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Richard Warren

RICHARD WARREN

  
Nationality:    USA
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Richard Warren has written 12 full-length plays including Shifting Gears (Canyon Moon Theatre, Sedona, Arizona), Trio with Flute (Canyon Moon Theatre), In the Valley of the Sun (Canyon Moon Theatre), How I Came to be Buffalo Bill" (Mill Mountain Theatre, Roanoke, Virginia) and Snap (Phoenix Theatre, Phoenix, Arizona); and numerous short plays including Together Alone, Good Old Weezie, Time to Get Up and Power Play. He has also adapted three works by the late legendary playwright Dale Wasserman - Burning in the Night (Theater Works, Peoria, Arizona), Beggar's Holiday (Opera Theatre, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) and Premiere! Richard is a board member of Arizona's Centennial Theatre Foundation and Phoenix Theatre where he was Resident Playwright and Co-producer of its annual Hormel New Works Festival from 1998-2007. He is a Resident Playwright at Theatre Artists Studio in Phoenix where he has taught its playwriting workshop and has led its Writers' Circle. He was also chairman of the City Stage Company of Boston and a board member of Boston's Playwrights' Platform. Richard has participated in the University of Idaho's 2008 Four Voices: Festival of New Works; Montana Rep's Missoula Colony 14, 15 and 16; Sedona's 2013 New Play Festival and Theater Works' 2013 New Works Festival among others. Richard was nominated for the 2004 Arizona Governor's Arts Awards and the 2007 Arts & Business Council of Greater Phoenix's Arts Board Member Award, and was honored as Phoenix Theatre's 2010 Angel of the Arts. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America, Inc.

Research:    Member of the Dramatists Guild of America (as at 2015)

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         Arizona Territory         Beggar's Holiday         Bunny & Bird         Burning in the Night         Circumstances         Crazy Days Of Summer         Evangeline         Good Old Weezie         How I Came To Be Buffalo Bill         In the Valley Of the Sun         Mixed Messages         Polliwogs         Power Play         Premiere!         Reconciled Differences         Revokable Trust         Robert Hornblower Show, The         Shifting Gears         Snap         Time to Get Up         Together Alone         Trio With Flute
Arizona Territory

Synopsis:
Based on the 1899 meloDrama Arizona by Augustus Thomas, this updated version pits the two daughters of a wealthy cattle rancher against the men of the United States Cavalry. the depths of love, honor and truth are tested by the treachery of deceit, betrayal and greed, resulting in murder. And ultimately the need to forgive.

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Organisations:
New Works Festival

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Genre:
Full-length MeloDramatic Comedy 120 min

Parts:
Male:  7            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Beggar's Holiday

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adapted from work by Dale Wasserman

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adaptation

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Bunny & Bird

Synopsis:
Bunny, an aging greeting card illustrator, and Bird, her ex-baseball player husband, struggle to maintain eternal love as their materialistic daughter grasps for money, marriage and more. This quirky comedy pits virtue against violence, decency against deception, and sincerity against secrecy. A heavenly tale of true commitment that will pluck the strings of your harp

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New Works Festival

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Genre:
Full-Length Contemporary Comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Burning in the Night

Synopsis:
Semi-autobiographical, this memory play with music is the stage adaptation of a memoir by playwright Dale Wasserman's ("Man of La Mancha," "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest") journey from runaway teen to rail-riding hobo to globe-trotting writer for television, stage and screen. Throughout his fascinating life, he pursued the impossible dream of absolute freedom; only to discover it's a delusion, fraught with debilitating limitations.

Notes:
adapted from work by Dale Wasserman

1st Produced:
Theatre Works, Peoria, Arizona     25 Jan 2013

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Genre:
adaptation 2 acts 105 min

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  This is a solo show backed by a three member bluegrass band that can also act, at least a little. There should be one female.

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Circumstances

Synopsis:
When the adopted daughter of privileged parents seeks her birth parents, she finds her mother is not who she expected and the details of her birth not what she dreamed. Feeling the abandoned child, she presses her mother for the identity of her father, only to discover both women are victims of the same circumstance, bonded by more than blood.

Notes:
aka Angel's Child

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Organisations:
New Works Festival

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Genre:
Full-length Contemporary Drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Crazy Days Of Summer

Synopsis:
Misperceptions abound as matriarch Willie Hoover struggles to keep family members and their friends in check during her annual President Herbert Hoover birthday barbeque. A computer geek, ex-football player and player wannabe collide with the heights of fashion in this zany generational comedy of cultures, couples and life styles

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1st Produced:
Glendale Community College, Glendale, Az     2004

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Genre:
Full-length Zany Comedy

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Evangeline

Synopsis:
An inspiring tale of love and faith based on the epic poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Genre:
Full-Length Musical Drama

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Good Old Weezie

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Genre:
short play

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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How I Came To Be Buffalo Bill

Synopsis:
Caught between the vanishing wild west he conquered and the eastern establishment he challenged, Hon. William F. Cody reveals how he became Buffalo Bill -- military scout, Indian fighter and buffalo killer. And then evolved into Buffalo Bill -- international showman and entrepreneur. A story told in his very own words, mostly.

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Organisations:
Norfolk Southern Festival of New Works

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Full-length Solo Show 90 min

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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In the Valley Of the Sun

Synopsis:
Set in Arizona's Superstition Mountains over a ten-year period, three best friends test their evolving relationships. Maria leaves her cowboy boyfriend Steel to follow her dream of dancing on Broadway. Years later she returns to find her friend Trudy living with Steel. Surprising revelations and startling requests are made. Tensions mount as each struggles to maintain their friendship

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Genre:
Full-length Dramatic Comedy 120 min

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  1g

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Mixed Messages

Synopsis:
Three brief interrelated comedies explore the hypocrisies of volunteerism, charity and erectile dysfunction

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1st Produced:
Cattle Track Compound, Scottsdale, Az     2004

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Genre:
Contemporary Comedy One Act

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Polliwogs

Synopsis:
While vacationing in their family's isolated upper Michigan cabin during the three summer holidays of 1961, a recently married man and his college-age sister struggle to assert their independence by declaring their intentions and articulating their dreams. Bound by traditions and expectations, both parents and children share long-held secrets only to discover that, although very different, they are very much the same.

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Genre:
Full-Length Dramatic Comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Power Play

Synopsis:
A charity check is being presented to a movie star by The Power Company chairman who is hosting a location shoot, but there are problems. A comedy of complications unfolds as power shifts between the star, his aid and his photographer, and the chairman, his wife and his PR person.

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1st Produced:
Theatre Artists Studio, Scottsdale, Arizona     18 Jun 2015

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Genre:
ten min play

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Premiere!

Synopsis:
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Notes:
adapted from work by Dale Wasserman

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Genre:
adaptation

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Reconciled Differences

Synopsis:
A satiric comedy about contemporary family situations and sensibilities including a rebellious daughter who is running an XXX rated internet site from her bedroom.

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1st Produced:
Phoenix Theatre's New Works Festival     2002

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1st Published:
http://www.indietheaternow.com/Plays   

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Genre:
satirical comedy 105 min

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Revokable Trust

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1st Produced:
Staged Readings At Theater Works' New Works Westival, Peoria, Arizona     11 Jul 2014

Organisations:
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1st Published:
http://www.indietheaternow.com/Play/revokable-trust   

Music:
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Robert Hornblower Show, The

Synopsis:
Network TV anchor Robert Hornblower enjoys great public respect; yet privately he lords over his agent, has an affair with his producer, abuses his wife and threatens a gay museum director. When this hypocrisy is discovered by a cable TV "journalist", it appears that the industry that made Hornblower is about to destroy him.

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1st Produced:
Cap 21, New York, NY     1998

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Genre:
Full-length Contemporary Drama

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Shifting Gears

Synopsis:
the story takes place in Upper Michigan, the summer of 1961. While vacationing in their family's isolated cabin, a Father tries to enforce his expectations on his young-adult son and college-age daughter as they struggle to assert their independence. Bound by traditions, both parents and children reveal their personal desires and dreams only to discover that, although generationally different, they are very much the same

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1st Produced:
Canyon Moon Theatre, Sedona, Az     07 Mar 2013

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Full-length Contemporary Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Snap

Synopsis:
Seven years since Cedarville High, four former classmates work together at the local birdhouse factory. the class jock relentlessly bullies the computer geek until he snaps, forcing all to confront each other to discover themselves. A powerful contemporary exploration of relationships, the true meaning of friendship and the need to belong.

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1st Produced:
Rattlestick Theatre, New York, NY     2002

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1st Published:
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Genre:
Full-Length Contemporary Comedy 110 min

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Time to Get Up

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Genre:
short play

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Together Alone

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Genre:
short play

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Trio With Flute

Synopsis:
While flying his kite in Central Park, a mentally challenged UN worker is attracted by a desperate Albanian alien. Although warned by his guardian aunt not to wander off with strangers, he helps the woman home. As each struggles to establish a relationship, the true motivations of these three very different people are revealed, as well as the consequences and atrocities of war. While flying his kite in Central Park, a mentally challenged UN worker is attracted by a desperate Albanian alien. Although warned by his guardian aunt not to wander off with strangers, he helps the woman home. As each struggles to establish a relationship, the true motivations of these three very different people are revealed, as well as the consequences and atrocities of war

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1st Produced:

Organisations:
New Works Festival

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Full-Length Contemporary Drama 100 min

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

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