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HENRY MEYERSON
Nationality: USA
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PUBLICATIONS: BEWARE the MAN EATING CHICKEN (full-length), SHTICK (full-length), FRESH BREWED: TALES FROM the COFFEE BAR (collection of short plays), and PROCEED TO CHECK-OUT (collection of short plays) and the SECRET LIFE OF SEAGULLS (full-length) have been published by Samuel French, Inc. TECH SUPPORT (one-act) was published by Smith & Kraus who will also re-print portions of the SECRET LIFE OF SEAGULLS in 2010 and ME AND SHIRLEY in 2011. I have had a dozen short stories published, some of which have been finalists in national writing contests. FILM OPTION: the ACTIVIST, optioned by Northern Star Picture, July, 2013 for feature film. MOST RECENT FULL-LENGTH PRODUCTIONS: BEWARE the MAN EATING CHICKEN, Little Theatre, Bangalore, India, June, 2013; the ACTIVIST, Your Theatre, Inc., New Bedford, MA Oct., 2012 (world premiere); SHTICK, Ungelt Theatre, Prague, premiered December, 2010 with continuous touring in the Czech Republic throughout 2011 and 2013. BEWARE the MAN EATING CHICKEN, Ignite Theatre, Spokane, WA, March 2-10, 2012. MOST RECENT READING: JUMP JIM CROW, Manhattan Theatre Club, June 23, 2013; JUMP JIM CROW, La Mama Theater, NY, Feb. 5, 2012. PREVIOUS FULL LENGTH PRODUCTIONS include: BEWARE the MAN EATING CHICKEN, Evolution Theatre Company, Columbus, OH; the North Coast Repertory Theatre, 2009 paired with Edward Albee's the GOAT; and the New York International Fringe Festival, 2004; FRESH BREWED: TALES FROM the COFFEE BAR, as a cabaret, Don't Tell Mama, NYC, 2008 and again 2009; JUMP JIM CROW, Midtown International Festival, NYC, 2008, the LAST FALCON, Victory Hall, Jersey City, 2006; JAVA JIVE, staged at the Avery Point Playhouse, Groton, CT., in 2000 and then again in 2002 and the Producer's Club, 2000, both in New York. AFFILIATIONS: I am a member of the Dramatists Guild, the African-American Playwrights Exchange, and Times Square Playwrights. I have taught creative writing at New Jersey City University. EDUCATION: Ph.D in Psychology from the University of Houston and a Masters of Fine Art in Playwrighting from Brooklyn College. WEB SITE: For synopses of all my full-length plays and screenplays, visit my website at: www.henrymeyerson.com
Research: Member of the Dramatists Guild of America (as at 2015)
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Activist Book, The And Now, Direct From the Condo Across the Street Betty Beware the Man Eating Chicken Class Comrades Dog Years Fine Print, The Fresh Brewed: Tales From the Coffee Bar George And Martha Happy Birthday Hierarchy Him Hopeful Alice I Feel Swell Java Jive Jump Jim Crow Last Falcon , The Lowenstein Lucky Man Me and Shirley Mordecai's Miracle Morning Coffee No Prune No Way Out Pop Goes the Weasel Proceed To Checkout Pumps Rehearsal Secret Life of Seagulls, The Shtick Silence Sticky Struggle, The Suitcase, The Tech Support This Has Been Some DayActivist Book, The
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2015 Playwright Fellowship Grant. State of New Jersey Council of the Arts
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Top of PageAnd Now, Direct From the Condo Across the Street
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JOEY GREEN (formerly Greenberg) has been a stand-up comic for nearly fifty years. Now, at 72, he is working the condo circuit in Florida struggling with an audience that either cannot hear him or is falling asleep. To make matters worse, his ex-wife, ARLENE, now deceased five years, has returned to help him cope with the news that he is dying of lung cancer. Joey's life was a series of small clubs and small rewards. Yet, while he always felt he traveled to better support his wife and kids, they were always angry that he was never around. So now, life's end in sight, in an effort to make it right with his kids and with Arlene ever at his side, Joey returns to New York to visit his son, HOWARD, and daughter, BRENDA. But, as with most of their lives together, any interaction within the Greenberg family is confounded by Joey's insistence on going his own way and is fraught with sarcasm and jokes, the mother tongue of the family Greenberg. Although ultimately, if only in his own mind, Joey does redeem himself, he remains, in the words of his son Howard, a pain in the ass then, now and forever.
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Top of PageBetty
A caffeine junky, needing a fix, tells a strange tale.
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part of Fresh Brewed: Tales From the Coffee Bar
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Don'T Tell Mama, NYC
2008
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in Fresh Brewed, Samuel French, Inc - New York >>>, 2008 978-0573660399
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Top of PageBeware the Man Eating Chicken
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Betty, wanting to be a good mother to her son William, devises a plan to Make Him Bigger and Make Him a Winner. She enters William in the 'Fattest Man in the Universe' contest, and she is determined to win. Carole, Betty's younger sister, too weak to stand up to Betty's threats and intimidation, is forced to assist in the endless round of cooking the dozens of chickens needed each day for William's inexorable assault on hugeness. When Captain Leonard of the Board of Health comes to check on the 'large carnivore' that is devouring twenty chickens a day he is initially an annoying bureaucrat, but ultimately a timely dessert. Albert, claiming to own one of the largest chicken farms in the U.S. arrives to negotiate a deal. For using William's picture on the logo of his product Albert will pay Betty a percentage of the profits on each bird sold and ancillary rights on tie-ins. the deal is struck. When Dorothy, Albert's sister, appears claiming she is the true owner of the chicken farm, a struggle between the siblings ensues for control of William and the potential fortune at stake. But it is Doctor Martin who brings the tragic coup de grace to Betty and her plan for achieving her goals of motherhood.
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Dark Farce
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Top of PageClass
Having class depends on how far a person has to go to get it.
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Don'T Tell Mama, NYC
2008
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in Fresh Brewed, Samuel French, Inc - New York >>>, 2008 978-0573660399
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Top of PageComrades
What are comrades for if not to try to cheer each other up in a time of distress? Dostoevsky would appreciate the irony.
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Top of PageDog Years
If dogs years are seven to one of Man. . .arf.
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Top of PageFine Print, The
Everything is on loan and you have to pay up when you go.
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Top of PageFresh Brewed: Tales From the Coffee Bar
Fresh Brewed is a collection of eight plays, all of which take place in a coffee bar, all of which use the same set of two small tables and four chairs, and all of which can be performed by two male and two female actors in various combinations from a monologue to two quartets.
No Prune - 1m, 1f Can two needy people find happiness over a cherry Danish?
Morning Coffee - 2m, 1f A man needs to be left alone to read his newspaper and drink his morning coffee.
Hierarchy - 2m What is the relative hierarchy between friends when one guy is dating the other's wife?
Him - 2f Two women rehearse their break-up, but only one knows it.
Betty - 1f A caffeine junky, needing a fix, tells a strange tale.
This Has Been Some Day - 2m, 2f A coffee house may not be the perfect place to hold a wake.
Class - 1m, 1f Having class depends on how far a person has to go to get it.
Hopeful Alice - 1m, 1f Maybe it's the caffeine, but not all relationships are meant to last.
George And Martha - 1m, 1f Grass maybe cooler than caffeine, but kinky sex is the best.
Happy Birthday - 2m Once a week coffee can even strain a twenty-year friendship.
I Feel Swell - 2m, 2f Learn what might have fueled Ethel Merman's boundless energy.
No Prune - 1m, 1f Can two needy people find happiness over a cherry Danish?
Morning Coffee - 2m, 1f A man needs to be left alone to read his newspaper and drink his morning coffee.
Hierarchy - 2m What is the relative hierarchy between friends when one guy is dating the other's wife?
Him - 2f Two women rehearse their break-up, but only one knows it.
Betty - 1f A caffeine junky, needing a fix, tells a strange tale.
This Has Been Some Day - 2m, 2f A coffee house may not be the perfect place to hold a wake.
Class - 1m, 1f Having class depends on how far a person has to go to get it.
Hopeful Alice - 1m, 1f Maybe it's the caffeine, but not all relationships are meant to last.
George And Martha - 1m, 1f Grass maybe cooler than caffeine, but kinky sex is the best.
Happy Birthday - 2m Once a week coffee can even strain a twenty-year friendship.
I Feel Swell - 2m, 2f Learn what might have fueled Ethel Merman's boundless energy.
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Don'T Tell Mama, NYC
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Top of PageGeorge And Martha
Grass maybe cooler than caffeine, but kinky sex is the best.
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part of Fresh Brewed: Tales From the Coffee Bar
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Don'T Tell Mama, NYC
2008
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Top of PageHappy Birthday
Once a week coffee can even strain a twenty-year friendship.
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Don'T Tell Mama, NYC
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Top of PageHierarchy
What is the relative hierarchy between friends when one guy is dating the other's wife?
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Don'T Tell Mama, NYC
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Top of PageHim
Two women rehearse their break-up, but only one knows it.
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Don'T Tell Mama, NYC
2008
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Top of PageHopeful Alice
Maybe it's the caffeine, but not all relationships are meant to last.
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Don'T Tell Mama, NYC
2008
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Top of PageI Feel Swell
Learn what might have fueled Ethel Merman's boundless energy.
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Producers Club
2007
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Two Spoons Theatre Company
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in Fresh Brewed, Samuel French, Inc - New York >>>, 2008 978-0573660399
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Top of PageJava Jive
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Java Jive, an evening of six integrated one-act plays set in a coffee cafe, asks the question: is coffee the answer? Interchanging partners through the evening (occasionally teaming up as a quartet), two male and two female actors explore sex, fear, friendship, Siamese twins, caffeine, and a prune Danish. One play, in which the prune Danish plays a critical role, deals with two frightened people testing each other's tolerance before committing to a relationship. Another play shows the obsessive length to which a loser in love will go to confirm his loss. In a third play, it take a father's death for two of his children to discover they had been Siamese twins born attached at the head, and for the third child to discover he had been found in a Burmese rice paddy. Another play explores the dark side of male bonding and the joys of blackmail. Still another play demonstrates that a marriage built on a strong foundation of S&M can work anywhere, even over a cup of coffee. And finally, we discover what made Ethel Merman sing, "I feel swell, I feel great
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Top of PageJump Jim Crow
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Placed in New York in 1830, JUMP JIM CROW depicts TOM RICE and his black, life-long friend and collaborator, JACK WASHINGTON. Tom, in black-face performs what Jack writes and Jack is perfectly content in his role until he reads that the Jump Jim Crow dance has led to the hanging of a black boy in Georgia. Realizing the potential tragic repercussions of his work, Jack attempts to convince Tom of the harm they both might be doing, but Tom rejects the connection between his work and the hanging. the conflict between the two is heightened by the arrival of STROM THURMOND, deceased Senator from South Carolina who has traveled back in time to support and facilitate Tom's work. Unable to convince Tom, Jack leaves Tom with his new collaborator, Strom Thurmond. Ten years have passed when Jack comes to London to try again to get Tom to stop the damage he is doing to the lives of blacks in America, but Tom will have none of it. When Thurmond convinces Jack there is no way of changing history, that Tom's work has cast the die of distorted characterization that will forever plague blacks in America, Jack takes the logical next, but futile step to stop the immutability of history. the fictionalized relationship between the three men is augmented by integrating examples of Jump Jim Crow verse and dance as well as segments from "Virginia Mummy," a play written and staring Tom Rice in black face.
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Where Eagles Dare Theatre, NY
2008
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Top of PageLast Falcon , The
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the Last Falcon is placed in "Casablanca," but the story is from "the Maltese Falcon." As might be expected from such a fusion, characters from both films overlap, are joined by characters unique to each, and all struggle to fight off a rebellious audience. And so we find Rick, Renault, Ugarti and Ferrari all scrambling to find a black falcon that is little more than a shaggy dog. Although Rick, Jr. comes to Casablanca to uncover his past and discover his father, little did he know he was being set up by Ferrari, Ugarte and Renault to help them find the last falcon. Little did they know they all may have been Jr's. father. And little did the audience know when they bought their ticket they might be boarding the Titanic. All of this is immersed in mayhem reminiscent of the Marx Bros., Olsen and Johnson and This Is Your Life
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New Jersey Dramatists, Jersey City, Nj
2006
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Top of PageLowenstein
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Allard Lowenstein was in the inner council of Martin Luther King's civil rights movement in the '60's. He was instrumental in the voter registration drive in Jackson, Mississippi in 1963. He single handedly initiated and led the 'Dump Johnson' movement in 1967, recruiting Sen. Eugene McCarthy to run for President, ultimately forcing President Johnson into retirement. After winning a seat in the House of Representatives, Lowenstein was one of the first and strongest voices leading the movement to end the Viet Nam War. His credo was that one man could make a difference. His life proved that he was often that man. His story, and the story of the Nation at the time, is told through Al, his wife, Jennie, and Dennis Sweeny, his protege and eventual assassin. Joe and Betty provide a chorus of voices reflecting the conflicts and tensions of the times. At the age of 51, as he was seemingly about to take an active part in the gay rights movement, Lowenstein was killed by his mentally ill protege.
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Top of PageLucky Man
Mr. Smith might have been cured had he survived the autopsy.
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Top of PageMe and Shirley
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Top of PageMordecai's Miracle
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Mordecai, at sixty, is not a happy man. True, he has a loving wife and daughter, Rachel and Marcia, but Mordecai feels something in his life is missing. He seeks solace in tenderly caring for his houseplants, but as Rachel points out, they never sent even one card on his birthday. Now on the eve of retirement, Mordecai enters a funk, fueled in part by Rachel's refusing to leave her family behind and retire with him to Florida, a dream that has sustained him at his unfulfilling job. So Mordecai begins a twenty-year quest to find a solution to his feelings of despondency. And so it shouldn't be a total waste of time, he also looks for the meaning of life with Rabbi Gershon as his mentor. One night, the solution to Mordecai's dilEmma comes to him in a dream, a dream that Mordecai, now 82, sees as a Divine manifestation: like Abraham before him, Mordecai, in his old age, is to be a Father once again. Despite Rachel's initial reluctance, Mordecai perseveres and achieves his miraculous destiny.
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Top of PageMorning Coffee
A man needs to be left alone to read his newspaper and drink his morning coffee.
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Don'T Tell Mama, NYC
2008
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Top of PageNo Prune
Can two needy people find happiness over a cherry Danish?
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Producers Club
2007
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Two Spoons Theatre Company
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in Fresh Brewed, Samuel French, Inc - New York >>>, 2008 978-0573660399
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Top of PageNo Way Out
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No Way Out is a set of three comedic plays that explore our attempts to cope with the inevitability of death. A game of chess, a 'dooms day box', and a game of 'Pop Goes the Weasel', are used to depict our reliance on diversion, our quest to understand forces outside our control, and the randomness of our eventual end. Murray, a silent, but interested, party, who also happens to move the furniture, actively oversees all.
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Top of PagePop Goes the Weasel
Life may be a game, but be sure to hold on to your chair.
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Center Stage, New York
21 Oct 2001
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Harbor Theatre
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10 Death Affirming Plays, Sketches and Monologues. DOG YEARS (2, gender neutral) If dogs years are seven to one of Man. . .arf. COMRADES (2m) What are comrades for if not to try to cheer each other up in a time of distress? Dostoevsky would appreciate the irony. the SUITCASE (2m, 2f) Bereavement maybe painful, but be sure to have your credit card. the STRUGGLE (1m) the sound of the beeeeeeeeep means dinner is off. LUCKY MAN (2m, 1f) Mr. Smith might have been cured had he survived the autopsy. REHEARSAL (1m, 1f) A long rehearsal for a one shot performance. PUMPS (1, gender neutral) there are many kinds of pumps, but only one really matters. the FINE PRINT (2m, 1f) Everything is on loan and you have to pay up when you go. SILENCE (2m, 1f) Could there be something worse than surviving the Holocaust? POP GOES the WEASEL (4, gender neutral) Life may be a game, but be sure to hold on to your chair. "the best of Program A includes author Henry Meyerson's Silence, a touching essay about two Russians who survived the Holocaust and meet shortly after immigrating to New York following World War II." - South Florida Sun-Sentinel; "In Henry Meyerson's Silence, a deeply moving piece about elderly Holocaust survivors trying to make sense of the too-early death of their beloved only son. Fierce and heartbreaking." - Miami Herald; "Pop Goes the Weasel - -a sharp, very original piece uses musical chairs as a metaphor for the way we live now; it takes on a surprising added resonance in the aftermath of the World Trade Center attack&a smart and interesting work." - NYtheatre.com.
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Top of PagePumps
there are many kinds of pumps, but only one really matters.
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Top of PageRehearsal
A long rehearsal for a one shot performance.
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Anne and Don, married ten years, are on vacation in Florida. As the play begins, Anne is inanely chattering on about beaches, seagulls and garbage dumps. Don, fed up with Anne's incessant chatter, walks away leaving Anne, much to her surprise, sitting on the beach alone. Don has gone to visit his friend Jim, a man of little insight but great obsession about golf, to tell him that he has left Anne. Jim, in turn, has just returned from a golfing vacation to discover his wife, Sandy, has apparently left him. George, a seagull who lives a contented life with his wife, Ethel, on the Staten Island landfill, has just arrived on the Florida beach and meets Fred, a seagull without ties but with a dark past. the Secret Life Of Seagulls follows these four humans and Fred as they attempt to define themselves, their lives, relationships and values. George, the Staten Island seagull, however, is quite content being who he is.
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Helen's life became complicated after her husband Murray's stroke and her sister Gladys's revelation, wanting to set the record straight in case Murray should die, that she and Murray had been having an affair. Helen suspected Murray was no angel when she married him. After all, as a stand-up comic he was always on the road and she knew comics could be loose cannons. Helen knew she was trading the risk Murray would bring to any relationship, let alone marriage, for the excitement of the gamble. While Helen might have been willing to adjust to Murray and his new stroke induced limits, the stakes were raised and the game was changed by Gladys's admission of the affair. So now Helen is left on the horns of dilEmma: How can she be a nurturing caretaker for a man who has deceived her (with her own sister, yet) while knowing he is a snake with no visible conscience?
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aka Choices
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Prague: Theatre Ungelt
2010
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Top of PageSilence
tells the story of Holocaust survivors who must now cope with an even more tragic event in their lives
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City Theatre, Miami
2008
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written by Mike Domitrovich, David Marcus, Henry Meyerson, Christian Gaul, Brad Saville
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Galapagos Art Space, NY
2006
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Top of PageStruggle, The
the sound of the beeeeeeeeep means dinner is off.
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Top of PageSuitcase, The
Bereavement maybe painful, but be sure to have your credit card.
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in 2009: the Best 10-Minute Plays for Two or More Actors, Smith & Kraus (December 1, 2009) 978-1575257594
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A coffee house may not be the perfect place to hold a wake.
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part of Fresh Brewed: Tales From the Coffee Bar
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Don'T Tell Mama, NYC
2008
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