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JOHN CLANCY |
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Nationality: USA Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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John Clancy is an OBIE award winning director and Executive Artistic Director of Clancy Productions, Inc. He is the founding Artistic Director of Present Company and a founding Artistic Director of The New York International Fringe Festival. He is an award-winning playwright and his productions have toured the world. He has been honored with five Scotsman Fringe Firsts at The Edinburgh Festival Fringe, two Best of the Festivals at the Adelaide Fringe Festival, a Glasgow Herald Angel Award for direction and a New York Magazine Award for "creativity, enterprise and vision." In 2007, his company was awarded the inaugural Edinburgh Festival Award by the Edinburgh International Festival and commissioned to create a new work for the Festival. He serves as the Executive Director of the League of Independent Theater, the advocacy organization for 99-seat theaters and their practitioners in New York City. He lives on the Lower East Side with his wife and partner, Nancy Walsh.
Plays by John Clancy
Another Beautiful Story | ||
| 1st Produced: | CRUX (The 24 Hour Company) (New York, NY, United States) | 1998 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc - New York | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-9709046-9-0 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #96581 | |||
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Genre: | 10-12 min Comedy/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | 1 male, 1 female, 2 either (4 actors possible: 1-3 males, 1-3 females) | |||||
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| The Narrator stands center stage. But before anything is revealed, he falls over, dead. Enter Artsy Guy, Lead Actress, and Fourth Character who attempt to take over where the Narrator left off. A play about the idea of "meta" in the theater and whether a play can have meaning if the story is never told. | |||||
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Broccoli Incident, The | ||
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| 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 | #39187 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | The Narrator stands center stage. But before anything is revealed, he falls over, dead. Enter Artsy Guy, Lead Actress, and Fourth Character who attempt to take over where the Narrator left off. A play about the idea of "meta" in the theater and whether a play can have meaning if the story is never told. | |||||
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Captain Overlord's Folly, or The Fool's Revenge | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
Company: | commissioned by the Edinburgh International Festival. (EIF) | |||||
| 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 | #88941 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Synopsis: | What starts as a Shavian play along Major Barbara lines takes a Pirandello turn with the appearance of six clowns in search of an author. Kurt Rhoads plays the Captain, a man with a past but also a rich, beautiful ward, Melissa Lynch's Sue. After some suitable pomposity with his pal, Baron Waterloo Gallipoli (Dave Calvitto), we see Sue committing to the Captain's handsome factory worker Tom (Wil Petre) the day before she inherits on her 18th birthday. A spanner arrives in the substantial person of Mike McShane playing John Staine, an evil man who demands Sue's hand (not to mention body and cash) in return for keeping an unmentioned dark secret. After the interval, the play deconstructs as the clowns, led by a delightfully whacky Paul Urcioli, stage a bloody massacre and take over the plot, observed and commented on by a trio of unintelligible professors. | |||||
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Event, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Barrow Street Theatre, New York | 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 | #94322 | |||
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Genre: | 63 min monologue | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | A man appears in a pool of light in front of a room of suddenly silent strangers and THE EVENT begins. Matt Oberg delivers this comic & probing look at the act of theater and the way we live today. | |||||
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Fatboy | ||
| 1st Produced: | Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh | 2004 | ||||
Company: | Assembly Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, Inc - New York (2009) >>> | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-573-69658-9 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #51742 | |||
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Genre: | Brutal Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 1 | ||
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| John Clancy's satire on modern America's insatiable appetites, where the population gobbles pork chops, sex and consumer durables while the government gobbles up small nations, is big, broad and brash. The word "subtle" does not enter its theatrical vocabulary. This is a world where Fatboy is a great big bully who, like the US, takes "what I want" and destroys the rest. Played as a zany Punch and Judy show, a theatre within a theatre, the piece has some very nice touches, particularly in its play on theatrical conventions. The best moments come in a courtroom scene where Fatboy is on trial for war crimes. The justice system proves itself incapable of standing up to his bullying tactics, and he outlines his plans for world domination "leading a coalition of the weak and willing". - Guardian | |||||
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Paper Man | ||
| 1st Produced: | Present Company, New York | 1996 | ||||
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 | #132282 | |||
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Genre: | Drama | |||||
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Synopsis: | Jake looses his job and goes to live on the streets and explores the dark side of the city he knew from years before | |||||
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Secret Agent Man | ||
| 1st Produced: | Samuel Beckett Theatre, New York | 1994 | ||||
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 | #132283 | |||
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