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Alan Sharpe

ALAN SHARPE

  (1952 - )
Nationality:    African American
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Alan Sharpe's plays including biography, theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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

         And. . .         Auld Lang Syne         Aural Sex         Best Man For the Job         BrotherHOODS         Christmas Gifts         Chump ChangeS         Damage Control         Family Business         Hand Jobs         HeartBeats         Play Ball         Skin & Bone         Storm Signals

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Synopsis:
A group of gay men in their fifties confront the challenges of finding love and combating loneliness while growing older in a youth-obsessed culture.

Notes:
the characters in this play Are African-American.

1st Produced:
African-American Collective Theater (ACT)    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama. - - Gay, full length

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Auld Lang Syne

Synopsis:
As a new millennium approaches, the elaborate New Year's Eve 1999 party plans of a middle-aged gay man in recovery are disrupted by the mysterious arrival of the sexy, much younger ex-lover who abandoned him, years earlier.

Notes:
the characters in this play Are African-American.

1st Produced:
African-American Collective Theater (ACT)    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
play One Act. - - Gay, full length

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Aural Sex

Synopsis:
Readings of short plays chronicling the contemporary black, gay experience. Drama. Recommended for mature audiences.

Notes:
the Kennedy Center hosts its 12th annual Page-to-Stage festival, featuring more than 40 D.C.-area theater companies. This three-day event offers free readings and open rehearsals of plays and musicals being developed by local, regional, and national playwrights, librettists, and composers.

1st Produced:
Kennedy Center, Terrace Theater, DC    31 Aug 2013

Organisations:
African-American Collective Theater

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Best Man For the Job

Synopsis:
Long-held secrets emerge as a womanizing 30ish bridegroom solicits unique support from his conflicted best man -- mere hours before the wedding.

Notes:
the characters in this play Are African-American.

1st Produced:
African-American Collective Theater (ACT)    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Ten minute play. - - Gay, one act

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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BrotherHOODS

Synopsis:
Homophobic violence erupts on a prominent, historically-black, college campus; endangering the life of the freshman victim. . .and the relationship of a young gay professor who attempts to protect him.

Notes:
the characters in this play Are African-American.

1st Produced:
African-American Collective Theater (ACT)    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
2 act Play/Drama. - - Gay, full length

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  2 teen boys

Further Reference:
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Christmas Gifts

Synopsis:
Dolly, a forty-something divorcee, juggles the Christmas Eve demands of her toy-crazed ten-year old son, boy-crazed teen-aged daughter, nostalgic ex-husband . . . as well as her feisty female lover, Jazz -- while a looming personal crisis threatens to change all of their lives forever.

Notes:
the characters in this play Are African-American.

1st Produced:
African-American Collective Theater (ACT)    2003

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Lesbian, full length

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  1b, 1g

Further Reference:
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Chump ChangeS

Synopsis:
A group of inner city teens and their problems - from pregnancy to homophobia

Notes:
the characters in this play Are African-American.

1st Produced:
African-American Collective Theater (ACT)    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
2 act Play/Drama. - - Gay, theme/character full length

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  5 male teens, 3 female teens

Further Reference:
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Damage Control

Synopsis:
P-Money an up and coming rap artist falls for R&B teen heart throb Lorenzo Cherry. their budding romance is threatened by the closeted pastor of an Evangelical homophobic church

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Warehouse Theater, Washington D C    08 Aug 2011

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Drama. - - Gay, full length

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Family Business

Synopsis:
the Stringfellows are middle-class pillars of their church and community. But when the oldest son, a rising-star college athlete, is unable to shield his sensitive younger brother from the physical and emotional abuse of their rabidly homophobic, ex-con father, sexual skeletons in the collective family closet threaten to destroy each member

Notes:
the characters in this play Are African-American.

1st Produced:
African-American Collective Theater (ACT)    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
2 act Play/Drama. - - Gay, theme/character full length

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  3 male teens, 2 female teens

Further Reference:
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Hand Jobs

Synopsis:
The company returns with its third program of edgy, short plays by founder Alan Sharpe, chronicling the lives, loves, and challenges of Black LGBTQ residents in our Nation's Capital.

Notes:
Page-to-Stage Festival 2014. The three-day, Center-wide Page-to- Stage event offers a series of free readings and open rehearsals of plays and musicals being developed by local, regional, and national playwrights, librettists, and composers.

1st Produced:

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
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Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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HeartBeats

Synopsis:
Despite the support close friends, a young gay man further jeopardizes an already-troubled relationship with his closeted (and very-married) lover by reaching out to shelter a homeless, HIV+, teen-aged street hustler.

Notes:
the characters in this play Are African-American.

1st Produced:
African-American Collective Theater (ACT)    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
2 act Play/Drama. - - Gay, full length

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  2            Other:  1 male teen

Further Reference:
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Play Ball

Synopsis:
Time unravels backwards, exposing the desperation, despair and relentless homophobic bullying that drove a precocious, but lonely, 12 year-old boy to commit suicide.

Notes:
the characters in this play Are African-American.

1st Produced:
African-American Collective Theater (ACT)    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
2 act Play/Drama. - - Gay, full length

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  2c

Further Reference:
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Skin & Bone

Synopsis:
D.C.'s hottest erotic dancer and most in-demand male escort struggle to sustain their romantic relationship amid pressures from fans, foes. . .and friends.

Notes:
the characters in this play Are African-American.

1st Produced:
African-American Collective Theater (ACT)    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
2 act Play/Drama. - - Gay, full length

Parts:
Male:  9            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Storm Signals

Synopsis:
A trio of lesbians negotiate complex romantic entanglements during the last summer before their senior year of college.

Notes:
the characters in this play Are African-American.

1st Produced:
African-American Collective Theater (ACT)    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
play One Act. - - Lesbian, one act

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:   3 Young Adults

Further Reference:
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