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CASSANDRA LEWIS (1978 - ) |
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Nationality: USA Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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Literary Agent: n/a |
Cassandra Lewis is the writer at Bastille Arts. Her plays have been performed in London, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Valdez, Alaska, and Kitchener, Canada. Notable book publications: The Best Plays of The Strawberry One-Act Festival Anthology, International Centre for Women Playwrights' Mother/Daughter Monologues Volume 1: Babes and Beginnings, and an excerpt from Migrations, which was a finalist in the New By Northwest play competition, will be published in the Editions Bibliotekos literary anthology called Common Boundary. Other notable publishing credits include: The Stanford Social Innovation Review, Expatica, Apparatus Magazine, Annalemma, and she has received numerous reporting credits in the Village Voice. Forthcoming publications include: Boston Literary Magazine, Tattoo Highway, and Fractured West. Cassandra is a member of The Dramatists Guild, ICWP, and PEN USA.
Plays by Cassandra Lewis
Altered State of the Union | ||
| 1st Produced: | Off-Market Theater | 30 Jan 2006 | ||||
Company: | Playwrights' Center of San Francisco | |||||
| 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 | #93212 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | The character of God may be played by any gender and any ethnicity. | |||||
Synopsis: | God tries to reason with George Bush as he rehearses his speech, but Bush can't hear a word. | |||||
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American Family | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Exit Theatre in San Francisco | 07 Feb 2008 | ||||
Company: | Playwrights' Center of San Francisco | |||||
| 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 | #93213 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | When Ouida People, a public school teacher, shows up at the home of Mr. Senate and Mrs. House to confront the negligent parents about their troubled sons, George and Dick, a comedic exploration of social responsibility ensues. | |||||
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American Lullaby | ||
| 1st Produced: | Manhattan Repertory Theatre | 09 Feb 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 | #124692 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | When a black history professor shows up at a retired Congressman's southern plantation secrets spill, revealing how their lives are intimately tangled through trauma and a history that haunts every American. | |||||
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Beef Season | ||
| 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 | #112444 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Casting needs: one African American female, 17, two African American males, 18 and 19, one Caucasian female, 39, and two Caucasian males early and late 40s. | |||||
Synopsis: | When Kelly offers her home as a hiding place to one of her high school students whose life has been threatened at gunpoint by a local gang, she risks losing her marriage and future. Beef Season explores how class, race, and history collide with individual aspirations. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Cross Guns Confession | ||
| 1st Produced: | staged reading, Marsh Cafe, San Francisco | 11 Mar 2007 | ||||
Company: | Marsh Cafe | |||||
| 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 | #93214 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | Set in a pub made out of an old confessional in Cross Guns, Dublin. Two characters, an accomplished Irish writer and a novice American writer stand off about art, gender, and what it takes to succeed. | |||||
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Detail Man | ||
| 1st Produced: | Flush Ink Productions, Kitchener, Canada (staged reading) | - - - | ||||
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 | #112442 | |||
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Genre: | comedy One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Only one character (the CEO) has a gender and ethnicity assignment (white male), the other roles are completely open. | |||||
Synopsis: | Detail Man is a comedy about how truth and public health are compromised in order for the pharmaceutical industry to profit. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Elevator Mystique, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Exit Theatre in San Francisco | 02 Feb 2007 | ||||
Company: | Playwrights' Center of San Francisco | |||||
| 1st Published: | Weave Magazine, Jun 2010 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #93215 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Four characters: Betty Friedan, Darwin's beloved tortoise Harriet, sexologist Dr. Money, and infamous kidnapper Joe Amsler, examine the purgatorial afterlife, which is set in a stuck elevator overlooking a shopping mall. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Marked | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Strawberry One-Act Festival The American Theatre of Actors in the Chernuchin Theatre in NYC | 2008 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | The Best Plays of the Strawberry One-Act Festival, Vol. 5, iUniverse | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-595-51323-9 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #93216 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Marked was also included in the 33rd Annual Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Short Play Festival, Peter Jay Sharp Theater in New York, July 19, 2008, and will be produced by Second Wind Theatre in San Francisco as part of the BOA Festival in February 2009. | |||||
Synopsis: | When Lana fakes her death to make a point about privacy and the authorities order her son, Francis, an aspiring artist who has a thing for doctors, to take action or else Lana will be institutionalized. This dark comedy explores the connection between love, insanity, and social responsibility. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Migrations | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Strawberry One-Act Play Festival in New York | 16 Feb 2008 | ||||
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 | #112443 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Unproduced, finalist in Coho Productions' New By Northwest Play Competition | |||||
Synopsis: | When Solana refuses to pay "garbage fees" to her landlord she is arrested for living in the U.S. without a green card. She is faced with the decision of leaving her American-born baby behind with her neighbors or bringing him with her to prison. A two-act play about two families living next door to each other in San Francisco's Mission District explore the connection between blood origins and lives created by individual aspirations | |||||
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Terror Act | ||
| 1st Produced: | Victory Gardens Greenhouse Theater, Chicago | 06 Mar 2008 | ||||
Company: | The Rasaka Theatre Company in Remy Bumppo's thinkTank Project | |||||
| 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 | #93217 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | An actor on his way to receive an award is detained in an airport basement and interrogated about his role in a film that questions detainment practices at Guantanamo. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Transparent Sting | ||
| 1st Produced: | staged reading - The Exit Theatre in San Francisco | 14 Jun 2005 | ||||
Company: | Playwrights' Center of San Francisco | |||||
| 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 | #93218 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Transparent Sting is a three-act comedy about a scientist's quest for truth and how it turned him into a fugitive and brought his estranged family together. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Two Women on the Shore | ||
| 1st Produced: | Valdez Civic Center Auditorium | 21 May 2010 | ||||
Company: | Prince William Sound Community College: The Last Frontier Theatre Conference, Valdez, Alaska | |||||
| 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 | #93219 | |||
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Genre: | drama One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Inspired by the Edvard Munch woodcut prints of the same title, a young woman struggles for freedom from the present incarnations of her haunting past. Evie negotiates between real and imagined ghosts, paying more than she thought possible in her pursuit of a moment's peace. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Waiting for a Fix | ||
| 1st Produced: | American Globe Theatre, 145 West 46th Street, 3rd Floor, New York, NY 10036 >>> | 20 Apr 2010 | ||||
Company: | Turnip Theatre Company and American Globe Theatre | |||||
| 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 | #112441 | |||
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 15 Min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | part of 16th Annual New York City 15 Minute Play Festival | |||||
Synopsis: | Waiting for a Fix is a story about two homeless men and their struggle for redemption. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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