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CARSON KREITZER |
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Nationality: USA Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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Literary Agent: Bret Adams Ltd represented by Bruce Ostler and Mark Orsini |
Carson Kreitzer. Carson Kreitzer's The Love Song of J. Robert Oppenheimer won the Lois and Richard Rosenthal New Play Prize, the American Theatre Critics' Steinberg New Play Citation, the Barrie Stavis Award, and is published in Smith and Kraus' New Playwrights: Best Plays of 2004 and by Dramatic Publishing. Self Defense, or death of some salesmen has been produced in Providence, Minneapolis, New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles, and is published by Playscripts, Inc. and in Smith and Kraus' Women Playwrights: Best Plays of 2002. Other work includes 1:23, The Slow Drag (New York and London),Valerie Shoots Andy, Heroin/e (Keep Us Quiet), Freakshow, Dead Wait, and Take My Breath Away, featured in BAM's 1997 Next Wave Festival. Ms. Kreitzer has received grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, Theatre Communications Group, and the Jerome and McKnight foundations, as well as a BA from Yale University and an MFA from the Michener Center for Writers, U.T. Austin. She is a resident playwright at New Dramatists, an associated artist with Clubbed Thumb and New Georges, and a member of The Playwrights' Center, the Dramatists Guild, The Fire Department, and the Workhaus Collective. She is currently under commission from The Guthrie Theater, Chicago's Next Theatre, and the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park.
Plays by Carson Kreitzer
1:23 | ||
| 1st Produced: | Cincinnati Playhouse In The Park | 03 Feb 2006 | ||||
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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 | #123126 | |||
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Genre: | drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | Two women in two times stand accused of murdering their own children. One drowned all five of hers in a bath. Another claims her two sons were in her car when it was stolen | |||||
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Be Here Now | ||
| 1st Produced: | Guthrie Theater | 2008 | ||||
Company: | Guthrie Theater for their graduating BFA students. | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatics Magazine | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #116969 | |||
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Genre: | one act comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | Wherever you go, there you are. The intertwining lives of three sisters, running from themselves and each other, come full circle in this contemporary tale of life, love, loss, sibling rivalry, risk, and getting burned - or not. 70 minutes | |||||
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Behind The Eye | ||
| 1st Produced: | Cincinnati Playhouse In The Park | 02 Mar 2011 | ||||
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 | #123127 | |||
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Genre: | drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | Vogue model. Surrealist muse. Combat Photographer. Lee Miller lived several distinct and extraordinary lives, each to the fullest. Man Rays lover and muse, her torso is familiar from some of his most arresting photos, and other pieces of her from other works (her lips floating above the skyline, her eye affixed to a pendulum&), but the story behind the enigmatic gaze is largely unknown. Behind the Eye is a portrait of this beautiful, brave, magnetic, impossible woman. | |||||
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Caravaggista | ||
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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 | #139588 | |||
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Genre: | drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | Workshop: Public Theater. Semi-finalist for the Julie Harris Playwright Award. | |||||
Synopsis: | Caravaggista traces the early life of the baroque artist Artemisia Gentileschi, focusing on the events surrounding the scandalous rape trial brought by her father, Orazio Gentileschi, against Agostino Tassi, another artist he had hired to teach his daughter Perspective. Caravaggio, Artemisias spiritual mentor, spars with her in her studio, toughening up his young charge, watching with pride the creation of her wonderfully bloody Judith Slaying Holofernes, a work that still shocks today with its violence and anger. | |||||
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Dead Wait | ||
| 1st Produced: | Clubbed Thumb, HERE Arts Center (Summerworks) (New York, NY, United States) | 1997 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc - New York | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #84103 | |||
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Genre: | 35-40 min Dark comedy/drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | 2 males, 1 female | |||||
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Synopsis: | Languishing in Limbo, two dead waiters and Jayne Mansfield share the intimate details of their lives, and the violent tragedies that brought them to their current state. A sly and haunting meditation on being in the wrong place at the wrong time. | |||||
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Enchantment | ||
| 1st Produced: | Julia Miles Theater, New York | 39904 | ||||
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 | #139589 | |||
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Genre: | drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | Workshops: The Lark, The Playwrights' Center, The Women's Project. | |||||
Synopsis: | Bruno Bettelheim was born in Vienna in 1903 and died in Chicago in 1990, barbituates in his bloodstream and a plastic bag over his face. In the time between, he studied Freudian psychiatry, spent time in Dachau and Buchenwald, put forth (and then disavowed) the theory that autism was caused by bad mothering, and wrote The Uses of Enchantment, a popular and somewhat scandalously Freudian book on fairy tales. Temple Grandin is a high-functioning autistic woman who designs more humane slaughterhouses. Widespread implementation of her designs has revolutionized the meat industry. Enchantment explores the reverberations between these two extraordinary lives. | |||||
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Flesh and the Desert | ||
| 1st Produced: | Summer Play Festival at The Public Theatre, New York | Jul 2007 | ||||
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 | #50722 | |||
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Genre: | drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | with extensive doubling | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Flesh and the Desert is a kaleidoscopic portrait of Las Vegas. We follow the intertwined stories of three couples: one ghostly, one long-lasting, and one just starting tonight. Along the way we meet Elvis and Liberace, slot machines and Siberian white tigers, and of course, those glittering creatures, the Showgirls. The Eye in the Sky watches, the mirrorball spins. As long as youre gambling, the drinks are free. Welcome, Conventioneers. | |||||
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Freakshow | ||
| 1st Produced: | Clubbed Thumb/HERE Arts Centre (Summerworks) (New York, NY, United States) | 1999 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc - New York | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #63697 | |||
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Genre: | 70-80 mindrama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | 4 males, 3 females | |||||
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Synopsis: | At the turn of the last century, a traveling Freakshow grinds to a halt. Things are changing. The anger of being stared at, trapped, caged, is at war with the comfort of knowing your place in the universe. But the growing defiance of the freaks is no act. Will the Dog Faced Woman break her bonds from the show, collapsing the fragile bubble of sustaining interdependence? Can the jaded Ringmaster, a profoundly broken man, find redemption through his love for the Woman With No Arms and No Legs? In this poetic, gritty world, there may only be one way out. | |||||
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Funny, Strange, Provocative: Seven Plays from Clubbed Thumb | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc - New York | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #106490 | |||
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Genre: | Various Drama/Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | Various | |||||
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Synopsis: | This anthology includes seven plays produced by Clubbed Thumb, the Obie Award-winning downtown New York City theater company that burst onto the new play scene in 1996. Edgy and thought-provoking, each play is funny, strange, and provocative in surprising, widely varying ways -- including an apartment that both adores and despises its inhabitants in Crumble (Lay Me Down, Justin Timberlake), a metropolitan housewife who senses that something is watching her in 16 Spells to Charm the Beast, and a group of traveling freak show performers who reveal a deep humanity underneath their crowd-drawing deformities in Freakshow,among other uniquely inventive stories. For over a decade, Clubbed Thumb has had its finger firmly planted on the pulse of new work, and these plays prove it. To purchase this book of 7 plays, click "Add to Shopping Cart" above. To perform an individual play, click on its title below: | |||||
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Glory of God, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2003 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc - New York | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #51401 | |||
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Genre: | 10-12 min Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | 2 males, 3 females (5-6 actors possible: exactly 2 males, 3-4 females) | |||||
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Synopsis: | In the present: The Scholar has lost her data. She's writing about the Monk. She flirts with the Techie to get it back; her girlfriend calls her on it. In the past: The Monk copies down the story of Daphne and Apollo. A girl sneaks in the window to steal him away. In the distant past, and now: Daphne lives inside her tree, breathing eternal in the writing of her. The Glory of God is sought. Love is found. | |||||
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Heroine (Keep Us Quiet) | ||
| 1st Produced: | Tiny Mythic Theatre at HERE | 1995 | ||||
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 | #70418 | |||
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Genre: | One Act. - - Gay/Lesbian, of interest | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | The story of Anna Frued, who killed herself and Ellie Nesler who killed her son's rapist. Intertwining monologues from two women at either side of this century: one commits suicide, the other homicide. | |||||
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Love Song of J Robert Oppenheimer, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Cincinnati Playhouse In The Park | 2003 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in Smith and Kraus New Playwrights: Best Plays of 2004 and by Dramatic Publishing | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #84104 | |||
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Genre: | drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | doubling | |||||
Notes: | won the Lois and Richard Rosenthal New Play Prize, the American Theatre Critics Steinberg Citation, the Barrie Stavis Award | |||||
Synopsis: | Do I dare disturb the Universe? Jews, Commies, Spies, and the soft-spoken man who became the destroyer of worlds, then had his security clearance revoked | |||||
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Mercury | ||
| 1st Produced: | 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 | #64450 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
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On Time | ||
| 1st Produced: | Summerworks Short Play Event | 2005 | ||||
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 | #84105 | |||
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Parachute Silk | ||
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| 1st Published: | in 2010 The Best 10-Minute Plays, Smith & Kraus (September 1, 2010) | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1575257723 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #121821 | |||
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Genre: | Ten Min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 | ||
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Runway 69 | ||
| 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 | #123128 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Music Erin Kamler; lyrics by Erin Kamler; Carson Kreitzer; book by Carson Kreitzer | |||||
Synopsis: | Times Square 1990. A new dancer arrives at the raunchy club Runway 69. | |||||
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Self Defense, or death of some salesmen | ||
| 1st Produced: | Perishable Theater (Providence, RI, United States) | 2001 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts and in Smith and Kraus Women Playwrights: Best Plays of 2002. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #51402 | |||
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Genre: | 95-100 min drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | 3 males, 5 females (8-24 actors possible: 3-10 males, 5-14 females) | |||||
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Synopsis: | Seven white men have been found dead along I-95 in Florida. A prostitute is arrested and charged with their murders. The police say she's a serial killer. She claims seven separate acts of self-defense. Inspired by the true story of Aileen Wuornos, Self Defense, or death of some salesmen is a whirlwind seven acts in 95 minutes. The play is fast and furious, shocking and funny, and at its center, a portrait of a very complicated human being. She is complex, charismatic, dangerous, damaged, full of love and anger; above all else, she is alive. An investigation of capital punishment, destitution, violence against (and by) women, and whether a prostitute is considered a person under our justice system,Self Defense gives a long, hard look at an America most of us don't want to admit exists. | |||||
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Slither | ||
| 1st Produced: | Eye of the Storm Theatre, Minneapolis | 2003 | ||||
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 | #50723 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | doubling | |||||
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Synopsis: | Four women and power, religion and snakes. Eve the first woman; a Cretan priestess; a preacher's wife and a carnival snake dancer | |||||
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Slow Drag, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | New York | - - - | ||||
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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 | #139586 | |||
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Slow Drag, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | American Place Theatre | 1996 | ||||
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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 | #139590 | |||
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Genre: | Two-act Jazz Cabaret Play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | (one woman who can pass as a man, one woman who can bring down the house singing Blues in the Night, one light-skinned black man.) | |||||
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Synopsis: | A jazz cabaret about a woman who passed as a man to play the music she loved. Live jazz band onstage. | |||||
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Take My Breath Away | ||
| 1st Produced: | in BAM's 1997 Next Wave Festival | 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 | #139587 | |||
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Tiny Rooms | ||
| 1st Produced: | Flatiron Building, Chicago | 08 Oct 2010 | ||||
Company: | XYZ Festival of New Work | |||||
| 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 | #126874 | |||
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Genre: | Drama | |||||
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Synopsis: | Two Chicago socialites are obsessed with making small rooms | |||||
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Valerie Shoots Andy | ||
| 1st Produced: | 40 Feet Under, American Place Theatre | 1993 | ||||
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 | #139591 | |||
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Genre: | drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 6 | ||
Parts other: | with doubling | |||||
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Synopsis: | An assassination fantasia. | |||||
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