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GREG ALLEN |
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Greg Allen is the Founder of The Neo-Futurists and creator of over two dozen productions including the legendary Too Much Light Makes The Baby Go Blind (30 Plays in 60 Minutes) which has been running weekly in Chicago since the Reagan administration. His works include The Last Two Minutes of The Complete Works of Henrik Ibsen, Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious (a comedy to end all comedy), H20, and A Child's History of Bombing. K., his adaptation of Kafka's The Trial, won him a Best Director Award at the New York International Fringe Festival as well as the After Dark Award for Outstanding New Production. His collaboration with Theater Oobleck, The Complete Lost Works of Samuel Beckett As Found In An Envelope (partially burned) In A Dustbin In Paris Labeled "Never to be performed. Never. Ever. EVER! Or I'll Sue! I'LL SUE FROM THE GRAVE!!!" has enjoyed ten international productions including a three month UK tour and and two off-Broadway revivals in 2006. His environmental collaborations - Boxing Joseph Cornell; A Duchampian Romp, even; Lear's Shadow; and Crime & Punishment: A (mis)Guided Environmental Tour with Literary Pretensions -- have seen long successful runs at his home Neo-Futurarium. Greg teaches residencies in Neo-Futurism at universities and theater programs across the country as well as in Chicago where he teaches playwriting at the University of Chicago. He is a proud graduate of Oberlin College.
Plays by Greg Allen
Complete Lost Works Of Samuel Beckett, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh | 2002 | ||||
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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 | #494 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | discovered' by Greg Allen, Ben Scheider & Danny Thompson | |||||
Synopsis: | as found in an envelope (partially burned) in a dustbin in Paris labeled "Never to be performed. Never. Ever. EVER! Or I'll sue! I'LL SUE FROM THE GRAVE!!!" | |||||
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Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious (a comedy to end all comedy) | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2003 | |||||
Company: | The Neo-Futurists | |||||
| 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 | #56769 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy Performance Art, 90 min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | Chicago's Neo-Futurists attempt to drive the final nail in the coffin of comedy by explaining it to death, with help from Freud, Bergson, and Uncle Miltie | |||||
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Subliminable | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2001 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | Humana Festival 2001: The Complete Plays, ed Tanya Palmer & Amy Wegener, Smith & Kraus, 2001 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #495 | |||
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Genre: | Phone Play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | Audience members enter one of several phone booths, pick up the receiver and listen to a three-minute play unfold in conversation | |||||
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Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2005 | |||||
Company: | Neo-Futurists | |||||
| 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 | #54274 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 7 actors | |||||
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Synopsis: | angst and loneliness in Middle America in a series of short plays randomly chosen by the audience. | |||||
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Uncle Sam's Satiric Spectacular | ||
| 1st Produced: | Actors Theatre of Louisville (Louisville, KY, United States) | 2005 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc - New York | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #72797 | |||
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Genre: | 80-95 min Satirical musical comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 8 | ||
Parts other: | 8 males, 8 females (10-30 actors possible: 5-15 males, 5-15 females) | |||||
Notes: | A Collaborative Project by Greg Allen, Sheila Callaghan, Bridget Carpenter, Eric Coble, Richard Dresser, and Hilly Hicks, Jr., with music by Michael Friedman | |||||
Synopsis: | The Astounding Krispinsky! The All-American Feminem! The Amazing Screaming Vegan, the Formerly Amazing Bob, and Mr. McBuffer the Renegade Puppet! With American culture and politics growing increasingly surreal, Actors Theatre of Louisville commissioned seven marquee playwrights to create a variety-show satire in the grand old vaudeville tradition -- from ventriloquists to contortionists to Lady Liberty on a trapeze. With songs! | |||||
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