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A Zell Williams

A ZELL WILLIAMS

  
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    The Gersh Agency  

A. Zell Williams' work explores themes of race, religion, class, and violence in contemporary America. He has received the David Calicchio/Marin Theatre Company Emerging American Playwright Prize (Mill Valley, CA), the National New Play Network's Smith Prize for Best Political Play, the Rita & Burton Goldberg Award (New York University,) and Reverie Productions' Next Generation Playwright's Award (New York City.) He was a finalist for the Yale Drama Series for Emerging Playwrights (Yale University,) Aurora Theatre's Global Age Project Award (Berkeley, CA) Kitchen Dog Theatre's New Works Festival (Dallas, TX,) and the Van Lier Fellowship at the Lark Play Development Center, as well as a semifinalist for the Princess Grace Award, the AsHLAnd New Play Festival (AsHLAnd, OR), Centre Stage Theatre's New Works Festival, (Greenville, SC,) and Victory Gardens Theatre's Ignition Festival (Chicago, IL.) He was one of two inaugural African American Fellows with Steppenwolf Theatre Company. His plays include theAudacity, BLOOD/MONEY, A Motherless Child, and the Urban Retreat. Zell holds a BAin Theatre Arts from Santa Clara University, an MFA in Dramatic Writing from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. He is the National New Play Network Playwright-in-Residence at Philadelphia's InterAct Theatre Company and a member of both the Civilians' R&D Group and Ars Nova's Play Group

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         A La King         BLOOD/MONEY         Carroll Gardens         Down Past Passyunk         Got to Give it Up         Grillo'sAll-American         Hotter Than July         In A Daughter's Eyes         Letting Go         Line, The         Motherless Child, A         Nuva         Pledge Drive, The         Relief         theAudacity         Travis in the Trees         Urban Retreat, The         Woman I Live With, The

A La King

Synopsis:
Raucous farce over art, music, monogamy, and interracial dating.

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one act

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BLOOD/MONEY

Synopsis:
Ensemble Drama examining the contemporary Black family and the struggle for higher education.

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Workshopped: Marin Theatre Company    

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Carroll Gardens

Synopsis:
A blocked screenwriter's brash, eccentric childhood friend crashes in on him the eve of his 30th birthday. As he tries to balance his old friend with his new, more tony ones, he is forced to ask who it is he wants to be and who it is he can keep in his life

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Developed at the 2012 NNPN/Kennedy Center MFA Playwrights Workshop. one of 25 full-length plays that have been selected as finalists for the 2013 Source Festival. Three full-length plays will be selected from the 25 finalists and will be produced at the Source Festival from June 7-30.

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Developed: Lark Pdc's Summer Retreat    

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Down Past Passyunk

Synopsis:
Nicky Grillo of "Grillo's Steaks" has landed himself in trouble after telling a customer to speak in English

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The Adrienne, Philadelphia, Pa    

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Got to Give it Up

Synopsis:
Comical scene where Jesus and the Holy Spirit fight over use of Gods bathroom the night of the big disco tournament.

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Genre:
short play

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Grillo'sAll-American

Synopsis:
A South Philly cheesesteak shop owner clashes with his new Latino neighbors, causing him to take a hyper-patriotic stance and become a conservative icon. But when disrespect escalates to violence, he is forced compromise the liberties at the core of the American Dream.

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Hotter Than July

Synopsis:
Contemporary and 1930's Drama about the California Bay Area's legacy of lynching.

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Commissioned: By artist Renee Billingslea

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In A Daughter's Eyes

Synopsis:
the daughter of an incarcerated Black Panther seeks the help of a slain cop's daughter in an attempt to exonerate her father.

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Interact Theatre Company     2011

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Genre:
political dram

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Letting Go

Synopsis:
A dark farce scene where Jesus and the Holy Spirit break up the Trinity over an awkward dinner.

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Line, The

Synopsis:
Two twin brothers compete over leadership of their high school drum line and the affection of a girl new to school using drum-speak and hip-hop couplets.

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Motherless Child, A

Synopsis:
In the San Francisco Bay Area in 1995, a man with a mysterious past is placed in the care of his estranged mother. But when a lover from his other life disrupts his new one, everyone will have to choose what makes and breaks a family.

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Nuva

Synopsis:
An evening of sexy surprises goes horribly, horribly wrong.

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Pledge Drive, The

Synopsis:
A romantic comedy about sex, lies, and tote bags.

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Genre:
romantic comedy

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Relief

Synopsis:
A recovering drug addict confronts his family and refuses to stand by the side of his abusive, dying father.

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theAudacity

Synopsis:
Grant Glover, a scion of a powerful black family in Chicago, working for the first Obama Presidential Campaign, discovers his white girlfriend Veronica moonlights as a dominatrix. Her revelation forces Grant into an existential tailspin, putting him at odds with his beliefs and his legacy.

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Genre:
dark comedy

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Travis in the Trees

Synopsis:
A ghost story of a Japanese American man facing the fear of disappointing his Father and the suffering of his family's past.

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Genre:
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Urban Retreat, The

Synopsis:
A farcical tragicomedy that explores the current state of hip-hop, race, and masculinity in America.

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Genre:
farcical tragicomedy

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Woman I Live With, The

Synopsis:
Drama on the difficulty of starting the next great love.

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