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David Mitchell Robinson

DAVID MITCHELL ROBINSON

  
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    ICM Partners  represented by Ross Weiner

David Mitchell Robinson is most likely a playwright because growing up in the suburbs of the Twin Cities requires one to develop a surplus of isolation-intensive, indoor hobbies. So far, his goal to write a play about all of the places he's ever lived has resulted in Carapace (Minneapolis), Olympic Village (Atlanta), The Imaginary Music Critic Who Doesn't Exist (Chicago), and Terminals (airplanes). He currently lives in Washington, DC, where he is working on plays about Baltimore and Ohio. These and other plays have been produced, developed, or presented at the Alliance Theatre, Center Theatre Group, Primary Stages, B Street Theatre, the Kennedy Center, Rep Stage, Inkwell Theatre, Pittsburgh Irish and Classical Theatre, Source DC, and Ohio University, where he received his MFA. He is the winner of both the Kendeda Graduate Playwriting Competition and the Scott McPherson Playwriting Award, a two-time nominee for the PoNY Fellowship, and has been a finalist for the Jerome Fellowship, the Old Vic's TS Eliot Commission, the Clubbed Thumb Biennial Commission, and the Inkwell's development programs. He is currently working on a commission for Theater J. Carapace is available through Samuel French.

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         Animals That Nobody Loves         Carapace         Imaginary Music CriticWho Doesn't Exist, The         Olympic Village         Terminal Condition

Animals That Nobody Loves

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A strange infection is turning people in Ohio into animals - snakes, pigs, bats and so on. Dodie and her friend Cal get infected. She decides that they must get to an animal sanctuary before the change is complete

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Carapace

Carapace
In Carapace, we settle into the passenger's seat alongside a drunk driver as he steers his way through the backstreets of his memory. Jeff, a Minneapolis sportscaster, hasn't spoken with his daughter Margo since his alcoholism demolished their relationship. When Jeff hears that the speech-impedimented Margo has stopped speaking, he decides to pay her a visit on her birthday. Determined to finally do the right thing for his daughter, Jeff steers his Oldsmobile through the Twin Cities, navigating past the recently collapsed 35W Bridge to deliver the one gift that has the power to get Margo to open up again.

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Alliance Theatre - Atlanta, Ga     01 Feb 2010

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Play/Drama

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Imaginary Music CriticWho Doesn't Exist, The

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Lacey runs an internet site that is one of the most influential around - it can make or break an act. Lacey starts promoting a controversial rapper - things start unravelling

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Rehearsed reading at Eugene O'Neill Theater Center National Playwright Conference     2014

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Drama

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Olympic Village

Synopsis:
the 1996 Summer Olympics. Atlanta had been enjoying its place on the world stage until a pipe bomb ripped through all the fanfare and celebration. the lives of two cops, a marketing strategist for the world's largest footwear company, a homeless man and a US sprinter converge in this mosaic of a city whose sense of self has come under attack. As each of them looks for a way to restore Atlanta's sense of pride, they find that some things are more damaging to a city than terrorism. And sometimes those things are tied to the city's highest ideals.

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Multi-Narrative Drama

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Terminal Condition

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Scott loves air travel - being in the netherworld between points A and B. This New Year's Eve, he has the plane all to himself as he flies to Milwaukee to see his family. However, upon takeoff, Scott begins experiencing some strange side effects of travel. Passengers begin appearing and disappearing, the airplane changes course, and his flight attendant keeps getting mysteriously older. When time begins to fluctuate and his fellow passengers begin to probe him with questions about death, family and responsibility, Scott begins to wonder if his love of being between places has come at a cost.

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Genre:
Comedic Fantasy

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