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CHAD BECKIM (1973 - ) |
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Nationality: USA Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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Literary Agent: Paradigm |
CHAD BECKIM is a playwright, actor, and co-founder and co-Artistic Director of Partial Comfort Productions, a New York-based theatre company. He was born and raised in Monmouth, Maine. He has a BFA in Theatre from Utica College of Syracuse University, where he studied with Scott Macdonald and Jerry Weiss. As an actor, he trained with Maggie Flanigan. Chad's plays include . . .a matter of choice and 'nami (both directed by John Gould Rubin and produced by Partial Comfort Productions), and Lights Rise on Grace, as well as a number of short plays. His acting credits include the OBIE Award winning Benton Kozo, directed by Jim Simpson (The Flea Theater, 1999), Craft by Sam Marks (Partial Comfort Productions, 2002), American Ma(u)l (Reverie Productions, 2003) and Booty Candy (Partial Comfort Productions, 2003), both written and directed by Robert O'Hara. Chad lives on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, where he is currently adapting . . .a matter of choice for the screen.
Plays by Chad Beckim
After | ||
| 1st Produced: | Wild Project | 40807 | ||||
Company: | Partial Comfort 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 | #132269 | |||
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Genre: | 85 min play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | Originally entitled: "Good Ending" | |||||
Synopsis: | In After., a wrongfully imprisoned man is exonerated by DNA evidence. After seventeen years in prison, he is forced to re-assimilate into a cold, foreign world of toothbrush shopping, doggy day care, and a friendship with an anxious young woman with secrets of her own. | |||||
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Alexander Pays A Visit | ||
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| 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 | #132270 | |||
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Beckett Shorts, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Midway Rock Club, New York | 2007 | ||||
Company: | Paper Beats Rock | |||||
| 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 | #84435 | |||
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Bess Shit, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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| 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 | #136147 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | A woman prepares to leave New York. Her boyfriend has one more chance to show her the heart of the city | |||||
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Blac(c)ident | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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| 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 | #132271 | |||
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Cookie | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Robert Moss Theater | 19 Aug 2010 | ||||
Company: | 61 Academy in Association with Partial Comfort 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 | #117266 | |||
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Genre: | 1h 15m New York, NY | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | A down-on-his-luck-writer's notions of race and identity are turned upside down in this darkly comic examination of marriage for hire. | |||||
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Last First Kiss | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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| 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 | #132272 | |||
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Lights Rise On Grace | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Connelly Theater, New York International Fringe Festival | 2007 | ||||
Company: | 61 Academy in Association with Partial Comfort 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 | #71574 | |||
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Genre: | 1h 0m Drama One Act | |||||
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Synopsis: | Grace falls for Large. Riece falls for Large. Large. . . falls. First love. Lost love. New love. Tough love. "Lights Rise On Grace" follows three desperate New Yorkers as they defy tradition, uncover and recover secrets. | |||||
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Main(e) Play, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Lion Theatre, NY | 2008 | ||||
Company: | Partial Comfort 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 | #79603 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | The Main(e) Play explores the colliding worlds of two brothers: Shane, a New York City actor desperate to connect to the sanctity of home, and his younger brother Roy, a single stay-at-home dad and sole caretaker of a dysfunctional seven-year-old. A return to Maine for Thanksgiving forces the brothers to confront the loss of tradition, raising the question: what happens when what was, is no longer? | |||||
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Marvel Superhero Squad | ||
| 1st Produced: | Ars Nova | 01 Feb 2011 | ||||
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 | #124449 | |||
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Genre: | short play | |||||
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Synopsis: | Part of The Wii Plays. This is an evening of original short plays and live music, inspired by the titles of Nintendo Wii games. The selections are: Wii Tennis by Molly Smith Metzler, directed by Lila Neugebauer, Barbie as the Island Princess by Tasha Gordon-Solmon, directed by Lila Neugebauer, Let's Tap by Janine Nabers, directed by Portia Krieger, Marvel Superhero Squad by Chad Beckim, directed by Stephen Brackett, Buck Fever by Samuel D. Hunter, directed by Portia Krieger, Alien Monster Bowling League by Matthew Lopez, directed by Laura Savia, Tomb Raider: Anniversary by Kara Lee Corthron, directed by Laura Savia, Burger Island by Gregory Moss, directed by Portia Krieger, All Star Cheer Squad by Jenny Connell, directed by Laura Savia, Sword Play: Speed Slice by Kristoffer Diaz, directed by Lila Neugebauer, Bob the Builder: Festival of Fun by Amy Herzog, directed by Stephen Brackett, and Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games by Joe Tracz, dir. by Stephen Brackett. | |||||
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matter of choice, a | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2005 | |||||
Company: | Partial Comfort 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 | #65028 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | When construction of the Second Avenue subway forces three twenty-something friends to vacate their palatial Spanish Harlem apartment, each member of this substitute dysfunctional family must reevaluate their relationships and reassess their decision making. Diggs, a white bitter procrastinator and the primary renter of a three-bedroom apartment, grew up in the neighborhood before the newcomers and their money arrived, and he yearns for what was. Chastity, a lonely, angry Latina, talks tough but can't follow through. Webb, who is black and gay, is a masochist ensnared by a sadist. ". . .a matter of choice" examines what happens when three longtime roommates are forced to make a personal choice: Either fight to stay together or accept the distance friendships can drift - even under the same roof. | |||||
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'nami | ||
| 1st Produced: | Kirk Theatre, NY | 2006 | ||||
Company: | Partial Comfort Productions | |||||
| 1st Published: | in Plays and Playwrights 2007, The New York Theatre Experience, Inc >>> | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-9670234-9-6 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #56573 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | Monologues from 'nami published in "Best Mens & Women's Monologues, 2007" by Smith & Kraus. | |||||
| When Lil, a damaged agoraphobe, believes she has uncovered a plot to sell a child of tsunami-ravaged Indonesia into sex slavery by her neighbors, her husband must confront what he perceives to be her declining mental health. Next door, Keesha grapples with her husband's addiction and the daily struggle for normalcy, further endangered by their new underaged tenant. When the women piece together the details of the transaction, they unite to save the child, their husbands, and themselves from the coming storm. | |||||
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Tha Bess Shit | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2009 | |||||
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 | #101915 | |||
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Genre: | short play | |||||
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Notes: | part of The East Village Chronicles: new plays inspired by the contemporary life, the persistent lore and the diverse history of the neighborhood | |||||
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That Men Do | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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| 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 | #132273 | |||
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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