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Ronan Noone

RONAN NOONE

  
Nationality:    Irish
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Literary Agent:    Bret Adams Ltd  represented by Mark Orsini

Ronan Noone emigrated from Ireland. His first play, The Lepers of Baile Baiste won a National Playwriting Award and was produced at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. His second play, The Blowin of Baile Gall was nominated by the American Theatre Critics Association for the Steinberg New Play Award and won the Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding New Script. He was commissioned as a Playwrighting Fellow by the Huntington Theatre Company under the Stanford Calderwood Fund for New American Plays. Brendan, (IRNE - Best New Play), had its world premiere at the Huntington Theatre, Boston. His monologue play, The Atheist, opened with Chris Pine at Center Stage, NY. It played Theatre 503 in London and followed with Campbell Scott playing the role at the Williamstown Theatre Festival and was co-produced by The Culture Project and Ted Mann's, Circle in the Square productions at the Barrow Street Theatre, NY, where it received both Drama Desk and Drama League Acting nominations. His play, Little Black Dress was produced by Boston Playwrights Theatre and, again, more recently by the Exchange Theatre at Theatre at St Clement's, NYC . His plays have taken place in Los Angeles, Chicago, Austin, Edinburgh, and the Philippines. Never in Ireland, but you'll have that. His short Radio play, Boyfriend, can be heard on the Boston Emerging America Festival 2012. His short plays, The Mutton Bandit Molloy, Amereka, Headbanger, Goldman Sucks, I Glue You, and his short Musical, Share this World are published by Samuel French Ltd and Smith and Kraus. His full length plays are published by Samuel French Ltd, Dramatist's Play Service, and his essay on theatre, Being afraid to Breathe is published by Princeton University Library Chronicle LXVIII. Noone has also developed work for television with Sarah Jessica Parker's, Pretty Matches Productions and with reality TV based productions, High Noon Entertainment. Recently, The Atheist played St James Theatre in London and Brendan opened at New York's 1st Irish Festival at The Drilling Company on 78th street. Brendan, also had its West Coast Premiere at Theatre Banshee in Los Angeles. And his latest play The Compass Rose opened as an on-site production at Ryan's Daughter Bar in New York in September as part of the 1st Irish Festival of New York 2013. He teaches in the MFA for Playwrighting at Boston University.

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

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         Amereka         Atheist, The         Blowin of Baile Gall, The         Brendan         Bullet a Day, A         Compass Rose, The         Gigolo of Baile Breag         Goldman Sucks         Headbanger         I Glue You         Lepers of Baile Baiste, The         Little Black Dress         Mutton Bandit Molloy, The         Scenes From An Adultery         Second Girl, The         Share this World         Sheet         Stage is Bare, The

Amereka

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Atheist, The

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Described as a dark comedy about a man's relentless quest for fame, the show has the following synopsis (per the production): "Every good news story needs a good storyteller, but as Augustine Early's headlines become fueled by vengeance and self-interest, secrets hold no sanctuary and a good story always prevails, regardless of the cost."
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music by Haddon Kime

1st Produced:
Center Stage, NY     2006

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Square Peg Productions

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Dramatists Play Service, NY, 2009   -

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Blowin of Baile Gall, The

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On the renovation of a house for an English couple in a small Irish town we see the tensions build among the natives as old jealousies, bigotry and racism surface regarding outsiders settling in their town. But nothing prepares them for their new fellow employee, a black African refugee. What happens when your identity is dependent upon your property. It is the second play in the Baile Cycle. I was at mass one day, in the back as usual, watching the congregation, looking for old girlfriends when a four year old black kid started playing beside me, then a four year old white kid joined him. It looked like they were about to have a little fun when suddenly the white kid without provocation just hit the black kid twice in the head and walked away. their fathers stepped in, pulled their boys to their sides not a word mentioned, and mass continued.

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the Blowin of Baile Gall won three Elliot Norton Awards for Outstanding Script, Set Design And Outstanding Actor. Nominated for A Steinberg Award And winner of three Independent Reviewers of New England Awards ( IRNE) for Best Script., Best Actress And Be

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New York     2005

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Dramatists Play Service, NY, 2005   -

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Brendan

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A recent Irish immigrant, Brendan now calls America home. He misses his family but works hard to fit into his adopted country and find love and meaning in his new life. But his "two pints Wednesday" lifestyle goes topsy-turvy when he receives a letter from home. Suddenly, the ghost of his mother starts following him around. Of course, she has plenty to say about his friends, his shameful lifestyle and how worried she is about him learning to drive on the other side of the road. This is a funny, evocative and wonderfully touching play about love, loss and coming to terms with leaving the past behind you.

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1st Produced:
Calderwood Pavilion, Boston     2007

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Huntington Theatre Company

1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY, 2009   978-0822223054

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Bullet a Day, A

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Boston    

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Compass Rose, The

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Two people fall in love whilst driving across America. After the journey they do not see each other for ten years

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1st Produced:
New York's Annual Festival of Irish Theatre at Ryan's Daughter Upstairs Pub     12 Sep 2013

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Fat Violet Theater

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http://www.indietheaternow.com/Play/the-compass-rose   -

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Drama 65 min

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Gigolo of Baile Breag

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the play is a love story of two who could only be together, where the sexual transgressions they have inflicted upon each other in the past and continue to so in the present haunt them, and yet keep them together. It is a macaronic style. A jumbling up of both the Irish and English vernacular with classical Irish allusions and various narrators telling a familiar tale. As such it allows me to incorporate a cubist perspective which in my mind allows for the blending of truth with falsehoods and accordingly makes the audience find their own answers which in turn makes them responsible and more complicit with the characters motivations.

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A Boston Globe top ten play of the year 2004. part of the Baile trilogy

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Boston     2004

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Goldman Sucks

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Headbanger

Headbanger
Now an annual tradition, the Boston theater Marathon utilizes hundreds of actors and dozens of directors to sponsor 50 ten-minute plays in 10 hours (five plays per hour!), each one supported by a different New England theatre company

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Boston theater Marathon XI - 2009 Anthology - 50 Ten Minute Plays Boston theater Marathon XI - 2009 Anthology - 50 Ten Minute Plays ~ By Kate Snodgrass (ed) - Smith and Kraus, 2010   978-15752577164

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I Glue You

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Lepers of Baile Baiste, The

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Is the first play in the Baile Cycle. It deals with the church abuse scandal in Ireland. Based in a bar and eking out every Irish stereotype I could find in character and action I put an all male cast through a meloDramatic plot line. the reason the play works so well is because it is true. And the more recognisable the characters are the more the audience associates with them, accordingly the more they are moved to explain how they and not just the church could let this happen. the fact that the abuse occurred is scandalous but the fact that it was known to be occurring but referred to as a rumour rather than a truth was a way that society diminished it's responsibility and sense of duty.

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A national playwriting Award At the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C, Three Independent New England Reviewers Awards, LA Times Critics choice, Chicago Jeff recommended, Boston Globe critics choice

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Kennedy Center In Washington, D.C     2002

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Play/Drama. - - Gay, theme/character full length

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Little Black Dress

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a funny, dark and poignant look at the sacrifices one makes when one leaves behind all that is familiar. Little Black Dress is set in a household in rural Blue River where Amy Beaudreaux lives with her boorish husband, their slacker pot-smoking son and his buddy, a gigolo.
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Boston Playwrights Theatre     01 Oct 2009

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Play/Drama 95 min

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Mutton Bandit Molloy, The

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in Boston Theatre Marathon of Ten Minute Plays Volume 4, Bakers Plays,    -

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Scenes From An Adultery

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Gasper is having dinner with his friend Tony. He tells Tony that he has seen the wife of their friend Dean with another and it looked suspicious. He wonders if they should tell Dean. Tony thinks they should not

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Comedy

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Second Girl, The

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In the kitchen of the Tyrone family 1912. Two serving girls and the chauffer talk

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Share this World

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short musical

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Sheet

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A woman uses a shovel to in still in her neighbour that his dog should not poo on her step

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theDrillingCompaNY presents Justice, A themed evening of original short plays

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theDrillingCompaNY

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Stage is Bare, The

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Directors Theatre, NY    

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