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GREG KOTIS |
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Nationality: USA Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: Paradigm |
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Plays by Greg Kotis |
Boring-est Poem in the World, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Keen Teens at Theatre Row, NY | 06 May 2011 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #138195 | |||
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Genre: | 30 min comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 8 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Annie Odwalla hates poetry. When she's assigned a powerfully sleep-inducing poem by her mysteriously-accented English teacher, she sets out with her best friend Abbie to investigate. Could tedious schoolwork actually be some kind of insidious plot against students everywhere? Or has she just been assigned the boring-est poem ever written? What they learn, with the help of the creepy yet intriguing new kid in school, is as potentially explosive as the poem is dull. (This play was specially commissioned by Playscripts for high school actors.) | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Brink! | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2009 | |||||
Company: | 33rd Humana Festival | |||||
| 1st Published: | in Humana Festival 2009: The Complete Plays, Playscripts Inc | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #112886 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | written by Lydia Diamond, Kristoffer Diaz, Greg Kotis, Deborah Zoe Laufer, Peter Sinn Nachtrieb, and Deborah Stein | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
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Eat The Taste | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | Scott Morfee and Planetearth Partners, Inc. | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, 2006 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #50165 | |||
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Genre: | full legth Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | flexible | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | It's 2008, the final days of the second Bush administration. John Ashcroft, the de facto (albeit behind-the-scenes) attorney general, is leaving politics to begin a second career on Broadway! Confounding expectations, he's tapped Urinetown creators Greg Kotis (book/lyrics) and Mark Hollmann (music/lyrics) to pen his debut one-man show. EAT THE TASTE opens in a dingy motel somewhere on the outskirts of New York City. A pair of Homeland Security officers, working in tandem with an agent from the Justice Department, have been ordered to enlist a reluctant Mr. Kotis onto Mr. Ashcroft's creative team. Most of the officer's legal means of persuasion have been exhausted, but they'll give the bookwriter one last chance before making him 'eat the taste.' This trio of advocates is soon joined by the Broadway producer Matthew Rego, who has reasons of his own for wanting the project to move forward. Suffice it to say, a lot of money is at stake. Finally, the composer Mark Hollmann himself arrives, equipped with a portable keyboard and a rough draft for an opening number. And as Mark begins to play, Greg realizes that this musical offering may be one he can't refuse. Employing G-men, handcuffs and aspirin, EAT THE TASTE is the untold, unauthorized, behind-the-scenes story of the making of a musical that has yet to be made | |||||
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Examination of the Whole Playwright/Actor Relationship Presented as Some Kind of Cop Show Parody, An | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, 2006 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #50166 | |||
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Genre: | Ten page confection Ten Min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | brilliantly marries metatheatrical lunacy with police drama | |||||
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Jobey and Katherine | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1997 | ||||
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 | #117931 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A dead man returns to drag the love of his life to the bottom of the sea | |||||
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Pig Farm | ||
| 1st Produced: | Laura Pels Theatre, NY | 2006 | ||||
Company: | Roundabout Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, 2007 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #54905 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Under a pot-bellied sky on a struggling pig farm somewhere in America, Tom, Tina, and their hired hand Tim fight to hold on to everything they have--namely a herd of fifteen thousand restless pigs. Dumping sludge into the river has driven Tom to drink, and Tim seems to have caught Tin's eye, but when Teddy, an officer of the Environmental Protection Agency, arrives to inspect the operation, life on the farm explodes, implodes, then explodes again. | |||||
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Too Much Light Makes The Baby Go Blind | ||
| 1st Produced: | 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 | #117983 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 7 actors | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | angst and loneliness in Middle America in a series of short plays randomly chosen by the audience. | |||||
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Truth About Santa, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2008 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, Inc. NY (2009) | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-8222-2360-3 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #92778 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy with music | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | (an apocalyptic holiday tale) | |||||
Synopsis: | Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus! And the terrible truth about who he is, how he treats his elves, and what his home life has become will all be revealed in The Truth About Santa. Will this Christmas be Santa's last? Will Mrs. Claus finally make good on her threat to submerge humanity in a lake of fire? Who are these children and where did they get their strange powers? | |||||
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Unhappiness Plays, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | New York International Fringe Festival | Aug 2011 | ||||
Company: | Space 55 Theatre Ensemble | |||||
| 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 | #131077 | |||
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Genre: | 1h 10m Comedy Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | www.space55.org/the-unhappiness-plays | |||||
Synopsis: | Space 55 (Phoenix, AZ) comically explores the existential horror of the human condition in The Unhappiness Plays (Greg Kotis, "Urinetown"). Sartre suggested that Hell is other people; The Unhappiness Plays humorously asks whether Hell is perhaps ourselves. | |||||
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Urinetown | ||
| 1st Produced: | American Theatre of Actors, 314 West 54th Street, New York, NY 10019 >>> | 01 Apr 2001 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Faber and Faber | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0571211821 | |||
| Music: | Original cast recording: RCA (09026 63821 2) 2001 | doollee no | #54941 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 10 | Female | 6 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | book by Greg Kotis, music by Mark Hollman, lyrics by Greg Kotis and Mark Hollmann | |||||
| Scathing satire and winner of 3 Tonys, 'Urinetown' takes us to a time of permanent drought. It parodies traditional musicals as two young lovers struggle to overcome the tyrannical Urine Good Company which makes people 'pay to pee.' | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Yeast Nation (the triumph of life) | ||
| 1st Produced: | New York International Fringe Festival | Aug 2011 | ||||
Company: | John Arthur Pinckard and Ryan Bogner | |||||
| 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 | #131078 | |||
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Genre: | 2h 30m Musical Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Music & Lyrics By Mark Hollmann, Book & Lyrics By Greg Kotis. Choreographer: Wendy Seyb. www.yeastnation.com | |||||
Synopsis: | From the writers of Urinetown! In 3,000,458,000 B.C., the first creatures ever-- the yeasts-- discover a force called "love," changing the course of history. A hilarious Greek tragedy/Shakespearean drama/rock musical where everyone's named Jan ("yahn"). | |||||
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