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Paul Zimet

PAUL ZIMET

  
Nationality:    USA
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Paul Zimet is the Artistic Director of the Talking Band. Music-Theater works that he has written and directed include: Belize, the Parrot, Star Messengers, Bitterroot, Party Time, Black Milk Quartet, these works have premiered in New York City at La MaMa, E.T.C., the Flea Theater, and PS 122, and have toured in the United States, Italy, Canada, Chile, and Moscow. Paul received a 2003 Village Voice OBIE Award for his direction of the Talking Band production of Painted Snake in a Painted Chair, and also three OBIE Awards for his work with the Open Theater and the Winter Project, both directed by Joseph Chaikin.

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         Baron Bones         Belize         Bitterroot         Black Milk Quartet         Daily Drill         Fata Morgana         Fern And Rose and A Perfect Life         Golden Toad, The         Imminence         Life Simulator         Marcellus Shale         Necklace, The         New Cities         New Islands Archipelago         Parrot, The         Radnevsky's Real Magic         Star Messengers         Three Lives of Lucie Cabrol

Baron Bones

Synopsis:
An acrophobic poet is visited first by his Eastern European girlfriend and they talk about their differing views of Los Angeles. then by a black shaman who sells him a potion

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the Talking Band

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One act

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Belize

Synopsis:
18th Century - a Colonel in the British Army marries an African-American woman.

Notes:
Music by Ellen Maddow; lyrics And book by Paul Zimet

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Musical

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Bitterroot

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Composer: Peter Gordon

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the Talking Band

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Black Milk Quartet

Synopsis:
Four unrelated stories. Actaeon is hunting when he accidentally sees Artemis bathing. She turns him into a stag and he is killed by his friends and dogs. A woman is having sexual relations with an unseen being - her husband and son try to save her. the owner of a chain of supermarkets can only find sexual happiness playing kinky games with his ex-stripper wife and her young lover. A man who had only ever been interested in books follows a young woman he has seen in the library

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Ohio Theatre, New York    Feb 2000

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the Talking Band

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Daily Drill

Synopsis:
A lecture on survival

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the Talking Band

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Genre:
Monologue play

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Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Fata Morgana

Synopsis:
A Cruise ship and an assortment of passengers. the lecherous explorer; the jazz musician and his manager wife; retired farmers; a dying woman and her scientist husband.

Notes:
by Paul Zimet; Incidental music And songs by Harry Mann And Ellen Maddow

1st Produced:
-    1991

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1st Published:
Theatre Communications Group, 1991   -

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  6            Female:  3            Other:  extras

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Fern And Rose and A Perfect Life

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written by Ellen Maddow, Paul Zimet And Rocky Bornstein

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Golden Toad, The

Synopsis:
Talking Band celebrates their Fortieth Season with an episodic music-theater work that traces the shifting identities of its characters over time and changing circumstances. Developed by the company in four site-specific locations: the garden of a Brooklyn townhouse, a tour bus travelling through the New Jersey Meadowlands, a pop-up clothing store, a Karaoke bar called The Golden Toad  this world premiere re-creates and re-imagines the original sites throughout The Ellen Stewart Theatre so that the audience moves from episode to episode into four discrete worlds.

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Written by Ellen Maddow and Paul Zimet

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Talking Band

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musical theatre

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Imminence

Synopsis:
follows three generations of a family in an exploration of time, and how it shapes our lives from the smallest human instant to the massive geotectonic cycles of the earth. Following the death of her mother, Simone takes her twenty year old daughter, on a cross-country car trip to visit her parents' first home in Coney Island. the narrative shifts between the past and present, not only through the generations of Simone's family, but also through the much longer scale of geological time. Fleeting moments of human interaction - an awkward wedding, a deathbed vigil, an unlikely romance between the family doctor and an eccentric friend - cross paths with the slow, relentless time of the earth itself. Through the prism of theater, dance, video, electronic and acoustic music, time slows, stops, bends and unravels. Kit Fitzgerald's blend of live and recorded video, in conjunction with Peter Gordon's electronic, amplified music capture the range and might of the inexorable forces of nature. the intimacy of human time is captured in the live acoustic music of Ellen Maddow and the choreography of Hilary Easton.

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A new work by the Talking Band. Written And directed by Paul Zimet, composition by Peter Gordon And Ellen Maddow, video by Kit Fitzgerald

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Male:  5            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Life Simulator

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by Ellen Maddow / Paul Zimet. Composer: Ellen Maddow / Harry Mann

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Marcellus Shale

Synopsis:
What really matters to you? What would be the last thing that you would give up? In 2016, a rural community in upstate New York confronts these questions as fracking transforms the landscape and divides friends and families. Inspired by interviews with people living on the Marcellus Shale and Dostoevskys the Demons.

Notes:
Music by Ellen Maddow

1st Produced:
La MaMa First Floor theatre
74A East 4th Street, New York, NY 10003    23 May 2013

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Talking Band

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Necklace, The

Synopsis:
the Necklace is a new serial mystery in eight episodes from the Talking Band. This description is from the press release: "the Necklace is a Drama set in a grand, decaying house on the edge of a moor. It is a house of endless rooms and hidden passageways: of basements, attics, and secret stairways. A house that is antiquated but equipped with up-to the minute technology--wireless modems on moss-covered desks. In this house of multiple realities--often hidden from one another--live a group of people whose identities and relationships unfold in surprising ways in each new episode. the house is a hub, a crossroads, and a battleground in a struggle for survival between generations; between old ways of doing business and the new global economics.

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written by Lisa D'Amour, Ellen Maddow, Lizzie Olesker And Paul Zimet. Each episode will be A self-contained theater piece that can be Appreciated by itself but each will Also end in A 'cliff-hanger'. the four writers Are working in the tradition of Dickens's serial novels, or television serials, but wish to combine the seductiveness of the form with the vividness, immediacy, And theatricality of live theater

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Ohio Theatre, NY    2006

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Genre:
Serial Mystery

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Male:  5            Female:  5            Other:  -

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New Cities

Synopsis:
A string quartet is on a World tour. But the new places and people throw them off balance.

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Composer: Ellen Maddow & Harry Mann

1st Produced:
Williams College, Williamstown, MA    1989

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New Islands Archipelago

Synopsis:
This is a new theatre piece from the Talking Band. New Islands Archipelago is at once a real-estate scheme, a tropical dream of new beginnings, and the accidental destination of the passengers and crew of the cruise ship, S.S. Azure. the action takes place on the ship's deck, within the various rooms of the ship, in the sea, and within the characters' dreams, (which are rendered on video). Each person who has embarked on the cruise longs for a change and, as the voyage progresses, the passengers begin to enter one another's dreams. Thrown together with strangers in increasingly unfamiliar surroundings, they find their lives propelled forward and unfolding in ways they hadn't imagined.
- nytheatre.com

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the Talking Band

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Parrot, The

Synopsis:
A parrot flies into Bella's room and tells her a tale about a Princess called Bella. the non too bright son of her mother's employer has decided to seduce BElla and inveigles himself into their household

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Written by Ellen Maddow And Paul Zimet

1st Produced:
Flea Theatre, New York    21 Jan 2004

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the Talking Band

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Genre:
Musical

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Radnevsky's Real Magic

Synopsis:
Legendary magician Anton Radnevsky (a.k.a. the Great Radnevsky) is returning to the New York stage for the first time in over three decades to perform his one-of-a-kind, bewildering and mystifying magic. the performance is fraught with emotion and meaning for the legendary magician. Thirty three years ago, Radnevsky disappeared from the city after an audience member died at a preview performance of his much-heralded magic show, 'stories and Sorcery'. But this October, Radnevsky will return to the scene of that tragic performance and put on an even more spectacular show, an act he has been working on for half his life. Joined by protege Harry Telkhines, Radnevsky invites audiences into a world where reality and illusion blend, and where all is not what it seems. Together, master and apprentice weave a tapestry of story and illusion, music and image, tradition and innovation, in the search for what is truly magical
- press release

Notes:
written by Paul Zimet; conceived by Paul Zimet And Peter Samelson

1st Produced:
La MaMa E.T.C., NY, USA >>>    11 Oct 2009

Organisations:
the Talking Band

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Male:  3            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Star Messengers

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written by Paul Zimet And Ellen Maddow

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the Talking Band

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Three Lives of Lucie Cabrol

Synopsis:
Lucie Cabrol is born hideously disfigured. Her family nickname her "Cocadrille" - a mythical beast. When she dies she is transformed into a supernatural being

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Based on the book by John Berger

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the Talking Band

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