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Audra Lord

AUDRA LORD

  
Nationality:    USA
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Audra Lord is a playwright and actor from Detroit, Michigan. Her original work has been staged at Theatres in Michigan, Nebraska, New York and New Jersey. Her play Speed Dating! was critically received as a "festival highlight" at Detroit's Boxfest 2009 and garnered national recognition at the 2010 Great Plains Theatre Conference. audra is an equity Membership Candidate and an active member of the Playwrights' Center, TCG and the extra Mile Playwrights' Group.

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

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

         Comeback, The         Defiantly Yours, Detroit: Love Poems For A Ruined City         Fall         Fugue         Group         Homeland Security         Joy         Little Things, The         Obesity Curse, The         Pickup, The         Reborn         Speed Dating!         Summer Sonnets         Wise Guys         Woyzeck

Comeback, The

Synopsis:
Jay and Mo plan the Second Coming over lunch- but is Bruce Springsteen part of God's plan?

Notes:
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1st Produced:
The Baldwin Theatre, Royal Oak, Mi    25 Jun 2010

Organisations:
Stagecrafters

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Comedy Ten Min

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Defiantly Yours, Detroit: Love Poems For A Ruined City

Synopsis:
a poetic tribute to the energy and personality of the city of Detroit, and to the people who make it a more interesting, vital place to live and create.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Reading, Magenta Giraffe Theatre Company, 1515 Broadway, Detroit, Mi    May 2011

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Genre:
Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Fall

Synopsis:
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Notes:
winner in the One Act Play category in the Chameleon theatre Circle's 14th Annual New Play Contest (2013). reading at Magenta Giraffe Theatre Company's Fifth Annual Staged Reading Festival

1st Produced:
Detroit's Abreact Theater:    May 2013

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Music:
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Genre:
One Act

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Fugue

Synopsis:
How does memory shape identity? In a blank institutional space, James, Julie, Tina and Princess Stephanie recover from a shared tragic event that resulted in the complete loss of their memories. the play follows their attempts to remember, to forget, and to piece together their shared and individual identities. "Memory is a funny bird, isn't it? there's something in it that defies intellectual analysis. Like muscle memory, or God, either it's there, or it isn't, and you can grasp at it all you want, but the real test is about what comes when you're not struggling for it. What happens when you just sit still? That's what's interesting to me." (PRINCeSS STePHaNIe, Fugue)

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Ann Arbor, Mi    Dec 2011

Organisations:
the New Theatre Project

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  child's voice

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Group

Synopsis:
Three women convene for a group therapy session. Inexplicably, no-one else shows up-not even the counselor, a prominent psychologist. an accidentally locked door forces the women to explore their fears and insecurities-and to connect with each other-in unexpected ways.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Birmingham, Mi    Jul 2005

Organisations:
the Village Players

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Genre:
Comedy One act

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Homeland Security

Synopsis:
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Notes:
part of the event "M5: Five Short Plays by Michigan Playwrights

1st Produced:
Planet Ant Theatre In Hamtramck, Mi    Apr 2012

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
short play

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Joy

Synopsis:
an almost-fiftysomething, semi-alcoholic professional fag hag offers a depressed "fairy" a little bit of joy.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Joria Studios, New York, NY    May 2010

Organisations:
F.a.C.T.

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy Ten Min

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Little Things, The

Synopsis:
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Notes:
part of the event "M5: Five Short Plays by Michigan Playwrights

1st Produced:
Planet Ant Theatre In Hamtramck, Mi    Apr 2012

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
short play

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Obesity Curse, The

Synopsis:
Krystie, a shallow fashionista, pays a heavy price for picking on the wrong "fat" girl. From the luminaries of a lucrative weight-loss industry to the talking heads of infotainment, everyone participates in Krystie's demise. Part satire, part mystery and part absurdist comedy, the Obesity Curse skewers a media-driven, weight-obsessed world of stereotypes and the people who create them. Find out what happens when the "fat lady" does, indeed sing.

Notes:
Staged Reading

1st Produced:
The Abreact, Detroit, Mi    21 May 2010

Organisations:
Magenta Giraffe Theatre Co.

1st Published:
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Music:
-

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Genre:
Satire

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  5            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Pickup, The

Synopsis:
a man walks into a bar. . .

Notes:
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1st Produced:
The Baldwin Theatre, Royal Oak, Mi    Jun 2009

Organisations:
Stagecrafters

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy One act

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Reborn

Synopsis:
Lazarus leads sisters Mary and Martha in a poetic exploration of what it means to be reborn.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Varner Laboratory Theatre    Apr 2011

Organisations:
Oakland University, Rochester, MI

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Drama 10 min

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Speed Dating!

Synopsis:
a slightly skewed take on dating and sisterhood. . .through the lens of a TV game show.

Notes:
[a] festival highlight (Donald Calamia, encoreMichigan.com)

1st Produced:
The Furniture Factory, Detroit, Mi    14 Aug 2009

Organisations:
BoxFest Detroit

1st Published:
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Music:
-

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Genre:
absurdist comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  4            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Summer Sonnets

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Water Works Theatre Company, Royal Oak, Mi    04 Aug 2012

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
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Wise Guys

Synopsis:
It's Christmas eve in Manhattan, and ad men Caspar, Bart and Mel are late for the boss' son's christening. Will a mix-up at the tux shop and a gift-shopping snafu sabotage their trip to Bethlehem, Pa? Or will sassy secretary Miss Graham save the day and prevent them from looking like a bunch of wise guys?

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Varner Laboratory Theatre, Rochester, Mi    Apr 2011

Organisations:
Oakland University

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Genre:
Comedy one act

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Woyzeck

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
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1st Produced:
New Theatre Project (Ypsilanti)    2013

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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