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Stefanie Zadravec

STEFANIE ZADRAVEC

  (1968 - )
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    The Gersh Agency, NY  represented by Kate Navin

Stefanie Zadravec is a resident playwright at New Dramatists. Her plays include: COLONY COLLAPSE, THE BOAT, THE ELECTRIC BABY, HONEY BROWN EYES, and SAVE ME. Her work has been produced and/or developed at The Women's Project, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Play Penn, Theater J, The Lark Play Development Center, Two River Theater Company, New Dramatists, The Kennedy Center, The Working Theater, San Francisco Playhouse, The Barrow Group, Epic Theatre Ensemble, Playwrights Realm, among others. Commissions: Oregon Shakespeare Festival (The Mellon Foundation); Epic Theatre Ensemble (Ford Foundation); and The Working Theater (NYSCA). Honors: Francesca Primus Prize, Helen Hayes Award, The Lark Playwright Fellowship, Dramatists Guild Fellow, Playwrights Realm Fellow, Sustainable Arts Foundation Award, Sewanee Writers Conference Fellow, WAMCo Collaboration Award

Research:    Member of the Dramatists Guild of America (as at 2015)

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         167 Tongues         Colony Collapse         Dora's Box         Electric Baby, The         Fear Project, The         Haunted         Honey Brown Eyes         Leaving         Save Me         We Play For the Gods         You Are Now the Owner Of This Suitcase
167 Tongues

Synopsis:
167 Tongues explores the emotional geography of Jackson Heights, the most culturally diverse neighborhood in the world. Intermittent street scenes weave together alongside continuous stories in this 37-character play. An Indian sweet shop vendor struggles to keep her store going and her suitors at bay, a Nepali woman and a Mexican man fall in love across a linguistic divide, an Irish ghost befriends an troubled Ecuadorian girl and her Bangladeshi best friend, a Dominican manicurist wonders whether her Jewish Chinese boyfriend will propose before she is deported by the INS, and a Rwandan night nurse attempts to understand the 167 distinct languages spoken in the local Emergency Room. This theatrical experience combines street scenes with continuous narratives, found sounds, and movement in an exploration of Jackson Heights, Queens, the most diverse neighborhood in the world.
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
conceived And directed by Ari Laura Kreith. the piece is written by 11 writers: Jenny Lyn Bader, Meny Beriro, Alvin Eng, Steven Fechter, Jennifer Gibbs, Les Hunter, Anna Kushner, Rehana Mirza, Jeffrey Solomon, Suzanne Sheptock, And Stefanie Zadravec.

1st Produced:
P.S. 69, 77-02 37th Ave, Jackson Heights (Queens), NY     07 May 2010

Organisations:
Jackson Repertory Theatre

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Play/Drama

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Colony Collapse

Synopsis:
In a last-ditch effort to get thier lives on track, former meth-addicts Mark and Julia set out to save an orchard from falling into ruin; but the bees are disappearing, a young girl has gone missing, and Mark's estranged son appears in the middle of the night unearthing old wounds. Set against the contemporary plagues of meth addiction, missing children and a failing ecology, Colony Collapse is part Greek tragedy and part modern American Drama, playing particular homage to the charged familial relationships in O'Neill's earthier dramas, Desire Under the Elms and Beyond the Horizon.

Notes:
Nominated for The Kilroys 2015. The Kilroys is a group of playwrights and producers in LA who publish an annual industry survey of excellent new plays by female and trans playwrights. It is a tool for producers committed to ending the systemic underrepresentation of female and trans playwrights in the American theater.

1st Produced:
Theatre at Boston Court. Pasadena, CA     11 Feb 2016

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Genre:
drama

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  cast; 10 - 19

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Dora's Box

Synopsis:
Dora can't let her relationship go, so she shows up at her ex's house with decoupage.

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Electric Baby, The

Synopsis:
After a young man is killed in a car accident, a group of fractured souls come in contact with a magical dying baby and begin to rewrite the stories of their lives. International folktales and folklore weave throughout this story of sad endings, strange beginnings and people that take you from one place to the next.

Notes:
2011 Women in Arts And Media Collaboration Award. 2013 Francesca Primus Prize, WAMCo collaboration Award, Playwrights Realm Fellowship

1st Produced:
Pittsburgh, Pa     33/2012

Organisations:
Quantum Theatre

1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, Inc. NY (2014)   

Music:
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Genre:
Comic drama, magical realism

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Fear Project, The

Synopsis:
linked by original footage and compiled media images. the plays all deal with the question of finding balance between being informed and staying functional. the press release says, "Fear surrounds us in the media, in politics, in advertising. Everywhere you look something or someone is exploiting our fears. these shorts explore the subject from all angles, with humor and candor."

Notes:
program of seven short plays by Trish Alexandro, Joshua James, K. Lorrel Manning, Scott Organ, Eric Paeper, And Stefanie Zadravec

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Genre:
Short Play One Act

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Male:  6            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Haunted

Synopsis:
Dan has taken Audrey to His secret hideaway to propose: Audrey thinks Dan is going to kill her. Comedy ensues when you are hungry for love, but watch too much Lifetime television.

Notes:
Sounding theater Co., Lillian theater, Mae West Fest, Estrogenius Fest.

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Organisations:
the Barrow Group

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Genre:
Comedy One Act

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Honey Brown Eyes

Synopsis:
Inspired by actual events, Honey Brown Eyes contrasts the everydayness of domestic settings with the ravages of the Bosnian War. Set in two kitchens, the play follows two ex-musicians caught on opposite sides of the war - one who has to face the consequences of his own brutality, and another who comes to terms with his own cowardice

Notes:
2009 Helen Hayes Award - Best New Play. Also produced by the Working theater, NYC (Off Broadway premiere Jan 2011) And San Francisco Playhouse (West Coast Premiere, September 2011)

1st Produced:
Washington D.C.     01 Oct 2008

Organisations:
Theater J

1st Published:
American Theatre Mag. Feb 2009
Dramatists Play Service, Inc. NY (2015)   

Music:
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Genre:
Full- length Drama

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Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Leaving

Synopsis:
Chaos and comedy befall a couple who have been ordered to evacuate Connecticut. After all, who would want to hurt the Nutmeg State?

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Save Me

Synopsis:
Save Me is the story of Beth, an Evangelical Christian, who comes to New York to heal her estranged sister of a brain tumor, but ends up saving her daughter and herself. It is a comic Drama about family, faith, and the miracles that transform us. Save Me is ripe with humor, and demonstrates how life's greatest gifts come in odd packages - a bright red wig, a postcard from the edge, a superhero sex addict, or a bouquet of flowers from a woman without a nose.

Notes:
2007 Cherry Lane Mentor Project Finalist; BPF's Carol Weinberg Award winner, Winner of the Phoenix theater's National Playwriting Competition. Kennedy Center Page to Stage 2007.

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Genre:
Full-length Comic Drama Comedy

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  3            Other:  -

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We Play For the Gods

Synopsis:
"We Play for the Gods was prompted by the question 'on whose shoulders do we as women theater artists stand?'" says Women's Project Producing Artistic Director Julie Crosby. This question led 14 artists of the Women's Project Lab to Ellen Stewart, the legendary founder of La MaMa who in the 1960s blew open the doors of Dramatic expression and gave voice to an extraordinary and diverse generation of theater artists. Inspired by her words, 'We play for the Gods and in return, they play for us,' this collaborative play was developed at Women's Project over eighteen months, three workshops, abundant good humor, and the occasional mojito." We Play for the Gods is the tale of four ordinary women working in a research institute and one trickster goddess who messes around with their lives as only a deity can.
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
Created By: Alexandra Collier, Elizabeth R. English, Charity Ballard, Jessi D. Hill, Andrea Kuchlewska, Manda Martin, Dominique Morisseau, Kristen Palmer, Sarah Rasmussen, Mia Rovegno, Melisa Tien, Nicole A. Watson, Stephanie Ybarra, Stefanie Zadravec

1st Produced:
Cherry Lane theatre
38 Commerce Street, New York, NY 10014     01 Jun 2012

Organisations:
Women's Project

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
piece

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  5            Other:  -

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You Are Now the Owner Of This Suitcase

Synopsis:
A young woman arriving from Ecuador accidentally switches suitcases with a mysterious stranger. Her quest to recover the missing suitcase will lead her to encounter lovers, dreamers, fighters, a magical cell phone, books that come to life, and the best guitar player in the world. Picking up where last year's 167 Tongues left off, You Are Now the Owner Of This Suitcase is the second part of a trilogy exploring the emotional geography of Jackson Heights, Queens, the most culturally diverse neighborhood in the world.
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
Author: Mando Alvarado, Jenny Lyn Bader, Barbara Cassidy, Les Hunter, Joy Tomasko, Gary Winter, Stefanie Zadravec. Conceived And Directed By: Ari Laura Kreith

1st Produced:
P.S. 69, 77-02 37th Ave., Jackson Heights (Queens), NY     11 Mar 2011

Organisations:
Theatre 167

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  8            Female:  5            Other:  -

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