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Bob Ost

BOB OST

  
Nationality:    USA
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BOB OST wrote book/music/lyrics for Finale!, winner of two national competitions, part of the 2nd season of the NAtional Alliance of Musical Theaters annual festival and a finalist at the O'Neill. His one-act Beast was one of the first plays produced at Playwrights Horizons; The Necessary Disposal was a finalist at the Elmira College, the White-Willis Playwrights Contests and the Sunset Festival of Firsts, and most recently the Maxim Mazumdar Competition at Alleyway Theatre in Buffalo; Breeders was a finalist in three national competitions, including TRU Voices, and was the 2010 winner of the New Works of Merit Playwrighting Competition; The Body Shop received honorable mention in the Turnip Ten Minute Play Festival; an adaptation of Machiavelli's Mandragola was commissioned by Westside Rep. His musical revue Everybody's Gettin' into the Act was produced off-Broadway and an all-star cast recording is available on the Fynsworth Alley label. Winner of a 2004 OOBR Award for the review "Songs Are Like Friends", and a 3-time MAC nominee, he is a founder of Theater Resources Unlimited, and a member of the Dramatist's Guild and ASCAP.

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

         Attention Must Be Paid         Beast         Body Shop, The         Body Shop, The         Breeders         Everybody's Crazy Except the Man In the Blue Velvet Dress         Finale!         Glass Of Water, A         Late Night In Limbo         Necessary Disposal         Neverwonderland         Not On Christmas Eve         Planting Evidence         Punch Lines         Speak To Me, I'll Listen         Spiritual Buffet

Attention Must Be Paid

Synopsis:
What happens when an oft-scorned actress decides enough is enough?
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Notes:
part of Shortened Attention Span Festival

1st Produced:
Players Theatre, Ny    2008

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short play

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Beast

Synopsis:
A group of neurotics locked in a room with a mouse

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Genre:
One act Comedy

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Body Shop, The

Synopsis:
Souls wanting to come to Earth go to the Body Shop to get a body to reincarnate

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Written by Bob Ost, Gary Hughes And Claudia Perry. Musical version of the one Act "the Body Shop"

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Body Shop, The

Synopsis:
Souls wanting to come to Earth go to the Body Shop to get a body to reincarnate

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Genre:
One act Comedy

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Breeders

Synopsis:
A gay artist's colony by the sea in 1980 is undermined by closet hetrosexuals

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1st Produced:
Nat Horne Theatre on Theatre Row, New York City    1979

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Equity showcase

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Genre:
Comedy. - - Gay, full length 120 min

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Everybody's Crazy Except the Man In the Blue Velvet Dress

Synopsis:
A young man is kidnapped - but he does not remember who he is or anything about his life

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Comedy

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Finale!

Synopsis:
the last days of a Fifth Avenue fashion landmark

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Glass Of Water, A

Synopsis:
An older gay man with a younger partner have to confront the problem of AIDS

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Genre:
Ten minute play. - - AIDS, one act

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Late Night In Limbo

Synopsis:
In Limbo Dante Alighieri host a television chat show where souls of people who are in comas go to talk over their lives and decide whether to stay on or pass over

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One act

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Necessary Disposal

Synopsis:
the door to door salesman is selling suicide

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Neverwonderland

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1st Produced:
Players Theatre, New York    11 Oct 2008

Organisations:
Shortened Attention Span Horror Fest

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Not On Christmas Eve

Synopsis:
Paul's parents arrive for Christmas. Paula is worried about Paul's involvement with a homeless woman

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Genre:
One act Comedy

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Planting Evidence

Synopsis:
Two unscrupulous policemen get their comeuppance

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Punch Lines

Synopsis:
A man is tied up and then subjected to a barrage of bad jokes

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Speak To Me, I'll Listen

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Spiritual Buffet

Synopsis:
the restaurant serves Buddhism and Christianity and Scientology

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Genre:
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