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CREIGHTON JAMES (1975 - ) |
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Nationality: USA Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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Literary Agent: Abrams Artists Agency |
Literary agent Kate Navin at Abrams. Creighton James is a native Ohioan, living in New York City. He is the author of nine full-length plays and several shorts. He co-founded Ensemble Actors' Theatre (Columbus, Ohio) in 1999 and New York Theatre Experiment (NYC) in 2004. Creighton is also an actor who has studied at Circle in the Square Theatre School (NYC), The Ohio State University and has an MFA from the Graduate Acting Program at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University
Plays by Creighton James
Am I Born to Die? | ||
| 1st Produced: | Shubert Theatre, 721 Broadway, NYC | 2007 | ||||
Company: | New York University | |||||
| 1st Published: | in The Appalachian Plays, iuniverse.com, 2008 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #78434 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | written by Creighton James, Amanda Fulks and Kadence Fulks | |||||
Synopsis: | "His funeral was on a Sunday. I have to begin somewhere. It might as well be there. His funeral was on a Sunday. I remember thinking how strange that was. No one get's buried on a Sunday. I remember that I didn't know what to wear. You're dead and I didn't know what to wear." - Opening lines of Am I Born to Die? | |||||
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Apartment | ||
| 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 | #69432 | |||
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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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | An unapologetic, detestable, disturbing, dark-comic stream of consciousness play drowning in misogyny, sex and violence. | |||||
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Brando | ||
| 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 | #69434 | |||
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: | Three demented documentary filmmakers kidnap Marlon Brando and force him to act out scenes from his movies. This mixed genre tale combines the dark comedy of Martin McDonagh and the twisted suspense of M. Night Shymalan. | |||||
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Burn | ||
| 1st Produced: | Lafayette Street Theatre, New York City | 2007 | ||||
Company: | New York Theatre Experiment | |||||
| 1st Published: | in The Appalachian Plays, iuniverse.com, 2008 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #55686 | |||
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Genre: | 2h 0m New York New York Drama Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 5 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A chilling Appalachian ghost story, sown from the darkest hours of America's past | |||||
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Dirt | ||
| 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 | #86177 | |||
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Genre: | dark comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Seven years ago Jimmy and Rusty killed their father and buried him beneath the dirt floor cabin where he was born. When they return for his remains, they unearth a mountain of family secrets. Straying from his large cast, 19th Century Appalachian tragedies, Creighton James plunges into dark comedy, exposing the hilariously violent side of modern day mountain life. | |||||
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Dog Juice | ||
| 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 | #78438 | |||
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: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 15 | Female | 6 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A group of well-to-do teens get their kicks on a cross-suburb crime spree. As detective Gerald Raines closes in, haunted by the spirits of the wronged, he finds this to be his most personal case yet. | |||||
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Feud | ||
| 1st Produced: | Village Theatre, New York City | 2005 | ||||
Company: | New York Theatre Experiment | |||||
| 1st Published: | in The Appalachian Plays, iuniverse.com, 2008 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #69433 | |||
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: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 15 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | The Civil War has ended and the lynching of a returning Union soldier sets off a bloody war between two Appalachian families. Thus begins the Hatfield-McCoy feud. | |||||
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Holly | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in The Appalachian Plays, iuniverse.com, 2008 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #78440 | |||
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: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 15 | Female | 4 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | In Holly, a brutally injured Civil War soldier, stumbles into the cabin of his estranged mother. As she nurses him back to health, the vengeful spirits of the hills lead him to the crossroad of his hardest battle yet. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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New York Christmas Carol | ||
| 1st Produced: | Blue Heron Arts Center, NY, NY | 2006 | ||||
Company: | New York University | |||||
| 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 | #78437 | |||
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 | 4 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | written by Creighton James and Joseph Schultz | |||||
Synopsis: | Dickens' Classic with a Manhattan twist. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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She's the Man | ||
| 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 | #69435 | |||
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: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | The classic story of boy meets girl, boy falls in love with girl, boy finds out girl is a boy, boy says "screw it" & stays girl/boy, and the dramatic complications ensue. | |||||
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Sound of Rain, 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 | #69436 | |||
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: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
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