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Charles Messina

CHARLES MESSINA

  (1971 - )
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    Abrams Artists Agency  

Charles Messina's plays including theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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

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

         Accidental Pervert         Actor Found Dead         Chubby and Glen         Cirque Jackeline         Dewey, Phunkum and Howe         Fairies         Fifteen Minutes Of Shame         Fugazy         Great Divide, The         Honest Woman, An         Klepto         Lilac         Mercury: the Afterlife And Times Of A Rock God         Merging         Mooney For The Misbegotten         Neighborhood, The         Roman Candles         Room Of My Own, A         Sick Bastids         Sinkhole         Thompson Street         Twas The Night Before A Brooklyn Christmas         Wanderer - The Life And Music Of Dion         Wreck, The         Younger

Accidental Pervert

Synopsis:
An eleven year old boy finds his father's porno films and becomes addicted to pornography for years

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Genre:
Monolgue play

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Actor Found Dead

Synopsis:
Actor James Hayden became famous portraying a drug addict on Broadway in "American Buffalo". Unbeknownst to the management and cast he was a drug addict

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1st Produced:
John Houseman Theatre Studio Too, New York     31 Oct 1999

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Genre:
Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Chubby and Glen

Synopsis:
Two friends have an unconditional commitment to each other 0 one is straight, one is gay

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1st Produced:
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Genre:
Gay one act

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Cirque Jackeline

Synopsis:
the life of Jackeline Kennedy Onassis

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Genre:
Monologue play

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Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Dewey, Phunkum and Howe

Synopsis:
Three debt collectors long for a better life

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1st Produced:
-     2015

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Fairies

Synopsis:
Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy and Cupid all turn up on the same night in a young boy's bedroom

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1st Produced:
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Genre:
Childrens play

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Fifteen Minutes Of Shame

Synopsis:
A stolen moment between two people eases their loneliness

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Genre:
Short play

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Fugazy

Fugazy
the authenticity of an expensive watch calls into question the character of a deceased father
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
won the Audience Award for Best Play in 2009 At the Players theater in Greenwich Village

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1st Published:
Contained in "Three Plays by Charles Messina" Kindle Edition Amazon Digital Services 2011   -

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Genre:
one act

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Great Divide, The

Synopsis:
A married man is torn between his wife and his lover.

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1st Produced:
The Triad Theater, NYC     2005

Organisations:
the Triad Theater

1st Published:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Honest Woman, An

Synopsis:
An Honest Woman is a new play by Charles Messina, set in the early 1980's, about a wife and mother's struggles to keep her life and family together when her husband is incarcerated

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1st Produced:
(reading) Dramatists Guild
Frederick Loewe Room, 1501 Broadway, Suite 710, New York, NY 10036     26 Apr 2013

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Klepto

Klepto
Klepto tells the tale of a boy with an encyclopedic mind for baseball and his complex relationship with his overbearing, kleptomaniacal mother

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1st Produced:
Players Theatre, NYC     2008

Organisations:
Shortened Attention Span Baseball Festival

1st Published:
Contained in "Three Plays by Charles Messina" Kindle Edition Amazon Digital Services 2011   -

Music:
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Genre:
One Act

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  1 boy

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Lilac

Synopsis:
A young writer is introduced to an agent

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1st Produced:
-     2013

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Genre:
Short play

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Mercury: the Afterlife And Times Of A Rock God

Mercury: the Afterlife And Times Of A Rock God
Freddy Mercury, the lead singer of the pop group Queen died of an AIDS related illness in 1991. Here he is waiting to see if he can get into Heaven and whilst doing so looks back over his life.

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1st Produced:
New York     1997

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Genre:
Play/Drama. - - Gay/Lesbian, historical characters

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Merging

Merging
An estranged couple's child inexplicably goes missing

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MERGING jwon the Shortened Attention Span Festival in Greenwich Village, NY in 2007. the play featured "Sopranos" star Jason Cerbone, As well As up And comer Gina Ferranti in A real tour de force performance. Character Actor Ernest Mingione rounds out the stellar cast.

1st Produced:
Players Theatre, NYC     2007

Organisations:
Players Theatre

1st Published:
Contained in "Three Plays by Charles Messina" Kindle Edition Amazon Digital Services 2011   -

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Genre:
one act

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Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Mooney For The Misbegotten

Synopsis:
A couple move from New York to Vermont. One realises it was a mistake and wants to go back

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Genre:
Short play

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Neighborhood, The

Synopsis:
Events behind a riot in Washington Square in 1976

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1st Produced:
-     2015

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Roman Candles

Synopsis:
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1st Produced:
-     1995

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Room Of My Own, A

Synopsis:
An Italian-American family living in Greenwich Village in the 1970s

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1st Produced:
-     2009

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Genre:
Drama

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Sick Bastids

Synopsis:
brings its audience into the twisted and hystErical world of hypochondriacs and their unwillingness to get well
- nytheatre.com

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Genre:
one act

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Sinkhole

Synopsis:
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1st Produced:
-     2013

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Thompson Street

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Twas The Night Before A Brooklyn Christmas

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Written by Charles Messina and Vincent Gogliormella

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Genre:
Comedy

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Wanderer - The Life And Music Of Dion

Synopsis:
Dion pop star heart throb of the 1960s

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1st Produced:
-     2011

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Wreck, The

Synopsis:
A neurotic man tries to cope with his hypochondria and breaking up with his girl friend

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1st Produced:
-     2015

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Younger

Synopsis:
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1st Produced:
-     2006

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