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PETER SNOAD (1949 - ) |
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Nationality: British Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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Peter Snoad's plays have received more than 50 productions and staged readings in the U.S., Canada, and the U.K. He has been honored with two national new play awards (the Stanley Drama Award and the Arthur W. Stone Playwriting Award) and a playwriting fellowship from the Massachusetts Cultural Council. Peter's most recent full-length plays include Orbiting Mars, a wacky satirical romp about militarism and celebrity culture; Identity Crisis, a farce about race and identity; and Raising David Walker, a contemporary drama inspired by the life and work of the black abolitionist, David Walker. A resident of Boston, Massachusetts, Peter is a proud member of the Dramatists Guild, the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, and the Screen Actors Guild. Free downloads of all of his short plays and excerpts from his full-length plays are available at: www.petersnoad.com.
Plays by Peter Snoad
And Anyone in Leopard Skin Tights | ||
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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 | #82962 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy (14 minutes) One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | There's a new God in Heaven, and you need a good fashion sense and the right religion to get in. | |||||
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Apple Pie | ||
| 1st Produced: | Baldwin Theatre, Royal Oak, Michigan, USA | - - - | ||||
Company: | Stagecrafters | |||||
| 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 | #82961 | |||
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Genre: | Short comedy (12 minutes) One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | A lonely divorcee in a small town woos a reluctant Lebanese immigrant with her homemade apple pie. | |||||
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Boiling House, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | ART/New York Spaces, New York, New York, USA | 2007 | ||||
Company: | Reverie Productions, New York, NY | |||||
| 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 | #82957 | |||
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Genre: | Full-length drama (90 minutes) Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Requires three black actors (1 female, two male), one Asian actor (female) and one white actor (male). | |||||
Synopsis: | In this poignant drama, the owner of a guesthouse on a small Caribbean island confronts her family's painful past. An impending hurricane compels Mama Aida and her guests to take shelter in an old plantation building. There she encounters the spirits of her slave ancestors who were brutally tortured and murdered after leading an unsuccessful slave rebellion. | |||||
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Draft, The | ||
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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 | #139183 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | about the impact of the Vietnam War draft | |||||
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Either Or | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Factory Theatre, Boston, Massachusetts, USA | - - - | ||||
Company: | Boston Actors Theater | |||||
| 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 | #113768 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy (10 minutes) | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | John is great at crossword puzzles, but when it comes to his wife, Renee, he hasn't got a clue. | |||||
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Entitled | ||
| 1st Produced: | Center for Arts, Natick, MA | 2004 | ||||
Company: | Center for Arts, Natick, MA | |||||
| 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 | #55484 | |||
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Genre: | Short comedy drama (12 minutes) One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A successful businessman who craves silence buys a remote Pacific island as the ultimate sound-proof getaway. | |||||
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Fresh Start, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | Devanaughn Theatre, Boston | 2006 | ||||
Company: | Devanaughn Theatre | |||||
| 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 | #55486 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy drama (12 minutes) One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | Outside their gated community, the world is in violent chaos. But fashionistas Julie and Justin are in personal crisis because her breasts and his teeth are less than perfect. | |||||
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Greening of Bridget Kelly, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Fort Point Theatre Channel, Boston, Massachusetts, USA | 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 | #82956 | |||
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Genre: | dark comedy Ten Min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | A teenage environmental activist explains to a priest how killing her sexually abusive father has helped stop global warming. | |||||
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Guided Tour | ||
| 1st Produced: | Abingdon Theater Company, 312 W. 36th Street , Sixth Floor, New York, NY 10018-7570 >>> | 2006 | ||||
Company: | Hinton Battle Theatre Lab | |||||
| 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 | #54523 | |||
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Genre: | Full-length drama (90 minutes) | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | Winner of the Stanley Drama Award (Wagner College, New York, USA) in 2007; the Arthur W. Stone New Play Award (Louisiana Tech University, Louisiana, USA) in 2007; and the 2006 New Play Festival of Centre Stage-South Carolina in Greenville, South Carolina, USA. | |||||
Synopsis: | Joe Bell, an African-American Renaissance man, has spent 14 years in jail for burning down the Gilded Age mansion where he once worked as a tour guide. Determined to prove him innocent, Susanna Hatch, a young white law student, visits Joe in a prison psychiatric unit and learns some wrenching lessons about the irrational power of love. | |||||
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Hot Zero | ||
| 1st Produced: | ArtsSpace, Maynard, Massachusetts, USA | 2009 | ||||
Company: | Acme Theatre | |||||
| 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 | #93796 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy (12 minutes) | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Awkward Eric lusts for luscious Lucy-and a very small carbon footprint. | |||||
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Identity Crisis | ||
| 1st Produced: | Provincetown Theatre, Provincetown, Massachusetts, USA | 2010 | ||||
Company: | New Provincetown Players | |||||
| 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 | #113770 | |||
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Genre: | 90 min Farce | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | It's an unpublicized phenomenon that's sweeping the country: White people turning Black. On the night before his wedding, Alan Guthrie learns it's about to happen to him. And he's freaked: His racist prospective father-in-law would never allow his daughter to marry a black man. Alan's whole future with his beloved Marcia is in jeopardy. The solution? Get his identical twin brother, David, who is gay, to impersonate him as the groom. . . | |||||
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I'm Not At Liberty To Say | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2006 | |||||
Company: | Alarm Clock Theatre | |||||
| 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 | #55483 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy drama, full-length (100 minutes) Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | This play has been re-named. It was first produced under the title "Rosa" | |||||
Synopsis: | On the eve of their departure to Guatemala to pick up their newly adopted daughter, a middle-class American couple find themselves suspected of a terrorist act-blowing up their own car. When the devastating truth finally emerges, it challenges all their assumptions about truth, democracy and the American way. | |||||
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Life of Trees, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Brevard Little Theatre, Brevard, NC, USA | 2010 | ||||
Company: | Brevard Little Theatre | |||||
| 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 | #82958 | |||
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Genre: | Short comedy drama (12 minutes) One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | one girl aged 7-9 | |||||
Notes: | Winner, Short Play Category, New Play Competition, Brevard Little Theatre, Brevard, NC, 2009 | |||||
Synopsis: | A man whose estranged brother is dying learns a lesson about love and loyalty from his tree-hugging seven-year-old daughter. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Lucky Thirteen | ||
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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 | #82959 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy (12 minutes) One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | A government corporation offers job security for life on the 13th floor-provided you pay to interview and become a certified Christian. And what's with the Mariachi music? | |||||
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My Name Is Art | ||
| 1st Produced: | Devanaughn Theatre, Boston | 2006 | ||||
Company: | Devanaughn Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | Original Works Publishing, 2007 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #55487 | |||
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Genre: | Short comedy (13 minutes) One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Selected Best of Fest in the 2007 Frontera Fest at Hyde Park Theatre in Austin, Texas, USA | |||||
Synopsis: | In a modern art museum, a man wearing only body graffiti and a thong asserts the validity of his own living art exhibit. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Orbiting Mars | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Actors' Studio, Newburyport, Massachusetts, USA | 2009 | ||||
Company: | North Shore Readers Theatre Collaborative | |||||
| 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 | #82960 | |||
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Genre: | Full-length comedy drama (110 minutes) Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | This play requires a minimum of eight actors playing a total of 17 parts. | |||||
Synopsis: | Desperate to win a statewide contest, a community theatre company casts a man claiming to be the Roman god Mars to star in their production of a Noel Coward comedy. A CIA plot. . .a teenager who speaks fluent Latin. . .Hollywood's embrace of "reality theatre". . .It's all here in this hilarious spoof on militarism and celebrity culture. | |||||
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Raising David Walker | ||
| 1st Produced: | Red Branch Theatre In Columbia, MD | 10 Mar 2012 | ||||
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 | #113769 | |||
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Genre: | 90 min Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Part Of The Baltimore Playwrights Festival | |||||
Synopsis: | Serena Fox, an African-American college student, takes a class on the history of racism and becomes captivated by the ideas and passion of 19th century black abolitionist David Walker. After receiving several "visits" from him-"Is this his ghost or am I going crazy?"-Serena is convinced that Walker, who officially died of lung disease, may have been assassinated by Southern planters alarmed by his incendiary writings. She leads a campaign to establish a memorial at his unmarked gravesite and to exhume his remains. Her controversial quest for the truth propels Serena to re-examine her relationship with her white boyfriend and to embrace the broader contemporary struggle for racial justice. | |||||
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Resistance | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2005 | |||||
Company: | Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre | |||||
| 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 | #55485 | |||
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Genre: | Short comedy drama (13 minutes) One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | An elderly couple's argument about whether to get rid of the phone sparks a frank exchange about family, friends, and the challenges of growing old. | |||||
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Samosas Forever | ||
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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 | #113767 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy (12 minutes) | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | 1 either | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Immobilized by fear of hurting anyone or anything, Ernest finds salvation in those savory Indian pastries he loves so much. | |||||
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Transition | ||
| 1st Produced: | Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, USA | 2008 | ||||
Company: | Company One | |||||
| 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 | #93795 | |||
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Genre: | comedy Ten Min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Requires one black and one white actor. | |||||
Synopsis: | Arriving at his office, Andy is greeted by a man who claims to be Walter, an old friend and colleague. But how can that be? Walter was white, and this man is black. . . | |||||
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