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Jamie Pachino

JAMIE PACHINO

  
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    Agency for the Performing Arts  represented by Beth Bickers

Jamie Pachino is an award-winning playwright and screenwriter with national and international credits. Her work has been produced in four countries, with numerous commissions, publications, and honors. In recent years, Ms. Pachino has won the Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays production grant, as well as Chicago's Joseph Jefferson ("Jeff") Award for Best New Work, among many others. Her plays have been nominated for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and Illinois Governor's Award, and named runner-up for the Osborn Award (American Theater Critics Association) and Jane Chambers Award. Other work has been invited to Women Playwrights' Festivals in Athens, Greece and ACT Theatre (Seattle), and has been showcased in festivals throughout the world. Ms. Pachino's plays include Waving Goodbye (world premiere at Steppenwolf and Naked Eye Theatre companies), the Return to Morality (winner of eight national awards, and produced throughout the country), Aurora's Motive (named one of "Top Ten Productions of the Year" by the Chicago Tribune), and theodora: An Unauthorized Biography. Her adaptation of Studs Terkel's bestseller RACE has toured the country in a version for young audiences (Long Wharf, Northlight, and Blue Heron, among others), reaching over 16,000 students, and her short plays and monologues have been published and produced in festivals across the world. Ms. Pachino's upcoming work includes Splitting Infinity, a new play commission from Steppenwolf; the book to the musical Hubbin' It: On the Road with Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys (with husband Lindsay Jones); as well as screenplays for DreamWorks, Walden Media, and Lifetime Television. Her plays the Return to Morality and Aurora's Motive have also been optioned for the screen. Ms. Pachino has served on the faculties of Northwestern University, Columbia College, and the Chicago Academy for the Arts. She currently makes her home in Los Angeles with her husband and their son Huck.

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

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         Aurora's Motive         Famous For Fifteen Years         Kreskin Be Damned         Other Than Honorable         Race         Return to Morality, The         Splitting Infinity         Still Blonde Runs Deep         theodora: An Unauthorised Biography         Waving Goodbye

Aurora's Motive

Synopsis:
the true story of Aurora Rodriguez who set out to give birth to a daughter that would lead Spain. Advertising in the newspaper in 1914 for a man to impregnate her, she was obliged by a merchant marine priest. She gave birth to a girl, Hildegart, a prodigy. A lawyer, author and activist before she was 17 years old, Hildegart lectured nationally on sexual freedom, socialist and the creation of the Spanish republic. At 18, she was invited to London by H.G. Wells and Havelock Ellis. Four days later, her mother killed her.

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Named one of the "Top Ten Productions of the Year" by the Chicago Tribune, Also named A finalist in half A dozen competitions. Called: "the most impressive work by A local Author produced All year". . . "this play deserves A major production" . . . "a tale th

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Teatro Vista Theatre Company, Chicago    1999

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Famous For Fifteen Years

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Billy Harlow has been a famous artist for fifteen years. But he has been stabbed to death. One of his followers confesses to get publicity

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Jan Hus Playhouse, New York    2003

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Kreskin Be Damned

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An accountant saves an HIV+ man from throwing himself under a train

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Ten minute play. - - AIDS, one act

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Other Than Honorable

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A lawyer a former army officer takes on a sexual assault case from the army. Old wounds are opened and she is forced to confront her past

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Winner of the John Gassner Playwriting Award

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Drama

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Race

Synopsis:
A searing confessional about the most difficult issues in modern culture

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Adaptation of Studs Terkel's bestseller RACE: How Blacks And Whites Think And Feel About the American Obsession. Has been performed both in full length form, And in A version for young Audiences, reaching over 15,000 students

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Strawdog Theatre Company, Chicago    1994

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Contained in: "International Plays For Young Audiences" published by Merriweather 2000   -

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Adaptation

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Return to Morality, The

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A lightning-paced political satire about the unraveling of a well-meaning liberal, caught in the maelstrom of his own good intentions. Tracing the fast rise and even faster downfall of college professor Arthur Kellogg, the play follows the publication of his first book, a scathing satire of the religious right. When the novel "accidentally" gets published as non-fiction, it spins out of his control and is embraced as a manifesto by the far right and militia groups -- turning Arthur into the poster boy for all he once sought to fight. Before Arthur has a chance to fix the book's misrepresentation, he winds up interviewed by Sixty Minutes, abandoned by his wife, and ultimately blackmailed into giving the keynote speech at the Republican National Convention, live, with unanticipated results. . .

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Stage 3 Theatre Company, Sonora California    1999

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100-110 min Political satire

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Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  3 males, 3 females (6-21 actors possible: 3-11 males, 3-10 females)

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Splitting Infinity

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Staged Reading, Roy And Edna Disney/Calarts Theater, La    2007

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Still Blonde Runs Deep

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theodora: An Unauthorised Biography

Synopsis:
the unconventional "expose" of the courtesan, actress, and eventual Byzantine Empress alternately painted by history as a despot, a romantic heroine, a revolutionary and a nymphomaniac. Loosely tracking the events of her life, theodora faces her historians across the ages-- characters named 1090, 1590, 1890 and a woman named 1990, filming her documentary. Using music, movement, and multi-media effects (though produced successfully without them), theODORA is a thought-provoking and exuberantly funny exploration of the essential nature of history, biography, and whether you can ever know a woman completely.

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theODORA has been performed throughout the U.S. And presented At the Women Playwrights' Conference in Athens, Greece, 2000. Called "a historical free-for-all, like A combination of Meeting of the Minds And Laugh-In." . . . "a rich And Amusing play About wor

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Bailiwick Repertory Theatre, Chicago, Usa    1995

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Comedy

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Waving Goodbye

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Waving Goodbye is the story of Lily Blue, a 17-year-old photographer who loses her Father in a mountain climbing accident, and must spend her 17th year with the mother who abandoned her. It's also a story of loss, grief, change, making art, wishing things were different, being stalled, finding love, not turning into your mother, and those irrevocable moments after which nothing is ever the same.

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115-125 min Play/Drama

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Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  2 males, 3 females

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