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Bill Svanoe

BILL SVANOE  

 Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    Creative Artists Agency CA  

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

         Black Duck, The         Callback         Downside Risk, The         Jellyroll Shoes         Last Silver Zephyer, The         Pants on Fire         Punch And Judy         Quisisana         Trader Jack and the Stinger

Black Duck, The

Synopsis:
can a soap opera star whose character has been written out of the show find happiness as the proprietor of a greasy spoon in Woods Hole?

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1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1991   -

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Callback

Synopsis:
Callback is a two character contemporary comedy, Drama about the forty-year mostly professional relationship between an actress and a director. they both go through struggles, heartbreaks, triumphs, and unexpected discoveries along the way. they are bound together on and off by many things, but what keeps them both going is their overwhelming love of the theater.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Temple Theatre, Sanford North Carolina    2006

Organisations:
Phare Play Productions

1st Published:

Music:
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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Downside Risk, The

Synopsis:
This new play by Bill Svanoe is described as a "1980s Death of Salesman meets Glengarry Glen Ross.
- nytheatre.com

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1st Produced:
Wings Theater, 154 Christopher Street, Basement, New York, NY 10014    02 Sep 2010

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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Jellyroll Shoes

Synopsis:
Set in a small town in Upstate New York, Jellyroll Shoes follows the lives of the Anderson Men, led by patriarch George, a recently ousted town sheriff, and his three sons: Eddie (an up and coming, but still relatively green state patrolman), Joe (the middle son who is now the town's lawyer), and Dave ("the lucky one," the eldest brother who is also an officer). Eddie's girlfriend, firecracker-hottie Linda, helps take care of the boys and their normal routine, which is thrown astray one evening by the surprise arrival of Alice Beck, a local English teacher who Dave helps save from an abusive husband who tries to kill her with a lawnmower. Compounding issues arise when Tim Jones arrives, a miscreant drifter with no past that George believes could be his son that disappeared years ago.
- nytheatre.com

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1st Produced:
American Theatre of Actors, 314 West 54th Street, New York, NY 10019    17 Oct 2009

Organisations:
Phare Play Productions

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Last Silver Zephyer, The

Synopsis:
the Silver Zephyer Cafe is to close down. the waitress decides to play cupid with the last two customers

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1st Produced:
Connelly Theater, NY    2005

Organisations:
Zephyer Productions

1st Published:
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Music:
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Pants on Fire

Synopsis:
This new comedy by Bill Svanoe tells the comedic story of Lynne Weiss, a 'middle-aged' single lady, who dips her toes into the zaniness that is Internet dating for the very first time. Along the way she stumbles into a hodgepodge of men, from a Viagra-induced Diplomat to a mobster named Rudy that may or may not be the basis for the Godfather, but in the end she just might find love in the most unexpected of all places
- press release

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1st Produced:
the Off Off Broadway Playhouse, NY    2008

Organisations:
Phare Play Productions

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Punch And Judy

Synopsis:
Marina Cliff, a Hungarian-Swiss beauty who is recently divorced from her real-estate billionaire husband, decides she wants to write a novel to amuse herself. She hires Carol Spearman, a smart, reclusive, cynical, witty, failed writer, to work with her. Marina is still emotionally tied to her ex-husband and guarantees a loan for him. Carol is in a push-me, pull-me relationship with a married man for twenty years and allows him to treat her badly. At the beginning, the two women dislike each other and seem to have nothing in common. they spar, test, betray and manipulate each other, yet come to an uneasy truce and agree to continue working together. But by the end of Act One, Marina loses all her money to her ex, and Carol's boyfriend drops dead. Now the two women have more in common than they realize. In Act Two, Marina and Carol, dealing with their losses are drawn together and apart. Carol's book is a huge success, and at first Marina is furious, but comes around and tries to help Carol with her grief. Carol, having trouble with intimacy, tries to push her away, but the two women struggle through and find a budding, though tenuous, friendship. Realizing they can work together, Carol confronts Marina's ex-husband to get back the money he's lost. Intertwined in their relationship and activities is Melody Charm, Marina's ex-husband's current girlfriend, who seems like a "bimbo," but who is really a smart woman who knows better than Carol or Marina how to get the man she wants.

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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY,    -

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Quisisana

Synopsis:
Jean Peterson returns to her family's summer home, Quisisana, after spending 10 years away from her three siblings. Jean's return and the family secrets that each member holds threatens to destroy the very fiber that composes their aristocratic nature
- press release

Notes:
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1st Produced:
American Theatre of Actors, 314 West 54th Street, New York, NY 10019    2008

Organisations:
Phare Play Productions

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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To Buy This Play:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Trader Jack and the Stinger

Synopsis:
An Ivy League professor is trying to lift his life and relationships out of stagnation and avoid the sophomore slump with his second novel by working with the Stinger-a convict whose abrasive manner is everything that he is not. While also having to contend with his unsatsified wife, the Stinger's penpal/girlfriend who can keep track of the number of times she curses in a day and a pushy, sensationalist reporter angling to get the story, Trader Jack and the Stinger go toe to toe in the ultimate battle of wits and words.
- press release

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1st Produced:
American Theatre of Actors, 314 West 54th Street, New York, NY 10019    2008

Organisations:
Phare Play Productions

1st Published:
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Music:
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To Buy This Play:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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