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ADAM R BURNETT (1985 - ) |
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Nationality: USA Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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Adam R. Burnett is an award-winning playwright, actor, director and currently artistic director/resident playwright of the Buran Theatre Company and among its founding members. With the Buran Theatre Company Adam has directed many staged readings and full productions of his scripts including BENEATH THE BED, THE NEXT GREAT THING, THE SENSUALIST, A GREATER RELEASE, and NIGHTMARES: AN ARTFUL DEMONSTRATION OF THE SUBLIME. In Fall of 2007 his play THE DEATH OF ROMANCE was produced by University of Kansas at the William Inge Theatre starring emiritus professor Dr. Ron Willis. As a performer Adam has appeared in the Buran Theatre Company production of A GREATER RELEASE, at the University of Kansas he has appeared in GUYS AND DOLLS (Arvide Abernathy), THE SANTALAND DIARIES (David Sedaris), PIPPIN (Pippin), THREE SISTERS (Ivan Chebutykin), and YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU (Grandpa). This spring, before graduating, he will appear in the University of Kansas production of THE SHAPE OF THINGS as Adam - ironically. Adam has also performed regionally at the Helen Hocker Theatre and Topeka Civic Theatre, productions including THE COCOANUTS (Henry Schlemmer), BAT BOY THE MUSICAL (Rick Taylor), THE DRAWER BOY (Miles), ONCE UPON A MATTRESS (Prince Dauntless), and many more. Four of his early plays were produced at the Helen Hocker Theatre in Topeka, KS. This past fall Adam's play THE SENSUALIST received a staged reading in New York City by Title:Point Productions directed by Samara Naeymi. This past summer he spent a week near Spoleto, Italy partaking in the first annual LaMaMa International Playwriting Retreat led by Tony-nominated playwright Lisa Kron where he finished work on NIGHTMARES. Adam has twice worked with award-winning playwright Arthur Kopit through MET Ensemble's Playwriting Intensive in Kansas City, MO. As a member of the Dramatist Guild, Adam has guest lectured as a playwright on the college level at both the University of Kansas and Kansas City Community College. Adam has served two years as the undergraduate representative for the University of Kansas University Theatre Season Selection Committee (2006-2008). Among his most recent awards are the Grant Goodman Playwriting Competition (Full Length, THE SENSUALIST), KU Honors Undergraduate Research Award (NIGHTMARES. . .), New Theatre Guild Dodie Brown Award, Gerhard Zuther Memorial Award for Dramatic Scriptwriting, Young Playwrights Festival National Playwriting Competition Semi-Finalist (BENEATH THE BED), NFAA's 2004 Merit Award Winner in Playwriting (BENEATH THE BED), and many more. He currently works as the public relations assistant at the Kansas University Theatre.
Plays by Adam R Burnett
American Novelist Lost in Paris | ||
| 1st Produced: | Oldfather Studios | 2007 | ||||
Company: | Buran Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | Crawdad, a literary magazine, 2008 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #83279 | |||
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Genre: | comedy One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | The one-act play deals with an anxious, suicidal American novelist stuck in his hotel room in Paris mulling over his lovelorn fantasies with the French that become forcefully realized when a shy, unassuming handsome waiter arrives at his door with a baguette, a jar of mayonnaise, and a bottle of wine | |||||
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Beneath The Bed | ||
| 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 | #83280 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | An ailing journalist relives his past affair with a young graduate student while he plans for his son's wedding, reconnects with his estranged dogmatic father, and tries to repair his bitter marriage | |||||
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Death of Romance, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | William Inge Theatre | 2007 | ||||
Company: | KU University 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 | #82414 | |||
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Genre: | comedy drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 4 | ||
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Synopsis: | The Death of Romance tells of flamboyant pill popping, alcoholic binging, drug friendly romance novelist Linda Wood, who could potentially be a genius. At least that's what her editor, Pam, and the characters from her novel pronounce. As Linda nears the completion of the final novel in her lucratively successful Jacques and Sofia series, she is faced with an onslaught of major life alterations - the death of a father she had written off years ago, the arrival of her estranged housewife sister, an adoring love-infatuated editor, and a pair of characters she has to kill off before she can make the next bold step. As a new presence begins to flesh itself out in Linda's mind and strange discoveries are made, Jacques and Sofia fight for their life, and Linda finds herself in a significant place with rash decisions to make. | |||||
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Greater Release, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | Oldfather Studios | 2007 | ||||
Company: | Buran 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 | #82415 | |||
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Genre: | Travelogue/Drama/Musical/Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 9 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | A tapestry of travel stories centered on the mythical sources and inspirations of how a journey begins and the events that arise thereafter. As a Gypsy and her faithful troubadour lead the audience through the greater part of western Europe, characters erupt, situations occur (from comedic to darkly disturbing) and identities are found, formed, and lost in a whirling cycle of monologues and vignettes. Featuring a cast of twenty actors, this is a rare, brief engagement that is not to be missed. | |||||
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House of Fitzcarraldo, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Brick Theatre | 08 Mar 2012 | ||||
Company: | Buran 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 | #139667 | |||
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Genre: | musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | Music By: Christopher Luxem and Casey Mraz; Lyrics By: Henry Bial and Adam R. Burnett | |||||
Synopsis: | In 1979 director Werner Herzog and his megalomaniac best friend, Klaus Kinski, pulled a 300-ton steamship over a mountain under its own steam. In this highly theatrical performance work, the performers, taking on the role of the Collective Ego of Herzog and Kinski, ponder the significance of dreams and the insanity one must invest in pursuing the useless conquest of unconscious wishes. Pulling and culling from a myriad of source texts, videos, and dreams, Buran Theatre Company uses its distinctive style to situate itself between high and low culture - creating mayhem, shooting cap guns, prompting sing-a-longs, and integrating a folksy existentialism to explore our nature as beings who cannot help but desire our own dumb dreams. | |||||
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Money Buckets: The Untold Story of FDR | ||
| 1st Produced: | Metropolitan Theatre Ensemble (KC, MO) | 2009 | ||||
Company: | Buran 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 | #100410 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy/Experimental | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | 2 | |||||
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Synopsis: | The actual source text, "Money Buckets", is the long lost Marx Bros. script. It was written while they were with MGM between 1937 and 1941- but was never produced due to its controversial political overtures. In 2003 artistic director Adam R. Burnett acquired the text from Marx Brothers historian Frederick Allison. In 2005 Burnett co-founded Buran Theatre Company with Alicia Gian and in 2007, after a brief and ultimately painless legal battle, they acquired the rights to perform the script as long as it was not performed in whole. . .In an economy turned upside down FDR (Groucho Marx) asserts himself by hiring two new men, outsiders to the Washington System, to take over the cabinets of Finance, Minister Fellini (Chico Marx), and Agriculture (a beard for the War cabinet), Minister Bergman (Harpo Marx). But a villainous pair of Eastern European Socialists have plans to dupe the president and his boisterous wife, Eleanor (Margaret Dumont), and steal all of the money from the U.S. Government - buckets of money. | |||||
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Napoleon Exiled | ||
| 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 | #87028 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy/Drama/Experimental/Biography | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | doubling | |||||
Notes: | Features full frontal male nudity. | |||||
Synopsis: | Napoleon Bonaparte, in impish form, is in exile on the island of St. Helena and must come to terms with the women in his past as he plans for a final attack on the great country's of Europe and realizes the impending crisis' of the 20th and 21st century. | |||||
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Next Great Thing, 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 | #82416 | |||
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Genre: | two one acts Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 4 | ||
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Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
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Nightmares: An Artful Demonstration of the Sublime | ||
| 1st Produced: | Lawrence Arts Center Main Stage | 2008 | ||||
Company: | Buran 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 | #82417 | |||
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Genre: | Drama/Experimental | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | Play features graphic violence and sexuality. | |||||
Synopsis: | Nightmares is a startling drama about the origin of passion, desire, jealousy, astonishment, and terror as seen through the scope of 18th century painter Henry Fuseli. Joshua Chapman is happy with his life. He's an assistant professor at a mediocre college full of mediocre students with a best selling book out on the life, art and philosophy of Henry Fuseli. He has a beautiful, adoring wife, a sleek apartment in a large choking city, and he has just recently purchased a copy of Fuseli's renowned painting, "The Nightmare," a personal dream fully realized as it hangs on his living room wall. But as the credibility of his book is questioned by a colleague, things begin to disintegrate and the painting on Joshua's living room wall becomes the crux of what will be his sublimely terrifying, irrational, violent downfall. | |||||
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Prelude; Shores of Lake Michigan | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | Developed at Dixon Place (New York, NY) | |||||
| 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 | #88000 | |||
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Genre: | Drama/Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | Features male and female nudity. | |||||
Synopsis: | Prelude; Shores of Lake Michigan is the second installment in a five play cycle centered around a single family unit at the end of the 20th century. The cycle focuses on the worlds beyond the world of the immediate middle class American family - the deathly, the grotesque, the romantic, and the subconscious and unconscious. "Prelude" places us in the year 1976, July, on the water front college town Evanston, IL, where husband and wife contend with death, pregnancy, birth, consequence, and other ghosts lurking throughout their lake house. | |||||
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Sensualist, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Lawrence Arts Center Black Box | 2007 | ||||
Company: | Buran 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 | #82418 | |||
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Genre: | Drama/Experimental | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | THE SENSUALIST traverses the love lives of Leonard- a once great musician - and the women who discovered him. As the consequences of past, present and future loves play out, each is faced with the reality of indulging one's appetites and starving one's dignity. After not producing music for many years, Leonard has recently hired a young protege to aid him in the creation of a new album based on T.S. Eliot's 'The Wasteland'. As Leonard unsuccessfully tries to create new music, Leonard's past relationships unfold: his marriage and the subsequent affair with his sister-in-law. Scenes with these women dovetail on and off the stage and Leonard's inner conflict with his music increases as Interviewers enter in and out of his conscious longing for recognition, validating his celebrity and belief in his creative work. As the three women begin to forge identities separate from Leonard, he fights blindly to keep them present, to keep them alive aside his (potentially) dying talent. | |||||
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