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Brian Shoaf

BRIAN SHOAF

  
Nationality:    USA
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Brian Shoaf's plays including biography, theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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

         Archer         Arlinda         Boards, The         Conspirators         Gucci the Hong Kong Crocodile         Herpes Tonight!         How Raven Stole Fire and Other Stories         Mukashi Mukashi: Asian Tales from Long Ago         Swamp         That Damn Tree         Two Days for Three Women

Archer

Synopsis:
Set in the Deep South, Archer tells the story of an anti-social child services caseworker who discovers that he's a father.

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Music:
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Genre:
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Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Arlinda

Synopsis:
Arlinda is a work of fiction dedicated to Josh Delko's one true love. Josh has gathered us together to hear his hard work read aloud. Unfortunately, Josh has stopped taking his medication.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
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Organisations:
Immediate Theater, Company/Before the Door

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
One-Person Play

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Boards, The

Synopsis:
The Boards takes place between the end of dress rehearsal and the call for places in mega-movie star Rose Bentley's stage debut.

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1st Produced:
UCLA New Play Festival    2007

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Conspirators

Synopsis:
Conspirators is the story of Edmond St. John Danvers-Carew-both of them. One young man is lost in a modern American metropolis, while the other is trapped in a 19th Century English drawing room. Conspirators is about the courage it takes to make one's way in a world that is bizarre, cruel, treacherous, and nonetheless wonderful.

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Organisations:
Immediate Theater Company

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
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Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Gucci the Hong Kong Crocodile

Synopsis:
Gucci, the Hong Kong Crocodile is a fantasy based loosely on actual events. Gucci is a very real female crocodile, who squatted in a series of ditches in suburban Hong Kong for over eight months during 2003 and 2004. the play is the story of a group of hapless (and fictional) human beings who gather around Gucci with their various agendas. In the end a very philosophical animal, Gucci would have each of us see that life is not nearly as complicated as we imagine it to be, and that we are all at our best when we are most content.

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Genre:
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Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Herpes Tonight!

Synopsis:
Originally called Herpes: A Corey Story, this monologue tells the tale of how a carefree young man (who wasn't carefree at all) came to contract herpes from his one true love (a relationship that lasted a matter of weeks), had his life fall completely apart and be put back together, only to discover he had been misdiagnosed (three years later).

Notes:
written by Brian Shoaf. Co-authored And performed by Corey Moosa

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Immediate Theater Company

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
One-Person Play

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

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How Raven Stole Fire and Other Stories

Synopsis:
An adaptation of three Native American trickster tales from the Pacific Northwest.

Notes:
Developed through A workshop with director Louise Hung And A company of Actors from the UCLA Department of theater

1st Produced:
Geffen Playhouse, Saturday Scene    -

Organisations:
UCLA Dept of Theater

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Genre:
TYA

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Mukashi Mukashi: Asian Tales from Long Ago

Synopsis:
An adaptation of three ancient folktales, one Chinese and two Japanese, for elementary-aged audiences.

Notes:
Developed through A workshop with director Louise Hung And A company of Actors from the UCLA Department of theater

1st Produced:
Geffen Playhouse, Saturday Scene    -

Organisations:
UCLA Dept. of Theater

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
theatre for Young Audiences

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Swamp

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
Seattle Fringe Festival    1999

Organisations:
Hands On Hip Productions

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
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Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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That Damn Tree

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
24-Hour Play Festival, Ohio theatre    2003

Organisations:
adobe Theatre company

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
play Ten Min

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Two Days for Three Women

Synopsis:
Two days in the lives of a young woman and her two mothers, biological and adoptive.

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Music:
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Genre:
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Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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