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Jonathan Tolins

JONATHAN TOLINS

  
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    Creative Artists Agency NY  represented by George Lane

Jonathan Tolins is the author of BUYER & CELLAR, which was named Best Unique Theatrical Experience by the Off-Broadway Alliance when it premiered at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater. Other plays include THE TWILIGHT OF THE GOLDS (Broadway, Booth Theatre), IF MEMORY SERVES (Promenade), THE LAST SUNDAY IN JUNE (Rattlestick, Century Center), and SECRETS OF THE TRADE (Primary Stages). A collection of his plays has been published by Grove/Atlantic. His film work includes "The Twilight of the Golds" and "Martian Child." For television, he was a writer for "Queer as Folk," the Academy Awards, the Tony Awards, and "Partners." He was the author of "Pushkin 200: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall," acted as script consultant on "Walking with Dinosaurs: The Arena Spectacular," and co-wrote "The Divine Millennium Tour" and "The Showgirl Must Go On for Bette Midler." He has written articles for Opera News, Opera Monthly, TheaterWeek, Time Magazine, and the Huffington Post, and is a panelist on the Metropolitan Opera Radio Quiz. He lives in Fairfield, Connecticut with his husband, the writer and director Robert Cary, and their children, Selina and Henry. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild and the Writers Guild of America.

Research:    Member of the Dramatists Guild of America (as at 2015)

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

         Buyer & Cellar         Creature From The Black Lagoon         Forgotten Woman, The         If Memory Serves         Last Sunday In June, The         Secrets of the Trade         Twilight of the Golds, The
Buyer & Cellar

Synopsis:
Alex More has a story to tell. A struggling actor in L.A., Alex takes a job working in the Malibu basement of a beloved megastar. One day, the Lady Herself comes downstairs to play. It feels like real bonding in the basement, but will their relationship ever make it upstairs? Buyer & Cellar is an outrageous comedy about the price of fame, the cost of things, and the oddest of odd jobs.

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1st Produced:
Rattlestick theatre
224 Waverly Place, New York, NY 10014     2013

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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY, 2014   

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Genre:
Gay full length comedy

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Creature From The Black Lagoon

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1st Produced:
UniversalStudios, Hollywood     01 Jul 2009

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Genre:
Musical

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Forgotten Woman, The

Synopsis:
A diva is about to make her opera debut in her home town. there are worries about her size and eating habits. She is trapped in her hotel room with no room service, a reporter who she had a crush on at High School and her gay husband

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Genre:
Comedy. - - Gay, theme/character full length

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If Memory Serves

If Memory Serves
A former America's Sweetheart and her son must make sense of their relationship in the midst of a celebrity scandal

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1st Produced:
-     1998

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1st Published:
Samuel French Inc, New York, 2000   

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Genre:
Comedy/Drama Comedy

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Last Sunday In June, The

Last Sunday In June, The
It is the last Sunday in June, the day of the annual Gay Pride Parade through New York's Greenwich Village. Tom and Michael, his partner of seven years, intend to spend the day planning their impending move from the Big Apple to the upstate town of Nyack, but their plans are rerouted as one friend after another drops by to view the parade from the window of their apartment. An afternoon originally designated for shopping at Pottery Barn instead turns into a series of conversations about relationships, self-acceptance and the very meaning of what it is to be gay, eventually calling into question Tom and Michael's relationship itself.

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Orginal title of the play was "ANOtheR GAY PLAY" And it was under that title that it was performed At CAP 21

1st Produced:
Cap 21 Theatre New York     2003

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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY,    

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Genre:
Comedy Drama Comedy. - - Gay, full length

Parts:
Male:  7            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Secrets of the Trade

Secrets of the Trade
In show business, it's all about who you know. Or is it? Andy Lipman, a smart, ambitious kid from Long Island dreams of a career on Broadway and hopes that his idol, theater legend Martin Kerner, can give it to him. Will Kerner open Andy's door to success, or will their complicated relationship force him to question a life in the theater?

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1st Produced:
Black Dahlia Theatre, Ca     15 Mar 2008

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Genre:
Dramatic comedy. - - Gay/Lesbian, of interest

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Male:  4            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Twilight of the Golds, The

Twilight of the Golds, The
if your parents knew everything about you before you were born, would you be here? Geneticist reveals expected baby will be gay

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1st Produced:
-     1993

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1st Published:
Samuel French Inc, New York, 1992   

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Genre:
Comedy/Drama Comedy. - - Gay, theme/character full length

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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