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DANIEL REITZ
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Daniel Reitz is a playwright and screenwriter living in New York City. His plays include Turnabout, Studies for a Portrait, Rules of the Universe, Fall Forward, Chat, Lowlife, Perfect Evening, Three Sisters and Urban Folk Tales. He is the recipient of a Lippmann New Frontier Award, a New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship, a commission from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, a New York Innovative Theatre Award and a Dramalogue Award. Other honors include residencies at the Edward Albee Foundation, the Hawthornden Castle International Retreat for Writers in Scotland, the MacDowell Colony, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Yaddo Corporation. His plays have been published by Smith and Kraus, New York Theatre Experience, United Stages, and Playscripts, Inc., and have been developed and produced at theatres including the Mark Taper Forum, The Joseph Papp Public Theatre, Manhattan Class Company, Naked Angels, New York Stage and Film, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Playwrights Horizons, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Councils Sitelines Festival, and Off-West-End in London. His screenplays include Urbania, his feature film adaptation of his play, Urban Folk Tales, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, and won Best Film prizes in Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Provincetown, and San Francisco film festivals prior to being released by Lions Gate Films. He has also written and directed several short films, which have been screened at film festivals in the United States, Europe, Australia, and Asia. He is a member of New Dramatists and Ensemble Studio Theatre. photo: Peter Bellamy.
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Afterclap
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This new play by Daniel Reitz is commissioned and written specifically for the moody and extremely intimate close quarters in the basement space of downtown restaurant Jimmy's No. 43. In the play, a man wakes up naked on the floor in the backroom of a bar at 4 am, not immediately clear how he got there, both trying and dreading to remember. He dresses, he drinks, he self-medicates, and he recounts, in a quest for self-exoneration. Grappling with the gnawing feelings of his culpability, poring over the physical evidence of his guilt, he obsesses over the nature and extent of his accountability in the afterclap-the unexpected damage that follows the end of an affair.
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Seventh Street Small Stage, 43 East 7th Street, New York, NY 10003 08 Feb 2010
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45 mi One Act
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And That's How People Burn To Death In Motel Rooms
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A famous Hollywood actor brings an extra from his latest film back to his motel room
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Blood Strokes
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Faggot is the most in yer face performer. His costumes get more outlandish. His fans more thuggish
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Seventh Street Small Stage, New York 25 Sep 2011
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Case Of You, A
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A teenage boy visits his mother in alcohol rehab
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Chat
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In various chat rooms, two sets of people hook up. Jared, a 15-year-old looking for the perfect alcohol-and-oxycontin high to relieve the grief he feels over his mother's suicide, instant-messages with Art, a middle-aged pedophile and child psychiatrist who pretends to be a teenager until Jared uncovers the truth. However, Jared doesn't let this dissuade him, and he agrees to connect with Art in Manhattan's Riverside Park, Jared for drugs, Art for sex. In another chat room, Kevin, a 9/11 hero firefighter, carries on an erotic conversation with Jeanine, whom he thinks is 13, but is, in reality, part of an adult volunteer vigilante group out to snare pedophiles. When she discovers his minor celebrity status, she contrives, through her 13-year-old persona, to extract from Kevin a nude picture, his address and phone numbers, and posts everything up on the vigilante website for all to see. From the park, Art takes Jared to a midtown hotel room so that Jared can get high and Art can get sex. Instead, each helps the other come to terms -Jared, with the loss of his mother, and Art, the loss of his conscience. And in a motel room, Kevin is holed up, drunk and scared, having just been fired from his job and run out of his neighborhood after the ensuing media scandal resulting from the revelation of his chat with an alleged "thirteen-year-old." He is visited by Jeanine, out to determine for herself if her actions were justifiable or a mere act of vengeance for the sexual assaults she suffered as a child.
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Day In the Life, A
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After having sex in a motel room two men talk. One is married with a daughter. One has had to help a suicidal obese woman. One has just seen Yoko Ono
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Divulgence At Damrak 18
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Two left wing 70+ Jewish women confront each other in the Amsterdam Sex Museum over an infidelity of many years ago
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Fall Foward
Rising Phoenix Repertory premieres a new play by Daniel Reitz and directed by Daniel Talbott. Featuring a sexually ambiguous, BlackBerry-obsessed young broker; a grief-stricken woman debating the point of her continued existence; and a reunited couple reminiscing about their past, Fall Forward, is the companys latest site-specific theater adventure. Composed of three intimate vignettes that deal with loss, isolation and the sudden cataclysms that life holds in store, the play is presented in and around the evocative courtyards of John Street United Methodist Church, Manhattans oldest Methodist church. It is produced in association with the River to River Festival. This description is from the press release: "On his lunch hour, a young Wall Street broker wields his BlackBerry as a barrier from the outside world, juggling his complicated love life through text-messages, cell phone calls and an online dating service, making notes on his MemoPad on how to deal with his grief-stricken mother, and reading Buddhism For Dummies. Inside the church, a woman talks to herself about the banality of her existence, and weighs if she should continue her life after surviving the tragic sudden loss of both her husband and her son in a plane crash. Outside, in the courtyard, a couple are reunited and describe to each other a day a few years ago in which taking a leap meant ending time as they knew it."
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John Street United Methodist Church, NY 2007
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Father Unknown
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Two families discover that their new-born children are from the donated sperm of the same man
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Good Afternoon
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An ex-Internet reputation specialist who's lost his own reputation pays a visit to new neighbor. Over tea, cookies and bourbon, they discover they share a similarly sordid past.
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Happy Hour
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Two gay men - ex-lovers - run in to each other - one has a drop dead gorgeous boyfriend in tow
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Love
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A middle-aged gay couple hires a young hustler for a night of sexual game play in celebration of a birthday. But as the evening progresses, the real reasons for their tryst reveal an annihilating mutual loathing. A provocative study of love gone wrong.
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Naked Angels (New York, NY, United States) 1996
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Lowlife
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At 23, John McGuire was a junior middleweight contender. He went the distance with Roberto Duran, and stayed on his feet, bloodied but unbowed. Ten years later, he's scratching out a living doing everything from fighting second-rate twenty year-old boxers to supplying drugs to TV actors to turning the occasional gay-for-pay trick. He has one ambition, however: to turn the story of his life into a movie. the screenplay he wants to write, however, isn't his life, but one borrowed heavily from real-life crime writer James Ellroy, in which he takes from his book My Dark Places the tragic murder of Ellroy's mother as the basis for his own hardscrabble story - the boy who witnesses his mother's rape-murder and grows up to be the avenging boxer John never became. A sudden chance to pitch his screenplay to a producer leads him to enlist the help of one of his former johns - a once-successful, now washed-up masochist screenwriter who agrees to write John's screenplay, for a first-draft-to-polish series of beatings. Into this venal world of manipulation and coercion enters Miriam, an enterprising and unsullied journalist writing an article about "beautiful losers" - failed men who achieve their grandest moment in exquisite failure. A lover of boxing herself, Miriam becomes enamored of John and attempts to show him the honest beauty of his former life. She encourages him to make an honest man of himself and realize his potential by agreeing to a rematch with the man John is most afraid of facing again - Darryl, the champion boxer John once beat in a sneaky-lucky punch.
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Belt Theater, New York City 2003
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Mathematics
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A priest discovers a teenage boy desecrating graves and blackmails him for sexual favours
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Napoleon In Exile
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Twenty five year old Corey still lives at home and is addicted to the game "Minecraft"
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Summer Shorts 2014
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Perfect Evening, A
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A woman receives a telephone call from a young man - a friend. Her husband has recently left her and she thinks that she can revive her sex life with the young man. However, he is in a sado-masochistic relationship with another man. She is repulsed but curiosity gets the better of her. She falls for the young man's partner and determines to get him for herself
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Pleasure Principle, The
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Tony a movie star famous for portraying a mother obsessed crossing dressing murdering motel owner is in Nevada making a movie. It is 1972 and the film is about a self loathing homosexual. After each day's shooting he goes back to his motel where various men and women try to seduce him. All the while he is trying to find a cure for his homosexuality
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Rules of the Universe
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performed in adjoining bathrooms at Jimmy's No. 43, the pub theatre space in the East Village that is the artistic home of Rising Phoenix Repertory. the playwright summarizes the play this way: "Two restrooms. In one, two men, in the other, one woman; each seeking something different: love, power, refuge."
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Season's Greetings
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Christmas Eve - three High School friends reunite. One is contented with his life a drives a snow plough. the other two both gay and both bitter - a successful Hollywood screenwriter - the other an architect molested when younger by the parish priest
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Self-Portrait in a Blue Room
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In the ante room to the White House Oval Office a world famous artist fumes because he is accepting a cultural Arts medal from George Bush. His much younger partner - by forty years tries to calm him down
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Studies For a Portrait
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Internationally-acclaimed American artist Julian Barker, whose fame ranks alongside that of Andy Warhol and Francis Bacon, has just months to live. Ravaged with pancreatic cancer, Julian retreats to his East Hampton beach house to prepare for artistic immortality. He is cared for by his younger partner Chad, who is set to inherit his multi-million dollar estate and his priceless iconic paintings. the peace is interrupted by Julian?s former lover Marcus, who is determined to stake his claim and further complicated by the arrival of Chad?s own younger boyfriend, a seemingly naive 23-year old model. With Julian?s death imminent, each man jockeys for position and control.
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Three Sisters
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In this version, Olga, Irina, and Masha gather in a downtown Manhattan restaurant to celebrate Irina's birthday. Along the way they drink too much wine, share vicodin, commiserate about unhappy love lives and exile to the outer boroughs, and wonder whether they will ever be able to afford their beloved Upper West Side again
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Turnabout
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An actor in trouble summons the courage to invite his bitter ex-boyfriend for coffee, not in search of closure or rekindling but to ask a tremendous favor of his ex's newfound wealth. What dire circumstances would push him to such an act, and if the favor is granted, what strings will be attached?
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Urban Folk Tales
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A man searches New York's West Village for the homophobic gay basher who attacked him. He has realised that his attacker is the man that he wants
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What You Can't Hear
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the gay man at the straight wedding - his thoughts
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Where I Come From
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A woman at JFK Airport deals with her anally retentive boyfriend and a smirking Arabian man
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You Belong To Me
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A woman meets her lover who she has not seen since college. He is now homeless and schizophrenic
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