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Sally Nemeth

SALLY NEMETH  

 Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    Preferred Artists Agency  


Sally Nemeth was born in Chicago and after a childhood spent in Indiana, Delaware and Alabama, she returned to Chicago to attend Northwestern University as a theatre major. Following graduation, she worked extensively in Chicago's Off Loop theatres, founding Chicago New Plays, a playwrights' collective. After leaving Chicago and moving to New York, she received her first major play premiere in London at the Soho Poly Theatre. The play, "Holy Days", won a number of London Fringe Theatre awards. South Coast Repertory in California produced the U.S. premiere of the play, and that production also won numerous awards from the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle. Following the success of "Holy Days", her play "Mill Fire" premiered at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago and had its U.K. premiere at the Bush Theatre in London. Both plays have subsequently been professionally produced across the United States and throughout the English-speaking world. She has been awarded a National Endowment for the Arts grant, a New York Foundation for the Arts grant, and a new play commission from South Coast Repertory. Her plays in publication include "Holy Days", "Mill Fire", "Water Play" and "Sally's Shorts", an evening of short plays written for women. Her work in television began on the hit NBC TV show "Law & Order" where her scripts won awards from the American Bar Association and the National Council on Crime and Delinquency. She's written long-form television projects for every major network. Her first novel, "The Heights, the Depths, and Everything In Between", written for young adult readers, will be published by Knopf in the summer of 2006.

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below is a list of Sally Nemeth's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

 Black Cloud Morning New York         Blood Sugar         Flight         Holy Days         Mill Fire         Modern Lit         Sally's Shorts         Spinning Into Blue         Water Play

Black Cloud Morning New York

Synopsis:
The day from hell changes when she finds something in the pocket of her jeans

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Contained in: "Sally's Shorts" published by Dramatists Play Services 1995   -

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One act

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Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Blood Sugar

Synopsis:
A young woman desperate to leave home is convinced by her mother to stay and care for her.

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1st Produced:
Rivendell Theatre, Chicago    1998

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Play One Act

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Flight

Synopsis:
A man and a woman on the road and on the lam try to stop running for a single night.

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1st Produced:
Practical Theater Co., Chicago    1982

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Genre:
Play One Act

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Holy Days

Synopsis:
An elegy for the lost souls in the dying plains of Kansas, 1936, who clung to their blighted homesteads like bees to a poisoned hive.

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1st Produced:
Soho Poly, London    1983

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1st Published:
in "Plays from South Coast Rep", Broadway Play Publishing, New York
acting edition, Broadway Play Publishing, New York,    -

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Mill Fire

Synopsis:
The mysterious causes and devastating effects of a steel mill explosion are seen through the eyes of a defiant young widow.

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single set with multiple playing Areas. Produced Bush, London, 1990

1st Produced:
Goodman Theatre, Chicago    1989

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1st Published:
in "Women's Work", ApplAuse, 1989   -

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Modern Lit

Synopsis:
If society collapsed around us, how would we remember what was important?

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not Available

1st Produced:
Practical Theater Co., Chicago    1982

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Genre:
Play One Act

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Male:  -            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Sally's Shorts

Synopsis:
LILY. In a small town during World War One, two sisters are banished for the infidelities of a married man. LIVING IN THIS WORLD. The haunting story of one woman's journey through a post-apocalyptic landscape. BLACK CLOUD MORNING NEW YORK. The day from hell takes a turn for the better with the discovery of what a jeans pocket holds. WORD GAMES. Two young women getting stoned, riffing on words and on the memories those words bring. VISIONS OF GRANDEUR. She becomes herself filming herself. Her life in black and white. PRE-NUPTIAL AGREEMENT. A merciful nurse, in white, like a bride. A soldier with unimaginable wounds and unimaginable requests. PAGAN DAY. The wearing of gazes, the keeping of counsel. The art of seducing the seducer. THE CAT ACT. When you can no longer care for yourself, how do you feel about your caretaker? And how does she feel about you?

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comprising Black Cloud Morning, NY, The Cat Act, Lily, Living in This World, PreNuptial Agreement, Visions of Grandeur, Pagan Day And Word Games

1st Produced:
One Dream Theatre, NYC    1994

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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY,    -

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Genre:
Short Play Collection One Act

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  7            Other:  flexible

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Spinning Into Blue

Synopsis:
Lurleen lives removed from society, with her trained falcons, keeping her past at bay. But when a young man arrives from nowhere, her past comes rushing back to her with a vengeance.

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single set, multiple playing Areas

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Water Play

Synopsis:
A love triangle, an apocalyptic eco-dreamscape, and a world of rising waters

Notes:
single set with overhead projection screen

1st Produced:
Road Theatre at Downtown Art Co., NYC    1993

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1st Published:
in Broadway Play Publishing Anthology, "Facing Forward", 1995   -

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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