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Joseph M Paprzycki

JOSEPH M PAPRZYCKI

  (1957 - )
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    Susan Schulman Literary Agency  

Joe Paprzycki is the author of 49 plays and screenplays and also serves at the Producing Artistic Director of South Camden Theatre Company in Camden, NJ. His play "Last Rites" has just been published by Hansen Publishing Group and will open the new Waterfront South Theatre in Camden in the spring of 2010. He won the VSA Arts NJ award in 2001 for his one act play "Purple Hearts". His play "Tennessee's Final Curtain was produced in NY in 2000 and had readings at the Hotel Elysee [the setting of the play] on the 20th anniversary of Tennessee Williams' death and another at the Dramatists Guild on the 25th anniversary. He is an adjunct faculty member at Rosemont college, LaSalle University and Temple University where he has taught playwriting or scriptwriting at an undergrad and graduate level.

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

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         Fortune Cookies         Hung Jury         Indoor Picnic         Last Rites         Suzi's Cube         Understudies         Youth In America

Fortune Cookies

Synopsis:
Fortune Cookies follows four best friends since they all first met at the local department store. They've been meeting for dinner at the same restaurant every month since. Even through new jobs, marriages, kids, etc., no one has ever missed a date. They've shared their hopes, and they've shared their fears, many laughs, and some tears. And tonight they will share their dreams - more than they ever expected.

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1st Produced:
basement of Sacred Heart Church, Camden, NJ     2007

Organisations:
South Camden Theatre Company

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Hung Jury

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Originally performed as part of "And Justice For All" with four other plays

1st Produced:
Sacred Heart Church, Camden, Nj     24 Apr 2009

Organisations:
South Camden Theatre Company

1st Published:
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Short Play

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Indoor Picnic

Synopsis:
A Polish men's club in Camden shows the wear of age as the city changes and the complexion of the neighborhood changes with it. Set in the 1960's and 1990's we see how our blue collar cities changed and some crumbled.

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1st Produced:
South Camden Theatre Company     2005

Organisations:
South Camden Theatre Company

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Male:  4            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Last Rites

Synopsis:
Last Rites" takes us back to the Camden, New Jersey of 1967, a city where today's high crime, unemployment and abandonment have not yet come to light. We go back to the world of a local couple, Walt and Sue Evanuk, owners of a shipbuilder's tAproom blocks away from one of the cities largest employers, the New York Shipbuilding Company. Act One introduces us to the locals, Walt and Sue, who are an older couple considering retirement, Whitey and Pete and their wives, who are two shipbuilders who are about to be caught up in the oncoming situation and the "Father" and Tim, two parish priests from the local church who have a large parish that soon will be filled with much larger problems. We see the old world of the 1940's blue collar cities, one filled with camaraderie and joy despite the hard working life that the men need to lead to keep their row homes safe and secure. We see a world where the local bar and owners are more like a second home and family and the fiber of the American city is secure. Rumors have plagued the "yard", as the locals call it, for years and no one believes it ever will ever close. At the end of the first act, though, their lives changes in an instant. Act Two takes us to a very different Camden and we see that the previously safe streets were now becoming more dangerous, as crime and unemployment now creep in. We see the drinking that had been a happy release in the pre-closing world now become crutches to men that no longer have jobs to go to and now feel helpless. We see the parish priests, so secure in their faith and parish now question what has happened to their parishioners and their actual faith itself. We see this city has now changed and that real peoples lives would never be the same. "Last Rites" drops the reader right into the middle of this time and we see what happens when life pulls the rug out from under the neighborhood. We also see how this tragedy is repeating itself today in countless cities and homes in the United States as more and more workers are laid off in a terrible economy.

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1st Produced:
Bravo Theatre Productions     1999

Organisations:
Bravo Theatre Productions NY South Camden Theatre Company Camden, NJ

1st Published:
Hansen Publishing Group, 2009   -

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  8            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Suzi's Cube

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Understudies

Synopsis:
A young writer looks for a father-like figure in his life when his own Father rejects his ambition. He meets a theatre critic who has a son who he is estranged from and we see what happens when "acquaintances" try for a deeper relationship.

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1st Produced:
Brick Playhouse, Philadelphia, Pa     1998

Organisations:
Brick Playhouse, Philadelphia, PA

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Youth In America

Synopsis:
We see four stories about teens and 20 something's in today's America. From college to Columbine, Iraq War siblings to a 15 year old suicide victim we see today's youth with all of their burdens and troubles.

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1st Produced:
Rowan University     2006

Organisations:
Rowan University Rutgers University South Camden Theatre Company

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