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Jack Heifner

JACK HEIFNER   (1946 - )

Nationality:   USA    Email:   Click here to contact    Website:   n/a

Literary Agent:  Elaine Devlin Literary, Inc.  

Born in Corsicana, TX on March 31, 1946. B.F.A. in Theater Arts from Southern Methodist Univer-sity. Worked as an actor with The American Shakespeare Festival as well as summer stock and Off Broadway. Also technical and design jobs. Founding member of The Lion Theatre Company. Member: Dramatists Guild; ASCAP; Actor's Equity; Screenwriters Guild. Co-producer, Das Lusitania Songspiei. Vanities is the longest running play in Off Broadway history. Recipient: CAPS Grant, 1977; National Endowment for the Arts Grant, 1978; ASCAP Award, 1978.<

Plays by Jack Heifner

JACK HEIFNER

American Beauty

1st Produced:

Arkansas Repertory Theatre, Little Rock

1988

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1999

ISBN/ASIN:

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Music:

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Genre:

Musical

Parts:

Male

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Female

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Notes:

music by Michael Rice and scenes by Jack Heifner

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JACK HEIFNER

Bargains

1st Produced:

Margo Jones Theatre, Dallas

- - -

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1992

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#16168

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Genre:

Comedy One Act

Parts:

Male

2

Female

3

Parts other:

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Notes:

-

Synopsis:

At the beginning of BARGAINS, the female clerks in the local discount store are preparing for a mid-summer sale and gossiping over marked-down goods that nobody wants. Sally, prim and conservative, still lives with her tyrannical mother. Mildred, brassy and funny, lives in a trailer with her brother, Lothar, a failed, colorblind hairdresser who has never found himself. When the department store closes, the world as these women know it comes to an end. Although opposites in all respects, Sally and Mildred become allies and then friends as they rearrange the people who encumber their lives. After much maneuvering with the semi-suicidal Lothar, Mildred sends him off in the trailer to make a new start in California with his lover Dennis, a florist who is allergic to flowers. Sally confronts her domineering mother for the first time in her life and decides to let Mildred come to live in their house. Having inherited Dennis' flower shop, the two friends begin new careers, a new business and new lives.

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JACK HEIFNER

Blessed Unrest

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#16169

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Notes:

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JACK HEIFNER

Boy's Play

1st Produced:

West Bank Cafe, NY

1989

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1999

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#16170

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Genre:

One Act

Parts:

Male

2

Female

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Parts other:

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Notes:

-

Synopsis:

Two teenage boys are camping out for the weekend. Tom is an ex-football player and Joe is the quiet reserved one. Tom claims he has invented a new religion and as the evening wears on he wants Joe to join him in a suicide pact

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JACK HEIFNER

Brilliants

1st Produced:

- - -

- - -

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Broadway Play Publishing 9anthology), NY, 1985

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#16171

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Parts:

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Notes:

-

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JACK HEIFNER

Casserole

1st Produced:

Playwrights Horizons, NYC

1975

Company:

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1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

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Music:

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#16172

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n/a

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Notes:

World Premiere at STAGES in Houston, Texas during May, 1982.

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JACK HEIFNER

China Dolls

1st Produced:

stage reading Phoenix New Play Festival

2002

Company:

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1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

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Music:

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#16173

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Genre:

Play/Drama

Parts:

Male

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Female

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Parts other:

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Notes:

Ensemble Studio Theare Octoberfest, 2002

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JACK HEIFNER

Clara Period

1st Produced:

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Company:

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Music:

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#49385

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Genre:

Play One Act

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

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Notes:

-

Synopsis:

n/a

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JACK HEIFNER

Comfort And Joy

1st Produced:

Portland Center Stage, Portland, Oregon

1995

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1999

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#16174

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Genre:

Play/Drama

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

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Notes:

-

Synopsis:

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JACK HEIFNER

Dwarf Tossing 

1st Produced:

Ensemble Studio Theatre, NY

1999

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

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Music:

-

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#16175

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Genre:

One Act

Parts:

Male

2

Female

1

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

A gay giant falls in love with a dwarf

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JACK HEIFNER

Earth to Bucky

1st Produced:

staged reading Playwrights Project, High Point, NC

2001

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#16176

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Genre:

Play/Drama

Parts:

Male

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Female

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Parts other:

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Notes:

Key West Theater Festival, Florida, 2002

Synopsis:

Further Reference:

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JACK HEIFNER

Gulf, The

1st Produced:

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- - -

Company:

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1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

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Music:

-

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#16177

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Parts:

Male

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Female

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Parts other:

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Notes:

-

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JACK HEIFNER

Hate Mail

1st Produced:

Milwaukee Gay Arts Center, Milwaukee, WI

07 Apr 2006

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#16178

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Genre:

Play/Drama

Parts:

Male

1

Female

1

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

A gay romp through a lifetime of love, laughter, spite and HATE MAIL

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JACK HEIFNER

Heartbreak

1st Produced:

Los Angeles

1992

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1999

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#16179

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Genre:

Comedy

Parts:

Male

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Female

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Parts other:

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Notes:

-

Synopsis:

After the death of famous gay novelist Jason four of his friends try to discover what happened. There are thinly disguised versions of themselves in the last book he was writing

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JACK HEIFNER

Here She Is

1st Produced:

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Company:

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1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

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Music:

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#16180

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Genre:

n/a

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

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Notes:

-

Synopsis:

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JACK HEIFNER

Home Fires

1st Produced:

staged reading at Bigfork Performing Arts Center, Montana

1990

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1999

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#16181

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Genre:

Play/Drama

Parts:

Male

1

Female

7

Parts other:

-

Notes:

world premiere Arkansas Repertory Theatre, Little Rock, 1991

Synopsis:

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JACK HEIFNER

Jumping For Joy

1st Produced:

staged reading at Bigfork Performing Arts Center, Montana

1994

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

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Music:

-

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#16182

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Genre:

n/a

Parts:

Male

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Female

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Parts other:

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Notes:

Key West Theater Festival, Florida, 1998

Synopsis:

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JACK HEIFNER

Key West

1st Produced:

New Conservatory Theatre, San Francisco

1999

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#16183

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Genre:

Comedy

Parts:

Male

6

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

Middle aged friends Mel and Tracy are holidaying at a Key West gay resort hotel. Tracy gets drunk at a gay club and bribes the go-go dancer to come back to the hotel with him. Mel meets one of the other guests - Jeff - who has come to the hotel to meet Don a priest to whom he has been chatting on the internet.

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JACK HEIFNER

Leader Of The Pack

1st Produced:

Broadway, New York

1985

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Samuel French, NY, 1987

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#16184

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Genre:

Musical

Parts:

Male

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Female

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Parts other:

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Notes:

music and lyrics by Ellie Greenwich, additional material by Jack Heifner

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JACK HEIFNER

Lemon Cookie, The

1st Produced:

staged reading at Bigfork Performing Arts Center, Montana

1993

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#16185

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Genre:

Play/Drama

Parts:

Male

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Female

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Parts other:

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Notes:

Key West Theater Festival, Florida, 1999

Synopsis:

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JACK HEIFNER

Music-Hall Sidelights

1st Produced:

Lion Theatre Company, New York

1978

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

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Music:

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#16186

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Genre:

Theatrical scrapbook

Parts:

Male

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Female

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Parts other:

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Notes:

-

Synopsis:

drawn from "L'envers due music-hall" by Colette. The play was an adaptation from her writings with the addition of original music

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JACK HEIFNER

Natural Disasters

1st Produced:

West Bank Cafe, NY

1985

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1985

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#16187

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Genre:

Two 1 Acts One Act

Parts:

Male

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Notes:

Twister & Tropical Depression

Synopsis:

TROPICAL DEPRESSION. In a slightly seedy resort hotel on a remote Caribbean island, two high-living Texas housewives, Gloria and Janine, are enjoying a respite from their rich but boring husbands. They are determined to savor their holiday to the fullest, but nature has other plans. First they get burned to a crisp by the tropical sun, then a hurricane imprisons them in their tacky room. In between, however, Gloria defiantly spends a great deal of her absent husband's money on various "art treasures," while Janine (a former Miss Texas) pays for the favors of a handsome lifeguard, an act which jolts them both back to reality and makes them reexamine just who they are and what they really want from life. (2 women.) In the second play, TWISTER, Betty and Roy are apparently the only survivors of a tornado that has destroyed their tiny Texas town and all their worldly goods. After the initial shock wears off Roy sets about trying to restore things to what they were, while Betty, suddenly freed from all the junk she owned, wants to move on and start over. The resulting debate is both hilarious and revealing, as Roy resists the notion that what they had was nothing great while Betty pours out all her hopes and frustrations that have been bottled up for years. In the end it is the dream that triumphs: Betty charges off to catch a bus that may never arrive, and Roy attempts to hold onto the present that is fast becoming the past. (1 man, 1 woman.)

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JACK HEIFNER

Patio

1st Produced:

Century Theatre, NY

1978

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1978

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#16188

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Genre:

One Act

Parts:

Male

-

Female

2

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

set in the backyard of a middle-class Texas home. Pearl, the younger sister, is preparing a going-away party for her older sister, Jewel, a beautician who is bored with small town life and is heading off hopefully to the big city. As the two bustle about setting out food and putting up decorations, their conversation reveals progressively more and more of their differences and dreams--and of the emptiness which has pervaded both their lives

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JACK HEIFNER

Pollster, The

1st Produced:

- - -

- - -

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Broadway Play Publishing 9anthology), NY, 1985

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#16189

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Genre:

n/a

Parts:

Male

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Female

-

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Notes:

-

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JACK HEIFNER

Porch

1st Produced:

Century Theatre, NY

1979

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1978

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

doollee no

#16190

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Genre:

One Act

Parts:

Male

-

Female

2

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

the two characters are an ill and crotchety old woman and her restless, spinster daughter. As they sit on their ramshackle front porch, complaining of the heat, the meanness of the mother and the aching frustration of the daughter are made vivid through dialogue which, while frequently funny, is also unerring in capturing the quiet desperation which beset them both.

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JACK HEIFNER

Running On Empty

1st Produced:

New Dramatists, NY, USA >>>

1982

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1987

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#16191

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Genre:

Comedy

Parts:

Male

3

Female

2

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

As the play begins, Lilly is pondering which of her designer dresses to burn in the fireplace of her chic if sparsely furnished penthouse apartment. The problem is that it is wintertime, the United States has long since used up its fuel reserves, and if Lilly and her husband, Stephen, are to keep warm there is no alternative. Down in the streets below people are fighting birds for berries, cutting down trees in the parks for fuel, and waiting in endless lines for meager government food handouts. Lilly and Stephen are also preparing for a party, albeit one in which both food and drink will be imagined rather than real. The guest of honor is to be their old friend, David, with whom both once had romantic involvement. When David arrives he is accompanied by his latest conquests, Chloe (a flower child) and Jonathan (a committed Catholic), who, like their predecessors, are competing for David's amoral favors. As the pretend party progresses the antic mood of the play grows increasingly more probing and serious, as questions are raised about the barren platonic relationship which Lilly and Stephen have settled for; David's continued failure to commit himself, sexually or otherwise; and Chloe and Jonathan's obsession with the evils of materialism (her) and gnawing personal guilt (him). In the end human frailty is pitilessly excoriated but, at the same time, hopes are raised that the bitter lessons of the past, and present, will somehow be heeded, and that mankind may yet bring some semblance of order to the chaos and misfortune which his baser instincts have engendered.

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JACK HEIFNER

Seduction

1st Produced:

New Conservatory Theatre, San Francisco

2004

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1st Published:

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Music:

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#16192

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Genre:

Adaptation

Parts:

Male

5

Female

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Parts other:

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Notes:

Original Playwright - Arthur Schnitzler

Synopsis:

a gay version of La Ronde. Starting and ending with a rent boy and going through the actor, the writer, the producer, the handyman, the professor and the student

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JACK HEIFNER

Sing Baby Sing

1st Produced:

Arkansas Repertory Theatre, Little Rock

1993

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#16193

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Genre:

Musical

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

music and lyrics by Don Jones, book by Jack Heifner

Synopsis:

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JACK HEIFNER

Smile

1st Produced:

New York

1983

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#16194

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Genre:

Musical

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

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Notes:

Music by Marvin Hamlisch, Lyrics by Carolyn Leigh, Book by Jack Heifer

Synopsis:

about teenage beauty pageants

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JACK HEIFNER

Star Treatment

1st Produced:

Lion Theatre Company, New York

1980

Company:

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1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#16195

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Genre:

Contemporary comedy

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

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Notes:

songs by Janis Ian

Synopsis:

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JACK HEIFNER

Student and the Handyman, The

1st Produced:

- - -

- - -

Company:

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1st Published:

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Music:

-

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#91831

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Genre:

Short play

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

porn style set up

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JACK HEIFNER

Student and the Professor, The

1st Produced:

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- - -

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#91832

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Genre:

Short play

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

porn style set up

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JACK HEIFNER

There She Is

1st Produced:

Bigfork, Montana

1991

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#16196

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Genre:

Sketches Sketch

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

about beauty contests

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JACK HEIFNER

Tornado

1st Produced:

Texas Playwrights Festival, Houston

1983

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#16197

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Genre:

Disaster comedy One Act

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

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JACK HEIFNER

Tropical Depression

1st Produced:

Texas Playwrights Festival, Houston

1984

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1985

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#16198

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Genre:

Comedy One Act

Parts:

Male

-

Female

2

Parts other:

-

Notes:

in Natural Disasters

Synopsis:

In a slightly seedy resort hotel on a remote Caribbean island, two high-living Texas housewives, Gloria and Janine, are enjoying a respite from their rich but boring husbands. They are determined to savour their holiday to the fullest, but nature has other plans. First they get burned to a crisp by the tropical sun, then a hurricane imprisons them in their tacky room. In between, however, Gloria defiantly spends a great deal of her absent husband's money on various "art treasures," while Janine (a former Miss Texas) pays for the favours of a handsome lifeguard, an act which jolts them both back to reality and makes them re-examine just who they are and what they really want from life.

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JACK HEIFNER

Twister

1st Produced:

West Bank Cafe, NY

1984

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1985

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#16199

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Genre:

Comedy One Act

Parts:

Male

1

Female

1

Parts other:

-

Notes:

in Natural Disasters

Synopsis:

Betty and Roy are apparently the only survivors of a tornado which has destroyed their tiny Texas town and all their worldly goods. After the initial shock wears off Roy sets about trying to restore things to what they were, while Betty, suddenly freed from all the junk she owned, wants to move on and start over. The resulting debate is both hilarious and revealing, as Roy resists the notion that what they had was nothing great while Betty pours out all her hopes and frustrations that have been bottled up for years. In the end it is the dream that triumphs: Betty charges off to catch a bus that may never arrive, and Roy attempts to hold on to the present that is fast becoming the past.

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JACK HEIFNER

Untitled

1st Produced:

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- - -

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#16200

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Genre:

n/a

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

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JACK HEIFNER

Vanities

1st Produced:

Chelsea Westside Theatre, Off Broadway

1976

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Samuel French Inc, New York, 1976

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#16201

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Genre:

Comedy

Parts:

Male

-

Female

3

Parts other:

-

Notes:

closed 1980 after 1785 performances.

Synopsis:

A snap shot chronicle of the lives of three Texas girls.

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JACK HEIFNER

Vanities - The New Musical

1st Produced:

- - -

2005

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

Original cast recording: Ghostlight 2010

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#80490

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Genre:

Musical

Parts:

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-

Female

-

Parts other:

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Notes:

Music by David Kirshenbaum; lyrics by David Kirshenbaum; book by John Heifner. Based on the play "Vanities" by John Hefner

Vanities - The New Musical

spans the turbulent '60s through the late '80s and explores how important friends are as one faces life�s defining moments: growing up, getting older, and getting over it. Vanities is a funny and poignant look at women who discover that, even in 30 years of rapidly changing times, the one thing they can rely on is each other.

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