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JORDAN BESWICK |
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Nationality: USA Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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Literary Agent: n/a |
Beswick, born in L.A., is a well-know casting director/playwright. He has had several of his short plays produced in New York. His first play, "CLUB HELL," was produced first as a rehearsed reading by Tamara Hinchco and Vanessa Redgrave as part of London Riverside Studios theatre season. It also received a staged reading in New York at New Dramatists. It premiered at the Celebration Theatre in Los Angeles. Other plays have had staged readings in New York at The Vineyard Theatre, Playwrights Horizons and New Dramatists. His play "the F word" was first presented as a rehearsed reading by the Actors Theatre of Washington as part of The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts' New Play Network's "Journey From Page to Stage" Festival. ATW subsequently premiered the play at the Source Theatre in D.C. Beswick co-wrote (with Obie Scott Wade) the pilot episode of "AL ROACH: PRIVATE INSECTIGATOR" for Turner Classic Movies (L.A. Short Film Festival, 2004 Palm Springs International Festival of Short Films [Audience & Critics pick, Best of Fest], Dragon Con 2004 Independent Short Film Festival, Beverly Hills Film Festival). His play "Youth In Asia" was recently presented as a rehearsed reading at the Vineyard Theatre in New York.
Plays by Jordan Beswick
Club Hell | ||
| 1st Produced: | Celebration Theatre in West Hollywood | 1995 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | in "gods peculiar grace",, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #31419 | |||
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: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | East meets West in a most unusual way when an American Jewish man falls for an ex-neo Nazi East German skinhead. Nothing in life is only skin deep | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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F Word, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2003 | |||||
Company: | Actor's Theatre of Washington | |||||
| 1st Published: | 4i1n "gods peculiar grace",, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #31432 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | There is now a new French translation available by Marianne Groves | |||||
Synopsis: | When a gay man decides to create a home and family with his lesbian best friend it forces him to deal with his unreconciled feelings about the family he left behind. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Inconcevable | ||
| 1st Produced: | Manufacture des Abbesses, Paris, France | 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 | #68980 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | French version of The F Word | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Splitting The Atom | ||
| 1st Produced: | staged reading at the Vineyard Theatre in New York City | 1997 | ||||
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 | #31433 | |||
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: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | Adam is fast approaching a dangerous fork in the road, his fifteenth birthday. When his father leaves his mother and moves in with his gay uncle things begin to unravel for everyone. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Youth In Asia | ||
| 1st Produced: | Vineyard Theatre, NY (staged reading) | - - - | ||||
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 | #31441 | |||
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: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | French translation/adaptation of it by Marianne Groves. | |||||
Synopsis: | A family reunion. Part 2 of the trilogy begun with THE F WORD | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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