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DEREK AHONEN (1980 - ) |
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Nationality: USA Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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Derek Ahonen is the resident playwright of The Amoralists Theatre Company in NYC. He studied theater at The American Academy of Dramatic Arts in NYC. He grew up in Chicago and is the author of the full-length plays Happy In The Poorhouse, The Pied Pipers of The Lower East Side, Amerissiah, Pokin' the Bears in a Zoo, Bring Us the Head of Your Daughter, While Chasing The Fantastic. . ., and Venus Sensation and The Pope.
Plays by Derek Ahonen
Amerissiah | ||
| 1st Produced: | Gene Frankel Theatre, 24 Bond Street, New York, NY 10012 >>> | 2008 | ||||
Company: | The Amoralists | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #92073 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | Barry Ricewater, a terminally ill man convinced he is God, returns to the apartment of his childhood. His degenerate family descends on him to pay their last respects. They all think he is crazy until the gathering is interrupted by an unlikely disciple. Only through Barry's divine intervention can the crooked Ricewater clan be saved. | |||||
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Bring Us the Head of Your Daughter | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Amoralists, New York, NY | 25 Apr 2008 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | United Stages | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-15978-30348 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #122372 | |||
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Genre: | 75-80 min Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 3 | ||
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| Jackie and Contessa are far from the typical American family. One black, one Jewish, and both women, they have overcome their differences and stayed partners for twenty years. But when their absent daughter Garance is accused of murder and cannibalism, their New York City apartment becomes a center of chaos. The phone rings off the hook with bigoted threats, Contessa's long-lost brother pays a visit, and to top it all off, the alleged cannibal returns. This examination of a dysfunctional and unconventional family bitingly explores the outermost limits of familial love | |||||
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Happy In The Poorhouse | ||
| 1st Produced: | Theatre 80, NY | 13 Mar 2010 | ||||
Company: | The Amoralists | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc (2010) | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #83558 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 4 | ||
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Synopsis: | Paulie "The Pug" is a Coney Island dreamer. . .just one MMA fight away from the big time. If only he could keep his wife from screwing her ex-husband, his brother-in-law from going to the slammer, and his best friend from taking a bite out of his neck, he'd be on top of the world. A comedy full of weak wrists and strong hearts, Happy In The Poorhouse is an unsanitized story of love and sex that will make you think twice about not pulling out! | |||||
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Pied Pipers of the Lower East Side, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Gene Frankel Theatre, 24 Bond Street, New York, NY 10012 >>> | 2007 | ||||
Company: | Amoralist Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | United Stages | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-15978-30270 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #75141 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 | ||
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| Billy, Dawn, Dear, and Wyatt are an extended sexual family living tribally in NYC. Watch in amazement as they battle through their violent addictions and fears. Behold their celebrations of love, and their search for human grandness. This is the story of the Pied Pipers of the Lower East Side. | |||||
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Pink Knees on Pale Skin |
| 1st Produced: | The Gershwin Hotel, 7 East 27 St., NY | 10 Aug 2011 | |||
Company: | The Amoralists | ||||
| 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 | #131117 | ||
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Genre: | site specific one act | ||||
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Synopsis: | " Pink Knees on Pale Skin by Derek Ahonen: To save their undersexed marriages, The Wyatt and Williams families are meeting with Dr. Sarah, aka The Orgy Counselor. The plan: to participate in an organized orgy held in a discrete hotel room. But on this particular night, Dr. Sarah has designed a self-destructive twist, guaranteed to unleash chaos upon all involved. Pink Knees on Pale Skin is a comedy about orgies gone bad and a drama about marriage and regret. | ||||
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Pokin' the Bears in a Zoo | ||
| 1st Produced: | Gene Frankel Theatre | 25 Apr 2008 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | United Stages | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-15978-30331 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #117343 | |||
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Genre: | drama comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 1 | ||
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| Mabel Sternos has been murdered, and her husband, Sheep-Suit, is out for revenge. Can her sons sober up in time to thwart the old man's plot? Will her poor daughter-in-law Jo Jo have the strength to hold them together? And who is the man they call Forrest? The Sternos family struggles for salvation from themselves in this darkly humorous exploration of familial dysfunction. | |||||
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Twelve-hundred Plays of Purgatory | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Austin Fine Arts Festival, Autsin, TX | 2006 | ||||
Company: | The Gat5 Artist Collective | |||||
| 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 | #69368 | |||
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Genre: | comedy One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | A man named Keaton awakes in purgatory to find nothing but infinite doors. Behind each door is a nameless mustached man selling different products. The first door offers the Cross-Trainer 2000, (A life-sized cross that Jesus used to stay in shape through cross-crunches and cross pull-ups). The second door offers a mute bouncer selling a velvet rope. The third door offers what may be God selling what may be the truth of our existence. An existential satire. | |||||
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Venus, Sensation and The Pope | ||
| 1st Produced: | Arthur Seelen Theater, New York | 2003 | ||||
Company: | Wooden I. Productions | |||||
| 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 | #69367 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Synopsis: | On what could be the last night of their lives, Venus and his girlfriend, Sensation battle over modern sexuality, the transparency of success, and what makes a thief moral. As the young couple impatiently await the Pope to murder them, they're forced to confront the raw truths that exist after all of their unrealistic expectations for life are stripped from them. . . one painfully hilarious layer at a time. | |||||
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While Chasing the Fantastic | ||
| 1st Produced: | Kraine Theatre, NY | 2007 | ||||
Company: | The Amoralists Production 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 | #67286 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Synopsis: | In a society plagued by fears of the unknown, the line between fiction and reality is blurred more than ever. In While Chasing the Fantastic& an unhappily married couple struggle to face issues of deception, infidelity, terrorism, and redemption when a radical visionary moves into their apartment to help make ends meet. Nothing is sacred; from Con Edison to anti-American ideals, this play challenges the audience to look at the beautiful, the ugly and most importantly-the real. | |||||
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You Knows' Know, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Gene Frankel Theatre, 24 Bond Street, New York, NY 10012 >>> | 2009 | ||||
Company: | The Amoralists | |||||
| 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 | #94952 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
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Notes: | part of Vignettes for the Apocalypse 2009 | |||||
Synopsis: | In a population controlled future where the "You Knows" have abused their political power, a young married couple hide from authority to protect their unborn child from a very different America. | |||||
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