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Ellen Margolis

ELLEN MARGOLIS

  
Nationality:    USA
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Ellen Margolis lives in Portland, Oregon, where she serves as Chair of Theatre & Dance at Pacific University. Her plays, which have been produced throughout the United States, include Picking Up the Baby, Late, American Soil, and the award-winning How to Draw Mystical Creatures. She is a founding member of Playwrights West, Portland's new-work Theatre. Her most recent plays are Trying Not to Stare, workshopped at Portland Theatre Works; and When It Stands Still, written for Toy Box Theatre of Manhattan. excerpts from her plays can be seen in the Audition Arsenal series, published by Smith & Kraus. She works professionally as a director, dialect coach, and voiceover artist, and is the mother of two very noisy boys.

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

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

         American Soil         How To Draw Mystical Creatures         Late         Little Chatter, A         Picking Up the Baby         Snapping         When It Stands Still

American Soil

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How To Draw Mystical Creatures

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Late

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Little Chatter, A

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Two parents clash over differing viewpoints at their children's Little League game. Jersey-guy Rusty lives for the games, while widowed Jordanian mother Aliyah seems only concerned about working hard to support her family. But as they start talking to one another between cheers and coaching from the sidelines, they both take comfort in the realization that their off-field life is surprisingly similar.

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Celebrating And exploring themes from America's favorite pastime, the Baseball Plays: 7th Inning Stretch is A collection of short comedies And Dramas from the Mile Square theatre's Annual event. From A couple Arguing over the use of steroids (Off Base by Theresa Rebeck) to A priest's fight to preserve the Abandoned lot where the local children play ball (Asphalt Green by Rogelio Martinez), to A marriage dissolved over fantasy baseball (Fantasy League by Lee Blessing), this collection captures the love, frustration, And nostalgia surrounding this beloved sport.

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Mile Square Theatre, Hoboken, Nj    18 Jul 2005

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10 min comedy

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Picking Up the Baby

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Gretchen is white. the baby waiting for her? Black. She's read the books. She's bought the wipes. She's ready, right? Part manic road-trip, part riff on race relations, complete with paranoid fantasies, gospel music, bad rap, and a hoedown.

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Venue 2: the Flea theater

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Snapping

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When It Stands Still

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In a time-twisted riff on the nature of obsession and old-testament sacrifice, Soren Kierkegaard needs to get into the mind of Abraham at that moment on the mountain with the boy and the knife. And then there's a fiancee to repel, a Father to satisfy, and 20th-century philosophy to invent
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