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Justin Warner

JUSTIN WARNER

  
Nationality:    USA
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Justin Warner is a playwright/lyricist, improviser, and humorist, among other things. His plays have been produced in NYC, London, Los Angeles, Washington DC, Toronto, San Francisco, San Diego, Austin, Florida, Kansas, Delaware, Maryland, Michigan, and elsewhere. He is a Harrington Award winner (BMI Musical Theater Workshop), a Kennedy Center-ACTF winner, a Global Age Project winner, a Source Theatre 10-Minute Play Competition winner, a Sam French Fest Critic's Choice winner, a Princess Grace finalist, a Javits Fellowship finalist, an O'Neill semi-finalist, and a five-time Heideman Award finalist. Justin was a founding member of Washington Improv Theater (WIT) and performed, taught, and directed with the group from 1996-2003. During his tenure with WIT he appeared at the Chicago Improv Festival, the Seattle Improv Festival, the Del Close Marathon at UCB in New York, and on countless DC-area stages. His humor has appeared in McSweeney's, the Funny Times, the Big Jewel, and the HarperCollins anthology MAY CONTAIN NUTS. Other credits include a Peabody Award for his work on a children's science/mystery/adventure radio show (really). Justin lives in New York City with his wife, Courtney Birch (a director and choral conductor), and son Benjamin Birch Warner (born July 2005). He is a member of the BMI Musical Theater Workshop and the Dramatists Guild.

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         American Whupass         Bum Steer         Cinderella's Mice         Face of God, The         Fat Naked Truckers         Following         Grasping at Straws         Head Games         Hurricane Iris         Imposters         Microcosm         Mutual Mastication         Page-Turner         Screwups: Little Plays About Big MIstakes         Wire In Water, A

American Whupass

Synopsis:
A faded football star and an ex-wrestler battle it out in an election.

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Bum Steer

Synopsis:
Portrait of a marriage, food and job issues, and one man's losing battle with a 96-ounce steak.

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Heideman Award finalist.

1st Produced:
Source Theatre 10-Minute Play Festival, Washington DC    2000

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United Stages, Inc, 2004   -

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comedy Ten Min

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Cinderella's Mice

Cinderella's Mice
Meet Spencer: a little mouse with big dreams. He's got exciting plans for the royal ball just like his friend Cinderella. In Spencer's case, he hopes to sneak into the ball and eat all the food on the buffet. But when Cinderella's fairy godmother turns Spencer and his sister Mitzi into horses, mouse and human dreams collide! How will Spencer sneak into the ball now? And will Spencer's crazy improvising make or break Cinderella's big night with the Prince? A fresh, frivolous take on a time-honored fairy tale, Cinderella's Mice shows that even the smallest characters in a story can make a big difference, and that being a good friend can bring great rewards.

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Music And Lyrics by Ben Morss; Book And Additional Lyrics by Justin Warner

1st Produced:
Vital Theatre, McGinn Cazale Theatre, NYC    2006

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Vital Theatre

1st Published:
Bakers Plays, CA (2009) >>>    978-0-87440-216-2

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Genre:
Musical - children's Musical

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Male:  3            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Face of God, The

Synopsis:
An apparent administrative error in Heaven leaves a man's eternal fate in the balance.

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Source theatre 10-Minute Play Competition finalist; 3-time Audience Vote winner.

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Source Theatre 10-Minute Play Festival, Washington DC    -

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comedy Ten Min

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Fat Naked Truckers

Synopsis:
A suburban dad's wholesome world is turned upside-down by menacing telemarketers from a very dicey magazine.

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Source Theatre 10-Minute Play Festival, Washington DC    2000

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comedy Ten Min

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Following

Synopsis:
the neighborhood's changing, and no one is as they seem: especially to Carla and the stranger who's following her home in the dead of night. A 10-minute musical thrill ride through the streets where we live

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Music by Adam Gwon; lyrics by Adam Gwon And Justin Warner

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Genre:
Musical

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Grasping at Straws

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Head Games

Synopsis:
In ancient Judea, Herod brings Salome the head of John the Baptist. But is that really what she wanted?

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Originally produced As part of "Screwups: Little Plays About Big Mistakes." Heideman Award finalist.

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Buffalo Bridge Productions

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comedy Ten Min

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Hurricane Iris

Synopsis:
In a stifling, sweaty Florida resort town, newly minted rabbi Nell Wallensky is caught between her fiance, Louis, a professional snowboarder, and her hostile, chain-smoking, blasphemous mother, Iris, who is dying of a mysterious illness. When Iris fails to drive Louis away with pure cruelty, she commands her manservant, a Peruvian shaman, to use his ancient magic to cement her daughter's fidelity.

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1st Produced:
Catholic University, Washington DC    2002

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Catholic University of America

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Genre:
Comedy

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Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Imposters

Synopsis:
After surviving a brain injury, a son believes his parents have been replaced with exact duplicates of themselves, triggering a series of events that threaten to unravel the entire family. Based on an actual neurological condition.

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1st Produced:
Theatre Conspiracy, Florida    2000

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NEUROfest

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  5            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Microcosm

Synopsis:
Two scientists match wits with a couple of commando germs.

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Source theatre Audience Vote Winner. Heideman Award finalist.

1st Produced:
Source Theatre 10-Minute Play Festival, Washington DC    2002

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Mutual Mastication

Synopsis:
A priest's battle with the loudest communion-chewer in the parish.

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Originally produced in "Spontaneous Combustion" festival.

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Page-Turner

Synopsis:
A man discovers a book that tells his own life story in real time.

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Heideman Award finalist.

1st Produced:
Samuel French Festival, American Theatre of Actors, NYC    2005

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Screwups: Little Plays About Big MIstakes

Synopsis:
A collection of Warner's award-winning short comedies about mixups, mistakes, and plain old bad judgments, including Head Games, Bum Steer, Microcosm, Page-Turner, the Face of God, and Fat Naked Truckers.

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Buffalo Bridge Productions (Manhattan Theatre Source)

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Genre:
evening of 10 min comedy Ten Min

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Wire In Water, A

Synopsis:
about historical intrigue surrounding the telephone patent

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1st Produced:
Luna Stage, West Orange, NJ    2014

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