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MADELEINE GEORGE |
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Nationality: USA Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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Literary Agent: The Gersh Agency represented by Seth Glewen |
Madeleine George has been a resident playwright at New Dramatists since 2010. Her plays have been developed and produced by 13P, Clubbed Thumb, Soho Rep, New York Theatre Workshop, Two River Theater Company in New Jersey, About Face Theatre in Chicago, City Theatre in Pittsburgh, The Playwrights' Center/Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, and The O'Neill Playwrights Conference, among other places. Support for her work includes a MacDowell Fellowship, the Princess Grace Award, the Jane Chambers Award, and commissions from Manhattan Theatre Club and Playwrights Horizons. Madeleine is an alum of P73s I73 Writers Group, The Lark Playwrights Workshop, and the Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab, and a founding member of the OBIE-Award-winning playwrights collective 13P (Thirteen Playwrights, Inc.). She's originally from Massachusetts.
Plays by Madeleine George
Milk 'n' Honey | ||
| 1st Produced: | 3LD Art & Technology Center, NY | 2007 | ||||
Company: | LightBox & The Food Theater 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 | #73903 | |||
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Genre: | multimedia Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | written by Madeleine George, Bray Poor, C. Andrew Bauer, Ellen Beckerman | |||||
Synopsis: | Part fiction, part documentary, and based in part on interviews conducted with people whose backgrounds are as diverse farmers, food scholars, hunters, waiters, ad men, immigrant workers, diabetics, and dumpster divers (known as 'freegans'), Milk 'N' Honey is a large-scale multimedia play that looks at food and appetite in the 21st century: the play's interweaving storylines follow a couple whose marriage is at stake as they differ about what food to put on the table, a grocery store clerk who forages through dumpsters, immigrant farm workers, a family that struggles with diabetes, and a flavor chemist who attempts to capture the flavor of light | |||||
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Most Massive Woman Wins, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Public Theater (Young Playwrights Festival) (New York, NY, United States) | 1994 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc - New York | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #78257 | |||
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Genre: | 30-40 min Comedy/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | 4 females | |||||
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Synopsis: | Challenging, brutal and hilarious, four women of various shapes and sizes sitting in the waiting room of a liposuction clinic explore their perceptions of body image. The women reveal their experiences dealing with their weight issues through monologues, short scenes, and even school yard rhymes. From painful childhood memories to frustrations with the opposite sex, these experiences both haunt and empower these women as they imagine their way to a new vision of themselves as beautiful and whole. | |||||
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Precious Little | ||
| 1st Produced: | Ohio Theatre, NY | 2009 | ||||
Company: | Clubbed Thumb | |||||
| 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 | #99152 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama. - - Lesbian, full length | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | part of Clubbed Thumb's Summerworks Festival | |||||
Synopsis: | When Brodie, a gifted professor of linguistics and a lesbian, learns the child she's carrying may have a genetic abnormality, she returns again and again to the zoo, where she finds unexpected comfort sitting at the cage of a strange, compelling gorilla. A play that looks at the limits of language-and what lies beneath its surface. | |||||
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Seven Homeless Mammoths Wander New England | ||
| 1st Produced: | Red Bank, New Jersey | 2011 | ||||
Company: | Two River Theater 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 | #139368 | |||
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Genre: | comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | 2 women or men | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Dean Wreen is not having a good week. Her college is in dire financial straits and a plan to close its tiny, all-but-forgotten natural history museum is sending unexpected shock waves across campus and out into the local community. At home, her ex-lover, Greer, is staying with hersending shock waves of a different sort through her relationship with her current (and much younger) girlfriend, Andromeda. Town-gown relations are in tatters! The local newspaper is erupting in violent protest! Even the awful, historically inaccurate dioramas in the museum have started mouthing off. A screwball sex comedy about the perils of monogamy, certainty, and academic administration | |||||
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Zero Hour, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2002 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-573-69920-7 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #13368 | |||
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Genre: | dark comedy. - - Lesbian, full length | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 | ||
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| Rebecca and her chronically unemployed butch girlfriend, O, have created a happy nest in their run-down walk-up in Queens, but things are starting to unravel. The more O pushes Rebecca to stop hiding their relationship, the more Rebecca's work lifewriting a textbook for seventh graders about the Holocaust begins to bleed into her personal life: She starts meeting World War II Nazis on the 7 train, passing as hipster professionals in New York City but hungry to come out about who they really are. Back home in Queens, O is also sparring with convincingly real visions: her long estrangedand recently dead?mother keeps showing up to argue with her about her choices. This almost-love story explores the relationship between honesty and cruelty: How do you tell the truth about yourself when that truth might devastate the people you love? A tour-de-force for two actors playing eight different roles. | |||||
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