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SAMANTHA ELLIS (1975 - ) |
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Nationality: British Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: The Agency (London) Ltd |
Samantha Ellis was born in London to Iraqi Jewish parents. She studied at Cambridge, where she co-wrote two plays and a musical before starting to write on her own. She worked for several years as a freelance arts journalist.
Plays by Samantha Ellis
Almonds | ||
| 1st Produced: | Network Theatre | 2005 | ||||
Company: | Floodtide 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 | #63909 | |||
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Genre: | short play One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | In 1834 Parliament burns down. In 2005, a woman tries to fight the war on terror with a nut allergy. A play about democracy. | |||||
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Candy Jar, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Playroom, Cambridge | 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 | #63912 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | An artist, his models and a wry look at Generation X and the politics of kitsch. | |||||
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Cat in a Sieve | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2005 | |||||
Company: | The Miniaturists | |||||
| 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 | #63908 | |||
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Genre: | short play One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | James VI encounters a witch in a castle in Scotland in 1591. A play about the events which inspired Macbeth. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Cling To Me Like Ivy | ||
| 1st Produced: | 11 Feb 2010 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1848420656 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #99110 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
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| A sassy, offbeat comedy-drama about rebelling against your roots. Rivka wants the perfect Orthodox wedding. With two weeks to go, she has the man, the dress - and the wig. But when doubt is cast on her wig, everything starts to unravel. Rivka finds herself far from home, up a tree and in the midst of an anti-road protest, not knowing whether she'll be able to go back to where she came from. . . Or even if she wants to. Samantha Ellis' play was inspired by a chance remark by Victoria Beckham in 2004 which sparked a crisis within the Orthodox Jewish community about the wigs worn by married women. | |||||
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Feel the Plastic | ||
| 1st Produced: | Camden People's Theatre | 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 | #63911 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | Nine months ago, Lara's boyfriend went out for a pack of cigarettes and never came back. But then, weeks before she is about to have his baby, her flatmate brings home a stranger. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Martin's Wedding | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2004 | |||||
Company: | Blind Summit | |||||
| 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 | #63910 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | 1 puppet | |||||
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Synopsis: | Fashion photographer Martin (a puppet) wakes on his wedding morning with a hangover. Full of regret, he throws himself out of a window. He hits the ground, bangs his head and when he comes round he can't remember anything. The story of a small man pursued by three women trying to get to the altar to marry a woman he can't remember. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Patching Havoc | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2003 | |||||
Company: | Theatre 503/Liquid 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 | #10937 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | What do you do when your fiance thinks he's the messiah? | |||||
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Scattering | ||
| 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 | #63906 | |||
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Genre: | short play One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | doubling | |||||
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Synopsis: | How can you be a Muslim and a Jew? When Kemal's father tells him he is a follower of 17th century mystic Sabbatai Tsvi, he goes on a journey of discovery to find out who he wants to be. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Startle Response | ||
| 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 | #72258 | |||
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Genre: | short play One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | a play inspired by a true story of life imitating art. In 1996 a group of Kurdish amateur actors were rehearsing a production of Harold Pinter's Mountain Language. Their rehearsals were raided by police who mistook their prop guns for real ones, and told them to speak no language but English. This story is at the heart of a play about post-traumatic stress disorder, memory, language, loss and assimilation. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Sugar and Snow | ||
| 1st Produced: | BBC Radio 4 | 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 | #63907 | |||
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Genre: | radio play Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | A play about love, coffee readings and freedom, set in a cafe in north London and in the mountains of Kurdistan. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Unfinished | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
Company: | The Miniaturists | |||||
| 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 | #72257 | |||
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Genre: | short play One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | contemporary dybbuk comedy, with songs | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Use Me As Your Cardigan | ||
| 1st Produced: | Jackson's Lane, London | 2002 | ||||
Company: | The Miniaturists | |||||
| 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 | #10938 | |||
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Genre: | dark comedy Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | A dark comedy about postnatal depression. | |||||
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