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RANDY BAKER |
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Nationality: USA Email: n/a Website: Click here to visit |
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Randy Baker is the co-Artistic Director of Rorschach Theatre and with Jenny McConnell Frederick founded the company in the summer of 1999. Plays he has written that have been produced at Rorschach Theatre include DREAM SAILORS, AFTER THE FLOOD, CRUNCH (MYTH-ap08) and THE BOY WHO KNEW NO FEAR (MYTH-ap07). Other plays include THE RABBIT AND THE SNAKE (recently premiered at last year's SOURCE FESTIVAL), VERONICA'S OMELET, CONQUESTS, ROSEBURY, THE DANCE ALONE, LIKE BIRDS LETTING GO, THE BALLAD OF ST VALENTINE, GALLEONS LAP and IN THE MIRROR DIMLY. DREAM SAILORS, a four-part serialized play about lucid dreaming, premiered last summer at Rorschach. AFTER THE FLOOD, a play that was told through shadow puppets and through conventional acting, was performed in January 2004. He is currently working on a retelling of THE EPIC OF GILGAMESH and on ISH, a magical-realist play about immortality found in the wreckage of Baghdad. With Rorschach he has also directed RHINOCEROS, JB, the world premiere of BEHOLD!, Chikamatsu's Kabuki masterpiece FAIR LADIES AT A GAME OF POEM CARDS and last season's production of MONSTER. Randy is the recipient of two artist fellowship grants and one young artist project grant from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities. He recently took part in the Kennedy Center's summer playwriting intensive. Randy grew up overseas, mostly in Malaysia and Singapore and came back to attend the University of Richmond. He moved to Washington DC in 1997 and currently lives in Adams Morgan with his wife, costume designer Debra Kim Sivigny.
Plays by Randy Baker
After the Flood | ||
| 1st Produced: | Rorschach Theatre | 2004 | ||||
Company: | Rorschach 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 | #92253 | |||
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/Puppet | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | Ethan Brooks, an American academic and a skeptic, returns to South East Asia, where he grew up, to study the dying art form of Malay shadow puppetry. Questions emerge surrounding the disappearance of one of the few remaining puppet masters, and Brooks sets off to find answers in the remote villages of Malaysia. The fables of the old puppeteer begin to mingle with Brooks' story as he searches and begins to reconcile his own shadows. In alternating scenes an actual shadow puppet play intersects with the modern narrative. Based loosely on the Hindu epic The Ramayana, it tells of a great battle that will bring either the birth of a hero or the death of a legend. | |||||
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Dream Sailors | ||
| 1st Produced: | Georgetown University, Washington DC | 2008 | ||||
Company: | Rorschach 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 | #92252 | |||
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: | Suspense/Drama/Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 5 | ||
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Synopsis: | Four friends, drawn together by their uniquely powerful ability to lucid dream, awaken to make a grim discovery in their basement. Their worlds turned upside down, they must return to the dark landscape of their dreams for answers. But what lurks there might destroy them all. !!!: | |||||
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Gilgamesh | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 2006 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 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 | #67460 | |||
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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Synopsis: | Retelling of the ancient story of Gilgamesh which was in what is now Iraq. | |||||
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