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KARA MANNING
Nationality: USA
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Literary Agent: The Gersh Agency, NY
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Research: Member of the Dramatists Guild of America (as at 2015)
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Afterdark Global Cooling: the Women Chill Killing Swans Mind the Gap Sleeping RoughAfterdark
Synopsis:
a rebellious teenager, a Seattle food writer, a late night deejay, a dying drummer and the bellicose, trumpet-toting spirit of Miles Davis meander the unsettled streets of Brooklyn in December 2001, grieving George Harrison, missed connections and the devastated Manhattan skyline.
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Top of PageGlobal Cooling: the Women Chill
Synopsis:
For these plays, there is no curtain, no footlights, no stage. Just six site-specific, short related plays from Women's Project theater Company written for the lobbies, mezzanines, escalators, bridges, nooks, and crannies of the World Financial Center complex, 220 Vesey Street, that people pass through every day. the plays, grouped under the title Global Cooling: the Women Chill, share one topic: global warming is not so hot. all written, directed, and produced by women, these plays take place in real time and touch on the issues of Global Cooling that affect not only real people but scientists and mother nature. Global Cooling: the Women Chill is the third site-specific theatrical event Women's Project has delivered to ArtsWorld Financial Center and is another installment of 'hit and run theater' where business people, tourists and shoppers traveling through the World Financial Center may walk around, through or in a play without even knowing they have a role in the performance. Part of this experiment from Women's Project's playwright, director and producer lab is to see how real people react as a play happens next to them or around them or even with them
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World Financial Center Complex, 220 Vesey Street, NY
2009
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Women's Project
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Top of PageKilling Swans
Synopsis:
Beauty can be conniving, saints are sinners and kind hearts can kill. Newly engaged, a young couple gambles on a getaway to a quaint Tuscan villa at the invitation of its curious owners, only find themselves embroiled in a deadly game with no exit strategy in sight. Killing Swans is a darkly romantic dramedy . . . with a body count.
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Top of PageMind the Gap
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the reckless homecoming of Desmond, a narcissistic rock musician, and his brash english bassist wife destroys his father's tenuous hold on sanity and disrupts the couple's own fragile balance.
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2007 Princess Grace Award
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Top of PageSleeping Rough
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In Kara Manning's SLeePING ROUGH, an American woman, unable to forgive her country for a grave offense, ignores the entreaties of her daughter and ex-husband and flees to London to graffiti her anguish across the city of her youth. It's December 2008, and as America broadcasts news of financial crisis and political change, a fractured family roams the London streets trying to understand what sparked a fatal decision.
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Wild Project
195 East 3rd Street, New York, NY 10009 03 Apr 2013
195 East 3rd Street, New York, NY 10009 03 Apr 2013
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