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William Squier

WILLIAM SQUIER

  (1957 - )
Nationality:    USA
email:    n/a     Website:    Click here

Literary Agent:    Beacon Artists Agency  represented by Pat McLaughlin

Aurin Squire is a New York journalist and playwright who graduated from The Juilliard School's Liia Acheson Wallace American Playwriting Program in May 2015. In 2015-2016, he has playwriting fellowships at the Brooklyn Arts Exchange for his choreopoem The Gospel According to F#ggots and at the National Black Theatre for his post-apocalyptic satire Zoohouse. His plays include A Family Manual for Kwanzaa (The Kennedy Center MFA Workshop)The Great Black Sambo Machine (Lincoln Centre Lab and Ars Nova), Defacing Michael Jackson (Nuyorican Poets Cafe workshop and winner of Lincoln Center's Act One Prize), To Whom It May Concern (Abingdon Theatre and ArcLight Theatre productions) and African Americana (Brooklyn Arts Exchange and Theatre 503). He was in the Royal Court Theatre's US Writer Programme in 2015 and the Dramatists Guild Fellowship. Currently, he is a television staff writer for the new political satire Brain Dead that will premiere on CBS in 2015. He writes and produces multimedia and web video including the installation art film Dreams of Freedom, which won three national prizes and is in the permanent exhibit at the National Museum of American Jewish History. He also works as a freelance reporter for Talking Points Memo, Fusion, Take Part and The New Republic. Aurin lives in Brooklyn.

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

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

         Benedict Arnold         Blindsided By A Diaper         Boywonder         Doug Live!         Hundred Years into the Heart, A         Klemperer's New Clothes         Merrilee Mannerly         Merry Mulberry Street Musical         Music is My Fist         Rebels         Route 66         Three Scrooges, The         Top of the Heap
Benedict Arnold

Synopsis:
about the the infamous traitor

Notes:
book by Richard Vetere, music by Jeffrey Lodin and lyrics by William Squier

1st Produced:
Staged Reading Presented At The Spirit Of Broadway Theater, Norwich, Ct     12 Sep 2013

Organisations:
Spirit of Broadway Theater

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Music:
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Genre:
musical

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Blindsided By A Diaper

Synopsis:
Lisa and Jeff newly weds. Lisa has become pregnant. After the baby is born a couple become a family

Notes:
Music by Jeffrey Lodin; lyrics by William Squier; book by Dana Hilmer; William Squier

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Genre:
Musical

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Boywonder

Synopsis:
the host of a daytime talkshow finds it harder and harder to tell the difference between televised reality and actual reality.

Notes:
written with music by Jerold Goldstein

1st Produced:
Contemporary Arts     1991

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Doug Live!

Synopsis:
Strap on your imagination for a Doug adventure so cool it had to come to life!" advised the promotional material for Doug Live!, our Disney-MGM Studios theme Park show based on the popular animated series Doug.

Notes:
written with music by Jeffrey Lodin

1st Produced:
Walt Disney World     1999

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Genre:
Musical Comedy Musical

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  1dog

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Hundred Years into the Heart, A

Synopsis:
In the late 1950's, an infant fell from the sixth floor window of an apartment building in Queens, New York. A boy, passing through the alley below, caught the child and saved his life. This incident became the inspiration for this romantic new musical

Notes:
written with book by Richard Vetere And music by Jeffrey Lodin

1st Produced:
New York Musical Theatre Festival     2004

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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Klemperer's New Clothes

Synopsis:
Winner of the Coleman A. Jennings New Script Award and the Jackie White Memorial Children's Playwriting Contest. A modern adaption of the Emperor's New Clothes

Notes:
written with music by Norman Weiss

1st Produced:
Columbia Entertainment Company     2004

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Genre:
Musical Comedy Musical

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  5            Other:  chorus

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Merrilee Mannerly

Synopsis:
Merrilee is an expert on manners. She is shocked when a Princess moves in next door who has none

Notes:
book by Mary Cashman, William Squier & Cynthia Whipple. Music by Jeffrey Lodin. Lyrics by William Squier

1st Produced:
Summer Theatre Of New Canaan. New Canaan, Ct     2014

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Genre:
Musical TYA

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Merry Mulberry Street Musical

Synopsis:
Lower East Side 1944. The sons are away fighting in the War. The sisters-in-law bicker and fight

Notes:
Music by Jeffrey Lodin; lyrics by William Squier; book by Lou Urnsone

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Genre:
Musical

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Music is My Fist

Synopsis:
An evening with the "Pope of Pop," Nicholas Albert Sobella.

Notes:
co-authors: Scott Blakeman & Robert Taub, music Jerold Goldstein, lyrics William Squier

1st Produced:
Steve Mcgraw's     1992

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Genre:
Musical Comedy Musical

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  1            Other:  Accompanist

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Rebels

Synopsis:
A large-scale historical musical, set in Boston, about the beginnings of the American Revolution.

Notes:
co-authors: John Allen & Mana Allen, music: Jeffrey Lodin, lyrics: William Squier & John Allen, original story: John Allen.

1st Produced:
The Starlight Theatre     2000

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Genre:
Historical Musical Musical

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  4            Other:  1 F Child

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Route 66

Synopsis:
ROUTE 66 is a new romantic musical comedy about a charmingly neurotic freelance journalist from Chicago and the cowboy photographer that she teams up to do a magazine piece about the historic old highway. In the process of rediscovering America, the two of them fall in love - not only with one another, but with the good ole U.S.A.

Notes:
book by Jerold Goldstein and William Squier, music by Fred Stark, and lyrics by Squier

1st Produced:
Kansas City Crossroads Festival Of New Musicals     2006

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Genre:
Musical Romantic Comedy Musical

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Three Scrooges, The

Synopsis:
Charles Dicken's 'A Christmas Carol' collides with the antics of Harry, Eb & Farley: the Three Scrooges, in this rib-tickling, heart-tugging, eye-gouging holiday musical.

Notes:
co-author: Jerold Goldstein, music Jerold Goldstein, lyrics William Squier

1st Produced:
Curtain Call, Inc.     2001

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Miracle of 2 Productions,    

Music:
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Genre:
Musical Comedy Musical

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  Accompanist

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Top of the Heap

Synopsis:
It's New York City, 1955. the Brooklyn Dodgers are about to square off with the Yankees in a World Series that will net "dem bums" their first title in 55 years. So, TV's most popular variety program, "Top of the Heap," is headed to Brooklyn for a live, remote broadcast tied into the Series. A struggling pair of nightclub comics see this as a chance to bluff their way out of the dives where they perform and into television. But, they soon discover just how high a price they'll have to pay.
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
book And lyrics by William Squier; music by Jeffrey Lodin

1st Produced:
Gallery Players, NY, USA >>>     24 Oct 2009

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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  large cast

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