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Bryn Manion

BRYN MANION

  (1975 - )
Nationality:    USA
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BRYN MaNION is a writer/director, and sometimes still an actor. She was born on august 8, 1975 in Concord, Ma, and grew up in Springfield, MA. She attended the University of Massachusetts in amherst, and graduated as a Commonwealth Scholar with magna cum laude honors with a Ba in Theater and English. Bryn is the Co-Founder of aisling Arts, a New York-based Theatre ensemble for which she directs and writes, and sometimes acts. along with her creative partner, Wendy Remington, she has produced over twenty productions for aisling Arts in the past five years. She was also the Co-Producer of Free Shakespeare Project, which performed and toured free performances of Shakespeare's plays throughout New england from 1999-2003. Bryn's plays include eleanor, apocalypse Not Now (I Have a Headache), a Few Hallelujahs, Dispersal, Imminent, Indeed (or Polly Peachum's Peculiar Penchant for Plosives), and the Force Trilogy (Wanderlust, Threshold, Convergence). Her directing credits include a Beggar's Opera, Macbeth, Love's Labour's Lost, Twelfth Night, and Playboy of the Western World. as an actress, Bryn has appeared in a Midsummer Night's Dream (Helena), Much ado about Nothing (Beatrice), the Taming of the Shrew (Kate), and Life is a Dream (Rosaura). Her play Convergence will published by NYTe in February 2007, and she is currently directing the Force Trilogy (Wanderlust, Threshold, Convergence) for repertory production at New York City's Theater for emerging Artists, the Chocolate Factory, in January 2007. She works in publishing, and lives in Long Island City, NY, with Sam David and their two cats, Buddhasaurus Rex and PachukA.

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         Convergence         Imminent, Indeed (Or Polly Peachum's Peculiar Penchant For Plosives)         Threshold         Wake         Wanderlust         Work / Dream
Convergence

Convergence
In a play that spans three continents, a war journalist, a mechanic, one artist, one humanitarian aid worker, a regular guy and a science teacher plunge into painfully normal and profoundly extreme moments in time when memory and identity is absolute. Through dreams, travel, memories and a tinge of magic realism, Convergence is the story of three couples (and a few of their eccentric acquaintances) at convergent points in their lives. What will the moment of convergence bring?

Notes:
(Play 3 of the Force Trilogy)

1st Produced:
Ny Irish Center, NY     2006

Organisations:
aisling Arts

1st Published:

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Imminent, Indeed (Or Polly Peachum's Peculiar Penchant For Plosives)

Synopsis:
Wherein mathematical wunderkind, Miss Polly Peachum, descends most egregiously into the netherworld of villainous scoundrels captained by the nefarious Macheath. a macabre, post-modern gothic tale of innocence lost and wisdom gained. Knowledge is a dangerous, seductive tincture, is it not?

Notes:
Venue 20: the Actors' Playhouse

1st Produced:

Organisations:
aisling Arts, Inc

1st Published:
http://www.indietheaternow.com/Play/imminent-indeed   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy Drama, 120 min Comedy

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  10            Other:  -

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Threshold

Synopsis:
the middle Force play, deals exclusively with anne and Jack. Threshold traverses the topography of their marriage, revealing their respective past lives: his as a war journalist, hers as a respected and promising visual artist. Pressed by a million small nothings, their relationship hits a threshold where they must decide to leave each other or stay the course. Threshold examines the sum of breakable moments that push relationships to a point of no return.

Notes:
(Play 2 of the Force Trilogy)

1st Produced:
The Undercroft     2004

Organisations:
aisling Arts

1st Published:
-   

Music:
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Genre:
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Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Wake

Synopsis:
From Ireland to Newfoundland, from New Bedford to New York, Wake imagines a world where we are a composite of each other's memories and all the memories that predate us, our parents' memories and their parents' memories. Through stories and the act of remembering, three generations of an Irish American family are relived as the children excavate their parents' stories and come to a truer undestanding of the family's history. Down on her luck and uninspired by her own future prospects, Deirdre Sullivan moves into her family home which has been deserted since her Father (esteemed writer, Dan Sullivan) died nearly two years ago. Hundreds of miles away, Deirdre's grief-stricken brother, Kevin, has taken to traveling the world over trying to recreate the adventures he imagines his Father had as a young man. Kevin lands in the peculiar city of St. John's, Newfoundland, where he vaguely recollects his family has some history. When he meets a beguiling young librarian, Molly Cartwright, he begins to unlock the truth about his family's connection to the island. Meanwhile, 35 years earlier . . . their father, Dan, is going through a very similar struggle as he tries to understand his own mother and her life before he was born. Shattering his sense of identity, she shares with him secrets from her past so volatile they drive him to write an alternative family history. When a prominent magazine offers to publish Dan's story, he must decide what he values more: his mother's respect, or the respect of the world at large.
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
adapted by Bryn Manion, David Vining, Wendy Remington

1st Produced:
New York Irish Center, 10-40 Jackson AVenue (Long Island City), NY     27 Oct 2010

Organisations:
aisling Arts

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  8            Female:  7            Other:  -

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Wanderlust

Synopsis:
Jack Kavanagh, a former war journalist, lives the ideal life. He has a gorgeous, talented wife, anne, and a respected job teaching at a prominent university in New York. But Jack has terrible secrets he hasn't shared with anne. and those secrets stand to destroy their comfortable life together. Meanwhile, a woman's car breaks down late one winter evening in rural Vermont. a few hundred yards away, an amnesiac mechanic stands bare-chested on his brother's front lawn waiting. their meeting seems a collision of chance, but is instead an event that unleashes secret desires, terrible fears and mercurial longings in the lives of everyone connected to them.

Notes:
(Play 1 of the Force Trilogy)

1st Produced:
The Undercroft     2004

Organisations:
aisling Arts

1st Published:
New York theater experience,    

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Work / Dream

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Undercroft - Trinity Lutheran Church, NY     2005

Organisations:
aisling Arts

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
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Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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