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MARA LESEMANN |
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Nationality: USA Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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Mara Lesemann attended Brown University, and received her BA in Media Studies and Film from the New School University. Her full-length play The Fertility Factor was produced off-off-Broadway in NYC in July 2005 by the Guild of Italian American Actors (www.giaa.us) under the direction of Carlo Fiorletta. Getting In was a semi-finalist in the Riant Theatre's Winter 2007 Strawberry One Act Play Festival; the screenplay version won An Abbreviated Screenplay Contest and is being produced by Silver Penny Productions. The romantic fantasy one act play A Temporary Cat premieres in the Crown Theater at the Producers Club in Manhattan in March 2009. The screenplay version was nominated for the Hollywood Scriptwriter 2008 Written Word Award at the Action on Film Festival in 2008. Mara lives in Jersey City, NJ with her husband and their four cats.
Plays by Mara Lesemann
Fertility Factor, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Royal Theater at the Producers Club in NYC | 2005 | ||||
Company: | Guild of Italian American Actors (GIAA - www.giaa.us) | |||||
| 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 | #92447 | |||
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: | Romantic comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | 1 m/f | |||||
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Synopsis: | The Fertility Factor poses the question: How far would you go for your dreams? Two married couples and a gay man struggle to balance what they have and what they want (which isn't necessarily what they think they want). As the characters struggle with jobs, love, and high tech reproductive technology, their choices have unexpected consequences. | |||||
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Model Girlfriend, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | Where Eagles Dare Theatre, NYC | 2009 | ||||
Company: | Where Eagles Dare | |||||
| 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 | #97827 | |||
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 | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | First produced as part of the Ten Minute Play Festival of Where Eagles Dare Studio | |||||
Synopsis: | A Model Girlfriend is a comedy about how money changes the power structure in a relationship. When aspiring actress Nancy gleefully tells her live-in boyfriend Jimmy that she's going to be photographic model for a new line of lingerie, she expects him to share her happiness. Instead his new-found prudishness leads to a sharp turn in their relationship as she relishes her financial independence. | |||||
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Temporary Cat, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | Crown Theater at the Producers Club, NYC | 2009 | ||||
Company: | Larralley Productions LLC | |||||
| 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 | #92446 | |||
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: | Romantic fantasy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | 1 f voice | |||||
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Synopsis: | A Temporary Cat is a romantic fantasy about a guy with writer's block, money trouble, and the cat who loves him. It takes a light-hearted look at love in 21st century America, and the assumptions that we make about the people around us. | |||||
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