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Richard Zinober

RICHARD ZINOBER

  
Nationality:    USA
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Richard Zinober won First Prize in the Ann White New Playwrights Contest (1990) forSeekers of the Light, which was produced by the Ann White Theater in Ft. Lauderdale (June 1990). It has also been produced at the West End Gate Theater in New York City (August 1994). His play the House at the Edge of the World won the Charles M. Getchell Award in the Southeastern Theater Conference New Play Project competition (1992), and was performed at the Minnesota Fringe Festival in Minneapolis (August 1999). Adventures in Space was produced at the Newport Performing Arts Center in Newport, Oregon (June 1993). His fiction has appeared in a number of journals, including New Voices, the Literary Reviewand Sundog: the Southeast Review. He teaches playwriting and screenwriting in the MFA program at Minnesota State University Moorhead.

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

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

         Adventures in Space         House at the Edge of the World, The         Once Loved         Seekers of the Light
Adventures in Space

Synopsis:
the teenage daughter of a finalist in the Reagan-era Teachers-in-Space program barely manages to survive some harrowing, earth-bound adventures.

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1st Produced:
Red Octopus Theatre Company, Neast West Players, Laort, Or     1993

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2 Act Play/Drama

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House at the Edge of the World, The

Synopsis:
In a halfway house in New Jersey, Ann Corcoran, 21, has been working her way back to sanity after a breakdown precipitated by an assault. Her life changes when Perry, a trucker she met at a Diner where she waited tables, comes to ask Ann out on a date. He persuades her to venture out of the house, but as they are about to leave, Perry is arrested for a run-in with an off-duty cop, and Ann withdraws again. the incident almost pushes Ann over the edge, but her feelings for Perry prevent her from losing all hope.

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Award: Charles M. Getchell Award in SETC New Play Project, 1992

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Once Loved

Synopsis:
Having found evidence that her husband Marty has been cheating, Kate comes to Once Loved, a used-furniture store owned by her mother Laura and Laura's partner, Barb. there she encounters Terry, a young man so desperate to reclaim a drop-leaf pine table, which he insists was sold to the store by mistake, that he breaks into the back room. After catching him, Laura, Barb, Kate and Marty (who has pursued Kate to the store) begin an impromptu investigation to determine whether Terry is a thief, a would-be terrorist or, as he claims, "just a guy who's having a really bad day." their discovery of Terry's secret has unexpected consequences for their own relationships.

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Award: First Place (Playwriting), Porter Fleming Literary Competition, 2004

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Genre:
Comedy One Act

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Seekers of the Light

Synopsis:
Lisa Shapiro, a member of a new religious group, is kidnapped by two deprogrammers under her mother's hire. Locking Lisa in a Tampa motel room, the head deprogrammer tries to persuade her to reveal the secrets of the group, and of her relationship with the group's leader, Jules. the session soon becomes a psychological battle between Lisa and her captors, who possess some disturbing secrets of their own.

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1st Produced:
Ann White Theater (Ft. Lauderdale, Fl, United States)     1990

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Playscripts, Inc - New York
published online by Infinity Stage, Sound & Film at http://www.infinitystage.com/full-length   

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Genre:
60-75 min Play/Drama

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Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  3 males, 2 females

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