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Joan M Schenkar

JOAN M SCHENKAR

  (1951 - )
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    Samuel French Inc  

Born in Seattle, WA. Ben. nington College, B.A. Advanced degrees in literature and aesthetics from University of California at Berkeley and S.U.N.Y. at Stony Brook. Playwright-in.Residence at Joseph Chaikin's experimental group the Winter Project; Ludwik Flauszen's workshop on Words, Polish Lab Theatre; Cummington Community for the Arts; Florida Studio Theatre. Professional musician and college teacher. Recipient: CAPS Grant.

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         Author of Bucks and Does         Between the Acts         Bucks and Does         Burning Desires         Cabin Fever         Family Pride in the 50's         Fire in the Future         Fulfilling Koch's Postulate         Hunting Down the Sexes         Last of Hitler, The         Last Words         Lodger, The         Mr Monster         Next Thing, The         Nothing Is Funnier Than Death         Signs of Life         Universal Wolf, The

Author of Bucks and Does

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Williams Art Center, New Jersey    1987

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Between the Acts

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New York    1984

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Bucks and Does

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in Hunting Down the Sexes

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New York    1987

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Burning Desires

Burning Desires
Joan of Arc is transported to Seattle in the 1950s. There are encounters with Gertrude Stein, boy scouts and a mad doctor

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aka "Joan of Ark"

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Minneapolis    1986

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Contained in: "Signs Of Life: Six Comedies Of Menace" published by Wesleyan University Press 1997   978-0819563231

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Comedy

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Cabin Fever

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three malevolent New England oldsters on a country porch reciting horrifying and hystErically funny stories about local customs

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1st Produced:
Los Angeles    1976

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Samuel French, NY, 1984   -

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Comedy of Menace

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Family Pride in the 50's

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1st Produced:
New York    1986

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in "the Kenyon Review", Kenyon, Ohio. Spring, 1993   -

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Fire in the Future

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Minneapolis    1987

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Fulfilling Koch's Postulate

Fulfilling Koch's Postulate
Typhoid Mary is featured as the live in chef of the scientist who identified the bacillus she spreads so liberally through her delectable cooking

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rights held by French, New York

1st Produced:
New York    1985

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Contained in: "Signs Of Life: Six Comedies Of Menace" published by Wesleyan University Press 1997   978-0819563231

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Dark Comedy Comedy

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Hunting Down the Sexes

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1st Produced:
Home Theater, New York    1987

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Last of Hitler, The

Last of Hitler, The
Hitler and Eva Braun are trapped in a post war Jewish retirement community in Florida

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rights held by French, New York

1st Produced:
New York    1981

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Contained in: "Signs Of Life: Six Comedies Of Menace" published by Wesleyan University Press 1997   978-0819563231

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Genre:
Dark Comedy Comedy

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Last Words

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Studio 17, New York    1977

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Lodger, The

Lodger, The
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1st Produced:
New York    1979

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Contained in: "Facing Forward" published by Broadway Publishing, 1995
In anthology: Amazon All Stars: Thirteen Lesbian Plays, ed. Rosemary Keefe Curb. ApplAuse. 2000   978-1557832207

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Gay/Lesbian, of interest

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Mr Monster

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New York    1980

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Alexander Street Press 2006   -

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Next Thing, The

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Los Angeles    1976

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Nothing Is Funnier Than Death

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New York    1988

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Signs of Life

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presents eminent Victorians - actual and fictious - as they perform their lives and experiment on their loved ones

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Women's Project

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in "the Women's Project Anthology", Performing Arts Journal Publishers, New York, 1980   -

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Play/Drama

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Male:  3            Female:  5            Other:  extras

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Universal Wolf, The

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send up of Little Red Riding Hood and modern French structuralism

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1st Produced:
New York    1991

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Applause Books, New York, 1992   -

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Genre:
Dark Comedy Comedy

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