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MOLLY RICE
Nationality: USA
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Molly Rice is a playwright/songwriter whose work has been developed and produced in NYC (Public Theater, Playwrights Horizons, Rattlestick, Women's Project, NYTW, HERE, NYU/ Tisch) and nationally (American Repertory Theater, Trinity Rep, McCarter Theater, Salvage Vanguard, Strand Theater, Kitchen Dog, Vortex, Montana Rep). Heinemann Press, Clarkson Potter, the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor Press, Salvage Vanguard Press, Perishable Press, Austin Script Works Press, Head's Tart, Kenyon Review, Austin Chronicle and DEVICE.com have published her work. Molly has enjoyed residencies at Voice and Vision, Hangar Theater, Missoula Colony, Yale/ P73 Residency, America-In-Play, and Bartlett Island Retreat. Commissions include SAFEWORD (NYU/Tisch Graduate Acting Program), SISTERS LEAR (Visible Theater) and GHOST OF DON JUAN (Montclair State University). Awards include the International Women's Playwriting Festival, New York Innovative Theater Awards (nominee, Outstanding Original Short Script), Brown's Weston Prize For Graduate Playwriting, Theater Masters National MFA Playwriting Festival, and the Montclair University and Pace University New Works Initiatives. 2012 productions include Futurity the Musical at American Repertory Theater and Walker Arts Center (book co-writer) and the Saints Tour, a traveling site-specific play presented by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. Other Saints Tours have appeared in Louisville, KY, in collaboration with Motherlodge Live Arts Exchange and the Salvation Army, and NYC's West Village, with support from Judson Church, Cherry Lane Theater and Jefferson Market Garden, and with the inimitable Taylor Mac as Tour Guide. Molly received an MFA from Brown University under the instruction of Paula Vogel and currently teaches at Marymount Manhattan College, Montclair State, and Pace University, where she is currently designing a BA major in "21st Century Storytelling": writing for Theater, TV, film, video games and other mediA. Molly is a longtime musician/songwriter. When she was 18 one of her songs made the Top 100 Charts in AlaskA. She still doesn't know what number it was.
Research: Member of the Dramatists Guild of America (as at 2015)
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Bad Cowboy, The Baptist of the Seventh Sink Birth of Paper, The Bluebird Canary Dime Show Don't Stop Futurity, a Musical By the Lisps Ghost of Don Juan, The Hiroshima 2013: the Apology Module Line Mercury Sloop, The Mine Of M, Mother of the Forever War Penance: the Ghost of Don Juan Safeword Saint Enid and the Black Hand Saints Tour, The Sisters Lear, The Texas Diner Triptych Thicket of the Lame Watch: A HauntingBad Cowboy, The
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Two superheroes have been summoned to the Bad Cowboy's lair by an unseen and mysterious Voice. there's the Razor Girl, a tough broad with a secret soft side, razors growing out of her fingers and a metal megaphone built into her throat. then there's the Mass of Newborn, a huge, pink, overgrown baby (literally). Her attractor scent makes people want to protect her, and a Charm Beam that shoots out of her umbilical cord and makes her irresistible. And then there's the Bad Cowboy, possibly the coolest being in the universe: He has the power of withering apathy, immediately making mere mortals just want to give the hell up, and can drink gasoline like some people drink water. Oh, and he breathes fire. the Razor Girl and Mass of Newborn each believe they have been summoned to win him as their superpartner. While the Razor Girl desperately wants his help in order to "bring down the strong", "build dungeons" and basically "ruin everybody's day", the Mass of Newborn is in grave need of a Protector to keep her soft sweet self safe. So the battle ensues; they try every trick in the book to get the other to cave in. As the war persists, both Razor and the Mass realize that their powers are exact and opposite in force and quality, and that if they keep fighting they may end up destroying themselves. In the end, they must decide: Should they fight to the death, or compromise--unprecedented in the world of uber-mortals?
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Original music written by Molly Rice, with the band And they Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead. Chosen as one of the "Top Ten Moments in theater", Austin Chronicle, 1996.
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Electric Lounge, Austin Tx 1996
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Salvage Vanguard Theater
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Salvage Vanguard Press, 1996 -
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One-act play with music
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Male: 1 Female: 2 Other: Band musicians
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Top of PageBaptist of the Seventh Sink
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A dark, disturbing look into the magical underground world of punk rock obsession, Molly Rice's play Baptist of the Seventh Sink is a study of the white-hot need to belong. Set in the women's bathroom of a seedy early 90's rock club, the audience is initiated into the rituals of punk rock fandom and the creation of modern myths. Twelve-year-old Arista is the Baptist of the Seventh Sink, protecting her realm from junkies and the ancient darkness that lurks in the Murder Stall. the sounds of the concert Pulse through the walls, keeping the evil at bay, but the band can't play forever. . .
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Drama
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Male: 4 Female: - Other: 5, and 4 female chorus members
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Top of PageBirth of Paper, The
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Experiment 002. Intent: To soften the cruelty of absence. To rupture the caul of separation. To witness in real-time the rebirth of a medium. the Birth of Paper is both a paean to and a memorial for paper as an elegant and sensory medium for communication across distance. Necessarily performed in a location far away from the playwright, in this piece the actor becomes the paper upon which the playwright remotely writes her message to the audience. Mail is opened and delivered to the audience during the play, and audience messages are packed and mailed as well; and at the end of the evening the audience is encouraged to commence an informal mail correspondence with the playwright. (Note: After the first production of this play, the writer continued to receive mail from members of the audience for four years.)
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Also produced at FronteraFest, Hyde Park theater in Austin Texas, in 2003; winner of Best of the Week and Best of the Fest.
1st Produced:
The Drilling Company, NYC 2003
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One-act
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Male: - Female: - Other: 1, either gender
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Top of PageBluebird
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Original Playwright - Maurice Maeterlinck
1st Produced:
Mandell Theatre, Drexel University, Philadelhia 29 Apr 2009
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Translation
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Top of PageCanary
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CANARY is a new musical that fuses the traditions of Flatt and Scruggs to Laurie Anderson to Selena to Rush, with a few other stops in between. Set in the heartland of America and seen through the eyes of four lonely teenagers, it traces the generation and regeneration of our country's music. A band might form. A banjo might break. And a young girl will hear an electric guitar for the first time. CANARY is for anyone who ever was or dreamed of being a part of a band, for anyone who remembers listening to Led Zeppelin for the first time, and for anyone wondering what the sound pulsing at the center of our great American mess sounds like. CANARY was first conceived in 2007 by playwright/ musician Molly Rice, Obie Award-winning director Rachel Chavkin, and musician Ray Rizzo.
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book, lyrics, music with Ray Rizzo. Also appropriate for young adult programming. For clips of music, please visit playwright's website.
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musical
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Male: 1 Female: 4 Other: -
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Top of PageDime Show
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Women's Project presents Girls Just Wanna Have Fund$: six new works about women and wealth. Performances take place throughout the complex of the WFC and the audience will move from space to space. Women's Project, taking its theme from a venue that has "world financial" in its name, presents six new, short, site-specific works about the relationships between women and wealth (or lack thereof) in Girls Just Wanna Have Fund$.
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Written by Molly Rice; other participating writers include Peggy Stafford, Katori Hall, Andrea Lepcio, Saviana Stanescu, Joy Tomasko and Christina Gorman.
1st Produced:
World Financial Center, NY 2007
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Women's Project and Productions
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One-act
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Male: 1 Female: 1 Other: -
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Top of PageDon't Stop
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What happens when overpowering sexuality gets trapped in a host of different bodies? Who falls prey to violence in the pursuit of sexual satisfaction? Who tries to make the pleasure stop? And what price do individuals have to pay for breaking the sexual mold? the first act of Don't Stop explores the insular world of a group of teenagers discovering their sexual instincts. the play follows them through the craggy and bewildering terrain of young attraction, jealousy, and violence. the second act splinters time to follow them into their adult years, as they push themselves to the edges of pleasure and pain in their search for their own borders-- borders which shift in unsettling ways.
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Received Brown University Weston Prize for Playwriting; nominated for Cherry Lane Mentor Program by Playwrights Horizons. Readings and development at the Missoula Colony (Montana Rep), Voice and Vision Retreat at Bard College, and the Women's Project (NYC).
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Workshop Production: Brown University Apr 2006
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Drama, full-length
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Male: 3 Female: 4 Other: -
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Top of PageFuturity, a Musical By the Lisps
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tells the story of Julian Munro, a young Union Soldier in the Civil War who is an aspiring inventor and science fiction visionary. Through correspondence with his brilliant mentor, the famous metaphysician Ada Lovelace, Julian escapes the horrors and monotony of his daily life by dreaming up a high-tech dystopian future. In their far-fetched visions they devise an omnipotent steam-powered artificial intelligence that is destined to end war and all of humanity's miseries. Performed by the Brooklyn band the Lisps, the show fuses traditional American folk, Brechtian choral elements, and the Lisps' own brand of eccentric indie rock into a unique and compelling portrait of war, human imagination, and technological hubris.
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Also produced at Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis, MN, April 2012; Joe's Pub, NYC (concert), December 2011 and August 2010; HERE Arts Center, NYC (workshop), April 2010; and Rudyard Kipling, Louisville KY (workshop), April 2010.
1st Produced:
American Repertory Theater, Boston Ma 2012
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Musical (book), full-length
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Male: 3 Female: 1 Other: 4 (either sex)
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Top of PageGhost of Don Juan, The
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Top of PageHiroshima 2013: the Apology Module
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Hiroshima 2013: the Apology Module is a study of personal and public violence, its companion guilt, the exhaustion they create together, and the power of confession to destroy or restore human faith. the play masquerades as a training event led by an emotionally rickety corporate trainer, created by an American mega-corporation to demonstrate its "sense of responsibility" about the part it played in developing the atom bomb. What it really wants: to land a partnership with a Japanese mega-corporation, through "apologizing". the evening careens into strange and personal territory upon the arrival of two Japanese descendants of bomb survivors, the "re-animation artists" Hatsuyo and Isamu, who have been sent to share their personal experience with the audience and to "assist" the trainer. the Twins weave their own fractured points of view into the discussion and force personal confessions from some of the training's "audience members", as well as from the trainer himself. As the play unfolds, the audience is faced with an examination of its own complicity in the decisions that are made in its name, both in the training and in the world outside.
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Nominated for the Cherry Lane Mentor Project (Anne Kauffman). Readings and development: New Georges (NYC 2007).
1st Produced:
Workshop Production At Brown University 2005
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Drama, full length
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Male: 4 Female: 3 Other: -
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Top of PageMercury Sloop, The
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History sometimes leaves a residue. What happens when that residue leaves a mark on the present? Mavis, our heroine, collects bits of detritus that somehow "look familiar" to her, from the streets of her city on the shores of Lake Erie. She lives in Agatha's basement apartment, where she pays the rent when she can. Agatha, a middle-aged lonely landlady, has befriended Mavis, seeking comfort from the dreams that haunt her. For Mavis, this is natural: just as she attracts detritus with its lost stories, she also attracts people's "damage"-their unsung pain. Mavis is also a lover of words, those vessels of history, which allows entrance for the sailors of the Mercury Sloop, one of the many boats lost during the great ice storms on Lake Erie in the mid-1800's. the sailors' words begin to trickle into her environment and little by little, like messages in bottles, their shanties, words and pleas for her to "speak for them" begin to take over her apartment and her body. As Agatha looks on, Mavis becomes first the translator for their lost histories, and then the boat itself upon which their lost stories enter into our present world.
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Finalist for the Princess Grace Award, 2005. Readings include the Drilling Company (2003) and Austin Script Works (2003).
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A full-length Drama with music
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Male: - Female: 2 Other: Musicians
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Top of PageMine
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An ensemble play for between 10 and 22 Middle School-age young adults about what it means to own something, and what it feels like to yearn to possess either something or someone. This hour-long play contains scenes intended to be re-devised with movement/ dance by each cast and director. It also contains text-based segments that can be rewritten by each cast, to reflect their personal desires and challenges. In this way, the play serves as an excellent introduction to devised theater for Middle School-aged actors, and can serve as a unique expression of each performing group's character and sensibilities.
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1st Produced:
Choate-Rosemary Hall, Wallingford Ct 2008
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ensemble play for young adults (hour-long)
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Male: 3 at least Female: 7 at least Other: Total cast 10 min, 22 max
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Top of PageOf M, Mother of the Forever War
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Summerworks Short Play Event 2006
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Top of PagePenance: the Ghost of Don Juan
Synopsis:
What happens when overpowering sexuality gets trapped in a body? How does it work its way out? Who falls prey to violence in the pursuit of sexual satisfaction? Who tries to make the pleasure stop? And what price do individuals have to pay for breaking the sexual mold? Created in collaboration with and performed by the BA theatre Studies class of 2012, PENANCE uses movement, music, and live games to discover who changes and who does the changing in this hyper-sexual world. This world-premiere exploration/explosion of the Don Juan archetype promises to be a unique evening of live performance.
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To write this play the playwright drew from various versions of the Don Juan myth, and incorporated text and ideas from the senior BA Acting students of Montclair, as well as from director Debbie Saivetz and choreographer Heather Benton. More information at http://www.peakperfs.org/insite/?cat=93
1st Produced:
Montclair State University, Montclair Nj 2012
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Montclair State University
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Full-length ensemble play
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Male: Between 5 and 9 Female: Between 5 and 9 Other: -
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Top of PageSafeword
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the hit reality show SAFEWORD has everything but reality: a hot domme whose favorite client pays in the thousands to be forced not to lie; a preacher whose still small voice suddenly speaks in the gibberish of invisible birds; an aging celebrity who undergoes 14 plastic surgeries at once to ride the high of false hope they bring. But producer/ writers Margo and Perry, the real-life couple in charge of making sure the magic happens every week, have a problem-the truth between them is eating them alive. This kaleidoscopic, Technicolor ensemble play wrestles with the question: when it comes to restoring love, building faith, or making the world a better place, what's really wrong with revising reality?
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1st Produced:
Atlas Theatre, 111 2nd Ave., 3rd Floor, NY 02 Dec 2010
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New York University, Tisch School of the Arts Graduate Acting Program and the Department of Design for Stage and Film. A Third Year Production.
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Full-length dramedy
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Male: 5 Female: 3 Other: 1 (either sex)
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Top of PageSaint Enid and the Black Hand
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In a creak-shack by the ocean, Big Enid exiles her daughter Little Enid to the attic, in fear of her budding supernatural powers. Steve, the overgrown, Lego-playing son, is torn between sympathy for his sister and fear of his mother, who's deeply and darkly magical too. And Father, made partly of cardboard, is intentionally blind to Big Enid's force. She is obsessed with ordering from TV home shopping channels and is convinced that someday her "special prize" will come to save her from the everyday. But each time the family opens a box it merely finds the usual junk that's sold on TV-- until one day, when the Black Hand arrives. Its wrinkled fingers move on their own. It pulses with an uneasy warmth. But what exactly is it? Darker clouds converge as Big Enid's power surges, aided by the black talisman. As tragic events unfold, Little Enid is left to witness what the rest of the family can't see: that desire is the match that can burn your whole house down.
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Readings and development include Clubbed Thumb Summerworks Festival, NYC, 2004; Austin Script Works Pulse Works Festival, 2003; Kitchen Dog theater New Works Festival, Dallas, TX, 2002.
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Vortex Theater, Austin Tx Jan 2005
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Full-length Drama with music
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Male: 2 Female: 2 Other: -
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Top of PageSaints Tour, The
Synopsis:
the SAINTS TOUR is a site-specific play in the form of a walking or bus tour. It moves through an unsung neighborhood, excavating its secrets and sub rosa magic. It can happen in any city or country; for each location, the playwright rewrites the play in response to the place's unique cultural, environmental, historical, and musical identity. the play is led by a "Tour Guide" (a local actor) who tells stories of "saints" that have inhabited the city, layering real and invented local history as she traverses her own personal journey. Along the way, audiences encounter local musicians and artists embedded in the landscape. Saints lurk quietly in every corner of the world, performing acts of good whether we notice or not; and the play encourages its participants to do the same. the audience must perform a specified Act of Good to complete the narrative, and each Tour ends with a shared meal at a local soup kitchen. the first SAINTS TOUR appeared in Louisville, KY's Live Oaks neighborhood in 2009. the second occurred in NYC's West Village in 2010, with Taylor Mac as the Tour Guide. the most recent: Lower Manhattan in 2012, produced by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.
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More info about the Saints Tour at http://www.mollyrice.info/molly_rice,_playwright/saints_tour/saints_tour.php
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Louisville, Ky 2009
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Site-Specific Walking or Bus Tour
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Top of PageSisters Lear, The
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Two sisters are held in a custom-made Hell: they sit on the dirty sofa of their youth and eat junk food for all eternity, rehashing history, real and pretend. An invisible third breathes at the door. Is she a memory or a real-life threat? Watch them plot her capture and murder and forgiveness by force. Somebody's got to survive this family; which sister will it be?
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1st Produced:
Reading, Ionica Theater, New York NY Dec 2009
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Visible Theater Company (commission)
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Top of PageTexas Diner Triptych
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This was back when we were young and hot. All of us. Even the drunks and burnouts. Early nineties. Hot is the same in every decade. We had it. I knew I was young cause I could feel the black lightening inside me with its jagged edges glowing and when a guy looked at me that one way I could feel the sharp root of it deep in my gut and the future ran like an endless shining cord from that sharp root in my gut to forever. Based on the German story of Tannhauser and set in the kitchen of a Texas Diner, the play centers on young line cooks and band members Neely, Belden and Lowell as they joke, lie, and try to get through the graveyard shift of their lives by "making food out of this bad handwriting".
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the last section of the triptych, "LINE", won the Women's International Playwriting Festival at Perishable theater, Providence RI, in 2006.
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Top of PageThicket of the Lame
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A sci-fi peep show thick with futuristic gin and incidental music, Thicket takes place in a world in which seediness and human damage are not just unseemly-they're illegal. This fast-moving roadhouse Drama follows a group of young women who, when faced with a life of government-mandated perfection through plastic surgery and surveillance, opt instead to visit "the Thicket". . .and then sell their illicit scars (and worse) to the highest bidder at the verboten Rocking Horse Roadhouse. But things at the Roadhouse aren't always what they seem, and their broken-bodied burlesque is bound to end in tears. . .Thicket examines the pendulum swing of thrill and aversion at the core of fringe sex trade through stylistic sci-fi, burlesque and futuristic fantasy.
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1st Produced:
Hangar Theater, Ithaca NY 2005
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Hour-long Drama
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Top of PageWatch: A Haunting
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Vi, a lonely, chubby girl in an ancient mammoth New England house, has a lot to contend with: a vacant mother, a predatory shrink, a creature calling to her from the haunted basement, and the weight of a loss a little too heavy to bear. She also has a secret: a ghost, luminous, not entirely nice, and seemingly born from the house itself, who is quickly becoming her best friend. This friendship is real. Vi knows it. Vi feels it. the ghost's presence is realer than Vi's fading grandmother who shuffles around the house in her own dim world. But her mother, her friends and her shrink beg to differ. When it comes to reality, who gets to decide? And is the force in the basement, drawing her to itself, real too-will it swallow her whole when she confronts it, or will it turn out just to be a shadow of loss, spun into being by her wounded imagination?
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Nominee for the Kesselring Fellowship, 2007; semifinalist for PlayLabs, Playwrights' Center; finalist for P73 Fellowship. Readings and development include Trinity Rep (Providence, RI), the Women's Project and Productions (NYC), and Kitchen Dog theater's New Works Festival in Dallas TX
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Strand Theater, Baltimore Md Oct 2008
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Genre:
Drama, full-length
Parts:
Male: 4 Female: 2 Other: -
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