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Sharon Houck Ross

SHARON HOUCK ROSS  (1951 - )

 Nationality:    USA
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Sharon Houck Ross graduated from the Iowa Playwrights Workshop with the MFA in dramatic writing and worked in New York City at the Women's Project & Productions as literary manager and playwright-in-residence. While at the WPP, she designed and implemented the Playwrights Lab, a workshop for emerging professional writers, and coordinated Tandem Acts, an annual production of new work written by Lab writers. Her own plays have been produced off-Broadway as well as abroad and in regional theatres throughout the United States. Her monologue plays have been produced by National Public Radio and published in various anthologies by Heinemann Books. Ms. Ross also writes screenplays and narrative fiction.

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 11 Shades of White: the Story of Veronica Lake         Boxes         Entry Points         Game!         Land for Elvis         Melting Season, A         Monologue fromTrapped Daylight         Signage         Snake         Throwing Overhand         Trapped Daylight         Waiting

11 Shades of White: the Story of Veronica Lake

Synopsis:
It's 1965 in New York City, and the woman who was once described as "the most beautiful person who ever came to Hollywood," is on the stage of a seedy bar in the Martha Washington Hotel. Her purpose? To tell the true story of the woman who lived the life behind the famous peek-a-boo hairstyle.

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1st Produced:
Samuel Beckett Theater    1994

Organisations:
The Women's Project & Productions

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
One-woman Play

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Boxes

Synopsis:
An insecure teacher reaches a turning point in her life while shopping at the HyVee.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
The Iowa Radio Project    1993

Organisations:
National Public Radio

1st Published:
In More Monologues for Women by Women, Heinemann Books, 1996   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Monologue Play

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Entry Points

Synopsis:
In the intensive care unit of a small Texas hospital, a family matriarch explores the landscape between life and death while her daughter and granddaughter drive all night from the Midwest to get to her. Time and space collapse as the three women confront their shared pasts and try to make plans for their uncertain futures.

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1st Produced:
University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa    1990

Organisations:
University of Iowa Department of Theatre Arts

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Game!

Synopsis:
A Southern woman spars with her mischievous elderly mother in a dark basement after the mother has ruined her wedding.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Circle Repertory Lab Theatre, New York, NY    1993

Organisations:
Circle Repertory Theatre

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Monologue Play

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Land for Elvis

Synopsis:
A Southern woman tries to trade her lucky Elvis ring to her greedy sister for a piece of family land.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
St. Petersburg, IL    1999

Organisations:
New Salem Chautauqua Theatre

1st Published:
In The Elvis Monologues, Heinemann Books, 1998   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Monologue Play

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Melting Season, A

Synopsis:
The play weaves the journeys of two women from different centuries. Based on Narcissa Whitmans's actual journal, her story begins in 1836 as she travels across the Oregon Trail, continues through her eleven-year struggle to convert the Cayuse Indians to Christianity, and ends with her violent death during the infamous Whitman Massacre. Interwoven with Narcissa's story is that of Jac Collins in the present day. Half-white, half-Cayuse, raised far from her homeland and her people, Jac is summoned back to the reservation when her Cayuse grandmother dies. Traveling across the Oregon Trail by mountain bike, Jac unexpectedly finds herself guided by the ancient Native American trickster, Coyote, who is determined to bring the girl back to her tribal roots.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Lincoln Center, New York, NY    1993

Organisations:
The Women's Project & Productions

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  3            Other:  6 actors in ensemble

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Monologue fromTrapped Daylight

Synopsis:
A young woman, held captive for weeks inside her bedroom, tries to persuade her unstable husband to release her.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
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1st Published:
In The Best Women's Stage Monologues of 1993, 1993   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Monologue

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Signage

Synopsis:
A woman tries to rescue a young girl from a dangerous traveling companion when they both find themselves in the restroom of the same truck stop.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
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1st Published:
In Monologues from the Road, Heinemann Books, 1999   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Monologue Play

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Snake

Synopsis:
A departing inmate from a mental asylum gives advice to the troubled woman who has come to occupy her room.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Iowa Radio Project    1991

Organisations:
National Public Radio

1st Published:
In Monologues for Women by Women, Heinemann Books, 1994   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Monologue Play

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Throwing Overhand

Synopsis:
A single mom who had to miss her young daughter's first softball game, tries to coax her out from her hiding place in the dugout.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Touring Production: Overseas and United States    2000

Organisations:
Theatre Bravo - US Army

1st Published:
in Baseball Monologues, Heineman Educational (ed Lavonne Mueller), 1996   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
monologue One Act

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Trapped Daylight

Synopsis:
Wyatt Stillman must decide what to do with the mysterious creature he's kept locked in the bedroom for ten years. Now that it has attacked him, should he heed his father's advice and shoot it? Or should he listen to his mother, who begs him to set it free? The play is set in the present day on a family farm in Kansas, but Wyatt's journey plunges him through dream, memory, and a secret past which haunts him in the specters of his dead parents. The story explores the complexities of family relationships, the impact of one generation upon all those that follow, and the cyclical nature of abuse.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Samuel Beckett Theater    1993

Organisations:
The New Georges

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Waiting

Synopsis:
A daughter confronts and ultimately forgives her mother who is hospitalized in an Intensive Care Unit.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Iowa Radio Project    1993

Organisations:
National Public Radio

1st Published:
As, "Entry Points," in Best Monologues from the Women's Project, Heinemann Books, 1996   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Monologue from Entry Points

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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