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MIKE FOLIE |
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Nationality: USA Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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Literary Agent: Graham Agency |
Mike Folie's plays have been produced Off-Broadway, regionally around the U.S. and internationally, winning several awards. THE ADJUSTMENT, starring Tony Award" nominee Liz Larsen, was produced at the 91s Street Playhouse in New York City. The play has also been produced at several U.S. regional theatres and enjoyed a successful tour of England with Stefanie Powers in the lead. Other plays of Mike's that have been produced often include: NAKED BY THE RIVER; PANAMA; LEMONADE; and LOVE IN THE INSECURITY ZONE. His most recent play, ALFRED KINSEY: A LOVE STORY, was commissioned by Broadway and film producer George W. George. Mike has taught playwriting workshops at Ohio State University, Texas Christian University and Clark University. He was Playwright Mentor for Tomorrow's Promise, a young playwrights program funded by the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation. He also served for two years on the Playwright Selection Committee for the Edna St. Vincent Millay Colony for the Arts. Mike is a resident playwright at New Jersey Repertory Company.
Plays by Mike Folie
Adjustment, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Playhouse 91, NYC | 1998 | ||||
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| 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 | #59377 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | One actor plays five different roles | |||||
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Synopsis: | Brash city lobbyist SHARON GRAY is both fascinated and repelled by MATTHEW COHEN, the Jewish Orthodox chiropractor who relieves her chronic neck pain. Matt struggles with Parkinson's Disease and follows the strict teachings of a charismatic rabbi. Sharon, the child of Holocaust refugees, is hostile to all religion and believes only in the primacy of raw power. Initially she taunts Matt for his beliefs and argues with him. Soon, however, she becomes his friend and then his protector, using her great influence to save his faltering practice. They fall in love. Matt's reaction is to break off the relationship. Her reaction is to plot and scheme -- to use all of her lobbyist tricks -- in an attempt to seduce Matt away from his family and religion. For once, Sharon may not get what she wants, but she may get something far more valuable. | |||||
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Alfred Kinsey: A Love Story | ||
| 1st Produced: | Michael Weller Theatre, NY | 2007 | ||||
Company: | The New York Theatre Collective | |||||
| 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 | #71909 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | Alfred Kinsey: A Love Story is a fictionalized biography that places Kinsey's own erotic voyage under examination, revealing the raw, hot emotions that often hide beneath his seemingly cold search for scientific knowledge. Through the wreckage of his memories and hallucinatory fragments, the play dissects the unreliability of objective truth and lays bare one man's obsessive fascination with sex and sexual orientation | |||||
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Bluff | ||
| 1st Produced: | Gene Frankel Theatre, 24 Bond Street, New York, NY 10012 >>> | 2008 | ||||
Company: | The Rapscallions | |||||
| 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 | #86818 | |||
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Genre: | Short Play One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | part of the 2nd Annual Salute UR Shorts New Play Festival | |||||
Synopsis: | In a family of three, how do you live your life when the mother is no longer there? Bluff paints a very gripping picture of the father-daughter relationship in a new family structure. | |||||
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Boxes | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2001 | |||||
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 | #87705 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
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Synopsis: | A Vietnam Vet and former drug addict is shocked when his niece overdoses | |||||
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Hardball | ||
| 1st Produced: | Algonquin Seaport Theater on Pier 17, South Street Seaport, NY | 29 Sep 2011 | ||||
Company: | Algonquin Productions | |||||
| 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 | #132608 | |||
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Genre: | short play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | Part of The Derek Jeter Plays. Writers were asked to come up with plays which centered on some aspect of the Yankee shortstop, including his fans, his teammates, his rivals, etc. Plays are: "Screw Loose" by Wende O'Reilly, "Hardball" by Mike Folie, "Pasta Diving Jeter" by Paul Buzinski, "3000 Reasons" by Robin Rothstein, "I'm Derek Jeter" by Bo Wilson, "The Jeter Report" by Susan Barsky, and "Instant Replay" by Tony Sportiello. | |||||
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Home Movies | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | |||||
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| 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 | #87706 | |||
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Genre: | Black Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | A movie maker discovers a film of Marilyn Monroe and Albert Einstein having sex and he hopes it will make his name | |||||
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Human Resources | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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| 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 | #131344 | |||
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Genre: | Short play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | An unusual job interview between a cowboy and a bureaucrat | |||||
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Lemonade | ||
| 1st Produced: | Hollywood, CA USA | 2001 | ||||
Company: | Tamarind 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 | #59379 | |||
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Genre: | Bedroom Farce | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | A New-Age bedroom farce with a twist. Carl is married to Jane but having an affair with office-mate Betsy. Betsy wants Carl to leave Jane and marry her - something he continually promises to do, but never does. When Carl's college friend Jim is invited to dinner, the unsuspecting Jane invites Betsy, too, in an attempt to play matchmaker. But Jim falls madly in love with Jane at first sight. When he inadvertently overhears Carl and Betsy on the baby monitor and learns of their affair (and her frustrations), Jim suggests to Betsy that they fake a torrid love affair with each other. This way they can see Carl and Jane socially as a couple. Betsy can use these occasions to make Carl jealous, while Jim woos Jane on the sly. But just as the plan begins to work and the Carl/Jane marriage is on the verge of break-up, Jim and Betsy discover that their "phony" love affair is a lot more real than they think. | |||||
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LionHearted Players Comedy Cabaret Show, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2006 | |||||
Company: | Powella Productions | |||||
| 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 | #74773 | |||
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Love in the Insecurity Zone | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2006 | |||||
Company: | Boomerang 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 | #54262 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | first produced by the New Jersey Repertory Company under the title "Unhappy Woman" in 2001 | |||||
Synopsis: | In a future U.S. characterized by Security Zones, personal bar code tattoos, and armed commuters, Gayle finds life either boring or terrifying. Her mood is improved by a sudden romance with Hank, a secretive government agent on a mission to find very happy women. When Hank meets Gayle's sister, the perennially happy Pearl, he spirits both women off to Washington, D.C., where they become entangled in a sinister government plot to bottle happiness | |||||
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Meeting of Minds | ||
| 1st Produced: | Studio Theatre, Oakland University, Rochester, MI | 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 | #68533 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Naked by the River | ||
| 1st Produced: | Long Branch, NJ, USA | 2001 | ||||
Company: | New Jersey Repertory 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 | #59378 | |||
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Genre: | Romantic Comedy Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | PEGGY RYERSON is a young corporate lawyer on the fast-track; TIM GRANT is the freelance paralegal assigned to work with her on her first big case. TIM works in law firms only when he has to. His mission in life is to complete the book he's been working on for eight years, a supposedly spiritual masterpiece so original he will not show a word of it to anyone, lest it be corrupted by commerce. Peggy is as disdainful of his artistic pretensions as he is of her corporate careerism. Yet the attraction between them is strong. TIM lets her read his book and she is profoundly affected. They fall in love. But Peggy cannot accept that Tim is an unpublished writer. She begins secretly shopping his book to every publisher in town. The only one to bite is GABRIELLA ROSSINI, a tough-talking and very pregnant publisher who sees the book for what it really is: a New-Age business book about scheming your way to the top of the corporate ladder. | |||||
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Naked Mole Rats In The World Of Darkness | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2000 | |||||
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 | #53202 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Panama | ||
| 1st Produced: | Long Beach, CA, USA | 2004 | ||||
Company: | CALRep at the Edison 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 | #59380 | |||
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Genre: | Farce | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | Some trans-gender casting is possible | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A middle-aged MAN becomes so enraged when his DOCTOR tells him he will die someday that he embarks on a cross-country crime spree in desperate search of California scientists whom, he believes, will enable him to live forever. Along the way he and his WIFE pick up a pair of Gen-X hitchhikers (YOUNG MAN and YOUNG WOMAN) and a WWII-era generation couple (GRANDPA and GRANNIE, played by young actors in bad age makeup), who may or may not be MAN's parents. They all find what they are looking for at Happy Days, the new Samuel Beckett theme park at Disneyland, when they come face to face with the SCIENTIST who promises to make them immortal. | |||||
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Sexual Perversity in Connecticut | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in 2008: The Best Ten-Minute Plays 3 or More Actors, Smith & Kraus, (2009) | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1575257105 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #97313 | |||
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Genre: | Ten Min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 | ||
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Slave Shack | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2001 | |||||
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 | #87707 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | Slave Shack is a provocative tale of betrayal, loss and revenge set against the backdrop of global corporate power. Senior Executive Jack Blake has fought his way to the top of a worldwide corporation only to see his career destroyed by a racially insensitive act. On the eve of his retirement party, African American speech writer Janice Churchill arrives to put the finishing touches on his farewell remarks. Instead, she finds herself caught up in an emotionally and racially charged confrontation that will leave audiences guessing until the very end about who is the true aggressor and who the real victim. | |||||
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Sloth | ||
| 1st Produced: | New Jersey Repertory Company | 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 | #58264 | |||
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Genre: | Short Play One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | The New Jersey Repertory Company presents its 3rd Annual Theatre Brut Festival of Short Plays. This season's theme is The Seven Deadly Sins. | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
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Unhappy Woman | ||
| 1st Produced: | Long Branch, NJ, USA | 1997 | ||||
Company: | Moving Arts | |||||
| 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 | #13628 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | later produced as Love in the Insecurity Zone. Nominated for two L.A. Weekly Theatre Awards, winning the award for Best Actress in a Comedy. | |||||
Synopsis: | : In a near-future U.S. characterized by Security Zones, personal bar code tattoos, and armed commuters, Gayle finds life either boring or terrifying. Her mood is improved by a sudden romance with Hank, a secretive government agent on a mission to find very happy women. When Hank meets Gayle's sister, the perennially happy Pearl, he spirits both women off to Washington, D.C., where they become entangled in a sinister government plot to bottle happiness hatched by Marjorie, a fanatical First Lady look-alike, and Manuela, her large and loyal henchwoman. | |||||
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