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Abi Zakarian

ABI ZAKARIAN

  
Nationality:    British-Armenian
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Literary Agent:    Dalzell & Beresford Ltd  represented by Kara Fitzpatrick

Abi Zakarian is the author of five full length plays: BUILD LILLI which received a rehearsed reading by So and So Arts Club, SWIFTER, HIGHER, STRONGER, which was produced by Roundpeg Theatre at the Roundhouse in 2011, LITTLE FURIES which was commissioned by and received a rehearsed reading at Soho Theatre, A Thousand YARDS, which was produced by Feast Theatre at Southwark Playhouse and TOMORROW which received a rehearsed reading produced by the Caird Company. Most recently Abi has completed an attachment at Soho Theatre and a short play entitled RIP HER TO SHREDS for Undeb Theatre. She is currently working on a television comedy series, I AM BECOME JEFF and co-writing another, entitled ARE YOU NORMAL.

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below is a list of Abi Zakarian's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Best Pies In London, The         Build Lilli         Enough         Etta In the Night         Fabric         I Am Karyan Ophidian         I Have a Mouth and I Will Scream         Little Furies         Lulu7         Pint-Sized Goes Damsel         Rip Her To Shres         Still Lives         Swifter, Higher, Stronger         This Is Not An Exit         Thousand Yards, A         Tomorrow
Best Pies In London, The

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1st Produced:
immersive Shakespeare in Shoreditch festival, London    

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Rift Theatre

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Build Lilli

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Rehearsed Reading By So And So Arts Club    

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Enough

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1st Produced:
Kensington Karavan Festival    

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Small Truth Theatre

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Etta In the Night

Synopsis:
When Etta runs from her East London flat after a fight with her mother, the night-time London she encounters is a different world.

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written by Abi Zakarian and Morna Regan. Performed by students from St Paul's Way Trust School, Bow. A festival of short plays written for, and performed by, London's school students. Four London schools. Five professional playwrights. Seven short plays. Forty young performers.

1st Produced:
Rich Mix, London     21 Jun 2014

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short play

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Fabric

Synopsis:
Leah is sorting through all the stuff that has accumulated in her spare room: clothes she doesn't wear, books she doesn't read, things she doesn't need. Constantly reliving events in her past; she desperately tries to unpick just where it all went wrong and who is really to blame. A raw, poignant, and unflinching look at the unravelling of one woman's life, FABRIC questions the shifting roles and expectations of women in today's society and asks how, if ever, they can be fulfilled

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1st Produced:
OFS Studio (previously known as Old Fire Station Theatre), Oxford     05 Jul 2016

Organisations:
Robin Rayner (in association with The Marlowe Theatre Canterbury and TREMers)

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I Am Karyan Ophidian

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I Have a Mouth and I Will Scream

Synopsis:
A razor-sharp hour of scattergun feminist satire that's as furious as it is funny

Notes:
won the festival's 2018 People's Choice Award

1st Produced:
Vaults, London     14 Feb 2018

Organisations:
Joyous Gard

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short piece

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Little Furies

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Lulu7

Synopsis:
Lulu 7 a sharp and witty take on Wedekinds Lulu written by Abi Zakarian. In a series of interlinked monologues seven women play Lulu, charting her passage from rags to riches to prostitution to her final fatal encounter with Jack the Ripper.

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1st Produced:
Drayton Arms, London     11 Mar 2014

Organisations:
So and So Arts Club

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Pint-Sized Goes Damsel

Synopsis:
Pint-Sized are teaming up with Damsel Productions to bring you six of the most exciting emerging female writers, crafting suggestions from the public into a celebration and exploration of being a woman in 2017. Six writers, six directors, all women - served up with our live band playing tailor-made tracks. Mentored by Timberlake Wertenbaker, Polly Stenham and Lolita Chakrabarti

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1st Produced:
Bunker, London     21 May 2017

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Rip Her To Shres

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1st Produced:
Undeb Theatre    

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Still Lives

Synopsis:
When Amisha gets lost during a school trip to an art gallery, she gets an education from the portraits which changes her life.

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Performed by students from Mulberry School for Girls. A festival of short plays written for, and performed by, London's school students. Four London schools. Five professional playwrights. Seven short plays. Forty young performers.

1st Produced:
Rich Mix, London     21 Jun 2014

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Swifter, Higher, Stronger

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Roundpeg Theatre

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This Is Not An Exit

This Is Not An Exit
One day Nora decides she can't have it all; where would she put it? Desperate to fight but not knowing how or against what, she attempts to navigate the difficult terrain of womanhood; but certain others have different ideas. . . This new play is a funny and ferocious drama about the absurdity at the heart of modern womanhood, and what really stands in the way of fulfilment.

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part of "Midsummer Mischief", music by Johanna Groot Bluemine

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RSC

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Contained in: "Mid Summer Madness" published by Oberon Books 2014   

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Genre:
short play 50 min with music

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Thousand Yards, A

Synopsis:
Lucy is a picture editor for a national newspaper who is rapidly losing her sight. Confronted with photographs of atrocities from around the world, she selects pictures to fit the headlines whilst shielding the public from inconceivable horrors. But who's protecting Lucy and can her vision be restored?

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1st Produced:
Southwark Playhouse, London     07 Jun 2005

Organisations:
Feast Theatre

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Tomorrow

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1st Produced:
Rehearsed Reading Produced By The Caird Company    

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