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CHRISTOPHER CARTMILL |
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Christopher Cartmill received a B.A. in Chinese and East Asian Studies at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia, and an M.F.A. in Acting from the University of Virginia. He also did graduate work in Chinese at Fu Ren University in Taipei, R.O.C., and was accepted to the Royal Scottish Academy for Dramatic Arts in Glasgow. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild, Actors Equity Association, the Screen Actor's Guild, and AFTRA. Mr. Cartmill spent time writing at the Tyrone Guthrie Center in Ireland and the Kimmell Harding Nelson Arts Center in Nebraska. His plays include: Incorruptible: The Life, Death, And Dreams Of Maximilien De Robespierre. Incorruptible premiered at the Bailiwick Repertory in Chicago and received a Joseph Jefferson Citation for Outstanding New Work. Light In Love, which premiered in Chicago, received the Society of Midland Authors Award for Drama and the Joseph Jefferson Citation for Outstanding New Work. Light In The Heart Of The Dragonreceived a Jeff nomination and was awarded the John W. Schimd prize for Best New Play. His play La Chasse had a successful run in Los Angeles garnering a Drama-Logue Award for Outstanding New Play. The play has continued in New York readings and workshops with David Strathairn. In 1999,Romeo's Dream was given the Roger L. Stevens Award from the Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays. Benjamin Constant was presented in a reading by the Blue Light Theatre company with Joanne Woodward. Mr. Cartmill is part of a small writer's collective called Groop with Barbara Hammond, Adam Langer and Jane Gennaro. He has been working with the One Arm Red Theater company and Artistic Director Adam Adams, creating new work and performing existing material. This has included the production of Light On The Golden Slipperin the Berkshires. With the Gad's Hill Theater Company, he created and directed a new version of Moliere's Tartuffe which premiered at New York City's ArcLight Theatre. Christopher's adaptations of Tennyson's Idylls Of The King andLancelot And Elaine continue to air on New York's WNYC. He has participated in an ongoing guest artist program at Lincoln Southeast High School in Lincoln, Nebraska. Currently, Mr. Cartmill is an adjunct professor at the Gallatin School of New York University, teaching theater courses (Romantics and Revolutionaries: Theatricality in the Age of Revolution, Asian Theater: Ritual and Performance) He has also created a series of integrated-arts programs for the New York Public Schools, in association with "Learning through an Expanded Arts Program" and continues to write and perform special programs for the Art Institute of Chicago, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Yale Center for British Art.
Plays by Christopher Cartmill
Apotheosis of Vaclav Drda, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
Company: | Gads Hill Theater 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 | #63214 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy/Drama Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | This is a darkly comic new play by Christopher Cartmill that follows the misfortunes of a group of actors staging the work of an obscure Czech playwright. Apotheosis follows the story of Joanna, a down-on-her-luck actress who's borrowed money from her parents to self-produce her favorite play. As she juggles a clueless director, egotistical costars, and a venue requiring a Sherpa guide to reach, despair becomes overwhelming. It takes a mysterious visitor to remind her of what's important, what she really wants, and why she's an artist in the first place. | |||||
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Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Gad's Hill Theater Company - staged reading (New York, NY, United States) | 2001 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc - New York | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #61230 | |||
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Genre: | 35-45 min Comedy/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 9 | Female | 7 | ||
Parts other: | 9 males, 7 females, 3 either (8-25 actors possible: 4-13 males, 4-12 females) | |||||
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Synopsis: | In this wickedly funny adaptation of Washington Irving's classic tale of superstition and village rivalry, gawky schoolmaster Ichabod Crane fancies himself a dashing, worldly man of learning, capable of winning the heart of Katrina Van Tassel. Will this beautiful daughter of a wealthy local farmer return Ichabod's affections, or does she have other ideas? What will be the outcome when Ichabod confronts his desires, fears, and of course, the Headless Horseman of Sleepy Hollow? | |||||
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Spectre Bridegroom, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Lincoln Southeast High School (Lincoln, NE, United States) | 2004 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc - New York | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #103584 | |||
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Genre: | 100-120 min Gothic comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 11 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | 11 males, 5 females, 2 either (14-25 actors possible: 8-13 males, 5-10 females) | |||||
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Synopsis: | High in the Odenwald, young Louisa von Landkurz waits to marry the Count von Altenberg, a man she has never met. When the Count appears, she is smitten -- but is he the real Count, a murderer, or a ghost? And for that matter, is the second Count real? Or the third Count? A gothic comedy full of mistaken identities, mysterious messages and ghostly appearances. | |||||
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