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Stuart Warmflash

STUART WARMFLASH  (1949 - )

 Nationality:    USA
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A native New Yorker, Mr. Warmflash has been involved with the theatre for over thirty years. After graduating from NYU he attended the Central School of Speech and Drama in London. After a successful acting career on Broadway (with the distinguished APA-Phoenix Repertory Co.), off-Broadway, regionally (Seattle Rep.) as well as in film and television, he began writing and directing. His first play, "Art's Life" played an extended run on Theatre Row and his seven subsequent full-length works have all been read and/or performed in and outside NYC. "Lost at Sea", a comic satire, won two National Play Contests including the New Play Festival at the Charlotte Repertory Company. "Heart-Timers", won first prize and a production at both the Theatre-in-the-Works contest (Amherst, MA) and the Festival of Emerging American Theatre contest at the Phoenix Theatre in Indianapolis. For two and half years, Mr. Warmflash toured his highly acclaimed one-man show, "A Map And A Cap. . ." "Owning the Knuckleball" was developed at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center and was produced in London. "Together Tulane" has had readings in Los Angeles, Florida and New York. More recent works include "Bizet's Locket" (winner of the Paul Green and Riverside Stage Awards and "The Czar of Nothingness", produced at The Mill Mountain Theatre and presented in Los Angeles with Ed Asner and Thora Birch. IT was recently presented at the John Drew Theatre in East Hampton starring Theodore Bikel and Kathleen Early. His published one-act, "Six Inch Adjustable" was a winner of the Samuel French Short Play Festival. His A Plague of Little Miracles is was finalist for the Actors Theatre of Louisville One Act Festival. "Tea Among the Tamaracks" was a finalist in the Samuel French Short Play Contest of 2003. Shortly After Takeoff recently recived the Christopher Brian Wolk Award carrying a $1,000.00 prize. His theatrically released, award-winning full-length documentary "Unforgotten: Willowbrook 25 Years Later" opened to excellent reviews both in LA and New York. He also wrote a documentary for Showtime about the Peabody award-winning NPR series "Our America" which detailed life in the Ida B. Wills Chicago housing project. He is the author of a novel entitled Swamp, has scripted a teleplay for Murphy Brown, penned two screenplays and written numerous magazine articles for Cosmopolitan, GQ and Playboy. In the corporate field, Mr. Warmflash has written for accounts such as Sony, IBM, Kodak, BMW, Avon, Seagrams, Lifetime TV, the USPS, and NCR among others. Now heading into its tenth year, Mr. Warmflash is the artistic director of The Harbor Theatre, a non-profit collective of 7 playwrights and 30 actors and directors. (www.harbortheatre.org) He is a member of the Dramatist Guild.

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

 Bizet's Locket         Critical Mass Of Love         Czar of Nothingness, The         Heart Timers         Jaguar King, The         Owning the Knuckleball         Pictures With A Naked Camera         Plague Of Little Miracles, A         Shortly After Takeoff         Six Inch Adjustable         Tea Among The Tamaracks         Together Tulane

Bizet's Locket

Synopsis:
Searching for birth parents (possibly Jewish), a young American woman in France begins a tempestuous relationship with a former French resistance leader who appears to be concealing an incriminating secret.

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After being developed in The Harbor Theatre Workshop, the play was selected for further development by New Voices At University of West Florida in Pensacola. Bizet's Locket won the Founder's Award Contest sponsored by the Riverside Stage Company in Wilton, CT. It Also won the Paul Green Award from the North Carolina Writers' Network. The play was A finalist in the Generic Theater's "1999 New Plays for Dog Days". . .A finalist in the Ashland New Plays Festival. . .A finalist in the Theatrework Studio Project of New Mexico. . .A finalist in the South Carolina Playwrights' Festival for 2000. . .A finalist in the New Play Project At the Backdoor Theatre. . .Finalist Jewish Ensemble Theatre's Festival of New Plays 2002-3. . .A finalist for production At the Detroit Repertory Theatre And. . .A semi-finalist in the 1999 Harvest Festival of New American Plays co-sponsored by The State Theatre (formerly Live Oak Theatre). It received Honorable Mention in the Writer's Digest 1999 writing competition. It has been read At The Atlantic Theatre Company (NYC), Key West Theatre Festival, The Playwrights Kitchen Ensemble in Los Angeles, The Harbor Theatre in NYC And The Springboard Series of New Plays At the JCC in Manhattan

1st Produced:
Playwrights Forum, Memphis    2001

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Genre:
Dramatic Comedy Comedy

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Critical Mass Of Love

Synopsis:
Two people meet at Penn Station and it is love at first sight

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1st Produced:
Altered Stages, New York    12 Nov 2003

Organisations:
Harbor Theatre

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One act

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Czar of Nothingness, The

Synopsis:
On the eve of his eviction from the game room he owns on the Lower East Side, an elderly Marxist widower struggles with a young female intruder who claims his deceased wife had another life and owes her money

Notes:
Finalist for the John Golden Award, the FutureFest Contest sponsored by the Dayton Playhouse, the 2000 Paul Green Playwrights Competition, Dorothy Silver Playwriting Competition, Halle Theatre, Cleveland. Public reading by the San Diego Actors Alliance, CAP 21 (Barbara Wolff Reading Series), The Abingdon Theatre (NYC), Chamber Theatre Festival sponsored by the Pulse Ensemble Theatre, Ashland New Plays Festival, semi-finalist in the New Play Project of the Backdoor Theatre. Read At the Hudson River Classics reading series And Honorable Mention in 2001 Writer's Digest Competition

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Genre:
Dramatic Comedy Comedy

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Male:  4            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Heart Timers

Synopsis:
5 years in the lives of two lower-class Jersey girls as they escape their environmental and personal limitations.

Notes:
Winner of the FEAT (Festival of Emerging American Theatre) Award And received An Equity production At the Phoenix Theater, Indianapolis. Sponsored by American Cablevision And the Bravo Netowork. Selected by Theater-In-The-Works/University of Massachusetts for their developmental program And was given An Equity presentation in Amherst. . .Semi-finalist in the L. Arnold Weissberger Playwrighting Competition sponsored by New Dramatists. Was A finalist in the Playwrights Theatre of Baltimore Play contest. Has evolved through numerous readings here in New York in such venues As Cornelia Street Cafe, Playwrights Gallery, Full Moon Playwrights Exchange, As well As Playmarket At Alice's Fourth Floor. . .

1st Produced:
Phoenix Theatre, Indianapolis Theatre-in-the-Works (Amherst)    1996

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Genre:
Dramatic Comedy Comedy

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Male:  1            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Jaguar King, The

Synopsis:
1941. A prudish American archeologist working at a Mayan site is confronted by a Central American revolutionary who is stealing rare artifacts to subsidize his political activities.

Notes:
Public readings by The Harbor Theatre (NYC), Ten Grand Productions (NYC) And The Intravenous Theatre Company (NYC)

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Genre:
Political-Sexual Drama Play/Drama

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Owning the Knuckleball

Synopsis:
A baseball pitcher's obsession with success leads him on a journey through a ritualistic American landscape.

Notes:
Produced in London At the Latchmere Theatre, Developed, in part, At the National Playwrights Conference/Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, Public Reading produced by The Harbor Theatre, Public Reading produced by Playmarket At the Dramatists Guild, Public Reading At Playwrights Preview (Urban Stages/NYC), Public Reading produced by Playwrights' Circle/Palm Springs, Received An Honorable Mention Award from the Alaska Native Play Contest, Chosen As one of four finalists in both the 1996 AND 1997 Writers Vision Playwriting Competition , Finalist for the 10th Annual Charlotte Repertory Theatre Festival of New Plays, Finalist for the Dobama Theatre's National Play Contest, Semi-Finalist for the Partial Comfort Productions' Contest, A semi-finalist At the Theatre Memphis New Play Competition.

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The Latchmere Theatre (London)

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Genre:
Dramatic Comedy Comedy

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Pictures With A Naked Camera

Synopsis:
In 1955, a young woman from the Hudson valley becomes affianced to an NYC intern, is stricken with polio and confined to an iron lung. Her world turned upside down, she discovers she must then choose between returning home (with her fiance) to her mother's home and values. . .or remaining in New York with a family of new-found friends

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Developed over 18 months in The Harbor Theatre Workshop

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Genre:
Dramatic Comedy Comedy

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Male:  2            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Plague Of Little Miracles, A

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1st Produced:
Center Stage, New York    21 Oct 2001

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Harbor Theatre

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Shortly After Takeoff

Synopsis:
It's 1967 and 15-year-old Ethan is trying to find his place in a world where he doesn't belong. His father is dead. His mother is a war protester. And he is talking to frogs.

Notes:
Winner of the Christopher Brian Wolk Playwriting Award presented by the Abingdon Theatre (NYC) $1,000.00 (fall, 2003), Finalist Ashland New Play Competition (fall, 2003), Finalist American Theatre Coop (fall, 2003), Finalist Oglebay Institute, Semi-finalist At Mill Mountain's New Play Competition (spring, 2003), Semi-Finalist for Playlabs/Minnesota (spring, 2003), Reading At Abingdon Theatre (fall, 2003), Reading At Hudson River Classic (fall, 2003), Reading At Broad Horizons Theatre (March, 2004),

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The Harbor Theatre

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Genre:
Dramatic Comedy Comedy

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Six Inch Adjustable

Synopsis:
Two brothers, fifteen year old Tudie and twenty one year old Chip, battle each other in a suburban driveway as they come to terms with a broken motorcycle engine, their mother's remarriage and each other

Notes:
Honorable Mention in the 72nd Annual Writer's Digest writing competition. (fall, 2003), The Play was developed over An 18-month period At The Harbor Theatre Workshop (NYC)

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Samuel French One Act Festival, The Harbor Theatre

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In Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays, 25th Series, French, NY,    -

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Short Play One Act

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Tea Among The Tamaracks

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1st Produced:
Center Stage, New York    15 Jan 2003

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Harbor Theatre

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Together Tulane

Synopsis:
During the reunion of the band he once spearheaded, a wandering 60's visionary comes to terms with the romantic and political realities of the 90's

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Not Produced    2000

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Genre:
Dramatic Comedy Comedy

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Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  -

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