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NAOMI IIZUKA |
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Nationality: Asian American Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: Abrams Artists Agency |
Jon Jory calls Iizuka one of the most important playwrights now writing in their 30s. Naomi Iizuka's plays have been produced all over the country, ranging from larger repertory companies like The Public Theater and New York Theater Workshop to smaller companies like Seattle's Annex and Printer's Devil. Ms Iizuka is the recipient of the 1998 PEN Center USA award-an honor given for outstanding work by living American playwrights, a Whiting Writers'Award (past recipients include Tony Kushner and August Wilson), Princeton University's Hodder Fellowship, a McKnight Advancement Grant, and a Jerome Playwriting Fellowship. She received her BA from Yale and her MFA from UC San Diego.
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Plays by Naomi Iizuka
17 Reasons (Why) | ||
| 1st Produced: | Campo Santo + Intersection | 2003 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Breaking Ground": Adventurous New Plays from Adventurous Theaters, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #48004 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | doubling of 31 characters | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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36 Views | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Public | 2000 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | American Theatre Magazine, NY - February, 2002 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #17637 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Taking its title from the series of woodblock prints by ninteenth-century Japanese artist Hokusai (which, contrary to its label, consists of fourty-six images of Mount Fuji), the play has several threads, but at its heart is an art dealer and an art historian who discover what they think is an ancient manuscript- a priceless Japanese pillow book-- and try to learn whether its authentic. Their search becomes an erotic game of greed, love, and mental hide-and-seek as the play explores the relationships between feeling and words, objects and photographs of objects, antiques and perfect copies, and a woman's heritage and her physical features. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Aloha, Say the Pretty Girls | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1999 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc - New York | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #17638 | |||
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Genre: | 90-120 min Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | 5 males, 4 females (9-11 actors possible: 5-7 males, 4-6 females) | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A man moves to write the great American novel. A woman moves to Alaska to start a new life. Babies, wild dogs, komodo dragons, and hula dancers abound in this play about finding your tribe in a world gone haywire. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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And Then She Was Screaming | ||
| 1st Produced: | Source Theatre: Washington, DC | 1990 | ||||
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 | #64088 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Anon(ymous) | ||
| 1st Produced: | Kennedy Center for Performing Arts, New Visions/New Voices (staged reading) (Washington, DC, United States) | 2004 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc - New York | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #54657 | |||
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Genre: | 90 min Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 6 | ||
Parts other: | 5 males, 6 females (11-35 actors possible: 5-15 males, 6-20 females) | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Separated from his mother, a young refugee called Anon journeys through the United States, encountering a wide variety of people -- some kind, some dangerous and cruel -- as he searches for his family. From a sinister one-eyed butcher to beguiling barflies to a sweatshop, Anon must navigate through a chaotic, ever-changing landscape in this entrancing adaptation of Homer's Odyssey. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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At The Vanishing Point | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2004 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Humana Festival 2004: The Complete Plays,, 2004 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #8540 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | Chorus: 3 used in the first production | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Carthage | ||
| 1st Produced: | Theatre E: San Diego | 1994 | ||||
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 | #64094 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Citizen 13559: The Journal Of Ben Uchida | ||
| 1st Produced: | Kennedy Center Family Theatre | 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 | #109874 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Adapted from the Scholastic book. For ages 9 and up. In lean, poetic language and short, cinematic scenes, she tells the story of Ben Uchida, whose family was forced into an internment camp in the desert when he was 12. Recalling the events with the help of his journal, Ben comes to understand why his dad, a kindly optometrist, lost his self-respect there. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Coxinga | ||
| 1st Produced: | New York University: New York | 1994 | ||||
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 | #64093 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Crazy Jane | ||
| 1st Produced: | Hudson Theatre: Los Angeles | 1992 | ||||
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 | #64091 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Freak | ||
| 1st Produced: | Keen Teens at The Kirk Theatre (New York, NY, United States) | 2008 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc - New York | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #105328 | |||
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Genre: | 40-50 min Drama/Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 7 | ||
Parts other: | 6 males, 7 females (8-15 actors possible: 4-7 males, 4-8 females) | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Somewhere in America, there's a New Girl at the high school who may or may not be a robot. Freakexplores the Pygmalion myth through skateboards, chewing gum, rockers, swimmers, poets, and a wild cafeteria dance number. In a world of high achievers and drama kids who want to change their world, New Girl wonders if she'll ever be more than a Freak. (This play was specially commissioned by Playscripts for high school actors.) | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Ghost Written | ||
| 1st Produced: | Seattle Rep | 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 | #96375 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | An American woman hitchhiking through Southeast Asia strikes a bargain with a mysterious stranger. Twenty years later, she's an acclaimed chef specializing in Asian cuisine with an adopted Vietnamese-born daughter and a life that is successful beyond her wildest dreams. Into her life the stranger from her past reappears collecting on an old debt. A retelling of the fable of Rumpelstiltskin, Ghostwritten explores the legacy of the Vietnam War and what it means to come face to face with the ghosts from your past | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Greenland | ||
| 1st Produced: | Reading: Audrey Skirball-Kenis: Los Angeles | 1992 | ||||
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 | #64092 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Hamlet: Blood in the Brain | ||
| 1st Produced: | San Francisco, CA | 2006 | ||||
Company: | California Shakespeare Theater and Campo Santo + Intersection for the Arts | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts Inc, NY, 2007 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #82340 | |||
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Genre: | full length Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | This adaptation of Shakespeare's classic relocates Hamlet's kingdom to the drug-ravaged world of late 1980s Oakland, California. When H's father is murdered, he must not only deal with the shock of a sudden loss, but also attempt to uphold the status of his community, and face his corrupted lineage as enemies begin encroaching. Featuring beat-boxing and battle rap, this is an intense, unflinching look at a place and people torn apart by drugs and violence. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Ikeniye | ||
| 1st Produced: | Nada: New York | 1994 | ||||
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 | #64095 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Language of Angels | ||
| 1st Produced: | Campo Santo + Intersection for the Arts (San Francisco, CA, United States) | 2000 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc - New York | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #17639 | |||
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Genre: | 70-80 min Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | 4 males, 4 females | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | An eerie cycle of ghost stories, set in the cave country of North Carolina. After a young girl is lost in a cave on the edge of town, there is a Rashomon-like investigation of her disappearance and the fate of those who survive her. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Lizzie Vinyl | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1990 | |||||
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 | #64089 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Marolowe's Eye | ||
| 1st Produced: | Theatre at St. Clement's, 423 West 46th Street, New York, NY 10036 >>> | 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 | #49138 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | extras | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Polaroid Stories | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1997 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Humana Festival 1997: The Complete Plays, ed Michael Bigelow Dixon & Liz Engleman, Smith & Kraus, 1997 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #17640 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
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Synopsis: | To the sounds of transistor radios, video arcades and a thousand collect phone calls in the night, Naomi Iizuka transforms the chaotic life of a group of street kids into a fierce elegy of emptiness, sensation, desire and fear. By an abandoned pier at the edge of an old city, young "speed-racers" scan for "pharmaceutical treasure" while "neon girls" drink from the river of forgetfulness, echoing in their words and deeds ancient stories of gods and humans. This haunting evocation of Ovid's Metamorphoses reimagined for the 1990s lends mythic power and social immediacy to America's lower depths | |||||
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Portrait of Bianca | ||
| 1st Produced: | Alice's Fourth Floor: New York | 1992 | ||||
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 | #64090 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Scheherazde | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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 | #8541 | |||
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Skin | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1994-1995 Season | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Contained in: "Out of the Fringe" published by TCG Publications | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #94714 | |||
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Genre: | One act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Based on "Woyzech" by Anton Bruchner | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Strike-Slip | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2006 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc - New York | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #53934 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Notes: | Humana Festival 2007 | |||||
Synopsis: | In the urban sprawl of Los Angeles, three diverse families each carry a dream, but a recent shooting creates an unexpected seismic shift that rocks each family's foundation. Faults that were once inactive or dormant suddenly appear and abruptly change the way they think about themselves, their community and their dream. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Tattoo Girl | ||
| 1st Produced: | Annex Theatre (Seattle, WA, United States) | 1994 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc - New York | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #17641 | |||
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Genre: | 70-80 min Seriocomedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | 6 males, 4 females (8-15 actors possible: 4-11 males, 4-5 females) | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | In this adaptation of Donald Barthelme's short story "Perpetua," a trumpet player and a tattooed pinup girl navigate a chaotic world populated by hops farmers, cathedral builders, and an aging Nadia Comaneci, all in pursuit of a little happiness. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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War Of The Worlds | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2000 | |||||
Company: | Saratoga International Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | Contact Saratoga International Theater Institute, Old Chelsea Station, PO Box 1922, New York, NY 10011, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #17642 | |||
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Genre: | Short Play One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Conceived by Anne Bogart, created by the SITI Company, written by Naomi Iizuka | |||||
Synopsis: | His radio broadcast War of the Worlds sent Americans into hysterical panic. He took Hollywood by storm with Citizen Kane, a larger-than-life film about a mover-and-shaker not so very different from himself. Mercurial, controversial, inspiring, infuriating -- Orson Welles entranced and enraged everyone. His fall from grace mirrored the magnitude of his talent -- and the massiveness of an ego steered straight to self-destruction. Director Anne Bogart, her remarkable SITI Company, and playwright Naomi Iizuka join forces to explore the myth and myth-maker, charlatanism and genius of Orson Welles. | |||||
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