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REINA HARDY (1981 - ) |
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Nationality: USA Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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Reina Hardy is a playwright with credits in Chicago, New York, and Muncie, Indiana. Her play "Erratica" will make its professional world premiere in July 2009 with Sacramento's Capital Stage. Reina, a 2007 finalist for the Clubbed Thumb Biennial Commission, has also had readings with Orlando Shakespeare, Algonquin Theatre, the Side Project, Write Act Rep, the House Theatre, Flush Ink, Infamous Commonwealth and many others. Her play, "Susan Swayne and the Bewildered Bride," which received an honorable mention from KCACTF Region III, is currently participating in the Babes with Blades New Play Development program. Reina has also been an artist in residence at Ball State University and New Albany High School. Look for her poems in various magazines, look for excerpts from her plays in "Audition Arsenal," "The Ultimate Audition Book" and "Best Scenes for Two Actors," and look for her theatre reviews on the Sun Times website. Once, Reina resolved to see a show in every Chicago fringe venue during the course of a year. Her failure is chronicled at wayoffloop.blogspot.com. Reina is a 2003 graduate of Columbia University, where she won the Brick Memorial Prize for playwriting. She is also founder and artistic director of the Viola Project, Chicago's best Shakespeare performance workshop for girls.
Plays by Reina Hardy
Andalusia | ||
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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 | #93835 | |||
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Genre: | Ten Min | |||||
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Synopsis: | Axel, a small-town loser, throws the shredded pages of his novel from a bell tower. Ant, his parole officer/friend, tries to stop him from throwing his life away with it. | |||||
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Celestial Liquor | ||
| 1st Produced: | Chicago, IL | 2009 | ||||
Company: | Dramatis Personae | |||||
| 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 | #100185 | |||
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Genre: | 5 minute | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | An astrophysicist crashes a party of the glitterati, and meets a woman who used to date a star. | |||||
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Changelings | ||
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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 | #100186 | |||
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Genre: | Full Length Dramatic Comedy Fantasy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 4 | ||
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Synopsis: | This is a play about a fairy princess. Not the kind who lives in a pink castle, and wears chiffon, and sings, but the kind who steals babies, and doesn't give them back. She does do a little singing though. | |||||
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Daughters of Doherty, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Chicago, IL | 2009 | ||||
Company: | Just Say Yes | |||||
| 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 | #100187 | |||
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Genre: | Ten Min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | review here: http://chicagotheaterblog.com/2009/06/11/review-gorilla-tangos-the-24-hour-plays-chicago/ | |||||
Synopsis: | Amanda, a reluctant participant in her half-sister's fairy tale wedding, finds out she's her father's daughter after all. | |||||
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Erratica | ||
| 1st Produced: | Sacramento, CA | 2009 | ||||
Company: | Capital Stage | |||||
| 1st Published: | http://www.originalworksonline.com/erratica.htm | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #100188 | |||
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Genre: | full length Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | Orlando Shakespeare Playfest 2008 | |||||
Synopsis: | Professor Samantha Stafford is trying to write a book on Shakespeare. But one of her students is madly in love with her, her publicist wants her to do something more commercial, and she is persistently haunted by an entity claiming to be the ghost of Christopher Marlow. Meanwhile, Jack Hooper, a librarian who just might be a match for Dr. Stafford, has lost a prized manuscript to a mysterious thief. It's all connected. But how? | |||||
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First Song I Learned (And Other Things About Me), The | ||
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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 | #100189 | |||
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Genre: | 5-minute | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | John and June confront each other over the wreckage of their relationship. | |||||
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Glassheart | ||
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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 | #100190 | |||
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Genre: | Full Length Tragicomedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | Seabury Quinn Jr. Playwrights' Festival 2009 | |||||
Synopsis: | Beauty never showed up. After centuries under the curse, the Beast and his one remaining magical servant have moved into a shabby apartment near a 7-11, hoping for a lower cost of living and better luck with girls. In the threatening, impossible, completely ordinary world of paying rent and taking public transportation, is a happy ending even possible? | |||||
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Juvenilia | ||
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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 | #100191 | |||
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Genre: | Full Length Dramatic Comedy Fantasy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | 2 cross castable | |||||
Notes: | New Albany High Production, May 2009 | |||||
Synopsis: | Juvenilia is a comic drama with fantastic elements and three or four songs. It deals with the tender, heroic, stupid, elaborate imagined worlds that many supposed ordinary people spent half their lives in as children, and abandoned as they grew. So what happened to them? Are they still there? Do they miss us? | |||||
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Michigan, or the Duchess of Duck Creek | ||
| 1st Produced: | Chicago, IL | 2009 | ||||
Company: | Infamous Commonwealth | |||||
| 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 | #100192 | |||
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Genre: | Ten Min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | Trapped in a dying town, beaten up by love, a world-weary woman and a punchy young geek find a moment of escape right where they stand. | |||||
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Other Felix, The | ||
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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 | #100193 | |||
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Genre: | Full Length Comedic Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Reading at Capital Stage, Sacramento, July 2009 | |||||
Synopsis: | Felix Bettleman lives on the hustle, and has, for professional reasons, changed his name. Someone steals his old one, along with his SS, his voice, his face, and his more flamboyant personal habits. Marlow Sharp, a young woman who claims to be a detective, insists on helping Bettleman track down the other Felix, but her motivations appear to be far more complex. A mystery/dark comedy about obsessive love and the creative process. | |||||
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Ray Play, The | ||
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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 | #100194 | |||
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Genre: | 5-minute epic | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | 3 or more cross-castable | |||||
Notes: | Materials needed to create this epic: a tambourine, a black sheet, and enthusiasm. | |||||
Synopsis: | The Great God Ray, a barista who works at a Starbucks in Chicago, performs a series of rituals in order to battle his demons and get to sleep. This five-minute epic uses the format of an Ancient Egyptian passion play. | |||||
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Smooth Criminal | ||
| 1st Produced: | 17 Sep 2008 | |||||
Company: | Co-Op Theatre East | |||||
| 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 | #100195 | |||
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Genre: | 5- Minute | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | part of Questionable Content a program of four new plays about life in these modern times | |||||
Synopsis: | Elaine, who writes a fraudulent blog about the life of a high-end hooker, decides how far she is willing to go to become a successful writer. | |||||
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Stars And Barmen | ||
| 1st Produced: | reading at Pheasant Run Resort, St. Charles, IL | 16 Jul 2011 | ||||
Company: | St. Charles Summer Theater Fest | |||||
| 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 | #128387 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | part of The Collider New Play Project pairs three playwrights with three scientists to develop new works that focus on the mysteries of the universe as they relate to human existence. The three playwrights and their respective plays are Reina Hardy of Chicago with "Stars and Barmen," K. Frithjof Peterson of Saginaw, MI with "A Scientist's Guide to Love and Poetry", and Garret C. Schneider of Nashville, TN with "Clockwork Child." | |||||
Synopsis: | Stars and Barmen tells the story of Rupert, an astrophysicist in a city where the streetlights hide the stars, spends his nights manning a dim telescope and a computer, waiting to observe spectacular events in distant galaxies. Rupert tries to cross the boundary between life as it is observed or represented, and life as it is actually lived. He also has to get his doctorate, avoid the wrath of his advisor and find a date for his sister's wedding, but he never lets go of his two main goals: truly experiencing the stellar event of his lifetime, and having a really good time at a party. "Stars and Barmen" is inspired in part by Hardy's own experience studying "Astrophysics for Poets" in college. According to Hardy, "That's when I started to understand that astrophysics isn't just poetic, it's poetry. It's the process of leashing something inconsequential as a word around something as monumental as a star, so that when you tug the leash, you see the star. And what we needed to do was learn how to look at words, numbers, collections of metaphors, dots... and see stars. Understand stars." | |||||
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Susan Swayne and the Bewildered Bride | ||
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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 | #100196 | |||
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 Action Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 6 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Babes with Blades New Play Development program, 2009. As one-act: KCACTF Region III One-Act Competition Honorable Mention | |||||
Synopsis: | A cross-dressing, bodice-ripping, duel-happy Victorian mystery featuring a cast of fighting female detectives. | |||||
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Viking/Mermaids | ||
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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 | #100197 | |||
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: | 5-minute | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | Kayaks are easily and rather delightfully represented by office chairs straddled backwards. | |||||
Synopsis: | A teenage loner sketches a fantasy girl and connects with a real one. Takes place entirely on kayaks. | |||||
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