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STEPHANIE ALLISON WALKER |
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Nationality: USA Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: Susan Schulman Literary Agency |
Originally from Chicago, Stephanie began writing plays while working for the Tony Award winning producing organization Fox Theatricals. She left Chicago to pursue her Masters in Professional Writing from USC and since graduating has found success in Los Angeles with productions of her plays-How to Feel Safe in the Suburbs, Three Fittings and Dreaming in Castellano ("Delightfully infectious"- Backstage West) and in New York with a production of her short play The Dress in the 12th Annual American Globe and Turnip Theatre Company's 15-Minute Play Festival and The Big Ride in the 14th Annual festival. Three of hercar plays, Hollywood Hills ("Hilariously dark" -LA Weekly) Back Roads and It's Not About the Car were produced as part of Los Angeles' Moving Arts Theatre Company's smash hit production: The Car Plays. Back Roads made its East Coast premiere in ArtsCenter's Ten By Ten in the Triangle festival in Carrboro, North Carolina and was also turned into a short film that premiered at the Women's International Film Festival on March 31, 2008 in Miami while Hollywood Hills has been selected for publication in the Smith & Kraus anthology: Best Ten-Minute Plays 2008: 2 Actors. Stephanie was an artist-in-residence at The Kennedy Center as part of the Summer Playwriting Intensive in 2007, is a playwright-in-residence at Moving Arts in Los Angeles, a proud member of the Alliance of Los Angeles Playwrights, the International Center for Women's Playwrights the Lizard Claw Playwrights and the Dramatists Guild of America. She resides in the Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles with her husband Bob and adorable Pug dog, Pablo.
Plays by Stephanie Allison Walker
Art of Disappearing, 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 | #82981 | |||
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Genre: | full length Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | When Melissa, a young and struggling Chicago artist, receives a mysteriously cheerful invitation to brunch from her estranged mother, she is challenged with more than an average reconciliation. . . especially when her mother doesn't even show. As her father tries to piece the family back together, her mother seems to slip further away. | |||||
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Back Roads | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Steve Allen Theatre- Los Angeles, CA | 2006 | ||||
Company: | Moving Arts | |||||
| 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 | #82978 | |||
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Genre: | drama Ten Min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | Back Roads was made into a short film that premiered on March 31, 2008 at the Women's International Film Festival in Miami, FL. | |||||
Synopsis: | Out of gas and without a cell phone on a dark road in the middle of nowhere, Billie and her recently widowed elderly mother are forced to confront the growing divide that's separated them for years as they figure out a way home. | |||||
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Big Ride, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | American Globe and Turnip Theatre Company's 14th Annual NYC 15 Minute Play festival | 2008 | ||||
Company: | American Globe and Turnip Theatre 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 | #82982 | |||
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Genre: | comedy Ten Min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | A man and a woman meet on a 500 mile bike ride. It's a play on bikes. . . In reverse chronology. | |||||
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Chocolate Affair, The | ||
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| 1st Published: | in 2009: The Best 10-Minute Plays for Two or More Actors, Smith & Kraus (December 1, 2009) | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1575257594 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #108635 | |||
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Genre: | Ten Min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 | ||
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| Beverley has checked into a seedy motel. It is Halloween and she has her daughter's candy which she starts to eat - then two pieces of candy an M&M and Mr Goodbar come to life | |||||
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Dreaming in Castellano | ||
| 1st Produced: | Lyric Hyperion Theatre- Los Angeles, CA | 2007 | ||||
Company: | Moving Arts | |||||
| 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 | #82977 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | The Moving Arts' production of "Dreaming in Castellano" was called 'Delightfully infectious' by Backstage West. | |||||
Synopsis: | Rachel, a self-described ex-pat living and working in Buenos Aires, Argentina, agrees to translate a date for her brother who is in town visiting and loves nothing more than getting under her skin. While waiting for the date to arrive, they discover how easy it is to be separate from yourself when you're not speaking your own language. | |||||
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Hollywood Hills | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Steve Allen Theatre- Los Angeles, CA | 2006 | ||||
Company: | Moving Arts | |||||
| 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 | #82976 | |||
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: | dark comedy Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | Missy, a Hollywood starlet in the making, and D, a stand-in for Hilary Duff, are drunk, high and lost on their way to an after-party in the Hollywood Hills. Will Missy ever get a satisfying answer to the question, "Am I hot?" Will D ever get to smoke her cigarette? Was that speed bump really just a speed bump? Called "Intense!" and "Morbid" by Reviewplays.com and "Hilariously dark" by LA Weekly. | |||||
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How to Feel Safe in the Suburbs | ||
| 1st Produced: | 24th Street Theatre- Los Angeles, CA | 2004 | ||||
Company: | USC Master of Professional Writing Program | |||||
| 1st Published: | Smith & Kraus, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #82975 | |||
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: | dark comedy Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | How to Feel Safe in the Suburbs was originally titled "Operation Safe-Haven." The title was changed after the first production for the second production at EdgeFest in Los Angeles. | |||||
Synopsis: | When a suburban housewife who is afraid of everything hires a former Navy Seal to terror-proof her home, she gets more "homeland security" than she bargained for. | |||||
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It's Not About the Car | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Steve Allen Theatre- Los Angeles, CA | 2007 | ||||
Company: | Moving Arts | |||||
| 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 | #82979 | |||
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Genre: | Drama/comedy Ten Min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | It's Marla's birthday and she's in no mood for surprises. So when Vic surprises her with a new car instead of the divorce she asked for, she is not happy. | |||||
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Melt | ||
| 1st Produced: | 8th Annual 10 by 10 Festival in the Triangle, Carraboro, NC | - - - | ||||
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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 | #99554 | |||
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Genre: | Ten minute play | |||||
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Something of Great Importance | ||
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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 | #82980 | |||
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Genre: | 2 act full length Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | It's one month until Will's 30th birthday -- and the deadline for the biggest invention competition ever. Can he overcome his debilitating inventor's block, panic attacks, self-doubt, nagging pregnant mother, crazy inventor support group, a discouraging patent attorney and the memory of his dead father in time to invent Something of Great Importance? Set in the basement of his mother's house in Akron, Ohio-home of the Inventors Hall of Fame. | |||||
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Three Fittings | ||
| 1st Produced: | Elephant Lab Theatre, Los Angeles, CA | 2004 | ||||
Company: | Walker Kelly 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 | #82974 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 9 | ||
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Notes: | Southeastern production of Three Fittings opens on April 25, 2008 in Ft. Lauderdale, FL, produced by The Women's Theatre Project | |||||
Synopsis: | Three brides-to-be, one bridal salon, and a million perfect dresses. One bride may have said yes too soon, terrified she's purchased a gown (and perhaps more) that she might, in the end, despise. Another bride believes matching bridesmaid dresses are fascist and would rather end world hunger than register at Tiffany's. And yet another bride reminds us that it is truly not about the dress. Along with the wedding gowns. . .love, heartbreak, longing, and delusion are on display at a bridal boutique. | |||||
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