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Andrea Stolowitz

ANDREA STOLOWITZ

  
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    Beacon Artists Agency  

Andrea Stolowitz is a graduate of the MFA playwriting program at the University of California San Diego. She has had her plays developed and presented at many venues including: the Cherry Lane Theater, the Old Globe Theater, the AsHLAnd New Play Festival/Oregon Shakespeare Festival, the Long Wharf Theater, Mill Mountain Theater, and Victory Gardens. Ms. Stolowitz is a member of the Dramatists Guild.

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

         Antarktikos         Berlin Circles         Hotel Traumbad         Ithaka         Knowing Cairo         Seascapes         Tales Of Doomed Love

Antarktikos

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won the Oregon Book Award's Angus Bowmer Drama Prize http://www.literary-arts.org/oba-home/

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Berlin Circles

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Ruth Levine, a hard edged Jewish lawyer from New York, arrives in Berlin's Bahnhof Zoo during a transit strike and becomes stuck there. She meets a seemingly paranoid yet very friendly young man who calls himself Ajax. Through their interaction Ruth gradually rethinks her corporate life and boring marriage which she feels was prescribed to her by her mother. Interspersed with Ruth and Ajax's present day interactions are scenes from 1938 which take place between Eva, Ruth's mother (who is also stuck in the station because the Germans just annexed Czechoslovakia) and a witty older man named Paul who Eva believes is a movie star. When Paul invites her to join him on his movie set and feeds Eva's delusions of grandeur, she decides to join him and give up her plans to go to America. the final scenes of the play reveal who Paul really is and the grave danger that Eva narrowly and serendipitously avoids. This danger carries over to the final scene where we see that Ajax's "secret people" are in fact real. Ruth, in a final moment of courage and liberation from her past, saves Ajax. the two time periods reveal the story of mother and daughter and illuminate Ruth's choices.

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Play/Drama

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Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  doubling

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Hotel Traumbad

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An eclectic cast of unlikely Americans arrives at a would-be hotel/spa in Central Europe expecting classic charm and European royalty, as written in their NY Times ad. the residents of the "spa" are all caught unawares but quickly realize that if they pretend to be hotel residents and royalty, the Americans will pay to stay there, and they can use the money to start their lives over. the game begins and now the Europeans, who are actually residents not at a spa but at a low security mental asylum, must keep the game afloat. As things begin to go horribly wrong and the Americans uncover the ruse, act I ends with the announcement that the president has been shot and there is a coup; they are all stuck there for the time being. Act two begins with all of the characters arguing about how they should proceed. Eventually they decide to turn on the lights and prepare dinner. Dinner turns into a party and as the spirit of the night escalates and new loves and friendships are forged, the characters make a promise to create a new and better life together. the next morning they awake to learn that the coup is over. Everything is back to normal and the characters, especially the Americans, must choose to honor or dismiss the heartfelt promises of the previous night. HOTEL TRAUMBAD is a highly comic yet dark political tale about dreams, faith in them, US foreign policy and human interaction.

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Ithaka

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Artists Repertory Theater    28 May 2013

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Knowing Cairo

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Alternately funny, moving and disturbing, this play deals with the relationship between an elderly German-Jewish New Yorker, her daughter and the mother's African-American caretaker. Issues of trust, love, family obligations and race arise when Rose becomes so fond of her new nurse that her daughter begins to suspect the woman of being a clever grifter. Are her suspicions justified, or are they produced by jealousy? the play raises but does not answer these questions, leaving them as a challenge to the audience.

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winner of the Fremont Centre theatre's New Play Prize, A finalist At the Mill Mountain theater New Play Festival, A finalist for the Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays Award, And the runner-up for the 2003 Princess Grace Award At New Dramatists

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Old Globe Theater (San Diego, Ca, United States)    2003

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90-100 min Play/Drama

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Seascapes

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This play tells the story of a husband and wife trying to recover from the mysterious disappearance of their son. As the extraordinary events of the play unfold (which include pedophiles, political prisoners, and an enigmatic young visitor who befriends the wife), Claire and John are challenged to find a way to forgive each other and finally bury their son. the play reflects the sensibility of our time by creating a world in which events happen for unexplainable reasons, people are not who they seem, and uncertainties always linger

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finalist for the O'Neill National New Plays Conference (2003), And A finalist for Play Labs At the Playwrights Center, Mnpls

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Mill Mountain Theater, Va, Usa    2004

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Play 100 min Play/Drama

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Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  extras

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Tales Of Doomed Love

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Offers skewed perspectives on five famous love stories, histories retold in monologues by bystanders, victims and survivors. the play goes straight to the heart, giving the discarded lovers of ancient stories a chance to tell us why they had to try.

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developed At the StreetSigns Center for Literature And Performance, Women At the Door/Famous Door theater (Chicago), And the Artists of Tomorrow festival (NYC).

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