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SETH BOCKLEY |
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Nationality: USA Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: AO International |
Seth Bockley is a Jeff Award winning Chicago-based playwright, director and performer. He has created theater with several notable Chicago companies including Collaboraction (JON), Redmoon (BONEYARD PRAYER, LAIKA'S COFFIN) where he spent two years as a Directing Apprentice through TCG's New Generations program. Current commissions include the book for February House a musical based on the book by Sherill Tippins, a collaboration with lyricist and composer Gabriel Kahane for the NYC Public Theater's Musical Theater Initiative, and an adaptation of CommComm by George Saunders for The Goodman Theatre. His collaboratively devised work, The Twins Would Like To Say , produced by Dog & Pony Theatre Company, premiered at Steppenwolf's Garage Theatre in February 2010. Seth is a member of the Goodman Theater's writers group.
Plays by Seth Bockley
CommComm | ||
| 1st Produced: | 3LD Art & Technology Center | 13 May 2011 | ||||
Company: | Page 73 Productions | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #131149 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | This is a workshop presentation of a new play. It's another day in the office of Community Communications at the DeLong Air Force Baseexcept the base is closing, pink slips are flying, and there's a funny smell coming from the copier closet. Ron Rimney, boss from hell, promises Jim employment at the soon-to-be-built Dirksen Center for Terrorif he'll just help him get rid of that smell. But Jim soon finds himself caught in an outlandish conspiracy that leads to a life-altering choice. This offbeat, witty and moving new comedy is the latest collaboration between adaptor Seth Bockley and MacArthur Fellowship-winning fiction writer George Saunders. | |||||
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February House | ||
| 1st Produced: | Public Theater | 08 May 2012 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #139666 | |||
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Genre: | musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | Book By: Seth Bockley; Music & Lyrics By: Gabriel Kahane | |||||
Synopsis: | Visionary and flamboyant editor George Davis transforms a dilapidated Brooklyn boarding house into a bohemian commune for the leading lights of 1940s New York. Residents include novelist Carson McCullers, composer Benjamin Britten, poet W.H. Auden, and the infamous Gypsy Rose Lee. The luminaries of 7 Middagh Street form a tumultuous and remarkable makeshift family, and search for love, inspiration, and refuge from the looming war in Europe. Inspired by true events, this powerful and funny new musical marks the first commission of The Publics Musical Theater Initiative and is presented in association with Long Wharf Theatre. | |||||
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Jon | ||
| 1st Produced: | Collaboraction/Chicago | 2008 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #124746 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | Seth received the Jeff Award 2009 for Best New Adaptation for JO | |||||
Synopsis: | JON is a futuristic fable about teenage love in a corporate universe where television commercials replace life experiences. Adapted from the innovative story by MacArthur Genius Fellowship awardee George Saunders, the play invites the audience into a multi-media test-marketing laboratory, and unfolds a surreal and strangely moving coming-of-age story. | |||||
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Twins Would Like To Say, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Garage Rep at Steppenwolf, Chicago | 18 Feb 2010 | ||||
Company: | Dog and Pony Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #112522 | |||
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Notes: | Written by Seth Bockley and Devon deMayo | |||||
Synopsis: | Two West Indian girls are sent to live in Wales. They are the only coloured people in the area - the girls decide that they will stop speaking and devise their own way of communicating | |||||
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