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Ken Weitzman

KEN WEITZMAN

  
Nationality:    USA
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Ken Weitzman Ken Weitzman's plays have been presented and developed at Actors Theatre of Louisville (2007 Humana Festival), Atlantic Theater Company, Alliance Theatre, Dad's Garage, Arena Stage, New York Stage and Film, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Playwrights Horizons, the Mark Taper Forum, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Bay Area Playwrights Festival and the Summer Play Festival. He has received commissions from Alliance Theatre, Arena Stage and South Coast Repertory. Prizes include the 2003 L. Arnold Weissberger Award for his play Arrangements. Mr. Weitzman received his M.F.A. from University of California, San Diego. He has taught playwriting at UCSD, Emory University, and currently at Indiana University. Prior to writing for the Theatre, Mr. Weitzman wrote and produced sports documentaries and narratives for television.

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         Arrangements         As If Body Loop, The         Catch, The         Fire in the Garden         Game On         Get Thorpe         Half Time With Don         Memorabilia         Nude In Front Of the Garden         Reclamation         Richard Aiken         Sacrifice         Spin Moves         Stadium 360

Arrangements

Arrangements
In the dank basement of a flower shop, when a college dropout meets a morbidly obese woman twice his age, chaos ensues. What follows is a beautiful and troubling romance in which the couple plots to unravel the tightly wound lives of all those around them. A biting, comic tale of obsession and repression, abstinence and consumption, expression and repression.

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Ucsd Baldwin New Play Festival     01 Apr 2002

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As If Body Loop, The

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Aaron's sister Sarah is succumbing to a mysteriously icy illness and to save her, his family must save. . .well. . ..all humankind, starting with one guy. With great humor, tremendous compassion, and a good dose of mysticism, maybe the apocalypse can be kept at bay by a group of eccentrically dysfunctional, but loving, people.

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Catch, The

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A dot.commer has lost everything. He plans to get his money back by obtaining a star slugger's winning home run ball

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Fire in the Garden

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In 1965 Norman Morrison in a protest about the Vietnam War went with his one year old daughter to the White House and set himself on fire whilst holding his daughter. She survived but he did not. In the present a father with a son the same age obsesses and is haunted by this event

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Monologue play

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Game On

Game On
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written by Zakiyyah Alexander, Jon Spurney, Alice Tuan, Daryl Watson, Marisa Wegrzyn, Ken Weitzman. Humana Festival 2008: the Complete Plays brings together All eleven scripts from the 2008 Humana Festival of New American Plays, the 32nd Annual cycle of world premiere productions staged At Actors theatre of Louisville. the seven full-length plays And four ten-minute plays represent An exceptional Array of work by some of the most exciting new voices in American theatre

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Get Thorpe

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In 1912 there was an historic football match between the US Army and a Native American team

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Half Time With Don

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A retired NFL player who has had countless surgeries and is suffering from a traumatic brain injury is visited by a fan. There may be a way they can help each other

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Memorabilia

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Inspired by "The Glass Menagerie" by Tennessee Williams

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Nude In Front Of the Garden

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Reclamation

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It is the year 2025 and water is in very short supply in some States of the US. A water manager and his nephew have gone to negotiate with a Native American. Whilst waiting they see a rabbit - rabbits have not been seen in the area for decades

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Richard Aiken

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a free Adaptation of Tartuffe

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Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre, NY    

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Sacrifice

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There is a case of sexual abuse in a college sports programme in 1987 - and then again in 2014

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Spin Moves

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Maja and her mother have escaped from the war in Bosnia and gone to the US. Maja wants to play basketball but panic attacks prevent her. Then a new coach seems to have the solution to her problem - but her mother does not approve

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Arielle Tepper's Summer Play Festival    

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Stadium 360

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Out Of Hand Theater, Atlanta, Ga     2009

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