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Scott C Sickles

SCOTT C SICKLES

  (1967 - )
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    The Barbara Hogenson Agency, Inc  

Scott C. Sickles plays have been produced across the United States, as well as in Canada and Australia. Published works include his full-length comedy Intellectuals, as part of Smith & Kraus' New Playwrights: Best Plays of 2007, murmurs, as part of Samuel French Inc.'s Festival Plays 21, and Beautiful Noises in S&K's forthcoming anthology of ten-minute plays. Additionally, Smith & Kraus has published two monologues from Intellectuals in Best Women's Stage Monologues 2007. Sickles is the recipient of a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowship for Shepherd's Bush, about the private life of E. M. Forster, and the Beverly Hills Theater Guild/Julie Harris Playwriting Award for Lightning From Heaven, which chronicles the 14-year relationship between Nobel laureate Boris Pasternak and his muse Olga IvinskayA. Recent productions include Moonlight & Love Songs and Turtles & Bulldogs, both at the WorkShop Theater Company, and Beautiful Noises at Mind the Gap Theater. His adaptation of anton Chekhov's short story "Misery" entitled We'll Take a Cup of Kindness Yet is slated for production in June.

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         Beautiful Noises         Cassiopeia         Composure         Erroneous Zones         From the Top         Hairdresser on Fire         Intellectuals         Lightning From Heaven         Medussa         Moonlight & Love Songs         Murmurs         Open Window, The         Perfecting the Kiss         Persephone and the Mother Lode         Philosopher's Joke, The         Popcorn         Queens from a Marriage         Sarcophagus         Shepherd's Bush         Thalassa         Turtles & Bulldogs         We'll Take a Cup of Kindness Yet

Beautiful Noises

Beautiful Noises
In this play Emma is hearing something from beyond the grave. Her dead son, her daughter, and her son's lover explore the issues that they did not work out in life. the beautiful noises from the beyond.
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1st Produced:
Jackson Ave Theatre, NY     2006

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1st Published:
in 2009: the Best 10-Minute Plays for Two or More Actors, Smith & Kraus (December 1, 2009)   978-1575257594

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Ten Min. - - Gay, one act

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Cassiopeia

Synopsis:
Angela prepares for her wedding. Her sisters have very different ideas about what would be best for her

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1st Produced:
Samuel French Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival     2007

Organisations:
Algonquin Productions

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Short play

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Composure

Synopsis:
Fletcher Driscoll returns to his old college to direct a play. The play - "Romeo and Juliet" is being put on to commemorate a tragic love affair and murder at the college many years ago. Fletcher meets administrator Jeff Landry and they have a fling. Secrets from the past arise which brings them closer. But the secrets could also tear them apart

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Genre:
Drama

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Erroneous Zones

Synopsis:
A group of friends meet most Saturday nights after clubbing at Lysette's flat

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1st Produced:
Pitt Theatre, Pittsburg     1993

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1st Published:
http://Drama.eserver.org/plays/contemporary/erroneous-zones.txt,    -

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Genre:
One Act. - - Gay, one act

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Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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From the Top

Synopsis:
Edmund brings his new boyfriend to meet his friends - he does not get the reception he expected

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Genre:
Comedy. - - Gay, full length

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Male:  4            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Hairdresser on Fire

Synopsis:
Laurence is on the rebound. Alan sweeps him off his feet. Alan is very controlling. Bit by bit he gets Laurence away from his old friends. But Laurence soon realises what is happening - but will be strong enough to stand up to Alan?

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Gay full length

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Intellectuals

Synopsis:
In Intellectuals, mayhem ensues when a psychologist takes a 'sabbatical' from her marriage to pursue her untapped feminine potential as a lesbian. Her spurned philosopher husband is left to concoct his own version of a romance with a much older woman in an effort to stoke his wife's jealousy. their best friend, a romantically challenged gay film critic with a propensity for destroying his own relationships, is then entangled in their web of deceit. When cooler heads prevail, husband and wife confront the bigger question: Is their marriage worth saving?
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Smith & Kraus has published two monologues from Intellectuals in Best Women's Stage Monologues 2007

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Organisations:
the WorkShop Theater Company

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part of Smith & Kraus' New Playwrights: Best Plays of 2007   -

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Genre:
Lesbian full length

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Male:  2            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Lightning From Heaven

Synopsis:
Doctor Zhivago. Before the classic film and the celebrated novel, there was poet Boris Pasternak, his muse Olga Ivinskaya, and the government that did not want their story to be told.

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1st Produced:
WorkShop theater
312 West 36th Street, 4th floor, New York, NY 10018     14 Feb 2013

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Play/Drama

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Male:  5            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Medussa

Synopsis:
Thor and Mavis two senior citizens are on a first date. Thor is the perfect gentleman - but is this what Mavis wants?

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Moonlight & Love Songs

Synopsis:
When Harry Wallace, a lonely 45 year old architect meets and falls for Jim Bennett, a sexy young college student, he sees his dreams come true until a shocking revelation about Jim causes their seemingly perfect motion picture romance to implode. As the ensuing public outrage leaves Harry a pariah within his community and his family, Jim attempts to repair the damage caused by his betrayal
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Murmurs

Synopsis:
Jason invites his lab partner, Les, over to watch baseball on television. He asks him about the rumours about his sexuality and finding them true reveals his own secret

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Contained in: "Off Off Broadway Festival Plays 21st Series" published by Samuel French Inc, New York 1997   -

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One act

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Open Window, The

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part of the 2008 Long Island City One Act Play Festival. Featuring 12 One Acts in 2 sets

1st Produced:
Secret Theatre, NYC     2008

Organisations:
the Queens Players

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Perfecting the Kiss

Synopsis:
the director is in love with the playwright. She insists that the playwright is not gay - but he spends most of his time pursuing the young actor. the young actor has a crush on the director. . .

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One act. - - Gay, one act

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Persephone and the Mother Lode

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1st Produced:
Jewel Box Theatre, New York     2004

Organisations:
Workshop Theater Company

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Philosopher's Joke, The

Synopsis:
A young man is about to propose to his girlfriend. First he asks three long married couples for advice. They tell him of how one time when they were in Germany they were given a glimpse of their futures

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Based on a short story by Jerome K Jerome

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Genre:
Adaptation

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Popcorn

Synopsis:
Stan and Kip are step-brothers and Kip has to watch Nigella Lawson's cooking show for a school project. While the cool, casual Stan sits and makes jokes about the absurdity of the project, the more studious and serious Kip tries to brush him off. But suddenly a moment of passion sparked by Nigella's soothing voice, creates a what the hell just happened moment - nytheatre.com

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part of A la Carte: A Feast of New Plays

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Queens from a Marriage

Synopsis:
Five years after splitting up a seven year marriage Paul and Jared meet again. Will they get together again?

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1st Produced:
City Theatre Lab, Pittsberg, Pennsylvania     1993

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1st Published:
http://Drama.eserver.org/plays/contemporary/queens. . .marriage.txt,    -

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Genre:
One Act. - - Gay, one act

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Male:  4            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Sarcophagus

Synopsis:
What happens when two people at a costume party meet? Robin Hood and Cleopatra may not be from the same era but there have to be some things a charitable crook and one of the world's most beautiful and powerful woman have to say to each other. . .
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1st Produced:
Jackson Ave Theatre, NY     2006

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Shepherd's Bush

Synopsis:
Life of E. M. Forster

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1st Produced:
-     1995

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Genre:
Play/Drama. - - Gay/Lesbian, historical characters

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Thalassa

Synopsis:
A young woman sees a man about to drown himself - can she save him? Can they save each other?

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Genre:
Short play

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Turtles & Bulldogs

Synopsis:
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part of Britbits 3, An evening of new one-act plays for or About the British

1st Produced:
Sanford Meisner Theatre, NY     2008

Organisations:
Mind the Gap Theatre

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Genre:
One Act

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We'll Take a Cup of Kindness Yet

Synopsis:
based on "Misery"

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part of From Russia With Angst which offers A series of one-acts that create A theatrical potpourri which runs the gamut of emotions Chekhov style, evoking both laughter And pathos

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Genre:
One Act

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