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ROLAND TEC |
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Nationality: USA Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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Literary Agent: n/a [rep - Anne Atkinson at: Pryor Cashman LLP (www.pryorcashman.com) AAtkinson@pryorcashman.com +1 212-326-0867] |
Roland Tec's plays, films and operas have been seen throughout the U.S., Europe, South America as well as in Africa and Australia and he has received commissions from such organizations as Concorde, Harvard University, and the Ann & Gordon Getty Foundation, among others. His play, BODILY FUNCTION (2000 Edward Albee Award; 2001 O'Neill finalist) premiered at The Culture Project in New York City. Before moving to New York City in 2001, Tec served as Founding Artistic Director of New Opera Theatre Ensemble in Boston, which presented new works of music-theatre in such unlikely venues as the The Boston Public Library and the Charles Hayden Planetarium. In 1998, Tec was the first artist to be represented in both the music and the film sections of the prestigious South by Southwest festival in Austin, TX, with a live concert by New Opera Theatre Ensemble and the screening of his film, ALL THE RAGE. Tec is currently at work on two upcoming feature films, THE WRECK BEHIND US (based on his stage play) and RED STATE PROJECT. His short play, SNIFFING OUT THE IMPOSTORS, was recently commissioned for the centennial celebration of the Byrdcliffe Artist Colony, at which Tec was a resident in 2001. His first feature film, ALL THE RAGE, which he wrote, directed and scored, was released in the U.S. and abroad and was called "One of the sharpest, sexiest and most amusing satires of gay life ever filmed" by the Los Angeles Times. Roland Tec is a member of The Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers and The Dramatists Guild.
Plays by Roland Tec
Better Boy, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1995 | ||||
Company: | Boston Center for the Arts | |||||
| 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 | #60192 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | Christopher Bedford is everyone's fantasy, including his own. And therein lies the problem. A two-act study of a gay male professional narcissist. (adapted into the 1998 feature film, All the Rage.) | |||||
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Blind Trust | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1993 | ||||
Company: | New Opera Theatre Ensemble & The Boston Museum of Science | |||||
| 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 | #60193 | |||
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Genre: | Radio Play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | multiple roles double-casting | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | This radio play cum movie musical spins the tale of a young woman newly arrived in the big city who one day loses her purse and the kind stranger who takes great pains to return it to her. | |||||
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Bodily Function (formerly: Rapt) | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 2001 | ||||
Company: | Rachel Reiner Productions, Aurora Productions & The Culture Project | |||||
| 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 | #60194 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | In the efficiency-minded world of Corporate America, time is money and Donald Trieblasser has been pissing away company resources. . . literally. As he is told at his one-year review by Suzanne Goodman, VP of HR at Global Com, even though his overall performance is quite good, his frequent trips to the bathroom are a detriment to overall efficiency and workplace morale. Thus begins a play that examines a variety of modern views of the body -- as vehicle of industry, as object of sexual desire, as a troublesome nuisance plagued by imperfection, and as a work of Art. Bodily Function is an examination of a culture in which the body has come to represent something to be at once feared, worshipped and, above all, controlled. | |||||
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Fault | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 2004 | ||||
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 | #60195 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Franco and Jimmy | ||
| 1st Produced: | Bank Street Theatre, New York | 2000 | ||||
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 | #82572 | |||
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Genre: | One act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Franco and Jimmy love each other and disco dancing | |||||
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Gratuitous Nudity | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 2000 | ||||
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 | #60196 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | multiple roles double-casting | |||||
Notes: | co-written with John Yearley | |||||
Synopsis: | A collection of monologues, naked and otherwise | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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If There's a Cure for This, I Don't Want It, I Don't Want It | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 2008 | ||||
Company: | Artistic New Directions | |||||
| 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 | #60197 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Two gay men share a 10-minute twirl around the dance floor for old-time's sake. Too bad one of them is already dead | |||||
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Kennedy V | ||
| 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 | #125767 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | The emergence of Teddy Kennedy from spoiled playboy to lion of the U.S. Senate, told in 55 scenes chronicling his whilrwind life between the 1963 assasination of JFK and the tragedy at Chappaquiddick in 1969. | |||||
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Obscene | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1991 | ||||
Company: | New Opera Theatre Ensemble | |||||
| 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 | #60198 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Personal Effects of Annie Solomon, The (formerly: Fault) | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 2005 | ||||
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 | #45501 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | Helen has come to help Pat prepare for what should be a joyous occasion, the wedding of her only child. As Pat and Helen stuff wedding invitations, the shadows of their history will not be still. Despite their best efforts, these two women cannot avoid the long-held regrets, unspoken disappointments and hidden betrayals that have eroded their friendship in the eleven years since Helen's only child ran away from home never to return alive. What ensues is a chilling and sensitive portrayal of the life choices that can poison even the closest of friendships. This drama explores the burdens placed on a thirty-year friendship by the loss of a child and in so doing, raises questions about the meaning of loyalty, motherhood and ultimately, the very nature of friendship itself. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Rubber Room, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Theatre 54 @ Shetler | 09 Feb 2011 | ||||
Company: | Artistic New Directions | |||||
| 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 | #124720 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | written by Gary Garrison and Roland Tec | |||||
Synopsis: | In the late '60s, the United Federation of Teachers, the Department of Education, and the Mayor's Office of New York instituted Reassignment Centers where teachers accused of infractious behavior were sent to vegetate while their "cases" were being slowly adjudicated. The Rubber Room puts three infamous teachers in a new Reassignment Center and introduces a reporter in their midst. They are each accused of a serious infraction about which each of them claims innocence. The reporter is on a Reconnaissance Mission. The new Security Guard already resents them. The production is being staged in a unique way: Five directors have been given the script. They will each cast their five characters and begin the month of rehearsals. At no time during this rehearsal period will the actors or directors of each separate cast work with each other or communicate on their process. For each performance, the Production Stage Manager will call one actor/character from each of the five companies. Each actor thus notified will arrive at the theatre pre-show and be kept isolated from the other actors. Thus, when the actor steps on stage, and enters The Rubber Room, he/she will be meeting the other actors for the first timeas do the characters in the play. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Sniffing Out the Impostors | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 2003 | ||||
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 | #60199 | |||
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Genre: | Play Ten Min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Two women at an artists' colony sniff each other out for signs of a phony in this comic and strange little 10-minute play packed full of surprises. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Social Security | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1999 | ||||
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 | #60200 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
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Why Certainly, Let's | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 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 | #45502 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Macy Boesendorf had a simple question but Jim Umanski refused to answer. And thus two lives intersected with consequences far beyond either's wildest expectations | |||||
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Wreck Behind Us, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 2003 | ||||
Company: | Pinkplot Productions & The Duplex Cabaret | |||||
| 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 | #60201 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
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Synopsis: | The Wreck Behind Us views the death of soap star Evelyn Beckett from the perspective of the husband and gay son she left behind. On the morning of June 3, 1969, Evelyn Beckett woke to a world of possibilities. She was the star of a top-rated daytime drama, she was fielding offers from Hollywood and she was the proud mother of three "clever little rascals," as she liked to call them. She was, in her words, "on top of the world." By the end of that day, she would be dead. Told in four monologues spanning a period of roughly three decades, The Wreck Behind Us explores the ways in which the lives of the survivors are shaped by the untimely death of a wife and mother. The play is based on the true story of the actress mother of a childhood friend of the playwright and her tragic death in a 1969 car wreck. | |||||
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You Kiss Me Right This Minute | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 2000 | ||||
Company: | Circle East | |||||
| 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 | #60202 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
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