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LINDA FELTON STEINBAUM
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Linda Felton Steinbaum, a Los Angeles native, has a master's degree from USC and is an award winning, produced and published playwright. She is currently a member of the Alliance of Los Angeles Playwrights, as well as the Dramatists Guild and the Writer's Guild of America, West. Over the years she has participated in numerous playwriting workshops at UCLA and various Theatres around the Los Angeles areA. After co-writing a screenplay and selling it to Walt Disney Studios, Linda became interested in playwriting. Her first full length play, A TOUCH-TONE AWAY, was performed at a coffee "salon" in Studio City. Linda's award nominated one-act play, SHIFTING GEARS, was selected to be presented at the 2004 annual "NoHo Festival of the Arts" in Los Angeles. Later that year it was produced by Lonny Chapman's Group Repertory Theatre. In the summer of 2006 SHIFTING GEARS was performed at the Cedar Lane Stage in Bethesda, Maryland. In 2005, Linda's wacky full length comedy NEW AND IMPROVED was given a staged reading and limited engagement at the Group Repertory Theatre. Also in 2005, her Drama, FAT CHANCE was produced by J.E.T. Productions-West at the NoHo Actor's Studio. FAT CHANCE was produced again in May of 2006 by the Sierra Madre Playhouse and was extended. MUSTANG SALLY was presented in 2007 at the Whitefire Theatre in Sherman Oaks, California and headlined for six weeks. In March of 2008 MUSTANG SALLY was published by Samuel French, Inc. Most recently, Linda was the recipient of the All Original Playwrights Workshop Fellowship Award for her full length Drama, FUEL HOUSE. the award included a fully produced and financed staged reading.
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Fat Chance Fuel House Grand Finale Hail to the Detail Mustang Sally New And Improved Shifting GearsFat Chance
Synopsis:
At present, there are several airlines instituting a "person of size" policy forcing peole to buy two seats is they are very large. the decision is arbitrary. Weight prejudice occurs in many aspects of our society. "Fat Chance" looks at this topic from different perspectives while examining a contemporary marriage and present day values. It has some comic moments and interesting twists and turns as we follow an attorney and her husband down a rocky road of self-examination and self-discovery.
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the NoHo Actors Studio 2005
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Realistic 2-act Drama (with comedy)
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Male: 3 Female: 2 Other: one voice over - male
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With our senior citizens living longer, Americans are finding themselves taking care of their elderly parents while still raising their children. Experts have coined a modern term for these people caught in the middle - "the sandwich generation." This play is a modern day Drama that follows one family's struggle with this phenomena as well as other contemporary issues.
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Fuel House won the All Original Playwright Workshop Fellowship Award in Fall 2008 And received A fully funded staged reading At the Actor's Group theatre in North Hollywood, California.
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Top of PageGrand Finale
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Crown City Theatre, North Hollywood 18 Oct 2010
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One act
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Top of PageHail to the Detail
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A married family man is a bored, uncommunicative pharmacist who has one obssession. He has been working on a sit-com for 5 years hoping to make it in Hollywood. His family is tired of his obssesion, he doesn't pay attention to anything happening in their lives, and he is tired of their lack of support. Be careful what you wish for
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Lonny Chapman Group Repertory theatre 2004
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2 act Comedy
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Male: 3 Female: 3 Other: one voice over
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Top of PageMustang Sally
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As Mustang Sally opens, Kathy, a single, early 30's middle school teacher has just been caught having an affair with a 12 year old student. She is arrested and charged. Elizabeth, her older, successful sister, comes to her aid and enlists her male attorney friend. Elizabeth has to deal with all this while trying to curb her wacky mother's activities and navigate her own life.
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Whitefire Theatre, Sherman Oaks, California 2007
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A frustrated husband has a day job as a pharmacist, but in the evenings is perfecting his sit-com script so he can make it in Hollywood. After five years of being ignored, his family rebels. Remember, be careful what you wish for.
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Top of PageShifting Gears
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How do you take the car keys away from a relative (father) who, due to age, medication, or physical impairment, should not be driving anymore? See what happens when a submissive daughter, stood up by her confident brother, finds herself alone at lunch with the task of suggesting her macho, overbearing Father stop driving
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Lonny Chapman Group Repertory theatre 2004
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Comic Drama, 30 min Comedy
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