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Austin Pendleton

AUSTIN PENDLETON

  (1940 - )
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    Bret Adams Ltd  

Austin Pendleton is a playwright, actor, and director, as well as a teacher of acting at HB Studio in New York City. His plays are ORSON's SHADOW, UNCLE BOB, and BOOTH, all of them published and widely produced.

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

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

         Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz         Booth         H6R3         Minister's Wife, A         Orson's Shadow         Overcoat. The         Tom Jones         Uncle Bob
Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz

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Written by Mordecai Richler And Austin Pendleton; music by Alan Menken; lyrics by David Spencer. Based on the novel by Mordecai Richler

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Genre:
Musical

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Booth

Synopsis:
story of the turbulent, humorous and heart breaking relationship between Junius Brutus Booth, the 19th century tragedian, and his son

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Samuel French Inc, New York   

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Play/Drama

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Male:  5            Female:  3            Other:  -

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H6R3

Synopsis:
A combination of Shakespeare's Henry VI plays with Richard III with an ending never seen before. . . . .

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1st Produced:
Promenade Theatre, New York     10 Oct 2010

Organisations:
Mirror Repertory Company

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Minister's Wife, A

Synopsis:
musical based on an early 1898 version of Candida (George Bernard Shaw revised the work in 1930). A Minister's Wife explores the fires burning beneath the surface of a seemingly ordinary marriage. the Reverend James Morell and his wife, Candida, are happily married - or at least they think - until a romantic young poet enters their life.

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Music by Josh Schmidt; lyrics by Jan Tranen; book by Austin Pendleton. Based on the play "Candida" by George Bernard Shaw

1st Produced:
Writer's Theatre, Glencoe, Il     19 May 2009

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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Orson's Shadow

Synopsis:
An ingenious tale of two Hollywood giants-Orson Welles and Laurence Olivier. the time is 1960; the place is a West End theatre. Legendary critic Kenneth Tynan has made a startling proposal: Welles should direct Olivier and the young Joan Plowright in Rhinoceros, Ionesco's absurdist masterpiece. But it is the rehearsal process that brims with absurdity as titanic personalities, including Vivien Leigh, wrestle the muse in this witty and incisive depiction of the Drama of theatre.

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1st Produced:
Barrow Street Theater, New York     2005

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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY, 2005   

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Genre:
full length Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Overcoat. The

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Music by Joshua Schmidt; lyrics by Todd Almond; book by Austin Pendleton. Based on the story by Nikolai Gogol

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Genre:
Musical

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Tom Jones

Tom Jones
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Notes:
Music by Robert Archer; lyrics by Peter Bergman; Joseph Mathewson; book by Austin Pendleton. Based on the novel by Henry Fielding

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Original cast recording: Carillion (L8OP-5436/7) 1960

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Genre:
Musical

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Uncle Bob

Synopsis:
Uncle Bob lives in New York as an uproariously articulate hermit, separated from the wife to whom he is devoted-and who is devoted to him. He is visited by his nephew, Josh, who is without a job, without a completed college education, and without any sense of a future, all of which he faces with a wit and nervy desperation that finds its only match in his Uncle Bob. Uncle Bob has AIDS, and Josh has hitched from the Midwest, uninvited (profoundly uninvited), to take care of him. A loving and funny, abrasive and profane face-off ensues.

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1st Produced:
Steppemwolf Upstairs Theatre, Chicago     01 Apr 1995

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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY,    

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Genre:
full length Play/Drama. - - AIDS, full length

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

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