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ELISE MARENSON |
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Nationality: USA Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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Elise Marenson writes for theatre and film. She has also directed numerous stage plays. Her play WIDE BLOSSOMS was chosen for Best Plays 2008, awarded by Pen and Brush (2009 printing). She wrote and directed STRAIGHT FROM THE RIB with twenty-six women's monologues (Triad, NYC). Her one-act plays have been produced in NY, LA, Boston, and DC. She is the recipient of the 2006 Raymond J. Flores Playwriting Award. She wrote, directed, and co-produced award winning short JOANIE AND AMALIA (Festival lnternational du Court Metrage, France). Screenplay finalist: Chesterfield Writers Film Project, FilmMakers International, Scriptapalooza. As a screenplay consultant, she works with screenwriters at all stages of their careers (takes scripts in English, French, and Spanish). She taught acting and is a member of the Screen Actors Guild and Actors Equity Association.
Plays by Elise Marenson
Going Upstairs | ||
| 1st Produced: | Sanford Meisner Theater | 2006 | ||||
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| 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 | #89177 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy - 30 minutes | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | Julia and Sam invite their eccentric father, Raymond, to a reunion dinner that explodes into a Molotov cocktail of conflicting memories and suppressed wounds. | |||||
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Help Me, Rhonda | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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| 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 | #88823 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | Margaret and Lance weren't friends in high school. He was the hottest jock, but she wasn't in the popular crowd. Now in middle age, they meet by chance in a cemetery where they are paying their respects to old high school friend, Rhonda. Life hasn't turned out the way the yearbook predicted, and those old labels that separated kids peel away as Margaret and Lance find compatibility and possibly a second chance at love. | |||||
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Real Estate of Emergency | ||
| 1st Produced: | Toured New York City Public Library Theatres | 2007 | ||||
Company: | Around The Block "Short Rides on the Local" | |||||
| 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 | #89178 | |||
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: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | Recipient 2006 Raymond J. Flores Playwriting Award | |||||
Synopsis: | A New York City family goes into combat to stop the gentrification of their neighborhood. | |||||
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Short Rides On The Local | ||
| 1st Produced: | New York | 2007 | ||||
Company: | Around The Block | |||||
| 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 | #75328 | |||
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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| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | written by Allen Davis III, Fred de Luna, Nina Howes, Carlos Jerome, Derek Lively, Elise Marenson | |||||
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Straight From The Rib | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Triad, NYC | 2002 | ||||
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 | #89175 | |||
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: | Women's Monologues | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 26 | ||
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Synopsis: | The women talk to the audience on a rainbow of subjects from their lives: Woodstock to CEO; One night stand with an investment banker; Spirituality and tofu wraps; Abortions; Dating Sinatra; WASP lady lost in multi-cultural America; Ex-Rockette temping at Tiffany's; Social climbing; Meeting Hugh Hefner; Living in fantasy; Having a crush on a gay guy; Elementary school the day Kennedy was shot; First job when your sugar daddy dies; Getting your child into gifted kindergarten; Bad hair days; Dumped by your husband for a younger woman; Extra work on a Woody Allen film; Widowhood and packing up your memories; Blind date with a dork at the senior prom; Survival job selling stationery supplies; Religious parents' racial prejudice. . .and more. | |||||
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Vietnam Getaways | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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| 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 | #89179 | |||
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: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | Had readings in NY and LA in 2007. | |||||
Synopsis: | Anti-war play about a Vietnam veteran and the grieving mother of a dead soldier who try to save the life of a young street kid who is about to enlist in the army. | |||||
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Wide Blossoms | ||
| 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 | #89176 | |||
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: | Drama - 30 minutes | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | Pen and Brush Award 2008 Best Plays | |||||
Synopsis: | In the wake of Katrina, a selfish yuppie bumpily finds his conscience and accepts our moral responsibility to one another. James Landry has had a few too many at Boudreau's bar in Baton Rouge where he's been living since he fled his native New Orleans after Katrina. He's getting ready to leave when a mysterious young woman appears, calling him by his first name. "James, why didn't you bring the boat?" Mari asks him. James insists he doesn't know her. "What boat? I don't know what you're talking about?" But Mari persists in calling him on it. The storm left her with nothing but the poems of her grandpa who perished. As the evening goes on, Mari forces James to come out of denial, face his past, and take a first step in looking after someone other than himself. | |||||
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