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Cheryl L West

CHERYL L WEST

  (1965 - )
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    The Gersh Agency, NY  

Cheryl was born in Chicago. She holds a degree from the University of Illinois. She worked as a teacher and social worker before turning to writing. Plays include: Addie: An American Girl Story, Birdie Blue, Before It Hits Home, Jar the Floor, Play On! (Broadway), Holiday Heart (Showtime/MGM). Currently, she's finishing a commission for Seattle Rep and writing the web series Diary of a Single Mom on Pic.tv. Ms. West is the mother of two daughters.

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below is a list of Cheryl L West's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Addy: An American Girl Story         Before It Hits Home         Birdie Blue         Holiday Heart         Jar the Floor         Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy         Motherhood Out Loud         Play On!         Puddin 'n' Pete         Pullman Porter Blues

Addy: An American Girl Story

Synopsis:
Addy is a slave and longs for freedom and to reunite her family

Notes:
Based on the books by Connie Porter

1st Produced:
Seattle Children's Theatre     2007

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Genre:
Adaptation

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Before It Hits Home

Synopsis:
Wendal, a jazz musician who has never managed to make it big, has just been diagnosed with having the AIDS virus. To a string of questioning doctors, he indignantly denies having had any sexual relations with others but by the end of the first act we see him in two simultaneous bedroom scenes, one between him and his fiancee, Simone, who is pregnant, and one between him and his male lover, Douglas, who is actually a married man and father. In these combined scenes, Wendal's denial and-confusion are painfully obvious as he tries to hide the truth about his health from both of his partners; he seems especially intent to hide from Douglas the extent of his undisclosed promiscuity. In the second act, Wendal has drifted away from both Simone and Douglas, unable to sustain the lies that had been keeping his two worlds apart and in balance. He returns home to his mother and father, but upon confiding the truth to them, he is abandoned by his mother who, in a wrathful explosion of raw emotion, indicts Wendal for immo

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Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1998   -

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Genre:
Play/Drama. - - AIDS, full length

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Male:  4            Female:  5            Other:  1b

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Birdie Blue

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Holiday Heart

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Jar the Floor

Synopsis:
quartet of black women spanning four generations makes up this heartwarming Dramatic comedy. the four, plus the white woman friend of the youngest, come together to celebrate the matriarch's ninetieth birthday. It's a wild party, one that is a lovable lunatic glance at the exhilarating challenge of growing old amidst the exasperating trials of growing up.

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1st Produced:
Courtyard, West Yorks     1997

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Dramatists Play Service, NY,    -

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Genre:
Comedy Drama Comedy

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Male:  -            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy

Synopsis:
Turner Buckminster III can't win: he's the new kid in town, he plays baseball differently, and his only friend is Lizzie Bright Griffin from Malaga Island, an impoverished community founded by former slaves. When powerful forces threaten Lizzie Bright and her kin, Turner faces the ultimate test of his character - and learns a hard-earned lesson about courage and loss. Powerful, soul-searching and beautiful.

Notes:
Gary D. Schmidt, Author; Cheryl L. West, playwright

1st Produced:
The Children's Theatre Company-Minneapolis     2012

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Plays for Young Audiences, March 2012   -

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Genre:
adaptation

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Male:  7            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Motherhood Out Loud

Synopsis:
Utterly unpredictable, Motherhood Out Loud shatters traditional notions about parenthood, unveils its inherent comedy and celebrates the deeply personal truths that span and unite generations. Motherhood Out Loud reveals with illuminating insight the humor, raw emotions and rocky roads we experience in life.
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
Written by Leslie Ayvazian, Brooke Berman, David Cale, Jessica Goldberg, Beth Henley, Lameece Issaq, Claire LaZebnik,Lisa Loomer, Michele Lowe, Marco Pennette, Theresa Rebeck, Luanne Rice, Annie Weisman And Cheryl L. West.

1st Produced:
59E59 theaters
59 East 59th Street, New York, NY 10022     04 Oct 2011

Organisations:
Primary Stages

1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY,    978-0822225898

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Genre:
comedy one acts

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Play On!

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Music by Duke Ellington

1st Produced:
Brooks Atkinson Theatre, New York     1997

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Genre:
Musical

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Puddin 'n' Pete

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1st Produced:
Goodman Theatre, Chicago     1993

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Pullman Porter Blues

Synopsis:
1937. Three generations of porters on a luxury train confront dark secrets from their past

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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  8            Female:  2            Other:  -

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