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Terry Baum

TERRY BAUM

  
Nationality:    USA
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Terry Baum's plays including theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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Research:    Member of the Dramatists Guild of America (as at 2015)

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below is a list of Terry Baum's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Baum For Peace Or the True Adventures Of the Slightly World-Renowned Lesbian Playwright Who Ran For Congress         Bride Of Lesbostein         Coupla Crackpot Crones, A         Divide The Living Child         Dos Lesbos         Ego Trip or I'm Getting My Shit Together And Dumping It All On You         Enid's Fly Trap         Hick: A Love Story, The Romance Of Lorena Hickok And Eleanor Roosevelt         Immediate Family         Memories of Lesbos and You         One Fool         Sacrifices a Fable About the Womens Movement         Two Fools         Waiting for the Podiatrist         Women In Line

Baum For Peace Or the True Adventures Of the Slightly World-Renowned Lesbian Playwright Who Ran For Congress

Synopsis:
Song! Dance! Democracy up-close and personal! In San Francisco, a Peace Candidate challenges the Warmongers. Baum is a lesbian Woody allen. -- San Francisco Chronicle. abundant charisma. . . Baum's journey from outraged citizen to inspired politician. . .has real resonance. -- San Francisco Weekly

Notes:
by Terry Baum, Music by Scrumbly Koldewyn, Lyrics by David Hyman

1st Produced:
Csv Cultural And Educational Center - Milagro, New York International Fringe Festival     2007

Organisations:
Lilith Theater

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
1h 15m Musical FringeHIGH Musical

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Bride Of Lesbostein

Synopsis:
Dr Gertrude Lesbostein has never found the right woman so decides to make one. She uses the DNA from her 34 ex-girlfriends but will the creation fancy Gertrude?

Notes:
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1st Produced:
The Crackpot Crones at The Garage Theater, San Francisco, CA     30 Oct 2014

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Lesbian one act

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Coupla Crackpot Crones, A

Synopsis:
eve leaves eden for therapy. Mom comes out. Were-Lesbian transforms under full moon. Sappho kvetches. Improvisations and improbable true stories. "enlightening, comical and real." SF Bay Times

Notes:
Writer: Terry Joan Baum, Carolyn Myers

1st Produced:
Venue #8: The First Floor Theatre @ La Mama, Fringe NYC, NY     10 Aug 2012

Organisations:
the Crackpot Crones

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
1h 30m Improv/Sketch/Stand-up Comedy

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Divide The Living Child

Synopsis:
Amsterdam World War Two. Christian spinster Torrie has agreed to take a Jewish child in. A stroppy teenage girl Hannah arrives and with her mother Miriam. Torrie wonders how she is going to pass off the two. Torrie hopes to convert Hannah to Christianity but Miriam is a devout Jew and will have none of it. A nosey neighbour tries to find out about Miriam and Hannah

Notes:
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1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Dos Lesbos

Dos Lesbos
A lesbian couple contemplate coming out to parents and at work

Notes:
Written by Terry Baum and Carolyn Myers

1st Produced:
-     1980

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Contained in: "Places Please" Aunt Lute Books 1986   978-09180400060

Music:
-

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Genre:
Lesbian full length

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Ego Trip or I'm Getting My Shit Together And Dumping It All On You

Synopsis:
A young lesbian has a torturous coming and a 5,000 year old virgin reflects on life

Notes:
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1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
-

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Genre:
Lesbian full length

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Enid's Fly Trap

Synopsis:
Enid runs a lesbian bar and has a Venus Fly Trap plant on the bar. It is her sixtieth birthday and a group of regulars drop by. They sing catch flies for the plant and wonder about the future of the bar

Notes:
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1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
-

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Genre:
Lesbian full length

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  7            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Hick: A Love Story, The Romance Of Lorena Hickok And Eleanor Roosevelt

Synopsis:
When Eleanor Roosevelt became First Lady in 1933, she had a lesbian lover -- Lorena Hickok, a famous journalist. 2336 letters, from Eleanor to Hick, document their relationship. It changed both their lives. "A compelling one-woman show." SF Examiner. "Brilliant." SF Guardian

Notes:
written by Terry Baum with Pat Bond

1st Produced:
Venue #6: DROM, NY     14 Aug 2015

Organisations:
Lilith Theater San Francisco

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Gay/Lesbian historical character

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Immediate Family

Immediate Family
A woman sits at the bedside of her partner who is in a coma. She talks of their lives together and then makes the decision to pull the life support machine plug

Notes:
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1st Produced:
-    

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Contained in: "Places Please" Aunt Lute Books 1986   978-09180400060

Music:
-

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Genre:
Lesbian, one act

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Memories of Lesbos and You

Synopsis:
Two totally incompatible women fall madly in love. They run away to Lesbos to see if they can work things out

Notes:
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1st Produced:
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Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
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Genre:
Lesbian one act

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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One Fool

One Fool
Terry gives up everything to move to the Netherlands to be with the woman she loves - who has found someone else.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
-    

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
in "Tough acts To Follow", alamo Press,    978-0962475160

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play One act. - - Lesbian, one act

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Sacrifices a Fable About the Womens Movement

Synopsis:
The village of Shebo keeps its women under tight control - any woman who is too rebellious is sacrificed to a fearsome dragon in the woods. Lilith is the latest to be sacrificed and is sent into the woods. She finds that there is no dragon the women who had been sent in for sacrifice have formed a happy lesbian band. Lilith wants to go back to the village and let the other women know but the happy band want to keep it a secret

Notes:
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1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Lesbian full length

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  42217            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Two Fools

Two Fools
A lesbian couple move from Amsterdam to the US

Notes:
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1st Produced:
-    

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Contained in: "Intimate Acts Eight Contemporary Lesbian Plays" published by Brito and Lair 1997   978-0964623019

Music:
-

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Genre:
Lesbian full length

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Waiting for the Podiatrist

Synopsis:
A lesbian daughter and her mother debate whether to pull the plug on the father/husband's life support machine

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-     2003

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
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Genre:
Lesbian one act

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Women In Line

Synopsis:
Two women waiting in line fall in love. A grandmother and a shy young woman. They find that they have a great hatred of men and plan to murder one. Another woman in the queue tries to stop this

Notes:
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1st Produced:
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Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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:
Lesbian one act

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  4            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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