SHEILA CALLAGHAN   


Sheila Callaghan
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Plays by Sheila Callaghan

SHEILA CALLAGHAN
American Jack
1st Produced:
Moving Arts, Los Angeles
2003
Company:
-
1st Published:
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Genre:
Drama
One Act
Parts:
Male
1
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: A fragmented and theatrical portrait of a Greek survivor of Nazi occupation, who subsequently builds a life for himself in America in the 70's brick by brick
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SHEILA CALLAGHAN
Ayravana Flies Or A Pretty Dish
1st Produced:
Edge Of The World Theatre Festival, Los Angeles
2001
Company:
-
1st Published:
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Genre:
10-15 Minute Comedy
Ten Min
Parts:
Male
1
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: Olivia is a frizzy-haired nutty-looking waitress with too-red lipstick and bulgy omnivorous eyes. Elephant is a reticent, dapper pachyderm in a business suit. He orders the Special of the Day. One heimlick maneuver plus a taste for the exotic equals love. Or dinner.
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SHEILA CALLAGHAN
Blue Lila Rising
1st Produced:
New Georges, NYC
2002
Company:
-
1st Published:
Playscripts, Inc
2004
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Genre:
Fragmented Drama
One Act
Parts:
Male
3
Female
6
Parts Other:
-
Notes: Running time: 25-30
Synopsis: Manhattan, 1936. Struggling novelist Dawn Powell is enduring a lavish cocktail party at her agent's extravagant flat. Suddenly, a young woman no one knows falls to the floor, dead. Dawn Powell recognizes something familiar in the girl. The girl falls again. . . and again. The blood is on Dawn's hands. A lyrical investigation in six iterations.
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SHEILA CALLAGHAN
Catherine Calamity
1st Produced:
2003
Company:
-
1st Published:
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Genre:
-
-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: A strange eleven year old girl, Justin Timberlake and Harrison Ford all in a Christmas tragedy
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SHEILA CALLAGHAN
Crawl, Fade To White
1st Produced:
Ideal Glass Gallery, 22 East 2nd Street, NY
2008
Company:
-
1st Published:
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Genre:
Full-length Absurd Comic Drama
-
Parts:
Male
2
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes: Staged reading by The Playwright's Center, Minneapolis MN, 2002
Synopsis: A scream is heard throughout the stratosphere. It is the voice of the lamp. Louise is selling this expensive family heirloom to keep her daughter April in school and cease her more sordid "consultant" profession. April rushes home with lover in tow to halt the proceedings and save the lamp, but it has been intercepted by a quiet and bizarre middle-aged couple with a haunting secret. Attempts to reclaim the lamp are made, as a misplaced father slowly fades to white in the background.
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SHEILA CALLAGHAN
Crumble (Lay Me Down, Justin Timberlake)
1st Produced:
Workshop performance by Manhattan Theatre Source, NYC
2000
Company:
-
1st Published:
in Funny, Strange, Provocative: Seven Plays from Clubbed Thumb
2007
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Genre:
Short Full-length Comedy
One Act
Parts:
Male
1
Female
2
Parts Other:
1 female child (age 11)
Notes: -
Synopsis: Catherine asks for seven very strange objects for Christmas this year. Her perpetually anxious mother complies, suspecting Catherine might blame her for the absurd circumstances in which her father disappeared. Catherine reveals the dark nature of these objects to her mother on Christmas morning and a calamity ensues. Special appearances by Harrison Ford and Justin Timberlake, and a talking Apartment.
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SHEILA CALLAGHAN
Dead City
1st Produced:
Lark Theatre, NYC
2003
Company:
Playwrights Horizons
1st Published:
2008
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Genre:
Comic Drama
-
Parts:
Male
3
Female
4
Parts Other:
-
Notes: Workshopped at the Lark Theatre, NYC, 2003
Synopsis: While bringing her sexy hubby his mail one morning, Samantha Blossom notices an envelope addressed to him from his lover. This spins her out into her day raw and entirely untethered& until she begins following a punk-rock genius poet girl half her age. This culminates in a frenzied chaos parade in a sex club located in the meat-packing district of New York City. Based on James Joyce's Ulysses.
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SHEILA CALLAGHAN
Dream Chain, The
1st Produced:
Michael Weller Theater, NY
2007
Company:
FLUX Theatre Ensemble
1st Published:
-
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To Buy This Play:
I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: part of The Dream Project, which is described as "an exploration of Pedro Calderón de la Barca's La Vida es Sueño through a series of staged readings of adaptations of Calderón's masterpiece. An adaptation of La Vida es Sueño written by multiple authors, each writing only one scene from the play. Contributing playwrights include: Sheila Callaghan, Marcus Gardley, Amlin Gray, Carmen Rivera, Adam Szymkowicz and Candido Tirado
Synopsis: -
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SHEILA CALLAGHAN
Elemental
1st Produced:
Workshopped at the HERE American Living Room Series, NYC
2001
Company:
-
1st Published:
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To Buy This Play:
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Genre:
Four-act Mythical Opera
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Parts:
Male
2
Female
2
Parts Other:
6 instrumentalists
Notes: Music by Sophocles Papavasilopoulos
Synopsis: Act One: METAL. Hope, a tragic diva, turns into a jungle gym on a playground as a result of her cold-hearted treatment of her lover. Act Two: CONCRETE. Lonnie, an immortal boy, turns into a concrete art installation as a result of his inferiority complex. Act Three: PLASTIC. Claire is a shower curtain. She sings an extended aria about her predicament. Act Four: WOOD. John turns into a tree while being chased through the forest by an overly amorous suitor
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SHEILA CALLAGHAN
He Ate The Sun
1st Produced:
Festival at Manhattan Theatre Source, NYC
2002
Company:
-
1st Published:
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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
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Genre:
15-25 minute comedy
One Act
Parts:
Male
2
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: A series of quick vignettes navigating the experience of one cowardly man losing his attractive yet shallow wife to a young, hot internet tycoon. Look out, he's got a gun.
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SHEILA CALLAGHAN
Hold This
1st Produced:
2003
Company:
-
1st Published:
Playscripts, Inc
2004
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Genre:
Monologue
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
1
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: Running time: 5-10
Synopsis: A young man describes in detail the source of his incurable fear of chickens
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SHEILA CALLAGHAN
Hunger Waltz, The
1st Produced:
Relentless Theatre, NYC
2004
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
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Genre:
Full-length Multiple-Period Drama
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Parts:
Male
2
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: Gwen hears singing in the wind and believes she is mad. Over a period of 600 years, through her relationships with her domineering husband and her coquettish female lover, she slowly reveals the nature of her desires and the source of the voices. A drama over three time periods across America: 18th century East Coast, 20th century dust-bowl, and 22nd century West Coast.
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SHEILA CALLAGHAN
Kate Crackernuts
1st Produced:
2002
Company:
-
1st Published:
Playscripts, Inc
2005
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Genre:
Full-length Poetic Fable
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Parts:
Male
4
Female
5
Parts Other:
1 puppet
Notes: Running time: 120-140 mins
Synopsis: Kate's sister Anne, a ravishing beauty, wakes up one morning to discover a sheep's head between her shoulders. Thus begins the journey of the two sisters in their quest to return Anne's true head to its proper place. The journey is sidetracked, however, by Kate's obsession with a slim raver-boy who has a nasty little addiction. Based on the British fairy tale Kate Crackernuts.
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SHEILA CALLAGHAN
Lascivious Something
1st Produced:
2006
Company:
Cherry Lane Theatre
1st Published:
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Genre:
Full-length Comic Drama
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Parts:
Male
1
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: It's 1980 and Reagan has just been elected. August had fled the country six years prior to be with his beautiful young Greek bride on a secluded Mediterranean island, where he planted a modest vineyard. Now, his young wife his pregnant, his crop is robust, and he is about to have his first tasting& when a strange woman in a large-brimmed hat arrives at the couple's guesthouse
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SHEILA CALLAGHAN
New Shoes
1st Produced:
Moving Arts, Los Angeles
2000
Company:
-
1st Published:
Playscripts, Inc
2004
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Genre:
Absurd Drama
One Act
Parts:
Male
2
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes: Winner of the 2001 LA Weekly Award for Best New One-act
Synopsis: Richard, a middle-aged Vietnam vet, falls asleep one night next to his nagging wife and wakes up in the arms of his beautiful young secretary. His grasp of reality subsequently begins to crumble as his tortured past penetrates his benign present in real-time.
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SHEILA CALLAGHAN
Scab
1st Produced:
2002
Company:
-
1st Published:
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To Buy This Play:
I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
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Genre:
Full-length Comic Drama
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Parts:
Male
1-2
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: Anima's sphere of desperation and self-destruction is invaded by the arrival of her perky new roommate, Christa. Moved by a particularly malevolent statue of the Virgin Mary and a houseplant named Susan, Anima and Christa soon enter into a profound and intimate friendship that incurs traumatic results
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SHEILA CALLAGHAN
Soak
1st Produced:
Sanctuary: Playwright's Theatre, NYC
2004
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
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To Buy This Play:
I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
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Genre:
15 minute awkward comedy
One Act
Parts:
Male
1
Female
2
Parts Other:
1 accordion player
Notes: -
Synopsis: Heidi and David come to this space every day. Something tragic happened here, but all that remains is the ghost of a German chanteuse, an accordion player, an iPod, and a shrine to Bjork. And everyone is drunk.
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SHEILA CALLAGHAN
Softland
1st Produced:
Workshop performance by Singularity, NYC
2001
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
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To Buy This Play:
I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
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Genre:
Short Full-length Musical Monologue Series
One Act
Parts:
Male
2
Female
1
Parts Other:
1 cellist, 1 pianist
Notes: Music by Sophocles Papavasilopoulos
Synopsis: Michael, a fervent and gifted jazz musician, takes a mysterious journey to India and returns uncommunicative and tormented, yet burning with a new musical vision. This song-puzzle introduces Douglas, Malcolm and Hilary as they recount their unique relationships with Michael and attempt to discover the nature of the dark event that lead him to his emotional rupture. A three-part eclectic musical in lyrical monologues
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SHEILA CALLAGHAN
Star-Crossed Lovers
1st Produced:
Westfield High School Theatre Arts Program (Chantilly, VA, United States)
2004
Company:
-
1st Published:
Playscripts, Inc.
2005
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Genre:
Comedy/Drama
Comedy
Parts:
Male
7
Female
4
Parts Other:
4 females, 7 males, 20 either; Running time: 30 mins
Notes: Running time: 30 mins
Synopsis: The story of Romeo and Juliet told over centuries, across continents, and through genres. Imaginative and musical, Star-Crossed Lovers is a spectacular tour of major theatrical and intellectual movements -- spanning tribal Africa, ancient Greece, commedia dell'arte Italy, Chekhov's Russia, Rodgers and Hammerstein's 1930s America, and existentialist post-modernity.
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SHEILA CALLAGHAN
Strange News From Another Planet
1st Produced:
2003
Company:
Ring of Fire Productions, Inc. NYC
1st Published:
-
-
To Buy This Play:
I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
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Genre:
Rock Musical
One Act
Parts:
Male
3
Female
2
Parts Other:
3 instrumentalists
Notes: written by Sheila Callaghan, Michael Alltop
Synopsis: World War Whatever continues for the umpteenth year. Two travelers drop from the skies in search of universal peace. Chaos and power chords ensue in this rock musical adaptation of two wartime fairy tales by Nobel Prize winner Hermann Hesse. Ask yourself& what is the nature of mayhem?
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SHEILA CALLAGHAN
That Pretty Pretty
1st Produced:
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Company:
-
1st Published:
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To Buy This Play:
I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
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Genre:
-
-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: -
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SHEILA CALLAGHAN
Transit Plays, The
1st Produced:
Proto-type Theatre, NYC
2003
Company:
-
1st Published:
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-
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Genre:
Five very short absurd plays
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Parts:
Male
2
Female
2-3
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: Each play revolves around one form of transportation; ferry, train, bicycle, plane, and car. Strangers attempt to form connections with one another, attaining varying degrees of success. With theatrical staging, elevated and challenging language, and non-realistic elements.
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SHEILA CALLAGHAN
Trepidation Nation
1st Produced:
2003
Company:
-
1st Published:
Humana Festival 2003: The Complete Plays, ed Tanya Palmer & Amy Wegener, Smith & Kraus
2003
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Genre:
phobic anthology, 80 - 100 min
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Parts:
Male
11
Female
12
Parts Other:
-
Notes: Running time: 80-100 mins
Synopsis: We all have instinctive fears -- but what if a fear becomes inexplicable, illogical, and just plain weird? Then you're dealing with a phobia, one of those most extreme and fascinating of terrors. Actors Theatre of Louisville asked 16 frighteningly creative playwrights to find inspiration in real phobias, and the resulting collection of pieces might prove that not only is fear humankind's oldest emotion, but it's also one of our silliest, most serious, and stage-worthy.
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SHEILA CALLAGHAN
Tumor
1st Produced:
Screaming Venus, NYC
2001
Company:
-
1st Published:
Playscripts, Inc
2004
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Genre:
Comedy
One Act
Parts:
Male
2
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes: Running time: 30-40
Synopsis: Pete is pregnant. Sarah is pregnant. Kathie is pregnant. Richard is reacting badly to Kathie being pregnant. In stylized monologues and short scenes, each story is traced until the pregnancies arrive at their inevitable wacked-out conclusions.
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SHEILA CALLAGHAN
Twilight In The B-Bowl
1st Produced:
Annex Theatre, Seattle WA
2002
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
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Genre:
Three-part comedy
Comedy
Parts:
Male
3
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: Part One: Three punk-rock Marbits in a bowl of Lucky Charms thrash about, railing against their fate, as a spoon looms ominously above. Part Two: A torrid, ill-fated affair is struck between a loquacious, soggy cornflake and an overly-vain raspberry. Part Three: an oatmeal momma sings a bluesy riff to her raisin children.
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SHEILA CALLAGHAN
Uncle Sam's Satiric Spectacular
1st Produced:
Actors Theatre of Louisville (Louisville, KY, United States)
2005
Company:
-
1st Published:
Playscrips, Inc - 863
2006
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Genre:
Satirical musical comedy
Satire
Parts:
Male
8
Female
8
Parts Other:
8 females, 8 males; Running time: 80-95 mins
Notes: -
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
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SHEILA CALLAGHAN
We Are Not These Hands
1st Produced:
Staged reading by Eye of the Storm Theatre, Minneapolis MN
2004
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
To Buy This Play:
I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
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Genre:
Full-length Comedy
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Parts:
Male
1
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: Ever since their school blew up, Moth and Belly have taken to stalking an illegal internet café in the hopes of one day being allowed in. They take particular interest in Leather, a skittish older man doing research in the café. He is a self-proclaimed "freelance scholar" from a foreign land with a sketchy past and a sticky secret. Leather begins to fall head over heals in love with Moth& but what about Belly? This play explores the effects of rampant capitalism on a country that is ill-prepared for it.
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