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Walt McGough

WALT MCGOUGH

  (1984 - )
Nationality:    USA
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(photo: Jonathan L Green) Walt McGough is a Boston and Chicago-based playwright, originally from Pittsburgh PA. His full-length plays include Dante Dies!! (and then things get weird), the Farm, Paper City Phoenix, True Places and Connor, Issue One. His work has been produced or read at Sideshow Theatre Company, Chicago Dramatists, Boston Playwrights Theatre, the Kennedy Center's Millennium Stage, Bailiwick Repertory, Infusion Theatre Company, and the Second City Chicago. He was the recipient of the Kennedy Center's 2010 Ken Ludwig Scholarship, a finalist for ACTF's John Cauble Short Play and ten-minute awards, and a two-time finalist for the Heideman Award at the Actors Theatre of Louisville. He has served as Company Manager at Chicago Dramatists, and is a founding member of Sideshow Theatre Company in Chicago, where he acts as Literary Manager. He is currently pursuing his MFA in Playwriting at Boston University.

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

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

         Chalk         Clean Sweep         Dante Dies!! (and then things get weird)         Dinosaurs Have A Request, The         Everything Freezes: Another Winter's Tale         Exposure         Farm, The         Fugitive Hotel         Haberdasher: A Tale Of Derring-do         Lost Properties         Paper City Phoenix         Pattern of Life         Priscilla Dreams the Answer         True Places         Two Socks Dicuss Loss

Chalk

Synopsis:
Maggie survives the end of the World. Her daughter arrives - but there is something wrong with her

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Rehearsed Reading With The Fresh Ink Theater Company, Boston     01 Oct 2013

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Genre:
Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Clean Sweep

Synopsis:
Married couple Kyle and Jennifer have it all a nice home, comfy sofa, television and two computers. If only the vacuum cleaner didn't keep trying to kill them

Notes:
Originally performed As part of "How Now Brown Couch" with nine other short plays

1st Produced:
Theatre Building, Chicago     17 Aug 2007

Organisations:
Brown Couch Theatre Company

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Genre:
Short play

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Dante Dies!! (and then things get weird)

Synopsis:
Partway along the journey of his life, Dante finds himself mourning a lost love, feeling morose and, for some reason, in Hell. Trying to find his way home, he encounters incredible suffering, infernal bureaucracy, some sins of his own, and the aggressive attention of a competitive hot dog eater. Each step downward brings him closer to a personal reckoning with his own story, and maybe a chance to find an answer or two. Enacting the story single-handedly, one actor brings over fifteen different characters to life as he tracks Dante's progress through the nine circles of Hell in this unexpected and epic adventure, inspired by the classic text Inferno.

Notes:
One-man show, based on Dante's Inferno

1st Produced:
Sideshow Theatre Company, Chicago     2008

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Genre:
Comedy/Drama, One-Man Show, Adaptation

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Dinosaurs Have A Request, The

Synopsis:
The dinosaurs are tired

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1st Produced:
Boston Theater Marathon     01 May 2012

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Genre:
Ten minute play

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  playing 5 roles

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Everything Freezes: Another Winter's Tale

Synopsis:
Everything Freezes takes the characters of Shakespeare'sWinter's Tale and propels them into new lives. King Leontes and Queen Hermione find their lives rent asunder by jealousy. But when an unexplained miracle seems to set things right, the royal family is left not with closure, but a mountain of new questions. Dragged into the fray is their best friend Polixenes, along with the children of both families, who seem far better suited to life in a magic world. Blows are dealt, lives are lost, and the rules of reality bend and break in this off-beat and moving comedy about what family means in the face of the unknown.

Notes:
written by Walt McGough And Jonathan L. Green

1st Produced:
Sideshow Theatre Company, Chicago     2009

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Genre:
Comedy/Drama, Adaptation

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Exposure

Synopsis:
the boy is adrift on an ice floe to prove he's a man; the polar bear has other ideas.

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Genre:
10 min

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Farm, The

Synopsis:
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Notes:
IRNE & Broadway World Boston Nominee, Best New Play

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Fugitive Hotel

Synopsis:
Jackson and Lenny have adjoining apartments. They share a beer in the warm desert heat. They have more in common than they realise

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1st Produced:
Bailiwick Repertory Theatre, Chicago     01 May 2007

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Genre:
One act

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Haberdasher: A Tale Of Derring-do

Synopsis:
Sword wielding burglar Vivienne finds herself in the haberdasher's shop in need of a disguise. Can Antoinette the apprentice haberdasher thwart her?

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Boston Playwrights Theater     10 Jan 2014

Organisations:
Argos Productions

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Music:
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Lost Properties

Synopsis:
David has lost something very big

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Genre:
Ten minute play

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Paper City Phoenix

Synopsis:
Complications arise when Brenna gets possessed by the Internet. Her friend Gale tries to help, but she's got her own problems, what with her brother gone off the grid and the FBI showing up to discuss her browser history.

Notes:
part of CulturalDC is pleased to announce that 25 full-length plays have been selected as finalists for the 2013 Source Festival.

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Pattern of Life

Synopsis:
A military man in charge of a drone accidently kills a boy in Pakistan. One of the villagers tries to comprehend what has happened. The two men start connecting in their dreams

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1st Produced:
New Rep Theatre, Boston     01 Jun 2013

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Genre:
Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Priscilla Dreams the Answer

Synopsis:
Priscilla, a lonely woman who works at a hobby shop, is so empathetic that she cries nightly while watching game shows. But her evening routine gets weird when she starts receiving 3 AM phone calls -- from aliens. When she finally picks up, the aliens ask her a big favor: to save the world. In this fantastical play examining loss, love, and the search for answers, Priscilla looks to the only expert she knows, her favorite gameshow contestant Simon, to save both worlds before it's too late.

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1st Produced:
Nu Sass Productions, Washington Dc     01 Jul 2011

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1st Published:
Playscripts, Inc   -

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Genre:
comedy 45 - 60 min

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  (5-9 actors possible: 1-7 females, 2-8 males)

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True Places

Synopsis:
Cartographers try to help Rose find her way

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1st Produced:
Kennedy Center Mfa Workshop     2011

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Music:
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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  3 either sex

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Two Socks Dicuss Loss

Synopsis:
Black and Navy have lost their partners. They are lonely and are glad when they are paired up

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Boston Theater Marathon     01 May 2010

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1st Published:
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Genre:
Ten minute play

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

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