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Judith Pratt

JUDITH PRATT

  
Nationality:    USA
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Judith Pratt has been an actor, director, theatre professor, journalist, critic, and playwright. Recently, she has turned to writing stories and novels.She has taught theatre classes at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Ithaca College, and Wells College, and has reviewed shows for the Ithaca Journal and the Lansing Star. Judith is member of the Dramatists Guild and the International Center for Women Playwrights.Her plays have been produced in Ithaca, New York City, Boston, Philadelphia, Kansas City MO, Austin TX, and Cape Town South Africa. They have received readings at Edward Albee's Great Plains Theatre Conference and the Last Frontier Theatre Conference. The Wright Place has been published by JAC Publishing Co., and Spiraling received a workshop production from the Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre in Kansas City. Her most recent roles include Flute/Thisbe in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Theatre Incognita, Ithaca NY, and Margaret in My Great Dead Sister, Homecoming Players, Ithaca. In the last few years, she has focused her directing work on new plays by local writers.She also works as a free-lance writer for business and higher education.

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

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

         Belly Laughs         Consolidating Informational Functionality         Cora's Mountain         Losing It         Maize         Object Lesson Or the Stuff Show         Spiralling         Wright Place, The
Belly Laughs

Synopsis:
Alison spends all her time obsessing about her appearance, counting calories, carbs and fat grams, and working out. the Fat Lady (a.k.a. the Goddess) intervenes, convincing Alison to get a life. This fantastical one-act comedy laughs at all of us who spend so much time looking in the mirror that we forget the rest of the world.

Notes:
Belly Laughs received An Honorable Mention in the 1997-98 Great Ithaca Play Contest, sponsored by the Kitchen theatre, Ithaca, New York. A workshop production of Belly Laughs was subsequently done At the Kitchen theatre in April, 1998.

1st Produced:
Kitchen Theatre1998     1998

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Genre:
comedy One Act

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Consolidating Informational Functionality

Synopsis:
Created to repair the computer that studies the earth's radiated surface, the Consolidating Informational Functionality Committee succeeds brilliantly-by enveloping every difficulty in a coating of corporate crap.This comedy pits admini-speakers against a compulsive speaker of truth.

Notes:
2 women, 30s; 2 men, 20-30

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Genre:
One act futuristic comedy

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Cora's Mountain

Synopsis:
This play is about revolutionaries. the first part was written before September 11. the second part was written after that. Following a mysterious fire, a CEO and a couple of young revolutionaries meet in Cora B. Walrath's mountainside garden. Cora, neither as old or as potty as she seems, uses her gift of gab to defuse the situation -- and then to cope with the aftermath of the revolution.

Notes:
Cora's Mountain was workshopped by 3rd Floor Productions in April 2001. In August 2002, it received A reading from the Tri-State Actor's theatre in New Jersey

1st Produced:
Workshopped By 3rd Floor Productions     2001

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Genre:
Drama One Act

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Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  2 other

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Losing It

Synopsis:
This stuff, it goes back through all my lives. It reminds me of who I thought I could be.
- press release

Notes:
part of Winter 2007 Writers/Directors Forum, A festival of workshop productions of plays featuring new writers And directors

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Looking Glass Theatre

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Play/Drama

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Maize

Synopsis:
What turns a brilliant young scientist into an eccentric recluse? Faced with a threat to her work and her future, Barbara struggles against her past. A drama about the difficulty of being a feminist icon.

Notes:
Workshopped at the Community School of Music and Art, Ithaca NY, developed at the Southampton Writers' Conference, summer. Three women: one 70, two 30; Two men, one 70, one 40

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Genre:
Full length drama

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Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Object Lesson Or the Stuff Show

Synopsis:
Eleven scenes about stuff. Whatever you call it, antiques, collectibles, gee-gaws, clutter, rummage, or junk, it's stuff that rules our lives. Do you keep it, sell it, toss it, collect it--or steal it? the stage is ruled by the Stuffmeister, a.k.a. Bill of Bill's Antiques and Collectibles. He oversees the stuff obsessions of 18 characters, variously played by four women and four men.

Notes:
written by Judith S Pratt And Susan Trausch

1st Produced:
Staged Reading By 3rd Floor Productions     2001

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Genre:
Comedy

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Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Spiralling

Synopsis:
In a shabby college in a rundown city, a mysterious crate of tribal masks appears in the office of anthropology professor Meredith Bailey. With her graduate assistant Jill, Meredith tries to discover the story of these artifacts. As Jill becomes obsessed with copying and wearing the masks, she and Meredith argue about the uses of tribal lore and the nature of research. With the help of their discoverer, Emma, the three masks teach Jill and Meredith about the mythic roles of women, and about their own twentieth-century difficulties.

Notes:
aka Masked Tales

1st Produced:
Unproduced    

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  -            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Wright Place, The

Synopsis:
You can choose your house, sometimes you can even choose your family, but you have to choose. The only house for Lee is her Nana's place, where she spent all her no-school summertimes, and Lee puts her life on hold waiting for that perfect home. When Nana dies and Lee's mother Helen considers selling the Wright place, family indecision becomes a family struggle. Meanwhile, Lee's best friend Diana goes on a lifelong search for the ideal house and family; a journey that takes her from a hippie farm to a suburban paradise, and from a traveling camper to a church shelter. The Wright Place is about our pursuit of the perfect house and home.

Notes:
5 females aged 30-80; 2 males aged 40-80

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1st Published:
JAC Publishing and Promotions, 2007   

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Genre:
Family Drama, full-length

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  5            Other:  -

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