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John W Lowell

JOHN W LOWELL

  (1962 - )
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    Elaine Devlin Literary, Inc.  represented by Elaine Devlin

John Lowell is the author of The Letters, The Standby Lear, Sheridan Square, Autumn Canticle, Leo Tolstoy Is In The Next Room Dying, Two Women In A Garden, The Genius Of The System, The Letters, The Great Purim Adventure Of Chip Malibu, Taken In, and Rensselaer. The Letters premiered in Los Angeles (2010 Garland award), and has since been produced in Chicago's prestigious Writers' Theatre. Autumn Canticle (GLAAD-nominated) has received productions at the Walnut Street Theatre and the Celebration Theatre, following a workshop with the Eureka Theatre. Tolstoy. . .premiered at the San Jose Stages, following readings by The Acting Company, Circle Repertory Company, among others. Taken In premiered at the Richmond Triangle Players Theatre, and has since been produced in London, Santa Cruz, and Lima. As a musician and dramaturg, John worked on Frank Loesser's Senor Discretion Himself, premiered at Arena Stage, and Loesser's Pleasures And Palaces for which he reconstructed the script and score.

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         Angela And Grace         Autumn Canticle         Carol Christmas, A         Charlotte And Olivia         Genius Of the System         Great Purim Adventure Of Chip Malibu         Leo Tolstoy Is In the Next Room Dying         Letters, The         Rensselaer         Sheridan Square         Taken In         Two Women In A Garden

Angela And Grace

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Performed under the title: "Two Women in A Garden" with "Charlotte And Olivia"

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Autumn Canticle

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Composer Peter Billings has had heart by pass surgery and caring for him has become a little too much for his partner David Williams. they invite a young composer, Walker to help. But then David Starts to feel jealous of the time Peter and Walker are keeping together. then it emerges that one of them had a fling with Walker in the past

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Walnut Street Theatre    1997

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Play/Drama. - - Gay, full length

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Carol Christmas, A

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Carol Channing as Scrooge? Joel Gray as Tiny Tim? the Christmas ghosts Yul Brinner's King and a couple of (Hello) Dollys? Oh yes

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Written by John W Lowell And Robert Lee

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Charlotte And Olivia

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Performed under the title: "Two Women in A Garden" with "Charlotte And Olivia"

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Genius Of the System

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Comedy full length Comedy

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Great Purim Adventure Of Chip Malibu

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Leo Tolstoy Is In the Next Room Dying

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1910 and Leo Tolstoy has been taken ill at the railway station at astapovo on his way to his country estate. He is taken care of by the peasant couple who run the station, Marfa and Nicholai Oblensky. Marfa decides to cash in on this and charges admission fees to anyone wanting to see the great novelist.

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Comedy

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Male:  9            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Letters, The

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Andak Productions    2009

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Rensselaer

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Sheridan Square

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Cal is the heir to a fortune. He meets and wants to marry Maurizio, a model - but his Father is opposed to the match. Cal's uncle thinks the couple are ideally matched and tries to help

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Gay, full length

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Taken In

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after a party, Marc takes a walk on Hampstead Heath to clear his head. there he meets rent-boy Danny. they talk for a while but as Marc is not looking for sex Danny goes off. Next day, Marc realises that he has become infatuated with Danny and that night and the next three he goes to the spot where they met - but there is no sign of the boy. On his way home he, by chance meets Danny again. Marc tells him that he is not looking for sex but agrees to take Danny home for a bath and to wash his clothes as Danny sleeps rough. there is a serial killer at large who is murdering rent-boys and a friend of Danny's has been killed. Danny moves in with Marc after a client has beaten him up. However, Marc never fully trusts Danny - he wont give him a house key and he starts to try and control Danny's life. Despite all Danny's attempts to seduce Marc and the fact that they share the same bed - they still do not have a sexual relationship. One day, Danny telephones Marc at work and tells him that he has crabs and that Marc is probably infected too. Marc freaks out when he realises he is infected and will not believe Danny when he says he caught them fooling around with a friend. Marc has arranged for Danny to have a job interview to be an usher at a cinema. He gets the job. But after the row about crabs he does not come back for several days. Frantic, Marc starts to read Danny's notebook in the hopes that he can find out where Danny is. In the notebook Danny has been writing about his experiences. How he gave money to another rent-boy who had been so badly beaten he was unable to work. How a certain Labour Minister keeps turning up in his official car to pick up boys. He is just starting to read about himself when there is a ring at the door - it is Danny. But Danny has not come back to stay. He tells Marc that their relationship is impossible as Marc will not commit and always holds back. He points out that the "love of his life" that Marc always goes on about was only for three months. That, if Marc really wanted to be committed he would have given Danny a key to the house. and as Marc is so self centred he has not been able to notice all the things that Danny has done to make the relationship work - such as Danny giving up smoking and falling in with the no sex part of their relations. Marc desperately tries to keep Danny from leaving - they tussle and Danny gets knocked to the floor. Danny pretends to start to make amends but then abruptly leaves. there is a newspaper report that the serial killer was apprehended dumping the 11th victim in the Thames. the murderer is the Labour Minister. Marc thinks it must be Danny but later on Hampstead Heath he thinks that he sees him.

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Richmond Triangle Players Richmond Virginia USA (American version)

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Barons Court Theatre London    07 Feb 2006

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Two Women In A Garden

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