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S P Miskowski

S P MISKOWSKI  

 Nationality:    USA
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Short story and stage play author S.P. Miskowski earned a Master of Fine Arts in playwriting at the University of Washington and has received two NEA Fellowships (for short fiction and playwriting). She's been commissioned by ACT Theatre three times as part of FirstACT and her scripts have been produced by UW, Seattle Theater Project, Youth Theater Northwest and 14/48 the World's Quickest Theater Festival. She's had workshops and staged readings of her plays at GEVA and Cherry Lane Alternative in New York. Her latest full-length play "my new friends (are so much better than you)" received a 2008 Footlight Award from the Seattle Times and was nominated for a 2009 Steinberg/ATCA Award, the nation's largest new play award.

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below is a list of S P Miskowski's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

 Aftershock         Baby Whisperer, The         Boom City         Cockapoo         Daughters of Catastrophe         Emerald City         Feasting         For Carol and Those All         Form v Content         Holiday Show, The         Kayak Man Returns         La Valse         Mi Cubicle Su Cubicle         my new friends (are so much better than you)         Nothing Between Us         Number 9         Pandora's Box         Red Room, The         Second Nature         Walking the Walls         Watusi         Wojcik

Aftershock

Synopsis:
The play's scenes may be performed in any order. A series of poetic repetitions: Bedtime stories, betrayal, murder, incest and a tango. A husband and wife recall their travels and early marriage, shaping the history of two neglected and abused daughters to fit their vanity.

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Genre:
60 min One Act

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Baby Whisperer, The

Synopsis:
Overprotective new parents call in a psychic to find out what their infant really thinks.

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Organisations:
14/48 the world's quickest theater festival

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Genre:
Ten Min

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Boom City

Synopsis:
An ambitious young reporter lands a job at a small Seattle newspaper, Boom City, during the 1990s economic upswing. His brutal honesty and unabashed materialism are refreshing, and he becomes popular. Along the way he displaces a columnist obsessively devoted to DIY idealism. So the columnist devises a hideous form of revenge, in the name of justice, goodwill and Seattle nice.

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Cockapoo

Synopsis:
A woman enrolls in a pest control training program.

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Genre:
monologue 15 min

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Daughters of Catastrophe

Synopsis:
Electra, Phaedra and Medea as tabloid American stories, circa 2005. A darkly satirical triptych set among the trendy rich of Manhattan, Seattle, and Hollywood. The plays unsparingly explore our sacred myths about money, marriage and motherhood.

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1st Produced:
Theatre Off Jackson, Seattle, WA    2007

Organisations:
Mae West Fest

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Genre:
Comedy/drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  4            Other:  doubling

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Emerald City

Synopsis:
Four women have a love/hate relationship with the city of Seattle. Each is looking for something, in this urban tale lightly inspired by the Wizard of Oz: Dot owns a home she inherited from her aunt and uncle, but she questions its value in a rapidly changing landscape and market; Scarlett is writing a dissertation on Duwamish folk tales when she makes a startling discovery about the house her friend Tina is renting from Dot; Tina yearns for the love of a man she's been stalking for years; all of her jobs are excuses to remain in her adopted city, so she can be near a man who doesn't want her; Lillian is trying to overcome her crippling fear of being alone while her lover Scarlett is away.

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Genre:
Comedy/drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Feasting

Synopsis:
Don't try this without a university theater department at your disposal. You need at least 12 performers, an inventive scenic designer, costume designer and a choreographer. The script calls for several Rat Dances. The climactic moment requires a gigantic rat, or some combination of rat sounds and effects to suggest a gigantic rat. Someone told me this play was about nature being better than industrialization. I hope not. For me, the terrifying moments of this colorful, grimy fairy tale are those in which nature reigns, merciless and mindlessly self-serving. A couple of artists were generous enough to choose me for a playwriting fellowship from the NEA, thanks to Feasting. It's a strange and as yet untapped play, as mysterious to me as it is to friends who have read it.

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1st Produced:
Trotsky's Garage    1995

Organisations:
AHA! Theatre

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  7            Female:  5            Other:  -

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For Carol and Those All

Synopsis:
A late night heart-to-heart between mother (50) and youngest daughter (12) reveals some embarrassing family secrets in a dry comedy set in Decatur, Georgia in 1970.

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Genre:
20 min One Act

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Form v Content

Synopsis:
Four adult sisters debate the semantics of grief at their father's memorial service. Physical comedy, with an extensive fight scene.

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1st Produced:
Live Girls!, Seattle, WA    2009

Organisations:
Live Girls! Quickies 10

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Music:
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Genre:
One Act

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Holiday Show, The

Synopsis:
A playwright/director, an actress, a stage manager and a theater subscriber meet in the dilapidated rehearsal room of a failing theater company. Their mission is to create a list of local performing artists for a desperately needed fundraising festival. Unfortunately, they can't agree on who is a worthy artist and who is a pretentious idiot.

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1st Produced:
MWF, Seattle, WA    -

Organisations:
Mae West Festival

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
60 min One Act

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Kayak Man Returns

Synopsis:
A woman who has turned mourning for her adventurous husband into an art suddenly discovers that her marriage was not as idyllic as she remembers.

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Organisations:
14/48 the world's quickest theater festival

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Genre:
Ten Min

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Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  -

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La Valse

Synopsis:
A famous Catholic poet envies his bohemian sister's freedom and considers her habits a sign of instability. Ultimately he has her committed to an asylum, where she spends the last years of her life. Now facing his own mortality and trapped in an imaginary purgatory, the elderly poet reviews and relives the past to satisfy an unseen counsel. But however he tries, he is unable to admit his betrayal. The poet's story is a world swept together out of memory, gossip, wishful thinking, and cross-referenced scenes from his stage work and his sister's passionate life. The play's structure imitates the shape of Camille Claudel's sculpture La Valse.

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1st Produced:
Open Circle, Seattle, WA    1999

Organisations:
Seattle Theater Project

1st Published:
Rain City Projects (1999)   -

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Mi Cubicle Su Cubicle

Synopsis:
Two female office workers share a cubicle of spite and hatred in this comedy of petty revenge.

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Organisations:
14/48 the world's quickest theater festival

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Genre:
Ten Min

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Male:  -            Female:  2            Other:  -

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my new friends (are so much better than you)

Synopsis:
This solo piece, performed by Morgan Rowe in 2008 and 2009, was inspired by several true stories of social networking and cyber-bullying, combined with observations of online relationships. The script is a series of monologues, sometimes funny and sometimes harrowing, alternating between two characters: Nancy is an outgoing, witty, worldly person who is popular but who reserves the right to define herself on her own terms. Gwen is a woman who has not quite found herself in her career or in motherhood. Between these former friends stands the memory of a teenage girl whose attempt at making friends online ended in tragedy. But that is not the end of the story. . .

Notes:
he piece may be performed by two Actresses, but the play's questions About identity Are enhanced by having one Actress play both women, Alternating without change of makeup or costume, in very simple transitions.

1st Produced:
Shoebox Performance Space, Seattle, WA    2008

Organisations:
New City Theater w/ Open Heart Productions

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  2            Other:  may be played by one actress

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Nothing Between Us

Synopsis:
Two adopted brothers compare notes during a jailhouse visit, and find they have even less in common than they thought.

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Organisations:
14/48 the world's quickest theater festival

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Genre:
Ten min

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Number 9

Synopsis:
A Seattle bus driver, stuck in traffic on a bridge, tries to keep his oversensitive passengers from panicking.

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Organisations:
14/48 the world's quickest theater festival

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Genre:
Ten Min

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Pandora's Box

Synopsis:
An adaptation that owes as much to Raymond Chandler as Greek mythology, this comic detective story was originally commissioned by Youth Theatre Northwest and performed by eight teenage girls in multiple roles.

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1st Produced:
YTN, Mercer Island, WA    -

Organisations:
Youth Theater Northwest

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Genre:
Youth

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  8            Other:  multiple roles

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Red Room, The

Synopsis:
With the fearful complicity of her young daughters, Ruth Parker robbed and killed more than a dozen men in the 1940s and '50s, most of them traveling salesmen who had the misfortune to visit her Georgia farmhouse by chance. It is 1960, and Ruth is dying. Oldest daughter Alma returns home after several mysterious liaisons. Martha has remained at home to care for the youngest sister, Louise. Martha expected to take over the orchard and the beekeeping managed by their mother--and financed by her numerous victims--but now Alma challenges Martha's authority. The three sisters alternate roles and play games with one another, in an escalating struggle to see who will be queen of the hive after Ruth dies. The Red Room is a violent psychological thriller, poetic and brutal, with several movement pieces and tableaux integral to the story.

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1st Produced:
Richard Hugo House, Seattle, WA    2001

Organisations:
Arriba!

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Second Nature

Synopsis:
An adorable young girl gets the attention of two strangers in a hotel lobby, and recounts a tale of terrifying misadventure.

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Organisations:
14/48 the world's quickest theater festival

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Music:
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Genre:
Ten min

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  1 female child

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Walking the Walls

Synopsis:
The Stranger critic called the play a Southwestern Odyssey. Two loners decide to travel together for a while: Leona is looking for a perfect spot to scatter the ashes of the father she betrayed years ago in a case of fake repressed memory. Ex-con Lloyd is staying one step ahead of the law, indulging in his passion for the poetry of Rod McKuen, "the only poet who ever made real money," and strangling people who irritate him. From Montezuma Castle to Arcosanti, Lloyd and Leona make their way along the backside of the American Dream.

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1st Produced:
Northwest Actors Studio, Seattle, WA    2000

Organisations:
Gotta Go! and Northwest Actors Studio

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  4            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Watusi

Synopsis:
Thirteen-year-old Marty offers a slideshow-style look at her home in 1965 Decatur, Georgia with running commentary and Southern cocktails.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Richard Hugo House, Seattle, WA    2000

Organisations:
Hyperion

1st Published:
Rain City Projects (2000)   -

Music:
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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Wojcik

Synopsis:
A man has only one thing left to lose, and loses it. Georg Buchner's creature is adrift in a soggy Pacific Northwest city, following a series of financial and ecological catastrophes. He hunts stray dogs with his friends, at night, and sells his plasma to a clinic. His girlfriend is drifting away, following her hunger for more than a roof and a couple of meals a day. As desperate as things may be at the moment, the future looks worse, and in this state of mind he lashes out.

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1st Produced:
UW, Seattle, WA    1992

Organisations:
University of Washington

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  4            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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