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Jonathan Mayer

JONATHAN MAYER

  (1988 - )
Nationality:    USA
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Jonathan Mayer is from the Orlando, Florida area and is currently attending college at Harvard University. As an author of several one-act plays, short films, and full-length screenplays, he started writing at 14 and continues to do so. In high school, he performed in and directed multiple plays as a member of the International thespian Society. He won the 2006 VSA Arts Playwright Discovery Award for an alternative version of his play Mistakes-R-Us, which world premiered at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. Jonathan is published by Playscripts, Inc. and Brooklyn Publishers.

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

         Abbot & Costello         Celebrity Sighting         Criminal On Board         Cure         Duelling Phobias         Exterminating Fear         I, Thespian         Just Ice         Marvin Maybe or Arsenic and Old Lace         Mistakes-R-Us         Night Without Music, TV and Gossiping         Relativity         Sally Sells Seashells         Through The Window         Transformation, The         Underwater Encounters         Writing In Wet Cement
Abbot & Costello

Synopsis:
Two teenagers attempt to perform the famous Abbot and Costello "Whose On First" sketch

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Brooklyn Publishers   

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Genre:
Ten minute play

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Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Celebrity Sighting

Synopsis:
Ronnie has always had a crush on his favourite movie star now he has an opportunity to meet her

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Brooklyn Publishers   

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Genre:
Ten minute play

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Criminal On Board

Synopsis:
Steven needs money so he takes in AJ. AJ is the perfect lodger. Then Steven reads a profile in the newspaper of serial killer of landlords - and the description fits AJ

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Genre:
Fifteen minute play

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Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Cure

Synopsis:
Joseph has discovered the cure for AIDS in a homeless man's liver. All he needs to do is to kill him and get the liver and save countless people

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Genre:
Short play

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Male:  3            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Duelling Phobias

Synopsis:
Tom is claustrophobic. Edward is germophobic. They meet in a doctors waiting room and decide to cure each other

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Written with Brenda Cohen

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Brooklyn Publishers   

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Genre:
Ten minute play

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Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Exterminating Fear

Synopsis:
David is standing on a chair cowering in fear. There is a dead cockroach on the floor. Michelle thinks she will help cure him of his phobia

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Brooklyn Publishers   

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Genre:
Ten minute play

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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I, Thespian

Synopsis:
Toby and Kristen need to put an activity on their college application. They join the Thespian Group. The group worship the goddess Thespis and indulge in shocking gossip

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Genre:
Short play

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Male:  11            Female:  9            Other:  extras

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Just Ice

Synopsis:
Suing in court. One man is suing a real estate agent when his Monopoly proved just to be paper. Another is suing a cold prevention company when catches a cold

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Genre:
Short play

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  16 either sex

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Marvin Maybe or Arsenic and Old Lace

Synopsis:
Marvin's marriage has hit the rocks - where there once was love now there is rowing and nagging and scorn. He decides to commit suicide but things don't go as he wanted

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Genre:
Fifteen minute play

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  1either sex

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Mistakes-R-Us

Synopsis:
Wave bye-bye to your mistakes because Mistakes-R-Us is open for business! Just grab your credit card, dial their 1-800 number and sit back as they erase any (well, almost any) mistake you've made for a practical price. Sound too good to be true? It does to a snooping high school journalist who interviews the wacky owner in hopes of uncovering the truth about this company. Will this mean the end of Mistakes-R-Us, or is the idea of a perfect world closer than we thought?

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Mayfield High School (Las Cruces, Nm, United States)     2006

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Playscripts, Inc - New York   

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Genre:
30-40 min Comedy

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Male:  3            Female:  4            Other:  3 males, 4 females, 8 either (14-23 actors possible: 1-22 males, 1-22 females)

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Night Without Music, TV and Gossiping

Synopsis:
A witch curses a sleepover party to no music, no television and no gossiping

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Genre:
Short play

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Male:  -            Female:  6            Other:  extras

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Relativity

Synopsis:
High School teacher Luther Owens has spent all of his life perfecting a time machine. He is on the verge of perfecting it when his wife sys that it is her or the machine

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Genre:
Drama

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Male:  4            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Sally Sells Seashells

Synopsis:
Sally sells seashells by the seashore. But then there is forbidden love, the mob and mistaken identites

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Genre:
One act

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Male:  8            Female:  5            Other:  7 either sex

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Through The Window

Synopsis:
Mark and Verna have the perfect marriage but then a neighbour looking through a window sees Mark being unfaithful. So what does Verna do divorce or live with it?

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Genre:
Short play

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Transformation, The

Synopsis:
Drew wakes up one morning to find a strange woman in his bed. She tells him she is his wife but he knows she is not - the real wife disappeared some time ago

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Genre:
One act

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Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Underwater Encounters

Synopsis:
Two gastrotrichs (microscopic sea worms) have to come to terms with the fact that they only live three days and love and the meaning of life

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Genre:
Five minute play

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  2 either sex

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Writing In Wet Cement

Synopsis:
A man and a woman are abducted by aliens. Whilst waiting in a holding cell they strike up a friendship

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Genre:
Short play

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  1either sex

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