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ROSEBUD BEN-ONI (1978 - ) |
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Nationality: USA Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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Rosebud Ben-Oni is a playwright at New Perspectives Theater where she is currently developing her new play Shamhat. Recently VIDA: Women in Literary Arts selected her essay "On Writing Quimera and other Fears," also based on her work for New Perspectives, for their State of the Art Feature. Her short story "A Way out of the Colonia" won the Editor's Prize at Camera Obscura: A Journal of Contemporary Literature and Photography, and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She has recent and upcoming work in Anobium, Review Americana, Existere, Slice Magazine, Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, Arts & Letters, Maggid: A Journal of Jewish Literature and Men Undressed: Women Writers and the Male Sexual Experience. In Fall 2011, she will speak at the Women in the Arts conference as a playwright negotiating space and homosexual identity in the Middle East.
Plays by Rosebud Ben-Oni
Amaranthine Thread, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Producer's Club - Grand Theater, NY, USA | 03 Nov 2009 | ||||
Company: | Leah Ryan Benefit Production | |||||
| 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 | #105856 | |||
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Genre: | drama One Act | |||||
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Synopsis: | A tribute to the late playwright Leah Ryan, "The Amaranthine Thread" is a meditation on loss, uncertainty and great leaps of faith, all of which have changed three women of different backgrounds. In one night, they find what links them together , the flame that will never go out, the will to not only survive but truly live. | |||||
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Congoja ("The Feeling of Wanting to Cry") | ||
| 1st Produced: | Turtle Shell Theater, 300 West 43rd Street, 4th floor, New York, NY 10036 >>> | 06 Jan 2010 | ||||
Company: | Thespian Production | |||||
| 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 | #108836 | |||
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Genre: | Short play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | part of The Imperial Garden of Disillusion a program of four short plays | |||||
Synopsis: | Once trafficked over the border, one Mexican woman's desire for revenge puts an entire family in danger including the very man who risked his life to bring her to the States. | |||||
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Don't Call it Returning | ||
| 1st Produced: | Joria Productions, 260 West 36th Street, 3rd Floor, NY | 05 Nov 2010 | ||||
Company: | Thespian Production | |||||
| 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 | #121272 | |||
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Genre: | short play Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | part of Showcase III: (Year End Show | |||||
Synopsis: | On the first year of his death, a young woman returns to the cemetery in Jerusalem to say Kaddish for her late husbandaccompanied by her new lover. What follows is an exorcism of a life pastand what would've been. | |||||
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Drawn from Water | ||
| 1st Produced: | Roy Arias Studios & Theatres | 13 Oct 2011 | ||||
Company: | Thespian Productions | |||||
| 1st Published: | Prick of the Spindle, Volume 5.4. http://www.prickofthespindle.com/drama/5.4/ben-oni/drawn_from_water.htm (Dec 2011) | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #133356 | |||
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Genre: | piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | (corpse, no speaking parts) | |||||
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Synopsis: | A woman has spent her entire life running across the U.S.-Mexican border-- as a decoy, so others can cross. After the death of her smuggler, she finds herself in an impossible situation in which she must finally cross or pay the ultimate price: her life, which she has not yet lived. | |||||
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Nary a Bodega | ||
| 1st Produced: | Producer's Club - Grand Theater, NY, USA | 03 Nov 2009 | ||||
Company: | Leah Ryan Benefit Production | |||||
| 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 | #48476 | |||
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Genre: | comedy One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | Nary a Bodega searches for authentic "New York" amid the alienating realities of gentrification today in the City. | |||||
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Nikita | ||
| 1st Produced: | Gene Frankel Theatre, 24 Bond Street, New York, NY 10012 >>> | 2009 | ||||
Company: | Thespian Productions, Producer's Club, New York, NY | |||||
| 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 | #97594 | |||
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Genre: | comedy One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | part of Showcase 2009 | |||||
Synopsis: | As Naomi heads off to an unidentified South American jungle to bring justice to all, animal-loving roommate Ann doubts that she'll go through with it. But when Naomi wants to take along the dog, an argument between the two erupts and brings the real issue to the forefront: finding a purpose in a era where irony trumps idealism. | |||||
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Owless of Santa Clara | ||
| 1st Produced: | Roy Arias Studios | Jul 2010 | ||||
Company: | Snorks and Pins 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 | #117234 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | In "Owless of Santa Clara," a percussionist tries to exorcise the vision of her ex-lover who she left behind in Cuba through a descarga-- a tug-of-war between her music and his words that continue to haunt her. | |||||
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Quimera on the Storm | ||
| 1st Produced: | New Perspectives Theatre | 20 Sep 2010 | ||||
Company: | New Perspectives Theatre Company | |||||
| 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 | #119371 | |||
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Genre: | short play | |||||
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Notes: | Part of In The papers! This is a mini-festival of four new short plays by women writers. NPTC's award-winning Women's Work Project returns with the fruits of this year's LAB. Artistic director Melody Brooks asked new members to take on the theme of In the Papers! This choice takes into account the increasing media frenzy of 24-hour news channels, the blogosphere, and endless Facebook and Twitter updates as well as the recent Arizona "Papers Please" law. Each writer found her own take on this theme-from literal perspectives to more metaphorical explorations of what it means to be "without papers." | |||||
Synopsis: | Set in the Texas Hill Country, Quimera on the Storm by Rosebud Ben-Oni, directed by Melody Brooks, is a poetic homage to the people who have left their mark upon a land, and the question of who "belongs" in any particular place. | |||||
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Untouchable | ||
| 1st Produced: | Producers Club | 20 May 2011 | ||||
Company: | Altruistic Theatre Company | |||||
| 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 | #128358 | |||
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 | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | As star rookie Arthur Thomas tries to uplift a town down on its luck, his mother-turned-agent and a sportswriter vie for his career-- and his very soul. | |||||
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