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Natalie Menna

NATALIE MENNA

  
Nationality:    USA
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Natalie Menna is an award-winning playwright and actress living in downtown Brooklyn. A native New Yorker, she recently won Outstanding Overall Production of a Play and Best Actor for her full-length drama Committed at Planet Connections Theatre Festivity 2015. Committed, produced by Ego Actus, received six nominations, including Outstanding Production of a Staged Reading, Outstanding Playwright For A New Play in a Reading, Best Director, Best Actress, and Two Nominations for Best Actor. She was nominated for Outstanding Writer for her full-length comedy Zen A.M. in Planet Connections Theatre Festivity 2014. Her solo show Roberta! was featured in United Solo Theatre Festival, Theatre Row, in November 2014. Select previous awards include The Nettie Award for Best Solo Show for her play I-pod in the Network One-Act Festival, and Best Actress for I-pod in The Midtown International Theatre Festival. Her play Hiroshi-Me, Me, Me was a finalist in both The Strawberry Festival and The Network One-Act Festival, with two nominations for Best Actress and Winner for Best Supporting Actress. Her work has been developed with Casey Childs, Andrew Leynse and David Caudle at Primary Stages, and Nicky Silver at The Vineyard Theatre. [Photo Credit: Rod Goodman 2014]

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

         Committed         Hiroshi-Me, Me, Me         I-pod         Montana         Roberta!         Steps         Zen A.M.

Committed

Synopsis:
Committed is a work of historical fiction about the last two days of Dutch filmmaker Theo Van Gogh's life. When his highly controversial and vulgar documentary causes a tremendous uproar in Amsterdam and abroad, Theo spirals downward. The play explores the collision of an artist's radical temperament and unyielding vision with modern political realities and the inevitable tragedy when uncompromising values clash. Can friendship, family, or love save Theo from his biggest threathimself?

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1st Produced:
[reading] Planet Connections Theatre Festivity     2015

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Ego Actus

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full length drama

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Hiroshi-Me, Me, Me

Synopsis:
Devastated at the end of a "relationship" with ever elusive Hiroshi, Roberta takes delusion to a whole new level, much to the dismay of her just jilted at the altar friend Sarah. Roberta - the original wrecking ball!

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Genre:
one act comedy

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I-pod

Synopsis:
An artist posing as an environmentalist sruggles to survive two months on an Eco-Barge in order to compete for a Guggenheim grant and come to terms with her father's legacy.

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1st Produced:
Network One-Act Festival    

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one act comedy

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Montana

Synopsis:
An egomaniac actor and seemingly reverential entertainment reporter passively battle it out on the red carpet.

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Genre:
10 min comedy

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Roberta!

Synopsis:
At the corner of hope and delusion, meet Roberta. Join her on her journey from reality to unreality to projected reality and back again. There's no end to Roberta's fantasies and rants. Scary that there's a little bit of Roberta in all of us!

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United Solo Theatre Festival

1st Produced:
Theatre Row, The Studio Theatre, NYC     Nov 2014

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Genre:
one act 25 min

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Steps

Synopsis:
Two men dissect monogamy while waiting outside a strip club.

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Genre:
10 min comedy

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Zen A.M.

Synopsis:
In the wake of 9/11, Bruno abandons his lucrative Wall Street career to pursue his lifelong dream of becoming a painter. After years of struggling, he finally books a once in a lifetime project, only to develop major misgivings about participating and completing his painting. As his vacillations increase, hysteria and hilarity ensue. Can a marriage-minded girlfriend, greedy guru, financial folly, and one bitchy boss change Bruno's mind?

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1st Produced:
Planet Connections Theatre Festivity     2014

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Genre:
full length comedy

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