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JOAN M SCHENKAR (1951 - ) |
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Nationality: USA Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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Literary Agent: Samuel French Inc |
Born in Seattle, WA. Ben. nington College, B.A. Advanced degrees in literature and aesthetics from University of California at Berkeley and S.U.N.Y. at Stony Brook. Playwright-in.Residence at Joseph Chaikin's experimental group The Winter Project; Ludwik Flauszen's workshop on Words, Polish Lab Theatre; Cummington Community for the Arts; Florida Studio Theatre. Professional musician and college teacher. Recipient: CAPS Grant.
Plays by Joan M Schenkar
Author of Bucks and Does | ||
| 1st Produced: | Williams Art Center, New Jersey | 1987 | ||||
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 | #81014 | |||
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Between the Acts | ||
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1984 | ||||
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 | #30939 | |||
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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Bucks and Does | ||
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1987 | ||||
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 | #30940 | |||
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: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | in Hunting Down the Sexes | |||||
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Cabin Fever | ||
| 1st Produced: | Los Angeles | 1976 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY, 1984 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #30941 | |||
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 of Menace | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | three malevolent New England oldsters on a country porch reciting horrifying and hysterically funny stories about local customs | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Family Pride in the 50's | ||
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1986 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "The Kenyon Review", Kenyon, Ohio. Spring, 1993 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #30942 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Fire in the Future | ||
| 1st Produced: | Minneapolis | 1987 | ||||
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 | #30943 | |||
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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Fulfilling Koch's Postulate | ||
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1985 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Signs of Life: 6 Comedies of Menace" French, New York, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #30944 | |||
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Genre: | Dark Comedy Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 4 characters | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Typhoid Mary is featured as the live in chef of the scientist who identified the bacillus she spreads so liberally through her delectable cooking | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Hunting Down the Sexes | ||
| 1st Produced: | Home Theater, New York | 1987 | ||||
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 | #81015 | |||
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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Joan of Arc | ||
| 1st Produced: | Minneapolis | 1986 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Signs of Life: 6 comedies of menace" French, new york, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #30945 | |||
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 | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 15 characters | |||||
Notes: | aka Burning Desires | |||||
Synopsis: | comedic reinvention of the story of Joan of Arc transported to 1950's Seattle where it is too wet to burn her | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Last of Hitler, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1981 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Signs of Life: 6 comedies of menace" French, new york, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #30946 | |||
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: | Dark Comedy Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 12 characters | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Hitler and Eva Braun are trapped in a post war Jewish retirement community in Florida | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Last Words | ||
| 1st Produced: | Studio 17, New York | 1977 | ||||
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 | #30947 | |||
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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Lodger, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1979 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Contained in: "Facing Forward" published by Broadway Publishing, 1995 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1557832207 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #30948 | |||
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Genre: | Gay/Lesbian, of interest | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
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Mr Monster | ||
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1980 | ||||
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 | #30949 | |||
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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Next Thing, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Los Angeles | 1976 | ||||
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 | #30950 | |||
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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Nothing Is Funnier Than Death | ||
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1988 | ||||
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 | #30951 | |||
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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Signs of Life | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1979 | |||||
Company: | Women's Project | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "The Women's Project Anthology", Performing Arts Journal Publishers, New York, 1980 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #30952 | |||
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 | 3 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | extras | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | presents eminent Victorians - actual and fictious - as they perform their lives and experiment on their loved ones | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Universal Wolf, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1991 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Applause Books, New York, 1992 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #30953 | |||
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: | Dark Comedy Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 4 characters | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | send up of Little Red Riding Hood and modern French structuralism | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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