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ROBERT PRIDHAM
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Robert Pridham is a writer, teacher and director. He was the founding artistic director of the acclaimed professional theater company Stageworks/Summit, and has served as the head of Kent Place School's award-winning theater program for the past 33 years. His plays and theatrical adaptations -- Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Freud in Vienna, The Graduate, among others -- received their professional premieres in New Jersey, with Frankenstein being named one of the ten best plays of the year by the Star-Ledger. His work has been seen at the Wellfleet Actor's Theatre and the Williamstown Theatre Festival, and his adaptation of Stephen King's Ghost Stories,produced by Mainstage Management Inc., has toured throughout the United States and CanadA. His plays for young actors are published by Playscripts, Inc., he is a featured contributor to the latest edition of Smith and Kraus' Best Women's Stage Monologues, and his most recent short stories have been featured in Adirondack Life Magazine. His directorial credits include work for the American National Theatre and Academy, the 12 Miles West Theatre Company, Dreamcatcher Repertory Theatre, the George Street Playhouse Cafe Series, Chatham Opera, as well as other professional and non-professional theater companies in New York and New Jersey. He has served as an adjudicator/panelist for the U/RTA National Auditions, and as an editorial consultant for The Stage and The School. He is an NEA/Council for Basic Education fellow, the recipient of Kent Place School's Halsey and Grassman awards, and a graduate of Dartmouth College and the National Theatre Institute. Mr. Pridham lives and writes in New Jersey.
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Coaster How I Got That Part Maggie What Andy Warhol Never Told MeCoaster
Synopsis:
Colossasaurus! 7800 feet of twisting, churning, mind-numbing terror! Think you've got what it takes? As twelve thrill-bound kids wait to ride the tallest, fastest, steepest monster coaster in the world, their daredevil expectations take them on a different and often hilariously surprising ride through their own fantasies and fears.
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Kent Place Middle School (staged reading) (Summit, NJ, United States) 2000
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Genre:
45-60 min Comedy
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Male: 5 Female: 7 Other: 5 males, 7 females (12-16 actors possible: 4-5 males, 7-12 females)
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Top of PageHow I Got That Part
Synopsis:
Auditioning for a part in the middle school play always induces pandemonium among one group of girls. This year, as their more mature seventh-grade selves, will they all feel confidence in their abilities -- or will they still be worrying about who has the most lines and getting cast as a dreaded gnome? From musical auditions to cast list heartbreak, they've been through the mill, and they're ready to talk about it.
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Kent Place Theatre Program, Kent Place School (Summit, NJ, United States) 2000
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Playscripts, Inc - New York -
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Genre:
60 min Comedy
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Male: - Female: 14 Other: 14 females (14-20 actors possible: , 14-20 females)
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Top of PageMaggie
Synopsis:
No one ever said growing up is easy. In fact, it can be awkward, scary and confusing. In Maggie,seven young people relive the ins and outs of adolescent life from the 3rd through the 8th grade -- the friendships, the embarrassing romantic missteps, and the perplexing bodily changes. Along the way, three earnest school counselors attempt to guide the title character through the maddening and constantly shifting landscape of childhood.
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1st Produced:
Kent Place School (Summit, NJ, United States) 2007
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Playscripts, Inc - New York -
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Genre:
90-100 min Comedy/Drama
Parts:
Male: 2 Female: 8 Other: 2 males, 8 females (7-10 actors possible: 2-3 males, 5-8 females)
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Top of PageWhat Andy Warhol Never Told Me
Synopsis:
A motley crew of fame-crazed girls explores the pros and cons of achieving stardom as they relate past brushes with it and pursue new ones. In their race for the limelight, one will reach mega-stardom. But the reason is quite unusual. . .
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1st Produced:
Kent Middle School Theatre Program, Kent Place School (Summit, NJ, United States) 2000
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1st Published:
Playscripts, Inc - New York -
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Genre:
35-45 min Comedy
Parts:
Male: - Female: 20 Other: 20 females (15-25 actors possible: , 15-25 females)
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