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Kal Wagenheim

KAL WAGENHEIM  

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Kal Wagenheim (born in Newark, N.J.) is a journalist (formerly with The New York Times), author and translator of eight books, and nine plays and screenplays. His plays Bavarian Rage, "Coffee With God" and We Beat Whitey Ford have been produced Off-Off-Broadway. His screenplay The King of Tango is currently under option. His biography of Babe Ruth was adapted for an NBC-TV film. He is also Adjunct Associate Professor at Columbia University's Writing Division, School of the Arts and directs a monthly creative writing workshop at The State Prison in Trenton NJ. Member: PEN American Center and The Dramatists Guild of America. He is represented by Robin Kaver, the Robert A. Freedman Dramatic Agency, 1501 Broadway, Suite 2310, New York NY 10036. Tel: 212-840-5760.

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

 Bavarian Rage         Coffee With God         Interview At Weehawken         Levine! Levine!         Mother's Day In Hell         We Beat Whitey Ford         WegotdatesCom

Bavarian Rage

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Adolf Hitler alive? A wannabe "dream team" of lawyers eagerly interviews their hoped for ticket to fame, an elderly man who may-or may not-be The Fuhrer. Film rights! Book deals! It's a bonanza! There are surprises galore in this edgy dark comedy of shifting identities

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Bavarian Rage' is funny And somehow touching. . .you write with A sure comedic hand. - Eli Wallach. "I loved it. It was so wacky I roared." - Lee Coppola. Full-length play was finalist, 2001 New Century Writer Award for A Stage Play. Semifinalist 2001-2002 N

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Coffee With God

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A man is seated in a diner, enjoying a bagel with cream cheese and a cup of coffee, when God sits next to him and orders the same. Their conversation ranges from playful (finding parking in Manhattan) to heartbreaking (why loved ones die all too soon).

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and in July 2005 At the Generic Theatre Dog Days Summer Festival in Norfolk, Virginia. Thus far been in 5 different festivals

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part of the Chester Horn Short Play Festival in New York City    2005

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Interview At Weehawken

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The Vice President of the United States shooting his rival to death? VP Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton face off in a deadly duel on the west bank of the Hudson River. This is a tale of sex, jealousy, corruption, bare knuckle politics, and a scandal-hungry press

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(Semi-finalist in the 1999-2000 Playwrights First competition sponsored by The National Arts Club. Screenplay was A quarter-finalist in the 2001 New Century Awards competition.) Staged reading, The Theatre Project At Union County College, NJ, Nov. 10, 200

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Levine! Levine!

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Brash millionaire Charles A. Levine, the world's first trans-Atlantic passenger, flew farther than Lindbergh, but in a few years was broke and forgotten. His brief fling with fame is celebrated with joyous Yiddish songs in this tragicomedy

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Semifinalist 2004 Dorothy Silver Playwriting Competition. Staged readings: The Theater Company, Union County College, Cranford NJ (Nov. 2003) And Innovative Stages, Westchester County NY (April 2004). A full-length play And Also Available As A screenplay

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Mother's Day In Hell

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staged reading, Villagers Theatre In Somerset NJ    20 Feb 2012

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We Beat Whitey Ford

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Two former high school baseball teammates -- one black, one white -- meet twenty years later at Newark Airport, and seek to restore what once was. This is a moving, often funny, tale of friendship, and of the chasm between youthful dreams and reality-between what we want and what we get

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A nice clean. . .honest play. . .before it's through, you might feel A few emotions welling up. -Jerry Tallmer, The Villager. Presented Sept. 2000 At PSNBC@HERE; April 2000 At Pulse Ensemble Theatre, W. 42d St.; July 1998 At Synchronicity Space, Soho. Short story

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WegotdatesCom

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Selma, sweet and ditzy, applies for a job at an Internet "personals" service and is hired by Ernie, the cynical office manager. They gradually fall in love, while several dozen New Yorkers (performed by a cast of six) act out ads they've placed, searching for love, friendship and adventure. Slapstick comedy with a generous dollop of heartfelt sentiment

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