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STEPHEN ADLY GUIRGIS |
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Nationality: USA Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: The Gersh Agency |
Stephen Adly Guirgis is a proud, long time member of the LAByrinth Theater Company in New York. His play Jesus Hopped the A Train has been critically acclaimed. It was performed at the Edinburgh festival 2001 where it received a fringe first award.
Plays by Stephen Adly Guirgis
Boom Boom Boom Boom | ||
| 1st Produced: | LAByrinth Theatre, New York | 1998 | ||||
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 | #119938 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A man with premature ejaculation problems finds love on a cruise ship | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Den Of Thieves | ||
| 1st Produced: | Black Dahlia Theatre, Los Angeles | 10 Apr 2002 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #14918 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy Drama Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Maggie is a newly single, junk-food-bingeing shoplifter looking to change her life and her self-hating ways. Paul is her passionately convicted, formerly four-hundred-pound compulsive-overeating sponsor in a twelve-step program for recovering thieves. Maggie's jealous ex-boyfriend is a charismatic wannabe Puerto Rican small-time thief of uncertain ancestry named Flaco who spins a grammatically challenged but persuasive yarn about seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars in unprotected drug money sitting in a safe in a downtown disco guarded by an easily distracted crackhead. This dubious and ragtag would-be criminal crew is rounded out by Flaco's new girlfriend, the fabulous Boochie-a malaprop-slinging topless dancer who refuses to let her troubled childhood or her third-grade reading level stand in the way of her inevitable path to fame, fortune and fur. When things don't quite go according to plan, this bickering quartet of hapless thieves finds themselves at the mercy of Louie "The Little Tuna" Pescatore, | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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In Arabia, We'd All Be Kings | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2003 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Methuen Drama, London, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #14919 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Lenny is a recently released ex-convict. Despite his imposing size, he was gang raped repeatedly while incarcerated and struggles to find his manhood on the outside. Daisy, his alcoholic girlfriend, craves a "real" life with a "real" man and abandons him at a seedy pre-Giuliani Times Square bar in pursuit of some cheap Chinese takeout. At the bar is Skank, a former failed actor turned junkie, who is trying to outlast the rain storm and get a buyback from the long-missing Irish bartender as he begins to go through withdrawals. Also at the bar is Sammy, an old, dying guilt-ridden drunk who exists somewhere be-tween reality and the afterlife. DeMaris, a seventeen-year-old gun-brandishing single mother, wants to learn to turn tricks. She enlists the aid of Chickie, Skank's girlfriend, a young crackhead hooker who plays Go Fish with the simple-minded day bartender Char-lie, who thinks he's a Jedi warrior and who buys meals for Chickie because he loves her and because he lives for the day they can go out someday, " | |||||
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Jesus Hopped the 'A' Train | ||
| 1st Produced: | Edinburgh Festival | 2001 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #14920 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | Directed by Phillip Seymour Hoffman. The play is dedicated to David Hoghe (1963 2000) | |||||
Synopsis: | The Young Angel Cruz is in Jail awaiting trial for shooting Reverend Kim. While in jail he meets Lucius Jenkins, an inmate whose pride and religious zeal defies the bars that hold him prisoner. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Last Days of Judas Iscariot, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | NYC Arts Cypher, NY | 2006 | ||||
Company: | Bread & Roses Players | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #54543 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 9 | Female | 5 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | The Last Days of Judas Iscariot takes place in Hope, a small section of Purgatory where litigation determines the fates of its inhabitants. Thanks to a writ signed by God, himself, Judas Iscariot-Jesus's infamous betrayer-is on trial, though he is in a catatonic state in Hell. In a hilarious and well-written dramedy, viewers will find themselves questioning their own opinions on despair, morality, and salvation | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Little Flower Of East Orange, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2006 | |||||
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 | #53935 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | In a Manhattan charity hospital, an unidentified woman floats in and out of consciousness. In prison, her son tries to figure out how she got there | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Motherfucker with the Hat, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Schoenfeld Theatre | 11 Apr 2011 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, 2012 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-8222-2548-5 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #125959 | |||
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Genre: | dark comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Lyrics By: Anna D. Shapiro; written by Stephen Adly Guirgis | |||||
Synopsis: | The Motherfucker with the Hat is a new high-octane, verbal cage match about love, fidelity, and misplaced haberdashery from playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis. Jackie and Veronica have been in love since the 8th grade. But now, Jackie is on parole and living clean and sober under the guidance of his sponsor, Ralph D, while still living and loving with his volatile soulmate Veronica who is fiercely loving, but far from sober. Still, their love is pure. And true. Nothing can come between themexcept a hat. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Our Lady Of 121st Street | ||
| 1st Produced: | Center Stage/NY 48 West 21st Street, NYC | 2002 | ||||
Company: | LAByrinth Theater Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | American Theatre Magazine, NY - February, 2003 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #14921 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 4 | ||
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Notes: | The theatre was off-off Broadway--in a studio on the 4th floor of the the building. The Play also was produced and ran:LAByrinth Theater Company, Our Lady of 121st Street, Union Square Theatre 100 East 17th Street February 18 - July 27, 2003 | |||||
Synopsis: | The Ortiz Funeral Room is in big trouble: The body of beloved community activist and nun Sister Rose has been stolen from the viewing room, and waiting for her proper return are some of New York City's most emotionally charged, life-challenged neighborhood denizens, trying to find a place to put their grief, checkered pasts and their uncertain futures. Among the equally hilarious and tragic twelve characters, you'll meet Rooftop, a chronically unfaithful but otherwise popular Los Angeles DJ, looking to reconcile with the love of his life; Pinky and Edwin, two brothers tragically linked forever; and the outrageously angry Norca, who doesn't let the fact that she slept with her best friend's husband deter her from the full expectation of being immediately forgiven of her sin by her best friend, Inez, still in pain fifteen years later. The rest of the crowd in this dark, insightful and very funny comedy inevitably square off on each other, motivated by rage, pain and a scary desire to come clean-perhaps for the | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Sissy Letters, The: Numbers 14, 29, and 47 | ||
| 1st Produced: | Ensemble Studio Theatre, NY | 2006 | ||||
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 | #54740 | |||
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Genre: | Play One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Ensemble Studio Theatre's 28th annual presentation of the Marathon, featuring one-act plays | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Yelba, Princess of 10th Avenue | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
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 | #67432 | |||
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Genre: | short play One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | part of Ensemble Studio Theatre's 29th annual Marathon-a festival of new short plays from a diverse spectrum of American playwrights | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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