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Paul David Young

PAUL DAVID YOUNG

  
Nationality:    USA
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PAUL DAVID YOUNGs In the Summer Pavilion, produced to critical acclaim in the 2011 FringeNYC and at 59e59 Theaters in New York in 2012, has been made into a feature film. His Clown Play in the 2013 FringeNYC was hailed by the Village Voice as intelligently bizarre. He won the Kennedy Centers Paula Vogel Playwriting Award. His work has been performed at MoMA PS1, Marlborough Gallery, Living Theatre, apexart, The Brick, LMAK Projects, Lion Theatre, C.O.W. Theater, Kraine Theater, Emerging Artists Theatre, Red Room, and Kaffileikhusid in Reykjavik. His translations, with Carl Weber, of Heiner Mullers Anatomy Titus Fall of Rome and Macbeth were published in 2012 as Heiner Muller: After Shakespeare. He is a Contributing Editor at PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art (MIT Press) and writes for Art in America. His book newARTtheatre: Evolutions of the Performance Aesthetic was issued by PAJ in 2014.

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below is a list of Paul David Young's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Balcony Scene         Christians Having Sex In Silence         Clown Play         David and Ira         Fireplace Poker         In the Summer Pavilion         Kentucky Cantata         Waking Up With Strangers

Balcony Scene

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1st Produced:
Lmak Projects, New York    2009

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Christians Having Sex In Silence

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Following a Worldwide disaster a Christian State has been set up. All books apart from the Bible are banned. the citizens are spied on by drones and kept in place by drugs. Two people who love words start to meet clandestinely - but the wife of one becomes suspicious

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1st Produced:
Lion Theatre, New York    Jul 2010

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One act

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Clown Play

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What happens when clowns converge on an abandoned home in suburban America and one of them has a semi-automatic weapon? By the author of In the Summer Pavilion, 2011 FringeNYC (backstage.com CriticsPick; NYDailyNews: a gem; CurtainUp! perfect little play).

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1st Produced:
The Celebration Of Whimsy A.K.A. The C.O.W., New York Festival Fringe    Aug 2013

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Skylight Productions

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Comedy Clown/Mask

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David and Ira

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Two friends from Princeton - one goes into the defence trade the other Congress. their private lives a mixture of sex, politics and betrayal

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Scripts Up! Equity Workshop At Theatre At Joria, New York    Dec 2010

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Fireplace Poker

Synopsis:
Daryl visits his hometown and runs across the sibling of a childhood friend who is now a psychiatrist

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The Drafts Fest for 2010 is the collaborative effort of seven playwrights, seven directors, and ten multifaceted actors. Playwrights receive randomly compiled cast lists and create stories tailored to The Drafts and their invited Guests based on this years theme, Pre-Existing Condition. All of the playwrights who participated in the Pre-Existing Condition Draft's Fest were given the theme and two or three cast members before they started to write. They had one month to complete their short piece which was limited to ten minutes. Many of the playwrights met with their director and actors during the writing process in order to get to know the actors better. All of the actors "auditioned" for the playwrights, with one comedic and one dramatic monologue as well as a special skill, fact, or story they wanted to share about themselves. In this way, the playwrights grew to have some understanding of the actors' 'types' prior to writing. The theme taken from our health care vocabulary inspired a variety of writing, from pests and childhood emotional scars, to futuristic realities and poverty. Overall, we generated some exciting new work, some of which have been developed into full length plays.

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10 min play

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In the Summer Pavilion

Synopsis:
What if there were multiple futures and you could see them all at once? Three recent Princeton grads drop acid and hallucinate their possible futures on a wild summer night in Maine.

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www.inthesummerpavilion.com

1st Produced:
New York International Fringe Festival    Aug 2011

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Go In Her Room Productions

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Genre:
1h 30m Drama Spoken Word/Poetry

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Kentucky Cantata

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In this multidisciplinary performance, actors and musicians share the stage to tell the story of a young actress who leaves her rural Kentucky home for New York, where she is raped in a parking lot. The play depicts a mother's emotional battle as her daughter leaves home, a father's passionate support for his child, and a young woman's determination to follow her dream. Her naive ambition collides with the struggle of an illegally immigrated Egyptian cab driver. Kentucky Cantata explores a new and innovative style of performance practice that forges a deeper connection between the musical and theatrical arts. In this production, the actors and musicians collaborate as equals by sharing the stage and delivering a dialogue in which each voice is balanced. The text is never sung. The artists, instead, accentuate each line by allowing the musical material to interlace with the natural flow and rhythm of speech: the musical aesthetic complements the text. The production requires the performers to be engaged in each others' art forms. Like the players in a chamber music ensemble, the actors respond in their pace and articulation of the text to the musical material. The musicians in turn inhabit the stage as physical presences and perform in support of the actor. Together, the actor and musician create a unique dialogue that is visually and aurally enhanced and extends the artistic potential of both art forms. To enhance the room for the audiences imagination, the production will be played on a visually provocative, nonrealistic set designed by the installation artist Franklin Evans. In October 2014, we workshopped the performance at Emerging Artists Theatre New Works Festival, in the category Nontraditional Forms and are preparing for our January 2015 debut at HERE

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multidisciplinary performance

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Waking Up With Strangers

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An American scholar in Berlin develops an obsession with playwright Heinrich von Kleist who committed suicide in 1811

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1st Produced:
New School For Drama, New York    May 2009

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