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C DENBY SWANSON |
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Nationality: USA Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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C. Denby Swanson is a 2007/2008 NEA/TCG Playwright in Residence with Zachary Scott Theater Center. She graduated from Smith College, the National Theatre Institute, and the University of Texas Michener Center for Writers, and has been a William Inge Playwright in Residence, a Jerome Fellow and a McKnight Advancement Grant recipient. Her work has been commissioned by the Guthrie Theater, 15 Head a Theatre Lab, Macalester College, St. Stephen's High School, and The Drilling Company and featured in the Southern Playwrights Festival, the Women Playwrights Project, the Estro-Genius Festival, and PlayLabs 2002. She is published by Smith & Kraus, Heinemann, Accompany Publishing, and Playscripts, Inc. In 2006, she was in residence at New York Stage & Film (through P73) to develop her play A Brief Narrative Of An Extraordinary Birth Of Rabbits, which was also included in the Writer/Director Lab at the Playwrights Center, and workshopped at Cornell College in Iowa as part of New Plays on Campus grant. Her play The Death Of A Catreceived its world premiere at Salvage Vanguard Theater and was subsequently a finalist for the PEN Center Literary Award for Drama. Most recently, her full length adaptation, Atomic Farmgirl, was workshopped at the Culture Projects Impact Festival. She is a Core member of The Playwrights Center in Minneapolis, an alumna of the Lark Theaters Playwrights Week 2005, a former Artistic Director of Austin Script Works, and on the faculty at Southwestern University.
Plays by C Denby Swanson
Age of Feedback, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Drilling Company Theatre | 12 May 2011 | ||||
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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 | #133923 | |||
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Genre: | short play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | part of "Happiness". The Drilling Company commissioned eight playwrights to write short works on the subject of the search for happiness | |||||
Synopsis: | An individual gives feedback to a ball point pen company after he has found a use for the pen we would all prefer not to contemplate. An ode to Shakespeare 's Scottish play in 10 minutes with one writing implement. | |||||
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Atomic Adventures of Nikolai Nikolaevich, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Children's Theatre Company (workshop) (Minneapolis, MN, United States) | 2003 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc - New York | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #33769 | |||
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Genre: | 30-35 min Dramedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | 1 male, 2 females, 7 either (10 actors possible: 1-8 males, 2-9 females) | |||||
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Synopsis: | In this modern Russian fairy tale, a young man must decide whether or not to sell his wild forest mushrooms to a beautiful young woman in the Moscow marketplace. Only five things stand in the way: One, his mushrooms are radioactive. Two, three, four, and five are his twin brothers, who were born on the fingers of his right hand, a result of the accident at Chernobyl. And then there are the market's inspectors, who are hot on his trail and closing in fast. . . | |||||
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Atomic Farmgirl | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
Company: | The Drilling 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 | #75728 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 6 | ||
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Notes: | by C Denby Swanson, conceived and directed with Brooke Brod, based on a memoir by Teri Hein | |||||
Synopsis: | Atomic Farmgirl explores the impact of the nuclear industry, the mythology of the American West, and the story of a family farm and the generations of people who have lived there. Hein's memoir-and Swanson's play-conjure up the echoes of the past-both evil and benign-that dwell in the land, leavened by a healthy dose of laughter at the absurdity of fate | |||||
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Death of a Cat | ||
| 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 | #67162 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Everything So Far | ||
| 1st Produced: | St. Stephen's Academy (Austin, TX, United States) | 2003 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc - New York | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #60365 | |||
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Genre: | 60-80 min Comedy/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 8 | ||
Parts other: | 2 males, 8 females (8-30 actors possible: 2-24 males, 6-28 females) | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Loosely adapted from a 9th grade biology textbook, Everything So Far is a whimsical interweaving of several impossible stories -- a Dinosaur looking for her lost egg, a Biologist with dark intentions, a Fly with 24 hours to live, the three Fates, the All Chimp Runaway Lab Monkey Band, and a narrator, Peter, who has recently died but finds his way back in time to the moment of his most perfect peace. | |||||
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Faith | ||
| 1st Produced: | Drilling Company Theatre, 107 West 82nd Street, 1A, New York, NY 10024 >>> | 06 May 2010 | ||||
Company: | TheDrillingCompaNY | |||||
| 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 | #114320 | |||
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Genre: | Short play | |||||
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Synopsis: | Declaring "We all believe in something. . .don't we?," The Drilling Company has set a short play project on the subject of faith. The nine short plays cover a range of ideas and writing styles. The program includes plays by Brian Dykstra, Kate McCamy, Richard Mover, C. Denby Swanson, Scott Baker, and Stephen Bittrich, all regular contributors to past Drilling Company projects, plus newcomers Jennifer Fawcett, Misha Shulman, and Christine Whitley. | |||||
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Freedom | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2009 | |||||
Company: | TheDrillingCompaNY | |||||
| 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 | #97663 | |||
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Genre: | short play | |||||
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Notes: | authors Brian Dykstra, Andrea Moon, C. Denby Swanson, Trish Harnetiaux, Richard Mover, Sean Lewis, Eric Henry Sanders, Kate McCamy | |||||
Synopsis: | Now in its tenth year, TheDrillingCompaNY is well known for its collections of new plays around common themes. The theme this year is FREEDOM. "We chose it because of all of the attention our FREE market economy has gotten lately and because we're still fighting wars for the same cause," says artistic director Hamilton Clancy. "Franklin Roosevelt outlined four freedoms America was responsible for defending-that was the kick-off point for playwrights." With grants from the New York State Council on the Arts and Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, TheDrillingCompaNY commissions writers to write around the chosen theme. The directors of this year's plays are: Hamilton Clancy, Robert A. Wilson, Tom Demenkoff, Jude Domski, David Marantz, Richard Mover, and Rebecca Hengstenberg. | |||||
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Governing Alice | ||
| 1st Produced: | Spring Grove High School (Lanesboro, MN, United States) | 2003 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc - New York | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #33770 | |||
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Genre: | 25-35 min Dramedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | 4 males, 3 females, 6 either (10-13 actors possible: 2-11 males, 2-11 females) | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | In this modern adaptation of the Greek classic Antigone, a rebellious high school student named Alice must respond to the sudden and shattering death of her older brother, the class valedictorian -- who was shot while robbing a convenience store. Up against an unyielding principal and accompanied by a bookish Geek Chorus, Alice must find her own way through personal and classical tragedy. In honoring her brother, she'll probably break some rules. Which is more important? | |||||
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Greeks, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Drilling Company Theatre | 15 Apr 2012 | ||||
Company: | TheDrillingCompaNY | |||||
| 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 | #138942 | |||
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Genre: | short play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | part DEBT - 10 short plays about something we all have, the hot potato of America! Who's DEBT is it anyway? | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
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Honour | ||
| 1st Produced: | Zach Scott Theater Performing Arts School - Staged reading (Austin, TX, United States) | 2005 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc - New York | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #50572 | |||
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Genre: | 40-50 min Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | 2 males, 3 females, 5 either (8-16 actors possible: 2-13 males, 3-14 females) | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A young woman named Honour hangs out behind the local big-box store and does nothing with her two best friends, Fib and Tryla -- until one day Fib decides to play a joke on the local military recruiter and fake-enlist. This flippant act draws their small group into a whirlwind of intimate betrayals, but Honour has more than that on her mind -- she's been having visions of Joan of Arc since she was twelve, and now Joan's urging Honour into battle. Meanwhile, a chorus of Cardinals is putting Joan on trial for heresy. (And because they're in St. Louis, they also play baseball.) What is honor? And how do you fight for it? | |||||
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Natural Causes | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
Company: | TheDrillingCompaNY | |||||
| 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 | #66650 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | TheDrillingCompaNY presents Justice, a themed evening of original short plays | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
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