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SHEILA CALLAGHAN |
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Nationality: USA Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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Literary Agent: Creative Artists Agency NY represented by Corinne Hayoun |
Sheila Callaghans plays have been produced and developed with Soho Rep, Playwrights Horizons, South Coast Repertory, Clubbed Thumb, The Lark, Actors Theatre of Louisville, New Georges, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, and Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, among others. Sheila is the recipient of the Princess Grace Award, a Jerome Fellowship from The Playwrights Center in Minneapolis, a MacDowell Residency, a Cherry Lane Mentorship Fellowship, the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, and the prestigious Whiting Award. Her plays have been produced internationally in New Zealand, Norway, Germany, Portugal, and the Czech Republic. These include Scab, Crawl Fade to White, Crumble (Lay Me Down, Justin Timberlake), We Are Not These Hands, Dead City, Lascivious Something, Kate Crackernuts, That Pretty Pretty; Or, The Rape Play, and Fever/Dream. She is published with Playscripts, Inc. and Samuel French, and several of her collected works are published with Counterpoint Press. She has taught playwriting at Columbia University, The University of Rochester, The College of New Jersey, Florida State University, and Spalding University. Sheila is a resident playwright at New Dramatists, an affiliated artist with Clubbed Thumb and a member of the OBIE-Award-winning playwrights organization 13P. In 2010, Callaghan was profiled by Marie Claire as one of 18 Successful Women Who Are Changing the World. She was also named one of Variety magazine's 10 Screenwriters to Watch of 2010.
Plays by Sheila Callaghan
American Jack | ||
| 1st Produced: | Moving Arts, Los Angeles | 2003 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Original Works Publishing | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #48496 | |||
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Genre: | Drama One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | A fragmented and theatrical portrait of a Greek survivor of Nazi occupation, who subsequently builds a life for himself in America in the 70's brick by brick. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Ayravana Flies Or A Pretty Dish | ||
| 1st Produced: | Edge Of The World Theatre Festival, Los Angeles | 2001 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays, 33rd series, Samuel French, Inc - New York >>> | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-573-67036-7 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #48497 | |||
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Genre: | 10-15 Minute Comedy Ten Min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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| Olivia is a frizzy-haired nutty-looking waitress with too-red lipstick and bulgy omnivorous eyes. Elephant is a reticent, dapper pachyderm in a business suit. He orders the Special of the Day. One heimlick maneuver plus a taste for the exotic equals love. Or dinner. | |||||
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Blue Lila Rising | ||
| 1st Produced: | New Georges (New York, NY, United States) | 2002 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc - New York | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #48498 | |||
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Genre: | 25-30 min Poetic drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | 3 males, 4 females, 2 either (9 actors possible: 3-5 males, 4-6 females) | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Manhattan, 1936. Struggling novelist Dawn Powell is enduring a lavish cocktail party at her agent's extravagant flat. Suddenly, a young woman no one knows falls to the floor, dead. Dawn Powell recognizes something familiar in the girl. The girl falls again. . .and again. The blood is on Dawn's hands. A lyrical investigation in eight iterations. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Catherine Calamity | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2003 | |||||
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 | #87669 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | A strange eleven year old girl, Justin Timberlake and Harrison Ford all in a Christmas tragedy | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Crawl, Fade To White | ||
| 1st Produced: | Theatre of NOTE, Los Angeles | 2005 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | SF-8189 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #48499 | |||
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Genre: | Full-length Absurd Comic Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Staged reading by The Playwright's Center, Minneapolis MN, 2002 | |||||
| A scream is heard throughout the stratosphere. It is the voice of the lamp. Louise is selling this expensive family heirloom to keep her daughter April in school and cease her more sordid "consultant" profession. April rushes home with lover in tow to halt the proceedings and save the lamp, but it has been intercepted by a quiet and bizarre middle-aged couple with a haunting secret. Attempts to reclaim the lamp are made, as a misplaced father slowly fades to white in the background. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Crumble (Lay Me Down, Justin Timberlake) | ||
| 1st Produced: | Clubbed Thumb (Summerworks) (New York City, NY, United States) | 2004 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc - New York | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #48500 | |||
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Genre: | 70-90 min Comedy/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | 2 males, 3 females | |||||
Notes: | Workshop performance by Manhattan Theatre Source, NYC, 2000 | |||||
Synopsis: | Catherine asks for seven very strange objects for Christmas this year. Her perpetually anxious mother complies, suspecting Catherine might blame her for the absurd circumstances in which her father disappeared. Catherine reveals the dark nature of these objects to her mother on Christmas morning and a calamity ensues. Special appearances by Harrison Ford and Justin Timberlake, and a talking Apartment. | |||||
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Dead City | ||
| 1st Produced: | Lark Theatre, NYC | 2003 | ||||
Company: | Playwrights Horizons | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #48501 | |||
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Genre: | Comic Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 4 | ||
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Notes: | Workshopped at the Lark Theatre, NYC, 2003 | |||||
Synopsis: | While bringing her sexy hubby his mail one morning, Samantha Blossom notices an envelope addressed to him from his lover. This spins her out into her day raw and entirely untethered& until she begins following a punk-rock genius poet girl half her age. This culminates in a frenzied chaos parade in a sex club located in the meat-packing district of New York City. Based on James Joyce's Ulysses. | |||||
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Dream Chain, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Michael Weller Theater, NY | 2007 | ||||
Company: | FLUX Theatre Ensemble | |||||
| 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 | #66319 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | part of The Dream Project, which is described as "an exploration of Pedro Calderon de la Barca's La Vida es Sueno through a series of staged readings of adaptations of Calderon's masterpiece. An adaptation of La Vida es Sueno written by multiple authors, each writing only one scene from the play. Contributing playwrights include: Sheila Callaghan, Marcus Gardley, Amlin Gray, Carmen Rivera, Adam Szymkowicz and Candido Tirado | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Elemental | ||
| 1st Produced: | Workshopped at the HERE American Living Room Series, NYC | 2001 | ||||
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 | #48946 | |||
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Genre: | Four-act Mythical Opera | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | 6 instrumentalists | |||||
Notes: | Music by Sophocles Papavasilopoulos | |||||
Synopsis: | Act One: METAL. Hope, a tragic diva, turns into a jungle gym on a playground as a result of her cold-hearted treatment of her lover. Act Two: CONCRETE. Lonnie, an immortal boy, turns into a concrete art installation as a result of his inferiority complex. Act Three: PLASTIC. Claire is a shower curtain. She sings an extended aria about her predicament. Act Four: WOOD. John turns into a tree while being chased through the forest by an overly amorous suitor | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Fever/Dream | ||
| 1st Produced: | Jun 2009 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #99179 | |||
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Genre: | comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | flexible | |||||
Notes: | workshop production by Occidental College Theater Department, fall 2007 | |||||
| Chained to his desk in the basement of customer service hell, Segis suddenly finds himself set free in the CEO's penthouse-but is it a dream? This raucous reinvention of Pedro Calderon de la Barca's Life is a Dream gleefully skewers corporate America with razor-sharp wit and the biggest cast ever assembled on Woolly's stage. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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He Ate The Sun | ||
| 1st Produced: | Festival at Manhattan Theatre Source, NYC | 2002 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Original Works Publishing | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #48502 | |||
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Genre: | 15-25 minute comedy One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A series of quick vignettes navigating the experience of one cowardly man losing his attractive yet shallow wife to a young, hot internet tycoon. Look out, he's got a gun. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Hold This | ||
| 1st Produced: | Actors Theatre of Louisville (Louisville, KY, United States) | 2003 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc - New York | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #48503 | |||
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Genre: | 5-10 min Comedy/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 1 male | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A young man raises a clutch of fluffy yellow chicks for his mother's commercial shoot, only to see them die in the hot glare of the stage lights. This piece is part ofTrepidation Nation, an anthology of short plays. To perform this piece independently, click "Add to Shopping Cart" above. To perform this piece as part of the full-length collection, go to Trepidation Nation. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Hunger Waltz, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Relentless Theatre, NYC | 2004 | ||||
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 | #48504 | |||
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Genre: | Full-length Multiple-Period Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Gwen hears singing in the wind and believes she is mad. Over a period of 600 years, through her relationships with her domineering husband and her coquettish female lover, she slowly reveals the nature of her desires and the source of the voices. A drama over three time periods across America: 18th century East Coast, 20th century dust-bowl, and 22nd century West Coast. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Kate Crackernuts | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2002 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc - New York | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #48505 | |||
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Genre: | 120-140 min Convoluted fairy tale | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | 4 males, 5 females, 10 either (9-19 actors possible: 4-14 males, 5-15 females) | |||||
Notes: | Printer's Devil Theatre (workshop) (Seattle, WA, United States), 2000 | |||||
Synopsis: | Kate's sister Anne, a ravishing beauty, wakes up one morning to discover a sheep's head between her shoulders. Thus begins the journey of the two sisters in their quest to return Anne's true head to its proper place. The journey is sidetracked, however, by Kate's obsession with a slim raver-boy who has a nasty little addiction. Based loosely and lyrically on the British fairy tale "Kate Crackernuts." | |||||
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Lascivious Something | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2006 | |||||
Company: | Cherry Lane Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, Inc - New York (2011) >>> | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-573-69925-2 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #48506 | |||
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Genre: | Full-length Comic Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
| It's 1980 and Reagan has just been elected. August had fled the country six years prior to be with his beautiful young Greek bride on a secluded Mediterranean island, where he planted a modest vineyard. Now, his young wife his pregnant, his crop is robust, and he is about to have his first tasting. . .when a strange woman in a large-brimmed hat arrives at the couple's guesthouse | |||||
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New Shoes | ||
| 1st Produced: | Expanded Arts (New York, NY, United States) | 1997 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc - New York | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #48507 | |||
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Genre: | 30-45 min Absurd comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | 2 males, 2 females | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Richard, a middle-aged Vietnam vet, falls asleep one night next to his nagging wife and wakes up in the arms of his beautiful young secretary. His grasp of reality begins to crumble as his tortured past penetrates his benign present in real-time. | |||||
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Recess | ||
| 1st Produced: | 20 Nov 2009 | |||||
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 | #106686 | |||
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Genre: | Ten Min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 6 | ||
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Notes: | The Flea Theater has commissioned six playwrights to create ten-minute plays that explore the impact of the current economic crisis on the younger generation. Presented under the title THE GREAT RECESSION, the evening features new work by Thomas Bradshaw, Sheila Callaghan, Erin Courtney, Will Eno, Itamar Moses and Adam Rapp - all writers recently nurtured by The Flea. The plays will be performed by The Bats, the resident acting company of The Flea | |||||
Synopsis: | In the aftermath of an almost apocalyptic recession, a group of 11 twenty-something New Yorkers sharing a studio go to extreme lengths to survive. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Roadkill Confidential | ||
| 1st Produced: | 3LD Art & Technology Center | 10 Sep 2010 | ||||
Company: | Clubbed Thumb | |||||
| 1st Published: | Soft Skull Press (January 1, 2011) | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1593764142 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #118959 | |||
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Genre: | Piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
| In Roadkill Confidential, a noir-ish meditation on brutality, a possibly rogue G-man stalks a stalled-out artist with a suspicious affinity for accident victims. Traps are set, traps are sprung, and everyone gets caught. Roadkill Confidential tackles, with style, humor, and high theatricality, mediated violence and the numbness it produces, and, whether in art or in global politics, the ends can justify the means. The play was commissioned and developed by Clubbed Thumb. | |||||
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Scab | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2002 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-573-69671-8 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #48508 | |||
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Genre: | Full-length Comic Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1-2 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
| Anima's sphere of desperation and self-destruction is invaded by the arrival of her perky new roommate, Christa. Moved by a particularly malevolent statue of the Virgin Mary and a houseplant named Susan, Anima and Christa soon enter into a profound and intimate friendship that incurs traumatic results | |||||
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Soak | ||
| 1st Produced: | Sanctuary: Playwright's Theatre, NYC | 2004 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Original Works Publishing | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #48509 | |||
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Genre: | 15 minute awkward comedy One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | 1 accordion player | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Heidi and David come to this space every day. Something tragic happened here, but all that remains is the ghost of a German chanteuse, an accordion player, an iPod, and a shrine to Bjork. And everyone is drunk. | |||||
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Softland | ||
| 1st Produced: | Workshop performance by Singularity, NYC | 2001 | ||||
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 | #48948 | |||
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Genre: | Short Full-length Musical Monologue Series One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | 1 cellist, 1 pianist | |||||
Notes: | Music by Sophocles Papavasilopoulos | |||||
Synopsis: | Michael, a fervent and gifted jazz musician, takes a mysterious journey to India and returns uncommunicative and tormented, yet burning with a new musical vision. This song-puzzle introduces Douglas, Malcolm and Hilary as they recount their unique relationships with Michael and attempt to discover the nature of the dark event that lead him to his emotional rupture. A three-part eclectic musical in lyrical monologues | |||||
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Star-Crossed Lovers | ||
| 1st Produced: | Westfield High School Theatre Arts Program (Chantilly, VA, United States) | 2004 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc - New York | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #60255 | |||
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Genre: | 30 min Comedy/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | 7 males, 4 females, 20 either (9-50 actors possible: 4-25 males, 5-25 females) | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | The story of Romeo and Juliet told over centuries, across continents, and through genres. Imaginative and musical, Star-Crossed Loversis a spectacular tour of major theatrical and intellectual movements -- spanning tribal Africa, ancient Greece, commedia dell'arte Italy, Chekhov's Russia, Rodgers and Hammerstein's 1930s America, and existentialist post-modernity. | |||||
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Strange News From Another Planet | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2003 | |||||
Company: | Ring of Fire Productions, Inc. NYC | |||||
| 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 | #48947 | |||
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Genre: | Rock Musical One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | 3 instrumentalists | |||||
Notes: | written by Sheila Callaghan, Michael Alltop | |||||
Synopsis: | World War Whatever continues for the umpteenth year. Two travelers drop from the skies in search of universal peace. Chaos and power chords ensue in this rock musical adaptation of two wartime fairy tales by Nobel Prize winner Hermann Hesse. Ask yourself. . . what is the nature of mayhem? | |||||
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That Pretty Pretty; or, The Rape Play | ||
| 1st Produced: | 10 Feb 2009 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-573-69690-9 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #74204 | |||
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Genre: | comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
| A pair of radical feminist ex-strippers scour the country on a murderous rampage against right-wing pro-lifers, blogging about their exploits in gruesome detail. Meanwhile, a scruffy screenwriter named Owen tries to bang out his magnum opus in a hotel room as his best friend Rodney ("The Rod") pontificates on rape and other manly enterprises. When Owen decides to incorporate the strippers into his screenplay, the boundaries of reality begin to blur, and only a visit from Jane Fonda can help keep worlds from blowing apart. Sheila Callaghan's That Pretty Pretty; or, The Rape Play is a violently funny and disturbing excavation of the dirty corners of our imaginations. | |||||
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Transit Plays, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Proto-type Theatre, NYC | 2003 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Original Works Publishing | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #48510 | |||
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Genre: | Five very short absurd plays | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | Each play revolves around one form of transportation; ferry, train, bicycle, plane, and car. Strangers attempt to form connections with one another, attaining varying degrees of success. With theatrical staging, elevated and challenging language, and non-realistic elements. | |||||
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Trepidation Nation | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2003 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc - New York | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #51182 | |||
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Genre: | 80-100 min Drama/Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 11 | Female | 12 | ||
Parts other: | 11 males, 12 females (4-23 actors possible) | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | We all have instinctive fears -- but what if a fear becomes inexplicable, illogical, and just plain weird? Then you're dealing with a phobia, one of those most extreme and fascinating of terrors. Actors Theatre of Louisville asked 16 frighteningly creative playwrights to find inspiration in real phobias, and the resulting collection of pieces might prove that not only is fear humankind's oldest emotion, but it's also one of our silliest, most serious, and stage-worthy. To perform the entire collection, click "Add to Shopping Cart" above. To perform an individual piece independently, click on its title below: | |||||
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Tumor | ||
| 1st Produced: | Annex Theatre (staged reading) (Seattle, WA, United States) | 2000 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc - New York | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #48511 | |||
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Genre: | 30-40 min Dark comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | 2 males, 2 females, 1 either (5 actors possible: 2-3 males, 2-3 females) | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Pete is pregnant. Sarah is pregnant. Kathie is pregnant. Richard is reacting badly to Kathie being pregnant. In stylized monologues and short scenes, each story is traced until the pregnancies arrive at their inevitable conclusions. | |||||
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Twilight In The B-Bowl | ||
| 1st Produced: | Annex Theatre, Seattle WA | 2002 | ||||
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 | #48512 | |||
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Genre: | Three-part comedy Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | Part One: Three punk-rock Marbits in a bowl of Lucky Charms thrash about, railing against their fate, as a spoon looms ominously above. Part Two: A torrid, ill-fated affair is struck between a loquacious, soggy cornflake and an overly-vain raspberry. Part Three: an oatmeal momma sings a bluesy riff to her raisin children. | |||||
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Uncle Sam's Satiric Spectacular | ||
| 1st Produced: | Actors Theatre of Louisville (Louisville, KY, United States) | 2005 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc - New York | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #61228 | |||
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Genre: | 80-95 min Satirical musical comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 8 | ||
Parts other: | 8 males, 8 females (10-30 actors possible: 5-15 males, 5-15 females) | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | The Astounding Krispinsky! The All-American Feminem! The Amazing Screaming Vegan, the Formerly Amazing Bob, and Mr. McBuffer the Renegade Puppet! With American culture and politics growing increasingly surreal, Actors Theatre of Louisville commissioned seven marquee playwrights to create a variety-show satire in the grand old vaudeville tradition -- from ventriloquists to contortionists to Lady Liberty on a trapeze. With songs! | |||||
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We Are Not These Hands | ||
| 1st Produced: | Catalyst Theatre | 2007 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-573-69669-5 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #48513 | |||
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Genre: | Full-length Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Staged reading by Eye of the Storm Theatre, Minneapolis MN, 2002 | |||||
| Ever since their school blew up, Moth and Belly have taken to stalking an illegal internet cafe in the hopes of one day being allowed in. They take particular interest in Leather, a skittish older man doing research in the cafe. He is a self-proclaimed "freelance scholar" from a foreign land with a sketchy past and a sticky secret. Leather begins to fall head over heals in love with Moth. . . but what about Belly? This play explores the effects of rampant capitalism on a country that is ill-prepared for it. | |||||
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