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KAREN ZACARIAS (1969 - ) |
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MARIELA IN THE DESERT had its World Premiere in January 2005 at The Goodman Theatre in Chicago. The play is the winner of the 2004 AT&T First Stages Award from TCG, the winner of the 2004 National Latino Playwrights' Competition, a finalist for the 2004 Susan Smith Blackburn prize, and nominated for the 2005 Kesselring Prize. MARIELA IN THE DESERT was developed at South Coast Rep, Seattle Rep. Theatre and the Public Theatre in New York) Her play, THE SINS OF SOR JUANA is the winner of the Charles MacArthur Award for Outstanding New Play at the 2000 Helen Hayes Awards and has been produced throughout the country, most recently at Teatro Vista in Chicago and Performance Network in Ann Arbor. Karen is currently translating Sor Juana into Los Pecados de Sor Juana for its Spanish World Premiere at Gala Hispanic Theatre in Washington, DC. Her new comedy THE BOOK CLUB PLAY is being developed at the Playwrights' Center in Minneapolis in December. Karen's musical plays for young people with composer Debbie Wicks La Puma are currently enjoying multiple productions throughout the country. The plays include EINSTEIN IS A DUMMY (premiering Nov 2005 at The Alliance Theater in Atlanta, selected for the 2004 New Vision/New Voices ), and three works commissioned and premiered by Imagination Stage: a flamenco version of FERDINAND: THE BULL (produced at The Goodman, the Alliance, and soon, the Coterie, among others) the mariachi-inspired THE MAGICAL PIŅATA (touring in South Florida), and salsa/hip-hop CINDERELLA EATS RICE AND BEANS:A SALSA MUSICAL (sold out performances at Children's Theatre Lab at Depaul University in Chicago). Karen's work has been performed at Arena Stage, The Alliance Theater, The Kennedy Center, Canadian Fringe Festival, Boston Playwrights' Theater, Borderlands Theater, Magik Theater, Woolly Mammoth Theatre, Theatre of the First Amendment, The Public Theater, Seattle Repertory Theater, St. Louis Rep, Chicago Play Labs, Birmingham Children's Theatre, Imagination Stage, Trinidad Theater Workshop, Performance Network, and the Scandinavian Theater Festival. Karen earned her BA from Stanford University and a Masters in Playwriting from Boston University studying with Nobel Laureates Derek Walcott and Elie Wiesel. THE SINS OF SOR JUANA and THE MAGICAL PIŅATA are published by Dramatic Publishing. Karen lives in Washington D.C. with her husband Rett, her three-year old son Nico, and one-year-old baby Kati. Karen Zacarias is the founder and artistic director of Young Playwrights' Theater, an award-winning non-profit dedicated to enhancing literacy, arts empowerment and conflict resolution through playwriting in Washington, DC area schools.
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Plays by Karen Zacarias
Bare Chested Man | ||
| 1st Produced: | Boston Playwrights Theatre | 1995 | ||||
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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 | #62017 | |||
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Book Club Play, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Round House Theatre, Bethesda, MD | 2008 | ||||
Company: | Round House Theater | |||||
| 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 | #81068 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | Ana is a Type A personality living in a letter-perfect world: a husband who adores her, the perfect job, and her greatest passion, Book Club. But when bizarre circumstances put her ideal book club under a magnifying glass, things begin to heat up and more truths are told than anyone bargained for. Resident playwright Karen Zacarias (Legacy of Light) brings Arena Stage the latest chapter of her delightful, fresh comedy (TalkinBroadway.com) about life, love, literature and the side-splitting results when friends start reading between the lines.. | |||||
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Cinderella Eats Rice and Beans | ||
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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 | #87014 | |||
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Genre: | Childrens musical | |||||
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Notes: | Music by Deborah Wicks La Puma; lyrics by Karen Zacarias; book by Karen Zacarias | |||||
Synopsis: | Cinderella at the ball . . .. . .game? | |||||
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Einstein Is A Dummy | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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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 | #87015 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
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Notes: | Music by Deborah Wicks La Puma; lyrics by Karen Zacarias; book by Karen Zacarias | |||||
Synopsis: | The twelve year old Einstein is struggling - with violin lessons and a crush on the girl next door | |||||
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Ferdinand the Bull | ||
| 1st Produced: | Imagination Stage | 2001 | ||||
Company: | Alliance Theater, Magik Theater, Miracle Theater, | |||||
| 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 | #38684 | |||
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Genre: | comedy-musical Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | 2001 Winner National Children's Theater Award. Based on the book by Munro Leaf. Music by Deborah Wicks La Puma | |||||
Synopsis: | Flamenco flavored version of Ferdinand that does hommage to Hamlet as well | |||||
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How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents | ||
| 1st Produced: | Round House Theatre, DC | 2008 | ||||
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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 | #89430 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | based on the novel by Julia Alvarez | |||||
Synopsis: | Lime-green suitcases. American flag underpants. Blow-out birthday parties. Welcome to the world of the Garcia family | |||||
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Invisible City, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Woolly Mammoth Theatre | 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 | #38685 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 5 | ||
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Synopsis: | Gentrification and the effects has on the "invisible" people of DC | |||||
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Legacy of Light | ||
| 1st Produced: | 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 | #98535 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Synopsis: | Legacy of Light is an intellectual joyride from start to finish that confronts a universal question: How do women balance a passionate yearning for science with maternal instinct? Playwright Karen Zacarias takes two women, living 260 years apart, and juxtaposes their tragicomic stories of survival and immortality. Commissioned by Arena Stage and buoyantly directed by Molly Smith, Zacarias, doing her finest writing to date with Legacy of Light, equates the laws of physical science with human love and uses magical realism in some dreamlike moments to draw together her serendipitous stories. | |||||
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Looking for Roberto Clemente | ||
| 1st Produced: | Imagination Stage, Bethesda, MD | 2008 | ||||
Company: | Imagination Stage | |||||
| 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 | #84646 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
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Notes: | Book and Lyrics by Karen Zacarias . Music by Deborah Wicks La Puma | |||||
Synopsis: | Do You Remember Where You Were. . .? When you heard about 9/11? When space shuttle Columbia crashed? When JFK was assassinated? Most people remember where they were when pivotal events in history occurred. And like any other Pittsburgher, I remember when I learned in 1972 of the passing of our local hero, Roberto Clemente. Even kids like me who were not into sports, knew something about them as Pittsburgh takes its sports seriously. And the tragic death of one of the greatest athletes to play in Pittsburgh affected everyone in our sports-centric town. It is such universality that makes Looking for Roberto Clemente such a grand slam and provides a little something for everyone. | |||||
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Magical Pinata | ||
| 1st Produced: | Imagination Stage | 1999 | ||||
Company: | SouthWest Rep, | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatic Publishing, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #38686 | |||
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Genre: | musical-comedy Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | 2001 Winner National Children's Theater Award. Music by Deborah Wicks La Puma; lyrics by Karen Zacarias; book by Karen Zacarias | |||||
Synopsis: | Mariachi music and wild animal all search for the power of the pinata | |||||
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Mariela en el Desierto | ||
| 1st Produced: | Repertorio Espanol | 06 Feb 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 | #136295 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Synopsis: | Mariela and Jose were once the golden couple of the Mexican artist inner-circle. Together they built a family and an artist colony to host friends like Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, and Rufino Tamayo. But now their daughter has grown and run away, Frida and Diego are too famous to call, and artistic inspiration has been strangled by isolation and mendacity. Set in an empty artists' colony in the Mexican desert in 1950, this mystery play reveals what happens to relationships when a long hidden family lie is exposed. | |||||
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Sins of Sor Juana, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Theatre of the First Amendment | 1999 | ||||
Company: | Performance Network, South West Repertory, Borderlands Theater | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatic Publishing, 2001 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #38687 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 4 | ||
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Notes: | winner of the Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding New Play at Kennedy | |||||
Synopsis: | Poetic funny and moving play based on the amazing life of SorJuana Ines de la Cruz,the first published pot of the Americas,and the dire consequences of her work | |||||
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