JON TUTTLE   (1959 - )

Nationality:   USA    Email:   Click here to contact    Website:   n/a

Literary Agent:  Robert A Freedman Dramatic Agency  

JON TUTTLE

Drift

1st Produced:

Trustus Theatre (Columbia, SC, United States)

1998

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Playscripts, Inc - New York

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

doollee no

#35144

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Genre:

110-125 min Play/Drama

Parts:

Male

4

Female

3

Parts other:

4 males, 3 females

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

Faced with proof of his infidelity, Barbara is trying to convince herself to leave Arthur, her husband of thirty years. Meanwhile, back at the bar, a pathetic loser named Lee confesses to marrying and cheating on the same woman three times, and tries to elicit similar confessions from everyone else. "Love is loss," he complains. "Family is pain. Marriage is loneliness. We've all been lied to." In Act I, we wonder who he is, why he says such awful things, and why he always seems to be around when marriages are foundering. In Act II, we find out.

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JON TUTTLE

Fish Story, A

1st Produced:

University of New Mexico Summerfest

1985

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Samuel French, Inc - New York >>>, 2008

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

doollee no

#78827

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Genre:

Comedy

Parts:

Male

2

Female

2

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

George shoots a schnauzer and brings it triumphantly back to Zee, who stuffs his pillowcase with bloody fish parts. Fighting ensues, and the flood water outside is rising. For some reason, teenager daughter Annie dreams of escape from all this. Into their mountain cabin stumbles poor Frank, the perfect replacement for the son they lost. Now if only they can keep him without killing him, too.

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JON TUTTLE

Hammerstone, The

1st Produced:

Trustus Theatre, Columbia, SC

1994

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Dramatists Play Service, NY,
in The Trustus Plays, Intellect Books, Bristol, UK

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

doollee no

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Genre:

Comedy Drama Comedy

Parts:

Male

3

Female

3

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

At a small college with virtually no admission requirements, two aging professors deal differently, but disastrously, with the students whose S.A.T. scores are lower than their cholesterol counts-and with their own obsolescence. Victor Ransome has long since given up cajoling his classes into paying attention and now uses insults and threats of physical violence. "I can kill you if I want," he tells a student, "I've got tenure." His best-well, only-friend, Murray Stone, still loves teaching, primarily because it fosters his delusions of perpetual youth. Through their offices come a variety of aggravations in the persons of a completely bewildered baseball player, a smitten spinster, and a gorgeous business major, each of whom serve to remind them that in education come various human responsibilities which sometimes supersede actual teaching. By play's end, Murray has understood this lesson. Victor, however, has not, and is, in fact, quite dead. His death underscores the message at the bottom of the play: that

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JON TUTTLE

Holy Ghost

1st Produced:

Trustus Theatre, Columbia, SC

2005

Company:

Trustus Theatre

1st Published:

in The Trustus Plays, Intellect Books, Bristol, UK
in Two South Carolina Plays, Hub City Writers Project, USA

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

doollee no

#67336

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Genre:

Play/Drama

Parts:

Male

-

Female

2

Parts other:

0-5

Notes:

Winner, 2004 Sprenger/Lang Foundation's Nathan Miller History Play Award; 2005 Trustus Playwrights Festival; finalist, 2005 Next Generation Playwriting Competition

Synopsis:

In 1944, German prisoners-of-war work in South Carolina cotton fields, overseen by black guards who enjoy few of the liberties the prisoners do. One prisoner escapes--armed only with the lines he's learned playing the lead in a camp production of Abe Lincoln in Illinois, and chased by a black private for whom the pursuit is a quest for belonging. Their dash across the American South explores the ironies and hypocrisies of the American mythos.

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JON TUTTLE

Sonata for Armadillos

1st Produced:

Metropolis Players at Producer's Club (New York, NY, United States)

1990

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Playscripts, Inc - New York

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

doollee no

#35146

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Genre:

40-50 min Comedy

Parts:

Male

2

Female

1

Parts other:

2 males, 1 female

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

It's a hot day for three idiots stuck on the Dallas-bound Greyhound bus. Walton wants to be a Cowboy, Nella wants a cowboy, and Stymie's on the run from Stymie -- and just might outrun him. At the end of the road comes sublimity, companionship, and forgiveness, at last.

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JON TUTTLE

Sweet Abyss, The

1st Produced:

Trustus Theatre, Columbia, SC

2009

Company:

Trustus 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

#95676

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Genre:

Comedy Drama Comedy

Parts:

Male

1

Female

2

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

The death of her long-time companion,  a cat named Izzy, plunges a woman into a bizarre cycle of grief and change.

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JON TUTTLE

Terminal Cafe

1st Produced:

University of New Mexico

1997

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Dramatists Play Service, NY,

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

Comedy Drama Comedy

Parts:

Male

6

Female

3

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

In the tiny town of San Gabriel, New Mexico, is the Terminal Cafe where the locals hang out complaining about life, each other, and the food while dreaming about something better. There's the Terminal's tough owner, Ro; the town Super, McKay, from back east; Kate and Ben, the town spitfire and the town tough guy, destined to be together; Dawson, the town pup with more heart than brains; Joe, an illiterate widower, raising his teenage son, BB; the fancy and intriguing Carly, new in town and vague of means; and Floyd, half Navajo, as old or older than the town itself. These are simple people; their lives, up to now, have been untouched, almost pure, yet they have passion for life and for one another, with naivete that can be charming as well as devastating. About all San Gabriel can offer, besides the cafe, is a coal mine, which barely keeps the town alive. But after Pearl harbor is bombed, and World War Two becomes a grim reality, the town's mine becomes important both to the War effort and to the mysterious g

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JON TUTTLE

White Problem, The

1st Produced:

Longstreet Theatre, University of South Carolina (Columbia, SC, United States)

2001

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Playscripts, Inc - New York

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

doollee no

#35148

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Genre:

45-60 min Play/Drama

Parts:

Male

2

Female

-

Parts other:

2 males

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

The White Problem dramatizes the remarkable life of Richard Greener, the first African-American to graduate from Harvard and one of the leading black intellectuals of the post-Reconstruction era. Facing a future rich with promise, he instead became a pawn in the battle for the hearts and minds of black Americans, was rejected by his wife and children, and died senile and utterly alone. Much of the text -- and the title -- is taken directly from his essays, speeches, and personal papers, and also incorporates the voices of Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. DuBois and others.

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