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Nationality: USA Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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Literary Agent: n/a |
Trav S.D. is best known for his book about the history of vaudeville: No Applause, Just Throw Money: The Book That Made Vaudeville Famous (Faber & Faber, 2005). He began his professional theatrical life as a teenager, performing as a stand-up comedian in Rhode Island . Trained at the Trinity Rep Conservatory in Providence , he began directing, producing and acting in his own plays in the late 1980s. In New York , his plays and performance pieces have been performed at Joe's Pub, LaMama, Theatre for the New City , the Ohio Theater, HERE, Chashama, Dixon Place , the Brick Theatre, Surf Reality, and the NYC International Fringe Festival. Regionally, his work has been produced in Austin , Minneapolis , Portland , Providence and Philadelphia . As a free-lance journalist and critic, he has written for such publications as American Theatre, the Village Voice, Time Out NY , the NY Sun, Reason and nytheatre.com (where he has a monthly podcast). Since 1996, he has presented hundreds of variety acts through his American Vaudeville and Burlesque Theater.
Plays by Trav S D
American Vaudeville Theatre 15th Anniversary ExTRAVaganza | ||
| 1st Produced: | New York International Fringe Festival | Aug 2011 | ||||
Company: | Trav S.D./ Mountebanks | |||||
| 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 | #130489 | |||
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Genre: | 2h 0m Vaudeville/Sideshow/Magic/Burlesque Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Choreographer: Becky Byers. travsd.wordpress.com | |||||
Synopsis: | Long time downtown impresario and author Trav S.D. hosts the 15th anniversary edition of his popular vaudeville show, mixing the hottest contemporary variety acts with his own Topsy-Turvy songs and comedy sketches, wrapped in a distinctly pre-21st century package. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Beach Blanket Bluebeard | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 2008 | ||||
Company: | Adhesive Theatre Company/Mountebanks | |||||
| 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 | #93044 | |||
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Genre: | Musical comedy/black comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 10 | Female | 10 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | When Johnny Guitar shows up to play his way-out music at the local surf-beach, all the kids go wild and some of them wind up DEAD. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Big Donut, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Red Room | 14 Mar 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 | #125968 | |||
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Genre: | short play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | part of A Cavalcade of Curiosities bringing you zombies, yuppies and nuns, donuts, guns and drinking. In other words, all the elements of a very Dysfunctional good time. | |||||
Synopsis: | On a frigid New England night, an act of kindness bears strange and hilarious fruit | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Caveman Robot Radio Adventure Show | ||
| 1st Produced: | 92nd Street Y's new Tribeca Makor performance space, NY | 2009 | ||||
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 | #96011 | |||
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Genre: | Piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | old time radio show featuring the cult comics character Caveman Robot (http://www.cavemanrobot.com) , featuring the actual 7 foot tall Caveman Robot, Trav S.D., Robert Pinnock, Pete Macnamara, Richard Harrington, Moira Stone, and Chris Harcum, and more. Live music and sound effects by Lumberob, songs by Uke Jackson, and hand drawn/collage video images of the adventure by Jason Robert Bell, all combine for an experience calculated to make you yell "Oolar!" | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Cold Fire | ||
| 1st Produced: | Performance Zone at Ubu Rep | 1996 | ||||
Company: | Mountebanks | |||||
| 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 | #48084 | |||
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Genre: | comedy/radio play Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Approx. 45 minutes, contains one original song | |||||
Synopsis: | A paranormal investigator looks into a mysterious rash of spontaneous combustions and -- surprisingly-solves them | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Columbia, The Germ Of The Ocean | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2002 | |||||
Company: | Mountebanks | |||||
| 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 | #48093 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | 1 may be played in drag | |||||
Notes: | Approx. two hours | |||||
Synopsis: | A ridiculous-style history, in which, Columbus, a very ugly woman, discovers America, only to have it snatched away by a scheming, evil priest | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Confidence Man, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Coney Island USA | 2007 | ||||
Company: | Mountebanks | |||||
| 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 | #69247 | |||
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Genre: | literary adaptation Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | 2 hrs | |||||
Synopsis: | An adaptation of the Herman Melville novel about a series of mysterious con men on a riverboat. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Curse Of The Neckrophreniac, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | St. Mark's Theater | 2001 | ||||
Company: | Mountebanks/ DMTheatrics | |||||
| 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 | #48092 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Approx. 30 minutes | |||||
Synopsis: | A poet recounts his opium-fueled attempt to surgically exchange the necks of his wife and sister | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Custer Wore an Arrow Shirt | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 2008 | ||||
Company: | International Culture Lab/Mountebanks | |||||
| 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 | #93045 | |||
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Genre: | Experimental/comedy 30 min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A remote US cavalry outpost in the Southwest desert is threatened by enemies without. . .and enemies within. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Der Boogermeister | ||
| 1st Produced: | St. Mark's Theater | 2001 | ||||
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 | #48091 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Approx. 20 minutes | |||||
Synopsis: | An executioner who tortures citizens with nasal fluid is given his come-uppance by a vengeful spirit of the dead. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Dorothy Building, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 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 | #56065 | |||
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Genre: | experimental, 40 min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 4 m/f | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A birth and a death in a mysterious compound inhabited by identical masked women named Dorothy | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Exploitation Of Joice Heth, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Metropolitan Playhouse | 2004 | ||||
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 | #48094 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Approx. ten minutes | |||||
Synopsis: | P.T. Barnum presents Joice Heth, who, to his surprise, turns out not only to have been the actual nurse of George Washington, but his mentor and political advisor as well. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Ezekiel's Wheelchair | ||
| 1st Produced: | Village Gate | 1993 | ||||
Company: | New Facktory for Excentrick Actors | |||||
| 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 | #48082 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy/experimental Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | may be played in drag | |||||
Notes: | Approx. 45 minutes | |||||
Synopsis: | The daughter and mother of the world's greatest physicist confront him about his greatest blunder-the draining of all color from the world. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Family Of Man | ||
| 1st Produced: | Theater for the New City, 155 First Avenue, New York, NY 10009 >>> | 2007 | ||||
Company: | Theater for the New City | |||||
| 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 | #28378 | |||
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Genre: | comedy/drama with music | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Part of the New City , New Blood reading series. approx 120 min | |||||
Synopsis: | An aging pop singer cracks up when the mistakes of his youth catch up with. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Father's Name Was Daddy | ||
| 1st Produced: | 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 | #55134 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | part of East Village Chronicles, Volume 3 | |||||
Synopsis: | Abbie Hoffman squares off with the biggest pig of all -- his old man | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Fickle Mistress, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | ART/NY Studios, New York | 16 Dec 2011 | ||||
Company: | Theatre Askew | |||||
| 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 | #135422 | |||
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Genre: | Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | The life of Adah Isaacs Menken a very big theatre star in the New York of the 1860s because she appeared on stage riding a horse bareback only wearing tights. She was much married - always accused of marrying for money. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Gas Attack | ||
| 1st Produced: | Two Bits, at Bowerie Lane Theater | 1991 | ||||
Company: | New Facktory for Excentrick Actors | |||||
| 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 | #48081 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Approx. 20 minutes | |||||
Synopsis: | A government space ship accidentally brings deadly gas creatures back to Earth. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Hecate And Beckett, The Two Existential Magpies, In Dead Dog, Dead God, Dead Ducks | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1997 | |||||
Company: | Mountebanks | |||||
| 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 | #48086 | |||
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Genre: | comedy/experimental Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 2 (may be played by males or females) | |||||
Notes: | Approx. 30 minutes | |||||
Synopsis: | A pair of cartoon magpies are adrift on a piece of an exploded ocean liner | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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House Of Trash | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2000 | |||||
Company: | Mountebanks | |||||
| 1st Published: | in Plays and Playwrights 2001, The New York Theatre Experience, Inc >>> | ISBN/ASIN: | 09670234-2-4 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #48089 | |||
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Genre: | comedy/musical Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Approx two hours | |||||
| A garbageman/ Baptist preacher undertakes plots to straighten out the lives of his family members, doing more harm than good | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Inside Out | ||
| 1st Produced: | St. Mark's Theater | 2001 | ||||
Company: | Mountebanks/ DMTheatrics | |||||
| 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 | #48090 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Approx. 20 minutes | |||||
Synopsis: | A mad scientist transforms a young student reporter into a stomach monster | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Irish Melodrama, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Metropolitan Playhouse | 2005 | ||||
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 | #48095 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Approx: ten minutes | |||||
Synopsis: | A 90-pund weakling carries out his dying father's wish to protect his sister from bad boyfriends. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Jasper Jaxon | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Great Room, ART/NY South Oxford Street Space, NY (play reading) | 2007 | ||||
Company: | Andhow! Theater Company | |||||
| 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 | #73279 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Andhow! Theater Company presents its 7th annual play reading series, Dialogue '07 | |||||
Synopsis: | A ne'er-do-well outlaw finds posthumous fame as a sideshow mummy | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Kitsch, or Two for the Price of One | ||
| 1st Produced: | Theater for the New City, 155 First Avenue, New York, NY 10009 >>> | 12 Nov 2009 | ||||
Company: | Mountebanks | |||||
| 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 | #106423 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | large cast | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | 20 years ago this November 9, the Berlin Wall was opened, admitting a flood of East Germans into the previously verboten West. To mark the occasion Trav S.D. and his company Mountebanks present Kitsch, or Two for the Price of One, a Brecht-flavored retelling of The Comedy of Errors that brings Western-style excess to Shakespeare's comedy by doubling the number of pairs of twins in the plot to four. Separated at birth with the Allied Invasion of Berlin in 1945, half are raised in the Communist sector only to be unwittingly reunited with their brothers 44 years later when the Wall comes down. The result is mass confusion! | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Lactation | ||
| 1st Produced: | Surf Reality | 1999 | ||||
Company: | Surf Reality | |||||
| 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 | #48088 | |||
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Genre: | comedy/experimental Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Approx. 20 minutes | |||||
Synopsis: | An insufferable abstract expressionist contends with quotidian interruptions by his mother and the milk man | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Merrymount | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2008 | |||||
Company: | Mountebanks | |||||
| 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 | #49699 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | extras | |||||
Notes: | Part of the Hawthornicopia Festival 15 minutes | |||||
Synopsis: | Adaptation of a Hawthorne story about a 17 century Massachusetts governor who cracks down on the merrymaking in a nearby village | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Misshapen Jack, The Nebraska Hunchback | ||
| 1st Produced: | New York International Fringe Festival | 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 | #48087 | |||
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Genre: | comedy/experimental Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Approx. 45 minutes, contains two original songs | |||||
Synopsis: | An insane lecturer instructs us about the evils of Nebraskan hunchbacks named Jack-unintentionally revealing a bit about his own psychology along the way. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Nihils, Or The Performance Artist | ||
| 1st Produced: | Bullet Space | 1997 | ||||
Company: | Mountebanks | |||||
| 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 | #48085 | |||
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Genre: | comedy/experimental Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Approx. 45 minutes, contains two original songs | |||||
Synopsis: | A vain and awful performance artist contends with the sharp wit and critical mind of his stage manager. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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No Applause, Just Throw Money | ||
| 1st Produced: | Theater for the New City, 155 First Avenue, New York, NY 10009 >>> | 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 | #89083 | |||
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Genre: | Show | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 9 actors | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Based on Trav S.D.'s popular book No Applause, Just Throw Money: the Book That Made Vaudeville Famous (Faber & Faber, 2005), No Applause. . .The Show is an original variety revue with sketches and songs by Trav S.D | |||||
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Parkhurst's Descent | ||
| 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 | #67448 | |||
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Genre: | 20 min Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | part of Metropolitan Playhouse presents the fourth annual installment of East Village Chronicles, an ongoing series of original one-act plays about/set in the theatre's local neighborhood in NYC's East Village/Alphabet City | |||||
Synopsis: | In 19th century New York, a fire and brimstone preacher hires a private detective to show him the city's seemy underbelly -- and finds more than he bargained for. | |||||
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Poison Shirt/ Boots Of The Transexual | ||
| 1st Produced: | the Real Theater | 1995 | ||||
Company: | New Facktory for Excentrick Actors | |||||
| 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 | #48083 | |||
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Genre: | comedy/experimental Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | may be drag part | |||||
Notes: | Approx. 15 minutes | |||||
Synopsis: | An angry trannie turns the tables on her two-timing old man by freaking him out on acid. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Sea Of Love | ||
| 1st Produced: | Sanford Meisner 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 | #48080 | |||
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Genre: | comedy/experimental Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | 1 role possibly drag | |||||
Notes: | Approx. 45 minutes, contains one original song | |||||
Synopsis: | A "type A" is successively accosted by a nymphomaniac so-worker, his lesbian mother, the ghost of his dead sea captain father, and the God Poesidon. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Strange Case of Grippo the Ape Man, The | ||
| 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 | #69248 | |||
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Genre: | experimental/comedy One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Approx 45 min | |||||
Synopsis: | Two carnies bring their idiot savant attraction (a musical genius) to a conservative Connecticut town and cause an uproar. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Tent Show Tetragrammaton | ||
| 1st Produced: | 17 Mar 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 | #125500 | |||
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Genre: | Piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Four one-acts with a traveling sideshow theme: The Strange Case of Grippo the Apeman concerns two fly-by-night hoodlums who exhibit a monstrous idiot-savant who possesses a genius for music and impersonation; Universal Rundle, the story of a voodoo priest and bluesman anxiously awaiting the usurper who will overthrow him; The Ballad of Jasper Jaxon, based on a true story of the world's worst bank robber; and Strega Nona, in which the Grandma Witch reads the fortunes of audience members from her magical pot of spaghetti. | |||||
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Universal Rundle | ||
| 1st Produced: | Tree Cafe, Portland, Maine | 1988 | ||||
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 | #48079 | |||
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Genre: | comedy/experimental Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Approx. 45 minutes, contains two original songs | |||||
Synopsis: | A pair of music industry professional attempt to swindle a famous blues musician in his bayou home. He turns the table using voodoo. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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White Trash | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1988 | |||||
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 | #48003 | |||
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Genre: | comedy/drama Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Approx. 45 minutes | |||||
Synopsis: | Working class family bicker brutally until the father collapses of a stroke | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Willy Nilly | ||
| 1st Produced: | Dixon Place, New York International Fringe Festival, NY, USA >>> | 2009 | ||||
Company: | Piper McKenzie | |||||
| 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 | #67415 | |||
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Genre: | 1h 45m Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 9 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Charles Manson meets Mad Magazine in this tasteless spoof about a filthy faux-Messiah, his cult of wanton women, and high Hollywood murder. With a raucous score, gratuitous nudity, acid freakouts, excessive gore, cruel stereotypes and slapstick misogyny, consider this the anti-Hair. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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