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NAPOLEON ELLSWORTH (AKA PATRICK ELLSWORTH) |
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Nationality: USA Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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Napoleon Ellsworth is a graduate of the Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program at The Juilliard School. He has been the recipient of the John Golden Award for Playwriting and two Lincoln Center LeComte du Nouy Awards. His short film sunnyslope (2005) was awarded Best NY Short at the New York International Independent Film & Video Festival, as well as an honorable mention for Best of Fest at the Great Lakes Film Fest. His theater productions include: Tiny Little (Echo Theater Company, 2003), Full of Fire (Echo Theater Company, 2004), and Don't Pet the Zookeeper (Rising Phoenix Rep, 2008). Other plays have been developed at The Juilliard School, Playwrights Horizons, The Syzygy Theater Group, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, The Laurie Beechman Theatre, New York Theatre Workshop, The Los Angeles Writer's Center, Theater for the New City, Second Stage, and The Sidewalk Studio Theatre. He is currently a semi-finalist at The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's 2009 National Playwrights Conference with his most recent play, The Wicked Messenger. He is also at work on an adaptation to the stage of Lars von Trier's Dancer in the Dark.
Plays by Napoleon Ellsworth (aka Patrick Ellsworth)
Dancer in the Dark | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 2010 | ||||
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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 | #96784 | |||
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: | Drama/Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Tonda Marton of the Marton Agency is representing this project. | |||||
Synopsis: | An adaptation to the stage of Lars von Trier's Dancer in the Dark. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Don't Pet the Zookeeper | ||
| 1st Produced: | Seventh Street Small Stage (NY, NY, United States) | 2008 | ||||
Company: | Rising Phoenix Repertory | |||||
| 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 | #96696 | |||
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: | Dark Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | Twyla interviews for the job of zookeeper and is immediately and deeply drawn to her prospective boss. Their bizarre and inappropriate interview hints at sinister things to come. | |||||
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Farewell Undertaker | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 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 | #96697 | |||
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: | Dark Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | Nicholas, a sixteen year old boy, attempts to escape the insanity of his home life and pursue his dream of being a motivational speaker for the astronauts. | |||||
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Full of Fire | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Whitefire Theatre | 2004 | ||||
Company: | The Echo Theater Company (Los Angeles, CA, United States) | |||||
| 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 | #96698 | |||
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: | Dark Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | A hopelessly disenfranchised man channels Al Green while his newly unemployed neighbors invade his home. | |||||
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Historian's Son, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 2010 | ||||
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 | #96699 | |||
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: | Dark Comedy | |||||
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Synopsis: | A young man dressed in full Confederate regalia travels to the capital with the intention of killing the president, only the man he is after is not really the president at all, but someone much much closer. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Hunting for Game | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 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 | #96700 | |||
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: | Dark Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | Suddenly aware that the memories he shares with his current band mates are, in fact, memories of different band mates from a different time Charles realizes what he must do: he must replace the members of his new and very successful band, one by one, with those from his old; and he must do so by murder if he must. | |||||
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Tiny Little | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Elephant Asylum Theatre | 2003 | ||||
Company: | The Echo Theater Company (Los Angeles, CA, United States) | |||||
| 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 | #96701 | |||
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: | Dark Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | Francine, pregnant and in her early twenties, is convinced that the child she's carrying is, in fact, her mother, a woman with whom she had an unspeakably bad relationship. | |||||
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Wicked Messenger, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 2010 | ||||
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 | #96702 | |||
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: | Dark Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | A semi-finalist at The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's 2009 National Playwrights Conference. | |||||
Synopsis: | A reverend, having lost his faith in God, believes his penis now has mystical powers. | |||||
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