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GREG OWENS
(1967 - )Nationality: USA
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Greg Owens was born and raised in southern IndianA. He earned his MFA in Playwriting from Indiana University. He has written full-length plays, one-acts, and monologues that have had more than 50 small Theatre productions in New York, London, Chicago, Los Angeles, and around the United States. His plays the Life and Times of Tulsa Lovechild and Home Front are published by Broadway Play Publishing, and excerpts from both plays have appeared in monologue anthologies from Smith & Kraus. the Life and Times of Tulsa Lovechild was named the Best Off-Loop Play of the Year in 2001 by the Chicago Tribune. Greg has also written for a number of interactive media projects including You Don't Know Jack, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, and John Woo's Stranglehold.
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Home Front Life And Times Of Tulsa Lovechild, TheHome Front
Synopsis:
Darwin and Jo Smith, and their seventeen year-old son Ronnie, seem to be the typical Middle American conservative family. Darwin works as a systems analyst. Jo teaches community college. Ronnie is a high school baseball standout with big league aspirations. One night before dinner, they are paid a surprise visit from Commander Abraham Lincoln of Central Security, who claims to have information concerning their daughter Lucy, an American soldier. Lincoln claims that Lucy was captured by the enemy in a foreign war and decapitated. But, thanks to the top-secret Operation Hydra, military doctors have been able to save her life by surgically re-attaching her head. there are two problems: (1) the Smiths don't have a daughter. (2) Somebody got the wrong head.
Notes:
Owens directed A staged reading of Home Front At the Blue Slipper theatre in Livingston, Montana, October 2006, which starred Margot Kidder As Jo Smith.
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Genre:
dark comedy Comedy
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Synopsis:
A disillusioned young woman traveling with her hippie mother's ashes. A disillusioned TV star hitch-hiking across America. A Russian dissident turned motel owner. A lovesick farmer and a kidnapped beauty queen. Conjoined twins escaping a cult once led by a dead Senator reincarnated as a real estate developer. the LIFE AND TIMES OF TULSA LOVECHILD is a freeway fantasia about love and hope.
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Mercedes Ruehl directed A staged reading of the Life And Times of Tulsa Lovechild At Manhattan theatre Source, NYC, January 2006
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Broadway Play Publishing, 2004 -
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Genre:
Comedy
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Male: 7 Female: 6 Other: -
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