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Mallery Avidon

MALLERY AVIDON

  
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    United Talent Agency  

A playwright interested in the intersection of fact and fiction. O Guru Guru Guru, or why I dont want to go to yoga class with you received its world premiere at the 2013 Humana Festival of New American Plays and will be produced by Carolina Actors Studio Theatre in November. Her play queerSpawn (a commission from the COLAGE foundation) premiered spring 2013, produced by a Collection of Shiny Objects at HERE Arts Center, NYC. Other plays include Breaks & Bikes, fracture/mechanics, The Past is Not a Foreign Country and everyone they knew was famous. Mallerys work has been produced by Pavement Group, Target Margin Theater, On The Boards, angry BLVD & Williams College Summer Theater Lab and developed by Playwrights Horizons, Bay Area Playwrights Foundation, IRT Theater, Seattle Repertory Theatre and New Century Theater Company among others. Mallery is an alum of the Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab, an affiliated artist with New Georges, an artistic associate of Pavement Group and Target Margin Theater, co-curator of The Bushwick Starrs monthly reading series & a dramaturge for the company Saint Genet. She has taught playwriting in prisons, high schools & universities. She is currently working on a commission from The Satori Group, and a series of plays based on a seven week road trip she took with DW Gibson & MJ Sieber in the summer of 2011 (www.NotWorkingProject.com) interviewing people across America who had been laid off because of the recession. Mallery holds a BFA in Theater from Cornish College of the Arts and an MFA in Playwriting from Brown University.

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         At The Rich Relatives         Breaks & Bikes         everyone they knew was famous         fracture/mechanics         Mary-Kate Olsen Is In Love         O Guru Guru Guru, or why I dont want to go to yoga class with you         Past is Not a Foreign Country, The         queerSpawn         TL;DR

At The Rich Relatives

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Music by Jeff Aaron Bryant; lyrics and book by Mallery Avidon. Based on a short story by Celia Dropkin

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Beyond The Pale Festival    Feb 2014

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Breaks & Bikes

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What do you do when you have slept with all the women, done all the drugs and are still not famous? Go to law school. Which is what Drew does. But there is an accident when he gets knocked off his bicycle and ends up in hospital in a coma

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everyone they knew was famous

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fracture/mechanics

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a woman struggles to understand her past intimate relationships

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McCormack Family Theater, Providence, RI    15 Apr 2009

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Mary-Kate Olsen Is In Love

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Characters Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen are used to personify our youth culture's dependence on media to determine self worth and sense of identity. Over the course of the play, struggles in the "real lives" of these two media icons and the people they affect create heartbreaking relationships and deeper friendships than anyone thought possible. Through real personal experience they are freed from the pressures of what is expected and allowed to follow what's in their hearts. and, of course, they destroy a few lives and marriages along the way.
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1st Produced:
Flea
41 White Street, New York, NY 10013    01 Nov 2013

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Dramatists Play Service   978-0822232070

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O Guru Guru Guru, or why I dont want to go to yoga class with you

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Humana Festival of New American Plays    2013

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Contained in: "Humana Festival 2013: The Complete Plays" published by Playscripts Inc   -

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Past is Not a Foreign Country, The

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queerSpawn

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queerSpawn tells the story of The Kid, a fourteen-year-old starting high school in a small town. Everyone knows he has two moms, and that's just the beginning of his trouble. While dodging bullies, The Kid invents a group of imaginary friends with whom to share his troubles, including sex/relationship advice columnist Dan Savage and Dr. McSteamy from TV's Greys Anatomy. But as his reality becomes more and more hazardous, their "help" becomes less and less helpful. Staring down four more friendless years, what is a Kid to do?

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1st Produced:
HERE Arts Center
145 6th Avenue, New York, NY 10013    Spring 2013

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commission from the COLAGE foundation, produced by a Collection of Shiny Objects

1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, Inc. NY (2015)   978-0-8222-3209-4

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TL;DR

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Teenagers, social networking and googling yourself

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Music by Jeff Aaron Bryant; lyrics and book by Mallery Avidon

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