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Lynn Nottage

LYNN NOTTAGE

  (1964 - )
Nationality:    African American
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Literary Agent:    Creative Artists Agency NY  represented by Olivier Sultan

Nottage is a Pulitzer Prize winning playwright, a librettist and screenwriter. Her plays have been produced widely in the United States and throughout the world. They include Sweat (OSF, American Revolutions series), By The Way, Meet Vera Stark (Lilly Award), Ruined (Pulitzer Prize, OBIE, Lucille Lortel, New York Drama Critics Circle, Audelco, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle Award), Intimate Apparel (American Theatre Critics and New York Drama Critics Circle), Fabulation, or The Re-Education of Undine (OBIE Award), Crumbs from the Table of Joy, Las Meninas, Mud, River, Stone, Porknockers and POOF!. Nottage is the recipient of a MacArthur "Genius Grant" Fellowship, Steinberg "Mimi" Distinguished Playwright Award, the Dramatists Guild Hull-Warriner Award, the inaugural Horton Foote Prize, Helen Hayes Award, the Lee Reynolds Award, a Guggenheim Grant, PEN/Laura Pels Award, amongst other honors. She is an Associate Professor in the Theatre Department at Columbia School of the Arts. Nottage is a board member for Theatre Communications Group, BRIC Arts Media Bklyn, Donor Direct Action, Second Stage, Lilly Awards and the Dramatists Guild.

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

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         Antigone Project, The         Banana Beer Bath         Becoming American         By the Way, Meet Vera Stark         Children's Monologues, The         Crumbs From the Table Of Joy         Fabulation or, The Re-Education of Undine         First Day Of School         Give Again?         In Your Arms         Intimate Apparel         Las Meninas         MJ: The Musical         Mud, River, Stone         Odds, The         One More River to Cross: A Verbatim Fugue         Our War         Point of Revue         Poof!         Por'Knockers         Ruined         Snapshot         Sweat
Antigone Project, The

Synopsis:
By Tanya Barfield, Karen Hartman, Chiori Miyagawa, Lynn Nottage and Caridad Svich

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1st Produced:
Women's Project Theater, NY     2004

Organisations:
Women's Project

1st Published:
No Passport Press, CA (2009)   

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Play/Drama

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Male:  2            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Banana Beer Bath

Synopsis:
the three beautiful Elem sisters take refuge in  and I do mean in  their father's back yard brew as the singing, marching rebels approach. the horror of what ensues ferments potently beneath the surreal and darkly comic tale.
- http://www.theatreview.org.nz

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part of A Memory, A Monologue, A Rant And A Prayer. Co-edited by Award-winning the Vagina Monologues Author Eve Ensler, A Memory, A Monologue, A Rant And A Prayer is A collection of personal And powerful monologues by world-renowned Authors And playwrights.

1st Produced:
Meow, Edward St Cbd, Wellington     28 Apr 2012

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Genre:
short monologue

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Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Becoming American

Synopsis:
A phone-support instructor teaches his Ghanaian recruits how become American for the two or three minutes that it takes to solve the problems of a U.S. caller. This piece is part of Snapshot, an anthology of short plays. To perform this piece independently, click "Add to Shopping Cart" above. To perform this piece as part of the full-length collection, go to Snapshot.

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Playscripts, Inc - New York   

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Genre:
5-10 min Comedy

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  1 either (1 actor possible: 0-1 males, 0-1 females)

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By the Way, Meet Vera Stark

Synopsis:
In a new comedy from the Pulitzer Prizewinning playwright of Ruined, Lynn Nottage draws upon the screwball films of the 1930s to take a funny and irreverent look at racial stereotypes in Hollywood. BY THE WAY, MEET VERA STARK is a seventy-year journey through the life of Vera Stark, a headstrong African-American maid and budding actress, and her tangled relationship with her boss, a white Hollywood star desperately grasping to hold on to her career. When circumstances collide and both women land roles in the same Southern epic, the story behind the cameras leaves Vera with a surprising and controversial legacy scholars will debate for years to come.

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1st Produced:
South Coast Repertory Theatre, Costa Mesa, California     2008

Organisations:
Pacific Playwrights Festival

1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY,    

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Genre:
comedy

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Children's Monologues, The

Synopsis:
Dramatic Need (DN) is a UK-registered charity that sends international Arts professionals to do workshops in underprivileged and rural communities in sub-Saharan Africa. Gifted, heavyweight actors will perform monologues written by Lynn Nottage, Bola Agbaje, Polly Stenham, Dennis Kelly, Gabriel Bisset-Smith, Oladipo Agboluaje, Zawe Ashton, Joel Horwood, Anya Reiss and Jamie Minoprio, based on autobiographical stories written by the some of the children DN works with.

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short monologue

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Crumbs From the Table Of Joy

Synopsis:
Recently widowed Godfrey, and his daughters Ernestine and Ermina, move from Florida to Brooklyn for a better life. Not knowing how to parent, Godfrey turns to religion, and especially to Father Divine, for answers. the girls absorb their new surroundings, but not necessarily religion. Lily, Godfrey's sister-in-law, shows up from Harlem, having promised her sister that if anything ever happened, she'd look out for the girls. Lily, while fascinating to her nieces, stands for everything Godfrey dislikes: communism, sexual freedom and the fight against racial discrimination. As the racial and social issues of the late 1950s escalate, personal issues between Godfrey and Lily explode, prompting him to walk out. A few days later, he returns, with a new wife-a white, German immigrant, Gerte. With Godfrey immersed in religion, Lily claiming to be a part of the new revolution, and quiet, stoic Gerte coming from the horrors of Germany, life in the household gets heated. Ultimately, Lily must leave, seeing as she's neith

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Co-Produced with Arizona Theatre Company

1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY,    

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  1            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Fabulation or, The Re-Education of Undine

Synopsis:
a social satire about an ambitious and haughty African-American woman, Undine Barnes Calles, whose husband suddenly disappears after embezzling all of her money. Pregnant and on the brink of social and financial ruin, Undine retreats to her childhood home in Brooklyn's Walt Whitman projects, only to discover that she must cope with a crude new reality. Undine faces the challenge of transforming her setbacks into small victories in a battle to reaffirm her right to be. FABULATION is a comeuppance tale with a comic twist.

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1st Produced:
Tricycle, London     18 Sep 2006

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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY,    

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Genre:
Seriocomedy Comedy

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Male:  4            Female:  5            Other:  doubling

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First Day Of School

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1st Produced:
The Town Hall, New York     2002

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Give Again?

Synopsis:
a gentle joke about our attitudes to charity, which finishes the evening perfectly, leaving you amused but guilty.
Kieron Quirke, Evening Standard

Notes:
Part of "How Long Is Never? A Response To Dafur", An evening of new short plays And discussion. "A potent reminder that theatre, Among its myriad other functions, has A misiion to inform . . . the result is An engrossing evening that both heightens our understanding of Darfur And outlines the moral And political dilEmma it poses in the strakest possible terms" ~ the Guardian

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Josef Weinburger,    

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Genre:
Short Plays One Act

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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In Your Arms

Synopsis:
A company that has amassed an astounding 18 Tony Awards, 4 Pulitzer Prizes, 6 Pulitzer finalist distinctions, 3 Emmys, and 2 Academy Awards joins forces at the Globe for an exuberant world premiere dance-theatre musical! Ten of America's best theatrical storytellers (the minds behind such hits as The Full Monty, Driving Miss Daisy, M. Butterfly, and Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike) join director-choreographer Christopher Gattelli (Newsies, The King and I) and composer Stephen Flaherty (Ragtime) to create a ravishing evening that glides, leaps, and twirls through the giddy extremes of romantic love. This unique event ranges across eras and cultures and tells its stories through the universal language of dance, from classical ballet to swing to tap to ballroom to jazz to flamenco and more. In Your Arms is as intoxicating as a sunset cocktail and as exhilarating as a first kiss.

Notes:
Music by Stephen Flaherty; Vignettes by Douglas Carter Beane, Nilo Cruz, Christopher Durang, Carrie Fisher, David Henry Hwang, Rajiv Joseph, Terrence McNally, Marsha Norman, Lynn Nottage, and Alfred UhryDirection and Choreography by Christopher Gattelli; Lyrics by Lynn Ahrens; Conceived by Christopher Gattelli and Jennifer Manocherian

1st Produced:
Old Globe Theatre, CA, USA >>>     24 Sep 2015

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Genre:
dance theatre

Parts:
Male:  11            Female:  12            Other:  -

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Intimate Apparel

Synopsis:
the time is 1905, the place New York City, where Esther, a black seamstress, lives in a boarding house for women and sews intimate apparel for clients who range from wealthy white patrons to prostitutes. Her skills and discretion are much in demand, and she has managed to stuff a goodly sum of money into her quilt over the years. One by one, the other denizens of the boarding house marry and move away, but Esther remains, lonely and longing for a husband and a future. Her plan is to find the right man and use the money she's saved to open a beauty parlor where black women will be treated as royally as the white women she sews for. By way of a mutual acquaintance, she begins to receive beautiful letters from a lonesome Caribbean man named George who is working on the Panama Canal. Being illiterate, Esther has one of her patrons respond to the letters, and over time the correspondence becomes increasingly intimate until George persuades her that they should marry, sight unseen. Meanwhile, Esther's heart seems to lie with the Hasidic shopkeeper from whom she buys cloth, and his heart with her, but the impossibility of the match is obvious to them both, and Esther consents to marry George. When George, arrives in New York, however, he turns out not to be the man his letters painted him to be, and he absconds with Esther's savings, frittering it away on whores and liquor. Deeply wounded by the betrayal, but somehow unbroken, Esther returns to the boarding house determined to use her gifted hands and her sewing machine to refashion her dreams and make them anew from the whole cloth of her life's experiences.

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1st Produced:
Http://Www.Centerstage.Org/Index.Php     2003

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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY,    

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Las Meninas

Synopsis:
the true story of the illicit romance between Queen Marie-therese (wife of Louis XIV) and her African servant, Nabo, a dwarf from Dahomey, and the hilarious consequences that scandalized the French court.

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1st Produced:
San Jose Repertory Theatre, San Jose, Ca     2002

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1st Published:
American Theatre Magazine, NY - July, 2001
Contained in: "Crumbs From The Table Of Joy and Other Plays" published by Theatre Communications Group 2005   

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  extras

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MJ: The Musical

Synopsis:
Whilst preparing for the Dangerous World Tour Michael Jackson looks back over his career

Notes:
Music and lyrics Michael Jackson; book by Lyn Nottage

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Genre:
Musical

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Mud, River, Stone

Synopsis:
An African-American couple vacationing in Africa take a turn off the main highway and find themselves stranded during rainy season in the remnants of a grand hotel. the rundown colonial hotel's only inhabitants are a reticent bellhop and an outspoken white African businessman. As the rains continue, the guest list grows to include a Nigerian aid worker at wits' end and a Belgian adventurer wandering the landscape in search of meaning. the couple's comic and romantic adventure takes on absurd dimensions when the hotel guests are taken hostage by the angry bellhop. His demands are simple: He wants grain for his village and a wool blanket for his mother. the stakes increase when an international mediator arrives and tries to end the stand-off. the couple's relationship is tested by the volatile politics of Africa, and they learn what the hungry human spirit will do for food and a warm blanket.

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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1998
Contained in: "Crumbs From The Table Of Joy and Other Plays" published by Theatre Communications Group 2005   

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Odds, The

Odds, The
No-one can forget the moment they heard the news. September 11th, 2001 sent shockwaves across the globe. It was a day that was supposed to change the world forever.Ten years on, a team of major writers and thinkers explore our responses to the defining event of our times in a new production from Headlong, creators of the multi award-winning ENRON. Rupert Goold's theatre company transforms a former trading hall into an immersive theatrical experience, taking you from the tranquil setting of St Katharine Docks on the River Thames to the bright blue skies of downtown Manhattan and beyond.

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part of Decade: Two towers. Ten years. Twenty plays. Ten years After 9/11, twenty international writers respond to the defining event of our times. Published here Are their individual plays, which woven together formed the basis of Decade, An immersive theatrical production from Headlong theatre company. the writers: Samuel Adamson, Mike Bartlett, Alecky Blythe, Adam Brace, Ben Ellis, Ella Hickson, Samuel D. Hunter, John Logan, Matthew Lopez, Mona Mansour, DC Moore, Abi Morgan, Rory Mullarkey, Janine Nabers, Lynn Nottage, Harrison David Rivers, Simon Schama, Christopher Shinn, Beth Steel, Alexandra Wood.

1st Produced:
Commodity Quay, St Katharine Docks, London E1W 1Az     01 Sep 2011

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Headlong

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Genre:
short piece

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Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

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One More River to Cross: A Verbatim Fugue

Synopsis:
Between 1936 and 1938, the Federal Writers' Project gathered over 2,300 interviews with former slaves. Pulitzer-winner Lynn Nottage has collected and condensed these interviews into a theatrical exploration of the history of slavery in the United States. By resurrecting these slaves' stories onstage, Nottage resurrects the voices of people who for so many years had none, and creates a space for the contemplation of the enduring effects of slavery in America.

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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, Inc. NY (2015)   

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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Our War

Synopsis:
While the plays that took the perspective of participants were some of the most crisp, the last kind of play in the evening, plays that look at today with the eyes of the present (but through the lens or with the lighting of the Civil War), hit the hardest. Most of them use the Civil War as a way to talk about race in America, from Ken Narasaki's thoughts on racism that isn't divided into Black and White to Lydia Diamond's chastisement of White liberal guilt. - http://dctheatrescene.com/2014/10/28/war-arena-stage-resounding-success/

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An esteemed collection of American playwrights, including winners of the Pulitzer Prize, Tony Award and Olivier Award, creates a dynamic new theatrical event reflecting on the repercussions of the U.S. Civil War. Through a rich tapestry of short monologues, a core ensemble of gifted actors, accompanied by notable Washingtonians such as Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Eleanor Holmes Norton and Chris Matthews, explorethrough diverse perspectivesthe historical memory and present-day reverberations of the U.S. Civil War. Our War, commissioned by Arena Stage for the National Civil War Project, uses the power of live theater to bring new understanding to the shades of Blue and Gray that define one of the most significant periods of American history.

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Genre:
monologue

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Point of Revue

Synopsis:
A composite shot of African America. . .with attitude. Through a riveting series of short plays and songs, this vaudeville defies stereotype as it explores a myriad of topics and places, from Northern Uganda to the American South, HIV to Condoleeza Rice. Swinging from the serious to the absurd, there's plenty to laugh and cry about in this powerful piece.

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1st Produced:
Mixed Blood Theatre Company (Minneapolis, Mn, United States)     2006

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1st Published:
Playscripts, Inc - New York   

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Genre:
90-115 min Dramatic/Comedic vaudeville

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Male:  6            Female:  6            Other:  6 males, 6 females, 3 either (12-60 actors possible: 6-40 males, 6-20 females)

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Poof!

Synopsis:
When a housewife comes to the end of her rope with her abusive husband, she doesn't expect him to spontaneously combust. Now she has a pile of ashes on the floor, and a life to reclaim.

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1st Produced:
Actors Theatre Of Louisville (Louisville, Ky, United States)     1993

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1st Published:
Playscripts, Inc - New York   

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Genre:
15-20 min Comedy

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Male:  -            Female:  2            Other:  2 females

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Por'Knockers

Por'Knockers
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Contained in: "Crumbs From The Table Of Joy and Other Plays" published by Theatre Communications Group 2005   

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Ruined

Ruined
Set in a small mining town in Democratic Republic of Congo, this play follows Mama Nadi, a shrewd businesswoman in a land torn apart by civil war. But is she protecting or profiting by the women she shelters? How far will she go to survive? Can a price be placed on a human life?
- press release

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winner of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize

1st Produced:
Chicago: Goodman Theatre     01 Nov 2008

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1st Published:
Theatre Communications Group (October 1, 2009)   

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  8            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Snapshot

Synopsis:
A photograph captures and documents a single moment in time and space -- a snapshot of history, of a reality bounded by the photo's frame. But what lies outside, beyond, behind the photograph? And what stories, memories, or associations does an image of place inspire? In this multi-writer project from Actors theatre of Louisville, a diverse assortment of talented playwrights encounter and transform Mount Rushmore, South Dakota, 1969, a compelling image of the monument by renowned photographer Lee Friedlander. their thought-provoking scenes and monologues range from delightful comedy to utterly serious tragedy, each approaching the photo's themes through a new lens. To perform the entire collection, click "Add to Shopping Cart" above. To perform an individual piece independently, click on its title below:

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Playscripts, Inc - New York   

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Genre:
80-100 min Drama/Comedy

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Male:  11            Female:  11            Other:  11 males, 11 females (4-25 actors possible: 2-15 males, 2-15 females)

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Sweat

Synopsis:
A group of close friends shares everything: drinks, secrets and laughs. But when rumors of layoffs shake up the factory where they work, the fragile bonds of their community begin to splinter and a horrific crime sends shock waves across two generations. This powerful world premiere by acclaimed playwright Lynn Nottage (Ruined, Intimate Apparel) explores America's industrial decline at the turn of the millennium with a look inside a Pennsylvania town whose people struggle to reclaim what's lost, find redemption and redefine themselves in a new century.

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Nominated for The Kilroys 2015. The Kilroys is a group of playwrights and producers in LA who publish an annual industry survey of excellent new plays by female and trans playwrights. It is a tool for producers committed to ending the systemic underrepresentation of female and trans playwrights in the American theater.

1st Produced:
Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Angus Bowmer Theatre     29 Jul 2015

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  7            Female:  2            Other:  -

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