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AARON HENNE |
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Nationality: USA Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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Aaron is the resident playwright for the Ovation Award Winning Son of Semele Ensemble, which has produced and developed "Bare", "King Cat Calico Finally Flies Free!" and "Labo(u)r". His play, "Sliding into Hades" at the Odyssey Theatre received an LA WEEKLY AWARD nomination for Playwriting. He was recently commissioned to write "Record Storm Spreads Ruin!" for The Los Angeles History Project. He has served in script development capacities for Culture Clash, The Mark Taper Forum, The Theatre @ Boston Court and The Colony Theatre. Aaron's work has also been featured at The Road Theatre Company, Unknown Theatre and Theatre of Note. Aaron was honored as a finalist for The Jerome and The Juilliard Fellowships in Playwriting, as well as Center Theatre Group's Sherwood Award. He has also served as The Educational Program Director for the renowned children's Theatre, We Tell Stories. Aaron has taught theatre and playwriting at the University of Alabama, The Robey Theatre Company and Wordspace. He currently runs the writers' studio, WORDSTRUT.
Plays by Aaron Henne
Bare | ||
| 1st Produced: | Son of Semele Ensemble (workshop production) | - - - | ||||
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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 | #82802 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | 1 hour Thirty Minutes. No intermission. Pope John Paul II and Terri Schiavo, both on feeding tubes, meet in the moments between life and death. A hungry grizzly Bear appears and, after eating the Pope and finding language, blesses all with the St. Francis prayer. | |||||
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Current | ||
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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 | #82803 | |||
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Genre: | Lyric Dramedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | 1 hour Thirty Minutes, No intermission. Inspired by a true story. Stan, the one eyed man, is struck by lightning more than eight times over the course of forty years. Stan also doubles as the cyclops, the ancient figure who fashioned lightning bolts for Zeus . | |||||
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King Cat Calico FinallY Flies Free! | ||
| 1st Produced: | Son of Semele Ensemble | 2006 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1-934962-28-2 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #82804 | |||
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Genre: | Vaudevillian Dramedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | 3-10 m/f | |||||
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| 1 Hour Twenty Minutes, No intermission. Heidi Hendrickson has an obsession, a compulsion really - she has 150 cats in her eleven hundred square foot apartment, including sixty dead ones in the Frigidaire. She has an especially intimate relationship with the alpha cat, one King Cat Calico who keeps trying to escape this hellish tuna filled, feces stained prison, to no avail. A fun filled exploration of loneliness, possession and the need to claim one's place in this uncertain world. Featuring a cameo by Rush Limbaugh, singing(literally) the praises of Oxy-Contin, or what he lovingly refers to as his "little blues." | |||||
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Labo(u)r | ||
| 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 | #82805 | |||
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Genre: | Mash Up | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | Ensemble of 12 men and/or women | |||||
Notes: | Written by Aaron Henne. Developed with Son of Semele Ensemble. Conceived By Alexander Wells | |||||
Synopsis: | Appearing as Chaplin-esque vagabonds, labor class workers dance, pratfall, tumble and roll through more than a century of evolving consciousness in a sometimes absurd attempt to make a mark. . .or perhaps just a smile. | |||||
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McGoogle | ||
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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 | #82806 | |||
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Genre: | Political Satire | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 6 | ||
Parts other: | doubling possible | |||||
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Synopsis: | A vaudevillian romp through the Oklahoma City Bombing, Parkinson's Disease, gulf war syndrome and our current War in Iraq. Features David Koresh, Timothy McVeigh and Mohammed Ali as they await their respective destinies. | |||||
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Record Storm Spreads Ruin! | ||
| 1st Produced: | Workshop Production: The Autry Museum, Los Angeles | 2008 | ||||
Company: | Los Angeles History Project | |||||
| 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 | #85553 | |||
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: | Political Satire | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | Devised By Son of Semele Ensemble | |||||
Synopsis: | A corrupt administration. A leader clinging desperately to his power. A devastating flood. In 1938, Los Angeles Mayor Frank Shaw, on the verge of being ousted from power, broadcasts over the radio airwaves to a drowning city. His citizens, some living and some dead, converge on City Hall to offer him one last chance at salvation from his past deeds, before he is overtaken by a record storm. | |||||
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Sliding Into Hades | ||
| 1st Produced: | Odyssey Theatre Ensemble | 2007 | ||||
Company: | Odyssey Theatre Ensemble | |||||
| 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 | #82807 | |||
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: | Metaphysical Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 4 | ||
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Notes: | Written By Aaron Henne. Developed by the KOAN ensemble. Conceived By Ron Sossi. won 4 LA Weekly Theatre Awards, including one for playwriting and another for production of the year | |||||
Synopsis: | Sliding into Hades is an exploration of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth, relative to today's attitudes toward aging and death. Do we really control our destinies, and to what extent? Are we as realistic about mortality as European or Asian cultures are? And what about our ever-increasing search for the Fountain of Youth? | |||||
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Strut | ||
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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 | #82808 | |||
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 with music | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | Strut was a finalist for the 2004 Jerome Fellowship. Actor/musicians preferrable | |||||
Synopsis: | 1 hour Ten Minutes: A play with Music. To the smooth grooves of a jazz quartet, Dave and Essie get Gershwined. It's 1947, it's Newark, it's a hot Saturday night. The kind of night that lasts a lifetime. Feet float. Bodies fly. Twenty years. Memory loses shine. Twenty more. Heads now encased in surgical halos, unable to walk, Dave and Essie can still swing. The dance never stops. The dance never stops. The dance never stops. | |||||
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