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Garret Schneider

GARRET SCHNEIDER

  (1983 - )
Nationality:    USA
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Garret Schneider was born in a bubble in the middle of Maine, and has spent his entire life learning to thrive in it. His early stages of writing started in performance / SLAM poetry, and made the transition into plays while at Lehigh University. He graduated with a BA in Mathematics and Theatre from Lehigh University -- an artistic dichotomy, which was reflected in his first play: "Proud Beasts", centered around amphetamine-addicted mathematicians. His one-act, "Franky and Zoza", awarded him a place in the Kennedy Center Playwriting Intensive, and he studied under Lee Blessing, Chay Yew, Marsha Norman, Mark Bly, Heather McDonald, Gary Garrison, Melanie Marnich, and Roberto Aguirre-SacasA. For the two years after Lehigh and before Ohio, Garret was a company member in Maine's Heartwood Regional Theater Company, and was in the New England premier of Will Eno's one-man show, "Thom Pain: Based on Nothing". Technology, those striving to be godlike, and exploring the definition of family is at the artistic heart of Garret's work.

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below is a list of Garret Schneider's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Clockwork Child         Franky and Zoza         Proud Beasts

Clockwork Child

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Clockwork Child is based on the true story of two 19th Century math matisions, Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace who worked to create a computer 100 years before the first computer was actually invented. Babbage had created a prototype which was reviewed by scientist Luigi Menabrea, and published in French. To officially introduce Babbage's machine in England, Ada translated Menabrea's paper. In the process of translation, she doubled its original length with mathematics and notes of her own. What started as a simple translation project, blossomed into a treatise on the capabilities of the machine, with additional diagrams, figurative examples, and the world's first computer program to runon the as-yet realized machine, called the Analytical Engine. Schneider says he uses history as a backdrop in his piece to create a discussion on intellectual property and gender perspective. "the play explores the ownership of ideas, as well as exposing the disparity of scientific advancement and opportunity between the sexes," according to Schneider.

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reading at Fox VAlley Repertory, 4051 E. Main St., St. Charles, IL    16 Jul 2011

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Franky and Zoza

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One Act

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Proud Beasts

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centered around amphetamine-addicted mathematicians

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Play/Drama

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