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BRIAN MORI |
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Nationality: USA Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: Robert A Freedman Dramatic Agency |
Brian Mori was born in Pennsylvania, raised in Southern California and now resides in New York City. His plays include ADULT FICTION (Davie Prize; published by Smith & Kraus in an anthology entitled NEW PLAYWRIGHTS: THE BEST PLAYS OF 2000), DREAMS OF FLIGHT (published by Dramatists Play Service), BEDTIME STORIES (to be published by Smith & Kraus in an anthology entitled THE BEST TEN-MINUTE PLAYS OF 2005. 2 ACTORS), COFFEE TALK, COUPLES, FIRST DATE, MEMORIES, PLAYERS, THE RABBIT LADY OF GODALMING, and SLOW FADE TO BLACK. His plays have been produced at a number of theatres across the US, including the American Renaissance Theatre, American Renegade Theatre, Attic Theatre, Bitter Truth Theatre, Notre Dame de Namur University, Ensemble Theatre, GeVa Theatre, Impossible Ragtime Theatre, Nat Horne Theatre, Neighborhood Playhouse, New Jersey Repertory Company, New Vic Theatre, Parenthesis Theatre Club, Red Room Theatre, Simba Theatre, Theatre Studio, Inc., Theatre 22, University of Kentucky, University of Illinois, Van Dam Theatre, and the Victory Gardens Theatre. He has had 11 screenplay options and is a member of the Dramatists Guild and PEN.
Plays by Brian Mori
Adult Fiction | ||
| 1st Produced: | GeVa Theatre, Rochester, New York | - - - | ||||
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| 1st Published: | New Playwrights: The Best Plays of 2000 (Smith & Kraus), 2002 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #62225 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy/Drama - Two Act Play Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 2 patrons | |||||
Notes: | Also produced at Lumia Theatre by the New Jersey Repertory Company; optioned five times for off-Broadway; and the winner of the Davie Prize for Playwrighting | |||||
Synopsis: | Set in a Times Square pornographic bookstore and movie arcade on a hot summer day and night in 1979, the story is about the relationship between Earl, the fifty-five-year-old manager of the shop who feels a weary disappointment with how his life has evolved, and his young friend, Mikie, a lonely, inexperienced nineteen-year-old. Despite his seamy surroundings, Earl has a strong sense of basic morality and he wants to help Mikie to a better life than his own. Herein lies much of the irony and comedy of ADULT FICTION | |||||
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Bedtime Stories | ||
| 1st Produced: | American Renegade Theatre, North Hollywood, California | - - - | ||||
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 | #62227 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy/Drama One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Also produced at the Nat Horne Theatre, Attic Theatre, Red Room Theatre, and Parenthesis Theatre Club. To be published by Smith & Kraus in an anthology entitled: THE BEST TEN-MINUTE PLAYS OF 2005. 2 ACTORS | |||||
Synopsis: | Village View: "BEDTIME STORIES. . . is a delightful comedy centered around the mattress relationship of a perpetually tired husband and his wife, who makes extra cash as a phone sex operator. . . [The play] is an insightful as well as humorous look at today's changing relationships." | |||||
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Coffee Talk | ||
| 1st Produced: | Lumia Theatre, Long Branch, New Jersey | 2006 | ||||
Company: | New Jersey Repertory 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 | #58271 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Produced at New Jersey Repertory Company's Annual Theatre Brut Festival of Short Plays. This season's theme was the Seven Deadly Sins | |||||
Synopsis: | Two women meet for coffee to discuss life and sex | |||||
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Couples | ||
| 1st Produced: | New Vic Theatre, New York | - - - | ||||
Company: | Shelter West 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 | #48648 | |||
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Genre: | Drama One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
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Synopsis: | Two pregnant women have reached the point in their marriages where they initial passion must be replaced by another basis for love | |||||
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Dreams Of Flight | ||
| 1st Produced: | Impossible Ragtime Theatre, NY | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #24762 | |||
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Genre: | Tragicomedy One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Also produced at the Victory Gardens Theatre, New Vic Theatre, Ensemble Theatre, Simba Theatre, and Notre Dame de Namur University | |||||
Synopsis: | Sitting alone in his squalid tenement room, Buster, blind and lonely, waits anxiously for his only friend, Butch, a boastful, jive-talking product of the streets, who stops by each week to share a bottle of cheap wine. Steven Hart, in The Villager, writes: "The two are reminiscent of Didi and Gogo in GODOT except that they use their minute and waning capabilities to destroy themselves rather than being caught in a cycle of aimless repetition." This dark urban comedy leads to even darker tragedy, when Butch, bent on revenge, sets his sights on robbing a liquor store, with blind Buster serving as the lookout. The results of this often times funny and moving rollercoaster ride sends the audience reeling into a sadness beyond belief. | |||||
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First Date | ||
| 1st Produced: | Nat Horne Theatre, New York | - - - | ||||
Company: | Shelter West 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 | #62228 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy/Drama One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | A father "entertains" a young man who has arrived to pick up his daughter for their first date | |||||
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Memories | ||
| 1st Produced: | Theatre 22, New York | - - - | ||||
Company: | Shelter West 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 | #62230 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy/Drama One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | Two elderly men meet on a park bench | |||||
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| 1st Produced: | American Renegade Theatre, North Hollywood, California | - - - | ||||
Company: | Shelter West 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 | #62229 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy/Drama One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | A young man teaches his younger brother about the game of three-card-monte | |||||
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Rabbit Lady of Godalming, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | reading at Lumia Theatre, Long Branch, New Jersey | 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 | #49352 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy/Drama Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | Actors play multiple parts | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | a remarkable true story about a poor, illiterate woman, named Mary Toft, who, in 1726, convinced half of England, including the most prominent doctors of the day, that she had given birth to rabbits. | |||||
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Slow Fade to Black | ||
| 1st Produced: | Bitter Truth Theatre, North Hollywood, California | - - - | ||||
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 | #62226 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy/Drama One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Also produced at the Neighborhood Playhouse, Studio Theatre, and the University of Illinois | |||||
Synopsis: | a meditation on compromise, about the portrayal of black actors in the early days of the motion picture industry, arguably "Hollywood's" darkest stain. The two scene structure centers on a morning's rehearsal of a forgettable scene of a forgettable movie, circa 1936. | |||||
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