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CHRIS LEYVA (1979 - ) |
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Nationality: USA Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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Chris Leyva is originally from Albuquerque, NM. He received an M.F.A. from the Playwrights Workshop at The University of Iowa and a B.A. in Directing from Coe College. Chris recently directed a production of his play, All Grace, (Richard Maibaum Award; workshop production, 2006 Iowa New Play Festival) for the Columbus Arts Festival in 2008. His play, Solamente Una Vez; A Thaw, was named a finalist for the Alliance Theatre's 2007 Kendeda Graduate Playwriting Competition (staged reading, Playwrights Horizons, Alliance Theatre). Other plays include: The Brothers Caramillo--Eulogy for a Piece of Sh*t (staged reading 2008, Great Plains Theatre Conference, semi-finalist PlayLabs 2008), Bloodletting (reading 2006, Bison Theatre), Holy Schmidt!, (staged reading, 2005 Iowa New Play Festival), Father Bob, (workshop production, University of Iowa), and Dialogues with Lars, (finalist, YES Festival of New Plays, Northern Kentucky University; semi-finalist, New Play Festival, Florida Studio Theatre).
Plays by Chris Leyva
All Grace | ||
| 1st Produced: | Developed in the Iowa New Play Festival | 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 | #88932 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 7 | ||
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Notes: | All Grace has been performed with an all-woman cast of 7, which I found immensely satisfying. Personally, I would recommend that casting, though the play can be performed with 8 actors (4M, 4F). | |||||
Synopsis: | "All Grace" is a metaphorical, spiritual journey based on the true story of Jewish sculptor Jacques Lipchitz' commission to create a sculpture of the Virgin Mary for a Catholic church high in the Alps called Our Lady of All Grace. The play intertwines the stories of Lipchitz' life; the life of Father Marie-Alain Couturier, a priest determined to change the Catholic Church's view on Modern Art; and the life of the Virgin Mary herself, who mingles in the lives and work of both Couturier and Lipchitz. | |||||
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Bloodletting | ||
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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 | #88937 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | Jody and Peter were never good for each other, and when she became pregnant, Jody finally realized it. Two years after their break-up, Peter has put on an exhibition of portraits of Jody he has done over the course of their relationship. Jody's sister attends the exhibition and things get messy. | |||||
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Brothers Caramillo, The; Eulogy for a Piece of Sh*t | ||
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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 | #88934 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 4 | ||
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Synopsis: | The Brothers Caramillo; Eulogy for a Piece of Shit is a "fast & loose" modern adaptation of Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov that follows young Alex Caramillo as he returns home from seminary in an attempt to bring his fractured family together again. Alex wants nothing more than to heal the relationship with his womanizing and boozing father, Teodoro, and his two brothers: the perpetual student, Elian, and the headstrong, Dimas. However, Alex finds this to be much more complicated than he first imagined as Teodoro and Dimas are both pining after the same woman: a stripper named Faith. This has only inflamed old quarrels between the two men, and when Teodoro is found dead, it seems that the family's destruction and damnation is written deep within the Caramillo blood. | |||||
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Camy's Lions | ||
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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 | #115527 | |||
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Genre: | Fairy Tale | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | Hank and Nate have kidnapped young Camy and taken her to their cabin in the woods. Camy calls on the soul of her dead cat, Sparkles, to save her. | |||||
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De Colores | ||
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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 | #88935 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | 1 child (m) | |||||
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Synopsis: | DE COLORES follows the story of a family trying to cope with the loss of a patriarch. In the midst of preparing a funeral, the violent ghosts of the past are exposed. | |||||
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Dialogues with Lars | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 2001 | ||||
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 | #88938 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | Dialogues with Lars is a romantic comedy that follows "perpetually-emerging" playwright, Phillip Cross, as he pines away for his ex-girlfriend, Susan, who left him because he wasn't making a life for himself. When things seem to be heading in the right direction, a woman named Lars barges into Phillip's life and his home and creates complications when all Phillip wants is simplicity. | |||||
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Father Bob | ||
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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 | #88936 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | FATHER BOB follows the story of a thirteen year old named Julia Smith. Julia is an intelligent girl in the eighth grade at Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception Catholic School. We meet Julia as she begins to doubt her faith in God and more and more questions about sex come into her mind. She takes her questions of sexuality to her best friend, Lacy, whose sister is a sexually active fifteen year old, and she takes her questions of faith to a priest named Father Bob, a man who would be considered sexy if he weren't so goofy. He's a younger priest who loves "Star Wars" and believes in preaching to the young members of the congregation in a way that wakes them up during mass and their lives. His beliefs often conflict with Father Tom, the head of the parish, and the situation with Julia Smith calls many things into question. "FATHER BOB" is not a play about pedophile priests and sexual abuse. It is a play about sexuality, but is also about isolation and finding a sense of self and individuality. | |||||
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Portrait's Voice, The | ||
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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 | #115530 | |||
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Genre: | Horror/Mystery | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | A portrait of an old, grizzled man hangs behind a curtain in a study. Skyler brings his girlfriend, Wren, to see the hidden portrait. Little do they know that they have awakened the portrait and the man is hungry for mayhem and revenge. | |||||
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Roof | ||
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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 | #115528 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | Mike and his young daughter, Mason, are stranded on their roof as the waters of Hurricane Katrina swirl around them. | |||||
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Solamente Una Vez; A Thaw | ||
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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 | #88933 | |||
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: | Dark Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | In the dark comedy Solamente Una Vez; A Thaw, a young couple, about to be married, surprise themselves with their own passions and desires. She for the exotic Latin husband upstairs. He for a gay coworker. Can their fledgling marriage withstand the temptations of the flesh? | |||||
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Spiral from Normalcy | ||
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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 | #115529 | |||
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Genre: | Absurd/Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | The story of man, a dog, a duck, a broken cookie, a pile of dead birds, and, of course, Don Quixote de la Mancha. | |||||
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Waste | ||
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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 | #115531 | |||
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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Synopsis: | An asteroid has hit Cedar Falls, IA. . . So what. . .? Laura has returned home to Cedar Falls to visit her dying father. She tries to find comfort from her old flame, Matt. | |||||
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What Happens After. . . | ||
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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 | #115546 | |||
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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Synopsis: | While on a business trip, Pen finds herself back in a city she left 15 years before. On a whim, Pen calls Joe, the ex she left all those years ago. Joe arrives at her hotel room with an invitation to their daughter's 16th birthday party. | |||||
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