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PENNY PENNISTON
Nationality: USA
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Penniston is a Chicago-area playwright. Her most recent play, NOW theN AGAIN, won a Joseph Jefferson Citation for "Best New Work" and was published by Broadway Play Publishing in the Fall of 2001. A screenplay adaptation of this play was selected for the 2005 Tribeca Film Institute / Alfred P. Sloan Foundation development program. As part of this program, Penny is developing the script under the mentorship of director/screenwriter Nora Ephron and Physicist Brian Greene. Previously, Penny co-authored the ROARING GIRL with her husband, director Jeremy Wechsler. This adaptation of the 1611 comedy by Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker had its world premiere in Chicago with Shakespeare's Motley Crew in the Fall of 1999 and received a Joseph Jefferson nomination for "Best Adaptation." Penny teaches playwriting in the Theater department at Northwestern University.
Research: Member of the Dramatists Guild of America (as at 2015)
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7 Years at the Mayfair Mall Keys to the Kingdom Miss Julie Now then Again Roaring Girl, The Spin7 Years at the Mayfair Mall
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Starting in sixth grade Amita and Dennis meet once a year at the bus stop outside the Mayfair Mall
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Short play
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Top of PageKeys to the Kingdom
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Arthur is the assistant to a famous media evangelist. He does the paperwork and guards against sin. He is shocked when the pastor commissions a mural for the church to be painted by out and married lesbian Irene Hoff. The pastor says that God told him to give her the commission
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Lesbian full length
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Top of PageMiss Julie
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Original Playwright - August Strindberg
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Kindle: Pen & Ink 2012
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Adaptation
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Male: 1 Female: 2 Other: chorus
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Top of PageNow then Again
A time-bending love story between two physicists. Hedy Weiss of the Chicago Sun-Times described it as ". . .a deft little romantic screwball comedy with a very brainy twist. It brings to mind some of Tom Stoppard's more intellectual theatrical hijinks. But it's also the kind of work that might have beguiled such 1930's and '40s era film directors as Frank CApra and Preston Sturges, who probably would have hired Albert Einstein as a script consultant."
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Bailiwick Repertory Theatre, Chicago, Usa
2001
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Romantic Comedy Comedy
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Male: 5 Female: 1 Other: -
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Top of PageRoaring Girl, The
This is an adaptation of the 1611 comedy by Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker. Middleton and Dekker's play was inspired by the real-life character of Moll Cutpruse, a female thief and con-artist who lived in early 17th century London. the play is an action-packed adventure story about star-crossed lovers, conspiring noblemen, and, in the middle of it all, Moll Cutpurse, the fast-talking sword-wielding Roaring Girl.
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written by Jeremy Wechsler And Penny Penniston
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Chicago, Illinois
1999
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Shakespeare's Motley Crew
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Kindle: Pen & Ink 2011
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Comedy
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Male: 13 Female: 4 Other: -
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Top of PageSpin
Synopsis:
Brent works in advertising - but the world of spin goes against his Buddhist beliefs and he quits. He comes across teenage Danielle - she is homeless and being abused by her boyfriend. He takes her to his condo and puts her up. Two colleagues Redge and Jack come to see him. They need his help on an advertising campaign for beer. He does not want to get involved - but they persuade him
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Theater Wit, Chicago
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