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Al Sjoerdsma

AL SJOERDSMA

  
Nationality:    USA
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Al Sjoerdsma is a graduate of the University of Michigan, where he won a Hopwood Award for Drama. He has been playwright-in-residence at the Canterbury Stage Company and the Performance Network, both of Ann Arbor, Michigan. His work has been presented in Theaters and universities around the country, most recently at the Vital Theatre in New York, and including the Producer's Club in New York, the Odyssey Theatre in Los Angeles, City Theatre in Miami, Milwaukee Rep, Cleveland Public Theatre, the Pittsburgh New Works Festival, the Vortex Theatre in Albuquerque, Northern Kentucky University, Keene State College in New Hampshire, and elsewhere. His award-winning play the 82nd Shepherds' Play was published in the anthology Incisions from Doubleday. Mr. Sjoerdsma is a member of the Dramatists Guild.

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         Bradley/Chelsea/Nameless         Gandhi Goes Fishing         Regularly Scheduled Programming         WDM

Bradley/Chelsea/Nameless

Synopsis:
Part of ObamAmerica: An Algerian prisoner is finally freed from Guantanamo Bay but what awaits him? An African-American university graduate campaigns for Obama in rough East Cleveland, Ohio but keeps getting stopped by armed and racist state troopers. A drone pilot in Arizona hides out in a nail bar. Edward Snowden chats to an Obama souvenir salesman in Washington DC. Bradley Manning dances in his jail cell. An ineffectual gun law is hotly debated on a TV news show. The voices of fourteen different playwrights are heard in ObamAmerica, the first theatre festival to focus purely on the effect this iconic American president has had on his country and on the world. ObamAmerica will give snapshots of the challenges that Barack Obama faces and the sometimes controversial choices he has made during his term of office. Playwrights include renowned TV and film writers Charles Evered (Adopt a Sailor starring Peter Coyote, USAs Monk) and Jacquelyn Reingold (NBCs Smash and Law and Order, HBOs In Treatment), many award winning playwrights from around the United States whose work has been seen at Primary Stages, Naked Angels, Manhattan Repertory Theater (NYC), Milwaukee Rep, Kennedy Center and New Jersey Rep as well as several American writers who have studied at the Royal Court Young Writers Programme and had work produced in London. Seven fifteen minute plays will be performed each evening for a week with seven different plays presented the following week.

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Theatre503 and Over Here Theatre Company

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15 min play

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Gandhi Goes Fishing

Synopsis:
A nervous truck driver named Bob and a saintly world leader named Mohandas Gandhi spend a quiet morning fishing together. Bob suspects his wife of infidelity, and Gandhi offers him some hard-won advice on love and non-violence.

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1st Produced:
Subiaco Academy Duct Tape Theatre (Subiaco, AR, United States)    2008

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Playscripts, Inc - New York   -

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Genre:
10-20 min Comedy/Drama

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Regularly Scheduled Programming

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the New Jersey Repertory Company presents its 3rd Annual theatre Brut Festival of Short Plays. This season's theme is the Seven Deadly Sins.

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New Jersey Repertory Company    2006

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Short Play One Act

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WDM

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