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OLIVER MAYER |
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Nationality: USA Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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Oliver Mayer is the author of over twenty plays."The Hurt Business: a Critical Portfolio of the Early Works of Oliver Mayer, Plus," is published by Hyperbole Books; "Oliver Mayer: Collected Plays" is published by NoPassport Press. He wrote the libretto for the opera AMERICA TROPICAL, composed by David Conte. Oliver is Associate Professor of Dramatic Writing at the USC School of Theatre. He is the winner of a USC Zumberge Individual Award for a new six-play thematic cycle, and a USC Mellon Mentoring Award for Excellence in Faculty Mentoring of Undergraduates. He is currently working on a film about the life of Latino icon Adan Sanchez, and has begun a novel based on his play BLADE TO THE HEAT.
Plays by Oliver Mayer
Blade To The Heat | ||
| 1st Produced: | Joseph Papp Public Theatre | 1994 | ||||
Company: | New York Shakespeare Festival | |||||
| 1st Published: | DPS, and The Hurt Business: Oliver Mayer's Early Works, Plus | ISBN/ASIN: | 187-9691841 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #22889 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | revised production produced: Mark Taper Forum Los Angeles 1996 | |||||
Synopsis: | 1959, the world of boxing, music, sexuality, and how it all converges on the championship bout between two men who are fighting for more than a title. | |||||
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Bold As Love | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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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 | #64791 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Conjunto | ||
| 1st Produced: | Teatro Vision, San Jose CA | 2003 | ||||
Company: | Teatro Vision, Borderlands Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | in Collected Plays, NoPassport Press, CA (2007) | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-6151-8370-1 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #99416 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | 1942 California, Japanese and Mexicans working the strawberry fields and competing for the same sliver of pie offered to Americans of color in time of war. | |||||
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Dark Matters | ||
| 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 | #106408 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy/drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Two particle physicists battle one another for the Theory of Everything, not to mention a woman who does not get String Theory. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Dias Y Flores | ||
| 1st Produced: | Company of Angels, Los Angeles | Jan 2009 | ||||
Company: | Company of Angels | |||||
| 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 | #106407 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Mediation on love - gay, straight and filial - and the changing Latino face of the Lower East Side, all seen through the prism of The Arabian Nights. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Joe Louis Blues | ||
| 1st Produced: | Tiffany Theatres, Los Angeles | 2001 | ||||
Company: | Tiffany Theatres | |||||
| 1st Published: | in Collected Plays, NoPassport Press, CA (2007) | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-6151-8370-1 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #64792 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 7 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | 1942 in Manhattan, during the championship reign of Joe Louis, at a time when black people, male and female - even Joe Louis - strained for the chance to really be themselves. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Joy of the Desolate | ||
| 1st Produced: | Apple Tree, Chicago | 2000 | ||||
Company: | Apple Tree | |||||
| 1st Published: | The Hurt Business: Oliver Mayer's Early Works, Plus (2008) | ISBN/ASIN: | 187-9691841 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #64793 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 4 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A 17-year-old from the Pima Reservation makes it to the Ivy Leagues and experiences sex, love, betrayal and song for the first time, all the while running from the history of his people - only to run into the one person who knows him for who he really is. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Laws of Sympathy | ||
| 1st Produced: | Playwrights Arena, Los Angeles | Feb 2009 | ||||
Company: | Playwrights Arena | |||||
| 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 | #64794 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | America seen through its newest immigrants, two Somali Bantu women - economics, work, cultural differences, sex - as they try to sift between the truths and lies they've been told by the Voice of America. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Ragged Time | ||
| 1st Produced: | Black Dahlia Theater, Los Angeles | 2003 | ||||
Company: | The Black Dahlia Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | in Collected Plays, NoPassport Press, CA (2007) | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-6151-8370-1 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #64795 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy/drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | 1898 in a Deep South of the Mind. A blind black streetsinger buys a Mexican child to be his lead boy; the two of them come face to face to the real America - then and now. | |||||
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Road to Los Angeles | ||
| 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 | #64796 | |||
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Young Valiant | ||
| 1st Produced: | CASA 0101 Los Angeles | 2005 | ||||
Company: | CASA 0101 | |||||
| 1st Published: | The Hurt Business: Oliver Mayer's Early Works, Plus (2008) | ISBN/ASIN: | 187-9691841 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #58834 | |||
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Genre: | drama One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | The awakening machismo of a teenage boy threatens to disrupt his parents loving relationship. . . .the crazy child of parents too difficult to forget. | |||||
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