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Janet L Neipris

JANET L NEIPRIS

  (1936 - )
Nationality:    USA
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Born in Boston, MA on March 11, 1936. B.A., Tufts University; M.A., Simmons College; M.F.A., Brandeis University (Playwriting). She is on the faculty of N.Y.U. and writes primarily for the stage in addition to television and radio. Televi-sion credits inc

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

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below is a list of Janet L Neipris's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         After Marseilles / Ikamva         Agreement, The         Almost In Las Vegas         Bridge at Belharbour, The         Desert, The         Exhibition         Flying Horses         Jeremy and the Thinking Machine         Separations         Small Delegation, A         Statues

After Marseilles / Ikamva

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Agreement, The

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"This is a funny and wise play. Neipris has a wonderful ear for the way people talk when they are trying to say the right thing in an unfamiliar and unnerving situation."
- D J R Bruckner, the New York Times

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Almost In Las Vegas

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Neipris is trying to touch something deeper than the funny bone. the play becomes a study of decent people trying to understand their own needs and the lovers who can not fulfill them.
- Walter Goodman, the New York Times

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Bridge at Belharbour, The

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A plumber, Tom Fahey, Father of seven children and owner of a newly built above-ground swimming pool, comes to unplug the sink in a summer home inhabited by Valerie Marino. Valerie, whose husband has mysteriously disappeared, stalks her prey ferocious-ly, seductively piercing his defenses, probing beyond the boundaries of human decency. the play plunges through the hell of the American dream and leaves its victim, the whistling plumber, depleted, and Valerie, all smiles but with a questionable victory.

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Brandeis University, Ma    

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Desert, The

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Exhibition

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Katy Valentine and Alex Ainbinder meet in a museum in New York City on Christmas Eve where Katy obsessively sketches a painting done by a former lover. Alex, a depressive and obsessive personality, who says "the day I find Out I don't have cancer-that's a good day" all but stands on his head to get Katy's attention. He succeeds in destroying her faith in the artist and she succeeds in destroying the painting, but they still don't go off together, much as they long for some kind of connection. the truth is elusive in this play and Katy, who claims to be a former Rockette says I don't know if this true. I make up lots of things. But one truth is clear, Katy and Alex cannot make this relationship happen-Christmas Eve, alone and all. A play about missed connections.

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Flying Horses

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Jeremy and the Thinking Machine

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Jeremy is the only child of the King and Queen of a mythical kingdom. the people of Jamboreen, including his mother and Father and the villainous Lord Jackal, all agree that Jeremy is not the brightest of princes, and poor Jeremy is of the same opinion. Yet as soon as FG, his fairy godmother, gives him a thinking machine for his birthday he turns into a kind of genius. But wait: does his thinking machine require batteries, or does it not? Will he be able to rescue his mother and defy his evil uncle? In a rousing conclusion Jeremy receives another, greater gift - self-confidence. With twelve easy songs and a running time of about one hour this will prove a delightful entertainment for young people.

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book And lyrics by Janet Neipris And Barbara Greenberg. Music by Janet Neipris

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Cape Ann Playhouse, Rockport, Ma    

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Separations

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Small Delegation, A

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This compelling play, set in China in 1988, just one year prior to the Tiananmen Square massacre, is a serious study of the political atmosphere of the country during that year. the Drama also examines the enormous barriers which hinder understanding between east and west.
- Gemini Williams, Summer Pennsylvanian

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Statues

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Jennie Ames, a twenty-nine-year-old teacher from Pepperell, Mass. comes to a statuary factory in a torn-down area of Charlestown to get a statue of Christopher Columbus for a local play. She encounters Roberto Da Fralizzi, forty-five, the statue maker, who is confronted with the shifting values of his neighborhood and the church which no longer buys statues, but only love beads and guitars. Jennie finds not the statue but an openness in Roberto which encourages the same in her, culminating ins frenetic game of statues which promises a beginning, a connection, a coming to life for both.

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