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ALLAN BAKER |
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Nationality: USA Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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A University of Texas graduate and long time resident of Austin, Texas, Allan has long been an advocate for the gay/lesbian/bi-sexual and transgendered community of Texas. He served as chair of the Austin Lesbian/Gay Political Caucus for ten years and as a member of the Board of Directors of Equality Texas. . .the state's only statewide glbt political and community-building organization. . .for eleven. Retiring after a career in environmental health in 2002, Allan focused on political activism, serving also as treasurer of the Texas Equity PAC, a statewide political action committee committed to electing gay-friendly legislators in Texas. In 2002 he received the Human Rights Campaign's Political Activism Award at Austin's HRC Black Tie event. In 2004 Allan began writing and has since written eight plays, all with gay characters and themes.
Plays by Allan Baker
All the Saints | ||
| 1st Produced: | Zachary Scott Theatre Center, Austin, TX | 2008 | ||||
Company: | Abby 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 | #97962 | |||
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Genre: | Drama; 130 minutes Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Staged reading. | |||||
Synopsis: | A full-length, modern re-telling of Dumas' Lady of the Camellias and Verdi's La Traviata, with gay characters. Alex, a very successful gay model/escort/circuit party boy and AJ, a gay Navy pilot stationed in San Diego, fall in love. For the sake of his beloved, Alex renounces this love and leaves AJ. With scenes set in San Diego, at the White Party in Miami, in Baja and San Francisco. A timeless love story, faithfully translated from 19th century Paris into a modern, gay setting. | |||||
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Click | ||
| 1st Produced: | FronteraFest Short Fringe Festival, Hyde Park Theatre, Austin, TX | 2008 | ||||
Company: | Abby 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 | #97961 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Comedy/Drama; 25 minutes One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Produced in 2010 as part of "Connect: Four Short Plays" by Allan Baker, April 1st to 17th at the Off Center theatre in Austin, Texas. Produced for an encore performance on June 5th at the Rollins Theatre of the Long Center as part of Austin's 2010 Pride Festival. | |||||
Synopsis: | It's Saturday night and two gay guys are online trying to hook up, each for a somewhat different reason. Jason sees easy sex as a way to avoid intimacy. Michael sees it as a way to get to intimacy more quickly. | |||||
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Eskandar | ||
| 1st Produced: | State Theatre, Austin, TX | 2007 | ||||
Company: | Austin Scriptworks | |||||
| 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 | #97963 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Drama; 80 minutes Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Reading. | |||||
Synopsis: | Inspired by the Carmen of Merrime and Bizet's opera, this long one-act play set in today's Afghanistan tells the story of Eskandar, the 18 year-old "kept boy" of an Afghan warlord and Joe, a gay Afghan/American who has returned to the country of his birth as part of a clandestine military operation. | |||||
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Five Minutes | ||
| 1st Produced: | FronteraFest Short Fringe Festival, Hyde Park Theatre, Austin, TX | 2006 | ||||
Company: | Abby 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 | #57952 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Drama; 18 minutes One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Produced by Emerging Artists Theatre in New York City in November, 2006 as part of their Fall Festival of Short Plays and in June 2007 in New York City as part of the Samuel French Festival of Off Off-Broadway One Act Plays. Produced in 2010 as part of "Connect: Four Short Plays" by Allan Baker, April 1st to 17th at the Off Center theatre in Austin, Texas. Produced for an encore performance on June 5th at the Rollins Theatre of the Long Center as part of Austin's 2010 Pride Festival. | |||||
Synopsis: | Six characters, three five minute scenes. Sometimes, five minutes can be a lifetime. | |||||
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last and always | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2009 | |||||
Company: | NativeAliens Theatre 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 | #97964 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | drama Ten Min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | This play was a finalist for the San Luis Obispo Little Theatre's Fall Festival of Ten-Minute Plays for 2008. | |||||
Synopsis: | On 9/11 a gay couple. . .one in the World Trade Center and one at their home in the city, say goodbye. Sometimes love takes us to a safe place when nothing else can. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Midsummer Night's Conversation, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Off Center, Austin, Texas | 01 Apr 2010 | ||||
Company: | Abby 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 | #115959 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Produced for an encore performance at the Rollins Theatre of the Long Center on June 5, 2010 as part of Austin's 2010 Pride Festival. | |||||
Synopsis: | It's four months into the relationship and a gay couple must face a critical moment. It's a time for honesty, intimacy and total self-exposure. And one of the two is an actor. . .a very good actor. (Nudity.) | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Voices | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Off Center theatre, Austin, Texas. | 01 Apr 2010 | ||||
Company: | Abby 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 | #97960 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Comedy/Drama; 33 minutes One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | A short, early version of this play was produced at the FronteraFest Short Fringe Festival, Hyde Park Theatre, in Austin, Texas in 2007. The current version was a finalist for Emerging Artists Theatre's 2009 Spring Festival of Short Plays in New York City. As part of "Connect: Four Short Plays" by Allan Baker, this play was also produced at the Rollins Theatre of the Long Center on June 5th, 2010 as part of Austin's 2010 Pride Festival. | |||||
Synopsis: | A conversation across four generations, among five members of a family, all residents of a cemetery in rural Texas. Taking Our Town in a new direction, Voices focuses on Martha, the tyrannical ninety-seven year old matriarch of a Texas family, born in the 1860's, and how she deals with the two most recently-arrived residents of the family cemetery: Cole, a relatively young, gay victim of AIDS and Peggy, her seventy-five year old bohemian granddaughter. | |||||
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