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Armen Pandola

ARMEN PANDOLA

  (1950 - )
Nationality:    USA
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Armen Pandola is a playwright and director. He was awarded the WALNUT STREET Theatre's EDWIN FORREST PLAYWRIGHTING AWARD for his play FORREST: A RIOT OF DREAMS . Armen has been writing plays since his days at the University of Miami where he won a Schubert Fellowship in playwriting. A practicing attorney, Armen has infused his plays with an imaginative realism seldom found on the stage. His innovative use of film techniques on stage has distinguished his plays. His dialogue and understanding of relationships have made his plays both popular and ground-breaking. Unafraid to tackle the issues of our times, Pandola's plays are about people who confront these issues: terrorism, pornography, tabloid journalism, the decline of personal freedom and the rise of selfishness as a way of life and disabled Iraqi war vets.

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

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

         Dark Energy         Devils Also Believe         Forrest: A Riot of Dreams?         Gift Of Giving, The         Hedda Without Walls         Homeward Bound         July Is A Month         Mrs Warren's Profession         Rising, The         Terror At the White House         Zelda & Scott: Boats Against the Current

Dark Energy

Synopsis:
A maniac has taken over a theatre by long distance. He threatens to explode a bomb if his play is not produced. He forces the actors to put on a play about his own life that he has written. the actors struggle to do his play, but are torn by their own feelings. When they refuse to go through with it, the author-maniac explodes a bomb near the theatre. Forced to continue, the actors struggle toward the climax of the play when the actor playing the author kills his wife.

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Genre:
comedy Drama Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Devils Also Believe

Synopsis:
Devils Also Believe is a play about the new America, a place where people get arrested and are not charged with any crime, but simply warehoused. A new America where what a person believes is more important than what a person knows. A new America where leading commentators openly state that they are in favor of torturing suspects to obtain information. Devil Also Believe is about the rigged beliefs that are fracturing America, dividing it as it has never been divided before. In this controversial, emotional Drama, we see the effects of 9-11 on an American family as each of them are driven by their beliefs to respond to the War on Terror that holds hostage America's soul.

Notes:
Finalist for the National New Play of the year, Smith Prize

1st Produced:
Shubin Theatre, Philadelphia, Pa     2006

Organisations:
Green Light theatrical

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Play/Drama

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Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Forrest: A Riot of Dreams?

Synopsis:
Edwin Forrest was America's first star. Adored by the masses, scorned by many critics, Forrest sought to create an American theater that was both popular and dynamic. He encouraged American playwrights by offering prizes for new plays. His tragic marriage ended in one of the most publicized divorce cases in American History. His rivalry with an English actor resulted in the Astor Place Riots in New York City, in which over 20 people were killed. This play is as exciting and Dramatic as Forrest's own life.

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the winner of the 2005 Walnut Street theatre Playwriting Competition

1st Produced:
Walnut Street Theatre     2006

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Play/Drama

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Male:  4            Female:  1            Other:  male doubling possible

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Gift Of Giving, The

Synopsis:
the story of two young people, Jim and Della, trying to make their dreams come true in a cold, indifferent city. He's a writer and she's an actor - they're not exactly on the road to financial freedom! While Jim labors to write his first big novel, he takes a job as a delivery boy for a ticket agency run by Aaron Fishman. Inspired by the wonderful stories of O. Henry - this is a play about stories - it's the stories we tell that make us who we are

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1st Produced:
Philadelphia     2004

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Green Light theatrical Productions

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Genre:
Comedy/Drama Comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  doubling

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Hedda Without Walls

Synopsis:
a modern reinvention of Ibsen's Hedda Gabler . the actors who play the characters in Hedda share the stage with their fictional counterparts. the story of a young woman trying to take control of her life is intertwined with the stories of a group of actors, each of whom is seeking to find his or her own place in this world

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1st Produced:
Philadelphia     2005

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Play/Drama

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Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  doubling

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Homeward Bound

Synopsis:
Three wounded soldiers are stuck in a US military hospital in Germany waiting for a plane home. Changed irrevocably by the injuries they suffered, they fight among themselves, struggling to find a way to accept the new persons they have become. When two Iraqi civilians, wounded in the same on-going war, are housed with them, they all find that they are fighting for the same thing - to find a way to get home.

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1st Produced:
Theatre 54 @ Shetler, NY     2009

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  5            Female:  1            Other:  -

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July Is A Month

Synopsis:
about the turbulent times that surrounded life on campus during the Vietnam War

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1st Produced:
At St. Joseph's University    

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Mrs Warren's Profession

Synopsis:
moves the action to the Philadelphia Main Line where Mrs. Warren has a mansion bought and paid for by her earnings as the proprietor of an on-line porno site, "clickanddate.com". the characters are modern versions of Shaw's rogue's gallery, such as the right-wing Rev. Gardner, now minister of "the Church of Christ the Avenger." He is trying to obtain financing for his "Guns for Christ" movement. While based on Shaw's masterpiece, this is a thoroughly modern Mrs. Warren's

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modern Adaptation of G.B.Shaw's classic

1st Produced:
Philadelphia     2004

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Genre:
Adaptation

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Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Rising, The

Synopsis:
The post Trump world. A group called "The Rising" is killing politicians. Another group "Murder A Minute" is killing everyone else

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1st Produced:
Second Stage, Los Angeles     03 Jun 2017

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Genre:
Drama

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Terror At the White House

Synopsis:
the US is fighting a loosing battle against terrorists in a Middle East country. When hundreds of Muslim leaders are killed in an "accidental" US bombing raid, the President must decide what to do: reveal the accident and suffer the ill effects of the blunder or conceal it. His closest advisor tells him, "the truth is not an option." When his daughter discovers the cover up, the President schemes to prevent her from revealing the secret. But the more she discovers, the more radical she becomes. Eventually, she decides to help the terrorists - and the President decides that she must be silenced - by any means necessary.

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A finalist for the Stanley Drama Award

1st Produced:
Philadelphia     2004

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Zelda & Scott: Boats Against the Current

Synopsis:
the story of the dreams that the Fitzgeralds chased over two continents and three decades, and the destruction of their lives in pursuit of those dreams. Concentrating on the relationship that formed the focal point of both their lives, this production explores one of the most legendary romances of all time. While Zelda is often seen as an appendage to Scott's career, this play reveals that Zelda was an artist in her own right, and that her life and dreams were as devastated by Scott's demons as his life and dreams were destroyed by hers.

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1st Produced:
Philadelphia     2003

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Genre:
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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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