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After School Special
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Great Plains Theatre Conference, Omaha
2013
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Bumblefuck, AR
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It's 1988 in Bumblebee, AR, a nowhere town just east of the Oklahoma border the kids either can't imagine ever leaving or can't wait to escape. the Murphy family has roots there, with elder son Carl keeping a low profile on his dope-smoking and younger son Terrance trying to stay out of the sightlines of the biggest bully in junior high. A punk kid named Josh starts hanging around and teaches the boys a few things about themselves, but some lessons are more welcome than others.
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Butcher Of Bumblebee, The
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O'Neill Playwrights Conference
2013
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Crutches
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Andrew returns home for Christmas in search of a pair of homemade wooden crutches used by his crippled Aunt Sallie during her childhood, only to find that his sister, a troubled young woman named Susan, has developed a strange attachment to them.
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Customary Monsters
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Arthur Munby and Frederick Furnivall, scholarly footnotes in the soot-covered stories of Victorian London, live lives fueled by progressive ideals and sexual compulsions. Customary Monsters is a history play about the limits of love, equality, and biography.
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Day Clinton Fessed Up, The
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On the day of Clinton's televised apology for improprieties with Monica Lewinsky, Elsie Kirkpatrick, President of the Clinton Birthplace Foundation, wages a war with a smart young southern studies scholar named Sarah over the future of our 42nd President's Arkansas childhood home. Caught in the crossfire is young CBF Vice President Wilbur, an underemployed liberal Arts grad who carries a torch and a secret. Advised by the President himself, Elsie Kirkpatrick vows to keep her world-class collection of Clintonian memorabilia where it belongs, no matter who stands in her way.
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Leaving Little Rock
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All Jordan wants to do is have a drink on a Friday night with his friends. His friends would rather get stoned or pool shark with hot methheads who're looking to party. It's a typical Friday night at Mid-Town Billiards. . .and
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Miss Julie Dream Project, The
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Miss Julie somehow finds herself in another Strindberg play - "A Dream Play"
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Written with Meghan Brown; Samm Hill
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Hollywood Fringe Festival
2013
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Pissin' Party
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Some giggling campus terrorists target the dorm room of a couple of stoned college roommates and set off a sobering pissing match.
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Finalist, Heideman Award, Actors theatre Louisville
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Rendezvous, The
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Professor Paul Simonson, Pittsburgh's finest semi-notable author of memoir and personal history, always leaves the door of his suburban two-story Victorian open for his favorite occasional trick, Alex Schuyler. Alex, himself a budding novelist and a student in Paul's creative writing program, scares a bit easily, and after an unsuccessful attempt at a rainy Saturday afternoon roll in the hay, Paul attempts to persuade his young companion to take their relationship out of the bedroom. Making dinner plans has never been so hard.
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Sleep Of the Dead
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Somewhere in the Middle Of Nowhere, Arkansas, Gran is trapped in a well with her unconscious granddaughter, Betty. . .but that won't stop her from letting Betty know who's in charge.
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Smoke Gets in Your Ears
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Shelly is an aging agoraphobic who is plagued with swimmer's ear and a spotty memory. Wayne is a young man who wants to take her to the movies. Will he ever get her out of the house? Will she find that shoebox full of GuatemAlan photographs? Will she ever get that damn water out of her ear?
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Toils and Snares
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Two sisters in the City of Angels face the tumult of bad relationships, missed call-backs, indie rock geeks, and Protestant priests. An L.A. fable of sex, drugs, and rock-and-roll. . .and the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
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War and Jim
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You are hereby invited to a gala opening of an exciting new art show. Your host for the evening will be New York's most underrated painter, Warfield Mitchell. He is joined by wife Catherine, herself a poet of equally undistinguished stature. Together the couple uses paintings, poetry, and performance to take you on a tour through the east coast art world of the 50s and 60s. Assisting them is a very special guest -- James Guest, to be specific -- a young gay writer who goes home with them one night to sleep off a hangover and stays for six years.
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Whores of West Hollywood, The
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A young playwright takes a meeting in a gay bar with a wanna-be filmmaker and encounters the ugly truth about his ambitions and anxieties.
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