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Jeffrey Neuman

JEFFREY NEUMAN

  
Nationality:    USA
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Jeffrey Neuman is a Heideman Award-nominated playwright whose work has been performed at theaters and festivals across the United States, Australia and the United Kingdom. His plays have been produced by Emerging Artists Theatre Company, Edinburgh Fringe, FUSION Theatre Company, World Fringe Perth and the Samuel French Off Off Broadway Festival, among many others. His first publication, Modern Goddesses: Two Short Plays of Mythic Proportions, is available for licensing and performance from JAC Publishing & Promotions. Jeffrey is a co-founder of Colorado's Rough Draught Playwrights.

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

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         Assisted Living         Award-Winning Entry         Character Development         Date with Destiny, A         Delivered         End of Innocence, The         Exit Strategies         Grammar for Smart People         InSex         Last Resort         Live Before a Studio Audience         Paradise Lost         Silent Night         Standards of Conduct         Still Life         Storytellers         What You Will         Zeus's Women
Assisted Living

Synopsis:
A tense visitation occurs in an assisted living facility as an old man, imprisoned by aphasia, lies confined to a hospital bed.

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1st Produced:
Eat Street Players Fresh Bites Festival (Minneapolis, MN)     Jun 2012

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Genre:
one act play

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Award-Winning Entry

Synopsis:
A playwright submits an ambitious play to a ten minute play festival in this ambitious play for ten minute play festivals. Award-Winning Entry not only playfully toys with the boundaries between fiction and reality, but it also takes a wrecking ball to pretty much every held theatrical convention.

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1st Produced:
Racine, Wisconsin     Jan 2010

Organisations:
Snowdance Comedy Festival

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Genre:
10 min play

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  1

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Character Development

Synopsis:
An acclaimed author experiences the ultimate writer's block when a character in her new novel refuses to be written.

Notes:
Character Development was awarded production as part of the 2004 Stage Left Theatre Company's One Act Play Festival. The play was produced under the working title Writing Evangeline.

1st Produced:
Stage Left Theatre Company's One Act Play Festival     2004

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Genre:
one act play

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Date with Destiny, A

Synopsis:
Worlds collide as a couple explores the nature of their romantic relationship . . . when one of them doesn't realize that they actually have a romantic relationship.

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1st Produced:
Rocky Mountain Short Play Festival, (Lakewood, Colorado)     Dec 2014

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Genre:
10 min play

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Delivered

Synopsis:
Four people's lives collide when they witness a strange and disturbing occurrence. Based on real events, it is a play about the dangerous crossroads of prejudice and complacency.

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1st Produced:
One Night Stand Theater (Denver, Colorado)     Apr 2015

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Genre:
10 min play

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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End of Innocence, The

Synopsis:
The End of Innocence is a retelling of the pivotal last moments of Hansel & Gretel, the classic childhood story by the Brothers Grimm. This short, two character comedy is, as the title suggests, an absurd exploration about how human beings often sacrifice innocence in the pursuit of moral, psychological, and physical well-being.

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1st Produced:
San Diego's North Park Playwright's Festival     Oct 2009

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Genre:
one act play

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Exit Strategies

Synopsis:
Chance Gold, a moderately successful playwright, returns home for his father's funeral, only to be drawn into the explosive family dynamics he has spent the better part of his life trying to escape. At turns funny and heartbreaking, Exit Strategies not only explores the fine line between absurdity and pathos in family relationships, but also questions at what point the protective walls we put up around ourselves become a self-imposed prison.

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Winner, Edge Theater Company's Festival of New Works

1st Produced:
Staged reading by Colorado Artists for New Play Development (Denver, CO)     Jun 2013

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Grammar for Smart People

Synopsis:
A man and woman share an awkward and rather telling morning after conversation about, as the title suggests, grammar. As they flirtatiously share their love of words with one another, the banter quickly becomes a dance of subtext more than text. What exactly did these two people share the night before, and what (if anything) can they share in the future?

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1st Produced:
Workshop, Colorado Community Theatre Coalition Annual Conference (Denver, CO)     Aug 2013

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Genre:
10 min play

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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InSex

Synopsis:
Postcoital tensions arise between two praying mantises.

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1st Produced:
Chameleon Theatre Circle New Ten-Minute Play Competition (Minneapolis/St. Paul)     Sep 2010

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Genre:
10 min play

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Last Resort

Synopsis:
Eight people, four months, one beach. Playa de Rincon is a remote beach resort just north of Puerto Vallarta. Peaceful, affordable, untrafficked (though relatively easy to get to), it is one of Mexico's best kept secrets. Over the course of vacation season, four different couples spend their time at the only hotel located in Rincon. Though each has booked their respective trip as a respite from daily life, each finds that getting away from life is oftentimes how you find yourself closer to it.

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Genre:
WIP

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Live Before a Studio Audience

Synopsis:
Live Before a Studio Audience transpires in real time during the taping of a fictional daytime talk show. Over the course of this otherwise uneventful (in fact, cliche) taping, an emotional confrontation between two guests leads to an act of unimaginable horror. At times lightly satirical, at turns darkly tragic, Live Before a Studio Audience blurs the line between fiction and reality, inviting the audience to reevaluate their own responses to the violence and sexual situations that proliferate on reality TV.

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Live was first produced under the working title Talk as part of the Stage Left Theatre Company's Second Annual One Act Play Fesitval.

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Genre:
one act play

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Paradise Lost

Synopsis:
An ordinary couple's ordinary evening is disturbed by an ordinary occurrence that triggers an extraordinarily seismic shift in the way they view their lives. At turns absurd and heartbreaking, Paradise Lost is an allegory about the dawning of self-awareness at the possible cost of comfort and contentment.

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part of "The Seven," FUSION Theatre Company's acclaimed new play festival

1st Produced:
Cell Theater In Albuquerque, New Mexico     06 Jun 2013

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Genre:
short play

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Silent Night

Synopsis:
Silent Night is a dramatic snapshot of a woman driven to destruction on a lonely Christmas Eve. Based on one of the most notorious tales from antiquity this play is a very modern story about motherhood, madness, jealousy, and retribution.

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1st Produced:
Vintage Theatre (Denver, Colorado)     Dec 2010

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1st Published:
in the collection Modern Goddesses: Two Short Plays of Mythic Proportions by JAC Publishing & Promotions in 2011   

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Genre:
mono-drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Standards of Conduct

Synopsis:
Chaos. Cruelty. Scandal. Sabotage. Fistfights. Profanity. Just your typical day at the office. Actually, business is not "as usual" at the corporate headquarters of Books & Music Unlimited, the fictional Fortune 500 company at the heart of this play. During a media event to announce an initiative that will hopefully save the company from bankruptcy, the Director of Marketing does something so outrageous that it not only rocks the organization to its foundation, but also creates a national scandal. Standards of Conduct is a dark comedy about the humanity and hypocrisy that underscores American corporate culture. It is a timely satire that examines just how far some companies will go in an age of corporate lay-offs and company closings.

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1st Produced:
Staged Reading, Colorado Theatre Guild New Venture Series (Denver, Colorado)     Oct 2011

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Genre:
dark comedy

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Still Life

Synopsis:
What happens when Adolf Hitler, Carmen Miranda, Marilyn Monroe, and Elvis Presley get together? They talk about legumes, reality television, and the nature of fame, of course. This comical play presents a philosophical dialogue about fame and the idea of cultural iconography.

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1st Produced:
Stage Left Theatre Company's One Act Play Festival     2005

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Genre:
one act play

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  voices

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Storytellers

Synopsis:
Nicolas, a young man recently interred in a prison, finds himself caught between hope and despair when he is befriended by Herman, an older inmate. Herman, a middle-aged folklorist, attempts to placate Nicolas' fears by reciting story after story to him. As the stories unfold in Herman's words and Nicolas' imagination, the audience learns about the young man's life and the events that brought him to this evening  an evening that holds him on a precipice between choosing life and accepting death.

Notes:
All productions, readings and workshops prior to September 2012 presented under the title The Uses of Enchantment

1st Produced:
Stage Left Theatre Company, Salida, Colorado     Oct 2010

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  3            Other:  -

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What You Will

Synopsis:
Wedding invitations, an anonymous encounter in a steam room, and an all-male version of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night converge in this new play, which explores the simplicity of sex despite the complexity of love.

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Genre:
WIP

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Zeus's Women

Synopsis:
Zeus's Women, explores the complex relationships between one man and the women in his life. This series of interrelated monologues, based on Greek mythology, breaks down the barrier between ancient times and our own modern world to show how love is both heroic and tragic, both empowering and debilitating.

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1st Produced:
Stage Left Theatre Company     2004

Organisations:
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1st Published:
in the collection Modern Goddesses: Two Short Plays of Mythic Proportions by JAC Publishing & Promotions in 2011   

Music:
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Genre:
one act play

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  6            Other:  -

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