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David Zarko

DAVID ZARKO

  
Nationality:    USA
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David Zarko was producing artistic director of Electric Theatre Company from 2001 to 2011. He was also founding artistic director of the Metropolitan Playhouse of New York (1991 - 2000), now on East Fourth Street, and was previously artistic director of Parsifal's Players and the Fabulous Theatre Company, both in California. Based for seventeen years in New York City, he was an director and instructor at American Academy of Dramatic Arts, Long Island University C.W. Post Campus, and SUNY Old Westbury. He has over 75 professional directing credits and over 50 in academic Theatre. He is also a produced playwright, and an actor, is a member of the Dramatists Guild and Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers, and holds a BFA in Dramatic Production from the University of Arizona, Tucson. As a playwright, he has written, translated, and adapted more than fifteen scripts, most of which have been produced in the U.S. He is currently on the part-time faculty at the Theatre Program at Marywood University in Scranton, PA, a free-lance director, and is working on a half dozen scripts.

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

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         Barbarian, The         Bishop Comes To Visit, The         Celebration, The         Christmas Carol, A         Colloquia         Day Thirty         Filling The Void         Forgeries         Fran and Felicity         Fried Prawns         Going Places         History Lessons         Hobson's Choice         Husband, The         Loyalist, The         Majesty         Penny Saved, A         Pockets         Private Life of Richard Tarno         Proposal, The         Reverend Tartoofe, The         Risotto         Seeking Paris         Servant of Two Masters, The         Soup         Truth About Romance, The         Urban Renewal         What Happened to Jones         Woman, The
Barbarian, The

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Adapted from the play by Anton Chekhov

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Catskill Mountain Theater, Margaretville, New York     1989

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Bishop Comes To Visit, The

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Jones on the run from the police enters a stodgy household. The occupants take him for a long lost relation from Australia

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Based on the stage play "What Happened To Jones?" byGeorge Broadhurst

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Celebration, The

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Adapted from the play by Anton Chekhov

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Catskill Mountain Theater, Margaretville, New York     1989

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Christmas Carol, A

Synopsis:
God bless us - every one

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Based on the book "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens

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Colloquia

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The Germans are retreating in Italy the Allies advancing. The Germans have a scorched earth policy. In Orvieto a German commander and an Italian bishop meet. Their only shared language - Latin

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Drama

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Day Thirty

Synopsis:
Day thirty of the Coronavirus in Italy two friends an American and an Italian meet in the street

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Ten minute play

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Filling The Void

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A female student has been ritualistically murdered in the campus chapel. A campus security detective is assigned to look into it. When it looks like he is getting close to the culprits he is ordered to stand down

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Genre:
Black comedy

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Forgeries

Synopsis:
An actor realises that he has killed himself and his artistic director replays his final moments for him.

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Fran and Felicity

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[Reading] Westbeth Community Room, 155 Bank Street. NY, Pa 10014     07 Feb 2015

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Fried Prawns

Synopsis:
Alan has been hired as artistic director of a theatre in Seattle - he drives up from Seattle. The cast and back stage people are all neurotic, heavy drinking, liars and schemers. He decides to leave but his attention is taken by the stage carpenter. Then the theatre is given to Alan to do whatever he likes with.

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Part two of the "Alan Cravick Triolgy"

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Going Places

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Tim leaves his hometown to pursue his dream of becoming a professional tennis player. He opens a tennis school for endangered youngsters

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History Lessons

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A history professor and his much younger wife bicker and get involved with the amorous couple at the next table.

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Genre:
Comedy

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Hobson's Choice

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A straight woman and her gay friend of many years enter into a relationship. She wants children and he is tired of the gay scene

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Genre:
Gay short play

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Husband, The

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A romantically inclined servant makes sure that love runs smoothly.

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Genre:
Comedy

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Loyalist, The

Synopsis:
George Washington set up a secret ring of spies. One of them - Jemmy Rivington may have been a double agent

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Majesty

Synopsis:
1874 Joshua Norton self styled Emperor Norton I of the United States and Protector of Mexico wants his portrait painted. This he arranges without revealing he cannot afford to pay for it

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Penny Saved, A

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Morris is a professional corporate mascot. He is to train Fred who had been an Olympic gymnast and ballet dancer

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Ten minute play

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Pockets

Synopsis:
Alan is walking home when he is approached by Dereck a nicely dressed young man. He explains that he is homeless and asks for money. Alan tries to give him the brush off

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1st Produced:
[Reading] Ophelia Group Theatre. Astoria, NY     2015

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Private Life of Richard Tarno

Synopsis:
An ad agency is to make a commercial for a new piece of computer software.

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Metro Playhouse, New York     1995

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Proposal, The

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Adapted from the play by Anton Chekhov

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Catskill Mountain Theater, Margaretville, New York     1989

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Reverend Tartoofe, The

Synopsis:
Set in 1930s New York. Young Tartoofe has a bicycle and Elmirs finds him rather attractive.

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Adapted from Tartuffe" by Moliere

1st Produced:
Studio 3 Group, New York     1991

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  6            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Risotto

Synopsis:
Eighty-two year old Arduina is showing nineteen year old Alan how to make risotto the way her mother did back in Italy. She invites her boyfriend, Henry, who is seventy over to join them in the meal. Alan disgraces himself and leaves under a cloud. Two weeks later Henry is dead. Arduina has not been seen since the funeral. Alan goes to see her

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Part one of the "Alan Cravick Triolgy"

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Drama

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Seeking Paris

Synopsis:
A young man develops an infatuation for a male dancer.

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Genre:
One act. - - Gay, one act

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Servant of Two Masters, The

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Original Playwright - Carlo Goldoni

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West Valley College, Saratoga, California     2001

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Genre:
Translation

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Soup

Synopsis:
Alan is now an intellectual property rights attorney for a big company in Silicone Valley. He brings his mother home from hospital she is 86 and needs home care. The person he employs turns out to have a history of drugs and alcohol and prostitution

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Part Three of the "Alan Cravick Triolgy"

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Truth About Romance, The

Synopsis:
the love life of a man from college to marriage.

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Adapted from Arthur Schnitzler's "Anatol"

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Studio 3 Group, New York     1990

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Play/Drama

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Urban Renewal

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When his father announces he is going to close a landmark downtown retail outlet that has been there for a century - Connor makes a video about it that goes internationally viral. His father is full of admiration for him. Connor's younger sister sees danger in this and organizes a surprise for her father that changes lives

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Comedy

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What Happened to Jones

Synopsis:
Escaping from the police Jones wanders into a house where he is mistaken for the awaited guest - an Archbishop from Australia.

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Based on the farce by George Broadhurst

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Woman, The

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Based on the play "The Woman" by William C DeMille

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