have experienced and how they overcame life's losses. Using archival footage and photos of sports greats Muhammad ali, Howard Cosell, and Floyd Patterson among others, ReCReaTING KeITeR: I Saw Dad Make the Whole Thing Up follows the Keiter family's journey from New York, where Les was the announcer for the New York Giants and the New York Knicks, to Philadelphia, where he served as sports director of WFIL-TV, to Hawaii, where he landed jobs as the sports director at KHON-TV and the voice of the Triple-a baseball team the Islanders . Why, at the height of his game, did Les Keiter leave sports Meccas New York and Philadelphia behind for Hawaii? How did Les and Cindy recreate their own lives following setbacks? What was it like for Cindy to share her famous Father with the whole world? after spending 20 years living in shadow of her father's voice, Cindy traveled 6,000 miles to New York in a quest to find her own.
Press Release

Notes:
by Cindy Keiter, Additional Material by Padraic Lillis

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1st Published:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Two Thirds Home

Synopsis:
Sharing secrets makes us intimates, building a life around them sets us apart. We find Michael and Paul in their childhood home, following their mother's funeral, with Sue, her lover, revealing truths that will strain their relationships and the identity they have built for themselves.
- press release

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Michael Weller Theatre    Jul 2007

Organisations:
Broken Watch Theatre Company

1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY, 2008
http://www.indietheaternow.com/Play/two-thirds-home   -

Music:
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Genre:
75 min. - - Lesbian, full length

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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