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Cheri Magid

CHERI MAGID

  
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    Agency for the Performing Arts  represented by Beth Bickers

Cheri's Magid's plays, which include First Lady of Christmas, The Virtues of Raw Oysters, The Tavern Wench, Dumporama,Manna, The Reluctant Dragon, and The Ghost of Enoch Charlton have been seen at Primary Stages, New Georges, The New Group, The Women's Project, Keen Company, Blue Coyote Theatre, Rattlestick, The Slipper Room, Vital Theatre Company, Turnip Theatre Company, La Mama, Makor, Abingdon Theatre Company, The Lark and the West Bank Theatre all in New York; Centenary Stage in New Jersey, M.Y.E Productions in Los Angeles, South Coast Repertory in Costa Mesa, CA, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, The University of Iowa, and Calvin College in Michigan. Jackson Gay commissioned her musical First Lady of Christmas, inspired by the true story of the first New York City Christmas department store windows, with music by Evan Palazzo. FLC just had its first workshop production at Sarah Lawrence College. South Coast commissioned her play et al; as well as an adaptation of the children's story The Reluctant Dragon. The Keen Company commissioned her children's playThe Ghost of Enoch Charlton, which, along with Manna, has been published by Playscripts. Excerpts of Manna are also included in The Best Stage Scenes of 2009 published by Smith and Kraus and Camera Four will be published in The Best Short Plays of 2012 and by Indie Theater Now in the Standard of Decency Collections. Pretty Things Press published the Cliffs of Moher in 2006. Cheri's erotic story She Grinds Her Own Coffee is published in Cleis Press' anthology Hide and Seek. Her erotica writing is profiled here http://www.askmattandtamsen.com/index.php/blog/article/cheri_magid_author/Marie. Lydia, or the Girl at the Wheel, Cheri's radio play about the earliest days of burlesque, aired on National Public Radio and her short story Yeah, We Got That, was featured on Playboy Radio. She wrote the screenplay Story of D, about the real story behind the writing of the famous sadomasochistic novel Story of O, for Nicole Kidman and adapted the book Heart of the Game for film producer Richard Wiener (Any Given Sunday). Cheri is currently a member of the Dorothy L. Strelsin Writers' Group at Primary Stages and in the fall of 2012 will be an Associate Professor of Dramatic Writing at NYU.

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

         Camera Four         Ghost Of Enoch Charlton, The         Manna         Standards Of Decency 3: 300 Vaginas Before Breakfast

Camera Four

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the Best 10-Minute Plays Of 2012. Published by Smith and Kraus, Inc.    -

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ten min

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Ghost Of Enoch Charlton, The

Synopsis:
When Mercy finds a murder confession from 1795 in the crumbling hearth of her mom's bed and breakfast, her history lesson of a life is turned upside down. Mercy and her motley crew of friends encounter everything from a ghost to a suspicious confession, and even a possible murder. after several failed experiments turn up nothing, Mercy begins to realize that her beloved scientific method may not be the only way to solve a mystery. . . (This play was specially commissioned by Playscripts for high school actors.)

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Keen Teens At The Kirk Theatre (New York, NY, United States)    2009

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Playscripts, Inc - New York   -

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Genre:
30-35 min Murder Mystery

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Male:  4            Female:  8            Other:  4 males, 8 females (11-16 actors possible: 4-7 males, 7-10 females)

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Manna

Synopsis:
Madeleine thinks she's found God through the act of baking. Jobless and spiritually lost, she tries mixing her blood and prayers into a batch of challah bread. the resulting challah proves so transformative that she must open a bakery to meet the growing demand. eventually, Madeleine must face the darker side of the magic that infuses her baked goods, as well as her intense though timid love for an attractive rabbi. a modern-day tale taken from the Old Testament,Manna is tinged with humor and ethereal mystery.

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Rattlestick Theater (Staged Reading) (New York, NY, United States)    2001

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Playscripts, Inc - New York   -

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Genre:
120-130 min Play/Drama

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Male:  4            Female:  5            Other:  4 males, 5 females (9-14 actors possible: 2-7 males, 2-7 females)

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Standards Of Decency 3: 300 Vaginas Before Breakfast

Synopsis:
Blue Coyote theater group commissioned eight of their favorite playwrights to create new short plays meditating on new media and pornography. Presented in a stripped-down style, the plays are raunchy, funny, and surprisingly tender. Is our pornutopia breaking down our capacities for empathy and reflective thought, for intimacy and sustained attention? Standards of Decency 3: 300 Vaginas Before Breakfast uses a very old medium to explore what the new media are doing to us, publicly and privately, for better and for worse, at the place where technology, sex, and relationships collide.
- nytheatre.com

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written by David Johnston, Matthew Freeman, David Foley, Mac Rodgers, Jordan Seavey, Bruce Goldstone, Jacqueline Christy, Cheri Magid, Adam Szymkowicz

1st Produced:
Access theatre
380 Broadway, 4th floor, New York, NY 10013    02 Jun 2011

Organisations:
Blue Coyote Theater Company

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Genre:
short play

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