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DEBORAH ZOE LAUFER |
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Nationality: USA Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: William Morris Endeavor Entertainment, LLC |
Deborah's play End Days was awarded The American Theatre Critics Association Steinberg citation in March, 2008. It will receive its Off-Broadway premiere at Ensemble Studio Theatre in March, 2009 through an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Grant. As a National New Play Network rolling world premiere it debuted in October 2007 at Florida Stage, The Phoenix Theater in Indianapolis in February, 2008 and Curious Theater in Denver in July, 2008. End Days will be recognized in The Burns Mantle Yearbook as one of the best regional plays of 2008. The Last Schwartz was nominated for a Carbonell Award for Best New Work when it premiered at Florida Stage and enjoyed a six-month run at The Zephyr Theatre in Los Angeles, CA. It has received numerous productions around the country. Out of Sterno was workshopped at The Cherry Lane Alternative in New York City. It will receive its world premiere at Portland Stage in Maine in March, 2009 with a grant from The Edgerton Foundation.
Plays by Deborah Zoe Laufer
Brink! | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2009 | |||||
Company: | 33rd Humana Festival | |||||
| 1st Published: | in Humana Festival 2009: The Complete Plays, Playscripts Inc | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #112889 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | written by Lydia Diamond, Kristoffer Diaz, Greg Kotis, Deborah Zoe Laufer, Peter Sinn Nachtrieb, and Deborah Stein | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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End Days | ||
| 1st Produced: | Florida Stage | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 9780573663161 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #77675 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | End Days received the 2008 American Theatre Critics Association Steinberg citation. | |||||
| Sixteen year old Rachel Stein is having a bad year. Her father hasn't changed out of his pajamas since 9/11. Her mother has begun a close, personal relationship with Jesus. Her new neightbor, a sixteen-year-old Elvis impersonator, has fallen for her hard. And the Apocolypse is coming Wednesday. Her only hope is that Stephen Hawking will save them all. | |||||
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Fortune | ||
| 1st Produced: | Boyer Theatre, Mill Valley, California | 13 Jan 2005 | ||||
Company: | Marin 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 | #130378 | |||
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Genre: | Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Gulf Of Westchester | ||
| 1st Produced: | Florida Stage, Manalapan, Florida | 2003 | ||||
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 | #130379 | |||
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Genre: | Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Last Schwartz, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Florida Stage | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 9780573663505 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #91721 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
| The Schwartz family is on its last legs. Their father's dead and their Catskills home is up for sale. Norma's husband hasn't spoken to her since she turned their 15 year old son in for smoking pot. After five miscarriages it appears Herb's wife won't provide him with an heir. Simon has one foot on the moon. Gene's girlfriend is about to have an abortion. And nobody seems very clear about what it is to be a family anyway. What is it to be a family? Does anybody care any more? Is Judaism all there is to hold the family together? Or is that what it will take to push the family apart? As Simon says, the Earth as we know it is really on its last legs too. When all of mankind is blown into oblivion, who's going to care whether there were Jews? Or how hard a few generations fought to keep the faith alive? The Cherry Orchard takes a holiday in the Catskills as the Schwartz family congregates, maybe for the last time, on the one-year anniversary of their father's death. | |||||
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Levelling Up | ||
| 1st Produced: | Rehearsed reading at Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, Waterford, CT | 22 Jul 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 | #130380 | |||
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Genre: | Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Out of Sterno | ||
| 1st Produced: | Portland, maine | 06 Mar 2009 | ||||
Company: | Portland Stage Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-573-66357-4 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #95226 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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| Dotty's life in Sterno with her husband Hamel is absolutely perfect! It's a fairy tale, it really is. True, in their seven years of marriage Hamel has forbidden her to leave their tiny apartment or speak to anyone, but Dotty is so very happy to spend her days watching video re-enactments of the day they first met. When a phone call from a mysterious woman threatens to tear her world asunder, Dotty must venture out into the vast city of Sterno, and try to discover what it is to be a "real" woman. "Out of Sterno" is a coming-of-age play in an Alice in Wonderland world. It explores the triumph and heartbreak of growing up and the contradictory societal pressures women face just trying to make it across town | |||||
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Sirens | ||
| 1st Produced: | http://www.actorstheatre.org/humana.htm | 21 Feb 2010 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-573-69929-0 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #112890 | |||
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Genre: | dramatic comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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| When Sam Abrams first fell in love with Rose he wrote her a song which has been covered by every recording artist and translated to every language. It is heard in every elevator and on every cell phone ringtone. And for twenty-five years, Sam has been looking for the creative spark that this first flush of love had inspired in him to no avail. Sam and Rose are now celebrating their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary with a cruise in the Mediterranean. And while on this cruise, Sam hears the most sublime music ever heard, jumps overboard, and winds up with a Siren. And there on her island he must struggle with the terrors of middle age, the tortures of creative failure, and the desire to live in his past rather than face his uncertain future. And he must find a way to get home and win his wife back. | |||||
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