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VERNON COLE SMITH (1936 - ) |
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Nationality: USA Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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The playwright is an Award-Winning (Venice Film Festival) former Madison Avenue copywriter and two time finalist in the prestigious Nicholl Fellowships, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences annual screenwriting competition and the creator of a best-selling line of Teddy Bears. He comes to his work as a playwright via an unusual route. It began when at 11 he was taken to meet Einstein who colored his imagination by inspiring him how to see and think outside the box. Rebellious by nature, progressive jazz began to fascinate him some years later and he took to hanging out in dimly lit cellar clubs with Dizzie Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Thelonius Monk etc. who were expressing musically what Einstein had taught him years before. Although his ambitions had always lay in motion pictures, it wasn't until after returning home from the service, where he served as a correspondent, that they became focused on writing for the theater. An old friend appearing on Broadway introduced him to the Stanislavski method of acting whereby an actor brings life to a character by digging deep inside both the character and himself. Here he thought was yet another system of thinking outside the box by first delving deep inside making him wonder if the "method" could also be applied to creating a character by writing him from the inside. Studies with Stella Adler, Bobbie Lewis, Dale Wasserman (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's nest; Man From La Mancha) led him to become a protege of legendary director, teacher and Group Theater founder Harold Clurman. It was through Clurman's inspiration that the playwright found his own writer's voice which some have since described as "etched in acid." The themes he explores in his plays and screenplays are raw, urgent dramas with comedic relief speaking to contemporary issues founded on larger universal canvases. aka Vernon Goldsmith
Plays by Vernon Cole Smith
Candy | ||
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| Music: | - | doollee no | #101766 | |||
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Genre: | comedy One Act | |||||
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Synopsis: | Two young advertising copywriters fearful of losing their jobs learn a lesson in survival from an aging movie star fallen on hard times. | |||||
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Chosen One, The | ||
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| Music: | - | doollee no | #101772 | |||
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Genre: | Screenplay: Action | |||||
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Notes: | *Nicholl Fellowships Semi-Finalist | |||||
Synopsis: | An obsessed New York cop desperately searching for his missing family becomes invested with divine powers and discovers a far darker secret than he'd bargained for. | |||||
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Comes Winter | ||
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| Music: | - | doollee no | #101764 | |||
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Genre: | tragi comedy One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 4 | ||
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Synopsis: | Four ladies living out their last days in a Coney Island old-age home come face to face with their own desperate truths as they await the arrival of a senile romeo. | |||||
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Coney Island | ||
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| Music: | - | doollee no | #101762 | |||
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Genre: | drama One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | On and Offstage Male Barkers | |||||
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Synopsis: | An aging boardwalk stripper schemes to realize her dreams when an older man falls for a much younger competitor. | |||||
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Danny's Bet | ||
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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 | #101765 | |||
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Genre: | drama One Act | |||||
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Synopsis: | A young boy learns the facts of life while trying to find money to pay for a life-saving operation for his dying mother. | |||||
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Falling Pieces | ||
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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 | #101768 | |||
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Genre: | Screenplay: Comedy | |||||
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Notes: | *Semi Finalist. Nicholl Fellowships | |||||
Synopsis: | Two shattered lives get a second chance when an aging Mob Boss, distraught over the loss of his wife, chances to adopt a precocious, suddenly-orphaned young neighbor who never had a dad. A comedic love story between the soft interior of a tough man and the tough exterior of a fragile young boy. | |||||
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Glued | ||
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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 | #101770 | |||
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Genre: | Screenplay. Suspense. Mystery | |||||
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Synopsis: | A hardened cop on his last assignment desperately combs the seedy underbelly of San Francisco in search of a brutal ritual killer, unaware the single clue to catch him is but a heart beat away. | |||||
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Home Cooking | ||
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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 | #101771 | |||
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Genre: | Screenplay. Comedy | |||||
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Synopsis: | A kindly, eccentric widow given to feeding the poor in her crime-ridden NY neighborhood mistakenly comes to believe her visiting niece -- recently released from a mental instituion -- is really an angel sent by God to miraculously help restore her depleted soup kitchen. A black comedy with lots of twists and a big surprise ending. | |||||
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Honor: The Secret Life of Sir Arthur Coinan Doyle | ||
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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 | #101769 | |||
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Genre: | Screenplay. Comedy | |||||
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Notes: | *Runner-up. Nicholl Fellowships | |||||
Synopsis: | A comedic mystery inside the mind of knighted Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in which a very horny Sherlock Holmes threatens to expose his mentor's secret indiscretions unless he permits the detective free-reign to realize his own lascivious fantasies -- forcing the author to plot the untimely death of his famed character at the height of his popularity. A kind of Pirandello meets "Shakespeare in Love". | |||||
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Jager | ||
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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 | #101767 | |||
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Genre: | Screenplay. Drama | |||||
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Synopsis: | JAGER is the almost unbelievable true story about a highly decorated WW1 German Jew and his family's miraculous escape from Nazi Germany with the help of the Gestapo only to reach the safety of England and learn that unless they find a new permanent destination they'd be deported back to Germany and certain extermination. A story about love -- courage -- intrigue -- betrayal -- suspense and survival. | |||||
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Life! | ||
| 1st Produced: | reading, White Barn Theater, Wesdtport, CT . USA | 1986 | ||||
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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 | #101711 | |||
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 One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Updated version. Original written in 1985. | |||||
Synopsis: | An old recluse with a mysterious past, who's only friends on earth are the cockroaches who share his one-room tenement apartment, is visited by an overly enthusiastic young exterminator determined to save the world. | |||||
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Porn Queen of Park Avenue, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Marin One-Act Play Festival, Marin County, CA, USA | 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 | #101763 | |||
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Genre: | drama One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | One or two smaller parts can be performed by a middle aged Female. | |||||
Synopsis: | A man who's just murdered his family desperately searches for a writer to put into words his ingenius plan to save the world from certain disaster. | |||||
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