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Mark Rigney

MARK RIGNEY

  (1967 - )
Nationality:    USA
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Mark Rigney is the author of Deaf Side Story: Deaf Sharks, Hearing Jets and a Classic American Musical (Gallaudet University Press, 2003). His short fiction has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and appears in venues such as the Best of the Bellevue Literary Review, All Hallows, Black Gate, Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, and the anthologies Traps andShadow Regions. His novel, In the Wink of a Stone God's Eye, won the 2009 First Coast Novel Contest.Other writing projects have earned grants from the Indiana Arts Council and the Vogelstein Foundation. His full-length play Nightjars was featured in the 2009 Y.E.S. Festival (April 2009). Other plays have also won national contests (the Maxim Mazumdar New Play Competition and the Panowski Playwriting Award) and have been performed (as the song says) from sea to shining seA. Venues include the Ark Theatre (Los Angeles, CA), the Utah Shakespearean Festival (Cedar City, UT), the Forest Roberts Theatre (Marquette, MI), and the Foothill Theatre Company (Nevada City, CA), with upcoming work through the Audacity Theatre Lab (Austin, TX). His website is www.markrigney.net.

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

         Acts of God         Advice for 56         Bears         Burning Mona Lisa in the Reptile House         Cavers         Digging in the Margins         Experts, The         Gaining Ground         Lines In the Sand         Migratory Birds Of Iraq         Nightjars         Porch Revival         Ten Red Kings         Twenty-Three Hundred

Acts of God

Synopsis:
A storm-tossed swirl of a play,Acts of God tracks twelve high-school students through the year following a devastating tornado strike. As the students grieve, assist in the recovery efforts, and tackle the basics of getting on with life, they must also cope with the storm's emotional detritus. Friendships and allegiances shift, beliefs and faith are tested, and the threat of a new storm forces each character to relive the once-in-a-lifetime terror they thought they'd put behind them. . .

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1st Produced:
Evansville Civic Theatre (Evansville, IN, United States)    2006

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Playscripts, Inc - New York   -

Music:
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Genre:
80-100 min Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  7            Other:  5 males, 7 females

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Advice for 56

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Produced As part of Studio 400's Short Attention Span Festival.

1st Produced:
-    2007

Organisations:
Studio 400 (Pensacola, FL)

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
comedy 10 Min

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Bears

Synopsis:
the human world is going to hell in a hand-basket, but neither Growl Bear nor Timmy Bear, two grizzlies stuck in a suddenly deserted zoo, have the least idea what a hand-basket might be. Enter Susie, a new wild bear, who convinces them to enter the world of the wilderness. Growl, Timmy, and Susie must learn who they are, how to survive, and define for themselves what it truly means to be a Bear.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Northern Michigan University at the Forest Roberts Theatre, Marquette, Michigan    Nov 2012

Organisations:
Sans A Productions

1st Published:
http://www.indietheaternow.com/Play/bears   -

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama 105 min

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Burning Mona Lisa in the Reptile House

Synopsis:
In the reptile house of a successful zoo, the new intern (who is not at all what she first appears) discovers that the animals she is supposed to care for are going missing at an alarming rate.

Notes:
Burning Mona Lisa in the Reptile House won the 2004 Mildred And Albert Panowski Playwriting Award.

1st Produced:
Northern Michigan University at the Forest Roberts Theatre, Marquette, Michigan    2004

Organisations:
Northern Michigan University Theatre Dept.

1st Published:
http://www.indietheaternow.com/Play/burning-mona-lisa-in-the-reptile-house   -

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama 120 min

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Cavers

Synopsis:
When cantankerous Gertie Stovall discovers a limestone cave system under her bankrupt farm house, she attempts, over all manner of unlikely opposition, to cash in on what she views as her slice of the American Dream.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Capital Fringe Festival, DC    Jul 2010

Organisations:
Nu Sass Productions

1st Published:
http://www.indietheaternow.com/Play/cavers   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama 100 min

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Digging in the Margins

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Both of the productions listed Above were staged readings.

1st Produced:
Foothill Theatre Company, Nevada City, CA    2001

Organisations:
Utah Shakespearean Festival (Cedar City, UT)

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Genre:
Historical Drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Experts, The

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Staged reading only.

1st Produced:
New Voices of the Wild West Festival    2004

Organisations:
Foothill Theatre Company (Nevada City, CA)

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Ghost Story Gold Rush Dramedy

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Gaining Ground

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Gaining Ground Also received A staged reading At the Utah Shakespearean Festival (Cedar City, UT), 2004.

1st Produced:
the Ark Theatre (Los Angeles, CA)    2006

Organisations:
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1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Lines In the Sand

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Lines in the Sand was originally produced As A staged reading by the Foothill theatre Company (Nevada City, CA) At the 2002 New Voices of the Wild West Festival under the title Asylum. It went on to win the 2002 Maxim Mazumdar New Play Competition through the Alleyway theatre (Buffalo, NY).

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Alleyway Theatre (Buffalo, NY)

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Migratory Birds Of Iraq

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
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1st Published:
the Best 10-Minute Plays Of 2012. Published by Smith and Kraus, Inc.    -

Music:
-

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Genre:
ten min

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Nightjars

Synopsis:
A group of eco-sensitive college students vote down the idea of setting fire to the local intake depot for the local power plant, but one of them does it anyway, leading to a tense whodunnit, a ritual gone wrong, and charges of domestic terrorism.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Northern Kentucky University's Department Of Theatre and Dance as part of the Y.E.S. Festival at NKU's Corbett Theatre    2009

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
http://www.indietheaternow.com/Play/nightjars   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama 120 min

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  8            Other:  3

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Porch Revival

Synopsis:
the morning after a disaster at a tent revival, two aging sisters contemplate taking their lives in a new direction.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Universal Theatre Festival, Provincetown, MA    21 Jan 2011

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
in Great Short Comedies: Volume 6, Playscripts Inc   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
short comedy

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Ten Red Kings

Synopsis:
One year into college and still grieving over the sudden death of her sister, Margot Cates plans to spend every waking minute of summer vacation honing her skills at World of Warcraft. But before she can even log on, Margot finds herself unwillingly whisked away to a wilderness camp for online gaming addicts. Cut off from technology, the campers and counselors wrestle with personal demons both online and off. A contemporary play built on contemporary concerns, Ten Red Kings uses music, dance, and live-action avatars to bridge the ever-shrinking gap between reality and digital fantasy.

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1st Produced:
Andrew Hill High School, San jose CA    22 Mar 2011

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Playscripts, Inc   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
95 min dramedy

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  6            Other:  4 either (10-18 possible: 6-10 f, 4-8 m)

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Twenty-Three Hundred

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Best 10-Minute Plays 2013 Plays For Three Or More Actors. Published by Smith and Kraus, Inc.    -

Music:
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Genre:
ten min

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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