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James Nemec III

JAMES NEMEC III  

 Nationality:    USA
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Described by Veteran Louis Turin as a true man of the theater, playwright James Nemec III, akA. . . has rubbed shoulders with legit divas, movie stars, and healers. In the mid-70's, James shot video around Nam June Paik at Synapse Studio and the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, NY, with classmate, Mark Achbar, and recently produced the 9 hour video epic, Flow and Empty, Empty and Flow. From May of 1993, James performed in his one man show, Sometimes I Can't Tell the Difference Between L.A. and My Mind. . .!, which ran on Theater Row Hollywood, and in various theaters around L.A. and in South FloridA. Both the one man show, and the one act, Idols and Others, were finalists in 1992's San Francisco Bay Guardian Playwriting Contest. Then,The Water Birth was written by in 1993, and is his first full length, multi-character play. Idols and Others was again finalist for the prestigious Heidleman Award at the Actors' Theater of Louisville, and one of his 10 Minute plays, Jerry's Famous Deli, finalist for the Love Creek/Samuel French Festival. (James seldom sends plays out for awards, but when he does, they do great!). After 3 Seasons of study with Maria Irene Fornes, et al, at Padual Hills, in 1994, James created his first chapbook of poetry: Nurturing Deep Tissue Massage, as part of the "LA Poets and Writers' Collective.". Then in 1995 wrote his second full length play: bartleville! , on the lighter side of Immigration to the US. This comedy was adapted to the screenplay, A Joyful Noise! as a favor to Ms. Amy Mann, talented daughter of Michael Mann. Jack Black was a regular at James's and author, Robert White's apartment on Fuller Avenue in L.A, and took them both on as Mentors. Jack leaned toward Robert and later joined the Actor's Gang. But for James, Theater Art embraced Healing Art, and in 2002, James wrote a legit book, Journeys: Stories Our Bodies Can Tell, and also, Awake and Asleep: Stories Our Bodies Can Tell, both case history books based around his mind-altering experiences in CranioSacral Therapy. These two books led to a 3rd book slated for publication in September 2007, Touch the Ocean:The Power of Our Collective Emotions. In 1981, James played the role of Happy in Death of a Salesman with diva, Ms. Julie Harris as Linda (very classy lady), and the legendary, Vincent Gardenia as Willy, at the Burt Reynolds Dinner Theater in FloridA. This play was directed by Charles Nelson Reilly. Nemec recently relocated from L.A. and returned to his roots in West Palm Beach to continue his passion of unlocking more secrets of the sea and its connection to mankind.

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 Bartleville !         Henry And June, Just Like Them, Waiting For Yvette         Idols And others         Idols, Others, And The Not "I"         Jerry's Famous Deli         Joyful Noise!, A         Osama bin Laden and the Children         Papa and Cleopatra         Six Hamlets in Hollywood         Sometimes I Can't Tell The Difference Between LA and My Mind!         Space And Cyberspace         Tale Of Mushkil Gusha, The Remover Of All Difficulties (Base On A Tale Of The Middle East), The         Ten Minutes before the Millenium         Water Birth, The

Bartleville !

Synopsis:
Inspired by a lost weekend when the playwright found himself stranded on Route 66 in Seligman, Arizona with a broken water pump, it features a colorful cast of characters from the Long Haul Trucker, BEN, who wants to reitre the road and his truck, "Ain't MisBehaviin", then picks up SANTIAGO, the Cuban Illegal who has floated on a raft to America to become a musical movie star in Hollywood, to LULU, the world weary wife of BEN who maintains the Truck N Stop BeautySalon which they both own, to the tattered Blanche Dubois Siren, VICTORIA, determined to re-live her high school days by seducing BEN away from LULU, to the short Tomboy with rebel short hair, DELL, daughter to BEN and LULU, who is determined to give her virginity away to spite BEN and LULU to the gentle natured North American Native Indian, JUAN REDTAIL HAWK, against everyone's objections, and then DELL almost succeeds, driving BEN out of his mind and then back on the road again to wonder, "What is home? Where is home? Where is my country?"

Notes:
The medicine song in Act 3 by JUAN REDTAIL HAWK is An Authentic Paiute song, however, Any true North American Native Indian playing the part of JUAN may use his own native medicine song.

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Genre:
Dry as Dust Comedy Comedy

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Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Henry And June, Just Like Them, Waiting For Yvette

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Genre:
surrealist Ten Min

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Idols And others

Synopsis:
Time: Thanksgiving Day, years ago. Place: Somewhere in Arizona. Beulah, a "life weary" tattered blond woman of middle age, prepares a Thanksgiving Dinner for others to discover that she is, in fact, alone. All along she has been inside her own image-I-nation. There is, in fact, no one else there. She is then "eaten alive" by these other not so very nice guests that she herself has imagined. In the midst of their feast, and her pain, she manages a moment of gratitude, if only for seeing what is really going on. The "other" guests are, as a cast list: Pelton, late thirties to early forties, reads too much; Max, early twenties, loose cannon, danger; Urban Man, plays as older than the rest, a Lakota Sioux Shaman, not easily humored.

Notes:
Finalist San Francisco Bay Guardian, 1992. Finalist Love Creek Festival, Samuel French. Any time this play is sent out it is noted. URBAN MAN'S, "Mitakuye oyasin," is from the Sioux ceremonial language, And translated loosely As "All my relations," or "To All the relatives." It's pronounced, loosely, As metah-qui-ahh-sen, or metah-qui-ahhs. The final hard vowel is shortened for emphasis in contemporary USAge. Also, the use of the Bob Dylan recording, "Subterranean Homesick Blues", is considered by the playwright As optional to Any production subject to rights And venue.

1st Produced:
Iinteract Theater    1992

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Genre:
An In-action in One Act One Act

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Idols, Others, And The Not "I"

Synopsis:
Continuous with "Idols and Ohters". Same characters as "Idols and Others." Same story, differnet point of view and resolution. Beulah realizes the "others" and not her: Not Is. She now cannot be eaten alive. She is again left alone, this time, with a vast emptiness, which she allows, accepts, embraces, as a good thing. Her life weary attitude is turned inside out to new life. Forgive us, Beckett : There is now the element of awareness of the "Not I."

Notes:
Same characters As Idols And Others. (This play has never been sent out.) See notes for "Idols And Others."

1st Produced:
Iinteract Theater    1993

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Genre:
One Act

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Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Jerry's Famous Deli

Synopsis:
An upwardly mobile middle aged man and woman, BOMBUR AND BINKY, sit with cocktail glasses at a table. They are fashionably dressed except for the small, round, rubber balls on their noses. Hear the subtle tones of Nino Rota-type circus music throughout the action in the background. It is interesting. . .

Notes:
produced by the Theater for the New City in NYC, 2005. finalist for the prestigious Heidleman Award At the Actor's Theater of Louisville in 1998

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Genre:
absurdist Ten Min

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  random machine gun fire

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Joyful Noise!, A

Synopsis:
Inspired by a lost weekend when the playwright found himself stranded on Route 66 in Seligman, Arizona with a broken water pump, this is the sceenplay adapation of "bartleville..!", requested by cinema director, Amy Mann, and includes a loose canon with a Smith and Wesson, the very bored Deputy Sherif of Bartleville, DEPUTY WIGGINS.

Notes:
The play that Kim Stanley wrote to Santa Fe's Armory Arts, MUST BE PRODUCED, And the screenplay featured by Second Force Productions At the 2006 Sante Fe Screenwriting Conference in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

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Iinteract Theater    -

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Genre:
comedy screenplay-indie market Comedy

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  1

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Osama bin Laden and the Children

Synopsis:
Osama bin Laden and President George Bush slug it out with children's toys, both as bad examples of behavior to school children, then the G-D intervenes.

Notes:
What if box cutters became children's toys in the East, like cap-guns And water pistols in the West? A dark thought, to be sure.

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Genre:
Dark Comedy One Act

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Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Papa and Cleopatra

Synopsis:
One friend tries to talk another friend into marrying a woman they both love, and flash on the deeper meaning of marriage while a child runs through and makes faces at them.

Notes:
TWO SENIOR CITIZEN CHARACTERS: LOUIS, later 60s, white hair, thin with A sinister laugh Eddie, later 60s, short hair, stocky with codependency issues, the CLEOPATRA And her Dad, PAPA, LOCATION At A monument known As Cleopatra's Needle in Central Park

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Iinteract Theater    -

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Genre:
Senior Citizen Comedy Comedy

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  2 Veteran Actors, 1 12 year old girl

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Six Hamlets in Hollywood

Synopsis:
Hamlet lives too well in Hollywood and then splits into 6 Hamlets, and other characters, all at odds with "himself."

Notes:
The 6 soliloquys in this wall of poetry And music Are Adapted to A contemporay Los Angeles, not for the faint of heart!

1st Produced:
Interact Playwright's Lab    1997

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Harmony Publishing House, 1997   -

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Genre:
Dark Comedy Comedy

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Male:  6            Female:  2            Other:  1

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Sometimes I Can't Tell The Difference Between LA and My Mind!

Synopsis:
Far ahead of its time in the drip of Affirmations said, FREDDY MADISON, who we later see in THE WATER BIRTH, opens with a prayer to Burt Reyonlds, mistaking Reynolds for "God," while tapping a silver spoon as a Shaman, and throwing Tarot cards to find out if he is really an "actor dog or a lawyer dog," while packing up his Hollywood apartment in deepest conflict about leaving his failed career as an actor in Hollywood to take up a Real Estate License in Florida, while trying to forget he was almost arrested by the FBI in attempt to crash a Jerry Weintraub party in Malibu to meet "Producers," while thinking a new career in Real Estate would please his parents, to finally discover his Mom and Dad just want him to be happy, and that Burt Reyolds, or his Dad, really aren't "God" after all, and. . .

Notes:
An old friend from Palm Beach, FL recently told Govenor Jeb Bush the story of the Weintraub party scene where the hero was Apprehended by the FBI for trying to crash the party As An Actor, And Jeb Bush was choking on his food with laughter

1st Produced:
Matrix, LA    1990

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Actors Gang, LA, and Fuller Avenue Prods

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Genre:
Coming of Age Comedy Comedy

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Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Space And Cyberspace

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Iinteract Theater    -

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Genre:
Very Dark Humor Ten Min

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Tale Of Mushkil Gusha, The Remover Of All Difficulties (Base On A Tale Of The Middle East), The

Synopsis:
An Ancient Tale of the Middle East Retold for the Stage, very Brecht, and include original songs to be performed with musicians onstage, with such titles as, SAME OLD FOOD!, TOO LATE!, SO TIRED, I'm TELING MYSELF MY OWN STORY, sung by THE OLD MAN and LITTLE MARTINE, to full cast reprises.

Notes:
This play for middle school children to college Age is A Fairy Tale, And so the roles can be played by Any race, Asian, Caucasian, African American, Hispanic, North American native Indian And so on, with MUSKIL GUSHA As A girl, but keep in mind the use of fire is preferred since it Also evokes the original climate And Atmosphere of the Fairy Tale form, known to us All deep down in our bodies, bones, And cells, And since live music Accompanies the narration And Also the songs, And there is A small group of musicians just off stage but quite visible, the musicians may participate As Appropriate, for example, crowds, And except for the song, "It's Too Late," Musical Directors might tune into Kurt Weill meets Douglas Fairbanks And The Arabian Nights, overall, there Are tales designed by Master Storytellers intended to bypass the logic And reasoning Aspect of the brain And for very good reasons, for this bypass may be expressed in phrase or in structure or in both, in other words, if there is Any part of this retelling for the stage that has Appeared somewhat confusing And seemingly illogical, then we have Accomplished in large part what we set out to do, And so there is no improvisation of words by the Actors And Actresses, except where indicated, And no rewriting of Any Apparent "gaps" in logic.

1st Produced:
Sarah Lawrence College    2006

Organisations:
Sarah Lawrence College

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Genre:
Childrens' Youth Audience

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  onstage musicians

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Ten Minutes before the Millenium

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Iinteract Theater    -

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Genre:
absurdist Ten Min

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Water Birth, The

Synopsis:
The play, The Water Birth, proves that James Nemec III writes 10 to 15 years ahead of his time. The single play that inspired the first cable shows on "Life's Birth Stories," and then later here in this country, two 20-somethings, MEGAN and FREDDY, are determined to give birth to their uplanned baby in the bathtub of their West Hollywood apartment, while MEG'S bisexual friend, JENNICA, and the owner of the New Age Bookstore they all work in, objects, mainly because of FREDDY, who was the solo star of playwright Nemec's, SOMETIMES I CAN'T TELL THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN L.A. AND MY MIND! and who now seems to have his only ally in the enlightend Manager of the New Age Bookstore, ROBERT. In a hilarious but poignant Act Two, FREDDY realizes that the only value a man has for a woman is in his seed. This is also the first time in theater (readings from 1992) where the, as yet, unborn fetus is engaged in a pacifying dialogue with its mother, MEG, a dialogue inspired by the baffled would be father-figure, FREDDY.

Notes:
Productions Are welcome to set up An Actual claw footed bathtub with water, optional to the producing Theater, same with the sharing of cigarettes between JENNICA And ROBERT, At the end of Act Two.

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Iinteract Theater    -

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Genre:
Moisture Rich Comedy Comedy

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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