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DAVID RUSH |
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Nationality: USA Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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Literary Agent: Robert A Freedman Dramatic Agency |
Rush's plays have been produced by such theaters as Stage Left, Chicago Dramatists, Mark Taper Forum, GeVa, Manhatten Theater Club, and others. His awards include Chicago Jeff Awards, a Los Angeles DramaLogue Award, Emmies, and others. His plays have been read and/or workshopped at Utah Shakespeare, Orlando Shakespeare, Odyssey Theater, Inge Center, Abindgon Theater, etc. He has won and/or was a finalist in several national contests. He has published two textbooks: A STUDENT GUIDE TO PLAY ANALYSIS and BUILDING YOUR PLAY (the latter coming in July 2010). He has been awarded several playwriting grants and has been a writer in residence at the Inge Center.
Plays by David Rush
Cuttings | ||
| 1st Produced: | 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 | #102267 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | A darkly disturbing and somewhat controversial play | |||||
Synopsis: | A former psychologist/ registered sex-offender is on the run with a teenaged boy. Hoping to redeem himself through the boy, he only succeeds in destroying the lives of both of them. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Dapples And Grays | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1997 | |||||
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 | #113327 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Won two awards in its Chicago production. | |||||
Synopsis: | A priest comes to the bedside of a man who has swallowed acid as a suicide. As the priest prepares the young man for his death, they fall in love with each other and learn to find strength in this impossible situation. | |||||
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Ellen Universe Joins the Band | ||
| 1st Produced: | GeVa Theater | 1996 | ||||
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 | #113328 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | doubling | |||||
Notes: | A mystical bittersweet comedy which calls for magical realism and two actors who can play childhood twins. | |||||
Synopsis: | As Ellen prepares to cast out the ashes of her dead husband, she is visited by a magical/realistic mariahchi band and reviews her life to find its meaning. It all comes down to being ready to play a bugle. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Estelle Singerman | ||
| 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 | #113325 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | doubling | |||||
Notes: | Winner of Dayton Playhouse FutureFest. | |||||
Synopsis: | A surrealistic, Chagall-like journey through one magical summer night in Chicago, as Estelle and Henry try to find answers. They meet a mystical bag lady, a talking giraffe, Henry's ex-wife's ghost, a lost and wandering rabbi and a killer unicorn on the loose. As dawn approaches, all is made clear, as the unicorn claims one more victim. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Feathers in the Wind | ||
| 1st Produced: | Chicago Jewish Theater | 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 | #113326 | |||
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Genre: | Musical (book & lyrics) | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | doubling | |||||
Notes: | Cited for a Jeff Award, the play is perfect for community groups or theaters with a mixed-faith audience. | |||||
Synopsis: | A weaving together of a series classic Jewish folks tales about the "wise fools of Chelm," the village of lovable lunatics and idiiots. The weave is held together by the story told by the Rabbi of how the town rose, fell, and is about to redeemed again. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Germinous Seeds | ||
| 1st Produced: | New American Playwrights Project | 2008 | ||||
Company: | Utah Shakespeare 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 | #110805 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Readings And Workshops At Utah Shakes, Orlando Shakes, Odyssey, Chicago Dramatists , Inge Center, Etc. Winner Of Three National Contests. | |||||
Synopsis: | Three interconnected stories told in indifferent styles: Letters are exchanged between Hawthorne and Melville; a Melville scholar is destroyed by a conniving student, and a story-theater version of "Bartleby." A tour de forced for two great actors. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Leander Stillwell | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1994 | |||||
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 | #102268 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 10 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | doubling | |||||
Notes: | The piece calls for a versatile ensemble to shift roles, genders, characters all the time in story-theater fashion It uses several major civil war songs to help comment on and enhance the story. It has been produced by community, college, and non-eq theaters, and has received major awards. | |||||
Synopsis: | Before Leander goes off to join the union army in the civil war, his father asks him to bring back home the name of one confederate soldier. Leander's journey through the darkness of war teaches him what this is all about. | |||||
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Life is Only 7 Points | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Published, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #30371 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
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Love and Betrayal | ||
| 1st Produced: | Kraine Theatre, New York | 1998 | ||||
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 | #125239 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Harley still has a thing for his ex-girlfriend and looses it when an invitation comes for her wedding to a friend of his. His current girlfriend almost walks out on him and his friends do not know whether they should go to the wedding or not - wanting to show loyalty to Harley | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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One Fine Day | ||
| 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 | #113324 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 6 | ||
Parts other: | doubling | |||||
Notes: | This play has won and/or placed in several national contests and had a New York reading. Was optioned for Broadway for a time. | |||||
Synopsis: | Professor Miller is facing a judicial review board at his college today, to answer charges of anti-semitism in his classroom, brought about by charges made by a jewish student who's a holocaust survivor. As Miller goes through this one key day, he reviews the choices he's made in his life and becomes resigned to his inevitable fate. At the end, he and the student become reconciled, but his career is over. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Oregon Fever | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | HaveScripts (online) | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #102269 | |||
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Genre: | drama One act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Good for communities and high schools | |||||
Synopsis: | As a family prepares to leave their homes for the journey to the golden west (ca 1880) each member has to face his/her own past and the choices they made as they embark on a new life. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Police Deaf Near Far | ||
| 1st Produced: | 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 | #102270 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | doubling | |||||
Notes: | Won a Chicago Jeff. The play requires shadow-voicing and shadow-signing, and the casting of two deaf actors. | |||||
Synopsis: | The play follows the events in the lives of a militant deaf-rights advocate and a Chicago cop, as they ultimately meet when the cop stops the man on a traffic charge and inadvertently shoots him. Based on a true event in Chicago. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Prairie Lights | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2000 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatic Publishing Company | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #102271 | |||
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Genre: | Musical: lyrics | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | 5 teenage boys; 5 teenage girls | |||||
Notes: | Music by Rosalie Gerut; lyrics by David Rush; book by Susan Lieberman | |||||
Synopsis: | 1905. A train full of Jewish orphans arrives in Wellspring, Nebraska. Benjamin and Rose are adopted by the Birnbaums who have kept the fact that they are Jewish from the rest of the town | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Prophet of Bishop Hill, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Chicago Dramatists | 1999 | ||||
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 | #102272 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | doubling | |||||
Notes: | Was nominated for Best Play in its Chicago production. | |||||
Synopsis: | Based on history, the play follows the rise and fall of Erik Jansson who founded a utopian community in Illinois, which survived several years, only to be destroyed by Erik's own madness and assassination. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Tying the Knot | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 2006 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Has been given performed readings at various rallies and conferences; is ideally suited for a staged reading format, like "Love Letters." | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #78752 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | doubling | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Three stories woven into a monologue drama, about three separate same-sex couples whose lives are destroyed by the inequities in marriage laws. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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