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Judy Tate

JUDY TATE

  
Nationality:    USA
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Judy Tate is a four time Emmy Award winning writer and Writer's Guild of America award recipient as well as a Manhattan Theatre Club Playwriting Fellow and winner of the New Professional Theatre's Playwriting award. Her full length play Fast Blood was produced by the Lark Theatre Company, It has also had productions or workshops at Ensemble Studio Theatre, Playwrights Horizons, Passage Theatre, Hartford Stage and Epic Theatre Company.. Her short plays the Point and, Mistaken for Genius were produced by the Women's Project and the latter was published in their collection, Rowing to America and Other Short Plays. Her full length play Slashes of Light, was commissioned by the Manhattan Theatre Club and developed there as well as at the Ensemble Studio Theatre where she is a member and at the Black and Latino Playwrights Conference in San Marcos, Texas. She's written for several daytime television serials including Another World, As the World Turns and the Days of Our Lives. A professional actor for many years, Judy has worked in Theatres throughout the United States and in Southern AfricA. As a teaching artist she works with Lincoln Center Institute, Theatre Development Fund and the Manhattan Theatre Club, on whose board she serves. She is an alumna of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts conservatory program where she studied with StElla Adler and was an honors graduate receiving the Founder's Day Award, Seidman Award and Beinecke Award for excEllence in acting and academiA.

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

         Disunion         Fast Blood         Jason and Medea         Mistaken for Genius         Point, The         Pulling the Lever         Slashes of Light

Disunion

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1st Produced:
Fire This Time Festival    2014

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1st Published:
in "The Fire This Time Festival Season Five", http://www.indietheaternow.com/Plays   -

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ten min play

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Fast Blood

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barebones production

1st Produced:
Lark theatre    2002

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Play/Drama

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Jason and Medea

Synopsis:
Glauce and Jason sail on the Argo, about to wed on the isle of Crete. But Glauce's dress has been poisoned and she nearly dies. When Medea, escaped from an asylum, shows up with the remedy, Jason must make a difficult choice to save his fiancee. But the tables turn and none of the lovers want what they appear to want or are who they appear to be.

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A stage play, based on the classic story of Medea, that borrows from the Soap Opera genre whose hallmarks Are romantic stakes, soaring jealousy, eavesdropping, crimes of passion, And twists of plot, such As people returning from far Away places-- like insane Asylums or death.

1st Produced:
Epic Theatre Ensemble, John Jay College theatre    2009

Organisations:
Epic Theatre Ensemble

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Genre:
satire One Act

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Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Mistaken for Genius

Synopsis:
the "Three Named Playwright" and her Sniveling Sycophant are interviewed by the Ethnic Non-Specific Interviewer in this comedic, absurd play that takes place at SPAM - the Southside Performing Arts Center.

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1st Produced:
the Women's Project, 55th Street theatre    1997

Organisations:
the Women's Project

1st Published:
the Women's Project 2002   978-1575252716

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Genre:
satire One Act

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Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Point, The

Synopsis:
1973, Southside of Chicago. After a police "sweep" a confused young woman finds herself in a holding cell next to an African drummer who over the course of the night rhythmically guides her to self-discovery.

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1st Produced:
MaryMount Manhattan College theatre    1997

Organisations:
the Women's Project

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Genre:
play Ten Min

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Pulling the Lever

Synopsis:
Three generations of related African-American women emotionally recall their first voting experiences in New York, Chicago and Alabama.

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Produced As part of Epic's First Vote series.

1st Produced:
Epic Theatre Ensemble, John Jay College theatre    2008

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Epic Theatre Ensemble

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Genre:
agitprop Ten Min

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Slashes of Light

Synopsis:
1967. In an all-black parochial middle school on Chicago's south side, precocious young Sunny befriends the new white history teacher, but her best friend, a budding young radical, doesn't approve, and the older boy she has a crush on, is mysteriously quiet. In this coming-of-age story, the characters confront their deepest secrets in a thorny struggle to understand themselves, each other and the changing world around them.

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Commissioned by Manhattan theatre Club And workshopped At EST, Black And Latino Playwright's Festival, San Marcos, Texas And Cap21, NYC

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Manhattan Theatre Club (commission reading)

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Genre:
Drama/Comedy

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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