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Jeff Stolzer

JEFF STOLZER

  
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Jeff Stolzer is an award-winning playwright, television writer and screenwriter. His full-length play, the LOST TRIBE, received the Arts Club of Washington's 2009 National Playwriting Award and was a winner of the 2010 Texas Nonprofit Theatres New Play Project and the 2010 Long Beach Playhouse New Works Festival. Another play, the TRIALS OF MOLLY GREEN, was a semifinalist in Lionheart Theatre's 2010 Make the House Roar Prize competition and received Honorable Mention in the 2012 OSU-Newark New Play Contest. His full-length play, UNSPORTSMANLIKE CONDUCT, was selected for the 2012 Last Frontier Theater Conference in Valdez, Alaska, where he directed the reading. It was also a finalist in the 2011-12 Hudson Warehouse Reading Series and a semi-finalist in Primary Stages' 2011 ESPA Drills Summer Reading Series and Wordsmyth Theatre's 2012-13 Reading Series. It was read under the auspices of the Dramatists Guild Friday Night Footlight Series in New York on February 24, 2012. Jeff's short plays ANYTHING ELSE?, SHALL WE?, SMALL WORLD, WHERE ARE WE?, the SURPRISE PARTY and EMERGENCY ROOM were produced at a variety of one-act play festivals in New York, Georgia, Wisconsin and Texas between 2010 and 2012. EMERGENCY ROOM received the 2012 Upstage Playwright Award from Upstage Theatre in Houston, Texas and was runner-up for Best Production and Outstanding Writing at the 2012 Silver Spring Stage One Act Festival in Silver Spring, Maryland. Formerly a writer for ABC's WHO WantS TO BE A MILLIONAIRE and Fox's SPORTS GENIUSES, Jeff has also sold four screenplays to Hollywood studios. BA, Brown University; MFA, USC School of Cinema-Television. Member, Writers Guild of America, East and Dramatists Guild.

Research:    Member of the Dramatists Guild of America (as at 2016)

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         Anything Else?         Crossing the Line, by JEFF STOLZER. Stage Left Theater. Spokane, WA. From Jan 30, 2016 to Jan 31, 2016. Jeff Stolzer's one minute play was selected for Stage Left Theater's FAST & FURIOUS III.         Emergency Room         Gun Shop         Holding Room, The         Just a Stupid Horror Movie by JEFF STOLZER was produced on October 19th, 2013 at Theatre 54, New York, NY, as part of the Insomniacs 24 Hour Play Festival. The play was inspired by the 1979 film PHANTASM and its tagline, "If this one doesn't scare you, you're already dead."         Lost Tribe, The         Paralyzed         Power Plays         Scenes from Life As We Live it Now         Shall We?         Small World         Storage Locker by JEFF STOLZER was a finalist and garnered 3rd place in the 2014 Robert J. Pickering Award for Playwriting Excellence. The full-length comedy (of sorts) tells the story of a married couple who get more than they bargained for after acquiring an abandoned storage locker in an auction.         Surprise Party, The         Survivors         Trials of Molly Green, The         Unsportsmanlike Conduct, A Three-Act, Two-Character Drama That Addresses the Issue Of Date Rape And the Differing Ways Men And Women View Love And Sex, Was Read Under the Auspices Of the Dramatists Guild's Friday Night Footlights On February 24th In the Frederick Loewe Room.         Where Are We?         Worst Date

Anything Else?

Synopsis:
When a grieving son (GRAY SUIT) meets with a clergyman (DARK SUIT) to discuss the eulogy for his late father, the discussion takes an unexpected turn.

Notes:
Festival of One-Act Plays, theatre Three, Port Jefferson, NY (world premiere February, 2010); Drama Book Shop, New York, NY. - reading (March, 2010); theatre Southwest, Houston, TX. - staged reading (March, 2010).

1st Produced:
Theatre Three, Port Jefferson, NY     01 Feb 2010

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Theatre Three

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Crossing the Line, by JEFF STOLZER. Stage Left Theater. Spokane, WA. From Jan 30, 2016 to Jan 31, 2016. Jeff Stolzer's one minute play was selected for Stage Left Theater's FAST & FURIOUS III.

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Jeff Stolzer's one minute play was selected for Stage Left Theater's FAST & FURIOUS III.

1st Produced:
Stage Left Theater. Spokane, WA     30 Jan 2016

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one minute play

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Emergency Room

Synopsis:
EMERGENCY ROOM is a dark comedy that addresses the current state of health care in the United States, offering a "what-if" scenario that is both slightly absurd and frighteningly real. the story follows an ordinary, nameless man, the PATIENT, who unwittingly falls victim to a nightmarish system after he is taken by ambulance to a hospital emergency room following a minor accident. Fortunately, the man's health checks out fine; but, unfortunately, his attempt to actually check out of the facility faces complications that are decidedly not of the medical variety.

Notes:
Winner, 2012 Upstage Playwright Award; 2012 Upstage theatre Festival of Comedy, Houston, TX (August, 2012); 2012 Silver Spring Stage One Act Festival, Silver Spring, MD (August, 2012) - Runner Up, Outstanding Writing, Runner Up, Best Production; North American New Plays Festival, Milwaukee, WI (Jan., 2012);Night of One-Acts, Hart County theatre, Hartwell, GA (world premiere June, 2011); Hudson Warehouse 2011-12 Reading Series, New York, NY (May, 2012); Dezart Performs Reading Series, Palm Springs, CA (April, 2012); Course Curriculum, American University (Washington, D.C.), Masters in Public Policy, health care policy class, Fall, 2012.

1st Produced:
Hsrt County Community Theatre, Hartwell, Ga     01 Jun 2011

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Genre:
One-act black comedy

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Gun Shop

Gun Shop
The play is a darkly comedic look at our country's obsession with firearms

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1st Produced:
Lic One Act Festival: Vol. 2 At The Secret Theatre In Long Island City, New York     17 Jan 2014

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1st Published:
in The Long Island City One Act Festival Vol:2, Top Secret Books (2014)   978-1620309940

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Genre:
one act

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Holding Room, The

Synopsis:
Darkly comedic short play about NSA spying and a thwarted honeymoon.

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1st Produced:
Open Hydrant Theater Company. Bronx, NY     18 Mar 2016

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Just a Stupid Horror Movie by JEFF STOLZER was produced on October 19th, 2013 at Theatre 54, New York, NY, as part of the Insomniacs 24 Hour Play Festival. The play was inspired by the 1979 film PHANTASM and its tagline, "If this one doesn't scare you, you're already dead."

Synopsis:
The play was inspired by the 1979 film PHANTASM and its tagline, "If this one doesn't scare you, you're already dead."

Notes:
part of the Insomniacs 24 Hour Play Festival

1st Produced:
Theatre 54, New York, NY     19 Oct 2013

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Lost Tribe, The

Synopsis:
It's 1998 and HENRY COHEN, a Polish-Jewish refugee from World War II, owns a small barber shop on Fairfax Avenue in Los Angeles. the shop is a local institution, a meeting place for neighborhood residents to gather, gossip and discuss the issues of the day. But Fairfax Avenue is gentrifying quickly and Henry's world is upended when his landlord triples the rent. Henry is devastated and his wife, RUTH, a Holocaust survivor from Romania, is outraged. Henry's son, JOSH, suggests it's finally time for his 75-year-old Father to retire. Henry won't hear of it - he quickly devises a plan to raise prices and hires a second barber, ISAAC ROTH, a retired widower who lives in the neighborhood. the plan goes well and business improves. But Ruth grows suspicious of Isaac after he reveals that he too is from Bucharest, her hometown, and seems evasive about the details of his earlier life. After Ruth confronts Isaac about his personal history, long-buried secrets from the past eventually come to light, casting a dark shadow on the present.

Notes:
Winner, 2010 Texas Nonprofit theatres New Play Project; Winner, 2010 Long Beach Playhouse New Works Festival; Winner, 2009 Arts Club of Washington National Playwriting Award; UP theater Company (New York, NY), 2012 Reading Series; Finalist, Dorothy Silver Playwriting Competition (2009, 2010); Semi-finalist, Princess Grace Playwriting Award (2010); Semi-finalist, Playwrights First Award (2009).

1st Produced:
Baytown Little Theater (Community Theater; Non-Professional Production)     01 May 2011

Organisations:
Hart County Community Theatre

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Genre:
Full-length Drama

Parts:
Male:  8            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Paralyzed

Synopsis:
Jeff Stolzer's full-length comedy was selected for the Paul Enger Memorial Play Reading Series at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church. The story of an embittered, wheelchair-bound actor who writes an autobiographical play about his disability that garners the attention of Broadway's biggest producer.

Notes:
Ohio State-Newark New Play Contest, Third Prize, The Ohio State University - Newark.

1st Produced:
Holy Trinity Lutheran Church. New York, NY     Sep 2016

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Power Plays

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part of New York Friday Night Footlights

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Scenes from Life As We Live it Now

Synopsis:
a mix of genuine headlines and comedy sketches. the headlines are funny, insane and really real -- every one of them previously published in serious publications. the sketches are surreal. Maybe uber-real. A neighborhood is destroyed when two men marry. A man falls victim to a nightmarish system when he is taken by ambulance to an emergency room. Two would-be entrepreneurs open a private prison in their basement and discover that knotty pine walls do not a prison make. God calls on the cell phone and violence ensues. there is an all too contemporary love story

Notes:
By Alfa-Betty Olsen, Marshall Efron, Jeff Stolzer

1st Produced:
(reading) Dramatists Guild
Frederick Loewe Room, 1501 Broadway, Suite 710, New York, NY 10036     15 Mar 2013

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Genre:
comedy revue

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  seven actors

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Shall We?

Synopsis:
On a long plane flight, a hapless PASSENGER gets more than he bargained for when he tries to join the Mile High Club with a sexy, flirtatious FLIGHT ATTENDANT, only to have the coitus interrupted by the appearance of her PILOT boyfriend.

Notes:
North American New Plays Festival, Milwaukee, WI (world premiere January, 2012); Drama Book Shop, New York, NY - reading (March, 2010).

1st Produced:
Carte Blanche Studios, Milwaukee, Wi     01 Jan 2012

Organisations:
Carte Blanche Studios

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Genre:
One-act comedy-Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Small World

Synopsis:
Two men who have a chance encounter while waiting for an elevator discover that they have a shared interest in playing softball. . .and a different, darker personal connection: SOFTBALL MAN works for a large, global investment bank that bought the bakery company where OtheR MAN was employed for 25 years - until the investment bank closed the factory and moved the operation to a non-union plant in Ohio, putting the latter man out of work. Small world, indeed. Or perhaps this was not a chance encounter at all and payback is a bitch. . .

Notes:
One Act Factor Festival, Secret theatre, Queens, NY (March 2012); Subversive Shorts, Subversive theatre, Buffalo, NY (June, 2011); International Cringefest, New York, NY (July, 2010); 15-Minute Play Festival, American Globe theatre, New York, NY (world premiere April, 2010) - also directed this production.

1st Produced:
American Globe Theatre, New York, NY     01 Apr 2010

Organisations:
Turnip Theatre Company

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Genre:
One-act comedy-Drama

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Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Storage Locker by JEFF STOLZER was a finalist and garnered 3rd place in the 2014 Robert J. Pickering Award for Playwriting Excellence. The full-length comedy (of sorts) tells the story of a married couple who get more than they bargained for after acquiring an abandoned storage locker in an auction.

Synopsis:
The full-length comedy (of sorts) tells the story of a married couple who get more than they bargained for after acquiring an abandoned storage locker in an auction.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Read By The Red Harlem Readers At Suite Lounge, 109th Street And Amsterdam AVenue, New York, NY     12 Jan 2014

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Genre:
full length comedy

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Surprise Party, The

Synopsis:
When ELLEN comes home early from a business trip to surprise her lawyer husband MARK on his birthday, her appearance isn't the only surprise that awaits him, his legal assistant TRACY and Ellen's sister, MONICA, who are also there for the party.

Notes:
Midsummer Nights One Act Festival, Long Island City, NY (Aug. 2012); International Cringefest, New York, NY (world premiere July, 2010); Hudson Warehouse 2011-12 Reading Series, New York, NY (May, 2012).

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Organisations:
NY Artists Unlimited

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Genre:
One-act comedy-Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Survivors

Synopsis:
A full-length drama set in Los Angeles in 1998, the play depicts a group of Holocaust survivors struggling to make sense of the nightmarish events they experienced more than half a century earlier.

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1st Produced:
Jewel Box Theatre's (Oklahoma City, Ok)     2014

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Trials of Molly Green, The

Synopsis:
Successful attorney MOLLY GREEN, 43, is a single mom who lives in a West Hollywood, California duplex with her son SAM, 6, and nanny CARMEN ESPADA, 55. Molly's only living family is her younger brother Eric GREEN, 40, a gay gallery manager who lives with his Argentinian actor/model boyfriend, ALEJANDRO MELENDEZ, 30. the five form of the nucleus of an unconventional but loving family. . .until their lives are shattered on Thanksgiving when Alejandro reveals he must return to Argentina because his student visa is expiring and the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is insisting he leave the country. With the prospect of her family unit being torn to pieces and her brother being inconsolably miserable, Molly comes up with a solution: she will marry Alejandro (because Eric is legally prevented from doing this) so he can get a green card and stay in the country. Molly and Alejandro marry but a series of unexpected events lead to further scrutiny by ICE, unexpected breakups and romantic entanglements and the appearance after seven long years of CHARLIE PLATT, Sam's biological father. the trial that Molly faces at work is no match for the difficulties she is dealing with in her home life.

Notes:
Honorable Mention, Ohio State Newark New Play Contest (2012);Semi-finalist, Lionheart theatre Make the House Roar Prize (2010).

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Genre:
Full-length comedy

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Unsportsmanlike Conduct, A Three-Act, Two-Character Drama That Addresses the Issue Of Date Rape And the Differing Ways Men And Women View Love And Sex, Was Read Under the Auspices Of the Dramatists Guild's Friday Night Footlights On February 24th In the Frederick Loewe Room.

Synopsis:
UNSPORTSMANLIKE CONDUCT is a two character Drama that addresses the differing ways men and women view love and sex. After spending a drunken night with star NFL quarterback NOAH WOODWARD, the young woman he picked up the previous evening, KAYLIE ROBBINS, is hung over and rebuffs his efforts to have sex with her again despite his profession of genuine romantic interest. He asks for her phone number as she leaves, but when she returns to retrieve something she left behind Kaylie overhears him talking dismissively about her on his cell phone. Upset by his deceit and manipulation, she exits. But they will meet again - first in her attorney's conference room and then in a court of law - after she accuses him of a serious crime.

Notes:
Selection, Last Frontier theater Conference, Valdez, Alaska (reading, June, 2012); Dramatists Guild Friday Night Footlights, New York, NY. (reading, February, 2012); Finalist, Hudson Warehouse 2011-12 Reading Series; Semi-finalist, Wordsmyth theater Co. 2012 Reading Series; Semi-finalist, Primary Stages 2011 ESPA Summer Reading Series.

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Where Are We?

Synopsis:
MAN and WOMAN, a 30-ish couple heading on foot for a friend's apartment in the city, argue about whether or not they are lost. . .and discover that their physical location isn't the only issue between them.

Notes:
Northport One Act Festival, Northport, NY (world premiere April, 2011).

1st Produced:
St. Paul's Theatre, Northport, NY     01 Apr 2011

Organisations:
Northport Plays

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Genre:
One-act comedy-Drama

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Worst Date

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1st Produced:
Launch Pad In Brooklyn, NY     07 Feb 2014

Organisations:
Dancing Frog Theater Company's EX-FILES show

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Genre:
comedic monologue

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