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Jean W Yeager

JEAN W YEAGER  (1949 - )

 Nationality:    USA
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Jean has written for theatre, film video and radio for more than 40 years. His 1972 MA Thesis was intended to be: "The Use of Humor in Radio Comedy Advertising to Overcome Cognitive Dissonance." Instead of writing that thesis, he left college and got a job writing comedy advertising which overcame cognitive dissonance and sold stuff. Lots of stuff. And won awards. Jean has won the presigious International Broadcasting Award (IBA) twice; and an Andy, ADDY and CLIO (finalist) for humorous advertising. In mid-career, he shifted to writing industrial theatre for Fortune 100 companies including Coca-Cola's Centennial Bottlers Meeting (production budget $1 million+). His National Association of Broadcasters show included a 10:00 speech for then President Ronald Regan. He has optioned film scripts and sold treatments for television. From 1988 - 2007, Jean consulted with and managed socially progressive non-profits. Since 2007, he has written for the stage. Jean's comedy is character and/or action driven. Commonly you will find either normal, everyday situations containing colorful characters; or "normal" people in quirky situations. "I appreciate getting a laugh from commonplace items such as clothes line rope. And, I like building for the gag as well as anyone."

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below is a list of Jean W Yeager's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

 Agenda         Change of Shift         Clothesline         Dante in Jiffy Lube         Nick Defalco Private Eye:The Goddess In Green Satin         Picking Up Cleopatra

Agenda

Synopsis:
In difficult economic and social times, four friends gather immediately after they have attended a mass political rally in support of a new, popular political party. Surprise ending.

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Drama / Politica Ten Min

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Change of Shift

Synopsis:
JOAN's FATHER, a life long Aspberger's suffer, is dying. Joan returns home to comfort her mother and see her father one last time. She hopes against hope that her father, who has always been hyper-critical and even mean, may say one kind thing to her before he dies. She arrives at the exact moment when the care givers are changing their shift and discovers her father is quite transformed.

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Clothesline

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Clothesline - sounds simple, doesn't it? But what a wife has in mind when she says "clothesline" and what a husband has in mind may be the difference between sleeping in marital bliss and sleeping in the doghouse.

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Genre:
Comedy Ten Min

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Dante in Jiffy Lube

Synopsis:
DANTE ALIGHIERI's epic poem, THE DIVINE COMEDY (written in the 1500s) is the journey of Dante, accompanied by the poet Virgil, through three realms: Purgatory, The Inferno and Paradise. In this journey, Dante witnesses assorted horrors, punishments, and challenges before arriving in Paradise. DANTE IN JIFFY LUBE is the modern-day journey of a manic depressive young woman, ELIZABETH (LIZZIE) BARSTOW, accompanied by DANTE/NANCY, a psychotic woman, through one hidden world most of us never experience: psychiatric hospitalization. Like Dante Aligheri, DANTE/NANCY confronts and informs us through questions, commentary and critique and helps us probe our assumptions about health, healing, sin, redemption and contemporary society. Along the way, Lizzie is accompanied / confronted by various characters real and imagined. DANTE IN JIFFY LUBE is a critique of contemporary society which has given up on genuine healing in favor of "Jiffy Lube" medicine where pharmacology is used to keep patients functional and "back on the road of life."

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Nick Defalco Private Eye:The Goddess In Green Satin

Synopsis:
Nick DeFalco, private eye, is selected by Demeter, a Goddess in a shimmering, emerald green satin dress, to find her daughter Persephone who has been missing for 2,500 years after being abducted by Hades, the Dark Lord. Despite the fact that there are no photos of Persephone and as Nick says, Where in the hell is Hades?", he takes the case. With his uncanny sense (luck?) about where to look for suspects, Nick goes to the local "Psychic Fair" to ask for advice. There he meets the Dark Lord, and discovers Persephone hasn't visited her mom because she now has her MBA and has been busy setting up the Hades Take-Out Division which delivers ". . . nervousness, fear, free floating anxiety, regret, greed and the little stuff that wakes you up at night." In the end, Demeter plumps Nick's checkbook nicely. TIME

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Comedy Ten Min

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Picking Up Cleopatra

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CLEOPATRA stops at a bench where she encounters HERMES, a homeless, disabled Desert Storm vet. They strike up a conversation about her cat. They engage in a conversation which extends from Ancient Egypt to the modern day and even includes the symbology and numerology of a 357 Magnum Colt Python. Using the secret numerology of the riddle of the Sphinx, they prove to each other that they are actually CLEOPATRA, QUEEN OF EGYPT and the vet is actually her former private magician, HERMES TRISMEGISTUS. Once their identies are confirmed, signs are recognized and ancient rituals are obeyed (and the "cat is out of the bag" so to speak) they realize that their being reunited is actually a destiny moment of world historic proportions. Typhon, the being of universal ignorance whom they once conquered with wisdom, has returned and driven out the old sciences and replaced them with new forms of ignorance. Typhon must be stopped and only the ancients can do this.

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Drama Ten Min

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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