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Laura Marks

LAURA MARKS

  
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    The Gersh Agency, NY  represented by Jessica Amato

Laura Marks is a current playwriting fellow at the Juilliard School. Her play Bethany won the Leah Ryan Prize for emerging Women Writers, Synchronicity Theatre's SheWrites award, and was chosen by John Guare as runner-up for Yale's David C. Horn Prize. A native Kentuckian, she studied at Boston University and Indiana University.

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

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

         Bethany         Dome, The         Gather At The River         India         Light & Shadow         Mine         Ten         Unbound

Bethany

Bethany
Bethany by Laura Marks: when the going gets tough, the tough get going, and the going has gotten very tough indeed for Crystal. Her job is in jeopardy, her house has been repossessed and her daughter taken by social services. It's time for Crystal to get going. But in her effort to get her daughter back and put her life on the right track, Crystal is forced to question just how far she's willing to go to survive.

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part of Rifle Hall Plays

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Methuen Drama    978-1408173077

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Play/Drama 90 min

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Dome, The

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Music, lyrics and book by Deborah Abramson; Michael L Cooper; Jason Frote; Rine Groff; Hyehoung Kim; Norman Lasca; Laura Marks; Marisa Michelson; David A Miller; Jonathan Portera

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West End Theatre, New York    31 Jan 2009

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Musical

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Gather At The River

Synopsis:
A liberal New Yorker agrees to do some voluntary work and is sent to East Kentucky. There she has to fend off attempts to convert her by fundamental Christians

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India

Synopsis:
What do you do when friends ask you for gifts to do things you doubt are worth doing? This is a short play about the value of seeking happiness for yourself and finding a way to fundraise for it online through your friends.
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
part of "Happiness". the Drilling Company commissioned eight playwrights to write short works on the subject of the search for happiness

1st Produced:
Drilling Company theatre
107 West 82nd Street, #1A, New York, NY 10024    12 May 2011

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short play

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Light & Shadow

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On the night of the US Presidential Election, multi-award-winning playwrights from across the UK and US will have rehearsed readings of their work staged at Manchester's Royal Exchange Theatre.

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rehearsed reading

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Mine

Synopsis:
A new mother thinks there is something not quite right with her baby

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1st Produced:
Gift Theatre, Chicago    13 Jun 2013

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Dramatists Play Service   -

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Genre:
Drama

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Ten

Synopsis:
To celebrate their 10th anniversary, Partial Comfort Productions will present TeN, is a single evening of 10 short plays by 10 writers helmed by 10 directors and featuring a cast of 10 actors.
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
written by Samuel D. Hunter, Thomas Bradshaw, Robert O'Hara, Laura Marks, Chad Beckim, Ross Maxwell, edith Freni, Jonathan Caren, Greg Keller, Sam Marks

1st Produced:
Wild Project
195 East 3rd Street, New York, NY 10009    18 Sep 2012

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Partial Comfort Productions

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Genre:
short play

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Unbound

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by Laura Marks, Adapted from the Journals of Fanny Kemble (compiled by Catherine Clinton), conceived by Davis McCallum

1st Produced:
West End Theatre, NY    2005

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Prospect Theater Company

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