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WILL SCHEFFER
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WILL SCHEFFER is a playwright and filmmaker. His plays have been produced and developed across the country. In NYC: Playwright's Horizons, Naked Angels: EASTER, The Public Theatre and Ensemble Studio Theater, where he's had four plays in The Marathon. His first screenplay: IN THE GLOAMINGwasproduced by HBO NYC in 1997. Will then moved to Pasadena with husband Mark V. Olsen, and they began writing and producing together. In 2002 they created HBO's acclaimed drama: BIG LOVE. Over the course of his career, Will has refined his understanding of dramatic writing by mentoring young theatre artists and filmmakers "on the job," at theatre institutes and universities: EST (member), Actors' Studio (member), USC School of Cinematic Arts, City University of New York, etc. Currently, through their Organisations: ANIMA SOLA PRODUCTIONS, Will & Mark create film and television for HBO ENTERTAINMENT and continue to work with exceptional dramatic artists on both coasts.
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Alien Boy Easter Falling Man Fire Dance Green Book, The One Man's Meat Tennessee And MeAlien Boy
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A "coming out" story of a thirteen-year-old boy
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Top of PageEaster
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It is Good Friday. Matthew and Wilma have just set up home in Prattsville, Kansas. Wilma had been burning churches in Oklahoma forcing the couple to flee across the prairie states as felons. Matthew is hopeful he can make things right for them in Kansas with a new home and a steady job. Enter Herman, a violin-playing plumber with enormous feet and angel-like qualities, who fixes the young couple's sink, only to discover a beautiful Easter egg clogging the pipes. Wilma, who believes the Blessed Virgin is leading her to a wonderful occasion that will happen on Easter Day, takes the egg as a sign that she is pregnant. Wilma thanks Herman by washing his feet with her hair. Meanwhile, the town handyman, Zaddock Pratt, has been having religious visions of his own. He also picks up cable TV in his brain, thanks to a steel plate, and sporadically shouts out incoming news, weather reports and sitcom theme songs. Upon meeting Matthew, Zaddock recognizes him as one the of the individuals responsible for a church burning in their area. Matthew takes Zaddock hostage and reveals the story of his and Wilma's first baby who died in childbirth, ironically named Herman, and of Wilma's quest for redemption. When Matthew returns to the cabin-with Zaddock-Wilma attempts to introduce him to Herman the plumber, but Matthew can't see him. Matthew confronts Wilma with her delusion and "shoots" Herman, forcing Wilma to re-live the event that was the cause of their estrangement and of her intense pain. It is a catharsis long overdue, and now Easter Day is here and Wilma and Matthew must face an uncertain future and begin to rebuild their lives.
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Top of PageFalling Man
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A former cha-cha champion passionately remembers his love of dancing and the blistering sexual encounter that infected him with HIV
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Top of PageFire Dance
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A drag queen prepares in front of a mirror while discussing her idol, an older drag queen who died doing the "Fire Dance" that made her famous
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Top of PageGreen Book, The
Synopsis:
The aged mother a concentration camp survivor now has dementia and can remember nothing. The daughter is flighty and does not remember things
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part of SummerShorts 5
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59E59 Theaters
59 East 59th Street, New York, NY 10022 04 Aug 2011
59 East 59th Street, New York, NY 10022 04 Aug 2011
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Top of PageOne Man's Meat
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Someone's in the kitchen with Jeffrey. Jeffrey Dahmer, that is. But don't be fooled by the tabloids and the sensational trial-this lonely mid-westerner had his reasons for becoming the notorious gay cannibal. In this tender cooking lesson, you'll learn about Jeffrey's parents and the bizarre emotional torture of his childhood that left him willing to kill for love.
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Top of PageTennessee And Me
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The ghost of Tennessee Williams inhabits a male hustler and used him to have all the sex that Tennessee couldn't get when he was alive. But after the thrill wears off, Tennessee's craving for intimacy and love returns
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