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DANIEL TALBOTT (1976 - ) |
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Nationality: USA Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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Literary Agent: Abrams Artists Agency |
Daniel Talbott's most recent work as an actor includes the Theatre for One project in Times Square and around NYC, The Merry Wives of Windsor (Shakespeare Festival of St. Louis), Master Builder (Irish Rep), Rocket City (Alabama Shakespeare Festival), Tartuffe (McCarter Theatre/Yale Rep), Marat/Sade (Classical Theatre of Harlem) and the feature film Pretty Bird, Dreaming American and The Big C on Showtime. Recent directing work includes Squealer (Lesser America at Theater for the New City), The Umbrella Plays (the teacup company/FringeNYC - Overall Excellence Award: Outstanding Play and at The Tank), Keep Your Baggage With You (at all times) (Theater for the New City), Footprint by Mac Rogers (part of +30NYC for Red Fern Theatre), Afterclap by Daniel Reitz, Birthday and Nobody, both by Crystal Skillman (Rising Phoenix Rep at the Seventh Street Small Stage), and Fall Forward (Sitelines/River to River Festival produced by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council). His play Slipping was produced at Rattlestick with Piece by Piece Productions (named one of the top ten plays of 2009 by The Advocate), premiered in Chicago at The Side Project, and was part of the International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival. It was published last year by Dramatists Play Service and was a finalist for a 2011 Lambda Literary Award for Drama. His play What Happened When was produced at HERE Arts Center and The Side Project and was published as part of the Plays and Playwrights 2008 anthology. He received a 2011 Theater Hall of Fame Fellowship, a 2007 New York Innovative Theatre Award for directing, a Drama-Logue Award, two Dean Goodman Choice Awards and a Judy Award for acting, and was also named one of the 15 People of the Year 2006 by nytheatre.com. He is a member of MCC Theater's Playwrights' Coalition, of last year's 24Seven Lab, and of TOSOS. He is a graduate of Juilliard and of Solano College Theatre's ATP, and teaches at the Primary Stages Einhorn School of Performing Arts (ESPA). He is one of the literary managers of Rattlestick Playwrights Theater and the artistic director of Rising Phoenix Rep (recipient of the 2007 NYIT Caffe Cino Fellowship Award).
Plays by Daniel Talbott
Jil Sander: A Love Story | ||
| 1st Produced: | Site Specific, New York, NY | 04 Jun 2011 | ||||
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 | #131851 | |||
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Genre: | Ten Minute | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 or more - see note | Female | 1 or more - see note | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | note about casting: Ideally I'd love there to be as many different couples as possible, all doing the play simultaneously. Gay, straight, lesbian, bi, transgender. Old. Young. Black. Chinese (in Chinese), whatever. The more love the better. | |||||
Synopsis: | A couple declares and explores their love on a city street. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Little Sanchez | ||
| 1st Produced: | HERE Arts Center - Dorothy B. Williams Theater, 145 6th Avenue, New York, NY 10013 >>> | 03 Feb 2010 | ||||
Company: | Red Elevator 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 | #110468 | |||
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Genre: | short play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | part of Too Little Too Late a first theatrical venture from the young company, Red Elevator Productions. Featuring original and premiere short plays from six of the most promising and arresting young writers on the New York theater scene, Too Little Too Late explores the problem of (dis)connect in a complicated world-because in our breakneck lives of over-stimulus media, instant mass communication, restlessness, and expectation, how does anyone really connect? | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Shore, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Source Festival, Washington DC | 2009 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in 2010 The Best 10-Minute Plays, Smith & Kraus (September 1, 2010) | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1575257723 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #99748 | |||
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Genre: | Ten min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
| Two middle-aged ladies dine together in a restaurant located at The Shore. It seems that the women lead quiet yet unsatisfying lives. One of the women (Rena Cherry Sofer) leads such a boring life that she is captivated by a note dropped by a teenage girl on the subway, imaging the circumstances surrounding its creation. As she discusses matters, her childhood friend (Marilyn Bennett) wonders how their lives reached this point. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Slipping | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Side Project, Chicago, IL | 2008 | ||||
Company: | The Side Project | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, 2010 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-8222-2427-3 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #83223 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | produced Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre, NY, 28 Jul - 15 Aug 2009 | |||||
Synopsis: | 'Slipping' is a love story about two boys in a suburb of present day Iowa. Eli moves to Iowa from San Francisco with his mother after his father is killed in a car accident. Alone, numb and friendless he becomes interested in a boy named Jake at high school. A friendship between the two develops into a relationship that leads to Eli's disintegration and finally to a possible future together. It is a play about hope and possibility; a collage of the beginning of two lives together. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Sometimes After Dinner | ||
| 1st Produced: | Ensemble Studio Theatre | 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 | #131852 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | One-act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A young woman in the midst of a major loss meets a man on a bench who is stripped of everything and determined to start a new life. As they talk, they find connection and possibility in their newly found freedom. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Train Ride, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Ensemble Studio Theatre | 2000 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Smith and Kraus, 2009 | ISBN/ASIN: | 13 978-1-57525-709-9 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #131853 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | One-act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Two brothers travel on a train late at night in the dead of winter, moving towards some inexplicable tragedy concerning their father. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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What Happened When | ||
| 1st Produced: | 05 Jul 2007 | |||||
Company: | Rising Phoenix Repertory | |||||
| 1st Published: | in Plays and Playwrights 2008, The New York Theatre Experience, Inc >>> | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-9794852-1-3 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #69251 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
| Late on a winter night in an old farmhouse in a small town, a younger brother wakes up in the middle of the night to find his deceased older brother sitting in the dark in a corner of his bedroom. As the brothers wait for the snow to start falling outside, they share stories of their family and the people of their town-misfortunes, bizarre coincidences, and many a strange passing. Both haunted by the loss of their sister and the recent and sudden death of their father in a car crash, an unraveling of memory and secrets begins that will lead to the beginning of a life for one and the release into death for the other | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Yosemite | ||
| 1st Produced: | Rattlestick Theatre | 26 Jan 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 | #135923 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Yosemite tells the story of three siblings who are sent out into the snow-silent woods in the Sierra Nevada foothills to dig a hole that will be deep enough to bury a family secret. As they dig, they search for a way to escape or be rescued from their lives as the snow continues to fall and the world sinks in around them | |||||
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