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James D Pendleton

JAMES D PENDLETON

  (1930 - )
Nationality:    USA
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Born in Fort Bragg, NC on December 12, 1930. B.S. from Davidson College and M.A. from U. of NC. Writer for Mutual Radio Network, Red, White, & Blue in Black and Blacks in America, records for Everette/Edwards Co. Married to singer Catharine Cox Pendleton and has three daughters. He is an associate professor of English at Virginia Commonwealth U. His TV play, Rite of Passage, was done in the New Drama for TV at the O'Neill Theater Center's National Playwrights Conference. Recipient: Rochester Civic Theater Playwriting Award; North Carolina School of the Arts Playwriting Award; Converse College Drama Award; James Helms Playscript Award; TRAV-TV Television Writing Award.
Address (in 1981): Route 1, Box 319, Midlothian, VA 23113, (804) 794-5375, 257-1670
Agent (in 1981): Lois Berman, 250 W. 57th St., New York, NY 10019 (212) 581-0670

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         Brief And Violent Reign Of Absalom         Defender, The         Echoes         Last Supper, The         Nightsong         Oaks Of Mamre, The         Obscene Verse Of Magdalene Randallman         Rite Of Passage         Trial Of Judas, The

Brief And Violent Reign Of Absalom

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Religious Theatre, Wichita, State University    -

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Defender, The

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Echoes

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Last Supper, The

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Philip, about forty, plans to ask Laura, same age, to go away with him to Europe. Laura is fully prepared to leave her sterile marriage and spend the rest of her life with Philip but, during the evening, a strange crippled man comes out of the shadows in the back of the restaurant, claims to know them both, and so shatters the mood that Philip tells Laura that he is going to live in Rome alone, leaving her desolate. Setting: a fashionable restaurant, 1929

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Winston-Salem, NC    -

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Nightsong

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Eric, a scientist, has worked hard to develop a substance to destroy the harmful insect in the world. He has also discovered that his poison kills helpful insects and that the harmful insects have developed strains too strong for his science. In his work, he has neglected Erna, his wife, who merely wants to live comfortably and be loved. As Eric confronts his failures, he also wants more and more to live and be loved, but he discovers that his neglect has so hardened Erna that she cannot give him the love he wants. He is left contemplating the super-strong insects he has helped produce. Setting: a home laboratory

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Oaks Of Mamre, The

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Bakers Play, Boston, MA,    -

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Obscene Verse Of Magdalene Randallman

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Rite Of Passage

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Thomas Jefferson, in his first term as president, faces a number of political crises including the charge that he has fathered three children by the slave woman, Sally Hemings. Jefferson is forced to re-evaluate his own life's work and to face, in a new way, the kinship between the black and white races and its relation to the American nation that he helped to found. Setting: In and around Monticello, 1801-3

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full length Play/Drama

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Trial Of Judas, The

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(in German); Chr. Kaiser Verlag, Munich, Germany

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