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MRINALINI KAMATH |
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Nationality: Asian American Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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Literary Agent: n/a |
Mrinalini Kamath Mrinalini Kamath's plays have been performed around the country as well as in the United Kingdom, Australia and India. She was a semi-finalist for both the 2006 O'Neill and Seven Devils Playwrights Conferences and was Fluid Motion Theatre and Film's inaugural Start the Storycommission recipient (2006). She won first place in the 2005 East West Players (Los Angeles, CA) Got Laughs? Asian-American Comedy Play Contest, was a Tennessee Williams Scholar at the 2003 Sewanee Writers' Conference in Sewanee, Tennessee, and a finalist for the 2004 Jerome Fellowship at the Playwrights' Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Three of her short plays have been work-shopped at the New Play Development Workshop of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education and several have been published in the Smith and Kraus anthologies, Best Stage Scenes of 1999, Best Stage Scenes of 2000, The Best Ten Minute Plays for 3 or More Actors, 2004and the upcoming The Best Ten Minute Plays for Two Actors, 2007. She is a member of the Ma-Yi Theatre Writers' Lab, the Dramatists Guild, an alumnus of Youngblood, the emerging playwrights' collective at the Ensemble Studio Theatre, and a Dramatists Guild representative to the board of the New York Coalition for Professional Women in the Arts and Media (NYCWAM). Ms. Kamath received her M.F.A. in playwriting from the Actors Studio Drama School of the New School University.
Plays by Mrinalini Kamath
Bemused | ||
| 1st Produced: | Ensemble Studio Theatre | 2003 | ||||
Company: | Ensemble Studio Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | published in Best Ten Minute Plays for Three or More Actors, 2011, Smith & Kraus | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #51260 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy One act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 or 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | The third female can also be represented as an off-stage voice, if the production calls for it. | |||||
Synopsis: | Paul, a writer who can't seem to make up his mind about what he wants to write, ditches one muse and one city for another. But little does he know that hell hath no fury like a muse scorned. | |||||
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BOOM | ||
| 1st Produced: | Salaam! | 2001 | ||||
Company: | South Asian League of Artists in America (SALAAM) | |||||
| 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 | #82435 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | There is also a one act version | |||||
Synopsis: | Ashok and Sheela, a newly-married Indian-American couple, find their lives changed when they go to India for a relative's wedding. What happens when the country your parents left for better opportunities becomes the new land of opportunity? BOOM is a rethinking of cultural and personal identities, based on a dramatically changing global landscape. | |||||
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Bunnicuba | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | Ensemble Studio Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | Association of Theatre in Higher Education, 2004 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #82436 | |||
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Genre: | Horror/comedy One act. - - Gay, one act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Published in Healthy Primates and Other Plays from the New Play Development Workshop (ed. M. Heather Carver and Jeffrey Ullom). | |||||
Synopsis: | A young gay man has a terrible problem. Every night he is visited by a succubus in the shape of a half woman and half rabbit | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Celestial Motions | ||
| 1st Produced: | Salaam | 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 | #82437 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Celestial Motions tells the story of what happens when 25-year-old Leela's parents (immigrants from India) realize that they forgot to take daylight savings time into account when they had her Hindu astrological chart drawn at her birth. They have it redrawn, and the startling prediction sets the young woman on a journey of arranged dating and cyber romance, as her parents desperately try to control her fate. Little do they realize that Leela's destiny is closer than they (or Leela, for that matter) think. An intercultural romantic comedy. | |||||
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Confessions From The Afterlife | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Smith and Kraus, 2000 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #82438 | |||
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Genre: | drama One act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Play is published in its entirety in Smith and Kraus' Best Stage Scenes of 1999. | |||||
Synopsis: | Steven and Rahul meet in the afterlife and one of them has a lot of explaining to do | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Golden Fleece Project, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Fluid Motion's Start the Story commissioning program | 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 | #68581 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | with music by Little Embers | |||||
Synopsis: | The Quest is South Asian American playwright Mrinalini Kamath's adaptation of the stories of Theseus and Orpheus as they intertwine in the mythic Quest for the Golden Fleece. The piece explores the theme of why we quest and how this drive transcends the desire for love, fame and immortality. This play was the inaugural 2006 commission in Fluid Motion's Start the Story commissioning program. The week-long workshop will culminate in three staged readings with artist talkbacks. | |||||
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Hart's Palpitations | ||
| 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 | #82439 | |||
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Genre: | Ten minute musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Music by Matthew S Anderson; lyrics by Matthew S Anderson; book by Mrinalini Kamath | |||||
Synopsis: | A ten-minute musical that takes place in a clinic for the treatment of love-related injuries. Can Dr. Hart overcome his previous bad experience with love, save his love-struck patient and finally notice the loyal Nurse O'Plasty - all in ten minutes? Written as part of Raw Impressions Musical Theatre event number seventeen (RIMT 17 - "love by degrees"). | |||||
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Hiding the Pink | ||
| 1st Produced: | Bank Street Theatre, New York | 2000 | ||||
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 | #82440 | |||
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Genre: | One act. - - Gay, one act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Sam tells Josh that he does not want to be gay anymore and wants to join "normal" society. He already has a girlfriend but he has not told her about Josh. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Instant Life | ||
| 1st Produced: | 16 Apr 2010 | |||||
Company: | Part of 2G Theater Company's 13: Instant Vaudeville | |||||
| 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 | #116199 | |||
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Genre: | Piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Written by Mrinalini Kamath and Nora Chau | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Roulette | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Smith and Kraus, 2001 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #82441 | |||
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Genre: | drama One act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Published in its entirety in Smith and Kraus' Best Stage Scenes of 2000. | |||||
Synopsis: | Gina, a Westchester housewife, visits her Aunt Loretta in Brooklyn, after Loretta's brother Frank passes away. While clearing out Frank's room, Gina comes across something that could cause a potentially explosive situation. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Rush of Wings, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Smith and Kraus, 2008 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1-57525-589-7 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #82442 | |||
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Genre: | Horror/Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Published in Smith and Kraus' Best Ten Minute Plays for Two Actors, 2007 | |||||
| Emilie and Ishmael appear to be having the same dreams. There are some things that a couple just shouldn't share. . . | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Sloppy Second Chances | ||
| 1st Produced: | Ensemble Studio Theatre, 549 West 52nd Street, 2nd floor, New York, NY 10019 >>> | 2009 | ||||
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 | #111265 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | When Amita, a business-like thirty-something when it comes to dating, meets her latest desi website suitor, the seemingly strange Nikhil, will she chalk him up as another bad date or is there something more going on? A short comedy about two people who want the same thing but have completely different game plans. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Some of All Parts | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Red Room | 23 Jul 2011 | ||||
Company: | Rising Sun Production Company | |||||
| 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 | #138720 | |||
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Genre: | short play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | If he seems too good to be true. . . he probably is. Dating in this city just got a whole lot weirder. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Some of all the Parts | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | Newtown Theatre, Sydney, NSW Australia | |||||
| 1st Published: | Smith and Kraus, 2005 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #82443 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy One act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | This play is published in Smith and Kraus' The Best Ten Minute Plays for Three or More Actors, 2004. It is also published in Healthy Primates and Other Plays from the New Play Development Workshop, 2004. | |||||
Synopsis: | Margaret, who has been on three previous dates with Jonathan, decides to invite him back to her place after their fourth date. But when Jonathan seems less than eager to get things going, Margaret starts to wonder what's up. All is explained by the arrival of a third "person." Dating in this city just got a whole lot weirder. | |||||
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Sweet Dreams, Baby | ||
| 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 | #82444 | |||
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Genre: | One act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Grace wakes up to find the man of her dreams has materialised | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Views | ||
| 1st Produced: | Turnip Theatre Competition (New York, NY, United States) | 1998 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc - New York | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #18577 | |||
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Genre: | 15-20 min Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | 1 male, 1 female | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | David and Diane were high school sweethearts who married after Diane became pregnant. Now they live in a cramped studio apartment in Manhattan, where Diane takes care of their two-year old son. When David announces that his boss has fired him, the couple spirals into an argument that forces them to reevaluate their married life together. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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White Knight, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Ma-Yi | 2009 | ||||
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 | #111266 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | The White Knight is a about a guy named Eric, a graduate teaching assistant who is teaching Don Quixote as part of a freshman intro. class. He falls for Mina, an Indian-American art appraiser when her phone is stolen on the subway. But when Mina brings him home to meet her family, he finds himself drawn to her sister Tina, a pediatrician who has sworn off relationships after her first one went sour. Intercut with scenes from a student paper on Don Quixote, The White Knight is about following your ideals, however misplaced they may be. | |||||
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