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ROBIN SEIDMAN
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Robin Seidman's Bio: Women of Roswell earned "Best New Play" at the Georgia Theater Conference, '06 Finalist at New York's American Globe Theater, Kennedy Center participation following a ACT/KCT nomination, and Finalist for the David Mark Cohen National Playwriting competition. Paint! ,Marc Chagall's Colorful Musical Adventure! will be produced at Actors' Playhouse's 2008 National Children's Theatre Festival. Recent productions include Teachers, the Musical! , a Metropolitan Atlanta Theater nominee, Giving, a puppet musical, the Peanut Man, a Target grant recipient, Javasu , Blue Suede Inn , Strange Gods ,Squid Kids, an aquarium musical school day Theater tour, and God is a Biker Chick. Published in 'O Georgia, Robin's short stories have won first place awards in Creative Loafing and Georgia Writer's Association's annual competitions. Her plays have been showcased at Atlanta stages including Jewish Theater of the South (Saudade), Push Push Theatre (Passion Fruit) , Process Theater (Hotel Burqua, Speed Date), Theater Gael (Ma Crime), Chattahoochee Tech (On Ice), and Georgia Tech (Dark Heart/commissioned piece.) She was guest playwright at Clark Atlanta University (Stork Stories) and guest author at Atlanta's Margaret Mitchell House (Mysterium Tremendum.) When a Chicago resident, Chicago Dramatists produced her full length romantic comedy (Cows in a Snowstorm.) A teacher of the gifted, she has served on the Advisory Boards of the Process Theatre and Working Title Playwrights. Robin is a member of SCBWI, and participated in New York's 2006 ASCAP Musical Theater Workshop and DC's 2007 Kennedy Center Playwriting Intensive.
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Caroline's Comet God is a Biker Chick Most Wonderful Time To Pitch In! Paint, Chagall's Magical Colorful Adventure! Peanut Man! George Washington Carver,Inventor, The Squid Kids Teachers, The Musical! Women of RoswellCaroline's Comet
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the Celestial Cinderella, Caroline Hershel's girlhood days in 1760 were destined to housework drudgery, until her dancing comet introduced her to Newton, astronomy, and thousands of constellations. Caroline delighted in learning as her magic telescope spotted "the lady's first comet," while her brother discovered the planet Uranus! This forty-five minute children's musical meets national standards for both math and science. Study Guide included.
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Process Theatre Company Tour
2008
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family musical Musical
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In GOD IS A BIKER CHICK women scooter back and forth through time in a witty, Dramatic adventure of rebirth and reinvention. At the moment of childhood's demise, when a pregnant, lesbian daughter must choose between life and loss, God appears as Ida Rosenbloom, the girl who used to sit behind Cecily in Algebra, and who now wheels her on her path to accepting her conservative mother, feminist love, a female God, and herself.
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Academy Theater, Georgia
2006
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Play/Drama
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Top of PageMost Wonderful Time To Pitch In!
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While on a journey to recycle at the neighborhood park, collect cans at the Homeless Shelter, plant in the garden, and give away old toys for the community, Mandy helps reluctant Steve discover the meaning of his mysterious gifts, showing him that he can make a difference!
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Savage Tree At Academy Theatre
2006
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Holiday Family Musical Musical
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Top of PagePaint, Chagall's Magical Colorful Adventure!
This colorful, comedic tale, complete with a singing Fish and dancing Cow, paints the story of young painter Marc Chagall's quest to be an artist. Through fanciful biographical scenes where he must get permission from his parents and extended family, his childhood journey to art school artfully, playfully, comes to life.
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Book And Lyrics by Robin Seidman, Music by Spencer Stephens
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Actors' Theatre At The Miracle Playhouse, Florida
23 Apr 2008
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13th Annual National Children's Theatre Festival
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Top of PagePeanut Man! George Washington Carver,Inventor, The
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Theatre On Main
2007
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Children's Play Youth Audience
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Top of PageSquid Kids
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SQUID KIDS! is a musical, comedic tale of sea creatures' discovery of character as they quest for the elusive giant squid. Perfect for children 5-12, this fact-packed play with national science standards investigates the issues of ocean resources, aquaculture, and undersea exploration.
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Cobb Playhouse
2007
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Children's Musical Musical
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Top of PageTeachers, The Musical!
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True tales from the Teacher's Lounge! A retiree wannabe discovers her teaching partner has only taught cats and her new student, Satan, is a toe breaker, in this musical comedy about tested teachers who discover what they have isn't what they want!
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As featured on Good Day Atlanta, TEACHERS, the MUSICAL! is A six character comedy, nominated for An MAT Award for Best Original Musical. the unadvertised show drew sold out crowds for its entire six-week run At Acworth's theatre on Main! TEACHERS is for every person who has ever had the "Monday Morning Blues," And for those who've had to make A choice when the dream didn't fit the reality. Since All of us have been in school, the show is Also for All tested teachers desperate to set the world on fire, before their students do it for them!
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Theatre On Main
2007
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Musical Comedy Musical
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Male: 3 Female: 3 Other: 1b
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Top of PageWomen of Roswell
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WOMEN OF ROSWELL is a forty-five minute fictional Drama about three of the female Roswell Cotton Mills workers who were accused of treason and forced to rail north during the Civil War. the play opens in July, 1864 outside the steps of the still-standing Bricks apartments that housed the cotton mill workers. Three strong women redefine home by confronting the limits of their freedom, and rediscovering their respective roles. In order to save her daughter, African American Emma disguises herself as a soldier, forcing Lia to find her own way as an Ivy Woolen Mill factory worker. A bond forges between Lia and Claire, an Irish worker, as the unlikely friends are banished from their homes and former ways of life when their factory is burned to the ground.
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Winner of Georgia theatre Conference, 2004. Mark David Cohen Finalist
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