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LYNN-STEVEN JOHANSON (1950 - ) |
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Nationality: USA Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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Lynn-Steven Johanson holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and works at Western Illinois University in Macomb, Illinois. He is a past winner of the Nantucket Short Play Festival, the East Valley Children's Theatre Playwriting Contest, and the Snowdance Comedy Festival. He is also a recipient of an AriZoni Theatre Award of Excellence for Best Original Play. He is a Network Playwright with Chicago Dramatists, and holds memberships with the Dramatists Guild, and the Mid-America Theatre Conference.
Plays by Lynn-Steven Johanson
Aging Grace | ||
| 1st Produced: | CAST Players, Beaumont, CA | 22 Jun 2012 | ||||
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 | #100956 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | Finalist, CAST Players National One-Act Play Competition 2012 | |||||
Synopsis: | Lainie and Suzanne, dysfunctional sisters, return to their childhood home to address what to do about their mother's increasing dementia. As they deliberate their mother's deteriorating mental state and explore available options, their personalities clash, and hinder their ability to reach a consensus. | |||||
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Angel Cream | ||
| 1st Produced: | Turnip Theatre Company (Off-Broadway), production, New York City | 1997 | ||||
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 | #40525 | |||
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Genre: | Ten Min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A casual meeting between a young man and a young woman seems innocent enough but things take a sinister twist when the man turns out to be serial killer Ted Bundy. | |||||
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As You Like It '69 | ||
| 1st Produced: | Department of Theatre, Buena Vista University | 1988 | ||||
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 | #40526 | |||
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Genre: | Interpretation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 15 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | extras | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A modern interpretation of William Shakespeare's comedy set in California in 1969 | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Buford and Leroy | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Nantucket Short Play Festival, Nantucket, Massachusetts | 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 | #40527 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Winner of the 1998 Nantucket Short Play Contest. | |||||
Synopsis: | Buford and Leroy, two redneck buddies, meet in the city park to hash over why Leroy cannot attend the Monster Truck Challenge that evening. This one-act play was the basis for the full-length play, Trailer Park Tango | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Crucifixion of Moe and Ira, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Makor Theatre, New York, NY | 2005 | ||||
Company: | Makor Ten-Minute Play Festival | |||||
| 1st Published: | Poems & Plays, Middle Tennessee University, Spring, 2010 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #59711 | |||
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Genre: | Black Comedy One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Winner of the 2008 Snowdance Play Festival, Racine, Wisconsin, USA. | |||||
Synopsis: | On a sunny morning in Judea in the year 30 A.D., Moe, a clown, and Ira, a Samaritan, have been condemned to death. As they hang from their crosses awaiting their deaths, they discuss their crimes and perhaps find a way to avoid some of the suffering and agony that await them | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Joanna on My Mind | ||
| 1st Produced: | Love Creek Annual Short Play Festival Series, New York City | 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 | #40528 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Once they were high school sweethearts. But when circumstances separated them after graduation, their lives developed separately. Now, after forty-two years, Bill and Pearl meet again and sense the spark between them continues to glow. But revelations about the past threaten to drive a wedge between them, and only time will tell whether there is any hope for a future together. | |||||
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Let Angels Prostrate Fall | ||
| 1st Produced: | Atlantis Playmakers, Lowell, MA | - - - | ||||
Company: | Short Attention Span PlayFEST | |||||
| 1st Published: | InterJACtions: Monologues at the Heart of Human Nature, JAC Publishing, 2010 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #54785 | |||
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Genre: | monologue Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | a humorous, semi-autobiographical about growing up in rural Iowa. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Missing and Unaccounted For | ||
| 1st Produced: | Chicago, IL | 2007 | ||||
Company: | Chicago Dramatists | |||||
| 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 | #100954 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Staged reading at Chicago Dramatists as part of its Saturday Series. | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Power of Darkness, The | ||
| 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 | #40529 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 11 | Female | 10 | ||
Parts other: | extras | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Leo Tolstoy | |||||
Synopsis: | A new English language version of Leo Tolstoy's tragic play of moral disintegration that ultimately leads a man to murder his own baby | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Shooting Pool With A Rope | ||
| 1st Produced: | Palm Springs International Play Festival, Palm Springs, CA | 2007 | ||||
Company: | Playwrights Circle | |||||
| 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 | #54784 | |||
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Genre: | Play One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Winner, 10th Annual New Voice Play Festival, Old Opera House Theatre, Charles Town, WV, 2010; Winner, 1st Annual One-Act Play Festival, Pend Oreille Playhouse, Newport, WA, 2010. | |||||
Synopsis: | A meeting in a park between a sixteen-year-old boy and a sixty-eight-year-old man sets the stage for an experience that will change the direction of their lives. The boy's anger and the man's guilt collide as the two attempt to deal with a new-found reality. | |||||
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Tale from the North Woods, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Regional Touring Theatre Company | 1993 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Youth Plays at www.youthplays.com | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #40530 | |||
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Genre: | play for young audiences | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 9 | Female | 7 | ||
Parts other: | extras | |||||
Notes: | revised 1997. Winner of the 2006 Playwriting Contest, East Vallley Children's Theatre, Mesa, AZ. Winner of a 2007 AriZoni Award for Best Original Script | |||||
Synopsis: | When a forest fire drives the gnomes from their homes, they are forced to live close to the land of the trolls, their sworn enemies. But when a gnome girl and a troll girl meet and become friends, the bigotry of their parents threatens to destroy their friendship. With the help of an elf wizard, the girls prove to their parents that long established prejudices are based on false assumptions and exaggerated stories from the past. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Trailer Park Tango | ||
| 1st Produced: | Festival of Firsts Playwriting Competition, Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA | 2000 | ||||
Company: | City of Carmel-by-the-Sea | |||||
| 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 | #40531 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | aka Buford and Leroy. Runner-up Award, Festival of Firsts Playwriting Competition, 2000; Finalist in American Renegade's Playwriting Contest, 2000; and Finalist in Theatre Conspiracy's New Play Contest, 2000. | |||||
Synopsis: | Set in a mobile home court in a small Illinois town, Trailer Park Tango exposes the comic eccentricities of life in redneck America. Buford Koontz and Leroy Funt have been friends since grade school. But when Leroy's minister brother is arrested for soliciting prostitution, his friendship with Buford is put to the test. Add to the mix Leroy's overbearing mother and his new girlfriend, and events lead to an uproarious state of affairs. | |||||
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Twisted | ||
| 1st Produced: | New York City | Feb 2011 | ||||
Company: | Midwinter Madness Festival | |||||
| 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 | #125015 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Winner of the 2011 Tallahassee Writers Association Project Stagelight's Best Play Award. | |||||
Synopsis: | Phil Haldeen, a real estate agent, meets with Doug Terrill who is interested in purchasing a house that Phil has on the market. Seeking a historically significant house to restore, Doug is drawn to the home's Queen Anne Victorian architecture and the quality craftsmanship that went into building the home. Phil and Doug develop an easy rapport with one another, but before an actual agreement transpires, Phil's wife, Sharon, arrives. Concerned because he has not answered his cell phone, she has driven out to the house to check on his wellbeing. But things are not as they appear to be, and when a handgun is produced, the easy rapport turns sinister and unveils a carefully orchestrated plot for revenge. Surprise twists and character revelations expose a lurid tale of deception, betrayal, and murder, and only one of the three will walk away. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Uncle Vanya | ||
| 1st Produced: | University Theatre, Western Illinois University | 1991 | ||||
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 | #40532 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Anton Chekhov | |||||
Synopsis: | A new English language version of Anton Chekhov's play of love, frustration, and imploding lives in Czarist Russia. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Writer and the Thief, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | John Chatterton's Short Play Lab, NYC | 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 | #116749 | |||
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Genre: | Ten Min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
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Synopsis: | It is the early nineteenth century, and two middle-aged men are incarcerated in a French prison cell, enduring torture for their crimes. Gustave, a well-spoken writer, and Emile, a swindler, pass the time discussing their torture, disagreeing about good taste, and arguing about the nature of literary ownership. But in the end, a surprise revelation changes their predicament and provides hope for the future of life on the outside. | |||||
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