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Marc Spitz

MARC SPITZ

  (1969 - )
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    Bresnick Weill Literary Agency  

Marc Spitz is the author of several plays, including I Wanna Be Adored, Retail Sluts, and ". . .Worry, Baby." He is the co-author of We Got the Neutron Bomb: An Oral History of Los Angeles Punk Rock (Three Rivers Press, 2001). He was a Senior Contributing Writer at Spin Magazine.

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

         Breathe Dead Hippo         Gravity Always Wins         Hobo Got Too High, The         I Wanna Be Adored         Marshmellow World         Name of the Play is Talking Heads, The         P.S. It's Poison         Retail Sluts         Revenge and Guilt         Rise and Fall of the Farewell Dogs, The         Shyness Is Nice         Up For Anything         Worry Baby         Your Face is a Mess

Breathe Dead Hippo

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Gravity Always Wins

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A Father insists that his family only speak in French - although he cannot understand the language as becomes more and more like Michael Jackson

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Black comedy

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Hobo Got Too High, The

Hobo Got Too High, The
Bug Blowmonkey loves music. Bug Blowmonkey loves a woman. Bug Blowmonkey loves cocaine. Two of these things are good for him, but the other one is messing him up. Bad. Wanna take a guess which one? Bug knows the blow is taking him down a dark path, but can't quit it on his own. Luckily, he has a spirit guide to help him out of his hole, and towards the 'light' he seeks: Marvin Gaye. Granted, Marvin is also a drug-addled paranoiac (and dead for 20 years), but beggars can't be choosers when it comes to spirit guides, it seems. Will Bug, with the help of Marvin Gaye and a stuffed buffalo in the Museum of Natural History, be able to overcome his addiction and fight the haunting, taunting spirit of the girlfriend he lost to win the heart of a new woman in his life, who may be able to save him from himself? Will he find his 'light?' Will he figure out why every person he sleeps with has a tail? Will this whole story be told in a fast, jumpy, non-linear style, full of hystErical one-liners and astonishing situations? At least three of these questions will be answered in a viewing of Marc Spitz's play, the Hobo Got Too High, which is is an hour of sex, drugs, rock and roll, romance, nonsequiturs, vast numbers of curse words, retractable penises, and an appraisal of Diane Lane's breasts
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Gemini CollisionWorks

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Digiature 2012   978-0615629407

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I Wanna Be Adored

I Wanna Be Adored
the life and death at the age of 23 of Ian Curtis lead singer of Joy Division

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Digiature 2012   978-0615629391

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Marshmellow World

Marshmellow World
In a 12 step-style meeting full of people with sonic as opposed to substance related problems, a Jew from a very conservative family tries to cure his addiction to Christmas music.
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part of the Baby Jesus One-Act Jubilee: Second Coming, A selection of world-premiere yuletide-themed plays

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the Brick Theater

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Digiature 2012   978-0615629483

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Name of the Play is Talking Heads, The

Name of the Play is Talking Heads, The
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Laura Wagner, Jonathan Lisecki, Kirsten Ames

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Digiature 2012   978-0615629322

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P.S. It's Poison

P.S. It's Poison
Four college friends in their late 30s, who've lost touch and taken different career and personal paths reconnect at the request of their former professor and mentor, a brilliant but cursed novelist. He has a young girlfriend, a mysterious package, a dark secret and one final lesson with serious consequences. Marc Spitz's new pitch black comedy, P.S. It's Poison, concerns sex, nostalgia, art, ambition, parenthood, Vince Vaughn, reading glasses, Nirvana, New York City, hard drugs and harder truths.
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the Red Room
85 East 4th Street, 3rd floor, New York, NY 10003     08 Sep 2011

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Digiature 2012   978-0615629278

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Retail Sluts

Retail Sluts
Dommy, Tony and Clarence work in an up market clothes shop. They want to wear the latest fashions but do not earn enough. They spend their time with cheap drink, cheap drugs and cheap sex. Everything is spiralling out of control

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Digiature 2012   978-0615629445

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Revenge and Guilt

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At the age of 13 Cal had a terrible experience at the hands of his guitar tutor Major Cohen. Twenty years later Cal's new girlfriend Gina urges him to get his revenge

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Kraine Theater, New York     20 Sep 2013

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Black comedy

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Rise and Fall of the Farewell Dogs, The

Rise and Fall of the Farewell Dogs, The
The Farewell Drugs punk band is the worst behaved band ever. Into drugs and drink and groupies and shoplifting. They are racist and sexist. But they have talent. A record company executive takes them over and turns them into a clean cut boy band

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Digiature 2012   978-0615629438

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Shyness Is Nice

Shyness Is Nice
A hilarious and profane farce about two 30-year-old virgins, their supposedly cool heroin-addicted pal, an Australian prostitute, and her pimp.

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Westbeth Theatre Center     01 May 2001

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Up For Anything

Up For Anything
play by Marc Spitz is the tale of hapless Walter Dabney. Dabney is not big on commitment. Both the soul of his writing and his ten year marriage have started to suffer for it. Walter can't even commit to his mistress, Annie as their affair grows more and more serious. But when he takes a Viagra-like pill called themis one morning during a tryst, he is finally forced to commit to something: the FOUR HOUR ERECTION theY WARN ABOUT IN the COMMERCIAL! It's the worst possible timing. Everyone in the City he does not want to run into and some he's never even met show up, amounting to a brutal afternoon of reckoning for Walter and the kind of wild night of theater that only this crew can provide.
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Kraine Theater, NY, USA >>>     08 Oct 2009

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Digiature 2012   978-0615629308

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Worry Baby

Worry Baby
Donna and Dexter decide to go to an up market restaurant on the Lower East Side. While waiting for the train they witness a drug gang killing. One of the criminals who is bleeding takes Donna hostage and sends Dexter to get a doctor and his boss

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Digiature 2012   978-0615629421

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Your Face is a Mess

Your Face is a Mess
about a drug dealer who decides to quit his job, a soap opera star who gets canned by her boss, and a TV producer who finds out he has prostate cancer. their lives intersect (because the actress and the producer are both his customers), and are unexpectedly affected by one another.
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Digiature 2012   978-0615629315

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