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Erin Courtney

ERIN COURTNEY   

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Literary Agent:  AO International  

Erin Courtney. Ms. Courtney's plays have been produced or developed by Clubbed Thumb (Demon Baby, Pricked, Summer Play, Downwinders), The Public Theater (Demon Baby), The Vineyard and BRIC (Alice The Magnet), The Flea (Mother's Couch), The Actors Theater of Louisville (Owls), and Soho Rep (Quiver And Twitch). She has been a fellow at the MacDowell colony, a recipient of a NYSCA grant and a MAP Fund grant from the Rockefeller Foundation, and a member of the Soho Rep Writer/Director lab. She is published by Playscripts, Inc. and her play Owls is published by Smith and Kraus inHumana Festival 2001: The Complete Plays. As an undergraduate, Ms. Courtney studied with Paula Vogel at Brown University and as a graduate student she studied with Mac Wellman at Brooklyn College. She currently teaches playwriting at Brooklyn College and is an affiliated artist with Clubbed Thumb. She is also a member of 13P, as well as the co-founder of the Brooklyn Writer's Space.

Plays by Erin Courtney

ERIN COURTNEY

Alice the Magnet

1st Produced:

Ohio Theater,NY

2006

Company:

Clubbed Thumb, NY, USA >>>

1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#40020

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Genre:

One hour and Twenty Minutes

Parts:

Male

2

Female

2

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

Louise, a wayward twenty something, quits her teaching job and becomes a temp at Alice's self-help organization. After Alice is attacked by her adoring fans, Louise and office manager,John, take over the self-help business. All goes well until Louise's ex-student and current office intern, Arthur, decides that he must be heard. A dark comedy about magnetism and the desire we all have to follow someone who is passionate.

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ERIN COURTNEY

Argue The Ocean

1st Produced:

- - -

- - -

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#84923

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Genre:

Ten minute play

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

Inspired by the plays "Shore Acres" (1892) by James A Herne and "Stage-Struck Yankee" (1840) by Oliver Durivage

Synopsis:

n/a

Further Reference:

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ERIN COURTNEY

Black Cat Lost

1st Produced:

Midway Rock Club, New York

2007

Company:

Paper Beats Rock

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

#84448

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Genre:

n/a

Parts:

Male

1

Female

2

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

Black Cat Lost is a grief cabaret that features three performers attempting to experience the emotional strangeness of sudden death and mortality, but who keep spiraling off on tangents in order to avoid the unsettling, sensation of loss

Further Reference:

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ERIN COURTNEY

Demon Baby

1st Produced:

Ohio Theater,NY

2001

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Playscripts, Inc - New York

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#40021

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Genre:

70-80 min Comedy/Drama

Parts:

Male

3

Female

3

Parts other:

3 males, 3 females, 1 either (7 actors possible: 3-4 males, 3-4 females)

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

An American couple, Wren and Arthur, are relocated to London. As Arthur becomes immersed in his new corporate lifestyle, the previously outgoing Wren retreats into an agoraphobic state, frozen by her fear until she is visited by a demon baby in the form of a garden gnome. This impish gnome inspires Wren to try to connect in her new surroundings, even if her attempts -- a seduction, a dinner party, and a near-fatal game of pinata -- are bizarre and deeply misguided.Demon Baby is a comic and surreal exploration of alienation, culture shock, and the meaning of identity.

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ERIN COURTNEY

Funny, Strange, Provocative: Seven Plays from Clubbed Thumb

1st Produced:

- - -

- - -

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Playscripts, Inc - New York

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#108256

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Genre:

Various Drama/Comedy

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

Various

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

This anthology includes seven plays produced by Clubbed Thumb, the Obie Award-winning downtown New York City theater company that burst onto the new play scene in 1996. Edgy and thought-provoking, each play is funny, strange, and provocative in surprising, widely varying ways -- including an apartment that both adores and despises its inhabitants in Crumble (Lay Me Down, Justin Timberlake), a metropolitan housewife who senses that something is watching her in 16 Spells to Charm the Beast, and a group of traveling freak show performers who reveal a deep humanity underneath their crowd-drawing deformities in Freakshow,among other uniquely inventive stories. For over a decade, Clubbed Thumb has had its finger firmly planted on the pulse of new work, and these plays prove it. To purchase this book of 7 plays, click "Add to Shopping Cart" above. To perform an individual play, click on its title below:

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ERIN COURTNEY

Kaspar Hauser

1st Produced:

Flea Theater, NY, USA >>>

2009

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#94964

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Genre:

Musical

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

large cast

Notes:

written by Elizabeth Swados and Erin Courtney

Synopsis:

Kaspar Hauser: a foundling's opera is a true tale about a wild child found on the streets of Nuremburg in 1828. With a story much like a Dickens novel, the piece explores all the good and evil that happens when an innocent is introduced into society. Kaspar Hauser is a fairy tale, a fable, and a Brechtian gaze at our addiction to stars (and the tabloids) and the society that lifts them up only to slam them down. Says co-creator Elizabeth Swados, 'Kaspar Hauser is a musical theatre piece, you might call it an opera, somewhere between Beethoven and Queen'.
- press release

Further Reference:

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ERIN COURTNEY

Leakey's Ladies

1st Produced:

Dixon Place
161 Chrystie Street, New York, NY 10002

13 Jan 2012

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

doollee no

#135872

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Genre:

multidisciplinary production

Parts:

Male

3

Female

7

Parts other:

-

Notes:

written by Erin Courtney, Rachel Hoeffel, Crystal Skillman

Synopsis:

Dixon Place and Drama of Works is pleased to announce the premiere of Leakey's Ladies, a multidisciplinary production exploring the work of three revered primatologists and their work of studying and saving great apes. Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Biruté Galdikas were all guided and inspired by British scientist Louis Leakey who inspired and mentored them throughout their achievements, struggles, and research. The three short plays, woven together with innovative puppet design, original music and tiered staging, will create a striking theater experience crafted by over 10 professional theater women.
- nytheatre.com

Further Reference:

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ERIN COURTNEY

Map of Virtue, A

1st Produced:

- - -

2012

Company:

13P

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

#124751

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Genre:

Play/Drama

Parts:

Male

4

Female

3

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

A Map of Virtue is a symmetrical play in which a bird statue guides us through a story of coincidence, tragedy and friendship. Part interview, part comedy, part strange middle of the night horror, a group of friends encounter evil and dissect their own responses to it.

Further Reference:

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ERIN COURTNEY

Owls

1st Produced:

Humana Festival, Actors Theatre of Louisville, KY, USA >>>

2001

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Humana Festival 2001: The Complete Plays, ed Tanya Palmer & Amy Wegener, Smith & Kraus, 2001

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#7975

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Genre:

Phone Play

Parts:

Male

1

Female

1

Parts other:

-

Notes:

Directed by Pam MacKinnon

Synopsis:

Audience members enter one of several phone booths, pick up the receiver and listen to a three-minute play unfold in conversation

Further Reference:

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ERIN COURTNEY

Plan, The

1st Produced:

Summerworks Short Play Event

2005

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

doollee no

#83998

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Genre:

n/a

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

n/a

Further Reference:

-


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ERIN COURTNEY

Pricked

1st Produced:

Summerworks

1997

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

doollee no

#83999

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Genre:

n/a

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

n/a

Further Reference:

-


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ERIN COURTNEY

Quiver and Twitch

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:

-

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#84944

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Genre:

Play/Drama

Parts:

Male

4

Female

1

Parts other:

1 puppet

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

What if Dick Cheney lived in your basement? What if your super had been a prisoner of war? What if you keep dreaming that your apartment has extra rooms? This play follows a family through a terrain of dreams, political anxieties, and parenting manuals.

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ERIN COURTNEY

Severed

1st Produced:

Flea Theater, NY, USA >>>

20 Nov 2009

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

#106687

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Genre:

Ten Min

Parts:

Male

3

Female

3

Parts other:

-

Notes:

The Flea Theater has commissioned six playwrights to create ten-minute plays that explore the impact of the current economic crisis on the younger generation. Presented under the title THE GREAT RECESSION, the evening features new work by Thomas Bradshaw, Sheila Callaghan, Erin Courtney, Will Eno, Itamar Moses and Adam Rapp - all writers recently nurtured by The Flea. The plays will be performed by The Bats, the resident acting company of The Flea

Synopsis:

An unlikely romance springs up between a cynical artist and a straightforward businessman, while a cross-section of young New Yorkers are interviewed for a documentary on the recession.

Further Reference:

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ERIN COURTNEY

Summer Play

1st Produced:

Summerworks

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:

-

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#84000

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Genre:

n/a

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

n/a

Further Reference:

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