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Melinda Lopez

MELINDA LOPEZ

  
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    Harden-Curtis Associates  

Melinda Lopez's plays including theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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

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

         Alexandros         Back The Night         Becoming Cuba         Caroline In Jersey         From Orchids To Octopi         Gary         How Do You Spell Hope         Lesson, The         Sarasota         Scenes From A Bordello         Sonia Flew         Two-Fifteen Local, The         What the Market Will Bear

Alexandros

Synopsis:
A Cuban exiled family in Miami. It is the matriarch's 75th birthday and the guests have arrived. The sky turns stormy. Alexandros is a bad tempered dog and is the catalyst for opening closet doors

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Genre:
Gay full length comedy

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Back The Night

Synopsis:
Em's best friend Cassie is assaulted on campus

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Drama

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Becoming Cuba

Synopsis:
Adela runs a pharmacy in Cuba in 1897. She is indifferent to the mounting war talk. When the Spanish-American War breaks out and it affects Havana she has to choose between loyalty to her family or loyalty to her country

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1st Produced:
Rehearsed Reading At Huntington Theatre, Boston     12 Mar 2012

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Drama

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Caroline In Jersey

Synopsis:
Down on her luck actress Caroline temps at a law firm. She rents an attic room from Mimi. The attic appears to be haunted

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1st Produced:
Williamstown Theatre Festival     2009

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Drama

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From Orchids To Octopi

Synopsis:
a muralist has hallucinations of dinosaurs but luckily Charles Darwin is on hand to explain it all

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1st Produced:
Central Square Theater, Boston     31 Mar 2010

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Gary

Synopsis:
Three troubled siblings channel their frustrations through their rock music.

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1st Produced:
Boston Playwrights Theater, Boston     2008

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Play/Drama

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How Do You Spell Hope

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A High School athlete and a Latina immigrant overcome obstacles to literacy

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Genre:
Youth play

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Lesson, The

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Shakespeare & Company

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in Boston Theatre Marathon of Ten Minute Plays Volume I, Bakers Plays,    -

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play Ten Min

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Sarasota

Sarasota
Now an annual tradition, the Boston theater Marathon utilizes hundreds of actors and dozens of directors to sponsor 50 ten-minute plays in 10 hours (five plays per hour!), each one supported by a different New england theatre company

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Boston theater Marathon XI - 2009 anthology - 50 Ten Minute Plays Boston theater Marathon XI - 2009 anthology - 50 Ten Minute Plays ~ By Kate Snodgrass (ed) - Smith and Kraus, 2010   978-15752577164

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Ten Min

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Scenes From A Bordello

Synopsis:
a three girl whorehouse servicing miners in the Klondike Gold Rush days

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1st Produced:
Playwrights Theatre, Boston     2000

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Male:  1            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Sonia Flew

Synopsis:
When Sonia learns of her son's decision to leave college, enlist in the military and fight against terror in Afghanistan in the weeks following 9/11, memories of her own childhood overwhelm her. She struggles to reconcile being forced as a young girl to leave Cuba at the dawn of Fidel Castro's rule with her own responsibilities as a mother facing uncertainty. Sonia must find a way to come to terms with her past, her lost parents, her own children and her adopted country-or risk losing everything that she loves. Set between post-revolutionary Cuba and post-9/11 America, SONIa FLeW telescopes the large cultural and political forces of a historic moment to examine their impact on the intimate lives of ordinary men and women. What do we owe our parents? Can we forgive the past? This poetic and urgent play bridges time and culture in a Drama about the cost of forgiveness.

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1st Produced:
Huntington Theatre Co. (Boston U.), Boston, Usa    

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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, Inc (2009)   978-0822230205

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Genre:
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Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Two-Fifteen Local, The

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Publick Theatre., Inc.

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in Boston Theatre Marathon of Ten Minute Plays Volume 4, Bakers Plays,    -

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What the Market Will Bear

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Speakeasy Stage Company

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in Boston Theatre Marathon of Ten Minute Plays Volume 2, Bakers Plays,    -

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