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ERIC BLAND (1979 - ) |
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Nationality: USA Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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Eric Bland is a writer, director, performer, and producer. He was born on November 17, 1979 in Richmond, VA, where he was also raised. He attended Princeton University, where he graduated with a Bachelor's Degree in English with a Creative Writing concentration. He later earned an M.A. in Writing for Performance from Goldsmiths College, University of London. As an actor, Eric has performed in his own work and for a number of downtown theater directors (Michael Gardner, Matt Gray, Brian Enk, Jeff Lewonczyk, and Shannon Sindelar). He is the Artistic Director and Co-Founder of the Old Kent Road Theater, a collective that sets evocative ensemble pieces against the chaos and concrete of New York City, all the while seeking authentic, idiosyncratic performance that blends the absurd and the emotional with the new and the lonely (other members: Scott Eckert, Abernathy Bland, Charlie Hewson, Hollis Witherspoon, Jesse Liebman, Victoria Tate, and Siobhan Doherty). The OKRT has presented work at various downtown theater venues, including The Brick Theater, The Ontological-Hysteric Theater, Dixon Place, and The Bushwick Starr. Upcoming performances include Are We Bourgeois Mon Amour? (A Psycho's Analysis) at the Bushwick Starr in May and Jeannine's Abortion: A Play in One Trimester at The Brick Theater in June. Eric lives in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn. His play Death at Film Forum is published in Plays and Playwrights 2009.
Plays by Eric Bland
All the Indifferent Children of the Earth | ||
| 1st Produced: | Brick Theatre | 16 Feb 2012 | ||||
Company: | Old Kent Road 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 | #136628 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Synopsis: | Eric Bland's play finds three women and one man compulsively dissecting the likes of Dizzy Gillespie, human rights, and the gender identification rules of Vermont. It's as if four anxious, petit bourgeois strangers find themselves at 8am in the backyard of a mutual friend's August retreat, a half-mile from the coast of Cherbourg or Seattle. Or it's as if four precocious children were abandoned in a Math/Science Center on a rainy, late-autumn Saturday morning. Or as if people do theater, in 2012, despite. . .things. | |||||
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Bad Bruise of Billy MacBean, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
Company: | Old Kent Road 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 | #61577 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
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Synopsis: | deconstructs a relationship with verbal sparring, poetic interludes and contemplative vignettes. Billy and Klare like each other very much, that much is clear, but he simply won't leave his basement. A former child chess prodigy, Billy has become agoraphobic since the death of his father and no amount of coaxing can extract him from his home. | |||||
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Children of Truffaut, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
Company: | Old Kent Road 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 | #69131 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
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Notes: | part of Pretentious Festival | |||||
Synopsis: | The Children of Truffaut thrusts eight characters drawn from 70's Continental cinema into a game of arousal, angst, bluster, pontification, and whimsy. | |||||
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Das Brat | ||
| 1st Produced: | Midtown International Theatre Festival, NY | 2006 | ||||
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 | #59533 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Synopsis: | Das Brat offers an unusual take on love, loss, bratwurst, humiliation, illegitimacy, and one man's attempt at transformation and transcendence. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Death at Film Forumis | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in Plays and Playwrights 2009, The New York Theatre Experience, Inc >>> | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-9794852-2-0 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #94037 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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| Aspiring filmmaker/auteurs compete a la Project Runway in this very funny mixed media satirical drama | |||||
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Emancipatory Politics: A Romantic Tragedy | ||
| 1st Produced: | Incubator Arts Project | 02 Dec 2010 | ||||
Company: | Old Kent Road 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 | #122241 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 7 | ||
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Synopsis: | Emancipatory Politics: A Romantic Tragedy (EP: ART) flings a large ensemble into a traumatic struggle to create an opening for sprawling thought and intimate embraces. Committed to the comedy of desire, the physicality of loss, and the potential for new spaces, this total-theater, contemporary ecstasy searches for the inextinguishable kernel of the radical-possible. EP: ART takes its cue from contemporary philosophical tracts, recent movements in leftist politics, and the very real search for meaning surfacing in the lives of 20 and 30-something contemporary New Yorkers. Its collage-like form is open and sprawling but energy is focused on the creation of a movement forward, connectivity, and a sense of journey. Amid the societal struggle (the emancipatory political struggle) comes the romantic tragedy (both the social one of our attempts and failures, and the very personal ones of finding connection in this time and place). Amid the struggle love emerges. | |||||
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Great Americano | ||
| 1st Produced: | Red Room, New York | Aug 2004 | ||||
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 | #121899 | |||
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Genre: | One act | |||||
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Synopsis: | What have Preacher Billy and Vladimir been up to? Why is Maggie in a coma? Did Vladimir poison his mother? | |||||
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Gringo of the Deli Acapulco, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Under St. Marks, NY | 2007 | ||||
Company: | Old Kent Road 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 | #61578 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | The Gringo of the Deli Acapulco is a euphemism for outsiders. An insane tramp and a social worker fall instantly in love after locking eyes at an all-night deli in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. This magical moment, as it turns out, is just that as something more supernatural is in play. The entrance of Olivia's sister's ghost and the sudden appearance of a revolver from under a tablecloth pull the lovers into a deadly contest where identity, mortality, and even objective reality are questioned and blurred. | |||||
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Here at Home | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Bushwick Starr | 12 May 2011 | ||||
Company: | The Bushwick Starr | |||||
| 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 | #128192 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | 31 Down's trademark hallucinatory audio visual landscapes fuel playwright Eric Bland's contemplative, poetic characters in the company's sixth full-length performance work.Here at Home offers a surreal interpretation of how wars abroad affect everyday lives in the homeland, tracing four hometown friends who are entrenched from afar in a modern-day war | |||||
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I Felt So Free | ||
| 1st Produced: | Tiny Theater Festival | May 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 | #121900 | |||
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Genre: | One act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | Wendy is a puppet. Marty is a man. Can they find true happiness? | |||||
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I Stand for Nothing | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2009 | |||||
Company: | Old Kent Road 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 | #100683 | |||
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Genre: | Piece | |||||
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Synopsis: | A theater-collage cobbled out of absurd, sentimental, and lyrical material, I Stand for Nothing explores the contemporary New Yorker's struggle with individuality and authenticity while negotiating the realms of love, politics, and solitude | |||||
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In Big Cities We Are Sentimental | ||
| 1st Produced: | Onthological-Hysteric Theater, New York | March 2008 | ||||
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 | #121901 | |||
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Synopsis: | Sad love and suicide | |||||
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Jeannine's Abortion: A Play in One Trimester | ||
| 1st Produced: | Brick Theatre, 575 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11211 >>> | 24 Jun 2010 | ||||
Company: | Old Kent Road | |||||
| 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 | #115664 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 4 | ||
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Synopsis: | This show is part of the Brick Theater's Too Soon Festival. This is the official blurb: Jeannine's Abortion: A Play in One Trimester follows Jeannine and several of her peers over three months in New York City, during which time they exist with one another and Jeannine has an abortion. | |||||
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Make it Work! Keep Going! | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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 | #115665 | |||
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Genre: | short play | |||||
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Synopsis: | A short play full of puppets, the dream of emancipatory politics, and the isolation inherent in everyday life. | |||||
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Mock the Knife | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2003 | |||||
Company: | The Lowlands Comedy 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 | #56421 | |||
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Genre: | Drama Performance Art, 60 min | |||||
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Synopsis: | Young man needs help. Perhaps a knife could cut the vocal chords--only the foolish speak of love. And let Kaius Caesar catalogue brother Julius' collapse in this comedic ghost sequence. Who died, who boozed, who farted, who loved? Whoever. | |||||
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Mother Mary Come To Me | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
Company: | The Brick 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 | #77074 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
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Notes: | part of The Baby Jesus One-Act Jubilee: Second Coming, a selection of world-premiere yuletide-themed plays | |||||
Synopsis: | Mary did not birth Jesus. Sheila did. But Sheila died and Jesus needs a mother. And Joseph needs a lover. And Mary needs things too. | |||||
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Piper McKenzie's Dainty Cadaver | ||
| 1st Produced: | Brick Theatre | 28 Jan 2011 | ||||
Company: | Piper McKenzie 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 | #124170 | |||
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Synopsis: | 18 playwrights. 3 plays. One performance of each. Piper McKenzie's Dainty Cadaver is an Exquisite Corpse-style playmaking project in which multiple playwrights collaborate on a single work without knowing what the hell the others are doing. Each writer reads the previous scene, writes a new scene, and passes it on to the next writerwho doesn't see any of what came earlier. Beautiful madness ensues. For its inaugural edition, Piper McKenzie will present one-night-only performances of three new plays written in this unique collaborative style, with results ranging from inspired chaos to eerie synchronicityall tied together by the unique voices of 18 hot playwrights, divided into three teams and staged by three directors. The teams and their performance details are as follows: TEAM A: Fri 1/28, 8pm: Johnna Adams, Eric Bland, Jeff Lewonczyk, Mac Rogers, Crystal Skillman, Art Wallace. Directed by Jordana Williams. TEAM B: Sat 1/29, 8pm: Danny Bowes, Matt Freeman, Qui Nguyen, Carolyn Raship, August Schulenburg, Alexis Sottile. Directed by Hope Cartelli. TEAM C: Sun 1/30, 3pm: Maggie Cino, James Comtois, John DeVore, Cara Francis, Rich Lovejoy, Justin Maxwell. Directed by John Hurley. | |||||
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Protestants, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2009 | |||||
Company: | The Old Kent Road 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 | #94038 | |||
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Genre: | Southern gothic epic Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | When Scottie returns home to Virginia from his NYC sojourn for the marriage/departure of his chronically negligent mother, he discovers his biologically-ruined brother wilting, his emotionally-untethered brother firing, and his baby 'brother' Tippy becoming a woman and the family's final hope. Tippy's tough-as-nails best bud Ruby, a Nurse fallen from the pages of Chekhov, and Scottie's cosmopolitan girlfriend Virginia round out this frenetic yet heart-blooming world. Told in evocative, free-wheeling scenes, The Protestants penetrates the rural, central Virginian landscape with characters of big desire, personality, and problems-one part The Royal Tenenbaums, one part Faulkner. It delivers a South where pain and humor intertwine, with both aiming for the last laugh; where the need and the notion of God lurks throughout to order and illuminate things forgiven, things forsaken | |||||
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Swing State | ||
| 1st Produced: | Battersea Arts Centre, London | - - - | ||||
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 | #121902 | |||
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Way That One Arrives, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Young Playwrights Festival, Horizon Theatre, Atlanta | - - - | ||||
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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 | #121903 | |||
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