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Richard Strand

RICHARD STRAND

  
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    Robert A Freedman Dramatic Agency  

Richard Strand wrote his first play in 1976, a one act entitled Harry and Sylvia. That play won two national awards, was published by Hunter Press and a full length version of that same play, entitled Clown, premiered at Victory Gardens Theater in Chicago. Since that time he has had premieres at GeVa Theatre in Rochester, New York, Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago, The Eugene O'Neill Center in Connecticut, The Z Collective in San Francisco and a number of other venues. His plays are published by Samuel French, Dramatists Play Service and Applause Books. Two of his plays, The Bug and The Death of Zukasky. premiered at The Humana Festival at Actors Theatre of Louisville. The Bug has been translated into German, Italian and Spanish and continues to be performed in the United States and in Europe. Ten Percent of Molly Snyder was written in a wonderful coffee shop called Java House in Iowa City, Iowa where Mr. Strand was a member of the Playwright's Workshop. It premiered at Steppenwolf's Garage Theater under Ed Sobel's direction. Mr. Strand currently lives in California with his wife, Mary Lynn (whose last name, before she got married, was Snyder). He is a professor, technical director and set designer at Mt. San antonio College where he teaches Stagecraft, History of Theater and Playwriting. - NJ Rep

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         Bug, The         Butler         Clown         Death Of Zukasky, The         Guest of Honor, The         Harry and Sylvia         Heaven and Hell (On Earth): A Divine Comedy         Millennium Fallacy, The         Realisation Of Emily Linder, The         Rosa's Eulogy         Second Story Man, The         Ten Percent Of Molly Snyder         Way Down, The

Bug, The

Synopsis:
the trouble in corporate paradise begins at JEricho Inc. with an employee's simple question, which cannot be answered simply or otherwise. the ensuing confusion shifts the employee's hyperactive imagination into comic overdrive, and the result is a farce of multi-national proportions. As this Everyman of the 1980s faces off against a faceless bureaucracy, he discovers a bug in the system that threatens to tumble the pre-fab walls of JEricho Inc

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Heinemann in New American Plays Vol. I.,    -

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Two Acts Play/Drama

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Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Butler

Synopsis:
It's the start of the American Civil War and attorney Benjamin Butler has just been promoted to the rank of Major General at Fort Monroe, a Union hold-out in the great state of Virginia. Shepard Mallory, an escaped slave, seeks sanctuary at the Fort, along with several other runaway slaves. However, the law of the land has not yet changed, and it states that slaves are still property and must be turned over to their "rightful" owners. This of course is tantamount to a death sentence and the new commander must grapple with a daunting moral dilEmma. Any act against the prevailing law will lead to his court martial or worse.

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New Jersey Repertory Company
179 Broadway, Long Branch, New Jersey 07740     12 Jun 2014

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Clown

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Death Of Zukasky, The

Synopsis:
Preparing for their usual morning conference, three sales associates discover their supervisor, Zukasky, dead, with his feet up on his desk. All three of them are next in line for Zukasky's job. A.C. immediately begins to scheme; Anne is insecure; and Barry is all indecision and blithering. What's worse, their department head, Marlino, announces that Barry will, indeed, take over, leaving Anne stupefied and unacknowledged for her ten years of experience in the company. Bit by bit, A.C. begins to plant sly suggestions in his coworker's minds, embroiling them all in a feud that should leave him coming out on top. In a farcical climax, A.C. and Anne stage a break-in that inadvertently gets both she and Barry fired. the last scene of the play has A.C. in triumph, ascending to the managerial level, where it's clear this climber won't be satisfied for long.

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A Decade Of New Comedy: Plays From the Humana Festival, Volume Two, Edited by Michael Bigelow Dixon and Michele Volansky, Heinemann, 1996   -

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Genre:
Farce

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Male:  4            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Guest of Honor, The

Synopsis:
Two friends have invited a single woman to dinner. they have arranged for a male friend of theirs to be there as a blind date for her. Everything seems to be wrong with this man, but the woman cannot explain exactly what

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in Ten Minute Plays From Actors Theatre Of Louisville, Vol 4, Samuel French NY   -

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Ten Min

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Harry and Sylvia

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full length version of that same play, entitled Clown

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Hunter Press,    -

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Heaven and Hell (On Earth): A Divine Comedy

Synopsis:
In this comic anthology - a collection of scenes and monologues - an array of devilishly talented playwrights put a contemporary spin on a fascinating eternal obsession. Grappling with their own diverse experiences of vice and virtue, salvation and damnation, characters from the twentysomething generation interpret their world with amusing revelations and surprising insights

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written by Robert Alexander, Jenny Lyn Bader, Elizabeth Dewberry, Deborah Lynn Frockt, Rebecca Gilman, Keith Glover, Hilly Hicks, Jr., Karen Hines, Michael Kassin, Melanie Marnich, Jane Martin, William Mastrosimone, Guillermo Reyes, Sarah Schulman, Richar

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Humana Festival 2001: the Complete Plays, ed Tanya Palmer & Amy Wegener, Smith & Kraus, 2001   -

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Millennium Fallacy, The

Synopsis:
In this comic anthology, written for an ensemble of young actors, an array of devilishly talented playwrights put a contemporary spin on a fascinat-ing eternal obsession. Grappling with their own diverse experiences of vice and virtue, salvation and damnation, characters from the twenty-something generation interpret their world with amusing revelations and surprising insights

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in Heaven and Hell (on Earth): A Divine Comedy, Dramatist Play Service, NY,    -

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Realisation Of Emily Linder, The

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about Emily, an eccentric, retired university professor, who has come to the "realization" that she knows the exact day that she will pass away. She gathers her two daughters to her side to inform them of her imminent demise and to give each of them explicit instructions and assignments to fulfill prior to her earthly departure.

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Genre:
comedy drama

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Rosa's Eulogy

Synopsis:
In this comic anthology, written for an ensemble of young actors, an array of devilishly talented playwrights put a contemporary spin on a fascinat-ing eternal obsession. Grappling with their own diverse experiences of vice and virtue, salvation and damnation, characters from the twenty-something generation interpret their world with amusing revelations and surprising insights

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in Heaven and Hell (on Earth): A Divine Comedy, Dramatist Play Service, NY,    -

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Second Story Man, The

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Ten Percent Of Molly Snyder

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Molly sees the address on her driving licence is wrong. the maze of bureaucracy and red tape she gets into when she tries to have it changed lead her to the brink of insanity

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Way Down, The

Synopsis:
In this comic anthology, written for an ensemble of young actors, an array of devilishly talented playwrights put a contemporary spin on a fascinat-ing eternal obsession. Grappling with their own diverse experiences of vice and virtue, salvation and damnation, characters from the twenty-something generation interpret their world with amusing revelations and surprising insights

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in Heaven and Hell (on Earth): A Divine Comedy, Dramatist Play Service, NY,    -

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Genre:
Play One Act

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Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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