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Bryan Starchman

BRYAN STARCHMAN  

 Nationality:    USA
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Bryan Starchman is a playwright, actor, and teacher. He grew up in Mariposa, CA, where he teaches American literature and theatre at Mariposa County High School. Mr. Starchman graduated from UCLA with a BA in American literature and culture and an emphasis in Dramatic writing.

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

 Born To Be Wild         Con, The         Divided We Fall         Expose: Holiday Celebrities         Feast Of Epiphany, The         High-Schoolers Guide To The Galaxy         Holiday Celebrities: Criminal Justice         It Was The Butler!         Just Another High School Play         No Signs Of Intelligent Life         On Second Hand         Parents Just Don't Understand         Pitch, The         Resurrection Of Rocky Ricochet, The         Shalloween         Who's Calling?         With Regard To Cooper Clawson

Born To Be Wild

Synopsis:
What does the female praying mantis say to her male partner before devouring him? What does the spider say to the fly?

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Genre:
Youth play

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  2 either sex; extras

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Con, The

Synopsis:
For better or worse a couple put their trust in each other

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Contained in: "The Con and Other Urban Legends" published by Eldrige Plays   -

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Genre:
Short play

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Divided We Fall

Synopsis:
Teenage angst

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Eldrige Plays   -

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Genre:
Youth play

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  11 - 20 either sex

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Expose: Holiday Celebrities

Synopsis:
Behind the scenes with the Easter Bunny, Cupid and Santa's elves all go on strike for better recognition of the work they do behind the scenes

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Genre:
Childrens play

Parts:
Male:  13            Female:  11            Other:  4 either sex; extras

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Feast Of Epiphany, The

Synopsis:
Colin McKinney, a successful romance novelist, wants to keep his profession a secret from his ultra-Catholic parents, especially his overbearing, neurotic mother. Colin writes under the pseudonym, Amber Waves, and tells his fans that he is a housewife. Colin also wants to prevent his parents from finding out that his fiancee, Jen, is really a Baptist. With his parents halfway across the country, Colin thinks his secrets are safe until his parents and sister decide to visit him to celebrate the Feast of Epiphany. To ready himself for their visit, Colin hides his romance novels and creates games like "Who Wants to be Canonized," "The Our Father Sing-a-long," and the "Patron Saints Board Game" to help Jen learn enough about Catholicism to pass as a Catholic. This outrageously entertaining comedy offers a blizzard of one-liners and outlandish situations.

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Performance Time: Approximately 100 minutes.

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Genre:
full legth Comedy

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  8            Other:  optional extras (With doubling 3 M, 5 F)

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High-Schoolers Guide To The Galaxy

Synopsis:
Four new students about to start High School - but how will they cope? Schedules, parental expectations, cafeteria food and worst of all gym class? What they need is a guide&

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Genre:
Youth play

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  15 - 40 either sex

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Holiday Celebrities: Criminal Justice

Synopsis:
What if the Holiday Celebrities actually lived amongst us? What if they were criminal? The Easter Bunny is a burglar. Thanksgiving Turkey steals a truck load of turkeys and heads for the border. Santa gets done for tax evation

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Genre:
Childrens play

Parts:
Male:  12            Female:  9            Other:  13 either sex

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It Was The Butler!

Synopsis:
In 1987, a murder-mystery series premiered on the BBC television network that would go down in history as the worst murder-mystery series of all time. It was entitled. . ."It Was. . .The Butler!" and as you can probably tell, the title alone didn't leave much to the imagination. After an hour of murder, mystery, and mayhem, it turned out that, yes, the Butler had done it. By the time the network decided to pull the plug, nobody was watching. Nobody, that is, except for a young boy named Peter Piper, who vowed to grow up and be just like that detective on TV and rid the world of evil butlers! And, unfortunately, that is exactly what he did. This is his story. . .

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Performance Time: Approximately 90-100 minutes

1st Produced:
Mariposa: County high School, CA, USA    2003

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Genre:
Farce, full length

Parts:
Male:  17            Female:  6            Other:  6 flexible, optional extras

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Just Another High School Play

Synopsis:
! Here's a comedy that covers nearly every angle of the typical high school play with a dose of history and improvisation thrown in for good measure! A group of actors, who have apparently been abandoned by their Drama teacher, have to fend for themselves opening night in front of a live audience. Their teacher has left them hanging because no one has been showing up to rehearsals and no one is really quite sure what they are supposed to do. The student assistant director and the stage manager step in, find a box of scripts which they pass out to the cast, and try to throw something together. What follows is a rollicking show full of physical comedy, gags, and satirical re-writings of many plays from Shakespeare to Albee. The next time your high school wants to do a play, do them all. . .in under 90 minutes! This play offers opportunities for audience participation, plus it includes a part for your Drama teacher.

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Eldridge Plays & Musicals   -

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  Flexible 10-40

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No Signs Of Intelligent Life

Synopsis:
Aliens desperate to blend in with humans - but will their conversational skills or lack of them give them away?

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1st Produced:
Mount Vernon Presbyterian School, Atlanta    '01 Nov 2013

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Eldrige Plays   -

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Genre:
Youth play

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  5 - 29 either sex

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On Second Hand

Synopsis:
A young man has a brush with death and his life flashes before him

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Contained in: "The Con and Other Urban Legends" published by Eldrige Plays   -

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Genre:
Short play

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Parents Just Don't Understand

Synopsis:
Family situations that everyone has been through. Mother deciding she will choose your wardrobe. Dad giving you driving lessons. Those terrible camping trips in the back of beyond

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Genre:
Youth play

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  1 either sex

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Pitch, The

Synopsis:
A writer gets the opportunity to pitch ideas for a new movie "Thumb Wars"; an advertisement for H2Mayo the first drinkable mayonnaise; a game show "Guess What I Just Ate?" and a reality show about postal workers "Going Postal"

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  4 - 20 either sex

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Resurrection Of Rocky Ricochet, The

Synopsis:
Our story takes place in the small town of Minnewawa, California, population 300. On this tragic night, Rocky Ricochet's fabulous girlfriend, Athena, dumps him, and across town, an invalid dies of a heart attack at the local hospital. Has fate linked these two tragic events? Rocky seems to think so. After the town drunk (in this case, the town's doctor) arrives to examine the dead invalid and mistakes him for Rocky, word spreads through Minnewawa that Rocky has died of a broken heart. With the help of the town coroner, Rocky devises a plan to win back Athena by masquerading as his own long-lost twin brother, Jethro. This riotous farce features a host of zany characters.

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Performance Time: Approximately 90 minutes

1st Produced:
Mariposa: County high School, CA, USA    2002

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Genre:
Farce, full length

Parts:
Male:  11            Female:  5            Other:  3 flexible, optional extras

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Shalloween

Synopsis:
The two class geeks have not been invited to a Halloween party held by their classmates. Then just before the party is due to start they get a phone call to come. They can't get costumes at this late stage and decide to cross dress. Alexandra as a hoodlum and Sam as a prom queen. But what is the real reason they have been invited?

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Genre:
Youth play

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  4            Other:  extras

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Who's Calling?

Synopsis:
A practical joke goes too far

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Contained in: "The Con and Other Urban Legends" published by Eldrige Plays   -

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To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

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Genre:
Short play

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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With Regard To Cooper Clawson

Synopsis:
What if the class jock has to become a geek to save humankind?

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Eldrige Plays   -

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Genre:
Youth play

Parts:
Male:  11            Female:  7            Other:  5 either sex; extras

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