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IAN COHEN (1952 - ) |
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Nationality: n/a Email: n/a Website: Click here to visit |
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Literary Agent: Elaine Devlin Literary, Inc. |
BERTRAND PRIEST, first prize winner of the 2006 Kaufman & Hart Award for New American Comedies. The world premiere of LENNY & LOU was September 2004 at the Woolly Mammoth Theatre in Washington, D.C. and was nominated for the Charles MacArthur Award for Best Play and Best Resident Play as part of the Helen Hayes Awards. The play was also nominated for the American Theatre Critic's Association's Annual ATCA/Steinberg New Play Award. New York premiere, February 2006 at 29th St. Rep. VATTAGO was a finalist at PlayLabs, The Playwrights Center in 2005 and is now in development at the Lark Play Development Center. GOD'S CREATURES was a semi-finalist in the Stageplays' International Playwrights Competition. GOING, a one-act, was a semi-finalist in the Chutzpah Festival and will be published by Playscripts, Inc. in 2006. FANTASY was presented August 2000 by The Workshop and is now a film, co-directed by the author for Blatantly Subtle Productions. Ian is an Artistic Associate at the Lark Play Development Center.
Plays by Ian Cohen
Bertrand Priest | ||
| 1st Produced: | 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 | #55030 | |||
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Genre: | Dark Comedy Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | First Prize Winner, 2006 Kaufman & Hart Award for New American Comedies | |||||
Synopsis: | A sexy, python-loving artist, the young writer she's chosen to mentor, an out-of-work actor and a tough, no nonsense businessman collide in this comedy that asks: Does art matter in a world where commerce is king? | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Chemistry Club, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Staged reading, The Workshop | 1996 | ||||
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 | #43383 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | New York City, circa 1983. Sex, drugs, disillusionment and denial confront the members of the over-30 rock band, The Chemistry Club | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Desert, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Spring Reading Series, American Renaissance Theatre, New York City | 1999 | ||||
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 | #43384 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | A young man's search for God and God's for Man lead them to The Desert | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Fuckin' Work | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Jam for Bread Cafe, 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 | #46923 | |||
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Genre: | Play One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | part of a festival of one-act plays about Brooklyn | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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God's Creatures | ||
| 1st Produced: | Staged Reading, Lark Play Development Center, New York City | 1998 | ||||
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 | #43385 | |||
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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| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | Class differences, race, sexual preference and spiritualism collide as a handsome doctor, a hot Latina, a womanizing mailroom attendant, a born-again Christian and others confront their desires and fears. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Going | ||
| 1st Produced: | 42nd Street Workshop One Act Festival (New York, NY, United States) | 1999 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc - New York | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #66628 | |||
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: | 45-55 min Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | 4 males, 3 females, 1 either (8 actors possible: 4-5 males, 3-4 females) | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | When Alex learns his mother's health is slipping, he takes his wife and two young sons on a harried subway ride from their Manhattan apartment to Brooklyn. Upon their arrival, they find Alex's fragile sister on the brink of a breakdown herself: she informs him that their mother hasn't eaten in days and insists on staying in bed. The worried family scrambles to help her, even calling an ambulance that she refuses to ride in, until an EMS supervisor puts his finger on the real problem and gets the matriarch of the family up on her feet and back into her life in this honest and humorous look at the way families work. | |||||
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Jefferson Street | ||
| 1st Produced: | TBG Theatre, NY | 2007 | ||||
Company: | Personal Space Theatrics | |||||
| 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 | #75212 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | part of Myth America | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Lenny & Lou | ||
| 1st Produced: | Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Washington, D.C | 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 | #43386 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | Workshop at The Lark Play Development Center, February 2001 | |||||
Synopsis: | Lenny is a middle-aged wannabe rock star with zero talent. Lou, his younger brother, is a lonely accountant who hasn't had a date in fifteen years. And their wildly inappropriate mom, Fran, is permanently stuck in a senior moment. When the responsible Lou snaps during an early morning banana delivery, he unleashes a torrent of murder, sex, and cross-dressing. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Luna Park | ||
| 1st Produced: | Staged reading presented by The Workshop, New York City | 1995 | ||||
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 | #43387 | |||
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Synopsis: | Amidst brutality and abuse, an idealistic young man comes of age as his family breaks apart | |||||
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Vattago | ||
| 1st Produced: | Spring Reading Series, American Renaissance Theatre, New York City | 2003 | ||||
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 | #43388 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | The demon, Vattago, infiltrates the home and workplace of Matt Ross, resulting in chaos and death. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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