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TIMOTHY MASON
Nationality: USA
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Literary Agent: ICM Partners
Timothy Mason wrote the book and lyrics for the seasonal Broadway hit, Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! the Musical. His novel, the Last Synapsid, an adventure-fantasy for kids, is being published by Delacorte Press (2009). Mr. Mason was a company playwright with Circle Rep in New York City, which produced his playsLevitation, Only You, Babylon Gardens(with Timothy Hutton and Mary-Louise Parker), and the Fiery Furnace (with Julie Harris). His plays have also been produced by Actors Theatre of Louisville, South Coast Rep, Seattle Rep, Victory Gardens, the Jungle Theatre, the Old Globe, the Children's Theatre Company of Minneapolis, and the Guthrie Lab, among others. He is currently completing his 5-play Young Americans Cycle, commissioned and first produced by the Young Conservatory of San Francisco's A.C.T. (Mullen's Alley, Time on Fire, the Less Than Human Club, Ascension Day,and the upcoming My Life in the Silents). He has won a Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays Award, a Hollywood DramaLogue Award, a Fellowship from the National endowment for the Arts, the Berilla Kerr Playwrights Award, and the National Society of Arts and Letters Award.
Research: Member of the Dramatists Guild of America (as at 2015)
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Actor Prepares, An Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn, The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer, The African Tales: Kalulu And Rumpelstiltskin Aladdin And the Wonderful Lamp Ascension Day Babylon Gardens Bearclaw Beauty And the Beast Dr Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! the Musical Emperor's New Clothes, The Fiery Furnace, The Gold In A Northern Landscape Kidnapped In London Less Than Human Club, The Levitation Little Mermaid, The Mullen's Alley My Life In the Silents Only You Six Sorry Time On Fire Treasure IslandActor Prepares, An
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part of Summer Shorts 4: This is the Annual program of new short plays At 59e59. Featured will be eight world premieres: Jonathan's Blaze by Christopher Stetson Boal, directed by Jose Angel Santana; Play With the Penguin by Roger Hedden, directed by Billy Hopkins; the Graduation Of Grace by Wendy Kesselman, director TBA; Fit by Neil Koenigsberg, directed by Merri Milwe; Romance by Neil LaBute, directed by Dolores Rice; the expenses Of Rain by Deb Margolin, directed by Laura Barnett; An Actor Prepares by Timothy Mason, directed by Maxwell Williams; Happy by Alan Zweibel, directed by Fred Berner.
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59e59 theaters
59 East 59th Street, New York, NY 10022 30 Jul 2010
59 East 59th Street, New York, NY 10022 30 Jul 2010
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ThroughLine Artists with J.J. Kandel and John McCormack
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Top of PageAdventures Of Huckleberry Finn, The
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Not only one of the greatest American novels, the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn also ranks among literature's most powerful condemnations of racism. the story of the "no-account" boy who fakes death and flees society with Jim, the runaway slave, pits convention against the common sense of childhood, and the hypocrisy of the "pious" against the integrity of the individual. And because this is an action-packed Dramatization of Mark Twain, it's also hilariously funny. . .
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1st Produced:
Children's Theatre Company Of Minneapolis (Minneapolis, Mn, United States)
1980
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85-105 min Comedy/Drama
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Male: 15 Female: 10 Other: 15 males, 10 females (19-40 actors possible: 11-20 males, 8-20 females)
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Top of PageAdventures Of Tom Sawyer, The
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One of the most beloved characters of American fiction, Tom Sawyer is a force of nature -- whether he's sneaking out of his Aunt Polly's house at night to visit the graveyard, or duping his playmates into white-washing a fence, or stealing a kiss from the ravishing Becky Thatcher, or taking a stand against the murderous Injun Joe. Tom's small-town adventures on the banks of the Mississippi are the magical essence of childhood, a joyous leap into the great river of time and memory.
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Merchiston Preparatory School (Pietermaritzburg, Kwazulu/Natal, South Africa)
2008
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75-105 min Comedy/Drama
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Male: 8 Female: 6 Other: 8 males, 6 females, 6 either (14-40 actors possible: 8-20 males, 6-20 females)
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Top of PageAfrican Tales: Kalulu And Rumpelstiltskin
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the fire crackles, the drums pulse, and everyone listens to two tales magically spun under the great African sky. In Rumpelstiltskin, a young queen's love for her child thwarts the evil intentions of a crooked little man. In Kalulu, a swaggering and boastful hare suffers the consequences of deceit when he tries to swindle a bag of gold from the king. the characters in these two legends create a whirlwind of color and sound, and evoke the magic of the triumph of good over evil.
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1st Produced:
The Children's Theatre Company-Minneapolis.
1980
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70 min TYA
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Male: 2 Female: 1 Other: 4 either
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Top of PageAladdin And the Wonderful Lamp
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Aladdin is inconsiderate toward his poor mother, rude to authority, and generally unwashed and unmannered. But the powerful Jinn of the Lamp, fiercely sought by an evil-hearted sorcerer, gives Aladdin the chance to rise above himself, to dare great things -- even to win the hand of the Princess of the realm. the classic story of a ne'er-do-well's rise from obscurity to greatness, filled with breathtaking adventure, dark magic, and the poetry of the youthful romance.
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1st Produced:
Children's Theatre Company Of Minneapolis (Minneapolis, Mn, United States)
1977
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Playscripts, Inc - New York
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Genre:
80-100 min Adventure
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Male: 11 Female: 8 Other: 11 males, 8 females, 3 either (14-40 actors possible: 11-20 males, 3-20 females)
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Top of PageAscension Day
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On the banks of a beautiful lake, nine teenagers pursue the normal church-camp activities: learning lifesaving techniques, enduring "nature tip" lectures and delivering dreaded spiritual "testimonials." But the moon is full, hormones are young and raging, and the cries of the loons carry a message of menace and loss. This single week is seen entirely through the eyes of the nine adolescents: the adults who determine, and in some ways damage, the lives of these youngsters, are never seen, but their threatening presence is always felt. Above these nine children hovers the rumor of a phenomenon not heard of until the late '40s: alien visitors in crafts that were for the first time being called "flying saucers." Beneath them, the depths of the lake itself hold an Indian legend of love and bloody death. the focus of the play falls on two sisters, Faith and Charity, as they move unconsciously and inadvertently from a relationship of affection and trust toward a rift which seems likely to be permanent. the image of their granite-like Father is forever before them, but they respond in different ways. Charity, the younger sister, seeks the approval and acceptance, so far missing from her life, through sex. Faith presents herself to the world as not caring for approval, but beneath her facade is the desperate fear that she herself is destined to turn to stone, just like her father. Faith's attempt to break free from her own rigidity ends in a disaster of the heart. Charity's bid for love is, unfortunately, somewhat more successful: It's clear by the end of the play that her disaster will last a lifetime.
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Drama One Act
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Male: 4 Female: 5 Other: -
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Top of PageBabylon Gardens
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Bill and Jean are a young couple living in New York's east Village struggling to overcome the death in childbirth of their first-born. Bill's job as a nurse/anaesthetist brings him face to face with life's harsh realities on a daily basis. Jean is a painter valiantly endeavouring to paint again. Day after day she brings her easel to the east River where she finds a good urban landscape to paint and where one day she also finds Hector, a young boy who fishes there, and who Jean tries to take under her wing. While Bill finds solace in the memories of his elderly patients and in helping Opal, a homeless woman, Jean attempts to get to know Hector, only to have him turn on her in a scene of terrifying violence. Retreating to a world of her own as a result of the attack, Jean remains city-shocked and incapable of action. Bill, needing to commit himself to something, no matter what, brings Opal to live in the room he and Jean had been preparing for their lost child.
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Play/Drama
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Male: 5 Female: 5 Other: -
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Top of PageBearclaw
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A retired lecturer realises that he has not much longer to live and wants to put right things in his past
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in "Gay Plays 2" Methuen, London, 1985 -
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One act. - - Gay, full length
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Male: 3 Female: 1 Other: -
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Top of PageBeauty And the Beast
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In this mysterious, gorgeous adaptation, Beauty and her Beast exist in a shadowy world of magic and poetry, and extremes of light and dark, cold and heat, pain and joy. Beauty must leave behind her beloved father, adventure-hungry brothers, and uproariously self-absorbed sisters, entering a dark castle filled with strange mute servants obedient to their beastly master. the story tests the nature and the limits of physical beauty, as she finally looks beyond the Beast's ugliness and understands her transforming love for him.
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1st Produced:
Minneapolis Children's Theatre Company (Minneapolis, Mn, United States)
1978
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Genre:
80-100 min Adventure/Romance
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Male: 5 Female: 4 Other: 5 males, 4 females, 7 either (10-40 actors possible: 6-20 males, 4-20 females)
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Top of PageDr Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! the Musical
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annual Broadway presentation of this musical version of the famous Dr. Seuss cartoon. Featuring the hit songs "You're A Mean One, Mr. Grinch" and "Welcome Christmas," plus two new songs for this year-"It's the Thought That Counts," and "This Time of Year," the beloved tale comes to life as the Grinch discovers that there is more to Christmas then he bargained for
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book And lyrics by Timothy Mason; music Mel Marvin; original composer Albert Hague
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Hilton Theatre, New York
08 Nov 2006
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Genre:
Musical
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Male: 4 Female: 5 Other: -
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Top of PageEmperor's New Clothes, The
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Flo and Roscoe are the ultimate con artists, so when they stumble into a kingdom that bends to every fashion whim of its emperor they know just what to do. they announce that they are the finest weavers in all the land, and produce a magical cloth. Of course, the stylish emperor simply must have it! However, the cloth that Flo and Roscoe weave is not for ordinary folks; in fact it's endowed with magical powers that separate wise men from fools. the clothing is invisible only to those not smart enough to see it. None of the emperor's closest confidants want to be seen as a fool, so they all claim to see the clothing. When the emperor finally unveils his magical new dressing to the kingdom, the laughing townspeople ReALLY have something to see. This hilarious classic tale is one the whole family will love.
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Genre:
Youth Audience
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Male: 5 Female: 2 Other: ensmble
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Top of PageFiery Furnace, The
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1950, rural Wisconsin. Faith is about to leave for the University of Chicago when her mother, eunice, suitcase in hand, announces that she's going too. Desperate to leave the confines of a stony marriage, she pleads for a last chance of escape. Faith, also eager to break away from family and small-town life, recognizes her mother's pain, and though hesitant, relents. But Faith's sister, Charity, and brother-in-law, Jerry, have already informed the patriarchal Gunnar of his wife's plan, and he threatens to cut off Faith's tuition money. the choice is painful, but eunice puts down her suitcase, takes off her hat and Faith flees. 1953. Charity, the mother of twin boys, is nervously practicing a speech she will give in tribute to eunice at a mother-daughter church banquet. eunice is anxious to learn what Charity will say about her, while Jerry is full of his plan to get Gunnar to sell him a plot of land on which to build a drive-in movie theatre. When Jerry hears that Gunnar has sold the land to a rival with the same business intentions, his darker, violent side reveals itself. 1956, Thanksgiving. Faith returns home with her fiance, Louis. While his leftist politics cause tension in the dining room, the women come and go in the kitchen, waiting on their men. eunice fears that Faith really does not truly love Louis, which Faith reluctantly admits. Charity reveals her suspicions of Jerry's long-time infidelity, and eunice talks to her daughters for the first time about the early days of her luckless, loveless marriage. Although separated by age, education and outlook, the three women are for a moment united. 1963, New Year's eve. Gunnar, never seen but deeply felt throughout the play, lies dying upstairs. Jerry hovers over him, drinking heavily and making a show of concern, while all the time making plans to take over the family fortunes. Faith and Louis arrive, ostensibly to pay respects, but really in response to a furtive phone call from Charity, a plea for help to get her and her children out of a violent marriage. Now faced with the possibility of freedom, the frightened Charity recants her story. Louis, both a lawyer and magician, with eunice's help, uses compassion and sleight-of-hand to engineer Charity's escape, but not before an explosion of terrifying violence.
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Play/Drama
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Male: 2 Female: 3 Other: -
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Top of PageGold
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the Norwegian resistance in World War Two
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Music by Mel Marvin; lyrics And book by Timothy Mason
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Genre:
Musical one act
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Male: 8 Female: 6 Other: -
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Top of PageIn A Northern Landscape
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Against the background of a harsh Minnesota landscape in the 1920's, a couple returns to their burned-out farmhouse and recalls the events that led to the destruction of their family: the breaking of a powerful taboo by their children and the subsequent retribution by the community
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Play/Drama
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Male: 7 Female: 2 Other: -
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Top of PageKidnapped In London
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Elizabethan England. Corin the son of two shepherds is visiting London with his parents. Whilst watching a performance given by the Players of Blackfriars they get separated. Corin tries to find his parents but to no avail. He does not know what to do so he sits down and starts singing. He is heard by Burbage the leader of the Players. Burbage asks him to join but Corin refuses. So Burbage kidnaps him and forces him to sing. John is another boy player in the group. He says that Burbage is a good man. Burbage tells Corin that he will be released but time passes and he is still being held. He plots to run away and John agrees to help. Burbage finds out and in trying to stop the escape he stabs John. The two boys go to visit him in jail. He tells Corin he is free to leave - but Corin has decided that a life in the theatre is the life for him
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Genre:
Youth play
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Male: 7 Female: 1 Other: extras
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Top of PageLess Than Human Club, The
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the unexpected arrival of a postcard plunges Davis into his vivid memories of 1968 -- a wildly turbulent year in both his high school and in the U.S. In the throes of navigating complex relationships, racial tensions, crises of sexual identity, and self-worth, Davis and his friends search for purpose in a society struggling through its own weighty issues. While school dances mark milestones in their high school careers, tensions bubbling up in the U.S. are increasingly mirrored in their lives, until an explosion seems imminent. A moving exploration of the often comical absurdities of teenage life in the midst of the heartbreaking realities of a changing world.
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Young Conservatory At A.C.T. (San Francisco, Ca, United States)
1994
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Genre:
90-105 min Play/Drama
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Male: 4 Female: 4 Other: 4 males, 4 females
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Top of PageLevitation
the place is the front porch of a comfortable old house in suburban Minneapolis, the time a summer night in the late 1970s. Arriving home unexpectedly to visit his family, Joe, a would-be playwright who earns his living working for a newspaper in New York City, finds the house locked and apparently deserted. then his father, a retired minister who has been sitting in the backyard watching for shooting stars, suddenly appears, followed in turn by other family members and friends. Included are Joe's mother; his sister and her young son; a favorite former teacher of his father's (who, by Joe's calculation, should have died years before); Orville Wright (who really can't still be alive); and Joe's male lover, Ira, a flippant young Jewish caterer from New York who, unaccountably, seems to get along famously with the others. As the action progresses the line between the real and the imagined becomes progressively more blurred until, in the play's deeply affecting final moments, Joe comes to accept both the fact of death and the transitoriness of life, and to realize that the two are a continuum in which our loved ones are never lost to us as long as memory persists.
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Play/Drama. - - Gay, theme/character full length
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Male: 6 Female: 3 Other: -
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Top of PageLittle Mermaid, The
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the heartbreaking tale of a young mermaid willing to give up her life in the sea to win the love of a handsome prince and claim an eternal soul. In a kingdom under the sea, six sea princesses, recounted their experiences of being able to rise out of the sea on their fifteenth birthday. While most of the mermaids saw wondrous sites, they still found its much nicer at home under the sea. When the littlest mermaid finally had her fifteenth birthday, she saw a lovely prince and saved him from a shipwreck. She was instantly in love, however, the Prince woke to a young nun and mistakenly believed she was his savior. the Little Mermaid was so smitten that she made a deal with the Sea Witch, and exchanged her voice for legs and the chance to live with the Prince on land. the Prince found the mute Little Mermaid (now a girl) and brought her to court to be his special friend. Though they become incredibly close, the Prince married the young nun, revealed to be a princess. In the end, the Little Mermaid becomes one with the sea and is never seen again.
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The Children's Theatre Company-Minneapolis.
1968
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TYA 90 min
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Male: 9 Female: 10 Other: ensemble
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Top of PageMullen's Alley
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In the 1880s, Jacob Riis took a camera into the tenements and dives of New York's Lower east Side, showing the world "How the Other Half Lives" in his famous book. Born out of a haunting photograph, this play delves into the world of Mullen's Alley, and the lives of a handful of kids who are ferociously determined to grow and live in spite of the many obstacles in their way. With wit, anger, and ingenuity, these immigrant children carve out lives for themselves as they interact uneasily with the intrusion of Riis and his omnipresent camera.
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The Young Conservatory At A.C.T. (San Francisco, Ca, United States)
2005
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65-75 min Play/Drama
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Male: 4 Female: 3 Other: 4 males, 3 females
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Top of PageMy Life In the Silents
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A young girl leaves home and heads for Hollywood hoping to find fame in the movies
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1st Produced:
Zeum Theater, San Francisco
01 Nov 2008
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Comedy
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Top of PageOnly You
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Leo is a little intense, planning a lifetime with Miriam on their first date. even Leo's mysterious whispering mentor, Big Voice, can't succeed in getting Leo to lighten up, and Miriam shows Leo the door. Friends counsel friends in this romantic urban fairytale: While Leo seeks glib Eddie's dubious advice, Miriam pours her heart out to the clueless Heather, and depressed Bo seeks help from anyone willing to put up with him. Eddie's party, thrown together to set things right among young lovers, ends by throwing the wrong people in bed together, with calamitous results. It takes the active intervention of Big Voice, a deus ex machina whose "eye is on the sparrow," to engineer a final zany costume party. Here love is resolved as well as it can be in a world where "between what we anticipate and what we receive a great gulf is fixed." Bo lands a sympathetic Heather, Eddie discovers his true vocation, Leo finds his CinderElla and Miriam, her unlikely prince.
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Comedy
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Male: 4 Female: 2 Other: -
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Top of PageSix
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Six undergraduates spend a summer in an isolated wilderness, studying the surrounding ecosystem under the tutelage of two graduate teaching assistants. As they learn of the five global mass extinctions that life on earth has suffered in its history, and the sixth that may be upon us, they get to know each other and themselves. Unrequited love is in the air along with the mosquitoes. Requited love comes with its own perils. Is one of the students an imposter, a so-called eco-terrorist? Is he a hero or a con man?
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1st Produced:
Guthrie Theatre Lab (Minneapolis, Mn, United States)
2004
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70-80 min Play/Drama
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Male: 4 Female: 4 Other: 4 males, 4 females
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Top of PageSorry
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New York City can be an unforgiving and lonely place. But when Pat shoots Wayne, mistaking him for an intruder, the two are given an opportunity to make a connection. Although love can be found under strange circumstances, what will Pat think when she finds out the secret behind Wayne's true identity?
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1st Produced:
Circle Repertory Lab (New York, NY, United States)
1985
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25-30 min Comedy
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Male: 1 Female: 1 Other: 1 male, 1 female
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Top of PageTime On Fire
Synopsis:
Caught in the upheaval of the American Revolutionary War, a group of young people must decide where they stand. Who will take up arms and who will pass the buck? From indentured farmers to the wealthy elite, from runaway slaves to Quaker pacifists, not one of these sons or daughters escapes the decisions that define them and young America.
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1st Produced:
The Young Conservatory At A.C.T. (San Francisco, Ca, United States)
1999
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1st Published:
Playscripts, Inc - New York -
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Genre:
70-80 min Play/Drama
Parts:
Male: 7 Female: 4 Other: 7 males, 4 females (11-13 actors possible: 6-9 males, 4-5 females)
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Top of PageTreasure Island
Synopsis:
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Notes:
Based on the book by Robert Louis Stevenson
1st Produced:
Nashville Childrens Theatre, Nashville
15 Jan 1981
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Genre:
Adaptation
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Male: - Female: - Other: -
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