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Dominic Orlando

DOMINIC ORLANDO

  
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    William Morris Endeavor Entertainment, LLC  

Dominic Orlando came to Minneapolis in 2003 on a Jerome Foundation Fellowship to the Playwrights Center. Since then, he's worked with the Gurthrie Theater, Nautilus Music-Theater, the Jungle Theater, Teatro del Pueblo and THIRST in the Twin Cities and the Cornucopia Arts Center in Lanesboro. Other playwriting fellowships include the MacDowell Colony (residency, multi-year), the Edward Albee Foundation (residency, multi-year), the Ucross Foundation (residency), and a MasterClass with Paula Vogel at the Atlantic Center for the Arts. In NYC, Dominic's work was supported by the New York State Council on the Arts and ART/NY and presented at HERE Center for the Arts, the Lincoln Center/American Living Room Festival (multi-year), the New York International Fringe Festival (multi-year), the Samuel Beckett on Theatre Row and in an international exchange with the Pasinger/Fabrike Theatre in Munich, Germany. Dominic's Jerome play, "Juan Gelion Dances for the Sun" was workshopped at the Bay Area Playwrights Festival and will be produced by Crowded Fire Theatre in San Francisco in March. His work has been published by Playscripts and Heinemann Press. He is a CORE Member of the Playwrights Center.
biography courtesy of the Playwrights' Centre

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

         Danny Casolaro Died For You         Fissures (lost and found)         Flow, The         Juan Gelion Dances For the Sun         Little Green Men         Measures, The         Monkey Sue         Nevermore         Sands         Short Play About Globalization, A

Danny Casolaro Died For You

Synopsis:
In 1991 investigative journalist Danny Casolaro was found in an hotel room with his wrists slashed. But was it suicide? He had been looking into the Justice Department stealing software; the October Surprise when American hostages were not released causing Jimmy Carter to loose the election and the Iran-Contra affair.

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Fissures (lost and found)

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Written by Steve Epp; Cory Hinkle And Dominic Orlando

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Contained in: "Humana Festival 2010: the Complete Plays" published by Playscripts Inc   -

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Flow, The

Synopsis:
What is "the Flow" -- an after-school club? A team? Or something far more dangerous? Lonely Kevin Sorenson's about to find out, in a story that mixes fairy tale motifs with modern teens' struggles for acceptance and love.

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Guthrie Theater (Reading) (Minneapolis, Mn, United States)     2004

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Playscripts, Inc - New York   -

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28-35 min Play/Drama

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Male:  10            Female:  9            Other:  10 males, 9 females, 2 either (19-29 actors possible: 9-16 males, 8-15 females)

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Juan Gelion Dances For the Sun

Synopsis:
A South American peasant may be the Second Coming but a group of American Christians set out to destroy him.

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Crowded Fire @ the Traveling Jewish Theater

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Little Green Men

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Side Project Theatre, Chicago     06 Aug 2004

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Short play

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Measures, The

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the story of a young playwright's love for her emotionally disturbed brother and an unfinished play.

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Monkey Sue

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Aurora Theatre's Global Age Project

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Nevermore

Synopsis:
H P Lovecraft becomes obsessed with solving the events around the death of Edgar Allan Poe

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-     15 May 2006

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Bristol Valley Theater

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Playscripts Inc 2010   -

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Genre:
Thriller

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Male:  4            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Sands

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Short Play About Globalization, A

Synopsis:
An FBI agent travels to Mexico to find his missing journalist sister.

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Waring Jones Theatre, Minneapolis    

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Workhaus Playwrights Collective

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Genre:
Dark Comedy

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  Video segments that require at least 2 males and 2 females.

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