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Egan Reich

EGAN REICH

  
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Egan Reich - playwright, actor, and founding member of Hooverville productions - was born and raised out in the horse-country of Illinois. He attended Northwestern University where he earned his B.S. in Theatre as well as a certificate in Northwestern's prestigious Creative Writing for the Media program. At Northwestern, Egan saw two of his plays produced by Vertigo Productions; one of which, Heroine for the Mayflies, he also directed. General Desdemona, which takes place during the lead-up to America's 1846 invasion of Mexico, was first performed at the Edinburgh International Fringe Festival in August, 2004. the play was produced by Hooverville Productions, which went on to produce a January 2005 reading of the play in New York. While in New York, Egan worked for the NYC Leadership Academy - New York mayor Michael Bloomberg's lever of change and organizational reform in New York City's public schools. He is currently working with the Audax Theatre Group in New York City, and coaxing the nascent Hooverville Productions to life. In January, 2006, he will be traveling to the Sierra Leone to research his next play, the Most Liquid Currency in the World. In addition to writing and producing, Egan has appeared in several plays at various Chicago Theatres, most recently in a Jeff-recommended production of Lanford Wilson's Book of Days. He lives in Pilsen, on the South side of Chicago, the liveliest neighborhood in the U.S.

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         53 Years, 7 Months and 11 Days and Nights         General Desdemona         Heroine for the Mayflies         Hickory Palladium, The         Isabelle         Most Liquid Currency in the World, The         Seven Days         Soujorn in Arden
53 Years, 7 Months and 11 Days and Nights

Synopsis:
An adaptation of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Love in the Time of Cholera, which follows the same triangle of lovers as they move from the drug-soaked woods of 1960's California; to the fall of the Berlin Wall; to the Rwandan genocide; to August, 2001 - when fear of demonic sharks permeated American coastlines; to a mysterious future, on the day of the death of Fidel Castro and Pope John Paul II.

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written by Egan Reich And Erin Shaver

1st Produced:
Vertigo Productions, Chicago Illinois     2002

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General Desdemona

Synopsis:
In Texas in1846, two friends are competing for the role of Desdemona in an Army production of Othello. Ulysses S. Grant wins the part over his soon-to-be enemy, James Longstreet, setting off a struggle of wills in an atmosphere of invasion, rebellion, opportunity and fear. As presented by defeated Mexican president Santa Anna, the young soldiers squabble and surrender and fall apart, illuminating the savage and embarrassing heart of an eager nation.

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Hooverville Productions

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Heroine for the Mayflies

Synopsis:
In a bar at the edge of town, a group of young, misguided artists meet so they can flee together from a pipeline fire that has blazed out of control. their only option, it seems, is to go to Hollywood to become rich and famous, which is not a very enticing proposition.

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Vertigo Productions, Chicago Illinois     2001

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Hickory Palladium, The

Synopsis:
At the height of the American Civil War, a family of backwoods moonshiners operates by its own rules and customs, unconcerned with the swirling of armies on all sides. When they capture a trespasser who turns out to be Confederate general James Longstreet, the safety of outlaws and the foundations of family trickle out of hand like waters of a muddy creek.

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Isabelle

Synopsis:
After a catastrophe in which the inhabitants of San Diego find themselves displaced from their loved ones, a paid guide leads a young woman to healing waters, out through the badlands. It's much later when he returns to fetch her mother, the woman who abandoned him when he was deployed for combat overseas.

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Most Liquid Currency in the World, The

Synopsis:
In January of 1998, Kenneth Starr begins testimony in the Senate's impeachment hearings of President Clinton. A film director has just returned from a shoot in the Sierra Leone, bringing with him diamonds for his girlfriend, Jill. A beautiful Quebecoise movie-star is getting her picture taken with U.N. peacekeepers and amputees. the child rebel - Mosquito - stocks the shelves at Wal-Mart, chatting idly with a new neighbor. What Jill starts to wonder is: how can she trust a diamondsmuggler in her bed? What Dunne answers: Blood washes right off. Trust is a delicate thing, though, not to mention dangerous. Set to various pieces on harp.

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Seven Days

Synopsis:
A reclusive man travels to the train depot at end of the line to greet a bride he's never met. When the train arrives and his bride isn't on it, he finds himself stranded and surrounded by thieves, autocrats, artists, vamps and gunslingers, causing him to wonder: in a dry and depraved land, is it possible to start again?

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Soujorn in Arden

Synopsis:
the way it's told by a hip and much-in-demand East Village playwright, a Thief and his Lover meet in the mountains far from New York, among pilfering grizzlies. But when the overwrought and undeservedly bleak play ends, a thief and his lover reunite in a one-room apartment, to work out a decent method of forgetting.

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