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Brian Watkins

BRIAN WATKINS

  
Nationality:    USA
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Brian Watkins (Playwright) is a Brooklyn-based playwright whose plays include My Daughter Keeps Our Hammer (2014 World Premiere at The Flea; NY Times and Time Out NY Critics' Pick), Wyoming, General Store (2012 Seven Devils Playwrights Conference), Games for an Empty Cul-De-Sac, The Rebel and His Leg, Study That House, A Scavenge, and High Plains (2013 UK premiere with Underbelly, Edinburgh). His plays have been produced or developed with Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, Williamstown Theatre Festival, LAByrinth Theatre, The Flea Theater, Lesser America, INTAR, Horse Trade Theater Group, Seven Devils Playwrights Conference, b. swibel presents, id Theatre, Edinburgh Fringe, Wide Eyed Productions, Wildclaw and Route 66 in Chicago, among others. Brian is a member of the Dramatists Guild.

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

         General Store         High Plains         My Daughter Keeps Our Hammer         Prairie Plays, The         Wyoming

General Store

Synopsis:
Mike is determined to keep his faltering general store up and running. Hell let nothing get in the way of staying open for business: not his two wily daughters, the trucker who thinks hes dead, the rancher who thinks hes dying, or even the blizzard outside. But something mysterious is under the floorboards. And its getting louder and hungrier. Can Mike save his American Dream from the ravenous creature beneath his store? Or should he just save himself instead?

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1st Produced:
Seven Devils Playwrights Conference, Mccall, Idaho    2012

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Genre:
Play/Drama (reading)

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High Plains

Synopsis:
A rampant chase spurred by sibling rivalry forces a young man onto the eastern plains of Colorado where a violent encounter changes the course of his life.

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1st Produced:
Players Loft, Ny, Usa    Aug 2009

Organisations:
New York International Fringe Festival

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Genre:
0h 55m Drama Solo Show

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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My Daughter Keeps Our Hammer

Synopsis:
the story of two clashing sisters who agree on only one thing: they hate the family sheep, their mother's only friend. In this eerie tale that treads the line between humor and horror, tradition takes a turn for the worse, as the family attempts to domesticate the last remaining member of their former flock and ends up with a tragic twist of fate.
- nytheatre.com

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part of the Prairie Plays

1st Produced:
Under St. Marks
94 St. Marks Place, New York, NY 10009    04 Nov 2010

Organisations:
Wide Eyed Productions

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Music:
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Genre:
One Act

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Prairie Plays, The

Synopsis:
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1st Produced:
Under St. Marks
94 St. Marks Place, New York, NY 10009    04 Nov 2010

Organisations:
Wide Eyed Productions and Horse Trade Theatre

1st Published:
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Music:
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Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Wyoming

Synopsis:
Colorado native Brian Watkins mysterious, aching new western play WYOMING is about setting a family story straight. Moving back and forth through time but focused on a Thanksgiving dinner in 1995, the play evokes those endless straightaways and solitary ranges where westerners may roam  but not escape. The Tuttle family's past is not to be discussed. But when their estranged and silent brother is spotted at a hometown diner twenty years after a confounding childhood crime, buried memories and unspoken bounties hatch one boozy, plotting Thanksgiving. At the edge of Wyoming's wilderness, the family herd must stick together or teeter towards the way of the buffalo.

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Organisations:
lesser america

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

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