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Dan Trujillo

DAN TRUJILLO

  (1971 - )
Nationality:    USA
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Recently: 2006-07 Dramatists Guild Fellow; production of Jingle Spree won Portland, OR's Drammy Award for Outstanding Original Script; Workshops at Utah Shakespearean Festival (Early Poe) and Playwrights Center in Minneapolis; selection from short play Distance published in the Dramatist magazine; short play the Dog published in Winter/ Spring 2007 issue of the Oregon Literary Review; received MFA in Dramatic Writing from New York University and the Harry Kondoleon Graduate Award in Playwriting; presented plays at the Missoula Colony in Missoula, Montana and the Last Frontier Theatre Conference in Valdez, AlaskA. Early on: Developed Theatre pieces utilizing improv technique with Toad City in Portland, OR; Other Stuff: Member, Playwrights Gallery (NYC); member, the Dramatists Guild; writer/performer in current-event cabaret Rapid Response Team. Born in San Francisco, raised in Portland, OR, currently raising babies in Brooklyn.

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         Angry Young Man         Comfort or Style         Conference with the Bull         Dog, The         Don Juan de Beaverton         Early Poe         Going Dutch         Heaven's Distant Shore         Honest-to-God True Story of the Atheist, The         Imperative of Night and Bodies         Jingle Spree         Night of Phases, The         Nothing To Do Without You         Plastic Money         Talk of the Walk-Up         This Is How It Began         Toy Planet         Violating the Eight Spot
Angry Young Man

Synopsis:
Frank's angry. He's a genius, or so he feels, but he hasn't worked as a director in ages. He's surrounded by phonies and mediocrity. He hates New York but can't bring himself to leave. But his greatest agony is the love of his life, Cecilia. Cecilia's a young actress who's so close to stardom she can taste it. All she has to do is get the lead in a Hollywood "erotic thriller." Cecilia's success has earned her a batch of flatterers jockeying for her recommendation to her powerful agent. For some reason, Frank hates their guts. Frank demands that Cecilia turn the movie down. She tells Frank that she'll turn the movie down, if Frank can be nice to her friends for just one night. Before that night is over, Frank and Cecilia test each other's principles, smash each other's dreams, and battle over the lines between the love of art, the love of fame, and the love of each other.

Notes:
Also produced by the Imua! theatre Co. in NYC, NY in 1998

1st Produced:
Manchester, Vt     1996

Organisations:
Shangri-La Theatre Company

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Genre:
Verse Comedy

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Comfort or Style

Synopsis:
Anna, a native Brooklynite, is shocked when her friend Hattie shows up at their kids' playground dressed in a sari like the immigrant Indian women with whom they share the park. As Anna tries to stop Hattie before she starts trouble, they discover the secret resentments and longings that the women across the playground inspire.

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Genre:
comedy Ten Min

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Male:  -            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Conference with the Bull

Synopsis:
Nondescript Teddy didn't want to go corporate, but his wife and he agreed it was time to grow up. At his first business conference, he meets Myna, a mysterious workshop leader. Her unusual seminar -- rooted in mystery, myth and masks -- enthralls all who attend. Soon Teddy is under her sway, and in her hotel room. She offers Teddy secret knowledge that will make him as extraordinary as her, if he breaks an ancient taboo, a savage act that could destroy him and his wife. the myth of theseus and the Minotaur weaves with corporate gamesmanship, in this story of the power of secrets and the labyrinth of human relations.

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Dog, The

Synopsis:
Dyson goes to war, abandoning a puppy, a wife, and a home. When he returns, everything is gone but his dying dog. there was a time though, in between, where he might still might undo his mistake. Based on an episode in Homer's Odyssey.

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Don Juan de Beaverton

Synopsis:
Milt, a widower, lives with his daughter and overbearing son-in-law. All he has in life is his swimming pool club, and two lovely widows, Rose and Sally, to flirt with. But one day, Rose and Sally serve him a special cake that gives him the ability to fly. Things begin to look up for Milt, until Jeff finds out that Milt thinks he can fly. Believing the old bird hopelessly senile, and Rose and Sally in pursuit of Milt's money, Jeff attempts to ground his father-in-law.

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Not Available for performance

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Genre:
comedy One act

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Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Early Poe

Synopsis:
Death, mystery, disease, insanity, blood, poetry: It's not one of Edgar Allan Poe's stories. It's his life, and he's only just turned thirteen. the young poet, rejected by his foster-Father Jock, begins a weird affair with his eccentric mistress Jane Stanard. When Jane goes insane and dies, Edgar briefly unites with Jock in mutual grief. But Edgar soon finds a new obsession: Sarah Elmira Royster, who looks -- to Jock, Edgar and the audience -- exactly like Mrs. Stanard. Alternately drawn to and terrified by Elmira, Jock attempts to drive this ghost out of their lives, even as Edgar uses the shared phantasm in a demented gamble to bond with the only Father he's ever known.

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Going Dutch

Synopsis:
"What is this thing the humans call gender?" When two innocent androids have to choose between "male and female," they set off on a mad quest, blundering through preschool politics, senior dating, subway seating and the memories of three generations of women and men.
- nytheatre.com

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1st Produced:
Baryshnikov Arts Center
450 West 37th Street, New York, NY 10018     13 Sep 2011

Organisations:
Roots&Branches Theater

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  4            Female:  12            Other:  -

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Heaven's Distant Shore

Synopsis:
David -- an American evangelical Christian on mission in Laos -- and his party are kidnapped and taken to a paramilitary encampment, far in the mountains. David learns from his fellow missionary and onetime lover Caroline that the group intends to martyr themselves. David, already having a crisis of faith, attempts to escape by befriending Nouhak, an ostracized guard and son of a Laotian convert. Nouhak helps David plan his escape, and in exchange David helps Nouhak with his "bad jobs," but when the jobs become increasingly harmful to the other missionaries, David must choose between stopping the present injustice and redeeming past ones.

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Honest-to-God True Story of the Atheist, The

Synopsis:
In this provocative comic play by Dan Trujillo, a trio of performers tell the audience the remarkable story of an atheist trying to disprove God's existence by stealing a baby Jesus from a nativity scene, unleashing a series of miracles that prove the existence of the Christian God he denies. But did any of this really happen? And do the actors even believe the story they're enacting? Featuring Mole people, black market Viagra salesmen, speaking in tongues, tasteless caricatures, three maybe-miracles, and more twists and turns than a roller coaster, the Honest-to-God True Story of the Atheist is a dark comedy that questions everything, including itself.
- press release

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Horse Trade Theater Group and elsewhere

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Genre:
Play Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Imperative of Night and Bodies

Synopsis:
A teenage girl takes a teenage boy to a cornfield but he tells her that he does not like sex

Notes:
Not Available for performance

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Genre:
comedy Ten minute play

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Jingle Spree

Synopsis:
Eight year-old Alan knows the attic is off-limits, but it's the one place he can escape from the bullies. But today his house is full of those bullies. they discover his hideout. they dig up a handgun. they plot to use the gun to steal candy from their parents. But when Alan insists on holding the gun, things really get out of hand. . .At the same time, Alan's mom Alison is fighting with her sister, Sierra, over a twenty year-old electric organ. Meanwhile, the sisters' husbands wager on their efforts. Soon the neighbors get involved in the debate. In the excitement of the argument, no one seems to notice that their children are missing, until they hear the gun shot. Five years later, Alan returns home from incarceration, determined to force his mother to deal with the child she's raised.

Notes:
Actors play one child And one Adult in Jingle Spree

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CoHo Productions; Portland, OR

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Night of Phases, The

Synopsis:
Lane and Mark, friends since high school, return to their alma mater to lead a motivational assembly. Treating the audience as the student body, they tell a story about a night they got high on caffeine pills. Lane, ashamed, tells it as a cautionary tale. Mark, proud of their adventure, uses it to entertain the crowd. When trying to talk to kids honestly about life's dangers, the grown-ups find that the truth, and their friendship, might not survive.

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Genre:
comedy Ten minute play

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Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Nothing To Do Without You

Synopsis:
In an internet game, a character named Drey murders a character named Etha, breaking the rules of the game. Later, in the real world, the player of the victim makes life miserable for the cyberspace criminal. Is what draws them together revenge, sadism, fascination, or even love? And how far will they go to continue their mutual suffering?

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Organisations:
Lil Pervs

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Genre:
Comedy fantasy One Act

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Plastic Money

Synopsis:
Rhonda's bought security and mobility for her daughter. But she's overextended her credit line, and her debtors have sent Mitch -- a cynical repo man -- to take her possession of greatest value: her daughter, Nora. But Rhonda has might have one precious thing she can give to pay the bill.

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Not Available for performance

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Genre:
verse play Ten minute play

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Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Talk of the Walk-Up

Synopsis:
A tyrannical Superintendent (the SUPER) enforces the building codes with a swing of his bat; but when he discovers a young TV-dialogue-spewing girl (PUMPKIN) in the recycling can, he feels love for the first time. It makes him more dangerous to the tenants, and more attractive to a tenant (MIMI) with a fetish for reforming bad men. Her jealous husband (VEGAS) uncovers Pumpkin's terrible past, and forces the Super to choose between Pumpkin and his beloved brownstone.

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Talk of the Walk-Up's characters speak in loose rhyming dialogue

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Genre:
verse comedy Comedy

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Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

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This Is How It Began

Synopsis:
Karen and Paul were an unmarried couple living in the country, letting their relationship wither. One night, garbage cans all over the neighborhood were torn apart. As pets and people were ripped open, the community realized it had a genuine Hollywood Monster Movie scenario on its hands. the audience makes up the wedding guests at Paul and Karen's reception, as they tell their story of their unusual marriage.

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1st Produced:
Woodstock, NY     2001

Organisations:
Woodstock Theatre Company

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Genre:
Comedy/Horror ( 1 Act) Comedy

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Toy Planet

Synopsis:
the setting is a basement family room, littered with toys. Or rather, the setting is the set of a basement family room. Tom announces to the audience that he is going to perform a play about his childhood, with the assistance of his big brother, Dan. Dan is reluctant to help, but agrees, on the condition that they stop at a certain point. they tell the story of Tom's childhood antisocial behavior, and how he used to spend all his time in an imaginary world called Planet Toy. A doctor found that Dan was the only person who could communicate with Tom about this world, so he enlisted Dan to help wean Tom off of Planet Toy. Dan reluctantly played with Tom. Using Luke Skywalker, Mr. T, and other characters from movies, TV, toys & comic books, they acted out the saga of Planet Toy's struggles against the Evil Emperor Illen. In spite of Dan's lack of enthusiasm, Tom's behavior stabilized as Dan played with him. But Dan felt guilty about deceiving Tom, and confessed to being a spy for the Doctor. Tom and Dan conspired to tell the Doctor phony stories about Toyland so he'd stay off their cases. Dan assumed that this meant he didn't have to play Planet Toy anymore, but. . . It's at this point that Dan wants to stop telling the story. Tom insists they continue, begging his brother not to fail him again. As the boys battle for control of the narrative of their lives, old wounds return, and we learn the price both boys paid for leaving Toyland.

Notes:
Also produced by the Ground Floor theatere Lab, NYC, NY, in 1996

1st Produced:
Saranac Lake, NY     1994

Organisations:
Pendragon Theater Company

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Genre:
Comedy/Drama Comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Violating the Eight Spot

Synopsis:
A forgotten movie star (MAE) and an ostracized painter (LIZA) corner a movie studio executive. they have a pitch for a film about their lives: how they created the most offensive and beloved show in the country, wherein Liza's rapist was repeatedly raped for the audience; how Liza, exhausted by the Hollywood circus, denied the rape; and how the same media juggernaut that raised them up destroyed them. Sounds like a hit, until the studio executive learns that he's far more involved in the story than he thought.

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Genre:
dark comedy One Act

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Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

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