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A quirky comedy about a group of Amish
and a group of transvestites stranded together at a motel during
a blizzard. Jacky, a stressed-out businessman who cross-dresses
on weekends, hopes to have a relaxing retreat with his friend
Barbie – only to discover he’s never been closer
to home.
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VENUS IN THE BIRDBATH
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A darkly comic ménage of characters
revolves around Salome, an L.A. woman who can’t get out
of bed. The country singer from Tennessee, the disturbed sitcom
writer, Salome’s fashionable mother, the polite New Yorker
hoping to evict Salome, the young California Senator, who can’t
stay out of her bed – all of them are lost at sea, endearingly
unable to cope with the world.
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THREE CONTINENTS
contact:Elaine Devlin
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Filloux’s autobiographical play
about three continents: North Africa, Europe and the U.S. Liliane
embarks on an adventure to her mother’s sunlit homeland
then to the dark seas on her father’s mysterious perfume
boat. Lily’s discovery of a fragile island treasure and
a salvaged ritual high up on a mountain in Algeria gives voice
to silence--and finally, to a third language.
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ARTHUR'S WAR
contact:Elaine Devlin
Literary Inc.
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A Play with Songs for Young Audiences
(1 Hour)
Music by Jenny Giering
Based on the King Arthur
legend; an ensemble piece which creates the war-torn Dark Ages
through physicality, language and music. Mischievous Merlin
races against time to transform his boastful young pupil Arthur
into the honorable king who can finally stop the carnage.
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ESCUELA DEL MUNDO
contact:Elaine Devlin
Literary Inc.
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Commissioned by The Ohio State University
Theatre Department and Office of International Affairs (1 Hour)
2006/2005 Touring High Schools in Columbus, Ohio
There has just been a shooting spree at “The World School”.
Violence rocks an international high school over the word “God” in
a morning prayer and the school is swiftly placed in “lock-down”.
Trapped students must face crucial differences to stay alive.
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SEVEN
contact:Elaine Devlin
Literary Inc.
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Seven activists -- Hafsat Abiola, Farida
Azizi, Anabella De Leon, Inez McCormack, Mukhtaran Mai, Mu
Sochua and Marina Pisklakova-Parker — are the subject
of this collaborative work for the theatre created by seven
award-winning playwrights — Paula Cizmar, Catherine Filloux,
Gail Kriegel, Carol K. Mack, Ruth Margraff, Anna Deavere Smith
and Susan Yankowitz. Based on personal interviews and oral
histories the play is a testament to seven heroines whose grass-roots
work benefits the citizens of their diverse cultures: Russia,
Pakistan, Nigeria, Northern Ireland, Afghanistan, Guatemala,
and Cambodia. Seven debuted in January 2008 in New York City
and is being performed around the world.
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Short Plays
THE BEAUTY
INSIDE (one-act
version)
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A young girl in southeastern Turkey becomes the target of an honor
killing. In a terrifying clash of value systems, the girlís traditionalist mother and her Westernized female lawyer struggle with one another to seal her fate.
Finalist for the Heideman Award, Actors Theatre of Louisville, KY
The Hospital Plays, HB Playwrights Foundation & Theatre, NYC
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THE LESSONS OF MY FATHER
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Odile,
a French-Algerian woman, vividly recollects her just-deceased
father, through the eyes of her childhood self. How can you
go on breathing when the man who taught you is gone?
Finalist for the Heideman Award, Actors Theatre of Louisville,
KY
The Funeral Plays, HB Playwrights Foundation & Theatre, NYC
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WHITE TRASH
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Based
on a true story: At a wildlife refuge in Cape Cod, thousands
of common seagulls are poisoned in order to save their endangered
cousin, the piping plover. In this play, one of these gulls
spends its final moments alongside a plover, equally traumatized
but chosen for survival. (Two birds, to be played by men or
women, no age requirements.)
Finalist for the Heideman Award, Actors Theatre of Louisville,
KY
Women's Project, NYC; Yale Cabaret, New Haven, CT.
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STORKS
Carden, William, Editor.
HB Playwrights Short Play Festival 1999 The Airport Plays
Smith and Kraus, Inc. 2002.
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A grandmother and granddaughter--in between countries and languages
at the airport at JFK--try to say goodbye.
HB Playwrights Foundation, "The Airport Plays", NYC;
Immigrants Theatre Project, NYC
Carden, William, Editor. HB Playwrights Short Play Festival 1999
The Airport Plays, Smith and Kraus, Inc.
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CONVERTING
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Two
aging men compete for their youth, while their hearts struggle
to simply beat.
Women's Project, NYC; New Georges, NYC; Dixon Place, NYC
Brown, Kent, Editor 35 in 10: Thirty-Five Ten-Minute Plays Illinois:
The Dramatic Publishing Company, 2005
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THE G WORD
Carden, William, Editor.
HB Playwrights Short Play Festival 2003 The Subway Plays
Smith and Kraus, Inc. 2004.
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Suffering
from P.T.S.D., the general who commanded the U.N. peacekeeping
mission in Rwanda stumbles into a subway car only to be confronted
by its ghostly occupant, Raphael Lemkin, the Polish lawyer
who invented the word genocide and is traveling in limbo on
a death train.
Carden, William, Editor. HB Playwrights Short Play Festival 2003
The Subway Plays, Smith and Kraus, Inc.
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PASSION.COM |
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George Bush is threatened by a tenacious Iraqi soldier but is saved
by his loyal reverend.
Finalist for Heideman Award, Actors Theatre of Louisville,
KY
The White House Plays, The Ninth Annual
Short Play Series, HB Playwrights Foundation, NYC
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MARRIAGE à TROIS |
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In a trash dump in a war-torn country, a human rights worker shatters
the illusion of her picture-perfect marriage.
The Wedding Plays, The Eighth Annual Short Play Series, HB Playwrights
Foundation, NYC
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Dostoyevsky meets the nineties. Adapted from the chapter, "Rebellion",
in The Brothers Karamazov. Ivan, the statistician, is haunted
by ghosts of children--one of them, JonBenét Ramsey,
on the runway.
Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab & The Culture Project's "Brothers
Karamazov" at the Salon, NYC
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THE SUN ALWAYS ROSE |
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The
end of storytelling as we know it.
New Georges "Watch This Space: A New Georges Anthology",
HERE, NYC
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ACCEPTING APPLAUSE
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Backstage at a prestigious film festival a staff-woman juggles
a crazed teen film star and a needy critic.
Women's Project, NYC
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