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Dusty Wilson

DUSTY WILSON  (1983 - )

 Nationality:    USA
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Dusty Wilson is a current resident of Chicago, Illinois (originally from Columbus, Ohio), and a recent graduate of Ohio University (BFA '06). While attending Ohio University, Dusty completed his bachelor's in the fine Arts with a degree in playwriting, and a minor in history. His education involved tutelage from such playwrights as Julie McKee, Erik Ramsey, Onassis Silver Award winner Deborah Brevoort, and regional Tony Award winner Charles Smith. He is currently the moderator of The Official Playwrights of Facebook, a script reader for Victory Gardens Theater, and a stage hand for Drury Lane Oakbrook.

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 Amazing Webb, The         Beige Tea         Deus Ex Machina         Donovanosis (And Other Sexually Transmitted Diseases)         Drink the Kool-Aid         Fortnight of the Living Dead         Sleeping with the Fishes

Amazing Webb, The

Synopsis:
The Amazing Webb, a knife thrower forced into early retirement, contemplates killing his assistant, The Lovely Cilantro, who has a sizable insurance policy to be paid to Webb if she were to die in a circus related accident.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Kantner Hall, Athens, OH    2004

Organisations:
1st Annual Undergraduate Playwrights' Fest

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
dark comedy Comedy

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Beige Tea

Synopsis:
Eighteen year old April Lau returns home after serving three years in a mental institution for the brutal murder of her mother.

Notes:
Produced by the 13th Street Repertory Company (Lucky 13 Short Play Festival, New York City, NY, July 2006), Adena High School (Festival: A Smorgasbord of Theatre, Frankfort, OH, March 2007), White Room Theatre (Bite-Size Lunch Hour At the Brighton Festival Fringe, Hove, United Kingdom, May 2008), Nantucket Theatrical Productions (Nantucket Short Play Festival 'Imaginations Run Wild', Nantucket, MA, May 2008), And Longwood University (0-60, Farmville, VA, April 2009). Awarded 2nd in the 16th Annual Nantucket Short Play Competition, the Actors' Choice Award in the Bite-Size International Ten-Minute Playwriting Competition, And was A finalist in Longwood University's Short Play Competition.

1st Produced:
Kantner Hall, Athens, OH    2006

Organisations:
Ohio University School of Theatre's 3rd Annual Undergraduate Playwrights' Festival

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Deus Ex Machina

Synopsis:
After God and Jesus accidentally run over a puppy, they set forth a chain of events that will cause the end of the world. . .in about seventy years. By the end of the day (without the use of miracles or illegal means) they must replace the puppy to ensure the safety of the Earth.

Notes:
Received second production via Ohio Univeristy's School of Theatre Lab Series October 2004 (Athens, OH). Semifinalist in the 2007 Reverie Productions' Next Generation Playwriting Contest (New York City, NY).

1st Produced:
Bromley Hall, Athens, OH    2004

Organisations:
Lost Flamingo Company (Athens, OH)

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Religious Farce Farce

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  14, many doubled, not gender specific

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Donovanosis (And Other Sexually Transmitted Diseases)

Synopsis:
Jeff and his girlfriend, Maggie, await the results of his STD test while the voice of their abstinence only, sex-ed past haunts them.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Gorilla Tango Theater (Chicago, IL)    2008

Organisations:
Dramatis Personae

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Drink the Kool-Aid

Synopsis:
Grant loves Penny. So what better time to tell her than minutes before the Great Ascension to the Bogosian-Smith Comet?

Notes:
Produced in Northfield Arts Guild's Very Short Play Festival (Northfield, MN, 2009) And Sterling Playmakers Ten-Minute One-Act Festival (Sterling, VA, June 2009).

1st Produced:
The Spot, Chicago, IL    2009

Organisations:
Dramatis Personae

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Dark comedy Ten Min

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Fortnight of the Living Dead

Synopsis:
With the zombie apocalypse upon them, three University of Northern Kentucky students take up arms to defend their campus. When the first zombie arrives, two weeks later, the battle begins. . .for her heart.

Notes:
Created for Dramatis Personae's 1st Annual Monster Mash

1st Produced:
Gorilla Tango Theater (Chicago, IL)    2008

Organisations:
Dramatis Personae

1st Published:
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Music:
-

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Genre:
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Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Sleeping with the Fishes

Synopsis:
A college dropout is enlisted to build koi ponds in the backyard of Los Angeles' most powerful mob boss. The mob boss's wife then enlists said 'koi boy' to kill her husband.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Mitchell Auditorium, Athens, OH    2005

Organisations:
Lost Flamingo Company (Athens, OH)

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
dark comedy Comedy

Parts:
Male:  7            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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