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Daniel Talbott

DANIEL TALBOTT

  (1976 - )
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    ICM Partners  represented by Zachary Carlisle

Daniel Talbott is an actor, director, playwright, producer, literary manager, and artistic director. He was born in the Bay Area and moved around the country with his family before landing back there for high school, and now lives in Brooklyn, NY. His most recent work as an actor includes the Theatre for One project in Times Square and around NYC, The Merry Wives of Windsor (Shakespeare Festival of St. Louis), Master Builder (Irish Rep), Rocket City (Alabama Shakespeare Festival), Tartuffe (McCarter Theatre/Yale Rep), Marat/Sade (Classical Theatre of Harlem) and the feature film Pretty Bird, Dreaming American and The Big C on Showtime. Recent directing work includes Lake Water (Neighborhood Productions), Eightythree Down (Hard Sparks), Much Ado About Nothing (Boomerang), Squealer (Lesser America at Theater for the New City), The Umbrella Plays (the teacup company/FringeNYC  Overall Excellence Award: Outstanding Play and at The Tank), Keep Your Baggage With You (at all times) (Theater for the New City), Footprint by Mac Rogers (part of +30NYC for Red Fern Theatre), Afterclap by Daniel Reitz, Birthday and Nobody, both by Crystal Skillman (Rising Phoenix Rep at the Seventh Street Small Stage), and Fall Forward (Sitelines/River to River Festival produced by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council). His play Slipping was produced at Rattlestick with Piece by Piece Productions (named one of the top ten plays of 2009 by The Advocate), premiered in Chicago at The Side Project, and was part of the International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival. It was published last year by Dramatists Play Service and was a finalist for a 2011 Lambda Literary Award for Drama. His play What Happened When was produced at HERE Arts Center and The Side Project and was published as part of the Plays and Playwrights 2008 anthology. His play Yosemite will be produced this season at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater. He received a 2011 Theater Hall of Fame Fellowship, a 2007 New York Innovative Theatre Award for directing, a Drama-Logue Award, two Dean Goodman Choice Awards and a Judy Award for acting, and was also named one of the 15 People of the Year 2006 by nytheatre.com. He is a member of MCC Theater's Playwrights' Coalition, of last year's 24Seven Lab, and of TOSOS. He is a graduate of Juilliard and of Solano College Theatre's ATP, and teaches at the Primary Stages Einhorn School of Performing Arts (ESPA). He is one of the literary managers of Rattlestick Playwrights Theater and the artistic director of Rising Phoenix Rep (recipient of the 2007 NYIT Caffe Cino Fellowship Award).

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         Break My Face on Your Hand         Extraordinary Things         Jil Sander: A Love Story         Little Sanchez         Mike and Seth         Sam and Gus         Shore, The         Slipping         Sometimes After Dinner         SparkHampton: the Wickapogue Plays         Story of Little Sanchez and How We Lost Our Mother, The         Train Ride, The         Western         What Happened When         Yosemite
Break My Face on Your Hand

Synopsis:
Flashes of violence have slammed high schoolers Bear and Trev into one another, and now they have to sit together in the afternoons at Bear's grandmother's kitchen table, their shared history and peach cobbler between them.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Rising Phoenix Rep At Seventh Street Small Stage, New York City     17 Jun 2012

Organisations:
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1st Published:
http://www.indietheaternow.com/Plays   

Music:
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Genre:
60 min play

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Extraordinary Things

Synopsis:
A photographer and subject meet in a cold basement. Ex-lovers meet in an old grungy bar hangout. Circling each other, looking for weak spots and testing strengths, they try to navigate a desperate city landscape not far from where we are now.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Rising Phoenix Rep At Jimmy's No. 43     2014

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
http://www.indietheaternow.com/Plays   

Music:
-

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Genre:
60 min play

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Jil Sander: A Love Story

Synopsis:
A couple declares and explores their love on a city street.

Notes:
note About casting: Ideally I'd love there to be As many different couples As possible, All doing the play simultaneously. Gay, straight, lesbian, bi, transgender. Old. Young. Black. Chinese (in Chinese), whatever. the more love the better.

1st Produced:
Site Specific, New York, NY     04 Jun 2011

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
-

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Genre:
Ten Minute

Parts:
Male:  1 or more - see note            Female:  1 or more - see note            Other:  -

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Little Sanchez

Synopsis:
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Notes:
part of Too Little Too Late A first theatrical venture from the young company, Red Elevator Productions. Featuring original And premiere short plays from six of the most promising And Arresting young writers on the New York theater scene, Too Little Too Late explores the problem of (dis)connect in A complicated world-because in our breakneck lives of over-stimulus media, instant mass communication, restlessness, And expectation, how does Anyone really connect?
- nytheatre.com

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Red Elevator Productions

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
short play

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Mike and Seth

Synopsis:
Childhood friends Mike and Seth share a hotel room the night before Mike's wedding, as a winter ice storm rages outside. Unable to sleep, they desperately try to make sense of themselves, each other, and their unknown future. What do two best friends say to each other on the night before everything changes?

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Gayfest     14 Aug 2012

Organisations:
Quince Productions

1st Published:
http://www.indietheaternow.com/Plays   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Gay, one act 75 min

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Sam and Gus

Synopsis:
When Sam woke up today, she didn't expect the world to be covered in darkness and snow, or to be visiting her long deceased and beloved brother. Whether a nightmare or a new reality, the opportunity to slaughter their past and move forward together comes knocking on their door.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Workshop Reading At Rattlestick Playwrights Theater As Part Of The F*!@Cking Good Plays Festival     01 Feb 2010

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
http://www.indietheaternow.com/Plays   

Music:
-

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Genre:
100 min one act

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Shore, The

Shore, The
Two middle-aged ladies dine together in a restaurant located at the Shore. It seems that the women lead quiet yet unsatisfying lives. One of the women (Rena Cherry Sofer) leads such a boring life that she is captivated by a note dropped by a teenage girl on the subway, imaging the circumstances surrounding its creation. As she discusses matters, her childhood friend (Marilyn Bennett) wonders how their lives reached this point.
- Steven McKnight, DC theatre Scene

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Source Festival, Washington Dc     2009

Organisations:
-

1st Published:

Music:
-

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Genre:
Ten min

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Slipping

Synopsis:
Slipping' is a love story about two boys in a suburb of present day Iowa. Eli moves to Iowa from San Francisco with his mother after his Father is killed in a car accident. Alone, numb and friendless he becomes interested in a boy named Jake at high school. A friendship between the two develops into a relationship that leads to Eli's disintegration and finally to a possible future together. It is a play about hope and possibility; a collage of the beginning of two lives together.

Notes:
produced Rattlestick Playwrights theatre, NY, 28 Jul - 15 Aug 2009

1st Produced:
The Side Project, Chicago, Il     04 Feb 2008

Organisations:
the Side Project

1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY, 2010   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama. - - Gay, full length

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Sometimes After Dinner

Synopsis:
A young woman in the midst of a major loss meets a man on a bench who is stripped of everything and determined to start a new life. As they talk, they find connection and possibility in their newly found freedom.

Notes:
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1st Produced:

Organisations:
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1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
One-act

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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SparkHampton: the Wickapogue Plays

Synopsis:
This is from Hard Sparks' publicity materials: "We're bringing powerful and provocative theatre to Long Island's East End by staging original plays outside the confines of traditional theatre spaces. Each play in the SparkHampton series will be written expressly for the location in which it's performed. And Indie theatre Now, the online publishing outpost of New York theatre Experience, Inc. will publish the entire SparkHampton series. For the Wickapogue Plays, we'll be at the Southampton Village residence of fashion stylist Irene Albright. (the exact address for the event will be emailed to attendees when they purchase their tickets.)"
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
written by J. Stephen Brantley, Crystal Skillman, Daniel Talbott

1st Produced:
Site Specific Location On Long Island's East End, NY     25 Jun 2012

Organisations:
Hard Sparks

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
site specific piece

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Story of Little Sanchez and How We Lost Our Mother, The

Story of Little Sanchez and How We Lost Our Mother, The
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Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
in the Best Ten-Minute Plays 2011, Smith & Kraus; (June 1, 2012)   

Music:
-

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Genre:
10 min play

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Train Ride, The

Synopsis:
Two brothers travel on a train late at night in the dead of winter, moving towards some inexplicable tragedy concerning their father.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Smith and Kraus, 2009   

Music:
-

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Genre:
One-act

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Western

Synopsis:
The Wickapogue Plays were written by three very different playwrights specifically for one very inspiring location. They were performed as an evening of theatre in the backyard of a beautiful home near the ocean in Southampton, NY. The home's decking, lawn, driveway, pool, and view of surrounding agricultural reserves were all utilized in performance. During the process of writing and rehearsing the three separate pieces, director Daniel Talbott noticed some interesting parallels in characters written by J.Stephen Brantley and Crystal Skillman. These characters were both to be played by Jelena Stupljanin, and Daniel wondered if she might not play the same woman in both pieces. With a few quick revisions, Crystal and J.Stephen placed the character of Dina in each of their plays, one year apart.

Notes:
part of SparkHampton: The Wickapogue Plays

1st Produced:
Southampton Home Of Irene Albright     25 Jun 2012

Organisations:
Hard Sparks

1st Published:
in SparkHampton: The Wickapogue Plays", http://www.indietheaternow.com/Plays   

Music:
-

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Genre:
short play

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

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What Happened When

What Happened When
Late on a winter night in an old farmhouse in a small town, a younger brother wakes up in the middle of the night to find his deceased older brother sitting in the dark in a corner of his bedroom. As the brothers wait for the snow to start falling outside, they share stories of their family and the people of their town-misfortunes, bizarre coincidences, and many a strange passing. Both haunted by the loss of their sister and the recent and sudden death of their Father in a car crash, an unraveling of memory and secrets begins that will lead to the beginning of a life for one and the release into death for the other
- press release

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
HERE Arts Center, NY >>>     05 Jul 2007

Organisations:
Rising Phoenix Repertory

1st Published:

Music:
-

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Genre:
60 min one act

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Yosemite

Synopsis:
Yosemite tells the story of three siblings who are sent out into the snow-silent woods in the Sierra Nevada foothills to dig a hole that will be deep enough to bury a family secret. As they dig, they search for a way to escape or be rescued from their lives as the snow continues to fall and the world sinks in around them
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Rattlestick theatre
224 Waverly Place, New York, NY 10014     26 Jan 2012

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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