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Donna Spector

DONNA SPECTOR

  
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    Fifi Oscard Agency  

Spector grew up in Los Angeles, attended U.C.L.A. on a Theater scholarship, then transferred to U.C. Berkeley, where she received her B.A. and M.A. in English. In the late '60's she directed and acted in a socio-political Theater troupe called Dementia, performing with groups like Santana and the Grateful Dead. A member of Dramatists Guild, Women Playwrights International, International Centre for Women Playwrights and Poets & Writers, winner of the Masters Poetry Prize and twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Spector received two National Endowment for the Humanities grants to study in Greece, where she also attended the International Women Playwrights Conference. Her plays, poems, short stories, scenes and monologues have been published in many literary magazines and anthologies. member of Dramatist Guild of America

Research:    Member of the Dramatists Guild of America (as at 2015)

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

         Another Paradise         Blind Date         Burying Mother         Crystal Ball         Dancing With Strangers         Eros & Psyche         Fire         Golden Ladder         Hanging Women         Life Lines         Manhattan Transits         Not for the Ferryman         Sense of Movement, A         Short-Term Affairs         Strip Talk on the Boulevard

Another Paradise

Synopsis:
Mother and daughter tell conflicting stories of the same events in Kentucky

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Players Theatre, NYC     1986

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Genre:
Comedy/Drama Comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Blind Date

Synopsis:
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1st Produced:
Center Stage, New York     15 Jan 2003

Organisations:
Harbor Theatre

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Short play

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Burying Mother

Synopsis:
A comedy/Drama about Emily and her dynamic, controlling, dead mother, the play moves fluidly between past, present and future, between what could and couldn't happen, as the play takes place in Emily's memory and dreams, including a vaudeville act on the nature of time, a funeral, in St. Paul's cathedral, that never happened, a surgery to find her sister's heart, Death as a stand-up comic, and her mother's interview with Death, a neurotic character who refuses to grant her immortality.

Notes:
Semi-finalist for the 2006 Eugene O'Neill Playwrights Conference

1st Produced:
Staged Reading: Arthur Seelen Theatre, NYC     2006

Organisations:
Manhattan Oracles

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Comedy/Drama Comedy

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Crystal Ball

Synopsis:
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1st Produced:
Center Stage, New York     21 Oct 2001

Organisations:
Harbor Theatre

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Short play

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Dancing With Strangers

Synopsis:
Five older (70's-80) women try a communal living experiment.

Notes:
Semi-finalist in the Chesterfield Writer's Film Project, 2001. Staged reading: Wings theatre, NYC, 2001; Short-listed in the BBC/British Council International Playwriting Competition, 2001

1st Produced:
Staged Readings: Playwrights Theatre Of New Jersey     1999

Organisations:
the Harbor Theatre, NYC

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Comedy/Drama Comedy

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Eros & Psyche

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
Ten Venues In NYC, Brooklyn, Queens, Flushing, The Bronx. New York City, NY     07 Aug 2014

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
90 min outdoor performance

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Fire

Synopsis:
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1st Produced:
Open Hydrant Theater Company, Bronx, NY     05 Jun 2014

Organisations:
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Music:
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Genre:
short play

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Golden Ladder

Synopsis:
A bittersweet comedy, GOLDEN LADDER explores the confusion in a family divided by different religions. Catherine relives her bewildering childhood and adolescence when her Christian mother denied that her Father was Jewish and her Father gave up his religion to please his wife. Catherine discovers friendship, sex and love as her often misguided attempts to reconcile her parents' conflicting agendas lead her on a spiritual odyssey until she finds the golden ladder in a story her Father tells and claims her Jewish heritage.

Notes:
Finalist, Herbert Mark Newman theatre contest (then titled How to be Really Jewish). Produced At Hope College, Michigan, 2004. Staged readings: Mirror Stage, Seattle, 2004; International Women Playwrights Conference, Athens, Greece, 2000; Grove St. Playhouse, NY,1999

1st Produced:
Players Theatre, NYC     2002

Organisations:
Players Theatre

1st Published:
in Women Playwrights: the Best Plays of 2002, Smith and Kraus, 2003   -

Music:
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Genre:
Comedy/Drama Comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Hanging Women

Synopsis:
Mother and her daughters fantasise about killing the man who left them

Notes:
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1st Produced:
University Of California, Hayward     1998

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Comedy/Drama Comedy

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Life Lines

Synopsis:
Elizabeth SCHULMAN, a doctor at a Northern California abortion clinic, who is forced to reevaluate her life's work as a result of increasingly violent attacks by militant right-wing Christian groups.

Notes:
Finalist: theatre Unbound Competition, Minneapolis, 2005, And Reverie's Next Generation Contest, 2006

1st Produced:
Bruce Mitchell Room, Art/New York Spaces, NY     2006

Organisations:
Reverie Productions

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
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Manhattan Transits

Synopsis:
Loosely based on an article in the New York Times Magazine and on the Demeter-Persephone myth, this play deals with the problem of homelessness in New York. A tragedy with some comic relief, MANHATTAN TRANSITS is about JOSE CARTELLO, a fourteen-year-old runaway who lives in the Port Authority Bus Terminal and looks to CARLOS FAVA, a nineteen-year-old "street kid" and to two older bag ladies for love.

Notes:
2001 Semi-finalist: Beverly Hills/Julie Harris contest & Chesterfield Writer's Film Project

1st Produced:
Players Theatre, NYC     1989

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Not for the Ferryman

Synopsis:
Appalachian/Greek love story based on folktales

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Pickup Styx, NY, With Grant From Dodge Foundation     1993

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Comedy/Drama Comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Sense of Movement, A

Synopsis:
New York love stories

Notes:
3 related one-acts

1st Produced:
Ny Council For The Arts Production     1987

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Comedy/Drama Comedy

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Short-Term Affairs

Synopsis:
Mark comes to the Bureau of Short-Term Affairs in Manhattan because he's afraid of commitment and wants a limited affair with someone so wrong for him he will immediately be attracted. When Denise interviews him, they dislike each other so much that they fall in love and begin what they insist is just another short-term affair.

Notes:
Short-Term Affairs will be included in Stone Soup theatre's Double (XX) Fest 2.0 reading series, 4 short plays At 3 locations in Seattle-4/16 At Rogue & Peasant, 4/17 At White Rabbit, 4/18, 2012, At Via Tribunal.

1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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Music:
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Genre:
short play

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Strip Talk on the Boulevard

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
Cloverdale Playhouse. Montgomery, NY     16 Jun 2016

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
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