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DOUG BROOK (1972 - ) |
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Nationality: USA Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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Plays by Doug Brook |
Alternate Proposal | ||
| 1st Produced: | Camino Real Playhouse, San Juan Capistrano, CA | 2008 | ||||
Company: | Camino Real Playhouse | |||||
| 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 | #90088 | |||
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Genre: | comedy Ten Min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Finalist in Camino Real Playhouse "ShowOff! International Playwriting Festival" (premiere production, listed above). Runner Up, Eighth Annual Ten-Minute Playwrighting Contest, Actor's Theatre, Santa Cruz, CA (staged readings March-April 2003). | |||||
Synopsis: | Alternate Proposal opens with a man and woman at a restaurant table. She has a look on her face as if she's just been proposed to, because she was. The answer is not as simple as yes or no. | |||||
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Attention Surplus Disorder | ||
| 1st Produced: | Ross, California | Jan 2009 | ||||
Company: | Ross Valley Players | |||||
| 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 | #118051 | |||
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Genre: | comedy Ten Min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Staged readings as part of Ross Alternative Works (RAW). | |||||
Synopsis: | In a world where ADD is the norm, Mitchell seeks treatment because he actually reads entire books and watches complete movies. Dr. Hunter is joined by his colleague Dr. Collier and assistant Ms. Wright as he sporadically investigates Mitchell's symptoms. Mitchell perseveres as they occasionally return to diagnosing his problem, which he fears to be the dreaded Attention Surplus Disorder. | |||||
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Big Fish Story, The | ||
| 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 | #118052 | |||
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Genre: | comedy One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Finalist, 2010 Playwrights Festival, Curtain Players (Westerville, Ohio). | |||||
Synopsis: | Jonah and a friend sit outside his tent watching the big game, when Jonah hears God's voice ordering him to warn the city of Ninevah about their imminent destruction. Pious as Jonah isn't, he instead flees on a ship which is soon beset by stormy seas. Realizing Jonah is the cause, he goes overboard and ends up in the belly of a big fish or three days. After the solitude and smell change his ways, he warns Ninevah who immediately repent and are spared. Jonah hates that Ninevah was spared, so God teaches him an object lesson at the expense of a lovely shade tree. | |||||
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Case of the Cereal Killer, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Santa Cruz, CA | Jan 2010 | ||||
Company: | Actors' Theatre | |||||
| 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 | #118050 | |||
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Genre: | comedy Ten Min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Winner in the 15th annual 8 10's @ 8 festival, Actors' Theatre (Santa Cruz). | |||||
Synopsis: | It was a Monday like any other Monday, except that it wasn't. Mason makes a bowl of cereal and steps out for the newspaper. When he returns, the cereal is gone and the mystery begins. Mason, in his trenchcoat, fedora, and pajamas, goes through each member of his family to find the culprit, but what he finds is. . . The Case of the Cereal Killer. | |||||
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Finding God | ||
| 1st Produced: | Pear Slices 2010, Pear Avenue Theatre, Mountain View, California | 12 Feb 2010 | ||||
Company: | Pear Avenue Theatre | |||||
| 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 | #112533 | |||
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Genre: | comedy Ten Min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | Molly returns home early from Europe. Her parents, happy for her return, are even more delighted to hear that Molly found God while away. . . Until God walks into the living room, changing their lives forever. Or at least for the rest of the play. Or is he really God after all? | |||||
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Interpersonal Relations | ||
| 1st Produced: | Indian Springs School, Indian Springs, AL | 1990 | ||||
Company: | Indian Springs School | |||||
| 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 | #92409 | |||
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Genre: | comedy One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A boy turns sixteen and decides to go for the girl he likes, when he starts being hounded by his Conscience personified who only he can see or hear. His sister and his best friend who's after her both get in the way. | |||||
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Last Call | ||
| 1st Produced: | Cornwall, NY | Jul 2010 | ||||
Company: | Stormy Weather Players | |||||
| 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 | #118048 | |||
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Genre: | drama Ten Min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Finalist in Stormy Weather Players' 2010 New Plays Festival. | |||||
Synopsis: | Sally and Bill are finally sorting through her parents' things, years after the night both separately died. When they plug in her mother's antique phone from that night, it - and only it - rings. The call and caller will change their lives forever. | |||||
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Lot in Life | ||
| 1st Produced: | Santa Cruz, California | Sep 2009 | ||||
Company: | Actors' Theatre | |||||
| 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 | #118053 | |||
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Genre: | comedy One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Runner Up, 11th Annual Full-Length Playwrighting Contest, Actors' Theatre (Santa Cruz). Staged readings. Winner, 2010 Playwrights Festival, Curtain Players (Westerville, Ohio). | |||||
Synopsis: | As a rabbi begins a talk about the biblical story of Lot, Lot's Wife steps out of the story and into debate about what really happened. From her own salty perspective, Lot's Wife reveals the complete story as untold by the Bible. They meet in the desert at the local watering hole, marry, and deal with "crazy Uncle Abraham's" new religion that has the neighbors talking. Famine and captivity ensue, catching up to everything Lot's Wife has experienced. Urged by mysterious visitors, the family flees Sodom in the nick of time only to see Lot's Wife meet her infamous end, and she watches powerless as her family meets theirs. | |||||
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Miles High Club, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Carrboro, North Carolina | Jul 2010 | ||||
Company: | The ArtsCenter | |||||
| 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 | #118049 | |||
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Genre: | comedy Ten Min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | 2 non-speaking malecameo, 1 m/f | |||||
Notes: | Winner in The ArtsCenter's 10 By 10 In the Triangle, in 2010. | |||||
Synopsis: | Kinsey is a NASA official interviewing astronauts who are married couples as candidates for the first manned Mars mission. NASA wants to send a couple to study long-term effects of the three year trip, with an eye toward colonization. Jones and Conley's interview becomes less routine as it broaches marital relations, particularly how certain relating would be handled in space. Their ambitions for space wrestle with their desire for privacy as more details of their intended mission unfold. Will they put aside their inhibitions in the name of science? Or will they join previous candidates in giving up outer space for their personal space? | |||||
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More Than Petticoats | ||
| 1st Produced: | Tabard Theatre Company, San Jose, CA | 2007 | ||||
Company: | Tabard 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 | #90089 | |||
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Genre: | Historical drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Inspired by the eponymous book by Erin H. Turner. Originally performed with 3m, 7f, with cast doubling. | |||||
Synopsis: | The play presents seven women who had significant impact in shaping California history. Their stories are interwoven, told chronologically from the 1840s through 1960s. The women include: Dorothea Lange (photojournalist), Jessie Fremont (politician's wife, made original expedition possible), Mary Austin (pre-Feminist author, activist), Mary Ellen Pleasant (civil rights figure), Tye Leung Schulze (immigration interpreter, first Chinese pre-suffrage voter), Julia Morgan (most prolific architect ever), Toby Winema Riddle (Indian interpreter). | |||||
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Original Synergy | ||
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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 | #90090 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Semi-finalist 2007 ARTSport New Works Playwriting Contest. Playhouse on the Green (Bridgeport, CT); (as This Week's Agenda:) Finalist Fifth Annual Full-Length Playwrighting Contest Actor's Theatre (Santa Cruz, CA) | |||||
Synopsis: | Original Synergy chronicles the actual events behind Creation, as abridged in Genesis. The Big G assembles a committee of his Ego, Super Ego, Id, Left Brain, Right Brain, and (once woman is created) Feminine Side. | |||||
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Retrograde | ||
| 1st Produced: | Actor's Theatre, Santa Cruz, CA | 1999 | ||||
Company: | Actor's Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | Contained in: "Thirty Ten Minute PlaysFrom The Santa Cruz Festivals 1 to 6" published by Smith and Kraus, 2001 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #90091 | |||
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Genre: | comedy Ten Min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Published in "Eight Tens at 8 Festival: Thirty 10-Minutes Plays from the Santa Cruz Festivals I-VI". Winner, Fourth Annual Ten-Minute Playwrighting Contest (Actor's Theatre). New York premiere November 13, 2002, Theatre Row, by Streetlight Players. | |||||
Synopsis: | Two co-workers go from hate to love and back to hate again following the exact same course, in reverse. | |||||
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Self Expression | ||
| 1st Produced: | Actor's Theatre, Santa Cruz, CA | 1999 | ||||
Company: | Actor's Theatre | |||||
| 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 | #90092 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy/drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Cast size can vary widely using cast doubling. Honorable Mention, First Annual Full-Length Playwrighting Contest (Actor's Theatre), staged reading. | |||||
Synopsis: | Self Expression explores its title in two ways. A man struggles to express himself, to propose over dinner. Interspersed are scenes exploring key phases of the course of life: Trial and Error (Eve on trial for biblical crimes), Retro-Grade (adults in elementary school, taught by a child), Retrograde (two adults go from hate to love, then reverse to hate), Who's Going to Die Tonight? (murder mystery, who's about to die and why?), What Happens Next (a man arrives in what's next). | |||||
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Two Jews | ||
| 1st Produced: | Actor's Theatre, Santa Cruz, CA | 2001 | ||||
Company: | Actor's Theatre | |||||
| 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 | #90093 | |||
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Genre: | comedy Ten Min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | 2 non speaking males | |||||
Notes: | Runner Up, Sixth Annual Ten-Minute Playwrighting Contest (Actor's Theatre), staged reading. | |||||
Synopsis: | What really happened when two Jews walked into a bar | |||||
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