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Brian Mori

BRIAN MORI

  
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    Robert A Freedman Dramatic Agency  

Brian Mori was born in Pennsylvania, raised in Southern California and now resides in New York City. His plays include ADULT FICTION (Davie Prize; published by Smith & Kraus in an anthology entitled NEW PLAYWRIGHTS: the BEST PLAYS OF 2000), DREAMS OF FLIGHT (published by Dramatists Play Service), BEDTIME STORIES (to be published by Smith & Kraus in an anthology entitled the BEST TEN-MINUTE PLAYS OF 2005. 2 ACTORS), COFFEE TALK, COUPLES, FIRST DATE, MEMORIES, PLAYERS, the RABBIT LADY OF GODALMING, and SLOW FADE TO BLACK. His plays have been produced at a number of Theatres across the US, including the American Renaissance Theatre, American Renegade Theatre, Attic Theatre, Bitter Truth Theatre, Notre Dame de Namur University, Ensemble Theatre, GeVa Theatre, Impossible Ragtime Theatre, Nat Horne Theatre, Neighborhood Playhouse, New Jersey Repertory Company, New Vic Theatre, Parenthesis Theatre Club, Red Room Theatre, Simba Theatre, Theatre Studio, Inc., Theatre 22, University of Kentucky, University of Illinois, Van Dam Theatre, and the Victory Gardens Theatre. He has had 11 screenplay options and is a member of the Dramatists Guild and PEN.

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

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         Adult Fiction         Bedtime Stories         Coffee Talk         Concessions         Couples         Dreams Of Flight         First Date         Hellman v. McCarthy         Man of Letters         Memories         Nixon In Seclusion         Players         Rabbit Lady of Godalming, The         Slow Fade to Black         Tattooed Hearts         Toast of the Town         What Happened to the Bears?

Adult Fiction

Synopsis:
Set in a Times Square pornographic bookstore and movie arcade on a hot summer day and night in 1979, the story is about the relationship between Earl, the fifty-five-year-old manager of the shop who feels a weary disappointment with how his life has evolved, and his young friend, Mikie, a lonely, inexperienced nineteen-year-old. Despite his seamy surroundings, Earl has a strong sense of basic morality and he wants to help Mikie to a better life than his own. Herein lies much of the irony and comedy of ADULT FICTION

Notes:
Also produced At Lumia theatre by the New Jersey Repertory Company; optioned five times for off-Broadway; And the winner of the Davie Prize for Playwrighting

1st Produced:
Geva Theatre, Rochester, New York    

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New Playwrights: the Best Plays of 2000 (Smith & Kraus), 2002   -

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Genre:
Comedy/Drama - Two Act Play Play/Drama

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Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  2 patrons

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Bedtime Stories

Synopsis:
Village View: "BEDTIME STORIES. . . is a delightful comedy centered around the mattress relationship of a perpetually tired husband and his wife, who makes extra cash as a phone sex operator. . . [the play] is an insightful as well as humorous look at today's changing relationships."

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Also produced At the Nat Horne theatre, Attic theatre, Red Room theatre, And Parenthesis theatre Club. To be published by Smith & Kraus in An Anthology entitled: the BEST TEN-MINUTE PLAYS OF 2005. 2 ACTORS

1st Produced:
American Renegade Theatre, North Hollywood, California    

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Genre:
Comedy/Drama One Act

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Coffee Talk

Synopsis:
Two women meet for coffee to discuss life and sex

Notes:
Produced At New Jersey Repertory Company's Annual theatre Brut Festival of Short Plays. This season's theme was the Seven Deadly Sins

1st Produced:
Lumia Theatre, Long Branch, New Jersey     2006

Organisations:
New Jersey Repertory Company

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Genre:
Comedy One Act

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Concessions

Synopsis:
Three thirty something couples watch the election results on November 7 2000

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Comedy

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Couples

Synopsis:
Two pregnant women have reached the point in their marriages where they initial passion must be replaced by another basis for love

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1st Produced:
New Vic Theatre, New York    

Organisations:
Shelter West Theatre Company

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Genre:
Drama One Act

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Dreams Of Flight

Synopsis:
Sitting alone in his squalid tenement room, Buster, blind and lonely, waits anxiously for his only friend, Butch, a boastful, jive-talking product of the streets, who stops by each week to share a bottle of cheap wine. Steven Hart, in the Villager, writes: "the two are reminiscent of Didi and Gogo in GODOT except that they use their minute and waning capabilities to destroy themselves rather than being caught in a cycle of aimless repetition." This dark urban comedy leads to even darker tragedy, when Butch, bent on revenge, sets his sights on robbing a liquor store, with blind Buster serving as the lookout. the results of this often times funny and moving rollercoaster ride sends the audience reeling into a sadness beyond belief.

Notes:
Also produced At the Victory Gardens theatre, New Vic theatre, Ensemble theatre, Simba theatre, And Notre Dame de Namur University

1st Produced:
Impossible Ragtime Theatre, NY    

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Dramatists Play Service, NY,    -

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Genre:
Tragicomedy One Act

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Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

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First Date

Synopsis:
A Father "entertains" a young man who has arrived to pick up his daughter for their first date

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1st Produced:
Nat Horne Theatre, New York    

Organisations:
Shelter West Theatre Company

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Genre:
Comedy/Drama One Act

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Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Hellman v. McCarthy

Synopsis:
Mary McCarthy claimed that everything Lillian Hellman wrote was a lie - including "and" and "the". Hellman sued the trial took four years

Notes:
received HRC Showcase theatre's 2013-2014 Keith Hedrick Playwriting Award

1st Produced:
[Staged Reading] Abingdon Theatre, 312 West 36th St, #6     15 Jul 2013

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Genre:
Drama

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Man of Letters

Synopsis:
A best selling womanising historian is accused of plagiarism

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Drama

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Memories

Synopsis:
Two elderly men meet on a park bench

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1st Produced:
Theatre 22, New York    

Organisations:
Shelter West Theatre Company

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Genre:
Comedy/Drama One Act

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Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Nixon In Seclusion

Synopsis:
Nixon in the White House on the eve of his resignation

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Genre:
Monolgue play

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Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Players

Synopsis:
A young man teaches his younger brother about the game of three-card-monte

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1st Produced:
American Renegade Theatre, North Hollywood, California    

Organisations:
Shelter West Theatre Company

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Genre:
Comedy/Drama One Act

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Rabbit Lady of Godalming, The

Synopsis:
a remarkable true story about a poor, illiterate woman, named Mary Toft, who, in 1726, convinced half of England, including the most prominent doctors of the day, that she had given birth to rabbits.

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1st Produced:
Reading At Lumia Theatre, Long Branch, New Jersey     2006

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Genre:
Comedy/Drama Comedy

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Male:  6            Female:  2            Other:  Actors play multiple parts

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Slow Fade to Black

Synopsis:
a meditation on compromise, about the portrayal of black actors in the early days of the motion picture industry, arguably "Hollywood's" darkest stain. the two scene structure centers on a morning's rehearsal of a forgettable scene of a forgettable movie, circa 1936.

Notes:
Also produced At the Neighborhood Playhouse, Studio theatre, And the University of Illinois

1st Produced:
Bitter Truth Theatre, North Hollywood, California    

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Genre:
Comedy/Drama One Act

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Male:  4            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Tattooed Hearts

Synopsis:
Gigolo Johnny sees ageing actress Serena as a meal ticket. Chris, Serena's fourteen year old daughter has a crush on Johnny

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Drama

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Toast of the Town

Synopsis:
A comedian sells his soul to the Devil (an agent) for an appearance on the "Ed Sullivan Show" and twenty years of success

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Genre:
Drama

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What Happened to the Bears?

Synopsis:
A young couple on a picnic try to rekindle their lost passion

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Genre:
Short play

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