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DEAN POYNOR |
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Nationality: USA Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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Dean Poynor is an emerging playwright based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he is pursuing an MFA in Dramatic Writing at Carnegie Mellon University. Awards include: First Place at the 2010 Trustus Theatre Playwrights' Festival (PARADISE KEY), the 2008 Helford Prize in Drama ($10,000) from Jacksonville State University (LOSING SLEEP), two-time recipient of Shubert Foundation Grant (Carnegie Mellon), and the official selection for the Emerging Voices Playwriting Competition (MORAL SUPPORT). He is currently working on a drama about the law.
Plays by Dean Poynor
Bellhammer | ||
| 1st Produced: | Carnegie Mellon New Works Series, Wells Studio Theatre | 02 Feb 2010 | ||||
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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 | #131651 | |||
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Synopsis: | A Christian wrestler uses his fights in the ring as a way to bring people to Jesus | |||||
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Company Time | ||
| 1st Produced: | Workshop at the Players Theatre, NYC | 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 | #99822 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | COMPANY TIME was developed under luxurious circumstances, thanks to workshops at the Players Theatre, NYC, and readings with Trustus Theatre, Columbia, SC. | |||||
Synopsis: | COMPANY TIME takes a realistic look at office romance in a contemporary corporate environment. We can't help being human - seeking connections, sharing a laugh, falling in love - even in a sterile, corporate world. Doug and Jenny work together in a New York City high rise. They share an office, and as a result, they are intimately familiar with every detail of each other's personal lives. One night, Doug is kicked out of his apartment and he decides to take a chance with Jenny. Their rendezvous changes everything, throwing off the balance of the working relationship, and forcing each of them to examine their own ideas of work and love. Doug must choose between the safety and security of his current wife, and the lure of a new life with Jenny. While Jenny is working on closing the biggest sale of the year, we see Doug fumble with his feelings as he tries to make sense of his new situation. His search for meaning and connection leads him to the conclusion that this modern world can't support that type of love. Or maybe it's just too much work. | |||||
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Joy of Cooking | ||
| 1st Produced: | Reading at the Actors Theatre of Santa Cruz | 2009 | ||||
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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 | #99823 | |||
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Genre: | comedy Ten Min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | Selected for reading at the 2009 "Best of the Rest" Fest at the Actors Theatre of Santa Cruz. | |||||
Synopsis: | Joy is at the end of her rope until she meets the model from her 1967 copy of Joy of Cooking. Can she learn to cook in one night, or will her life not turn out like the recipe? | |||||
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Losing Sleep | ||
| 1st Produced: | Reading at Texas Repertory Theatre (Houston) | 2008 | ||||
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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 | #99824 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | LOSING SLEEP was the winner of the 2008 Helford Prize in Drama ($10,000) from Jacksonville State University. It was developed after a long germination period at the Iowa Summer Writers Festival, and received its first reading at Trustus Theatre, Columbia, SC. Subsequent readings include the Texas Repertory Theatre in Houston, and Ten Grand Productions in New York. | |||||
Synopsis: | LOSING SLEEP is an intimate portrait of loss and recovery that challenges us to look deeply into the reasons why we hold on to our past. It takes place in a sleep lab, a place where people who are having problems sleeping come for medical diagnosis and treatment. Over the course of a few nights, John must face his past and reconcile with his future, or he may never fall asleep again. | |||||
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Moral Support | ||
| 1st Produced: | Reading at Lincoln Theatre (Washington, DC) | 2009 | ||||
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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 | #99825 | |||
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Genre: | comedy Ten Min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | MORAL SUPPORT received a development workshop at Carnegie Mellon University, and was an Official Selection at the 2009 Emerging Voices Playwriting Competition at the historic Lincoln Theatre in Washington, DC. | |||||
Synopsis: | Bret and Tom have been best friends since college. But the pressures of growing up - jobs, rent, girlfriends - may be getting to them. What's more, Ninja Palace 3 just came out today, and that gives Bret has an idea. . . | |||||
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Paradise Key | ||
| 1st Produced: | Reading at Trustus Theatre (Columbia, SC) | 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 | #99826 | |||
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: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | PARADISE KEY was developed at Carnegie Mellon University and was selected as the winner of the 2010 Trustus Theatre Playwrights' Festival, and will receive a staged reading in Columbia, SC this August. | |||||
Synopsis: | It is August, 1951. In the sweaty back room of a U.S. Army safe house, hidden deep in the Florida Keys, a young American Counter-Intelligence agent named David has brought in a special subject for an interview - a German medical doctor named Halb. The doctor was rumored to have found a vaccine for Polio, years before his American counterparts, and David wants to acquire that vaccine to save the lives of countless children. However, as the Faustian bargain unfolds, we learn this knowledge was gained by the doctor's work in Nazi concentration camps with experiments on human prisoners. Over the course of one night, David must find this formula hidden inside Halb's head, or risk an American disaster. | |||||
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Trumpet Solo | ||
| 1st Produced: | Warehouse Theatre | 2008 | ||||
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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 | #99827 | |||
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Genre: | drama One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | TRUMPET SOLO was written for my friend, actor Chris White. It received its initial workshop reading, with Chris playing the role of Alan, at Trustus Theatre, Columbia, SC. It also has a workshop scheduled with Warehouse Theatre, Greenville, SC. | |||||
Synopsis: | A man is struck by a vision of Heaven and comes back to tell us about it. His monologue uncovers our deepest longings about what lies beyond, and changes the way we see what's around us. Alan was just like us. A lawyer, living his life the best he knew how. Until he was given a vision of Heaven, unlike anything he expected or dreamed. Now he has come back, to tell us about it, and to make sure it was real. His story uncovers our deepest longings about what lies beyond, and changes the way we see what's around us. He is the trumpet, sounding a piercing, sorrowful note of warning, exhilaration, and release. This compelling one-act monologue explores the hidden desire in all of us to feel like there is something more. As we witness Alan's struggle to put the ineffable into words, we are brought face to face without own inability to imagine, and the refreshing hope of communication. | |||||
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