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Carol K Mack

CAROL K MACK

  (1941 - )
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    Robert A Freedman Dramatic Agency  

Carol K. Mack is the author of WITHOUT a TRaCe, the aCCIDeNT, TeRRITORIaL RITeS, POSTCaRDS, a SaFe PLaCe. these works premiered respectively at the actor's Theatre of Louisville Humana Festival, American Repertory Theatre, American Place Theatre, e.S.T., the Berkshire Theatre Festival in association with the Kennedy Center. Her new play, the VISITOR, was funded by the National Foundation for Jewish Culture and commissioned by Theatre J in Washington, D.C.. She has won a number of awards and was a Rockefeller Fellow at the Center for study at Bellagio. Her one acts have been included in three editions of Best Short American Plays and her works have been produced regionally, and internationally and in New York City.

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

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         Accident, The         After         Aka Marlene         Borders         Courier, The         Esther         Family House         Flying         Framed         Gazebo         Ghost Writer         Gleam, The         Halftime At Halcyon Days         In Her Sight         Magenta Shift         Nez Mccormack (Northern Ireland)         Out Of Focus         Postcards         Safe Place, A         Seeing Another Country         Seven         Survival Games         Territorial Rites         Unprogrammed         Without A Trace         Writing On the Wall

Accident, The

Synopsis:
a full length play with no intermission about a woman who awakens in a house she doesn't recognize. She's told that she's had an 'accident'. Slowly she recovers the truth about her life. the play is a psychological thriller about the nature of identity.

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1st Produced:
American Repertory Theatre, Cambridge Mass    1995

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Play/Drama

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Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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After

Synopsis:
a tourist and Glynda, an out of work fairy, meet in the parking lot at Disneyland.

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1st Published:
in: "30 Ten Minute Plays 2 actors From actors' Theatre of Louisville National Ten minute play contest" Smith & Kraus, 2001
in Ten Minute Plays From Actors Theatre Of Louisville, Vol 5, Samuel French NY   -

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Ten Min

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Aka Marlene

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1st Produced:
New York Open Center    -

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1st Published:
in Postcards and Other Short Plays, French, Toronto, 1986   -

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Genre:
Short Play One act

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  3 characters

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Borders

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1st Produced:
Denver Center For The Performing Arts    -

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Courier, The

Synopsis:
a play about the Patriot act by 2 men, one a prisoner, the other his interrogator

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1st Produced:
Neast West Players, Laowerplays At West Coast Ensemble, Los Angeles (Reading)    2004

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1st Published:
Best Short American Plays 2005-2006, Applause   978-1557837141

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Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Esther

Synopsis:
a play about the legendary Jewish queen of Persia and the power game she learns to play in an alien political arena as she grapples with finding her true identity. Through cinematically designed scenes we watch her evolution.

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1st Produced:
The White Barn Theatre Foundation, Westport, Ct    -

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Genre:
full length Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Family House

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Flying

Synopsis:
a woman slowly turns into a bird and explains w

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in: "even More Monologues By Women For Women", Greenwood-Heineman, 2002   -

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Ten Min

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Framed

Synopsis:
a psychological thriller about a visit paid to a novelist by a mysterious woman who may be there to interview him or not. the play is concerned with issues of social responsibility, celebrity, and the consequences of retribution.

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Genre:
psychological thriller

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Gazebo

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1st Produced:
New England Theatre Conference, Ma. (Reading)    -

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Ghost Writer

Synopsis:
a reporter arrives to interview a famous writer - but is that really why she came?

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Genre:
Thriller

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Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Gleam, The

Synopsis:
a two act, dark but highly entertaining farce about a voracious, hi-tech, multinational corporation called G.e.T.G.O. (an acronym that changes meaning often) and a painter eVe SaWYeR (the protagonist and the pseudonymous author of the Gleam) who comes to protest its destructive activities and gets trapped inside the labyrinth. the entire play takes place in corporate headquarters where G.e.T.G.O.'s first annual art exhibit is being held. When the audience enters the lobby, they enter G.e.T.G.O.'s game and when they leave, the world will never seem quite the same again. Like eVe, they discover they can't get out. the play is based on a real incident.

Notes:
also At Telluride Playwrights' Festival 2012 As part of the "theatre Politicos" festival; directed by Jan Buttram; July 9-15, in Telluride, CO

1st Produced:
Reading At New Dramatists    -

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Genre:
Farce

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Halftime At Halcyon Days

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1st Published:
in Best Short Plays, 1985, Chilton, 1985   -

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In Her Sight

Synopsis:
a beautiful blind pianist who stunned audiences of 18th century europe, Maria Theresa Paradies is suddenly cured by Dr. Franz Mesmer in a grand medical coup'. But now that she can see, the famed prodigy can apparently no longer play. Stunned but bound by her love for Mesmer, she bravely struggles on, as Vienna darkens with intrigue and betrayal within the medical establishment. In this tragic and elegant romance, the web of scandal grows into an international incident, and Paradies is forced to choose between music and sight

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aka Without A Trace

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1st Published:
Smith & Kraus in Humana Festival '97, the Complete Plays., 1997   -

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Magenta Shift

Synopsis:
a photographer meets a token booth operator in the middle of the night in the subway and both their lives change

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1st Produced:
Theatre Of The Open Eye    -

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1st Published:
in Best American Short Plays, 1995, Applause Books, 1995   -

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Nez Mccormack (Northern Ireland)

Synopsis:
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part of Journeys is A series of stirring monologues from courageous women Around the world engaged in the dangerous struggle for human rights. each of these remarkable And heroic leaders tells An inspiring story of commitment.

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Organisations:
Vital Voices Global Partnership

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Out Of Focus

Synopsis:
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1st Produced:
Theatre Artists Workshop, Ct (Reading)    2002

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Genre:
One act

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Postcards

Synopsis:
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1st Produced:
Ensemble Studio Theatre, NY    -

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1st Published:
in Postcards and Other Short Plays, French, NY, 1987   -

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Safe Place, A

Synopsis:
a psychological mystery play, dealing with a professor of anthropology who is stu-dying tribal society in the amazon, while back in New england, his daughters are falling under the influence of an evangelical cult leader

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1st Produced:
The Berkshire Theatre Festival    -

Organisations:
in association with the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

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Genre:
full length Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  8            Other:  -

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Seeing Another Country

Synopsis:
a monologue about Inez McCormack, a peacemaker from Northern Ireland, part of SeVeN about seven women leaders from around the world

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1st Produced:
La MaMa E.T.C.
74a East 4th Street, New York, NY 10003    2008

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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY   978-0822223511

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Genre:
monologue

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Seven

Synopsis:
a collaboration of seven award-winning women playwrights, SeVeN is based on personal interviews with seven women leaders of the Vital Voices Global Partnership network who have triumphed over huge obstacles to create major changes in human rights in their home countries. In the seven interwoven stories we see the commonality of challenge and of bravery, and in the individual monologues that follow, we experience each fascinating whole true story.

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written by Paula Cizmar, Catherine Filloux, Gail Kriegel, Carol K. Mack, Ruth Margraff, Anna Deavere Smith And Susan Yankowitz

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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY (2009)   978-0822223511

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Genre:
Documentary

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Male:  -            Female:  7            Other:  -

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Survival Games

Synopsis:
about a changing relationship of a couple in a changing world in four scenes from the early sixties to the late nineties

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1st Produced:
The Berkshire Theatre Festival    -

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Genre:
full legth Comedy

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Territorial Rites

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Organisations:
Women's Project

1st Published:
in the Women's Project anthology, Volume 2, P.a.J.,    -

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Unprogrammed

Synopsis:
Two men discuss the impossible as one of them tries to understand a woman named CAprice

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1st Produced:
Theatre Artists Workshop, Westport, Ct (Reading)    -

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1st Published:
in Best American Short Plays, 1990, Applause Books, 1991   -

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Without A Trace

Synopsis:
This is a revision of IN HeR SIGHT for the european premiere. It is a play about the battle of mechanistic science vs. the insight of the artist's vision. the whole play takes place in 1784 in Paris where Franz Mesmer's trial is xconducted by Benjamin Franklin and in the memory of his star witness, the famous blind pianist Maria Paradeis.

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Male:  5            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Writing On the Wall

Synopsis:
a play that takes place on a weekend in the country and concerns the relationships of two couples, a visiting journalist, and the child of one of the couples. the play is about the reality of fiction and the fiction of reality. It is set on a tiered structure which represents a foothill and various levels of reality.

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