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JAN DONLEY (1956 - ) |
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Nationality: USA Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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Jan Donley has lived in Oklahoma, Louisiana, Wyoming, Texas, Colorado, Arizona, Missouri, Indiana, and Vermont. She currently resides in Boston, Massachusetts where she writes and teaches. Her plays have been produced in Indiana, Missouri, and Vermont. In June of 2006, The Beckmann Theatre Company in Indianapolis produced her newest full-length play, Give the Dog a Bone. In 2007, The Boston Theatre Marathon included her 10-minute play "It's Just the Wind." Her short stories have appeared in anthologies and literary magazines including Stories from Where We Live and A Room of One's Own. She has just completed a new manuscript-a novel called The Side Door.
Plays by Jan Donley
Aunt Elinor's Closet | ||
| 1st Produced: | Bloomington, IN | 1987 | ||||
Company: | Bloomington Playwrights Project | |||||
| 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 | #67212 | |||
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Genre: | comedy-drama One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | A "prequel" to "Whisper Stories," "Aunt Elinor's Closet" brings us back to the day when Milly and Grace meet, brought together by the unlikely matchmaking skills of Milly's Great Aunt Elinor. | |||||
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Closet Year, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | Green Candle Theatre Company, Burlington, Vermont | 1996 | ||||
Company: | Green Candle 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 | #67209 | |||
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Genre: | Full length/comedy-drama Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 5 | ||
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Notes: | Aunt Elinor's Closet opens this sequence of Milly & Grace plays. Milly meets Grace,and they fall in love. | |||||
Synopsis: | The Burlington Free Press, in its review (Feb 1996), states, The play deals with two young women, Grace and Milly, meeting at Milly's great aunt's, their subsequent deepening love, and the reactions to their relationship from both families. That's it in a nutshell, but the meat picked out of this particular nutshell by author Jan Donley does not depend overly much on established cliches, either in language or in plotting. It works because it is simple. It works because the side problems that develop contribute to the plot and do not leave us at the end with a handful of unresolved strands. | |||||
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Dirt | ||
| 1st Produced: | Bloomington, IN | 1988 | ||||
Company: | Bloomington Playwrights Project | |||||
| 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 | #67210 | |||
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: | Monologue/drama Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | The audience becomes an Oklahoma Depression Era church congregation as Annie gets up to testify, blaming the dust bowl storms for destroying her faith, her land, and a close friend. | |||||
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Give the Dog a Bone | ||
| 1st Produced: | American Cabaret Theatre Space, Indianapolis, IN | 2006 | ||||
Company: | Beckmann 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 | #67207 | |||
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Genre: | Full length/comedy-drama Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 5 | ||
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Synopsis: | From the postcard publicity: "Give the Dog a Bone" is a quirky, dreamlike comedy about a girl, her mother, and a bone collection. | |||||
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It's Just the Wind | ||
| 1st Produced: | Hovey Theatre Company At Boston Theatre Marathon | 2007 | ||||
Company: | Boston Theatre Marathon | |||||
| 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 | #67206 | |||
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: | impressionistic comedy Ten Min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 4 | ||
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Synopsis: | Pat and Gail go in search of a noise that has disturbed their sleep. Outside, on the street, they encounter two neighbors, each with their own impressions of the noise and the fickle wind. | |||||
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Jerome Meets Faith | ||
| 1st Produced: | T300 Black Box, Bloomington IN | 1987 | ||||
Company: | Indiana University | |||||
| 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 | #67211 | |||
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: | Full length/drama Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | Set in 1945, Jerome, a black American Soldier, meets Faith, a white British woman who runs a home for orphans. Through Faith, he meets Elsie and falls in love with her. They make a baby together who ends up being the mysterious visitor in a later play by Donley called "Whisper Stories." | |||||
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Two Daughters and Their Dead Mama | ||
| 1st Produced: | Marshall University, Huntington, West Virginia | 1997 | ||||
Company: | Marshall University Department of 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 | #67208 | |||
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: | comedy One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | Two estranged sisters, one lesbian and one straight, pack their dead mother's belongings. Mom, as ghost, forces them to reconcile. | |||||
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Whisper Stories | ||
| 1st Produced: | T300, Black Box Theatre, Indiana Univ, Bloomington IN | 1986 | ||||
Company: | Indiana University T300 Black Box & | |||||
| 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 | #67213 | |||
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: | comedy-drama One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | This play won the region 3 East ACTF Conference in Columbus, Ohio in 1986, and was produced as a one time production in the ACTF Region 3 East ACTF Conference January 1988, South Bend, Indiana. | |||||
Synopsis: | One in a series of Milly & Grace one-acts. Milly and Grace, a lesbian couple, come to terms with an unexpected visitor who offers clues to a mysterious past. Approximately 30 minute running time. | |||||
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