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ZAKIYYAH ALEXANDER |
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Literary Agent: Abrams Artists Agency |
Zakiyyah Alexander. Zakiyyah Alexander's plays include Sick? (Summer Play Festival);The Etymology of Bird (Hip Hop Theater Festival); Blurring Shine (Market Theater, Johannesburg); Sweet Maladies (Rucker Theatre); After the Show: A Play in Mask, Pralya, Elected and ghost (Keilworks Theater); and (900). She has received developmental support from The Bay Area Playwrights Festival, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, Hartford Stage, The Providence Black Repertory Company, 24/7 Theater Company, Hip Hop Theater Festival, Vineyard Theatre, Women's Project & Productions, GAle GAtes et. al, La Mama E.T.C., and Greenwich Street Theatre. She's a resident member of New Dramatists, the Dramatists Guild and Partial Comfort Productions. A graduate of the Yale School of Drama (M.F.A. in playwriting), Ms. Alexander is a native New Yorker and was raised in Brooklyn.
Plays by Zakiyyah Alexander
(900) | ||
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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 | #50728 | |||
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Genre: | One act | |||||
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Synopsis: | A young woman obtains a job as a sex phone operator and gets mores than she bargained for. | |||||
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10 Things To Do Before I Die | ||
| 1st Produced: | McGinn Cazale Theatre, NY | 2009 | ||||
Company: | Second Stage Theatre | |||||
| 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 | #98042 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Synopsis: | Vida, a NYC high school teacher and Lena, a once-successful writer, are two sisters who couldn't be more different. When a delivery of boxes from their recently deceased father arrives they must reconnect and re-examine their complicated history. 10 Things To Do Before I Die is a drama infused with comedy that explores how we let go of yesterday so we can find a tomorrow | |||||
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After The Show: A Play in Mask | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 2002 | ||||
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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 | #50729 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 7 | ||
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Synopsis: | An isolated Southern town. Time has stood still and there is still segregation of the races. Then a modern day minstrel show arrives. | |||||
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Blurring Shine | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2003 | |||||
Company: | Real TheatreWorks | |||||
| 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 | #50730 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy Drama, 100 min Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | Does Hip-Hop still provide opportunities, or has it paralyzed the black consciousness? Luther, an African-American heavy weight, determined to propagate pop culture calls upon his brother Shine, America's most precious commodity. Told through raw confessions of the Hip-Hop canon, BLURRING SHINE asks us if the "black man" is simply a role, played when it is financial fortuitous, or is it more? | |||||
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Elected | ||
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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 | #50731 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 5 | ||
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Synopsis: | A sixteen year old descends into the world of sex and drugs. But once you have been selling your body can you return to High School? | |||||
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Etymology of Bird, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Providence Black Repertory Company, Boston | 10 Apr 2008 | ||||
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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 | #50732 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Synopsis: | Jermaine and Birdy have known each other since forever. But during one long hot New York summer things change | |||||
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Game On | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2008 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | in Humana Festival 2008: The Complete Plays, Playscripts Inc | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-9709046-8-3 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #96578 | |||
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Notes: | written by Zakiyyah Alexander, Jon Spurney, Alice Tuan, Daryl Watson, Marisa Wegrzyn, Ken Weitzman. Humana Festival 2008: The Complete Plays brings together all eleven scripts from the 2008 Humana Festival of New American Plays, the 32nd annual cycle of world premiere productions staged at Actors Theatre of Louisville. The seven full-length plays and four ten-minute plays represent an exceptional array of work by some of the most exciting new voices in American theatre | |||||
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Ghost | ||
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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 | #71058 | |||
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Momentary Delay | ||
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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 | #50733 | |||
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One Smart Trick | ||
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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 | #50734 | |||
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Prayala | ||
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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 | #50735 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 5 | ||
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Synopsis: | Two brothers re-unite. One has become a hip-hop artist the other an economist | |||||
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Present Company | ||
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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 | #50736 | |||
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Genre: | One act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | A middle aged man finds himself alone with a fifteen year old prostitute | |||||
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Sick | ||
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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 | #50737 | |||
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Sweet Maladies | ||
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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 | #50738 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Synopsis: | Two years after the abolition of slavery, three freed slaves wait for their mistress to die. To pass the time away they dress up in her clothes and play role games. | |||||
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You Are Here | ||
| 1st Produced: | reading at Center Stage | 17 Dec 2010 | ||||
Company: | WET's INKubator | |||||
| 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 | #122777 | |||
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Genre: | dark comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 4 | ||
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Synopsis: | About Living the American Dream | |||||
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