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Robert Moulthrop

ROBERT MOULTHROP

  
Nationality:    USA
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Robert Moulthrop was born in the small town of Fall River Mills in northern California, and was raised in San Francisco. He came east to attend Brandeis University (BA, Music) and The Catholic University of America (MA, Theatre), where he wrote his thesis on Harold Pinter ("The Poetic Effect of Theatricality"). Pinter is a strong influence on Moulthrop's plays, especially the dramas and the one-acts. Following graduate school and a stint in the Peace Corps in Nigeria, he discovered that New York City was his emotional, spiritual, and physical home. After raising a family in the suburbs, he moved to NYC and has been there ever since. His "day jobs" have all been focused on communications and marketing. An award-winning playwright and author, in 2005 he was awarded the New York International Fringe Festival Outstanding Playwriting award for Half Life, a New York Times Top 10 Pick of FringeNYC dubbed "the best written and acted play at the Fringe" by New York Magazine. His play T.L.C. garnered the 2006 FringeNYC Outstanding Performance award for its tour de force 80-minute solo turn by its actress, and in the 2008 Fringe, nytheatre.com called his one-man play Lecture, With Cello, "a tantalizing puzzle of a play. . . a remarkable feast for the intellect." His other plays include the Manhattan Children's Theatre commission Jack, The Prince of Ireland, the comedy Who Cares>, performed as part of New York's Urban Stages "First Look" series, a thriller (Planning & Design), two comedies (Ever-Sweet, The Other Daughter), over 10 one-acts, and two series of interconnected monologues: The Food Plays, and Somewhere Else. Also the author of some 40 short stories, he is the recipient of a grant for prose fiction from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. His short stories were awarded a 2011 e-Chapbook publication by WordRunner, and won first prize in the 2010 Literal Latte Fiction Contest. Other short stories have recently appeared in such journals as Berkeley Fiction Review, Confrontation, Eclipse, The MacGuffin, Portland Review, Sou'Wester, and Willard & Maple. Recent performance readings include the Phoenix Fringe Festival and Claire Porter's Word/Play at New York City's Medicine Show.

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         Ever-Sweet         Food Plays, The         Half Life         Jack, The Prince Of Ireland         Just Deceits         Lecture, With Cello         Other Daughter, The         Planning And Design         Somewhere Else         TLC         Who Cares?
Ever-Sweet

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Food Plays, The

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monologue

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Half Life

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Douglas returns home after spending two years in prison for molesting one of his female students. His wife puts on a brave face. His daughter refuses to see him and he is made a pariah by neighbours

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Jack, The Prince Of Ireland

Jack, The Prince Of Ireland
Is it true what they say about "the Luck of the Irish?" Do leprechauns, rainbows with pots of gold and magical shamrocks really exist? Join Jack, the youngest son of the King of Ireland, on his quest to find out! Jack was never thought to be brave or heroic, certainly not like his two older brothers who were very much favored by their father. But Jack finds his own strengths as he opens his eyes and ears to those around him. When a Wise Old Man offers him a golden shamrock, he quickly learns that its magical powers bring him whatever he NEEDS. It is only when this shamrock is suddenly lost, that he truly discovers what it is to be a hero! Audience members are critical to Jack's journey - he needs them! Who else could throw the bag guys in the dungeon or be on the lookout for a ferocious dragon, or tame a swarm of angry buzzing bees?

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Manhattan Children's Theatre     01 Feb 2008

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Full Length Play, Comedy

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Just Deceits

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Thomas Jefferson's cousin Richard Randolph, 22 and his sister-in-law 18 year old Nancy are put on trial accused of adultery and infanticide

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Written by Michael Schein And Robert Moulthrop

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Lecture, With Cello

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the professor is late. And where is his cello? Words, music, discussion. Discord. Biography, history. Humor, harmony. Discord. Mystery. Who is the man lurking in the back of the lecture hall? And why is he there? www.robertmoulthrop.com 1h 0m, Manhattan, NYC Drama, Solo Show
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1h 0m, Drama, Solo Show

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Other Daughter, The

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Meg has a famous sister - Sissy. Sissy has been accused of plagiarism. the family must rally round her in her time of need

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Planning And Design

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Who is plotting to kill whom?

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Thriller

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Somewhere Else

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monologue

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TLC

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Evelyn is terrified for her son. She grew him strong. Kept him safe. Let him go. Now their lives are spiraling out of control in this searing new psychological thriller. One phone call. And then. . .

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Drama, 80 min

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Who Cares?

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Three forty somethings try to sort out things left undone or unsaid from their time at college

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Comedy

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