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JONATHAN JOSEPHSON (1983 - ) |
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Nationality: USA Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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Jonathan Josephson (playwright) - Jonathan's works have and will be read and produced at The Actor's Theater of Louisville, Pasadena Playhouse Balcony/Carrie Hamilton Theatre, The Chance Theater, N4th Art Center (New Mexico), The Syzygy Theatre Group, The Great Plains Theatre Conference (Nebraska), Fusionworks (Massachusetts), The Dana Point Theatre Company, and The Westchester Playhouse. His play The Giant and the Pixie was named a finalist for the 2008 Eugene O'Neill National Playwrights Conference and will be produced at The Chance in November of this year. Jonathan has written several acclaimed short plays including 27 Ways I Didn't Say 'Hi' to Laurence Fishburne (Finalist for the 2009 Heideman Award at The Actor's Theatre of Louisville, and will produced at the 2009 Apprentice Showcase) and Beluga Room which is published by Original Works Publishing. Jonathan has worked with the literary offices of the La Jolla Playhouse, Pasadena Playhouse, and Moving Arts as well numerous new play festivals throughout Southern California. He is also the Literary Director for The Chance Theater (www.chancetheater.com) where he as has dramaturged numerous productions including Variations on a Theme: The Best, Assassins, Talk About the Passion, The Brain from Planet X, Rabbit Hole, and Evita. Select producing credits include Dias y Flores by Oliver Mayer at the Black Dahlia Theatre and Our New Play Spectacular, the world premiere one-act festival at the University of California at San Diego (currently running its sixth year). Jonathan graduated from UCSD with a Theatre: Playwriting degree and is a member of The Dramatists' Guild of America, Alliance of Los Angeles Playwrights, and Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of America. By day, Jonathan works at Pasadena Playhouse as the Associate Communications Director.
Plays by Jonathan Josephson
27 Ways I Didn't Say "Hi" to Laurence Fishburne | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Actor's Theater of Louisville | 2009 | ||||
Company: | The Actor's Theater of Louisville | |||||
| 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 | #90342 | |||
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Genre: | comedy One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 0-2 (if chose to double one of the roles) | |||||
Notes: | Highly theatrical. The play calls for one actor (playing "Me") to enter very quickly for opposite sides of the stage. The playwright recommends casting the role of "Jonathan Josephson" with multiple actors that look close enough to each other that they can divide the role up and allow the play to move at a very fast, very funny pace. Feel free to contact the playwright with any questions. | |||||
Synopsis: | A young theatre employee has a farcical non-encounter the great actor. Based on actual events. | |||||
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Beluga Room | ||
| 1st Produced: | Dana Point Theatre 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 | #79412 | |||
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Genre: | drama One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | The playwright encourages theatricality with the staging of this play - especially any moments that seem impossible to stage. | |||||
Synopsis: | Andrea's husband has just left her, and her best friend Tawny is determined to get her out of her funk. In a bold move, Tawny sneaks her friend into Sea World in order to moon a beluga. | |||||
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Bitches and Cocks | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Chance Theater | 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 | #79413 | |||
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Genre: | comedy One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | Highly theatrical. | |||||
Synopsis: | A shirt play with anthropomorphized female dogs and peacocks that pokes fun at gender politics. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Charles Dickens' Christmas Tree | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Chance Theater | 2009 | ||||
Company: | The Chance 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 | #90343 | |||
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Genre: | Full-length, holiday, drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | The play is made up of three short works - "A Christmas Tree," "The Child's Story," and "The Poor Relations." Each vignette is based on or inspired by the short story of the same name by Charles Dickens. The play is written with the intension of having five actors play multiple roles in each story, but certainly can be cast with as many as 20 actors each playing a single role throughout the evening. | |||||
Synopsis: | An adaption of three short stories by Charles Dickens, Christmas Tree is a theatrical look at the holiday season that is sure to warm the heart of the coldest humbug. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Chimes, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Mountain View Mausoleum and Cemetery, Altadeana, California | 21 Oct 2011 | ||||
Company: | Unbound 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 | #131537 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Based on the short story by Charles Dickens | |||||
Synopsis: | Hauntings and goblins | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Four Sons | ||
| 1st Produced: | UCSD Theatre And Dance, reading | 2005 | ||||
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 | #79414 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | 6 (four 20s, 1 40s, 1 60s) | |||||
Notes: | Single interior: the Weiner family living room. Act One requires a couch and coffee table, Act Two a long dinner table and seating for nine. There should also be a television downstage center facing upstage. The play was written with a black box in mind but can easily be expanded to any size stage. | |||||
Synopsis: | Four Sons is a full length comedy about four brothers (with four very different personalities) that find out that one of them is adopted - but they don't know which one. Through an intense trivia game adventure and a kooky Passover Seder, the brothers try to extract information about the hidden adoption from their parents. In the end, it is revealed that it was Grandpa that leaked the information about the adoption in order to teach his family a lesson about the importance of family and brotherhood, and truth. | |||||
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Garden Party, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Pasedena Museum of History | 24 May 2011 | ||||
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 | #128522 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Based on the short story by Katherine Mansfield | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
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Ghost Story | ||
| 1st Produced: | Mountain View Mausoleum and Cemetery, Altadeana, California | 27 Oct 2011 | ||||
Company: | Unbound 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 | #131538 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Based on the short story by Mark Twain | |||||
Synopsis: | When his car gets two flat tyres there is only one place that the college student can go for help - a creepy, dark, abandoned old hotel... | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Giant and The Pixie, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Chance Theater | 2008 | ||||
Company: | The Chance 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 | #79415 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | Highly theatrical play that can be produced elaborately or very simply. NOT a play for children. | |||||
Synopsis: | The Giant and the Pixie is a contemporary fairy tale set simultaneously in a magical realm and a shopping mall. The story centers on Arthur - a contentious Giant who works by day as a janitor - trying to win the heart of Cipriana, a Pixie who also works in the mall. Sebastian - the hotheaded Knight - is not happy with this and wants to get rid of Arthur, but Arthur's homeless buddy Gregory (the "Troll with a soul") won't have anything of it. All the while Cipriana's father, the Magician, watches from a distance with an agenda of his own. Finalist for the 2008 Eugene O'Neill National Playwright's Conference. | |||||
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Her Father the King | ||
| 1st Produced: | Pasadena Playhouse/Carrie Hamilton Theatre (reading) | 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 | #79416 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | Highly theatrical play that can be produced elaborately or very simply. NOT a play for children. | |||||
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Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Chance Theater | 2008 | ||||
Company: | Wicked Lit - A Halloween Theater 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 | #90344 | |||
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Genre: | drama, literature to life One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | The play is highly theatrical. It was intended to be performed by five actors but could easily adapted to 10 or more should the situation require. The play reads as story theatre but wants to be presented very theatrically and not at all presentational. | |||||
Synopsis: | A 35-minute, loyal adaptation of Washington Irving's The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Ichabod Crane is a ravenous young school teacher who desires the heart and inheritance of Katrina Van Tassel, the belle of Sleepy Hollow. But will he be abel to win the girl despite the advances of town bully Brom Bones and the terrorizing acts of dreaded Headless Horseman? | |||||
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Significance of a Wedding Train, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | FusionWorks Mini Fest | 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 | #79417 | |||
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Genre: | drama One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | The character of Yolanda should be played by an adult actress - 25-35 years old. Also note that some of the more dynamic stage directions were written with the intent to convey mood, not to be literally staged exactly as presented | |||||
Synopsis: | Yolonda's mother recently died after unexpectedly overdosing on her heart medication. Yolonda's father Frank had been away on business - the first time he had left his dying wife's side in some time - and is returning home on a midnight train. Through Frank's altercation with an abrasive glove salesman and Yolonda's speeches to her magic mirror, we learn that the mother's death was not accidental - Yolonda added additional "sleeping candies" to her mother's soup in order to make her "sleep forever so she can have day all to herself." Workshopped at the 2007 Great Plains Theater Conference. | |||||
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