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Kenneth Lonergan

KENNETH LONERGAN

  (1962 - )
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    Creative Artists Agency CA  

Kenneth Lonergan has been represented in New York by Lobby Hero (Playwrights Horizons, John Houseman Theatre, Drama Desk Best Play Nominee, Outer Critics Circle Best Play and John Gassner Playwrighting Nominee, included in the 2000-2001 Best Plays annual), the Waverly Gallery (Williamstown Theatre Festival, Promenade; 2001 Pulitzer Prize Runner-up), and This Is Our Youth (Drama Desk Best Play Nominee). Lobby Hero(Olivier award Nominee for Best Play) andThis Is Out Youth have also received productions on London's West end. He co-wrote the film Gangs of New York which garnered a WGa and academy award nomination for Best Original Screenplay. His film You Can Count On Me, which he wrote and directed, was nominated for an academy award for Best Screenplay, won the Sundance 2000 Grand Jury Prize and the Waldo Salt Screenwriting award, the NY Film Critics Circle, La Films Critics Circle, Writers Guild of America and National Board of Review awards for Best Screenplay of 2001, the aFI awards for Best Film and Best New Writer, as well as the Sutherland Trophy at the London Film Festival. He is currently in post-production on his film Margaret, which he wrote and directed. He is a member of Naked angels. He is married to actress J. Smith-Cameron.

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

         Beauty Runs On Light Feet         Lobby Hero         Medieval Play         Rennings Children, The         Starry Messenger, The         This Is Our Youth         True To You         Waverly Gallery

Beauty Runs On Light Feet

Synopsis:
Mark comes home in the middle of the night to find his troubled wife, ellen, still awake. However, ellen's concern is less about where her husband has been and more about whether or not she is a good mother. Her anxiety sparks an argument over how to discipline their children, and neither of the two are willing to back down. even face to face, the couple painfully struggles to communicate the things that matter most to them.

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1st Produced:
Naked Angels (New York, NY, United States)     1990

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1st Published:
Playscripts, Inc - New York   

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Genre:
7-10 min Comedy/Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  1 male, 1 female

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Lobby Hero

Lobby Hero
When Jeff, a luckless young security guard, is drawn into a local murder investigation, loyalties are strained to the breaking point. as Jeff's tightly wound supervisor is called to bear witness against his troubled brother, and an attractive rookie cop finds she must stand up to her seasoned partner, truth becomes elusive and justice proves costly.

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1st Published:
Grove Press, 2002   

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Medieval Play

Synopsis:
Two French mercenary knights set out on a quest for relative moral redemption against the classic comic background of late 14th century ecclesiastical politics. a story of friendship, love, noble feats of arms, indiscriminate brutality, the progressive refinement of medieval table manners and the general decline of the chivalric ideal at the onset of the Great Papal Schism of 1378. a new and meandering comedy with no contemporary parallels worth noting by Kenneth Lonergan.
- nytheatre.com

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1st Produced:
End Stage Theatre At Pershing Square Signature Center, 480 West 42nd Street, NY     15 May 2012

Organisations:
Signature Theatre Company

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Genre:
comedy

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Rennings Children, The

Synopsis:
Paul Rennings is confined to a mental institution . He has a love/hate relationship with his sister Mary

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1st Published:
Contained in: "Young Playwrights Festival Collection" published by avon Books 1982   

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Genre:
Youth one act

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Starry Messenger, The

Synopsis:
Mark teaches astronomy in the basement of the Hayden Planetarium struggling with a dead-end career and the monotony of suburban married life. His world is transformed by a chance meeting with angela, a driven young single mother stsriving for a brighter future for herself and her son.
- nytheatre.com

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1st Produced:
Acorn Theatre, 410 West 42nd Street, New York, NY 10038     16 Nov 2009

Organisations:
the New Group

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  3            Other:  -

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This Is Our Youth

Synopsis:
In 1982, on Manhattan's Upper west Side, the wealthy articulate pot-smoking teenagers who were small children in the 60's have emerged as young adults in a country that has just resoundingly rejected everything they were brought up to believe in.

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1st Produced:
Intar Theatre, New York     1996

Organisations:
the New Group

1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1999   

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama. - - Gay/Lesbian, of interest

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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True To You

Synopsis:
Mr. austin Carmody has twenty-seven indictments against him for various counts of fraud, and he's desperate to avoid jail. Lucky for him, he has his doe-eyed secretary to take the blame for everything. Now all he has to do is convince her to take the fall. a play about the fragility of denial and the sacrifices that are made to keep the lie alive.

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1st Produced:
Naked Angels (New York, NY, United States)     1995

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1st Published:
Playscripts, Inc - New York   

Music:
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Genre:
10-12 min Drama/Comedy

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  1 male, 1 female

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Waverly Gallery

Waverly Gallery
about the final years of a generous, chatty, and feisty grandmother's final battle against alzheimer's disease. Gladys is an old-school lefty and social activist and long-time owner of a small art gallery in Greenwich Village. the play explores her fight to retain her independence and the subsequent effect of her decline on her family, especially her grandson

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1st Published:
Grove Press, 2000   

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Genre:
comedy

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  -

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