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Joshua Rebell

JOSHUA REBELL

  
Nationality:    USA
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JOSHUA REBELL's plays include Embraceable You (the Tamarind Theatre, Los Angeles), Paint (Synchronicity Space, NYC), the Movie Line (Raw Space; the Samuel Beckett Theatre, NYC), Gatsby in Hollywood (the Met Theatre, Los Angeles), Black Tie Affairs (the Met Theatre), and Preying On Puritans (Sacred Fools Theatre Company, Los Angeles). For Sacred Fools he has also written plays for Grimm!, Slow and Tight, Naked Holidays (a project he co-created), and Crime Scene, Sacred Fools' long-running late night serial, for which he wrote one of the three inaugural story lines. Screenplays include Old Boys Club; Confession; Misty in Maine; a screen adaptation of his play Preying On Puritans, the B Side (co-written with Gil Cates Jr.); and an original short screenplay commissioned for the Shanghai World Expo 2010. Rebell has a BA from Dartmouth College and a master's in educational Theatre from New York University. He is a member of both the Writers Guild and the Dramatists Guild. When he's not writing, he is a spoken word curator at the Cornelia Street Cafe in New York City, a relatively serious art collector, and a frequent visitor to cities around the world known for their great coffee.

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

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

         Black Tie Affairs         Blue X-mas         Cat and Mouse in Partnership         Embraceable You         Gatsby in Hollywood         Grimm!, Slow and Tight         Movie Line, The         Naked Holidays         Paint         Preying On Puritans
Black Tie Affairs

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The Met Theatre    

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Blue X-mas

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A wealthy New Yorker, bored and cynical over another holiday season, runs a seemingly mindless errand for his wife, only to find himself drawn into an upper east side underworld he never knew existed.

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1st Produced:
Heliotrope Theatre, Los Angeles, Ca     1999

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Sacred Fools Theatre Co.

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Cat and Mouse in Partnership

Cat and Mouse in Partnership
A cat and a mouse become friends - such good friends they decide to share a home. Can the unlikely pair live contrary to the custom of their kinds?

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adapted by Joshua Rebell, based on the Brothers Grimm tale of the same name

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JAC Publishing, 2012   

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Embraceable You

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Intertwining stories among a group of twentysomethings in a small New England college town.

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Tamarind Theatre, Los Angeles, Ca     1997

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Play/Drama

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Male:  5            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Gatsby in Hollywood

Synopsis:
F. Scott Fitzgerald's tumultuous romance with gossip columnist Sheilah Graham amid Hollywood's literati of the late 1930s.

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The Met Theatre, Los Angeles, Ca     2002

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the Met Theatre

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Male:  7            Female:  7            Other:  -

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Grimm!, Slow and Tight

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Sacred Fools Theatre Company, Los Angeles

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Movie Line, The

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Raw Space; The Samuel Beckett Theatre, NYC    

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Naked Holidays

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Paint

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Synchronicity Space, NYC    

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Preying On Puritans

Synopsis:
A group of young, well off New Yorkers try to pull off a literary scam involving a brilliant, unpublished novel, and a recently deceased author.

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1st Produced:
Heliotrope Theatre, Los Angeles, Ca     1999

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Sacred Fools Theatre Company, Los Angeles

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Male:  3            Female:  4            Other:  -

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