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NICK RYAN
Nationality: USA
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Nick Ryan's plays including biography, theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates
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Curious Case Of Phineas Gage, The Inspector Rex Le Gourmand or Gluttony! Legend of White Woman Creek, The Paper PlaneCurious Case Of Phineas Gage, The
Synopsis:
Phineas Gage, a 19th century railroad worker who was injured when an explosion drove a three foot iron spike through his brain, miraculously survived and recovered. Gages story led to powerful new theories about our minds and our personalities.
Notes:
by Nick Ryan, Music by Andrew Lynch
1st Produced:
VENUE #6: DROM, NY 15 Aug 2015
Organisations:
Split Knuckle Theatre
1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Comedy Vaudeville/Sideshow/Magic/Burlesque 1h 25m
Parts:
Male: - Female: - Other: -
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Top of PageInspector Rex
Synopsis:
A light, satiric comedy about a man who murders his Father and sleeps with his mother. Based on Sophocles' Oedipus Rex - but much, much funnier.
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1st Produced:
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1st Published:
One Act Play Depot, -
Music:
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Genre:
One Act
Parts:
Male: 4 Female: 2 Other: -
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Top of PageLe Gourmand or Gluttony!
Synopsis:
Gorge yourself on this ten course tale of appetite, revolution and the birth of the restaurant. An evening of excess hosted by the delightfully deformed foodie Grimod de La Reyniere.
Notes:
www.3sticks.org/
1st Produced:
New York International Fringe Festival Aug 2011
Organisations:
3 Sticks Theatre Company
1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
1h 15m Comedy Musical
Parts:
Male: - Female: - Other: -
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Top of PageLegend of White Woman Creek, The
Synopsis:
The American frontier, 1867- A young woman flees her war-torn home to start a new life in an unfamiliar land. A thirteen song cycle of love, betrayal and redemption sung by the ghost of Anna Morgan Faber.
Notes:
written by Katie Hartman and Nick Ryan
1st Produced:
Robert Gill, Toronto Fringe Festival 04 Jul 2014
Organisations:
The Coldharts
1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
60 min Drama, Musical
Parts:
Male: - Female: 1 Other: -
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Top of PagePaper Plane
Synopsis:
From the creators of Le Gourmand or Gluttony, Paper Plane is an adventure story set amongst the dust bowl train tracks and barnstorming exhibitions of the Great Depression, about a young boy hopping freight trains in the American midwest.
Notes:
Music And Lyrics by Andrew Lynch, Text by Nick Ryan, Creation by the Ensemble
1st Produced:
Venue #14: New Ohio Theatre, Fringe NYC, NY 10 Aug 2012
Organisations:
3 Sticks
1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
1h 0m Musical Drama
Parts:
Male: - Female: - Other: -
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