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Jason Sebacher

JASON SEBACHER

  
Nationality:    USA
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Jason Sebacher is an award-winning playwright, screenwriter, performer, and mens fashion blogger, and is a graduate of the Carnegie Mellon School of Drama. He is a founding member of The New Theatre Project in Ann Arbor and an Associate Artist at Mental Notion Society in Chicago. Mostly, though, he self-produces. He lives in Chicago. He writes mainly comedies and adaptations that explore the modern individuals confrontation with culture. His innovations in the process of adaptation were featured in American Theatre Magazine (Feb 2011).

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         Abstract Art         All Aboard the Hidenburg         All Alone With You         American Crowbar Case, The         Baal         Brohug         Can't You See?         Dangerous Meditations         Edward the Second         Everyman Project, The         Falser Heart, The         Few Survivors, A         Frenchman, The         Inspector Digby Saga, The         It's People Like You         Mademoiselles, The         Masterpiece, The         Neuron         Perchance To Dream         Posing         Shandy, Attempted         Spring Awakening Project, The         Tetrazzini's Last Hurrah         To Kill the Queen         Trouble With Being Endangered, The         Victoriana

Abstract Art

Synopsis:
More a "happening" or a "theatrical prank" than a play,Abstract Art is one man telling his bizarre story to an audience who thinks they're here to see Our Town.

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1st Produced:
Dead Pinocchio Theatre, Albion Mi    Oct 2009

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one act

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All Aboard the Hidenburg

Synopsis:
High up in that fated dirigible, Robert Such--an impossibly-old Brit who's having some trouble coming to terms with the Modern age-- settles past loves, flirts with the nouveau riche, and discovers his own sexuality.

Notes:
part of the 4th Annual Left Out festival

1st Produced:
Stage Left Studio
214 West 30th Street, 6th floor, New York, NY, New York 10001    16 Apr 2011

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http://www.indietheaternow.com/Plays   -

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Genre:
2 act 90 min

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Male:  4            Female:  1            Other:  -

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All Alone With You

Synopsis:
Two very young lovers connect between life and death. Together, they recall their relationship, and discover why it was only after death that they could truly know each other.

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Genre:
full length play

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Male:  3            Female:  -            Other:  -

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American Crowbar Case, The

Synopsis:
In 1848, a spike got blasted through Phineas Gages skull, turning most of his frontal lobe into jelly. But thats the least of his problems. Now hes got a second chance and doesnt know quite what to do with himself. The American Crowbar Case is a whirlwind new indie-folk musical that follows Gage, his fiance, his mistress, and two contemporary scholars across time and space as they all cope with the burden of new beginnings. Nobody knows exactly what happened to Gage, including himself. Though, after all, the truths of the human heart and mindeven historical factare ultimately unknowable in the world of The American Crowbar Case.

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1st Produced:
Mix Studio Theatre, The New Theatre Project, Ann Arbor, Michigan    Oct 2011

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Genre:
full length musical

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Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Baal

Synopsis:
He only cares about two things: playing music and getting laid. Baal follows a young musician as he falters his way through his early twenties, an odyssey that takes him through dive joints, slums, roadside spoons, and--ultimately--home again. Despite death and despair, he attempts to reconcile himself with the choices of his past, and the consequences of adulthood.

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Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht

1st Produced:
Upstream Collective In NYC    -

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full length play

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Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Brohug

Synopsis:
While engaging in a push-up contest, Adam tweaks his back, paralyzing him. And an offered massage by his best bro Luka threatens to push their friendship to a breaking point.

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Genre:
10 min play

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Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Can't You See?

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Dangerous Meditations

Synopsis:
an homage to the play that made me want to start writing, The Zoo Story

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part of Four Animal Plays: A short-play cycle written as a gift to the Dead Pinocchio Theatre at Albion College. The plays individually explore the blurred lines between animals and humans

1st Produced:
Dead Pinocchio Theatre, Albion Mi    Sep 2010

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Genre:
short play

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Edward the Second

Synopsis:
A pared-down, emotionally raw (and super sexy) adaptation of Marlowe's explosive love story about a young man who's had the weight of the world thrust on his unready shoulders, those closest to him who covet his burden, and the self-consuming fire of young love.

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1st Produced:
Mix Studio Theatre, The New Theatre Project, Ann Arbor, Michigan    Mar 2013

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full length play

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Male:  4            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Everyman Project, The

Synopsis:
Using the process developed with the popular The Spring Awakening Project, we take a look at this classic Medieval morality play from a contemporary perspective. The ensemble weaves truthful stories from their own lives with the original text to create a portrait of the modern day Everyman.

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1st Produced:
Unit 5 Studio Theatre, The New Theatre Project, Ann Arbor, Michigan    May 2011

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full length play

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Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Falser Heart, The

Synopsis:
A lonely cabin high up in the mountainsa cursed place of stunning beauty and horror. There a young woman is haunted by the Devil, wholl stop at nothing to take her for his bride, and who can be banished only by an act of impossible love. With original music by Michael Cusimano.

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1st Produced:
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh Pa    Nov 2011

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Genre:
full-length play with music

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Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Few Survivors, A

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part of the 4th Annual Left Out festival

1st Produced:
Stage Left Studio
214 West 30th Street, 6th floor, New York, NY, New York 10001    16 Apr 2011

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short play

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Frenchman, The

Synopsis:
One day, an unconscious Frenchman falls from a tree onto Doris' foot, while she is sharing a bag of popcorn with her sister, Regina. Doris doesn't seem to mind it at all, though, much to the persistent confusion of her sister. Pity. They were so looking forward to a pleasant day.

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10 min play

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Inspector Digby Saga, The

Synopsis:
Strange, supernatural forces emerge in fin de siecle London as Digby and Podger solve murders and mysteries of seemingly-unexplainable origin.

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Commissioned By The Society For The Advancement Of Miniature Curiosa In Pittsburgh, Pa.    -

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Genre:
Ten-part Victorian toy-theatre murder-mystery puppet series

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It's People Like You

Synopsis:
My first play, It's People Like You follows two men who wait for their phone service to pick up after they get into a non-fatal car accident. What follows is a tale about liberalism, co-existence, and the supreme awkwardness within us all.

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1st Produced:
Performance Network Theatre, Ann Arbour Ni    Aug 2007

Organisations:
Mosh Pit New Works Season

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Genre:
one act

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Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Mademoiselles, The

Synopsis:
A graduate student at the Sorbonne reads an elderly Alice Toklas her love letters from Gertrude Stein. Structured like the Cubist paintings Toklas and Stein collected and Stein emulated in her own writing, the Mademoiselles is a play about falling in love: with art, with Paris, with Gertrude, and with a new part of herself. More than that, though, it is a play about remembering falling in love, after everything is lost.

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1st Produced:
Stage Left Studio
214 West 30th Street, 6th floor, New York, NY, New York 10001    15 Apr 2012

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  1            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Masterpiece, The

Synopsis:
At the Des Moines Museum of Fine Art, a Caravaggio is discovered by Lenora, a hyper-educated paper pusher. The painting thaws her heart, leading to the unlikely romance with a brutish night security guard. In Chicago, a lost twentysomething decides the only way to avoid paying back his shamefully-neglected student loans is to ask his dead father's former partner in crime to help him steal one of the Art Institute's new purchases. Upon discovering that the DMMOFA can't afford to keep the painting, Lenora decides she must take it for herself. Will these lowlives manage to purloin high art?

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Genre:
comedy

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Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Neuron

Synopsis:
the limits of friendship in lab rats

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part of Four Animal Plays: A short-play cycle written as a gift to the Dead Pinocchio Theatre at Albion College. The plays individually explore the blurred lines between animals and humans

1st Produced:
Dead Pinocchio Theatre, Albion Mi    Sep 2010

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short play

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Perchance To Dream

Synopsis:
An experiment in narrative, as well as an exploration of my own ideas regarding Surrealism and philosophy, Perchance to Dream is the frenetic dream of a nine-day-old baby the night before she dies, and is a dialogue between (among others) her and an elderly Salvador Dali, King Lear, an unnamed vagrant, and a noted art historian.

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1st Produced:
Performance Network Theatre, Ann Arbour Ni    Aug 2007

Organisations:
Mosh Pit New Works Season

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Genre:
one act play

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Posing

Synopsis:
Two men--each running from his past, each escaping his present, and each keeping an impossible secret--are bound together for days with the mutual goal of using each other for sex and drugs, until they confront in each other the consequences of trying to stay young forever.

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1st Produced:
Mix Studio Theatre, The New Theatre Project, Ann Arbor, Michigan    08 Jul 2011

Organisations:
New Theater Project

1st Published:
http://www.indietheaternow.com/Plays   -

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Genre:
Gay, full length 90 min

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Shandy, Attempted

Synopsis:
Right Honourable & Good Sir, Mr. Shandy, Gent: never had a poor Wight so less hopes and so great ambition as I, humbly, have, whether bye & bye in far yon kingdom or under a retired thatched roof, in constant endeavour to fence against the infirmities of ill-health with mirth & so add something to this Fragment of Life, with the fragments of your entwined & embrambled life & opinions, in other words, your Memoirs. My only hope is, under your Protection, that this large, industrial fan, which by some divine force or other has made its way near my painstaking reconstruction of your book, does not

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1st Produced:
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh Pa    Feb 2012

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Genre:
Performance art piece 6 - 10 hours

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Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Spring Awakening Project, The

Synopsis:
The best play about young people ever written is adapted using a unique, innovative, and unprecedented rehearsal method in which the story and dialogue comes from the cast's lives, journals, and talents. The story follows six friends who together attempt to understand their nascent sexuality. This is no morality tale; it is deeply personal. The piece frankly explores the vicissitudes of life, though with an intense and satisfying catharsis.

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Inspired by "Spring Awakening" by Frank Wedekind

1st Produced:
Performance Network Theatre, Ann Arbour Ni    Jun 2010

Organisations:
Most Pit New Works Season

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Genre:
Drama with music. - - Gay theme/character, full length

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Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Tetrazzini's Last Hurrah

Synopsis:
Fitz and Teddy--two estranged brothers--meet by chance while traveling to New York City to attend the last concert of a dying opera singer. How will these squabbling siblings manage to cut their way through the brambles, traps, and fearsome beasts of the urban jungle? How, indeed.

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1st Produced:
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh Pa    May 2012

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Genre:
full-length play with music

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To Kill the Queen

Synopsis:
written in iambic pentameter, about the extent to which greed corrupts two bishop-bees

Notes:
part of Four Animal Plays: A short-play cycle written as a gift to the Dead Pinocchio Theatre at Albion College. The plays individually explore the blurred lines between animals and humans

1st Produced:
Dead Pinocchio Theatre, Albion Mi    Sep 2010

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short play

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Trouble With Being Endangered, The

Synopsis:
two pandas try and make amends

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part of Four Animal Plays: A short-play cycle written as a gift to the Dead Pinocchio Theatre at Albion College. The plays individually explore the blurred lines between animals and humans

1st Produced:
Dead Pinocchio Theatre, Albion Mi    Sep 2010

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Genre:
short play

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Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Victoriana

Synopsis:
Two acts that are are related only thematically but which, when linked, are specimens of Victoriana.

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1st Produced:
[Stage Reading] Performance Network Theatre, Ann Arbour Ni    -

Organisations:
Fireside Festival of New Works

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Genre:
full length play

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Male:  4            Female:  1            Other:  -

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