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A REY PAMATMAT |
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Nationality: USA Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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Literary Agent: Abrams Artists Agency represented by Polly Hubbard |
A. Rey Pamatmat is currently the 2011 - 12 Playwright of New York Fellow at The Lark Play Development Center and recently received a 2012 - 13 Hodder Fellowship in Playwriting from The Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University. His play Edith Can Shoot Things and Hit Them began its rolling world premiere at the 2011 Humana Festival before receiving multiple productions throughout the United States. His plays have been produced Off-Off Broadway by Second Generation (Thunder Above, Deeps Below), the Vortex Theater (DEVIANT), HERE (High/Limbo/High), and Vampire Cowboys (Red Rover). Samuel French will publish both Edith and Thunder in spring 2012. Rey's work has been developed nationwide at The Public, Playwrights' Horizons, Ma-Yi, the O'Neill, Victory Gardens, The Magic, The Curious Theater, American Theater Company, Ars Nova, Rattlestick, E.S.T., New Dramatists, and The Lark. He was a recipient of a South Coast Rep commission, the Princess Grace Fellowship for Playwriting, a NYFA Playwriting Fellowship, an E.S.T./Sloan commission, and is a proud member of the Ma-Yi Writer's Lab. BFA: NYU, MFA: Yale School of Drama.
Plays by A Rey Pamatmat
1,260-Minute Life | ||
| 1st Produced: | Actors Theatre of Louisville 2007 Humana Festival of New American Plays | Mar 2007 | ||||
Company: | Actors Theatre of Louisville | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc. (Apr 2008) | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-9709046-3-8 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #122151 | |||
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Genre: | Drama, 5-minute | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | Commissioned by The Actors Theatre of Louisville for the 2007 Anthology Project. | |||||
Synopsis: | Pulled between two very different identities, Cora - a modern day Persephone - only feels alive for the 1,260 minutes on a plane between her two homes. | |||||
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Ain't Meat | ||
| 1st Produced: | Actors Theatre of Louisville 2007 Humana Festival of New American Plays | Mar 2007 | ||||
Company: | Actors Theatre of Louisville | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc. (Apr 2008) | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-9709046-3-8 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #122152 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy, 5-minute | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Commissioned by The Actors Theatre of Louisville for the 2007 Anthology Project. | |||||
Synopsis: | In an Arizona diner, a road-tripper desperately tries to order something vegetarian from a waiter obsessed with getting porked. | |||||
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Baked, Bean and Fran | ||
| 1st Produced: | Yale Cabaret | - - - | ||||
Company: | Yale Cabaret | |||||
| 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 | #122153 | |||
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Genre: | Drama, 10-minute | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 4 | ||
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Synopsis: | Six strangers re-live a Thanksgiving tragedy riding an F train bound for somewhere that isn't Brooklyn. | |||||
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Beautiful Day | ||
| 1st Produced: | Ma-Yi | 2006 | ||||
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 | #66718 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | Felicia, Joey, Kat, and Matthew reunite for a wedding in their small hometown of Port Huron, Michigan - a town that changes only as much as it stays the same. Navigating through their old haunts, a traditional marriage, sexual experimentation, a trouble-making bridesmaid, and their own dead hurts, the four friends are forced to examine the people they were, are, and want to be in the six nights preceding one beautiful day. | |||||
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Deviant | ||
| 1st Produced: | Sanford Meisner Theatre | Oct 2005 | ||||
Company: | Vortex 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 | #66719 | |||
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Genre: | Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | Worlds collide when Sara and Valerie - a lesbian couple pursuing the American dream - meet James, a misguided grad student/prostitute too jaded to believe that dreams still matter. When the three start sharing the same apartment and lives and dreams intertwine, will they discover that there is no place for these dreams in their lives or that there is no place for their lives in these dreams? | |||||
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Edith Can Shoot Things And Hit Them | ||
| 1st Produced: | Actors Theatre of Louisville 2011 Humana Festival of New American Plays | 11 Mar 2011 | ||||
Company: | Actors Theatre of Louisville | |||||
| 1st Published: | in Humana Festival 2011: The Complete Plays, Playscripts, Inc - New York (2012) >>> | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-9819099-8-1 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #122154 | |||
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Genre: | Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | part of the 2011 Humana Festival. | |||||
| Three kids - Kenny, his sister Edith, and their friend Benji - are all but abandoned on a farm in remotest Middle America. With little adult supervision, they feed and care for each other, making up the rules as they go. But when Kenny's and Benji's relationship becomes more than friendship, and Edith shoots something she really shouldn't shoot, the formerly indifferent outside world comes barging in whether they want it to or not. | |||||
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High, a five excited (5!) play | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2004 Queer@HERE Festival | Jun 2004 | ||||
Company: | HERE Arts Center | |||||
| 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 | #122155 | |||
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, One act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Performed with Limbo as High/Limbo/High. | |||||
Synopsis: | Dave and Brett party together with the mathematical principle of excitement! 5 nights, 5 bars, 5 beats, 5 substances, 5 scenes that can be played in any order - 120 possibilities. | |||||
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Limbo | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2004 Queer@HERE Festival | Jun 2004 | ||||
Company: | HERE Arts Center | |||||
| 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 | #122156 | |||
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Genre: | Drama, 10-minute play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | Performed with Limbo as High/Limbo/High. | |||||
Synopsis: | Stuck between map points, an old promise and a new covenant, love's first blush and true intimacy, Beth and Cassie fight over an atlas, the Bible, and a bucket of ice as they decide where to go next in a car that can take them anywhere except away from each other. | |||||
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New | ||
| 1st Produced: | Yale School of Drama | Mar 2003 | ||||
Company: | Yale School of Drama | |||||
| 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 | #122157 | |||
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Genre: | Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Yale School of Drama MFA Thesis show. | |||||
Synopsis: | Joy returns to her brother Anthony's doorstep after a four-year disappearance, turns her friends' world upside down, and then rips it apart with her sudden death. Her survivors wade through the tricks memory can play to rebuild their lives and hers, only to discover that instead of being gone Joy may now be larger than life, death, and one person's ability to know another. | |||||
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Out of Joint | ||
| 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 | #139539 | |||
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Genre: | Comic Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 14 | |||||
Notes: | Out of Joint requires 14 performers of any gender, age, or species. | |||||
Synopsis: | Dr. Kajish creates a time travel formula to save mankind by giving it endless second chances. But as people skip indiscriminately through time humiliating enemies, saving lives, and negotiating perfect vacations, the universe unravels in this romp through the recent future, the distant present, and a past still to come. | |||||
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Red Rover | ||
| 1st Produced: | Vampire Cowboys's Saturday Night Saloon | Sep 2008 | ||||
Company: | Vampire Cowboys | |||||
| 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 | #96605 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | 2 puppets | |||||
Notes: | A serial play in five 10-minute episodes commissioned by Vampire Cowboys for their Saturday Night Saloon Series. | |||||
Synopsis: | Like a zombie clown that won't stay dead, Red Rover and Miss Clover keep coming back with musical adventures to teach children about counting, shapes, colors, and MURDER. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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This is How It Ends | ||
| 1st Produced: | Actors Theatre of Louisville 2011 Humana Festival of New American Plays | 11 Mar 2011 | ||||
Company: | Actors Theatre of Louisville | |||||
| 1st Published: | in Humana Festival 2011: The Complete Plays, Playscripts, Inc - New York (2012) >>> | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-9819099-8-1 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #138834 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy, One act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Commissioned by the Actors Theatre of Louisville for the 2011 Anthology Project called "The End" | |||||
| Four Horse-people, one Anti-Christ, and the Anti-Christs's awesome roommate face, like, totally gnarly existential dilemmas in the very last hours before the universe goes kerblooey. Get ready for the ride of your life, er& death, ke-mo sah-bee, because this is how it ends. | |||||
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Thunder Above, Deeps Below | ||
| 1st Produced: | Barrow Group | Aug 2009 | ||||
Company: | Second Generation (2g) | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, Inc. (Spring 2012) | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #103510 | |||
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Genre: | Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | Three homeless friends - a Filipina-American with a hidden past, a Filipina transsexual, and a Puerto Rican hustler - struggle on the Chicago streets to scrounge up enough cash to bus it to San Francisco before the winter cold hits. But when a bearded man on a quest, a mystery man in sunglasses, a wealthy john, and a doughnut shop's spell-casting assistant manager put their hopes and friendships to the test, the trio find they must spare some change of a far queerer kind. | |||||
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