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Robert Attenweiler

ROBERT ATTENWEILER

  (1975 - )
Nationality:    USA
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Robert Attenweiler is a playwright, screenwriter and independent theater producer living in New York's East Village. He received his M.A. in English from The Ohio State University and his M.F.A. in Dramatic Writing from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. In 2005, he formed his production company, Disgraced Productions, through which he has produced his plays: Places Like Here (FringeNYC, 2005), Thick Like Piano Legs (The Red Room, 2006), Kansas City Or Along The Way (The Red Room, 2006), The Butterfield Tones (FRIGID New York, 2007), . . .and we all wore leather pants (co-produced with Horse Trade Theater Group, UNDER St. Marks, 2007), All Kinds of Shifty Villians (The Kraine Theater, 2008), Kansas City. . . in the 2008 New York International Fringe Festival and the first annual Access Theater Spotlight Series and Our Greatest Year with Scott Henkle (The Brick Theater, 2011). Other produced plays include Torrents (Barracuda Theatre Club, TBG Arts Complex, 2008) and Tex and the King (New York Theater Experiment, Access Theater, 2008). He is the writer of the digital comic book The Adventures of Max Quarterhorse and created/wrote/produced the ongoing web series, APT1B, (disgracedtv.com). He is a member of the Lark Play Development Center. . . .and we all wore leather pants is published in the New York Theatre Experience's Plays and Playwrights 2008 and Best Womens Stage Monologues 2008. He was named one of nytheatre.coms PEOPLE OF THE YEAR for 2008, has received grants from The Field and the Access Theater and is a 2010 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow in playwriting/screenwriting.

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         All Kinds Of Shifty Villains         And We All Wore Leather Pants         Butterfield Tones, The         Kansas City Or Along the Way         Our Greatest Year         Places Like Here         Tex And the King         Thick Like Piano Legs         Torrents

All Kinds Of Shifty Villains

Synopsis:
carnival noir," blending elements of circus with 1930s crime fiction. This synopsis is from the press materials: "all Kinds of Shifty Villains follows private detective Max Quarterhorse as he winds his way through a dark and seedy underworld filled with beautiful but manipulative women, lowlife villains, vagrants, and. . .um, clowns. . .all of whom are likely plotting his doom
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Organisations:
Disgraced Productions

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Genre:
Play Drama

Parts:
Male:  8            Female:  1            Other:  -

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And We All Wore Leather Pants

And We All Wore Leather Pants
It's Buried Child meets Def Leppard. It's 100 Years of Solitude written by Twisted Sister. the ground literally moves beneath the feet of the Sturgess family with the arrival of a strange visitor, some heavy metal-tinged magic in the air and the revelation that one of them may be part of the world's most notorious rock band.
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Organisations:
Horse Trade and Disgraced Productions

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Music:
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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Butterfield Tones, The

Synopsis:
the Butterfield Tones thought their first tour would bring them fame and fortune. But what it brought them was thin crowds, Ike's aggressive womanizing and Tina's insistence that when she sings she sees the ghost of a masked professional wrestler who, she's convinced, has come to save her.

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Organisations:
Disgraced Productions

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Genre:
Play with Music

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  On-stage band (flexible)

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Kansas City Or Along the Way

Synopsis:
Joseph has just lost his wife and his children have been taken from his care. Louise is left by her fiance to search for the life and family she's always imagined. their stories collide at a moment when a life begins and a mistake is made that will follow them through this life and beyond. Set in 1930s southern Ohio, Kansas City Or along the Way moves with the Pulse of a Woody Guthrie song and an ambitious language that perfectly captures the heart of the American Heartland.
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Organisations:
Disgraced Productions

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Our Greatest Year

Synopsis:
This is part of the Comic Book Festival at the Brick theater. Our Greatest Year is a blend of live theater and motion comic that examines a year in the life of a Cleveland, Ohio sports blogger in conjunction with the city's 2007 sports year, in which each of its three major teams flirt with greatness only to end (predictably, if you ask anyone from Cleveland) in failure. an American Splendor-style dark comedy, Our Greatest Year is about trying to create a life that can sustain us, even while reality consistently disappoints our expectations. absolutely nothing can go as well as planned, but this still might be our greatest year.
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
written by Robert Attenweilier and Scott henkle

1st Produced:
Brick theatre
575 Metropolitan avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11211    17 Jun 2011

Organisations:
Disgraced Productions

1st Published:
http://www.indietheaternow.com/Plays   -

Music:
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Genre:
one act 70 min

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Places Like Here

Synopsis:
While on a cross-country trip, Lonnie finds a teenaged castaway who just happens to be a serial shooter running from the law. Roadside Diners and cheap motels blur past as the body count grows and Lonnie must decide if this kid is really worth saving.

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1st Produced:
Access Theatre, 380 Broadway, 4th Floor, New York, NY 10013    2005

Organisations:
Disgraced Productions

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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Tex And the King

Synopsis:
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Notes:
part of Capture the Flag: A Festival of New American plays

1st Produced:
Access Theatre, 380 Broadway, 4th Floor, New York, NY 10013    2008

Organisations:
New York Theatre experiment

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
short play

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Thick Like Piano Legs

Synopsis:
Years ago, Tom came to play the piano at Cedric's Lounge with all the promise of a soon-to-be star. But now, it's his last gig and he shows up to find his piano has been stolen. Someone obviously thinks it's time to go.

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Genre:
play One act

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Torrents

Synopsis:
the world seems very near the end for the Torrence sisters. Claire investigates a series of disappearances that may be linked with the second coming of Jesus Christ as Rose presses her militia toward grand acts of domestic terrorism. Torrents blends the regional crime stories of the Coen Brothers with the absurd viciousness of Martin McDonagh in this story about family, America, and the loss of faith in both.

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1st Produced:
TBG Arts Complex    2008

Organisations:
Barracuda Theatre Club

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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