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WALT MCGOUGH (1984 - ) |
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Nationality: USA Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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Walt McGough is a Boston and Chicago-based playwright, originally from Pittsburgh PA. His full-length plays include Dante Dies!! (and then things get weird), The Farm, Paper City Phoenix, True Places and Connor, Issue One. His work has been produced or read at Sideshow Theatre Company, Chicago Dramatists, Boston Playwrights Theatre, The Kennedy Center's Millennium Stage, Bailiwick Repertory, Infusion Theatre Company, and The Second City Chicago. He was the recipient of the Kennedy Center's 2010 Ken Ludwig Scholarship, a finalist for ACTF's John Cauble Short Play and ten-minute awards, and a two-time finalist for the Heideman Award at the Actors Theatre of Louisville. He has served as Company Manager at Chicago Dramatists, and is a founding member of Sideshow Theatre Company in Chicago, where he acts as Literary Manager. He is currently pursuing his MFA in Playwriting at Boston University.
Plays by Walt McGough
Clean Sweep | ||
| 1st Produced: | Theatre Building, Chicago | 17 Aug 2007 | ||||
Company: | Brown Couch Theatre Company | |||||
| 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 | #132789 | |||
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Genre: | Short play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Originally performed as part of "How Now Brown Couch" with nine other short plays | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
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Dante Dies!! (and then things get weird) | ||
| 1st Produced: | Sideshow Theatre Company, Chicago | 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 | #115075 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy/Drama, One-Man Show, Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | One-man show, based on Dante's Inferno | |||||
Synopsis: | Partway along the journey of his life, Dante finds himself mourning a lost love, feeling morose and, for some reason, in Hell. Trying to find his way home, he encounters incredible suffering, infernal bureaucracy, some sins of his own, and the aggressive attention of a competitive hot dog eater. Each step downward brings him closer to a personal reckoning with his own story, and maybe a chance to find an answer or two. Enacting the story single-handedly, one actor brings over fifteen different characters to life as he tracks Dante's progress through the nine circles of Hell in this unexpected and epic adventure, inspired by the classic text Inferno. | |||||
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Everything Freezes: another winter's tale | ||
| 1st Produced: | Sideshow Theatre Company, Chicago | 2009 | ||||
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 | #115076 | |||
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/Drama, Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | written by Walt McGough and Jonathan L. Green | |||||
Synopsis: | Everything Freezes takes the characters of Shakespeare'sWinter's Tale and propels them into new lives. King Leontes and Queen Hermione find their lives rent asunder by jealousy. But when an unexplained miracle seems to set things right, the royal family is left not with closure, but a mountain of new questions. Dragged into the fray is their best friend Polixenes, along with the children of both families, who seem far better suited to life in a magic world. Blows are dealt, lives are lost, and the rules of reality bend and break in this off-beat and moving comedy about what family means in the face of the unknown. | |||||
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