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J Dakota Powell

J DAKOTA POWELL

  
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    Peregrine Whittlesey Agency  

J Dakota Powell was Producing Artistic Director of Brave New World on Broadway (NYC) in which over 150 major artists performed plays in response to 9/11. As Head of Entertainment for KPE Europe, Powell was responsible for producing digital content across multiple platforms. Powell's plays include: Bliss Moon, The Impostor, Savage Light, Blackwater, Harry Black. Harry Black was produced in the Ensemble Studio Theatre's New Work Series. Blackwater was selected for the National Playwrights Conference, O'Neill Theatre Center and the Lincoln Center Reading Series. The Impostor was produced by Alice's Fourth Floor and featured Calista Flockhart, Austin Pendleton and Clark Gregg. Powell has been produced by the Bay Area Playwrights Festival, the Philadephia Theater Company's New Works Series, Circle Repertory Theatre Lab, the Ensemble Studio Theatre and Duke University's New Works Series; she has been commissioned by South Coast Repertory Theatre, Talking Wall Pictures and PBS Great Performances. AB, Economics/Political Science, Yale University. MPS, Interactive Telecommunications Program, New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.

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below is a list of J Dakota Powell's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Blackwater         Bliss Moon         Exodus         Harry Black         Impostor, The         Savage Light (also "25 Fish in Dogpatch")

Blackwater

Synopsis:
A young girl weathers her parents' divorce and the disintegration of her family by creating an imaginary home in the heart of Africa.

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Selected by playwright John Guare for the Lincoln Center Reading Series at Lincoln Center Theatre, New York, USA and the Naked Angels (NYC) reading series.

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Bliss Moon

Synopsis:
A young Welsh girl with a allergy to sunlight creates her own moon cult and language in a children's hospice. A detective must uncover why terminally ill children in the hospice are vanishing.

Notes:
Finalist for the National Playwrights Conference, Eugene O'Neill Theater Center.

1st Produced:
Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, Usa     1999

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Duke University's Spring Theater Festival

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Exodus

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Town Hall, New York     2002

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Harry Black

Synopsis:
An old equities trader on Wall Street is uprooted and replaced by his prodigy.

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Produced in the Ensemble Studio Theatre's New Works Series. Featured Jude CiccolElla in the lead role of Harry Black.

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Impostor, The

Synopsis:
The Impostor captures the fragmentation of memory as the assault of an aspiring female novelist by a famous novelist is relived and replayed.

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Honorable Mention for the Jane Chambers Playwrighting Award. Nominated by the Hartford Stage and the Ensemble Studio Theater for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. Commissioned by Talking Wall Pictures for feature film treatment.

1st Produced:
Workhouse Theatre Company, New York, NY, Usa     1996

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Alice's Fourth Floor

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Savage Light (also "25 Fish in Dogpatch")

Synopsis:
A Quaker physicist recruited by J. Robert Oppenheimer for the Manhattan Project betrays the Friends' peace testimony, battling his conscience as he works on the ultimate weapon.

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Selected for the Bay Area Playwrights Festival 1993 and the Philadelphia Theater Company's New Works Series. Finalist for the National Playwrights Conference, Eugene O'Neill Theater Center.

1st Produced:
Circle Repertory Theater, New York, NY, Usa     1993

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Circle Repertory Theater Lab

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