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ALEXANDRA COLLIER (1979 - ) |
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Nationality: Australian Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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Alexandra Collier is a writer and performer from Melbourne based in New York city. Her play, Still Waiting, won the RE Ross Trust Award (2003) and was profiled in the Australian Scriptwriting Centre's collection of the best Australian plays of 2006 and in their Stand Alone monologue audition collection (2007). She performed in the premiere of Still Waiting at La Mama (2005), and at the Adelaide Fringe Festival (2006). Other awards/fellowships: Dame Joan Sutherland Award (2009), MacDowell Fellowship (2009), Highly Commended in the Marian Eldridge National Women's Australian Writing Award (2006), Playworks development for Girl's Growing Small, which also received a mentorship from the Victorian Writer's Centre (2005). Other credits include, Eclipse, Melbourne Fringe (2000), Tasmania University (2006) and The Will of the Cockroach (NYC, 2007), produced by the Production Company as part of the Australia Project. She was a writer for the Monarch Theatre Company's one minute play festival (NYC, 2007) and for a series of monologues written by female playwrights - So She Said - at the Abingdon Theatre (NYC, 2008). Her play Deathless was selected to be workshopped by the Soho Think Tank's Sixth Floor Series and was recently read at the Lark Playwright's Development Center. She is currently the Literary Manger for The Production Company in New York, an Australian-American Alliance.
Plays by Alexandra Collier
Deathless | ||
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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 | #96345 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | As yet unproduced. | |||||
Synopsis: | Plastic particles can be found in every trace of the ocean, water is becoming the new fuel and an area twice the size of Texas in the Pacific is clogged with rubbish as far as the eye can see. Things are falling apart. Meanwhile, Professor Cleave, a passionate biologist, has left America to take up residency in a watery, third world city, to continue his research into radically extending human life. But before long, his daughter and his ex-wife are on his doorstep, each searching for their own life and death solutions. As their existence becomes more and more fragile, each one must face what they are living for. | |||||
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Eclipse | ||
| 1st Produced: | Melbourne Fringe Festival | 2000 | ||||
Company: | One Off Productions | |||||
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| Music: | - | doollee no | #52320 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | A woman walks down a secluded street at night. Alone. One can only expect the worst. And she does. But what she discovers is far more frightening than she could ever have possibly imagined. | |||||
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Red Letterbox | ||
| 1st Produced: | East 13th Street Theater, New York | - - - | ||||
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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 | #134055 | |||
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Genre: | Drama | |||||
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Synopsis: | A private eye and his dog are on a secret job when he meets a sexy hitchhiker | |||||
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Still Waiting | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2005 | |||||
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| Music: | - | doollee no | #58467 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Comedy/Drama Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | Awarded RE Ross Trust Playwright's Development Award, 2006. Profiled in the Australian Script Centre's collection of the best Australian plays of '06. | |||||
Synopsis: | It's Madeleine's last day at the restaurant. But as each day ticks over, with uncanny similarity, she is still waiting. But just beyond the domestic chaos of her unfulfilling job, a cabaret-esque world beckons. In this other world, Shakespeare and song meld and Madeleine performs atop the restaurant tables. In reality, orders are misplaced, customers are obnoxious, and accordion music plays on loop - all punctuated by the constant soundtrack of the kitchen bell. To make matters worse, Madeleine is romantically entangled with Paris, the wannabe poet and waiter; and Dave, the rough-as-guts chef. At any moment, things can and will tip over into a Dean Martin dance sequence. Still waiting. A world where everyone wants to be someone and somewhere else. | |||||
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Underland | ||
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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 | #134056 | |||
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Genre: | Drama | |||||
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Synopsis: | A schoolgirl discovers a Japanese business who has just crawled out of the earth having dug his way from Tokyo. He later turns up dead - victim of The Beast | |||||
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Will of the Cockroach, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
Company: | The Production 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 | #72600 | |||
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Notes: | The Production Company presents The Australia Project II: Australia Strikes Back!, a program of new works by Australian playwrights. The following description is from the show's press release: "Twelve acclaimed Australian playwrights create pieces based on their perceptions of the United States. The Australia Project II: Australia Strikes Back! includes new plays from some of Australia's most celebrated playwrights. The Production Company's work promotes and deepens cultural exchange between the United States and Australia and encourages artists to explore the relationship between the two countries." | |||||
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