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DONNA SPECTOR |
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Nationality: USA Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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Literary Agent: Fifi Oscard Agency |
Spector grew up in Los Angeles, attended U.C.L.A. on a theater scholarship, then transferred to U.C. Berkeley, where she received her B.A. and M.A. in English. In the late '60's she directed and acted in a socio-political theater troupe called Dementia, performing with groups like Santana and the Grateful Dead. A member of Dramatists Guild, Women Playwrights International, International Centre for Women Playwrights and Poets & Writers, winner of the Masters Poetry Prize and twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Spector received two National Endowment for the Humanities grants to study in Greece, where she also attended the International Women Playwrights Conference. Her plays, poems, short stories, scenes and monologues have been published in many literary magazines and anthologies. member of Dramatist Guild of America
Plays by Donna Spector
Another Paradise | ||
| 1st Produced: | Players Theatre, NYC | 1986 | ||||
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 | #32911 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy/Drama Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Mother and daughter tell conflicting stories of the same events in Kentucky | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Blind Date | ||
| 1st Produced: | Center Stage, New York | 15 Jan 2003 | ||||
Company: | Harbor 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 | #131696 | |||
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Genre: | Short play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Burying Mother | ||
| 1st Produced: | Staged reading: Arthur Seelen Theatre, NYC | 2006 | ||||
Company: | Manhattan Oracles | |||||
| 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 | #58358 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy/Drama Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Semi-finalist for the 2006 Eugene O'Neill Playwrights Conference | |||||
Synopsis: | A comedy/drama about Emily and her dynamic, controlling, dead mother, the play moves fluidly between past, present and future, between what could and couldn't happen, as the play takes place in Emily's memory and dreams, including a vaudeville act on the nature of time, a funeral, in St. Paul's cathedral, that never happened, a surgery to find her sister's heart, Death as a stand-up comic, and her mother's interview with Death, a neurotic character who refuses to grant her immortality. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Crystal Ball | ||
| 1st Produced: | Center Stage, New York | 21 Oct 2001 | ||||
Company: | Harbor 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 | #131697 | |||
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Genre: | Short play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Dancing With Strangers | ||
| 1st Produced: | Staged readings: Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey | 1999 | ||||
Company: | The Harbor Theatre, NYC | |||||
| 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 | #58359 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy/Drama Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Semi-finalist in the Chesterfield Writer's Film Project, 2001. Staged reading: Wings Theatre, NYC, 2001; Short-listed in the BBC/British Council International Playwriting Competition, 2001 | |||||
Synopsis: | Five older (70's-80) women try a communal living experiment. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Golden Ladder | ||
| 1st Produced: | Players Theatre, NYC | 2002 | ||||
Company: | Players Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | in Women Playwrights: The Best Plays of 2002, Smith and Kraus, 2003 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #32912 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy/Drama Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 4 | ||
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Notes: | Finalist, Herbert Mark Newman Theatre contest (then titled How to be Really Jewish). Produced at Hope College, Michigan, 2004. Staged readings: Mirror Stage, Seattle, 2004; International Women Playwrights Conference, Athens, Greece, 2000; Grove St. Playhouse, NY,1999 | |||||
Synopsis: | A bittersweet comedy, GOLDEN LADDER explores the confusion in a family divided by different religions. Catherine relives her bewildering childhood and adolescence when her Christian mother denied that her father was Jewish and her father gave up his religion to please his wife. Catherine discovers friendship, sex and love as her often misguided attempts to reconcile her parents' conflicting agendas lead her on a spiritual odyssey until she finds the golden ladder in a story her father tells and claims her Jewish heritage. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Hanging Women | ||
| 1st Produced: | University of California, Hayward | 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 | #32913 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy/Drama Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Mother and her daughters fantasise about killing the man who left them | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Life Lines | ||
| 1st Produced: | Bruce Mitchell Room, ART/New York Spaces, NY | 2006 | ||||
Company: | Reverie 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 | #54519 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Finalist: Theatre Unbound Competition, Minneapolis, 2005, and Reverie's Next Generation Contest, 2006 | |||||
Synopsis: | ELIZABETH SCHULMAN, a doctor at a Northern California abortion clinic, who is forced to reevaluate her life's work as a result of increasingly violent attacks by militant right-wing Christian groups. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Manhattan Transits | ||
| 1st Produced: | Players Theatre, NYC | 1989 | ||||
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 | #58360 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | 2001 Semi-finalist: Beverly Hills/Julie Harris contest & Chesterfield Writer's Film Project | |||||
Synopsis: | Loosely based on an article in the New York Times Magazine and on the Demeter-Persephone myth, this play deals with the problem of homelessness in New York. A tragedy with some comic relief, MANHATTAN TRANSITS is about JOSE CARTELLO, a fourteen-year-old runaway who lives in the Port Authority Bus Terminal and looks to CARLOS FAVA, a nineteen-year-old "street kid" and to two older bag ladies for love. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Not for the Ferryman | ||
| 1st Produced: | Pickup Styx, NY, with grant from Dodge Foundation | 1993 | ||||
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 | #32914 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy/Drama Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Appalachian/Greek love story based on folktales | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Sense of Movement, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | NY Council for the Arts Production | 1987 | ||||
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 | #32915 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy/Drama Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | 3 related one-acts | |||||
Synopsis: | New York love stories | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Short-Term Affairs | ||
| 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 | #139576 | |||
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Genre: | short play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Short-Term Affairs will be included in Stone Soup Theatre's Double (XX) Fest 2.0 reading series, 4 short plays at 3 locations in Seattle-4/16 at Rogue & Peasant, 4/17 at White Rabbit, 4/18, 2012, at Via Tribunal. | |||||
Synopsis: | Mark comes to the Bureau of Short-Term Affairs in Manhattan because he's afraid of commitment and wants a limited affair with someone so wrong for him he will immediately be attracted. When Denise interviews him, they dislike each other so much that they fall in love and begin what they insist is just another short-term affair. | |||||
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