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Jim Shankman

JIM SHANKMAN

  
Nationality:    USA
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Jim Shankman is the author of twelve plays. His play Suicide Math was presented in the 2013 New York International Fringe Festival. Hi solo piece Kiss Your Brutal Hands is part of the 2013 United Solo Festival on Theatre Row. Alien Child has had staged readings at The New Group and The Abingdon Theatre and a workshop production at T. Schreiber Studio. Heatless Bastard was presented at the New Jersey Rep Monday Salon Reading Series and by Michael Howard Studios Works-In-Progress-Administration. His plays Electric Light and Fortress of Solitude have also had developmental readings at The New Group. Sleep With Me (a play with music) received a workshop production at The Emerging Artists Theatre Notes From A Page Festival. A Jew From East Jesus is a Finalist of the 2013 Jewish Plays Project. im is also a lifelong actor. He grew up in Chicago where he was part of the burgeoning Chicago Theatre scene before he moved to New York. He has been very lucky over the years to study theatre with two of New Yorks greatest theatre teachers, Michael Howard and Terry Schreiber. He is currently the Director of Scene Study in the Conservatory Program at Michael Howard Studios. He has a BA from Princeton in Philosophy and an MFA in Fiction from the Writing Program at Sarah Lawrence College.

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

         Alien Child         Electric Light         Fortress of Solitude         Heatless Bastard         Jew From East Jesus, A         Kiss Your Brutal Hands         Magic Dad And the Dreams I Don't Remember         Parables From the Gentile Bible         Pitch, The         Screenwriter Dies Of His Own Free Will, The         Sleep With Me         Suicide Math         Teardown         White Lightning In My Heart

Alien Child

Synopsis:
This is a workshop production of a new play by Jim Shankman. Alien Child is a touching and relevant look at a family dealing with a child's autism and the journey of Jonah, a 16-year-old young man, as he tries to find himself apart from his twin sister Charlie.
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1st Produced:
Gloria Maddox Theater, 151 West 26th Street, 7th Floor, New York, NY 10011    22 Jul 2010

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Play/Drama

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Electric Light

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1st Produced:
Michael Howard Studio, New York    2003

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Fortress of Solitude

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1st Produced:
Michael Howard Studio, New York    2001

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Heatless Bastard

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New Jersey Rep Monday Salon Reading Series    -

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Jew From East Jesus, A

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Finalist of the 2013 Jewish Plays Project.

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Kiss Your Brutal Hands

Synopsis:
Danny lives in Tompkins Square Park on the border of reality and reality TV. Barrys got a corner office in TriBeCa where the pressure is unreal. Some are destroyed by God. Some are destroyed without Him.

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1st Produced:
Venue #12: 64E4 Underground    Aug 2014

Organisations:
Michael Howard Studios

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Genre:
1h 30m Solo Show Drama

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Magic Dad And the Dreams I Don't Remember

Synopsis:
A son struggles to break free from an overbearing father

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1st Produced:
Michael Howard Studio, New York    2005

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Parables From the Gentile Bible

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1st Produced:
Michael Howard Studio, New York    2004

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Pitch, The

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1st Produced:
United Solo Festival    Oct 2014

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Screenwriter Dies Of His Own Free Will, The

Synopsis:
Willy is a storied screenwriter facing the big deadline in the sky. Gabe is a studio exec whod kill for his gritty sci-fi. But Willys got screenplay that stinks of art. A metafictional meditation on the art of the deal.

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1st Produced:
VENUE #12: 64E4 UNDERGROUND, NY    20 Aug 2015

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ARC Stages

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Genre:
Comedy 0h 55m

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Sleep With Me

Synopsis:
Louis B Meyer is desperate to have Shirley Temple star in his new movie - "the Wizard of Oz". then he meets 16 year old Melody Mudd and her ambitious mother Beulah

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1st Produced:
Michael Howard Studio, New York    2007

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Genre:
Black comedy

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Suicide Math

Suicide Math
Vietnam rages. Michaels older brother is MIA. Franks roommate has fallen from the math tower, and Lydia cant speak about the last time she saw her sister. In the midst of chaos, three unlikely friends find their way.

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1st Produced:
Robert Moss Theater At 440 Studios, New York Festival Fringe    Aug 2013

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Michael Howard Studios in association with Ten Years Productions

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Genre:
90 min one act

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Teardown

Synopsis:
Having run out of money Ben and Jenny sell their house for redevelopment. But when the time comes they cannot leave and whilst the house is torn down around them memories of the past come flooding back.

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1st Produced:
Michael Howard Studio, New York    2005

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White Lightning In My Heart

Synopsis:
A delusional schizophrenic is on trial for a crime he cannot understand

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1st Produced:
Michael Howard Studio, New York    2007

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