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A Rey Pamatmat

A REY PAMATMAT

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

A. Rey Pamatmat is currently the 2011 - 12 Playwright of New York Fellow at the Lark Play Development Center and recently received a 2012 - 13 Hodder Fellowship in Playwriting from the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University. His play Edith Can Shoot Things and Hit them began its rolling world premiere at the 2011 Humana Festival before receiving multiple productions throughout the United States. His plays have been produced Off-Off Broadway by Second Generation (Thunder Above, Deeps Below), the Vortex Theater (DEVIant), HERE (High/Limbo/High), and Vampire Cowboys (Red Rover). Samuel French will publish both Edith and Thunder in spring 2012. Rey's work has been developed nationwide at the Public, Playwrights' Horizons, Ma-Yi, the O'Neill, Victory Gardens, the Magic, the Curious Theater, American Theater Company, Ars Nova, Rattlestick, E.S.T., New Dramatists, and the Lark. He was a recipient of a South Coast Rep commission, the Princess Grace Fellowship for Playwriting, a NYFA Playwriting Fellowship, an E.S.T./Sloan commission, and is a proud member of the Ma-Yi Writer's Lab. BFA: NYU, MFA: Yale School of Drama.

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         1,260-Minute Life         After All The Terrible Things I Do         Ain't Meat         Baked, Bean and Fran         Beautiful Day         Deviant         Edith Can Shoot Things And Hit them         High, a five Excited (5!) play         House Rules         Limbo         New         Out of Joint         Picture 24         Power Play or What's-its-name         Pure         Red Rover         Shotgun Message, The         Some Other Kid         Spare Me, A         This is How It Ends         Thunder Above, Deeps Below
1,260-Minute Life

Synopsis:
Pulled between two very different identities, Cora - a modern day Persephone - only feels alive for the 1,260 minutes on a plane between her two homes.

Notes:
Commissioned by the Actors theatre of Louisville for the 2007 Anthology Project.

1st Produced:
Actors Theatre Of Louisville 2007 Humana Festival Of New American Plays     01 Mar 2007

Organisations:
Actors Theatre of Louisville

1st Published:
Playscripts, Inc. (Apr 2008)   

Music:
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Genre:
Drama, 5-minute

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

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After All The Terrible Things I Do

Synopsis:
Bookshop owner Linda finds she has something in common with new employee Daniel - they were both bullied in their pasts

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Genre:
Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Ain't Meat

Synopsis:
In an Arizona Diner, a road-tripper desperately tries to order something vegetarian from a waiter obsessed with getting porked.

Notes:
Commissioned by the Actors theatre of Louisville for the 2007 Anthology Project.

1st Produced:
Actors Theatre Of Louisville 2007 Humana Festival Of New American Plays     01 Mar 2007

Organisations:
Actors Theatre of Louisville

1st Published:
Playscripts, Inc. (Apr 2008)   

Music:
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Genre:
Comedy, 5-minute

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Baked, Bean and Fran

Synopsis:
Six strangers re-live a Thanksgiving tragedy riding an F train bound for somewhere that isn't Brooklyn.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Yale Cabaret    

Organisations:
Yale Cabaret

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Drama, 10-minute

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  4            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Beautiful Day

Synopsis:
Felicia, Joey, Kat, and Matthew reunite for a wedding in their small hometown of Port Huron, Michigan - a town that changes only as much as it stays the same. Navigating through their old haunts, a traditional marriage, sexual experimentation, a trouble-making bridesmaid, and their own dead hurts, the four friends are forced to examine the people they were, are, and want to be in the six nights preceding one beautiful day.
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
Ma-Yi Theatre Company in New York City     2006

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Deviant

Synopsis:
Worlds collide when Sara and Valerie - a lesbian couple pursuing the American dream - meet James, a misguided grad student/prostitute too jaded to believe that dreams still matter. When the three start sharing the same apartment and lives and dreams intertwine, will they discover that there is no place for these dreams in their lives or that there is no place for their lives in these dreams?

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Sanford Meisner Theatre     01 Oct 2005

Organisations:
Vortex Theatre Company

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Lesbian full length

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Edith Can Shoot Things And Hit them

Edith Can Shoot Things And Hit them
Three kids - Kenny, his sister Edith, and their friend Benji - are all but abandoned on a farm in remotest Middle America. With little adult supervision, they feed and care for each other, making up the rules as they go. But when Kenny's and Benji's relationship becomes more than friendship, and Edith shoots something she really shouldn't shoot, the formerly indifferent outside world comes barging in whether they want it to or not.

Notes:
part of the 2011 Humana Festival.

1st Produced:
Actors Theatre Of Louisville 2011 Humana Festival Of New American Plays     11 Mar 2011

Organisations:
Actors Theatre of Louisville

1st Published:

Music:
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Genre:
Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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High, a five Excited (5!) play

Synopsis:
Dave and Brett party together with the mathematical principle of excitement! 5 nights, 5 bars, 5 beats, 5 substances, 5 scenes that can be played in any order - 120 possibilities.

Notes:
Performed with Limbo As High/Limbo/High.

1st Produced:
2004 Queer@Here Festival     01 Jun 2004

Organisations:
HERE Arts Center

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Comedy, One act

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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House Rules

House Rules
Rod thinks the game is fixed. Momo's still learning the rules. Twee doesn't think winning is enough. JJ hates his hand. And why the hell is Henry still playing? Two families (and some guy named Henry) panic with hilarious and heartbreaking results when they realize their parents won't be around forever. Can anybody prepare for the inevitable moment when they're the ones left holding all the cards?

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Ma-Yi Theatre Company in New York City     Mar 2016

Organisations:
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1st Published:

Music:
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Genre:
dramatic comedy

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Limbo

Synopsis:
Stuck between map points, an old promise and a new covenant, love's first blush and true intimacy, Beth and Cassie fight over an atlas, the Bible, and a bucket of ice as they decide where to go next in a car that can take them anywhere except away from each other.

Notes:
Performed with Limbo As High/Limbo/High.

1st Produced:
2004 Queer@Here Festival     01 Jun 2004

Organisations:
HERE Arts Center

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Drama, 10-minute play

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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New

Synopsis:
Joy returns to her brother Anthony's doorstep after a four-year disappearance, turns her friends' world upside down, and then rips it apart with her sudden death. Her survivors wade through the tricks memory can play to rebuild their lives and hers, only to discover that instead of being gone Joy may now be larger than life, death, and one person's ability to know another.

Notes:
Yale School of Drama MFA thesis show.

1st Produced:
Yale School Of Drama     01 Mar 2003

Organisations:
Yale School of Drama

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Out of Joint

Synopsis:
Dr. Kajish creates a time travel formula to save mankind by giving it endless second chances. But as people skip indiscriminately through time humiliating enemies, saving lives, and negotiating perfect vacations, the universe unravels in this romp through the recent future, the distant present, and a past still to come.

Notes:
Out of Joint requires 14 performers of Any gender, Age, or species.

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Genre:
Comic Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  14

Further Reference:
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Picture 24

Synopsis:
Joey Bautista film maker has each year made a movie about a year in his life. He has now reached the last one - his 24th year. Each movie incorporates the previous one. 24 will be his whole life. Whilst filming Joey starts wondering whether friend Max is more than a friend and whether the internet hook-up he has made with Chuck will be more than a hook-up

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Genre:
Gay full length

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Power Play or What's-its-name

Synopsis:
Anne Hathaway is desperate to get a seat in the House of Representatives - even resorting to the supernatural

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Genre:
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Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  5            Other:  1 either sex

Further Reference:
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Pure

Synopsis:
Alan Turing is obsessed with creating artificial intelligence. He remembers his first love who died

Notes:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Gay/Lesbian historical character

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Red Rover

Synopsis:
Like a zombie clown that won't stay dead, Red Rover and Miss Clover keep coming back with musical adventures to teach children about counting, shapes, colors, and MURDER.

Notes:
A serial play in five 10-minute episodes commissioned by Vampire Cowboys for their Saturday Night Saloon Series.

1st Produced:
Vampire Cowboys's Saturday Night Saloon     01 Sep 2008

Organisations:
Vampire Cowboys

1st Published:
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Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  2            Other:  2 puppets

Further Reference:
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Shotgun Message, The

Synopsis:
Journalist Kent MacDonald is no saint and certainly no savior. At least he never meant to be until 17-year-old Jared - the primary source of his article on teenage camwhores - winds up missing after turning in his pedophile clients to the FBI. In a lurid world of online sex, naive parents, and kids who know too much, it's up to Kent to find Jared, bring him home, and save both their souls in the process.

Notes:
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Organisations:
Ignition Festival

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Some Other Kid

Some Other Kid
Liberating privileges or deadly consequences - just being some other kid

Notes:
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1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Contained in: "Facing Our Truth" published by Samuel French   

Music:
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Genre:
Short play

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Spare Me, A

Synopsis:
With the Earth's resources dwindling a group of highly intelligent youngsters have been assembled they all have clones that can be used as replacements. When Sel dies in an accident a clone takes over this causes his friends and their clones to start considering their place

Notes:
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1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Playscripts Inc   

Music:
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Genre:
Drama

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  10            Other:  1 either sex

Further Reference:
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This is How It Ends

This is How It Ends
Four Horse-people, one Anti-Christ, and the Anti-Christs's awesome roommate face, like, totally gnarly existential dilEmmas in the very last hours before the universe goes kerblooey. Get ready for the ride of your life, er. . . death, ke-mo sah-bee, because this is how it ends.

Notes:
Commissioned by the Actors theatre of Louisville for the 2011 Anthology Project called "the End"

1st Produced:
Actors Theatre Of Louisville 2011 Humana Festival Of New American Plays     11 Mar 2011

Organisations:
Actors Theatre of Louisville

1st Published:

Music:
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Genre:
Comedy, One act

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Thunder Above, Deeps Below

Thunder Above, Deeps Below
Three homeless friends - a Filipina-American with a hidden past, a Filipina transsexual, and a Puerto Rican hustler - struggle on the Chicago streets to scrounge up enough cash to bus it to San Francisco before the winter cold hits. But when a bearded man on a quest, a mystery man in sunglasses, a wealthy john, and a doughnut shop's spell-casting assistant manager put their hopes and friendships to the test, the trio find they must spare some change of a far queerer kind.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Barrow Group
312 West 36th Street, 3rd floor, New York, NY 10018     01 Aug 2009

Organisations:
Second Generation (2g)

1st Published:

Music:
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Genre:
Drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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