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KEVIN CHRISTOPHER SNIPES
(1979 - )Nationality: USA
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Kevin Christopher Snipes is a playwright living in New York City. His plays have been performed at Ensemble Studio Theatre, Bailiwick Repertory, New York Stage & Film, Moving Arts, Hippodrome State Theatre (Fl), and as part of the Pittsburgh New Works Festival. He is the recipient of an Artists Fellow in Playwriting/Screenwriting from the New York Foundation of the Arts, the Larry Corse International Prize for Playwriting, and an Alfred P. Sloan Screenwriting Fellowship. He has also been a finalist for the Princess Grace Playwriting Fellowship, the O'Neill Conference, Sundance Screenwriter's Lab and the Nicholl Screenwriting Fellowship. His one-act "Virgin Rock" was named Best Play of the Riant Theatre's 2005 One-Act Festival and subsequently published in the Best Plays of the Riant Strawberry One-Act Festival: Volume 3. Kevin is the co-creator of Valerie the Roboceptionist, the world's first storytelling robot receptionist formerly on display at Carnegie Mellon's School of Computer Science. He holds a MFA in Dramatic Writing from Carnegie Mellon University and is a member of the Dramatists Guild.
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Beautiful World Bitter Taste, A Chimes, The Hip-Skidoo Party Lights Procreation of Amoebas and the Meaning of Life, The Vile Bodies Virgin Rock, Part 1 Virgin Rock, Part 2Beautiful World
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part of the Black Box New Play Festival
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Gallery Players, NY
2009
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Top of PageBitter Taste, A
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An encounter with an underage male prostitute forces two life-long friends to question the nature of their friendship and their own identities.
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part of Thicker Than Water 2006. NY premier part of Thicker Than Water 2006. Chicago premier made with Bailiwick Repertory (July 2007).
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Ensemble Studio Theatre
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full length Play/Drama. - - Gay, one act
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Top of PageChimes, The
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Four boys at a New England boarding school at the dawn of the second World War are drawn together by their love of Shakespeare and torn apart by the approaching war.
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Winner of the 2007 Larry Corse International Prize for Playwriting
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Theatre On The Park, Columbus, Ga
2008
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Columbus State University
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Play/Drama. - - Gay, full length
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Top of PageHip-Skidoo
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In 1967 a vivacious Southern housewife kidnaps her sulking teenage son and takes him on a cross-country roadtrip. When their car breaks down in the middle of a desert, mother and son are forced to confront the issues they've desperately been trying to leave behind.
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Studio/Stage Theater, Los Angeles, Ca
2008
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Moving Arts
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Top of PageParty Lights
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A lonely woman attempts to make a connection with a stranger at her birthday party.
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NY production part of Asking 4 Trouble 2006. LA premier At the Secret Rose theater in October 2006 As part of ACToberFest 2006.
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Ten Min
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Top of PageProcreation of Amoebas and the Meaning of Life, The
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A young man searches for the meaning of life with the help of his New Age girlfriend and his gay, alcoholic roommate.
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Winner: 1997 Young Playwright's Festival
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Hippodrome State Theatre, Gainesville, Fl
1997
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Young Playwright's Festival
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play One Act
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Top of PageVile Bodies
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Est's Octoberfest
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Top of PageVirgin Rock, Part 1
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In a rural Southern town, a prescient young black woman attempts to save her husband from the specter of death haunting their house in the form of a great black bird.
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Winner: Best Supporting Actress (Pittsburgh New Works Festival)
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Hamburg Studio Theatre
2003
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Pittsburgh New Plays Festival
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play One Act
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Top of PageVirgin Rock, Part 2
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In a rural Southern town, two best friends reunite after seven years to face unresolved issues.
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Winner: Best Play of the Riant theatre's Strawberry One-Act Festival 2005 And subsequently published in Best Plays from the Strawberry One-Act Festival, Vol. 3.
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13th Street Repertory
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iUniverse, 2006
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play One Act
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