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Nina Mansfield

NINA MANSFIELD

  (1975 - )
Nationality:    USA
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Nina Mansfield (aka Nina Waluschka) is a CT based playwright and fiction writer. Her plays have been performed throughout the United States and in Canada and Ireland, and are published by Smith and Krause, One act Play Depot and YouthPLaYS. Her earlier plays are published under the name Nina WaluschkA. Her fiction has appeared in ellery Queen Mystery Magazine and the Chick Lit Review. Her Ya Mystery novel Swimming alone was a quarter-finalist in the 2010 amazon Breakthrough Novel contest. She is a member of the Dramatists Guild, Mystery Writers of America, the Society of Children's Writers and Illustrators, the Short Mystery Fiction Society and Sisters in Crime.

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

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         Alone in the Goldfish Bowl         Bite Me         Bona Fide         Clean         Clown Therapy         Crash Bound         Erasing the Brain         Gymnos: A Geek's Tragedy         Losing Our Heads: the Guillotine Play         Missed Exit         No Epilogue         Ping and the Pong of It, The         Smile         Text Misdirected         Unbearable Lightness of Greening, The

Alone in the Goldfish Bowl

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1st Produced:
Six Women Play Festival. Colorado Springs, CO     09 Apr 2015

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Bite Me

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Nina Mansfield delivers a wry comedy about a woman who bumps into a vampire and takes him home as a present for her husband. The recipient is less grateful than one might imagine, especially given the prospect of sharing eternity with his loving partner. Somehow, the comedy also manages to offer some social commentary as a side dish.

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1st Produced:
Adrienne Arsht Center, Located On 1300 Biscayne Boulevard In Miami, Fl     06 Jun 2013

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1st Published:
in Three More Marriage Plays, a collection of short plays including Bona Fide, the Ping and the Pong of It and Bite Me published by One Act Play Depot. www.oneactplays.net   -

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10 min play

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Bona Fide

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Part of 8 Minute Madness. eighteen new provocative And engaging plays will be presented in groups A And B of 9 plays each. the plays, directed by innovative directors, Are produced by A select team of New York's finest designers. Attending industry members will vote for who will win the coveted Award of 8 Minute Madness Playwright of 2011. the participating Audience will Also vote on the best performance by An Actor And best over-all show. the plays Are: . . .Last And Always by Allan Baker, First Half by Ron Burch, the Intervention by Ron Burch, Last Words by Jeff Carter, the Family That Plays Together by Gigi eng, Magnolia Day by SD Graubert, Bottom of the Ninth by Rand Higbee, the Wedding Ring by Tony Howarth, Duet in Platinum by Allston James, A Change of Plans by Dennis Jones, Mammaries by Joanne Koch, Bona Fide by Nina Mansfield, It's the Jews by John Minigan, Out of Time by Barbara And Carlton Molette, Dead Body by Barry M. Putt, Jr., Short Division by Fred Sahner, Zero Point by Jeff Schwamberger, And Slipping into Anarchy by Jeffrey Wolf.

1st Produced:
Turtle Shell Theater, 300 West 43rd Street, 4th Floor, New York, NY 10036     21 Jan 2011

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One Act Play Depot. www.oneactplays.net   -

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8 Min

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Clean

Clean
Harvey and Donna, two recovering alcoholics, surprise each other in a church basement late one night. Harvey is there to do his dishes- seriously. Donna has been kicked out by her husband. a bottle of bourbon appears. an alcoholic pastor soon follows. Three humans struggle with addiction and the unbelievable cleaning power of an industrial strength dishwasher are revealed.

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1st Produced:
Looking Glass Theatre (First New York Production)    

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www.originalworksonline.com, 2011   -

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Genre:
one act Drama

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Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Clown Therapy

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performed in NYC as part of Disjointed Love Shorts: a comedy in pieces by Ticket 2 Eternity. It will be part of the group entitled "The Morning After,"

1st Produced:
Alchemical Theatre Laboratory, 137 W. 14th St, NYC     21 Mar 2013

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1st Published:
the Best 10-Minute Plays Of 2012. Published by Smith and Kraus, Inc.    -

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Crash Bound

Crash Bound
Love, math and paranoia collide at 30,000 feet. an actress and a statistician find themselves on Flight 214 to Los Angeles via Detroit. according to the statistician's calculations, today is the day that he was meant to find true love. the actress, however, is positive that Flight 214 will crash, as she was never meant to reach the metaphorical Moscow. their personalities collide as the pilot quotes Chekhov and the flight attendant insists that she is a seagull.

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One act Play Depot >>>, 2007   978-1894910651

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One act

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Erasing the Brain

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When ellen discovers that her younger brother Mattie has read her diary, she resorts to drastic measures: she takes his video game controller hostage. Mattie tries to convince ellen that he can erase his brain, including all memories of the boy that she has been writing about. after all, Mattie argues, wasn't Mom able to erase her brain? Has their Mom really forgotten all about their Dad, and is Mattie destined to as well?

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1st Produced:
Shell Theatre, New York, New York     01 Apr 2010

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Turtle Shell Productions

1st Published:
YouthPLaYS, 2010   -

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Genre:
10-minute dramedy for Young audiences

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  1 off-stage female voice

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Gymnos: A Geek's Tragedy

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1st Produced:
Ticket2Eternity Productions At Here Arts Center, New York, NY     26 Sep 2013

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Losing Our Heads: the Guillotine Play

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a full-length comedy that juxtaposes absurdist vignettes about the bizarre history of the guillotine with the post-beheading loves, lives and struggles of historical figures, such as Marie Antoinette and Charlotte Corday, who now exist in a very contemporary version of the afterlife. the vignettes deal with such historical oddities as the popularity of toy guillotines, the almost execution of the Marquis de Sade, and the medical profession's obsession for determining the lifespan of the severed head. Meanwhile, in the land of the beheaded, Nick, the first person to be guillotined in French history, and his girlfriend Marie, attend Beheaded Anonymous meetings, stage interventions for beheaded friends in denial, and struggle to keep their head on, as do all those living in the world of the beheaded. Beneath its comedic surface, the play examines humanity's violent history, and the human predilection for addiction.

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1st Produced:
reading, Dramatists Guild
Frederick Loewe Room, 1501 Broadway, Suite 710, New York, NY 10036     12 Oct 2012

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Missed Exit

Missed Exit
a family of five is trapped in a compact car on their way to a wedding. after one too many wrong turns, the GPS comes to life.

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Published As part of the Longwood University "0 to 60" Ten-Minute Play Contest Winners

1st Produced:
Thetford Hill, Vt     01 Feb 2009

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Parish Players

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Boston theater Marathon XI - 2009 anthology - 50 Ten Minute Plays Boston theater Marathon XI - 2009 anthology - 50 Ten Minute Plays ~ By Kate Snodgrass (ed) - Smith and Kraus, 2010   978-15752577164

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comedy Ten Min

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Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  1 off-stage voice of GPS

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No Epilogue

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Mike, a struggling poet and cab driver, and Steph, the girl who loves him,debate the causes of a mysterious suicide early one morning on the Brooklyn Bridge. We soon learn that Mike hasn't written anything in months, but this suicide seems to inspire him. Was Mike somehow at fault for the stranger's fate? and how far will Steph go to inspire him again?

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Ping and the Pong of It, The

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in Three More Marriage Plays, a collection of short plays including Bona Fide, the Ping and the Pong of It and Bite Me published by One Act Play Depot. www.oneactplays.net   -

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Smile

Smile
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Ten Min

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Text Misdirected

Text Misdirected
Jane plans to divorce her husband. Lucky for her, she has just boarded a train and sat down next to Barry, an attorney, who is more than happy to provide his services. His firm is, as he puts it "ahead of the curve." Unlucky for Barry, Jane has a severe distrust of all technology, and Barry is plugged-in in more ways than one. One man, one woman, one text message. . .misdirected.

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Published As part of Longwood University "0 to 60" Ten Minute Play Contest Winners 2010

1st Produced:
Greenbelt Arts Center     01 Feb 2010

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1st Published:
in the Best Ten-Minute Plays 2011, Smith & Kraus; (June 1, 2012)
One act Play Depot, 2010, 978-1894910958   978-1575257822

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Genre:
10 min play

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  1 off-stage voice

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Unbearable Lightness of Greening, The

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1st Produced:
Lic One-Act Play Festival At The Secret Theatre In Queens, NY     04 Apr 2013

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