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SALLY NEMETH |
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Nationality: USA Email: n/a Website: Click here to visit |
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Literary Agent: Preferred Artists Agency |
Sally Nemeth was born in Chicago and after a childhood spent in Indiana, Delaware and Alabama, she returned to Chicago to attend Northwestern University as a theatre major. Following graduation, she worked extensively in Chicago's Off Loop theatres, founding Chicago New Plays, a playwrights' collective. After leaving Chicago and moving to New York, she received her first major play premiere in London at the Soho Poly Theatre. The play, "Holy Days", won a number of London Fringe Theatre awards. South Coast Repertory in California produced the U.S. premiere of the play, and that production also won numerous awards from the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle. Following the success of "Holy Days", her play "Mill Fire" premiered at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago and had its U.K. premiere at the Bush Theatre in London. Both plays have subsequently been professionally produced across the United States and throughout the English-speaking world. She has been awarded a National Endowment for the Arts grant, a New York Foundation for the Arts grant, and a new play commission from South Coast Repertory. Her plays in publication include "Holy Days", "Mill Fire", "Water Play" and "Sally's Shorts", an evening of short plays written for women. Her work in television began on the hit NBC TV show "Law & Order" where her scripts won awards from the American Bar Association and the National Council on Crime and Delinquency. She's written long-form television projects for every major network. Her first novel, "The Heights, the Depths, and Everything In Between", written for young adult readers, will be published by Knopf in the summer of 2006.
Plays by Sally Nemeth
Blood Sugar | ||
| 1st Produced: | Rivendell Theatre, Chicago | 1998 | ||||
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 | #25620 | |||
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Genre: | Play One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A young woman desperate to leave home is convinced by her mother to stay and care for her. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Flight | ||
| 1st Produced: | Practical Theater Co., Chicago | 1982 | ||||
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 | #25619 | |||
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Genre: | Play One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A man and a woman on the road and on the lam try to stop running for a single night. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Holy Days | ||
| 1st Produced: | Soho Poly, London | 1983 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Plays from South Coast Rep", Broadway Play Publishing, New York | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #25610 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | An elegy for the lost souls in the dying plains of Kansas, 1936, who clung to their blighted homesteads like bees to a poisoned hive. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Mill Fire | ||
| 1st Produced: | Goodman Theatre, Chicago | 1989 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Women's Work", Applause, 1989 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #25613 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | single set with multiple playing areas. Produced Bush, London, 1990 | |||||
Synopsis: | The mysterious causes and devastating effects of a steel mill explosion are seen through the eyes of a defiant young widow. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Modern Lit | ||
| 1st Produced: | Practical Theater Co., Chicago | 1982 | ||||
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 | #25614 | |||
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Genre: | Play One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | not available | |||||
Synopsis: | If society collapsed around us, how would we remember what was important? | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Sally's Shorts | ||
| 1st Produced: | One Dream Theatre, NYC | 1994 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #25617 | |||
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Genre: | Short Play Collection One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 7 | ||
Parts other: | flexible | |||||
Notes: | comprising Black Cloud Morning, NY, The Cat Act, Lily, Living in This World, PreNuptial Agreement, Visions of Grandeur, Pagan Day and Word Games | |||||
Synopsis: | LILY. In a small town during World War One, two sisters are banished for the infidelities of a married man. LIVING IN THIS WORLD. The haunting story of one woman's journey through a post-apocalyptic landscape. BLACK CLOUD MORNING NEW YORK. The day from hell takes a turn for the better with the discovery of what a jeans pocket holds. WORD GAMES. Two young women getting stoned, riffing on words and on the memories those words bring. VISIONS OF GRANDEUR. She becomes herself filming herself. Her life in black and white. PRE-NUPTIAL AGREEMENT. A merciful nurse, in white, like a bride. A soldier with unimaginable wounds and unimaginable requests. PAGAN DAY. The wearing of gazes, the keeping of counsel. The art of seducing the seducer. THE CAT ACT. When you can no longer care for yourself, how do you feel about your caretaker? And how does she feel about you? | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Spinning Into Blue | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1993 | |||||
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 | #25618 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | single set, multiple playing areas | |||||
Synopsis: | Lurleen lives removed from society, with her trained falcons, keeping her past at bay. But when a young man arrives from nowhere, her past comes rushing back to her with a vengeance. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Water Play | ||
| 1st Produced: | Road Theatre at Downtown Art Co., NYC | 1993 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in Broadway Play Publishing Anthology, "Facing Forward", 1995 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #60854 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | single set with overhead projection screen | |||||
Synopsis: | A love triangle, an apocalyptic eco-dreamscape, and a world of rising waters | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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