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Nina Shengold

NINA SHENGOLD

  
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    The Gersh Agency, NY  

Nina Shengold won the Writers Guild Award for her teleplay Labor of Love, starring Marcia Gay Harden, and the ABC Playwright Award for Homesteaders. Her one-act plays have been produced throughout the U.S. and in Canada, Europe, Asia, and New Zealand; No Shoulder was filmed by Suzi Yoonessi and screened at Tribeca Underground, the Woodstock Film Festival and others. With Eric Lane, Shengold has edited eleven Theatre anthologies for Viking Penguin and Vintage Books. Her first novel, Clearcut (Anchor Books, 2005) was chosen as one of the year's best books by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, San Francisco Bay Times, BookMarks and Out.com.

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

         Emotional Baggage         Everything Must Go         Finger Food         Finger Foods: An Evening of Short Plays         Forty to Life         Homesteaders         Lives of the Great Waitresses         Lush Life         No Shoulder         Romeo/Juliet         War at Home

Emotional Baggage

Synopsis:
the secret lives of unclaimed baggage. (This play can also be performed as part of the full-length play Finger Foods: An Evening of Short Plays.)

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Actors & Writers (Staged Reading) (Olivebridge, NY, United States)     2000

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Playscripts, Inc - New York   -

Music:
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Genre:
15-20 min Comedy

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  4 males, 3 females (6-7 actors possible: 3-4 males, 3-4 females)

Further Reference:
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Everything Must Go

Synopsis:
A middle-aged woman sells her past - literally - at a yard sale. (This play can also be performed as part of the full-length play Finger Foods: An Evening of Short Plays.)

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Actors & Writers (Staged Reading) (Olivebridge, NY, United States)     1996

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Playscripts, Inc - New York   -

Music:
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Genre:
15-20 min Comedy

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  2            Other:  2 females, 2 either (4-14 actors possible: 2-6 males, 2-8 females)

Further Reference:
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Finger Food

Synopsis:
As a Method hand model and a hand-obsessed food photographer shoot an ad, lust for each other sparks in them both. (This play can also be performed as part of the full-length play Finger Foods: An Evening of Short Plays.)

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Winthrop University (Rockhill, Sc, United States)     2005

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Playscripts, Inc - New York   -

Music:
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Genre:
18-25 min Comedy

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  1 male, 1 female

Further Reference:
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Finger Foods: An Evening of Short Plays

Synopsis:
these seven short comedies and Dramas provide a lightly surreal romp for actors, who play everything from ex-boyfriends in a police lineup (Forty to Life), to abandoned suitcases (Emotional Baggage), to four women of uncommon zen wisdom (Lives of the Great Waitresses). Together these pieces serve up a satisfying assortment of life experiences that are sometimes mysterious, sometimes hilarious, and always surprising. To purchase this book of 7 plays, click "Add to Shopping Cart" above. To perform an individual play, click on its title below:

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Actors & Writers (Staged Reading) (Olivebridge, NY, United States)     2004

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Playscripts, Inc - New York   -

Music:
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To Buy This Play:
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Genre:
100-120 min Comedy/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  5            Other:  3 males, 5 females (8-45 actors possible: 4-24 males, 4-22 females)

Further Reference:
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Forty to Life

Synopsis:
Susie confronts a police line-up of dating offenders, each one an ex-boyfriend of hers. One of them blames her for breaking his heart when she can barely remembers him. the pair is handcuffed together until things are worked out between them. (This play can also be performed as part of the full-length play Finger Foods: An Evening of Short Plays.)

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Actors & Writers (Staged Reading) (Olivebridge, NY, United States)     2001

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Playscripts, Inc - New York   -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
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Booksellers:

Genre:
10-15 min Comedy

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  2            Other:  6 males, 2 females (6-14 actors possible: 4-12 males, exactly 2 females)

Further Reference:
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Homesteaders

Synopsis:
An island in Southeast Alaska in 1979, over the course of an eventful summer five troubled inhabitants struggle to come to terms with themselves, each other and the past

Notes:
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1st Produced:
-     1983

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Samuel French Inc, New York   -

Music:
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To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www2.iath.virginia.edu/sixties/HTML_docs/Resources/Bibliographies/VN_drama_bib.php

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Lives of the Great Waitresses

Synopsis:
Four waitresses, each with her own brand of zen, share the secrets of being one of the greats. (This play can also be performed as part of the full-length play Finger Foods: An Evening of Short Plays.)

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Actors & Writers (Staged Reading) (Olivebridge, NY, United States)     1995

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Playscripts, Inc - New York   -

Music:
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To Buy This Play:
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Genre:
10-15 min Comedy

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  4            Other:  4 females

Further Reference:
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Lush Life

Synopsis:
On a late-night subway platform, a single woman encounters a homeless street musician, who may or may not be her schizophrenic first love. (This play can also be performed as part of the full-length play Finger Foods: An Evening of Short Plays.)

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Actors & Writers (Staged Reading) (Olivebridge, NY, United States)     2003

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Playscripts, Inc - New York   -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
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Genre:
10-15 min Jazz Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  1 male, 1 female

Further Reference:
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No Shoulder

Synopsis:
A surreal late-night encounter between a childless widow and a teenage hitchhiker, who have far more in common than either imagines. (This play can also be performed as part of the full-length play Finger Foods: An Evening of Short Plays.)

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Actors & Writers (Staged Reading) (Olivebridge, NY, United States)     1998

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Playscripts, Inc - New York   -

Music:
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To Buy This Play:
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Genre:
10-15 min Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  2            Other:  2 females

Further Reference:
-

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Romeo/Juliet

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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To Buy This Play:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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War at Home

Synopsis:
A group of students in a New York State high school 100 miles north of Ground Zero responds to the events of September 11th, 2001. the text of this ensemble piece was created from journal writings of over 40 students, teachers, and community members in the weeks immediately following 9-11. (All royalties from War at Home will be donated to charity.)

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1st Produced:
Rondout Valley High School (Accord, NY, United States)     2001

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Playscripts, Inc - New York   -

Music:
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To Buy This Play:
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Booksellers:

Genre:
40-50 min Ensemble Drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  4            Other:  4 males, 4 females, 13 either (16-30 actors possible: 4-26 males, 4-26 females)

Further Reference:
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