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EMILY SCHWEND |
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Nationality: USA Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Emily Schwend is a graduate of Juilliard's playwriting program and NYU's Dramatic Writing department. Her plays include South of Settling (2010 Ars Nova OutLoud series), Carthage (2009 O'Neill Playwrights Conference, 2009 Marin Theatre Company's David Calicchio Emerging American Playwrights Prize), Splinters (Alliance Theatre's 2009 Kendeda Graduate Playwright competition finalist), and Callback (2007 New Works for Young Women contest winner). Emily is a two-time Lecomte du Nouy prize winner, a two-time Wasserstein prize nominee, a semi-finalist for the 2010 Page 73 fellowship, and a member of Interstate 73. Born in Texas and raised all over the world, Emily is now based in Brooklyn.
Plays by Emily Schwend
Splinters | ||
| 1st Produced: | Source, 1835 14th Street Northwest, Washington, DC 20009 >>> | 29 Jun 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 | #115557 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | When her younger sister goes missing, Sam's family falls apart. Emily Schwend invites us into a world where soap bubbles overflow the sink, a yellow raincoat is spotted in the most unlikely of places and the whole world has to be re-assembled, one toothpick at a time. | |||||
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Theatre for One | ||
| 1st Produced: | Duffy Square, 46th Street and Broadway, NY | 07 June 2011 | ||||
Company: | Christine Jones, in association with LOT-EKŪ Architects | |||||
| 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 | #129169 | |||
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Genre: | site specific | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | written by Zayd Dorn, Stephanie Fleischman, Jacquelyn Reingold, Emily Schwend, Beau Willimon | |||||
Synopsis: | Theatre for One is a portable performing arts space for one performer and one audience member that turns public events into private acts, making each performance a singularly intimate exchange. | |||||
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Too Much Too Soon | ||
| 1st Produced: | Theater for the New City | 29 Sep 2011 | ||||
Company: | Lesser America and Red Elevator Production | |||||
| 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 | #132620 | |||
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Genre: | short play | |||||
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Notes: | An evening of short plays by Nikole Beckwith, Dean Imperial, Nick Jones, Melissa Ross, Emily Schwend and Ken Urban | |||||
Synopsis: | Too Much Too Soon is a collection of short plays commissioned by Red Elevator Productions and Lesser America. The production is a sequel to Red Elevators Too Little Too Late, that ran at HERE Arts Center in 2010 and that earned three New York Innovative Theater Award nominations, including Best Short Play, Best Actress in a Featured Role, and Best Ensemble. It included work by Lucy Alibar (Sundance Screenwriting Award), Bekah Brunstetter (Be A Good Little Widow), Sam Forman (The Moscows of Nantucket), Amy Herzog (4000 Miles - Lincoln Center, After the Revolution - Playwrights Horizons), Elizabeth Meriwether (No Strings Attached, New Girl) and Daniel Talbott (Yosemite - Rattlestick, Theater Hall of Fame Fellowship Award). Following Too Little Too Lates example, Too Much Too Soon will spotlight the work of promising and fiercely adventurous playwrights with distinct and diverse voices. | |||||
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