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Anna Ziegler

ANNA ZIEGLER

  (1979 - )
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    The Gersh Agency, NY  represented by Seth Glewen

Anna Ziegler's plays have been produced at Seattle Repertory Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, The Magic Theatre, Ensemble Studio Theatre, New Georges, Theater J, DR2 (W.E.T.), Cherry Lane Theatre (Playwrights Realm), Brown/Trinity Playwrights Repertory Theatre, Summer Play Festival (SPF), The Fountain Theatre, English Theatre of Berlin, Theatre503 (UK), Synchronicity Theatre, Jewish Ensemble Theatre, and Vermont Stage Company, among others. She has received commissions from The Manhattan Theatre Club, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Virginia Stage Company and New Georges. Awards include the STAGE Award, Weissberger Award (finalist), Edgerton New Play Prize, Douglas T. Ward Playwriting Prize and NYIT Award nomination for Best Short Play (2011, 2012). She has participated in residencies and workshops at the Sundance Theatre Lab, O'Neill Playwrights Conference, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Cape Cod Theatre Project, Arena Stage, PlayLabs (Playwrights Center), Chautauqua Theater Company, Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab, TheatreWorks New Works Festival, Lark Playwrights Workshop, McCarter Playwrights Retreat, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, The Araca Group, Old Vic New Voices, terraNOVA Groundbreakers Playwrights Group, Orchard Project, Ars Nova, Berkshire Playwrights Lab, Primary Stages, GEva Theatre Center, Icicle Creek Theatre Festival and The New Group. Publications include New Playwrights: The Best Plays of 2007 and DPS editions of BFF, Life Science and Photograph 51. Film credits include a screenplay adaptation of Photograph 51 funded by a Tribeca Film Institute/Sloan Foundation grant. Ms. Ziegler has a BA from Yale and an MFA from NYU/Tisch School of the Arts.

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         Another Way Home         BFF ("Best Friends Forever")         Boy         Delicate Ship, A         Dov and Ali         Everything You Have         First Kiss         Germ Project, The         I Battled Lenny Ross         If         In the Same Room         Last Match, The         Life Science         Map of Broken Glass, A         Minotaur, The         Novel         Photograph 51         Ron Swoboda's Wish         Sad Song         Sunlight in a Cafeteria         To Be Fair         Variations on a Theme

Another Way Home

Synopsis:
Another Way Home follows the Nadelman family as parents Philip and Lillian visit Joey, their puzzling, hard- to-handle son at summer camp in Maine. After greeting his parents with even more hostility than usual, Joey disappears. In the search for their son, Philip and Lillian expose the truth of their own relationship and the full Nadelman family portrait becomes developed. A play about marriage and family and coming to accept what we can't fix or don't understand.

Notes:
Another Way Home was formerly titled An Incident.

1st Produced:
Magic Theatre In San Francisco     2012

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Genre:
comedy drama

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Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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BFF ("Best Friends Forever")

Synopsis:
chronicles the period of adolescence in girls when the tools of growing up are also weapons. In it, Lauren and Eliza, best friends who enter pubescence at different times, become divided socially and psychologically by the changes their bodies undergo (or don't). In the end, Eliza is accused of something she doesn't yet understand and for years to come Lauren holds herself accountable for the act of growing up, an act that became more dangerous than she could have possibly anticipated.

Notes:
This play has been developed At SoHo Rep, the Lark theatre, And the Sundance theatre Lab 2005.

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Organisations:
WET

1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service Inc. (also included in the anthology New Playwrights: the Best Plays of 2007 (Smith and Kraus).), 2008   -

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Play/Drama

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Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Boy

Boy
Inspired by a true story, Anna Zieglers BOY explores the tricky terrain of finding love amidst the confusion of sexual identity, and the inextricable bond between a doctor and patient. In the 1960s, a well-intentioned doctor convinces the parents of a male infant to raise their son as a girl after a terrible accident. Two decades later, the repercussions of that choice continue to unfold.

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Organisations:
Keen company & Ensemble Studio Theatre

1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, Inc. NY (2016)
Oberon Books (2016) >>>    978-0-8222-3533-0

Music:
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Genre:
drama 90 min

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Delicate Ship, A

Delicate Ship, A
A haunting love triangle triggers an unexpected chain of events in this poetic world premiere play. In the early stages of a new relationship, Sarah and Sam are lovers happily discovering each other. Sarah and Nate know everything about each other, best of friends since childhood and maybe something more. But when Nate shows up unannounced on Sarah's doorstep, she's left questioning what and who she wants in this humorous and heartbreaking look at love, memory and the decisions that alter the course of our lives. (From Cincinnati Playhouse's website)

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1st Produced:
Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park     22 Mar 2014

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1st Published:
A href="https://www.oberonbooks.com/anna-ziegler-plays-one.php" target="_blank">Oberon Books (2016) >>>    978-1783193158

Music:
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Genre:
comedy drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Dov and Ali

Synopsis:
Once upon a time, in the middle of a school, in the middle of Detroit, in the middle of the United States of America, there was a teacher and a precocious student. One was a religious Jew and the other a religious Muslim. And once upon a time they were friends, sort of. Two men question, push and provoke each other as they struggle to live by the rules they set themselves when faced with heartbreaking consequences.

Notes:
**** Time Out - Critics Choice , ***** Whats On Stage there Are A lot of intelligent things to be said About Anna Ziegler's Dov And Ali, After All, it is A play which faces up to burning issues that Are relevant to us All, but there is really only one thing that needs to be said. Go And see it. Ziegler tackles powerful issues with A gentle human perspective. . .Dov And Ali is A powerhouse play that drives its way through An hour And A half of twists And turns About race, individuality, human relations And role models. . .essentially this fearless piece of theatre pulls no punches. there is A resounding truth that pours out of it in All directions, flowing freely from the writing, the set design, the Acting, And the directing, And yet Dov And Ali doesn't preach. there Are no Answers offered, there Are no morals proffered, but when theatre is this good, it reminds you how essential it is. See link for full review: http://www.whatsonstage.com/blogs/offwestend/?p=124

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http://www.indietheaternow.com/Plays   -

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Everything You Have

Synopsis:
Mike, a Chinese immigrant cab driver, and Lars and Lucretia, middle-aged Swedish-Americans, have never met until Mike hits and injures their son. After that, their lives are inextricably bound as Lars and Lucretia take the law into their own hands. A play about love, guilt and loss, "Everything You Have" chronicles the aftermath of an accident, a time when everyone is to blame and no one is, and the punishment becomes less about the crime than about grief itself.

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  2            Other:  -

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First Kiss

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1st Produced:
Summerworks Short Play Event     2006

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Germ Project, The

Synopsis:
This show features the work of playwrights Kara Lee Corthron (directed by Kara-Lynn Vaeni), Lynn Rosen (directed by Shoshana Gold), Kathryn Walat (directed by Portia Krieger), and Anna Ziegler (directed by Beatrice Terry). the four "germs" of full-length plays of scope and adventure commissioned by New Georges for this project will be presented together, fully produced, in a cohesive and satisfying ninety-minute intermission-less evening. there will be a connective thread to the pieces that will take place with visuals and storytelling. the Germ Project is a response to the trend in the American theater toward smaller new plays. "I noticed we were reading fewer of the big (in terms of imaginative scope), irreverent, highly theatrical plays we like to produce," says Susan Bernfield, artistic director of New Georges. "And realized it's because there's so much pressure on playwrights these days to write plays that have small casts and simple production elements, plays that are considered produce-able." In response, the company commissioned four long-time affiliated playwrights to write new plays of scope and adventure, their dream plays, what might be considered "unproduce-able" plays. Early in the process, New Georges commissioned four directors to collaborate with the playwrights, to help push their big ideas even bigger, and has spent the 2010-11 season developing the plays in workshop toward this production. "We asked the artists to challenge us as producers," says Bernfield, "and to select for this production the "germ" of their project that includes its most theatrically exciting moments. By producing the most difficult parts, maybe we can prove that these plays aren't "unproduce-able" at all."
- nytheatre.com

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1st Produced:
3LD Art & Technology Center
80 Greenwich Street, New York, NY 10006     20 Jun 2011

Organisations:
New Georges

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Music:
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Genre:
short play

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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I Battled Lenny Ross

Synopsis:
A new musical about the toughest interview of Mike Wallace's career.

Notes:
by Anna Ziegler & Matt Schatz

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Organisations:
The 35th Marathon Of One-Act Plays

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Music:
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Genre:
one act musical

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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If

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Notes:
Part of the Spring Fling: 8 Brand New Plays. F*It Club presents A program of eight new short plays: French Toast And Parsley by Brooke Berman, Drunk by Bekah Brunstetter, A Short, Sad Biography of the Magician's Assistant by Ashlin Halfnight, Our Trip to Ohio by Greg Keller, Minotaur Scavenger Huntby Caroline V. McGraw, Come Here by Isaac Oliver, We Have the Music by Mark Schultz, And If by Anna Ziegler.

1st Produced:
Irt, 154 Christopher Street #3B     21 Apr 2011

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Genre:
short play

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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In the Same Room

Synopsis:
A young woman grapples with life and love in the age of Internet dating and cross-country relationships

Notes:
aka Vinnie

1st Produced:
The New Harmony Project     2007

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Male:  1            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Last Match, The

Last Match, The
The semifinals of the U.S. Open are underway. Sergei Sergeyev, an up-and-coming Russian phenom, and Tim Porter, a great American superstar in the twilight of his career, do battle under the lights on center court. As the intense, back-and-forth action unfolds, we go inside the minds of these two extraordinary players to contemplate athleticism, masculinity and marriage. And by match point, much more has been won and lost than a game of tennis.

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:
Old Globe Theatre, San Diego, CA     18 Feb 2016

Organisations:
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1st Published:
A href="https://www.oberonbooks.com/anna-ziegler-plays-one.php" target="_blank">Oberon Books (2016) >>>    978-1783193158

Music:
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Genre:
comedy drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Life Science

Synopsis:
Four wealthy Washington DC teenagers grapple with identity and growing up against the backdrop of a world that's changing quickly, and which they can't quite understand

Notes:
This was A workshop - not A reviewed production or world premiere. This play has been read At the Lark theatre. Aka Leftovers

1st Produced:
Studio Theatre, NYC     2007

Organisations:
Bulldog theatrical

1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service Inc, 2008   978-0822222590

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Map of Broken Glass, A

Synopsis:
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Notes:
part of the Spring Fling: My Best/Worst Date Ever

1st Produced:
Irt, 154 Christopher Street, 3rd Floor, NY     26 Apr 2012

Organisations:
F*IT Club

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
short play

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Minotaur, The

Synopsis:
the Minotaur is a loose adaptation of the myth in which theseus, with the help of Ariadne, kills the Minotaur and steals Ariadne away with him, off Crete, and into an uncertain future. Poetic, quirky and about the vagaries of storytelling, the Minotaur is set in a timeless present where Ariadne dreams of her wedding to theseus being listed in the New York Times and a chorus consisting of a rabbi, priest and lawyer take on themes of love, loss, our primal selves and forgiveness.

Notes:
the Minotaur was developed At the Lark Play Development Center in 2008.

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Organisations:
Rorschach Theatre Company

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Novel

Synopsis:
When a recently widowed non-fiction writer attends a business conference in Baltimore , he expects to drink bad coffee and to rehash discussions of the inevitable death of small press publishing in America. But when he discovers a conference of unusual world record holders in the same building, his imagination is sparked

Notes:
This play has been developed At Catalyst theater And New Georges. Also developed by theater J, PlayLabs At the Playwright's Center, Clubbed Thumb And the Old Vic. Also: SPF's production was not reviewed or considered A world premiere.

1st Produced:
Spf (Summer Play Festival)     2007

Organisations:
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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Photograph 51

Photograph 51
DNA. the combination of those three letters conjures up tales of science, double helixes, and countless CSI episodes. the intriguing story of Photograph 51 is its exploration of how relationships may have played a role in the breakthrough discovery of the structure of DNA. Now, of course, that infamous double helix is so well-known, even a caveman, well, never mind. Suffice it to say that understanding the molecular structure of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) was tantamount to unlocking the secret of life. This taut little thriller highlights a scientist whose meticulous research formed the basis of the discovery, but who was essentially ignored and forgotten amidst the international recognition and awards, including the coveted Nobel Prize. Every once and awhile, one hears that a woman scientist was involved, whose work and ideas were usurped, packaged, and submitted by the infamous duo Watson and Crick as totally their own. Photograph 51 bares all by showing what happened among the dedicated scientists, inadvertently or otherwise, in the quest for knowledge, answers, and meaning. the rather cryptic and strange title refers to the 51st x-ray photo that Rosalind Franklin took as part of her meticulous research. It was apparently this particular shot that shed enough light on the subject to explain the inexplicable formation, helped the scientists grasp the molecular formation enough to make a model, and gave birth to the rock stars of genetic discovery. Who was this hard working woman behind the scenes? Why didn't she get the credit that she deserved? What's the big deal of the helix? Why does it matter? Well, just that it sheds light on the molecular structure of all living matter on the planet. That's all. Photograph 51 adds to the intrigue by zeroing in on the characters, showing their intentions, complex motivations, and regrets.
- Debbie Minter Jackson, dctheatrescene.com

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also produced Ensemble Studio theatre, NYC (2010). Review Excerpts: "Critic's Pick! What playwright Anna Ziegler has Achieved in her intriguing portrait of the British scientist Rosalind Franklin is A remarkable balance of scientific subject matter And theatrical storytelling. Franklin's role in the discovery of DNA's double helix-the only woman Among A raft of male scientists-is here made clear in A play that glows with intelligence And humanity. This is A complex story filled with complex characters that Ziegler tells with clarity And economy. It's A pleasure to be in the presence of such Assured writing. She gives full weight to Franklin's Achievement without Allowing the play to become A feminist tract or turning Franklin's thieving male cohorts And competitors into dyed-in-the-wool villains. This tale of A lone, wondrous woman Amidst A casual conspiracy of men makes for compelling theater." - Backstage. "Among the many virtues of Anna Ziegler's. . .satisfying "Photograph 51" is the refUSAl to soften the woman At its center, the British scientist Rosalind Franklin, by making her Anything other than formidably, even self-sabotagingly, intelligent. . .[the play] offers multiple insights into the sad And honorable secrets of one particular life." - NY Times. "A powerful new play. . .Ziegler has produced A witty And poignant Account of the controversy surrounding DNA's discovery." - Nature. "Who knew science could make for such terrific theatre?" -New Scientist

1st Produced:
Joe's Emporium, Mount Ranier, Maryland     10 Feb 2008

Organisations:
Active Cultures Theatre

1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, Inc, 2012
Oberon Books (2015) >>>    978-0822225089

Music:
-

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Genre:
90 min Play/Drama

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Male:  5            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Ron Swoboda's Wish

Ron Swoboda's Wish
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Genre:
Ten Min

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Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Sad Song

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Contained in: "the Backstage Book Of New American Short Plays 2004" published by Back Stage,    -

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Genre:
One act

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Sunlight in a Cafeteria

Synopsis:
imagines the two subjects of an Edward Hopper painting come to life, fully aware that they are in a work of art. Followed by a conversation about art, authority, inspiration and appropriation.
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
part of Under the Influence

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Organisations:
the Tank

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One Act

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To Be Fair

Synopsis:
On board a cruise liner, Mike and Jim, both teenagers, are befriended by Laurel, a mysterious middle-aged woman, who, before disappearing, teaches them about friendship and memory

Notes:
This play has been developed At the Lark theatre, At the Tank theater, by the Fireraisers theatre Company At the Hampstead theatre (London ) And the Birmingham Rep, And by Company B At the Belvoir St. theatre in Sydney, Australia

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Play/Drama

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Variations on a Theme

Synopsis:
Joshua and April marry young, and before too long, their marriage crumbles. N and K are middle-aged, and real or not real. they lead and counsel April and Joshua and in so doing, discover themselves, and the nagging insistence of lost love. Variations on a theme explores through memory and fantasy how little we know each other, how easy it is to lose someone, and the way we cling to love even though it is the very thing that often brings so much sadness.

Notes:
Staged readings directed by Ethan McSweeny for Chautauqua theatre Company, July 2008.

1st Produced:
Theatreworks' Festival Of New Works, Palo Alto     01 Jul 2010

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-   -

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Genre:
comedy drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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