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Nicole Zylstra

NICOLE ZYLSTRA

  
Nationality:    Canadian
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Literary Agent:    Publicist: SharronJ@gmail.com

Nicole Zylstra is a professional performer/writer/improviser/director living and working in Calgary for the past ten odd years. As a writer she has been commissioned by the likes of Lunchbox Theatre (the Betty Mitchell Best New Play Nominated Monkey Business) and Vertigo Theatre (Innocent Blood), and Edmonton's Unconscious Collective (Congo Song), not to mention Fringe Hits "Camille on Wheels" and "Oh,Jesus! - a love story." Her first solo show, "FIREBIRD: 220 Horses of the Apocalypse" toured successfully across Canada as part of the Fringe Festival circuit, making stops at Montreal, Thunder Bay, Edmonton and Vancouver, and also appeared for 2 nights at Toronto's famed Second City. Her next solo, EFFable, rocked Calgary's Solocentric Festival and was Pick of the Fringe at Edmonton's Fringe A-Go-Go (2005). She is currently playwright-in-residence at Edmonton's Northern Light Theatre, and was one of the commissioned playwrights in Northern Light's recent 2005 edition of Urban Tales: Possession.

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

         Bath, The         Congo Song         Innocent Blood / Blood Sympathy         Monkey Business
Bath, The

Synopsis:
Nicole's first play is a one-act comedy that won awards for Nicole in directing and writing at the Sears' Ontario Drama Festival in 1986. A comic fantasy set entirely in a bathtub, the play was published in an anthology, Concrete Daisy and Other Plays, and performed in countless high schools across North America

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1st Produced:
High Schools     1986

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1st Published:
in "Concrete Daisy and Other Plays",    

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Genre:
Comedy One Act

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Congo Song

Synopsis:
Commissioned and produced by Edmonton's Unconscious Collective, this musical (with original score composed by Bruce Horak and Paul Morgan Donald) was inspired by Stuart Cloete's novel of the same name, and features a Scientist, a Nazi, a Diplomat, a Gorilla, a Snake, and a Woman. the action is set in Deepest Darkest Congo in the days leading up to World War II

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1st Produced:
Unconscious Collective, Edmonton Ab     1998

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Genre:
Musical Comedy, full length Musical

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Innocent Blood / Blood Sympathy

Synopsis:
the first draft of this adaptation of Sheridan LeFanu's gothic vampire novella, Carmilla, won second prize in ATP's Pan-Canadian PlayRites Festival 24 Hour Playwriting Competition. Vertigo Mystery theatre (formerly Pleiades) commissioned the full length version, which had its world premiere in May of 2004. A newly edited script was produced under the title Blood Sympathy by Panties Productions in Edmonton as part of the InterFear Festival in October of 2004

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1st Produced:
Vertigo Mystery Theatre, Calgary     2004

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Genre:
Gothic Pscho-Thriller, full length Thriller

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Monkey Business

Synopsis:
This comic romance puts a new spin on "Leap and the net will appear," set as it is against the backdrop of anthropologists studying Howler Monkeys in the Costa Rican rainforest. Features clever banter, romance, and falling monkeys

Notes:
Nominated for Betty Mitchell Award for Best New Play 2004

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Genre:
Comedy One Act

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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