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Brian Thorstenson

BRIAN THORSTENSON

  
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    Beacon Artists Agency  

Brian Thorstenson's plays include: The Horses (Alter Theater) Over the Mountain (Brava Center for Women in the Arts) Embassy, Wakefield; or, Hello Sophia and Shadow Crossing (Central Works) and Summerland (Alter Theater, Wings Theatre Co., NYC). He has collaborated on two dance theater pieces, Tuesday and Sugarfoot Stomp, with Stephen Pelton Dance Theater. Brian is an alumni of the Resident Playwright Program of the Playwrights Foundation and a member of the Dramatists Guild. He teaches at San Francisco State University and Santa Clara University. He received a B.A. in Theater from Willamette University, and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University. He lives in San Francisco.

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         Cul-de-Sac         Drop         Embassy         Half Light Dances         Heading South         Horses, The         Over the Mountain         Shadow Crossing         Sudden Tuesday         Summerland         Trick, The         Waiting For the Green Flash         Wakefield or Hello, Sophia         Whether To Weather

Cul-de-Sac

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Drop

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Alter Theatre,San Rafael, Ca     17 Feb 2006

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Embassy

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The US Ambassador and his wife have been assigned to an idyllic Caribbean Island. It is the eve of Carnival when he receives orders to relocate to a war torn European country

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Berkeley City Club, Berkeley, California     27 Oct 2011

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Comedy

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Half Light Dances

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Heading South

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Horses, The

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Whilst his wife prepares for his 75th birthday party, Marv is off on a fantasy road trip with the buxom Patsy. then fantasy and reality start to merge

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Alter Theatre,San Rafael, Ca     01 Oct 2009

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Over the Mountain

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A war rages. On one side of the mountain two men catalogue photographs of prisoners, On the other side two sisters meet in the rain for possibly the last time.

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original music by Meklit Hadero

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Theatre Department Of Santa Clara University     01 Apr 2009

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Brava! for Women in the Arts

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one act 85 min

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Shadow Crossing

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Martin a gay man has decided to leave the United States because of the political climate there. Rafael is Mexican and wants to get into the United States.

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Gay, theme/character full length

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Sudden Tuesday

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Summerland

Summerland
Two men come into Bud's life - the sensitive Skye and the gun loving Tom.

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San Francisco     2000

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Play/Drama. - - Gay, full length

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Trick, The

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Waiting For the Green Flash

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An investment banker and his stockbroker wife suddenly quit their jobs and head for Ocean Haven Lodge in Oregon. there they meet an eighteen year old crystal meths addict and his mother

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Black comedy

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Wakefield or Hello, Sophia

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A man says goodbye to his wife and leaves on a business trip. Twenty years later he returns

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Inspired by a short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Whether To Weather

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Two gay couples. A whirlwind romance influenced by the changing seasons and the other are having their relationship unravelled

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