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Chris Newbound

CHRIS NEWBOUND

  

Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    Charles Van Nostrand, PO Box 117, Woodbourne, NY 12788 (845 985 2709)

Chris Newbound received his MFA at Columbia in Fiction Writing. His short stories have appeared in Seventeen, Sassy, and other literary journals. the Birthday Boy has received staged readings at Main Street Stage in North Adams, Massachusetts, and in Nashua, New Hampshire, before its world premiere at Berkshire Playwrights Lab. His play Morning, Noon and Night received its world premiere at Main Street Stage in North Adams, Massachusetts, in 2004.

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

        Birthday Boy         Morning Noon and Night



Birthday Boy

Birthday Boy
Matt returns from a break at work to the company lunch room, where he meets new employee Melora. A spark ignites almost immediately, but the blossoming friendship is still subject to life's realities of age, responsibility, and commitment. Meanwhile Matt's wife Arianne has plans for a celebratory evening at home that get interrupted by an unintentional spark of her own. Birthday Boy is about what happens when there's a sudden connection between two people that if pursued could interfere with a life that has been going along just fine; about the paths we choose to take and those we choose not to; the commitments we do honor, the worthwhile sacrifices we must make. In short, a celebration of the messy, imperfect, life that being a husband, a wife, a father, a mother, all entails in order to evolve into the grownups we're meant to be.

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1st Produced:
Berkshire Theatre Group, Unicorn Theatre, Stockbridge, MA    Aug 2011

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Dramatic Comedy 90 min

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Morning Noon and Night

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the piece chronicles a day in the life of the Smight family during a visit from John, a middle-aged son about to make a move that will take him across the country. "Morning" takes place between Phil and Margaret, John's aging parents, having coffee by their swimming pool before John wakes up

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Samuel French, NY   MS00000000318

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