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JASON GROTE (1971 - ) |
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Nationality: USA Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: AO International |
Jason Grote. Jason Grote's plays include1001 (Denver Center Theater, Page 73 Productions, Theater @ Boston Court, Contemporary American Theater Festival, Mixed Blood Theater, Rorschach Theater, UC San Diego, DePaul University, University of Wisconsin, Montclair State University; published by Samuel French), Maria/Stuart(Woolly Mammoth Theater, Theater Schmeater), Hamilton Township (Salvage Vanguard Theater), This Storm Is What We Call Progress (Rorschach Theater),Darwin's Challenge, and Box Americana.He has been commissioned by The Denver Center, ACT, Clubbed Thumb, Ensemble Studio Theatre, The Working Theater, and The Keen Company / Playscripts Inc. Honors include two residencies at The O'Neill National Playwrights' Conference (2006 and 2008); an Ovation Award fromThe Denver Post; The P73 Fellowship; nominations for The Pushcart Prize, The Kesselring Prize, and The Weissberger Award; Best New Play (for 1001) from Denver's alternative weekly, Westword; and Best Performance of 2008 (for Hamilton Township) from The Austin Chronicle. 1001 was also included in critics' year-end top ten lists in Time Out New York, The Rocky Mountain News, and The Boulder Daily Camera, and nominated for Best Play of 2008 by L.A. Weekly. He has taught or been in residence at Rutgers University, Hollins University, University of Wisconsin, Montclair State University, Queens College/CUNY, Coe College, and The New School. His writing has appeared inAmerican Theater, The New York Press, The Brooklyn Rail, TheatreForum, PAJ, Working USA, Hilobrow.com, The Significant Objects Project, and in the anthologies The Back Stage Book of New American Short Plays 2005 (edited by Craig Lucas), From ACT UP to The WTO,and Cultural Resistance: A Reader. He is a member of PEN, New Dramatists, and Soho Rep's Artist Advisory Committee; a contributor to Comedy Central's "Indecision 2008" blog; screenwriter on What We Got: DJ Spooky's Quest for the Commons; and cohost of The Acousmatic Theater Hour on WFMU (91.1 FM). Visit him at jasongrote.com.
Plays by Jason Grote
(Anti)gone | ||
| 1st Produced: | Williamstown Theatre Festival (workshop) (Williamstown, MA, United States) | 2005 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc - New York | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #60022 | |||
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Genre: | 30-45 min Comedy/drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | 2 males, 2 females, 2 either (5-22 actors possible: 3-12 males, 2-10 females) | |||||
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Synopsis: | Antigone is charged with the crime of burying her brothers -- even though the war left no bodies for her to bury. Haemon could take over the kingdom if he ever stops playing video games and trying to kill his father. And airline pretzels and huge corporate deals cannot satisfy Erisycthon's hunger. In this postmodern take on Antigone,daily life becomes mythic in the urban non-landscape of malls, highways, and airports. | |||||
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1001 | ||
| 1st Produced: | Denver Center Theater | 2007 | ||||
Company: | Developed at Soho Rep | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, Inc - New York (2009) >>> | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-573-66388-8 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #60021 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | Developed in 2004-05 Soho Rep Writer/Director & Phase 2 Labs and Colorado New Play Summit; read at Baltimore Centerstage and Last Frontier Conference (Valdez, AK) | |||||
| 1001 spins themes and variations from the classic 'A Thousand and One Arabian Nights' to explore the incarnations of love, sex, religion, cruelty and war from ancient Baghdad to the post-9/11 era. Playwright Jason Grote combines savage wit, political insight, Borgesian time-warping, and theatrical ingenuity in a dazzling tour de force that Sheherezade herself would envy. | |||||
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All You Can Eat | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 2006 | ||||
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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 | #67257 | |||
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Box Americana: A Wal-Mart Fantsaia | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Working Theater, NYC | 2006 | ||||
Company: | The Working Theater | |||||
| 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 | #48074 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 4 | ||
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Synopsis: | In the extensively researched Box Americana: A Wal-Mart Retail Fantasia, the Ghost of Sam Walton is resurrected with his own personal chorus of Chinese workers to sing the praises of consumer Utopia. Located at Wal-Mart 24-2-128, the economic epicenter of Sprawlville, USA, the play takes place at a moment when the world's largest employer is defending itself against the largest class-action lawsuit in American history for gender discrimination. It follows Kelly, a delusional but passionate cheerleader for the Wal-Mart ideology, and Danae, an African American mother escaping the double threats of Hurricane Katrina and her violent, impoverished past. They both seek a future of advancement based on merit and hard work, but when push comes to shove with this corporate behemoth, they discover that the Promised Land is a swamp of inequity and empty rhetoric. Inspired by DUKES V. WAL-MART, the largest class action suit in history (info available at walmartclass.com), and described in Liza Featherstone's book SELLING WOMEN SHORT | |||||
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Cats | ||
| 1st Produced: | Summerworks Short Play Event | 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 | #84076 | |||
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Christmas Carol, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
Company: | The Brick Theater | |||||
| 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 | #77085 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
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Notes: | part of The Baby Jesus One-Act Jubilee: Second Coming, a selection of world-premiere yuletide-themed plays | |||||
Synopsis: | Seven years have passed since Marley's Christmas death, and Scrooge has not changed a bit. But, on this particular Christmas, the shrimp boats lower their nets. Marley pushes his face against hers. She screams and flees back to Scrooge; on her cheek stands out in red the marks of two rows of teeth. | |||||
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Civilization (All You Can eat) | ||
| 1st Produced: | HERE Arts Center - Mainstage | 19 Jun 2011 | ||||
Company: | a commission of 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 | #124763 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 5 | ||
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Notes: | This is part of Clubbed Thumb's annual Summerworks Festival. In Civilization (All You Can Eat) | |||||
Synopsis: | The filming of an ironically racist TV commercial kicks off this burlesque of America's love/hate obsession with food. A feral pig on a rampage, mass choreography, George Washington and Thomas Jefferson using hip-hop to sell snacks, auto-erotic asphyxiation, chaos theory, and the search for love, meaning and hope during the 2008 presidential election all braided together to devastating effect | |||||
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Darwin's Challenge | ||
| 1st Produced: | Ensemble Studio Theatre | - - - | ||||
Company: | Ensemble Studio Theater | |||||
| 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 | #48075 | |||
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Genre: | Farce | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | Recipient of EST/Sloan grant | |||||
Synopsis: | On his trip aboard the HMS Beagle, Charles Darwin wanders into a cave on Galapagos and finds himself on the set of the 21st-century realty TV show DARWIN'S CHALLENGE. He gets kicked off in act two. | |||||
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Hamilton Township | ||
| 1st Produced: | Salvage Vanguard | 2008 | ||||
Company: | Soho Rep | |||||
| 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 | #48076 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | developed in 2005-06 Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab | |||||
Synopsis: | An autobiographical play set in Hamilton Township, New Jersey, in which the teenage author saves a prostitute from the legendary Jersey Devil. | |||||
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In His Bold Gaze, My Ruin is Writ Large | ||
| 1st Produced: | 24-Hour Plays / The Orchard Project (Hunter, NY, United States) | 2006 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc - New York | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #67258 | |||
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Genre: | 10-25 min Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | 2 males, 3 females (5-8 actors possible: 2-3 males, 3-5 females) | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A comedic, free adaptation of Racine's Phaedra, combining the original story with Hitchcock, Iggy Pop, Mixed Martial Arts, and Slavoj Zizek. | |||||
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Island of Never Giving Way on Your Desires | ||
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| 1st Published: | Contained in Knock the journal of Antioch University, Seattle, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #67259 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | The secret origin of Roosevelt Island. | |||||
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Kawaisoo (The Pity of Things) | ||
| 1st Produced: | chashama | 2002 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Back Stage Books, 2004 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #39267 | |||
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Genre: | Tragicomedy Tragedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | One-woman show, 20 min. long; winner of Swamp King, produced at NYU, The Makor, The American Living Room @ HERE | |||||
Synopsis: | A tragicomic meditation on groceries and catstrophe. Ellie takes us on a tour of a suburban grocery store in the wake of a personal - and national - trauma. | |||||
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Maria/Stuart | ||
| 1st Produced: | Aug 2008 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-573-69941-2 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #67260 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 5 | ||
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Notes: | Based on "Maria Stuart" by Friedrich Schiller | |||||
| Up-and-coming cartoonist Stuart fights to keep the lid on his mother's and aunts' simmering angst. But the family's secrets channel themselves into a bizarre shapeshifter that guzzles soda, communicates by fax, and spouts old German verse. Friedrich Schiller's classic tale of warring queens inspires this gothic romp through the weirder side of suburban America. | |||||
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Moloch and Other Demons | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2004 | |||||
Company: | American Living Room Festival | |||||
| 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 | #39269 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | Also appeared in Hell Festival; developed/read at Salvage Vanguard, Circle X, The Makor, The Ohio, New Dramatists | |||||
Synopsis: | PARADISE LOST meets FAST FOOD NATION in this fable of a 21st-century Hell. Mahu works in a meat plant that turns undesirables into fast food consumed by Moloch, an elder-demon. Faced with an invasion from Heaven, his daughter Dawn is forced to hide with two AWOL angel assassins to survive. | |||||
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Myth America | ||
| 1st Produced: | TBG Theatre, NY | 2007 | ||||
Company: | Personal Space Theatrics | |||||
| 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 | #75259 | |||
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Notes: | written by Arthur Kopit, Theresa Rebeck, Israel Horovitz, Rachel Axler, Ian Cohen, Brian Dykstra, Jason Grote, Julien Schwab, Matthew Paul Olmos, Saviana Stanescu, and Lloyd Suh. | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
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New Jersey Book of the Dead, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Bloomington Playwrights' Project | 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 | #39268 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | 1 | |||||
Notes: | Staged readings at the Flea, The Playwrights' Center of San Francisco, Coe College (Cedar Rapids, IA); winner of DRAMARAMA, Reva Shiner Award, Coe College Playwriting Award, runner-up for Princess Grace, semifinalist (top 5%) for Cesterfield Writers' Film | |||||
Synopsis: | Diana tries to unionize her workplace (a call-center in Jersey City), but faces OMNIVORE - a powerful computer surveillance program that invades her personal life and her dreams. | |||||
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Prometheus Rendered | ||
| 1st Produced: | Culture Project (Impact Festival) (New York, NY, United States) | 2006 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc - New York | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #67261 | |||
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Genre: | 10-25 min Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | 1 male, 1 female, 2 either (4-6 actors possible: 1-5 males, 1-4 females) | |||||
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Synopsis: | Blending the modern and the mythic, this free adaptation of Aeschylus' Prometheus Boundshows us a Prometheus subjected to the torture techniques used by U.S. interrogators at Guantanamo Bay. | |||||
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Southridge High School Forensics Team Presents: Assorted Tales of Robin Hood, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Keen Teens at The Kirk Theatre (New York, NY, United States) | 2009 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc - New York | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #98600 | |||
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Genre: | 25-35 min Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | 4 males, 2 females, 4 either (8-10 actors possible: 4-8 males, 2-6 females) | |||||
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Synopsis: | Southridge High School has lost the annual forensics competition for the past ten years, but things really go haywire when the entire team is suddenly transported to Sherwood Forest midway through their performance of Robin Hood. As they act out their roles of Robin Hood, Maid Marian, the Sheriff of Nottingham, and the Merry Men, the real life dramas of love triangles, competitiveness, social and class distinctions unfold and further complicate things, turning the classic story of peasants vs. the aristocracy into a battle between the nerds vs. the jocks. (This play was specially commissioned by Playscripts for high school actors.) | |||||
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This Storm is what we call Progress | ||
| 1st Produced: | Rorschach Theater | 2008 | ||||
Company: | Soho Rep | |||||
| 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 | #39270 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy/Drama Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | Developed in 2003-04 Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab | |||||
Synopsis: | Part urban romantic comedy, part Kabbalistic horrorshow, part allegory for Israel and Palestine that doesn't quite add up, part cautionary tale about power, and part historically inaccurate look at Hannah Arendt and Walter Benjamin. | |||||
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Three Classics | ||
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| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc - New York | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #95289 | |||
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Genre: | Various Comedy/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | Various | |||||
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Synopsis: | Three Classics combines the modern with the mythic in three adaptations that view classic stories through the lens of a post-modern, urban non-landscape. In(Anti)gone, the aftermath of war is explored in a world of shopping malls, highways, and airports. Racine's Phaedra is combined with Hitchcock, Iggy Pop, Mixed Martial Arts, and Slavoj Zizek in In His Bold Gaze, My Ruin is Writ Large. The final play, Prometheus Rendered, is an examination of the Prometheus myth using the torture techniques employed by U.S. interrogators at Guantanamo Bay. To purchase this book of three plays, click "Add to Shopping Cart" above. To perform an individual play, click on its title below: | |||||
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