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JOE TRACZ
Nationality: USA
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Joe Tracz's plays including theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates
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Apple the Color Of Your Neck Be More Chill Death Comes for a Wedding Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Story Man up and Away Mario And Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games Poster Boy Songs for a Future GenerationApple the Color Of Your Neck
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Originally performed with nine other ten minute plays under the overall title "Tempting Fate"
1st Produced:
Chicago Actors Studio
28 Jul 2005
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Brown Couch Theatre
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Ten minute play
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Male: - Female: - Other: -
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https://twitter.com/joetracz
Top of PageBe More Chill
A girl, a boy and a super computer inside the boy's head. The just wants to stand out. The boy just wants to fit in. The super computer wants to take over the world
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Music and lyrics by Joe Iconis; book by Joe Tracz. Based on the book "Be More Chill" by Ned Vizzini
1st Produced:
Two River Theater, Red Bank NJ
30 May 2015
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Original cast recording: Ghostlight Records 2019
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Genre:
Musical
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Male: - Female: - Other: -
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Top of PageDeath Comes for a Wedding
Kafkaesque vision of a personified Death demanding a bride as a sacrifice to avoid his wrath
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in the Best American Short Plays, 2009-2010, Hal Leonard Corporation (August 1, 2011)
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short play
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Top of PageLightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Story
Percy Jackson is dyslexic and has ADHD. His class are visiting the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art when his algebra teacher takes him aside. Mrs Dodds transforms into a Fury (from the Greek Myths) and attacks him. The Latin teacher Mr Brunner throws him a special sword to defend himself and Mrs Dodds is vaporised. No one believes him when he tells them and no one including Mr Brunner remembers Mrs Dodds. Percy is expelled for leaving the group at the Museum
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Music and lyrics by Robert Rokicki; book by Joe Tracx. Based on the book "Lightning Thief" by Rick Riordon
1st Produced:
Lucille Lortel Theatre, New York
23 Mar 2017
Organisations:
Theatreworks
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Music:
Original cast recording: Broadway Records 2017
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Musical
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Top of PageMan up and Away
Synopsis:
on the night of his Going Away to War party, Jordan says goodbye to his little brother Vic, in the worst possible way; Rocky Road by Stephanie Andrea Timm from UCSD-one family's zany attempt to bring their son home from the war in Iraq.
- press release
- press release
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part of second Annual Take 10, An evening of nine 10-minute plays from Aspiring playwrights Across the country As part of its National MFA Playwrights competition
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Theater Masters
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Ten Min
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Male: - Female: - Other: -
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Top of PageMario And Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games
Synopsis:
Part of the Wii Plays. This is an evening of original short plays and live music, inspired by the titles of Nintendo Wii games. the selections are: Wii Tennis by Molly Smith Metzler, directed by Lila Neugebauer, Barbie as the Island Princess by Tasha Gordon-Solmon, directed by Lila Neugebauer, Let's Tap by Janine Nabers, directed by Portia Krieger, Marvel Superhero Squad by Chad Beckim, directed by Stephen Brackett, Buck Fever by Samuel D. Hunter, directed by Portia Krieger, Alien Monster Bowling League by Matthew Lopez, directed by Laura Savia, Tomb Raider: Anniversary by Kara Lee Corthron, directed by Laura Savia, Burger Island by Gregory Moss, directed by Portia Krieger, All Star Cheer Squad by Jenny Connell, directed by Laura Savia, Sword Play: Speed Slice by Kristoffer Diaz, directed by Lila Neugebauer, Bob the Builder: Festival of Fun by Amy Herzog, directed by Stephen Brackett, and Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games by Joe Tracz, dir. by Stephen Brackett.
- nytheatre.com
- nytheatre.com
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1st Produced:
Ars Nova
511 West 54th Street, New York, NY 10019 01 Feb 2011
511 West 54th Street, New York, NY 10019 01 Feb 2011
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short play
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Top of PagePoster Boy
Synopsis:
Men in a gay chatroom try to find out what has happened to one of their number who has killed himself
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music and lyrics by Craig Carnelia; book by Joe Tracz. Inspired by the suicide of Tyler Clementi in 2010
1st Produced:
Upcoming 1st reading at Roundabout
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Genre:
Musical - Gay musical
Parts:
Male: - Female: - Other: 6-10 actors or singers
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Top of PageSongs for a Future Generation
Synopsis:
Clones, robots and teenage time travelers search for connection at a dance party aboard a satellite. So what if its purpose is to celebrate an exploding star? For the kids in this "sci-fi dance party spectacle" this is going to be the BEST NIGHT EVER.
- nytheatre.com
- nytheatre.com
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Genre:
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male: 6 Female: 7 Other: -
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