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Kira Obolensky

KIRA OBOLENSKY

  
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    ICM Partners  

Kira Obolensky. Kira Obolensky's plays include Hate Mail, written with Bill Corbett;Lobster Alice (Jungle Theater, Playwrights Horizons, Stages Theater); and the Adventures of Herculina (Next Theater, Frank Theater). She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship as well as the Kesselring Prize (for Lobster Alice). New work in progress includes Quicksilver(produced in 2003) and A Modern Home. A graduate of Williams College, Ms. Obolensky also attended Juilliard's Playwriting Program.

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         Adventures Of Herculina, The         Hate Mail         Hiding In the Open         Invention Of The Third Dimension, The         Lobster Alice         Lune Pronounced Loony         Mambo 55         Modern House         Pleasure Cruise         Quick Silver         Secret Lives of Doubles, The         Whalebone Sonata         Yellow Line, The

Adventures Of Herculina, The

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Hate Mail

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Hate Mail is an epistolary play something like Love Letters, with two actors reading letters and other correspondence, but it's a little wilder and more hystErically funny. It tells the story of Preston, a spoiled rich kid who meets his match in Dahlia, an angst-filled artist. their worlds collide when Preston sends a complaint letter that gets Dahlia fired from her job, and then there's no turning back. the play stays with their increasingly crazed correspondence as they move from hate to love, and then right back again.

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Eye Of The Storm Theater (Minneapolis, Mn, United States)     1996

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80-95 min Comedy

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Hiding In the Open

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Poland 1942. Two Jewish teenagers pass themselves off as two Catholic young women.

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Based on the book "Hiding In The Open" by Sabina Zimering

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Adaptation

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Invention Of The Third Dimension, The

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Film producer Archie Oboler is forced to embrace modern technology to save his latest movie

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Lobster Alice

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Alice Horowitz, coffee-bearing secretary, wants life to be interesting. John Finch, an animator at work on Disney's Alice in Wonderland, wants Alice. When the great and outrageous Salvador Dali arrives at the studio to work on a short animated film, life becomes curiouser and curiouser. Dali scanDALIzes the conservative Finch; Alice, coffee-bearing secretary, becomes Alice, girl in a rabbit hole; and Finch and Alice both experience the surreal vagaries of the human heart.

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Jungle Theater (Minneapolis, Mn, United States)     1999

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85-95 min Comedy

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Lune Pronounced Loony

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Mambo 55

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Modern House

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Pleasure Cruise

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In this absurdist parable, a man and a woman travel on a magical pleasure cruise, where every desire is granted -- until the pleasure in the cruise starts to wear off and a new vision of what life is presents itself.

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14-20 min Absurdist Drama

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Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  2 males, 1 female (3-7 actors possible: 1-6 males, 1-6 females)

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Quick Silver

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Secret Lives of Doubles, The

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George joins a choir bringing untold consequences on himself and his wife.

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Whalebone Sonata

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Yellow Line, The

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Pearl and Buster get married. As they drive from the wedding to their final destination, their journey takes them through the entirety of their relationship -- from youth to middle age to old age.

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Park Hill (Kansas City, Mo, United States)     2001

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10-15 min Comedy/Drama

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  1 male, 1 female

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