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DAVID COPELIN (1945 - ) |
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Nationality: USA-Canadian Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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Literary Agent: Kensington Literary Representation |
David Copelin is a playwright and dramaturg who has worked extensively in the professional theatres of both Canada and the United States. He is a graduate of Yale Drama School. David's play Bella Donna (Toronto: Playwrights Canada Press, 2006) won the New Play Award at the 2005 Toronto Fringe Festival; the play returns for a longer run in Toronto in May 2008. Now translating Carl Sternheim's Burger Schippel, David teaches scriptwriting privately and at Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario. He is an active member of the Playwrights Guild of Canada, Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas, and the Dramatists Guild of America.
Plays by David Copelin
Bella Donna | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2005 | |||||
Company: | Some Strange Reason | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playwrights Canada Press, 2006 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0887548406 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #76307 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
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| Passion, poison, and the fear of forever collide in this dark comedy, winner of the 2005 Toronto Fringe Festival's New Play Award. In Renaissance Italy, when the infamous Borgia family loses its power, their enemies seek revenge - but you can't break the law of unintended consequences. These people don't sin small. Bella Donna, which also won a Best Stage Play award from the Moondance International Film Festival in 2004, is the first production of Some Strange Reason, a Toronto company founded by playwright David Copelin. Some Strange Reason's next project will be David's new and even darker comedy, The Rabbi of Ragged Ass Road, which dramatizes a clash of spiritualities in the one-of-a-kind world of Yellowknife, Northwest Territories. Watch for it! | |||||
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Clean Breast, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | Winnipeg, Manitoba | - - - | ||||
Company: | Sarasvati 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 | #76323 | |||
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Genre: | monologue Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 9+ | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | In a hospital room, lusty, earthy TAMARA talks to the audience about her forthcoming mastectomy and the effects it is likely to have on her life and loves. | |||||
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Mind Over Matter | ||
| 1st Produced: | Yale Cabaret, New Haven, CT | 1970 | ||||
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 | #102464 | |||
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Genre: | One act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | She is a phoney - he is a lout - will they get it together? | |||||
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Quite Contrary | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playwrights Co-op, Toronto, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #7837 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | Two monks and a juggler take refuge whilst Henry VIII's troops sack their monastery. The statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary comes to life | |||||
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Rabbi Of Ragged Ass Road, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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 | #102465 | |||
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 | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | When her husband is killed in an accident, a Rabbi looses her faith, quits her congregation and takes up alternative spirituality | |||||
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Ubu Rex | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playwrights Co-op, Toronto, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #7838 | |||
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: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 10 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | Based on "Ubu Rex" by Alfred Jarry | |||||
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Vandals | ||
| 1st Produced: | Padua Hills Playwright Festival, California | 1978 | ||||
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 | #102466 | |||
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: | One act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 4 | ||
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Synopsis: | Whilst out trekking in the hills, two urban women meet two "wild" women | |||||
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