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JESSE KELLERMAN |
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Jesse Kellerman received his BA in psychology from Harvard University and a Master's of Fine Arts in playwriting from Brandeis University. His plays have won several awards, including the Harold and Mimi Steinberg Prize for Best New Play (Fafrotskies, 2003), the Princess Grace Foundation Award (Things Beyond Our Control, 2003), and the Best of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival (Very, Very Small Things, 2001). He recently signed a two-book deal with Putnam/Berkeley; his first novel, Sunstroke, will be published in 2006.
Plays by Jesse Kellerman
3m1w (or, Very, Very Small Things) | ||
| 1st Produced: | Harvard College's Adams House Pool Theater (Cambridge, MA, United States) | 2000 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc - New York | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #90833 | |||
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: | 100-120 min Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | 3 males, 1 female | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | What happens when a woman with unbelievable beginner's luck ruins her husband's perfectly manly poker game (Poker and the Declaration of the Rights of Man)? Or when a businessman stays at the world's best hotel where the world's most polite bellhop will fetch any possible thing, at any time, instantly (Whatever, Whenever)? Or when a professor assigns her students to interpret the phone book (A Metaphor)? The six short comedies of 3m1w have their way with the Great Pillars of American Life: government, science, literature, fashion, poker, and room service. To purchase this book of 6 plays, click "Add to Shopping Cart" above. To perform an individual play, click on its title below: | |||||
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Crossed Wires | ||
| 1st Produced: | Harvard College, Adams House Pool Theater (Cambridge, MA, United States) | 2000 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc - New York | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #57000 | |||
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: | 10-12 min Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | 3 males, 1 female | |||||
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Synopsis: | An elderly man just wants a glass of club soda. Why do his lights keep turning on and off? Why is his wife suddenly speaking Italian? Why is HE suddenly speaking Italian? This play--about the unexpected results of an experiment gone awry--is a rapid-fire and hilarious comment on the scientific method. (Really, it is.) (This play can also be performed as part of the full-length play 3m1w.) | |||||
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Formidable Task of Execution, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Harvard College, Adams House Pool Theater (Cambridge, MA, United States) | 2000 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc - New York | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #57001 | |||
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: | 10-15 min Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | 3 males, 1 female | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Takes place in a government office in charge of. . .well, young Solomon can't figure out WHAT it is they actually do. But when people start exploding, and they won't let him call the police--because it's not their department--he decides to take matters into his own hands. Will he escape--or will he explode, too? (This play can also be performed as part of the full-length play 3m1w.) | |||||
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Metaphor, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | Harvard College, Adams House Pool Theater (Cambridge, MA, United States) | 2000 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc - New York | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #57002 | |||
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: | 18-21 min Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | 3 males, 1 female | |||||
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Synopsis: | Three graduate students jockey for status in the eyes of their sultry--and totally incomprehensible--professor. Her challenge: interpret the phone book, and give it some sexy verve. (This play can also be performed as part of the full-length play 3m1w.) | |||||
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Moda | ||
| 1st Produced: | Harvard College, Adams House Pool Theater (Cambridge, MA, United States) | 2000 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc - New York | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #57003 | |||
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: | 15-20 min Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | 3 males, 1 female | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Three newbie fashion designers are at the mercy of their psychotic boss. He wants new, he wants hip, he wants to eat their innards. Today's the day that people get cut, and all their heads are on the chopping block. The winning design? Let's just call it minimalist. (This play can also be performed as part of the full-length play 3m1w.) | |||||
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Poker and the Declaration of the Rights of Man | ||
| 1st Produced: | Harvard College, Adams House Pool Theater (Cambridge, MA, United States) | 2000 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc - New York | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #57004 | |||
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: | 24-28 min comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | 3 males, 1 female | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Ray, Chuck, and Phil just want to play poker and enjoy their inalienable rights as red-blooded American men. When Phil's wife, Francie, insists on sitting in on a hand, all hell breaks out. Francie's never played before. So why is she beating their pants off? (This play can also be performed as part of the full-length play 3m1w.) | |||||
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Smaller | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2003 | |||||
Company: | Stoneham Theatre 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 | #61004 | |||
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: | play Ten Min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
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Things Beyond Our Control | ||
| 1st Produced: | Linhart Theater, 440 Lafayette Street, 3rd floor, NY | 2006 | ||||
Company: | Grid 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 | #46776 | |||
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: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
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Synopsis: | Kellerman's play begins on a rainy Texas night, when a cabbie commits a hit-and-run. Though they try to forget it happened, guilt draws the driver and his passenger together and seven lives change forever. The characters include a lesbian airline employee, a doctor with the bedside manner of a mannequin, a waitress who always carries a burn kit, a single father whose only happiness hovers near death, a high-strung business woman, an ex-con terrified of Texas justice, and a street magician whose verbal contortions hide a 30-year battle to recitfy his past. This is a play about Dallas, love, fate, magic, and peach pie | |||||
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Til Death Do Us Part | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2002 | |||||
Company: | Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | in Boston Theatre Marathon of Ten Minute Plays Volume 4, Bakers Plays, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #61005 | |||
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Genre: | play Ten Min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
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Very, Very Small Things) | ||
| 1st Produced: | Harvard College's Adams House Pool Theater (Cambridge, MA, United States) | 2000 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playscrips, Inc - 625, 2006 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #56999 | |||
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: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | 1 female, 3 males; Running time: 100-120 mins | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | What happens when a woman with unbelievable beginner's luck ruins her husband's perfectly manly poker game (Poker and the Declaration of the Rights of Man)? Or when a businessman stays at the world's best hotel where the world's most polite bellhop will f | |||||
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Whatever, Whenever | ||
| 1st Produced: | Underbelly Theater, Edinburgh Festival Fringe (Edinburgh, , United Kingdom) | 2001 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc - New York | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #56998 | |||
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: | 25-30 min Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | 3 males, 1 female | |||||
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Synopsis: | Welcome to the world's best hotel, where the world's most polite bellhop will fetch you anything you want. At any time. Instantly. Want a new shirt? No problem. How about a waffle? Sure thing. A middle-aged businessman's efforts to stump the staff turn against him, proving that service CAN be too good.(This play can also be performed as part of the full-length play 3m1w.) | |||||
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