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LORI PAYNE
Nationality: USA
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Lori Payne is an artist who works to learn. the purpose of her writing is to express as art the complex nature of human kind through the wit and eloquence of the common man. Recent New York Dramatic works include: Bling!, Sach'Elays, and Last Call at the Miracle Grill, the one-act trilogy entitled Ulterior Side Dishes , Tulsa, Catherine St., and Love and Produce, a work for hire screenplay. New York production credits include: Bling!, at the Producers' Club as a semi-finalist at the Strawberry One-Act Festival, and the American Theatre of Harlem in 2005; and the one-act trilogy Ulterior Side Dishes at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, May 11th June 3rd, 2006. Directing Credits include: Evening Gloves, by Helen Hill, and Love and Bush, by Amy Ouzoonian. Lori is currently studying playwriting under the tutelage of Dramaturge and author, Anthony 'Tee' Saralegui. After earning a B.A. in Drama and Communications from the University of New Orleans, Lori wrote feature stories for local and regional publications that focused on the Arts, activism, and local history. Her articles have appeared in Where Y'at Magazine, Survival Digest Monthly, where she also worked as Arts editor, and the Louisiana Weekly. Her newest work, Catherine St., is a family Drama about the grotesque beauty of love and the consequences of keeping secrets. Production dates: 2007
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Catherine Street Ulterior Side DishesCatherine Street
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After the untimely death of her husband, Marcelle Bloomer is forced to take a job as a swing shift ticket seller at a downtown bus station. On an unseasonably warm June evening, she misses the last bus on her usual route home and finds herself stranded in the deserted darkness of downtown New Orleans. Marcelle walks a few blocks to a stop on Catherine St., because 'the I-19 makes a few more stops, but I'll make it there just the same'. At such a late hour, on such a dark street, Marcelle is relieved to find a clean and decent-looking woman waiting for the same bus. Her relief quickly turns to vexation as the strange woman makes odd comments, at increasing volume, about the contents of a bag she just found. Marcelle's vexation turns into outraged curiosity 'because even crazy people don't joke like that'. Going against everything she believes about manners and personal decorum, Marcelle snatches the bag away from the woman and screams at her because 'she had to shut up'. the strange woman staggers off into the night, leaving Marcelle with a bag that she is now too afraid to keep, and too afraid to throw away. Marcelle looks inside. Catherine St. spans ten years in the lives of its' characters. During this time, Marcelle Bloomer makes extreme personal sacrifices in her efforts to right a world that she considers 'upside-down'. To Marcelle's dismay, her decisions are constantly challenged and criticized by her only daughter, Jade. Since her father's death, Jade has assumed the role of caretaker of her mother, whom she considers fragile and uninformed. *Catherine St.* is the story of Marcelle Bloomer, her daughter Jade, Jade's husband, Leo, and the turns their lives take after Marcelle's discovery on that unseasonably warm evening in June.
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explore the world of a man named Donovan Ray. In Bling!, members of his inner circle gather on the day of his funeral to say goodbye, and to vilify the woman arrested for his murder. In Sach'Elays (pronounced SOCK-e-lays), employees in Donovan's flagship restaurant report for work in the middle of a heavy rainstorm. And in Last Call at the Miracle Grill, we meet the bar's regulars, and the spirit of Donovan Ray. the Miracle Grill is located on Neptune, and here, the regulars are pushy, violent, and insanely jealous.
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trilogy of one-act plays One Act
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