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Eric Henry Sanders

ERIC HENRY SANDERS

  
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    Peregrine Whittlesey Agency  

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below is a list of Eric Henry Sanders's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Bong Hits 4 Jesus         Freedom         Heliopause, The         Indebted         Inheritance         Napoleon In Exile         Prince Among Men, The         Reservoir         Where's Annie?

Bong Hits 4 Jesus

Synopsis:
Part of ObamAmerica: An Algerian prisoner is finally freed from Guantanamo Bay but what awaits him? An African-American university graduate campaigns for Obama in rough East Cleveland, Ohio but keeps getting stopped by armed and racist state troopers. A drone pilot in Arizona hides out in a nail bar. Edward Snowden chats to an Obama souvenir salesman in Washington DC. Bradley Manning dances in his jail cell. An ineffectual gun law is hotly debated on a TV news show. The voices of fourteen different playwrights are heard in ObamAmerica, the first theatre festival to focus purely on the effect this iconic American president has had on his country and on the world. ObamAmerica will give snapshots of the challenges that Barack Obama faces and the sometimes controversial choices he has made during his term of office. Playwrights include renowned TV and film writers Charles Evered (Adopt a Sailor starring Peter Coyote, USAs Monk) and Jacquelyn Reingold (NBCs Smash and Law and Order, HBOs In Treatment), many award winning playwrights from around the United States whose work has been seen at Primary Stages, Naked Angels, Manhattan Repertory Theater (NYC), Milwaukee Rep, Kennedy Center and New Jersey Rep as well as several American writers who have studied at the Royal Court Young Writers Programme and had work produced in London. Seven fifteen minute plays will be performed each evening for a week with seven different plays presented the following week.

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Organisations:
Theatre503 and Over Here Theatre Company

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15 min play

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Freedom

Synopsis:
Now in its tenth year, theDrillingCompaNY is well known for its collections of new plays around common themes. the theme this year is FREEDOM. "We chose it because of all of the attention our FREE -market economy has gotten lately and because we're still fighting wars for the same cause," says artistic director Hamilton Clancy. "Franklin Roosevelt outlined four freedoms America was responsible for defending-that was the kick-off point for playwrights." With grants from the New York State Council on the Arts and Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, theDrillingCompaNY commissions writers to write around the chosen theme. the directors of this year's plays are: Hamilton Clancy, Robert A. Wilson, Tom Demenkoff, Jude Domski, David Marantz, Richard Mover, and Rebecca Hengstenberg.
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
authors Brian Dykstra, Andrea Moon, C. Denby Swanson, Trish Harnetiaux, Richard Mover, Sean Lewis, Eric Henry Sanders, Kate McCamy

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theDrillingCompaNY

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Genre:
short play

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Heliopause, The

Synopsis:
In order to explore the fabric of forgiveness, the Heliopause takes as its subject the 1994 atrocities committed by neighbor against neighbor in the name of ethnic and political differences in Rwanda. the action of the play focuses on one Tutsi family as they struggle to survive the genocide taking place around them.

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Indebted

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part DEBT - 10 short plays About something we All have, the hot potato of America! Who's DEBT is it Anyway?

1st Produced:
Drilling Company theatre
107 West 82nd Street, #1A, New York, NY 10024    15 Apr 2012

Organisations:
theDrillingCompaNY

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short play

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Inheritance

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theDrillingCompaNY presents Justice, A themed evening of original short plays

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theDrillingCompaNY

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One Act

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Napoleon In Exile

Synopsis:
A man sits. A woman appears behind him. She begins to speak, telling him a story about Napoleon Bonaparte. She claims that he is Napoleon and that she is Shahrazad, the heroine of the Arabian Nights. He wants her to leave him alone, but she won't until he understands his crimes.

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Prince Among Men, The

Synopsis:
What happens when you study Machiavelli as a how-to guide? In order to impress his Father and obtain the use of his farm house for Half Term, Dickie convinces Bozo to run for Headboy. As unlikely a candidate as can be imagined, Bozo must overcome his own unfailing stupidity and mediocrity in order to win.

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Union, London    2006

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Male:  5            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Reservoir

Synopsis:
Reservoir is a new play by Eric Henry Sanders that reveals how the tragedy of a distant war seethes within us. Buchner's Woyzeck is re-imagined as the unsettling homecoming of a Mideastern War veteran--a lowly truck mechanic with PTSD. Sanders peers into the souls of the soldier, his Staff Sergeant, his military psychiatrist (a woman), his closest buddy from overseas who is now serving with him stateside, and his girlfriend who is mother of his infant son. the plain-spoken, powerful Drama hits with the force of a mass outcry in our war-weary age. Private Frank Hasek, a young veteran of a foreign war, returns home to await his redeployment. While suffering from the strains of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, he struggles to keep his job as an Army mechanic in order to support Marisa, the mother of his newborn son. He has maintained the vehicles that American troops have driven through occupied cities, often in a state of fright and at peril to civilians in their path. Unsettling visions of what he has seen and a series of unfortunate events threaten to upend his career and derail his relationship with Marisa. Although Hasek seeks help from an overworked psychiatrist at VA hospital, his behavior becomes increasingly erratic and threatens to turn violent when he discovers that Marisa is having an affair with his Staff Sergeant.
- nytheatre.com

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translated And produced As HASEKS HEIMKEHR At theatre89 in Berlin, Germany in May, 2011 (and reprised there in September, 2011)

1st Produced:
Drilling Company theatre
107 West 82nd Street, 1A, New York, NY 10024    04 Nov 2010

Organisations:
theDrillingCompaNY

1st Published:
A scene from RESERVOIRis published in the Best Men's Stage Monologues And Scenes 2011. Smith & Kraus, Inc   -

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Genre:
95 min Play/Drama

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Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Where's Annie?

Synopsis:
Where's Annie? Who's Annie? And what have Jack and Birdie done with her? When Sarah Bitts returns home to confront her estranged grandparents about their destructive influence on her mother, she discovers that the eccentric pair hides a past more frightening than she ever imagined. Caught in the couple's alternately terrifying and bitterly comic web of riddles, lies and suspicion, Sarah fights to find her way to the truth and to her family's redemption.

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Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

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