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CAROL ROPER |
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Nationality: USA Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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Carol Roper is an award-winning writer who has written for and worked with, Academy Award-winning actor, Robin Williams. As a playwright, she received the prestigious, Office for Advanced Drama Research Rockefeller Honorarium, for her full-length, anti-war play, The Current Rage, which had productions in San Francisco and in New York. She has sold television movies and feature films, and at various times been under contract with Disney Studios, NBC, ABC and United Artists. Her novel, "God's Bread (Baked Fresh Daily)" was published to generally warm reviews. She taught writing at the University of Southern California and the University of California, San Diego. A supporting member of the American Academy of Poets, Ms. Roper, is founder of CELEBRATIONWORKS, a multifaceted theatre arts organization and a lifetime member of the Writer's Guild of America. "ALLIGATORS" a full-length theatrical comedy of family rivalry, death and alligators, was a finalist in the Sonora Festival of new plays and chosen by the Colorado Theatre Guild to launch it's Staged Reading series.
Plays by Carol Roper
Alligators | ||
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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 | #85812 | |||
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Genre: | full length Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | Alligators is a one-set, 6 character comedy about an estranged brother and sister, the former a lawyer, the latter a director of documentaries, called home for the expected demise of their exasperating and poignant mother, and instead find her quite alive, and cheerfully planning her funeral, and a rumored alligator roaming the neighborhood with a mysterious alligator hunter in pursuit. | |||||
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Holiday Hotel | ||
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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 | #85814 | |||
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Genre: | full length Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | HOLIDAY HOTEL, set in a once elegant dining room of a hotel on the Baja Coast, Mexico. 6 strangers lives are transformed on Christmas Eve, when they encounter an extra-terrestrial phenomenon off the coast of Mexico. | |||||
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Shakespeare's Brother | ||
| 1st Produced: | Bemis, Littleton | 2008 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Heuer Publishing Company, 2009 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #85813 | |||
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Genre: | One hour Comedy satire | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 6 | ||
Parts other: | 4 | |||||
Notes: | Shakespeare's Brother is a coming of age comedy for kids, teens and adults. Cast can be expanded for crowd scenes. | |||||
Synopsis: | SHAKESPEARE'S BROTHER, (the story of Will Shakespeare's lost teen years as told by his younger, better-looking brother, Gil) a theatrical comedy for the whole family. Knowledge of Shakespeare optional. Based on the fact that no record of Shakespeare's teen years exists, the comedy weaves together real life people from young Shakespeare's life with fictional characters from his plays as the two fiercely opposite teen brothers band together to fight pirates, learn martial arts, and crash a wedding party before returning home to save their father from a vicious creditor | |||||
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Wednesday Nights | ||
| 1st Produced: | John Hand Theatre, Stapleton, Co | 2006 | ||||
Company: | Write Angle 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 | #85815 | |||
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Genre: | play Ten Min | |||||
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Notes: | Denver theater critic, John Moore singled out Wednesday Nights in his review as "The best of the lot," in the 2006 Colorado Quickies Festival | |||||
Synopsis: | A married couple meet for their weekly dinner date and share their love secrets with the audience. | |||||
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