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MAC ROGERS |
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Nationality: USA Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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Mac Rogers is a playwright and performer who lives in Brooklyn with his fiance Sandy. Playscripts, Inc. previously published his playThe Second String. His play Universal Robots was anthologized in the New York Theatre Experience's "Plays and Playwrights 2008" anthology, and Hail Satan won a FringeNYC 2007 Outstanding Playwriting Award. Along with Sean and Jordana Williams, Mac wrote Fleet Week: The Musical, winner of a FringeNYC 2005 Outstanding Musical Award. Mr. Rogers' other plays produced in New York includeDirty Juanita, The Sky Over Nineveh, andThe Lucretia Jones Mysteries. As an actor, Mr. Rogers was nominated for a New York Innovative Theater Award for his performance in Nosedive Productions' The Adventures of Nervous Boy.
Plays by Mac Rogers
+30NYC | ||
| 1st Produced: | Center Stage, NY | 06 Mar 2010 | ||||
Company: | Red Fern 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 | #111979 | |||
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Genre: | Short Play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | written by Bekah Brunstetter, Victor Ismael Cazares, Christine Evans, Michael John Garces, Ashlin Halfnight, Mac Rogers, Tommy Smith | |||||
Synopsis: | A sustainable project, this evening of short plays examines how our actions today will directly affect our lives in 30 years. As per the mission of Red Fern Theatre Company, that each production is paired with a philanthropy whose work relates to the social themes of the play, +30NYC is paired with Material For the Arts. | |||||
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Advance Man | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Secret Theatre | 12 Jan 2012 | ||||
Company: | Gideon Productions | |||||
| 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 | #135893 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 4 | ||
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Notes: | part one of The Honeycomb Trilogy | |||||
Synopsis: | Advance Man centers on the family of Bill Cooke, the leader of a group of astronauts who have returned from the first manned mission to Mars bearing secrets and illicit cargo that could forever alter not only their lives, but all of humanity. It is part of The Honeycomb Trilogy by Mac Rogers, three stand-alone plays set in the same futuristic universe, that together create an epic sci-fi trilogy. | |||||
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Air Guitar | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2006 | |||||
Company: | Gideon Productions | |||||
| 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 | #56174 | |||
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Genre: | 110 min Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | by Mac Rogers; Music by Sean Williams, Lyrics by Jordana Williams. VENUE 5: Henry Street Settlement - Harry de Jur Playhouse | |||||
Synopsis: | Drew's a guitarist with twelve fans and a floundering marriage, until he enters the world of AIR GUITAR -- and discovers sometimes you rock harder when there's nothing to hold onto | |||||
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Blast Radius | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Secret Theatre | 30 Mar 2012 | ||||
Company: | Gideon Productions | |||||
| 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 | #135895 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 6 | ||
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Notes: | part two of The Honeycomb Trilogy | |||||
Synopsis: | This is part two of Mac Rogers' "Honeycomb Trilogy." Blast Radius follows a sister and brother at mortal odds in an Earth radically changed by years of alien occupation. The human insurgency finally has a weapon to turn the tideat a terrible cost. The conquering alien race has found a chilling solution to end human resistance for good. | |||||
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Blood Brothers Present, The. . .The New Guignol | ||
| 1st Produced: | 28 Oct 2009 | |||||
Company: | Nosedive Productions | |||||
| 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 | #105325 | |||
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Genre: | Piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 4 | ||
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Notes: | written by Danny Bowes, James Comtois and Mac Rogers | |||||
Synopsis: | A father locks his daughter away because he can't bear to share her with her mother, or anyone else. A man holds a busload of passengers hostage with no demands, and one woman does the unthinkable to attempt escape. And a scorned husband offers his wife a ghastly maternity gift. These tales and others make up this year's THE BLOOD BROTHERS PRESENT. . . series, Nosedive Productions' annual October horror show. | |||||
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Blueprint Project, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Puffin Room, NY | 2008 | ||||
Company: | Gideon Productions | |||||
| 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 | #83878 | |||
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Genre: | short play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | part of a program of new short plays presented by Gideon Productions. This description is from the company: "Gideon's producers, composed a single-paragraph plot synopsis-about the clashing agendas of a group of people surrounding a body in a room, awaiting the arrival of a 'Medium' who would awaken the body-and gave it to four dramatists with highly diverse playwriting voices to see how differently they would realize this plot as a short play. The result is four suprising plays, each with a unique style, moving characters and a different twist ending | |||||
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Bus Driver of the Year | ||
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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 | #123160 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Music and lyrics by Joel B New; book by Mac Rogers | |||||
Synopsis: | Hannah has driven the school bus for years - the same school bus she took every day to school. Taking a group of Saturday students to school she stops to help a broken down limo that has her best friend in on her way to her wedding | |||||
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Dirty Juanita | ||
| 1st Produced: | Flatiron Playhouse | 2000 | ||||
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 | #103287 | |||
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Synopsis: | Mickey and Cameron are room mates and have moved to New York. They meet office worker Tina. Mickey and Cameron's friendship deteriorates - they start fighting. Tina is at first a by-stander but she gets drawn into the violence | |||||
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Fleet Week | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2005 | |||||
Company: | Gideon Productions and Lindsay Bowen | |||||
| 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 | #56173 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | doubling | |||||
Notes: | Music by Sean Williams, Lyrics by Jordana Williams | |||||
Synopsis: | Fleet Week in New York and four sailors on shore leave are looking for love. Seaman Staynes, Seaman Swallows, Seaman Sachs and Seaman Ravioli accidentally overhear some terrorists from Martinique plotting some dastardly attack. And as unlikely as it may seem the ship's Captain has fallen in love with the Statue of Liberty and she with him. "a gay salute to the patriotic musicals of yesterday" | |||||
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Hail Satan | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2005 | |||||
Company: | Gideon Productions, LLC | |||||
| 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 | #72211 | |||
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Genre: | 2h 0m Comedy Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | "The Omen" meets "The Office." Witness the birth of the Antichrist--and meet the Corporate Communications Department responsible for raising her. HAIL SATAN: His Kingdom is coming and his adorable daughter is preparing the way. | |||||
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Happening To Your Body | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2002 | |||||
Company: | Esttrogenius Festival | |||||
| 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 | #103288 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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I'm All About Lesbians | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc - New York | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-9709046-9-0 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #96612 | |||
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Genre: | 10 min Drama/Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | 1 male, 3 females | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
| Pinnix is all about lesbians. There is nothing he appreciates more than the aesthetic of two women together. That is why he lives with Maddy, eagerly observing her relationships with various girlfriends over the past three years. Tonight, Maddy's ex is coming for dinner, which worries Hannah, Maddy's current flame. Pinnix is hoping things get hot and tense. But, to his dismay, the situation could also get very honest and real. | |||||
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In the Deathroom | ||
| 1st Produced: | Gene Frankel Theatre, 24 Bond Street, New York, NY 10012 >>> | 2008 | ||||
Company: | Nosedive Productions | |||||
| 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 | #89913 | |||
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Genre: | Short Play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | part of The Blood Brothers Present. . .The Master of Horror | |||||
Synopsis: | This is a program of three short plays-Nona by James Comtois, Quitters, Inc. by Qui Nguyen, and In the Deathroom by Mac Rogers-all based on short stories by Stephen King. This description is from Nosedive Productions: "While hitchhiking on a snowy winter's night in Maine, a college dropout meets and falls in love with a girl he'd do absolutely anything for. Morrison is going to quit smoking whether he wants to or not. . .but is the cure worse than the disease? And Fletcher, an ex-reporter from the New York Times, is being held in an interrogation room in a foreign land, with only his wits to protect him." The show features graphic violence and is recommended for adults only. | |||||
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Lucretia Jones Mysteries, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Gershwin Hotel | 2003 | ||||
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 | #103296 | |||
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Mother Sacramento | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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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 | #123161 | |||
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Piper McKenzie's Dainty Cadaver | ||
| 1st Produced: | Brick Theatre | 28 Jan 2011 | ||||
Company: | Piper McKenzie Productions | |||||
| 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 | #124213 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | 18 playwrights. 3 plays. One performance of each. Piper McKenzie's Dainty Cadaver is an Exquisite Corpse-style playmaking project in which multiple playwrights collaborate on a single work without knowing what the hell the others are doing. Each writer reads the previous scene, writes a new scene, and passes it on to the next writerwho doesn't see any of what came earlier. Beautiful madness ensues. For its inaugural edition, Piper McKenzie will present one-night-only performances of three new plays written in this unique collaborative style, with results ranging from inspired chaos to eerie synchronicityall tied together by the unique voices of 18 hot playwrights, divided into three teams and staged by three directors. The teams and their performance details are as follows: TEAM A: Fri 1/28, 8pm: Johnna Adams, Eric Bland, Jeff Lewonczyk, Mac Rogers, Crystal Skillman, Art Wallace. Directed by Jordana Williams. TEAM B: Sat 1/29, 8pm: Danny Bowes, Matt Freeman, Qui Nguyen, Carolyn Raship, August Schulenburg, Alexis Sottile. Directed by Hope Cartelli. TEAM C: Sun 1/30, 3pm: Maggie Cino, James Comtois, John DeVore, Cara Francis, Rich Lovejoy, Justin Maxwell. Directed by John Hurley. | |||||
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Second String, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Grove Street Playhouse (New York, NY, United States) | 2001 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc - New York | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #29933 | |||
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Genre: | 60-80 min Dramatic comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | 3 males, 5 females | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Seven college friends have left New York to attend the wedding of two of their number, only weeks after September 11, 2001. The problem is, the best man can't be there, and his replacement, a snarky smart-ass named Rick, just might ruin everything in the most delicate wedding ceremony imaginable. For all his hatred of cliches, Rick has thirty-six hours to find the right thing to say. Can he? Will he? | |||||
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Sky Over Nineveh, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2002 | |||||
Company: | Theatre of Relativity | |||||
| 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 | #103289 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Sovereign | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Secret Theatre | 14 Jun 2012 | ||||
Company: | Gideon Productions | |||||
| 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 | #135894 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | part three of The Honeycomb Trilogy | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
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St Ignatius First Annual Hanukkah Pageant, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 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 | #93339 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | written by Mac Rogers, Sean and Jordana Williams | |||||
Synopsis: | In this ode to Hanakkuh, the Rosenblums move to Cricket Creek, North Dakota, and the townspeople hail their very first Jewish residents by celebrating the adorable Jewish version of Christmas called Hanukkah. After exhaustive research into Jewish history and humor, drama club president/playwright/director/auteur Arlene proudly unveils the St. Ignatius First Annual Hanukkah Pageant | |||||
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Standards of Decency 3: 300 Vaginas Before Breakfast | ||
| 1st Produced: | Access Theatre | 02 Jun 2011 | ||||
Company: | Blue Coyote Theater 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 | #138153 | |||
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Genre: | short play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | written by David Johnston, Matthew Freeman, David Foley, Mac Rogers, Jordan Seavey, Bruce Goldstone, Jacqueline Christy, Cheri Magid, Adam Szymkowicz | |||||
Synopsis: | Blue Coyote Theater group commissioned eight of their favorite playwrights to create new short plays meditating on new media and pornography. Presented in a stripped-down style, the plays are raunchy, funny, and surprisingly tender. Is our pornutopia breaking down our capacities for empathy and reflective thought, for intimacy and sustained attention? Standards of Decency 3: 300 Vaginas Before Breakfast uses a very old medium to explore what the new media are doing to us, publicly and privately, for better and for worse, at the place where technology, sex, and relationships collide. | |||||
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Trailers | ||
| 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 | #63903 | |||
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Genre: | curtain raiser One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
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Universal Robots | ||
| 1st Produced: | 09 Jul 2007 | |||||
Company: | Manhattan Theatre Source & Gideon Productions, LLC | |||||
| 1st Published: | in Plays and Playwrights 2008, The New York Theatre Experience, Inc >>> | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-9794852-1-3 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #69597 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 4 | ||
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Notes: | inspired by Karel Capek's R.U.R. | |||||
| The Great War has just ended. Czechoslovakia is a Republic with an elected President and a thriving artistic community that includes celebrated playwright Karel Capek. But history cracks wide open when a young woman walks into Karel's life with a strange mannequin in a wheelchair. . .a mannequin that gets up and moves all by itself!Universal Robots tells the alternate history of the 20th Century, beginning with the invention of the robot through the destruction of Nazi Germany at the hands of the robot army, and concluding with the horrifying robot rebellion against the human race that changed the world forever. A love story, political allegory, and redemptive tragedy, Universal Robots freely adapts Czech playwright Karel Capek's seminal 1921 play R.U.R., which introduced the word 'robot' to the world. Universal Robots departs significantly from Capek's script, offering a meaty and riveting story of war, love, faith, technology, and the power of art to change the world, for both good and ill | |||||
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Viral | ||
| 1st Produced: | The SoHo Playhouse, New York International Fringe Festival | 2009 | ||||
Company: | Gideon Productions, LLC | |||||
| 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 | #101195 | |||
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Genre: | 1h 45m Drama Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A woman googles "painless suicide" and finds the people who will help her end her life - if she'll let them film it. And sell it. A pitch black comedy from two-time FringeNYC award winner Mac Rogers. | |||||
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