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JOHN PIELMEIER (1949 - ) |
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Nationality: USA Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: Paradigm |
Born in Altoona, PA on February 23, 1949. B.A. from Catholic University of America, M.F.A. from Pennsylvania State University. As an actor, he has worked extensively in regional theater. He is a member of New Dramatists and The Playwrights Lab of the Actors Studio. Recipient: Shubert Fellowship in Playwriting; Co-winner, 1980 Festival of New American Plays at Actors Theatre of Louisville for Agnes of God; Special Mention, Playbill Award.
Plays by John Pielmeier
Agnes Of God | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1979 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French Inc, New York, 1982 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #27824 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | Dr Livingstone, a court-appointed psychiatrist, is asked to determine the sanity of a nun accused of murdering her own baby. The Mother Superior seems bent on protecting Sister Agnes from Livingstone whose suspicions are immediately aroused. In searching for solutions to various mysteries Livingstone forces all of them to face some harsh realities in their own lives. This powerful drama was an outstanding success on Broadway and was filmed with Jane Fonda and Anne Bancroft. | |||||
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Boys Of Winter, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Biltmore Theatre, New York | 18 Nov 1985 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc, 2010 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #27825 | |||
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Genre: | Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 10 | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | Shortly after a hellish experience on a hilltop in the Quang Tri Province of Vietnam, Lieutenant William Bonney shot seven Vietnamese villagers in cold blood. Called to answer for the brutal atrocities against these civilians, Bonney and his men give their testimonies of the incidents leading up to the lieutenant's court-martial. Juxtaposing the brutal conditions in Vietnam with the trial, this gripping play examines the primal brotherhood of war and the punishing emptiness of those who return from it. | |||||
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Chapter Twelve: The Frog | ||
| 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 | #27826 | |||
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Genre: | Short Play One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | part of Early Times: a compendium of short plays | |||||
Synopsis: | While dissecting a frog, a babbling young girl stops talking long enough to discover she is losing her boyfriend to her lab partner | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Cheek To Cheek | ||
| 1st Produced: | Louisville | 1983 | ||||
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 | #27827 | |||
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Chosen Room, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | Guthrie Two, MN | 1976 | ||||
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 | #27828 | |||
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Classics Professor, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1988 | ||||
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 | #27829 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | Into Professor Alexander's class 'Comedy in Greek Tragedy' steps Daemon, a beautiful young man who turns the good professor's life upside-down. Alexander, who is translating and directing a college production of The Bacchae, suddenly finds that his own life mirrors Euripides's play about losing one's sanity in the throws of passion. This is a comedy about love, lust, madness, death, incest, infidelity and bubblegum | |||||
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Courage | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1983 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc - New York | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #27830 | |||
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Genre: | 80-90 min Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 1 male | |||||
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Synopsis: | Inspired by an address given by Sir James M. Barrie to the graduating class of St. Andrew's University in Scotland, Courage is an intimate look into the life of the celebrated writer. In instructing the students how to go about living the "courageous life," he uses his own life as an example of how not to spend one's years. He tells of his youth, of his bed-ridden (and emotionally-demanding) mother, of his career and tragic marriage, and of his remarkable friendship with the five Llewellyn-Davies boys that would lead to his creation of Peter Pan. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Early Times, Chapter Twelve, The Frog | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1981 | ||||
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 | #71264 | |||
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Evening | ||
| 1st Produced: | Cincinnati | 1986 | ||||
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 | #27831 | |||
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Ghost Story, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | Edinburgh | 1984 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Haunted Lives", Dramatists Play Service, New York, 1984 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #27832 | |||
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Genre: | Drama One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | in Haunted Lives. Commission, Actors Theatre of Louisville, KY | |||||
Synopsis: | two hikers, Oswald and Hackett, seek shelter from a winter blizzard in an isolated Maine cabin. They are joined by a mysterious girl, Soma, who disclaims any knowledge of who might have laid the fire in the hearth, or who owns the knapsack which rests in the corner. To while away the time the three tell each other ghost stories-at first vividly fanciful and then suddenly disquieting as the imagined becomes real in the blood-curdling climax. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Goober's Decent | ||
| 1st Produced: | Victor Jory Theater, Louisville, KY | 1982 | ||||
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 | #80178 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Gothic Tale, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1983 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Haunted Lives", Dramatists Play Service, New York, 1984 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #27833 | |||
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Genre: | Drama One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | a woman obsessed by the idea of being loved keeps a man prisoner in the tower of an island mansion. In a succession of scenes the woman, Eliza, and her manservant visit the prisoner, Isaac, warning him that, unless he confesses his love for Eliza, he will die. Finally, just before he expires from starvation, Isaac capitulates-whereupon a large cupboard is opened to reveal the ghoulish remains of other men who have preceded him to this sinister place. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Haunted Lives | ||
| 1st Produced: | Edinburgh | 1984 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Haunted Lives", Dramatists Play Service, New York, 1984 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #27834 | |||
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Genre: | Three Short Plays One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | includes A Witche's Brew, A Ghost Story, A Gothic Tale | |||||
Synopsis: | The first play, A WITCH'S BREW, takes place in the darkened basement of a remote farmhouse, where Daed, his sister Jule, and her boyfriend Tucker, nervously explore the macabre secrets of the shallow graves which they believe to be there. Performed in semi-darkness, the play makes eloquent use of the powerful-and frightening-imagery of words to build to its shocking and terrifying denouement. The second play, A GHOST STORY, two hikers, Oswald and Hackett, seek shelter from a winter blizzard in an isolated Maine cabin. They are joined by a mysterious girl, Soma, who disclaims any knowledge of who might have laid the fire in the hearth, or who owns the knapsack which rests in the corner. To while away the time the three tell each other ghost stories at first vividly fanciful and then suddenly disquieting as the imagined becomes real in the blood-curdling climax. In the final play, A GOTHIC TALE, a woman obsessed by the idea of being loved keeps a man prisoner in the tower of an island mansion. In a succession of scenes the woman, Eliza, and her manservant visit the prisoner, Isaac, warning him that, unless he confesses his love for Eliza, he will die. Finally, just before he expires from starvation, Isaac capitulates-whereupon a large cupboard is opened to reveal the ghoulish remains of other men who have preceded him to this sinister place. | |||||
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Impassioned Embraces | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1989 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #27835 | |||
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Genre: | 14 short pieces One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | Designed to be presented by a company of six actors (three men, three women and without any formal setting, the fourteen short pieces that comprise IMPASSIONED EMBRACES offer a wealth of intriguing possibilities for the performers. Dealing largely with the many aspects of love (from the sublime to the ridiculous) and with the trials and terrors that actors must face, the plays mingle hilarity and poignancy as they explore the problems that romance-and the need for self-expression-can engender. We encounter, for example, an actor struggling through a particularly devastating rehearsal; two teenagers gingerly dissecting a frog-and their sex lives; a bridegroom who finds that he really loves the bridesmaid rather than the bride; a woman (masquerading as a man) who tries to pick up a man (masquerading as a woman) in a bar; a couple chattering through a "splatter film" whose conversation is even wilder, and more intriguing, than the soundtrack of the movie; an assortment of sad/funny monologues about the various perils (and pleasures) of the acting profession; and a wildly funny farce involving a man about to undergo a vasectomy, a shockingly inept doctor, an irate (and pregnant) nurse, and the doctor's madly jealous wife. Fast-moving and highly inventive throughout, the program maintains a mood of high spirits and offbeat humor that will infect those on both sides of the footlights, as the hilarity-and truth-of the various pieces find their mark. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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In Mortality | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1986 | |||||
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 | #27836 | |||
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Jass | ||
| 1st Produced: | New Dramatists, NYC | 1980 | ||||
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 | #27837 | |||
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Madonna and Child | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 2007 | ||||
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 | #70844 | |||
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Sleight Of Hand | ||
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1987 | ||||
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 | #27838 | |||
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Slow Dance With a Hot Pickup | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 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 | #69471 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Music by Matty Selman; lyrics by Matty Selman; book by John Pielmeier | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Soledad Brother | ||
| 1st Produced: | Penn State University, PA | 1971 | ||||
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 | #27839 | |||
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Genre: | Protest Drama One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 6 BM, 2 BF, 6 WM (doubling) | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Adaptation of George Jackson's prison letters | |||||
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Song of Myself | ||
| 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 | #56717 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Steeple Chase | ||
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1989 | ||||
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 | #27840 | |||
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Willi | ||
| 1st Produced: | Big Fork, Montana | 1991 | ||||
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 | #27841 | |||
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Notes: | music by Matthew Selman | |||||
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Witch's Brew, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | Edinburgh | 1984 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Haunted Lives", Dramatists Play Service, New York, 1984 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #27842 | |||
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Genre: | Drama One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | in Haunted Lives | |||||
Synopsis: | takes place in the darkened basement of a remote farmhouse, where Daed, his sister Jule, and her boyfriend Tucker, nervously explore the macabre secrets of the shallow graves which they believe to be there. Performed in semi-darkness, the play makes eloquent use of the powerful-and frightening-imagery of words to build to its shocking and terrifying denouement. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Young Rube | ||
| 1st Produced: | St Louis, Missouri | 1992 | ||||
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 | #27843 | |||
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Notes: | music and lyrics by Matthew Selman | |||||
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