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ALAN BERKS |
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Alan Berks is an Assistant Professor of English at St. Cloud State University where he teaches Composition and Rhetoric, Writing for the Professions, and Playwriting. He is also a co-founder and creator ofThirst, a project designed to make live theater more daring, raw, and accessible for both audiences and professional artists. In 2003-2004, he was a Jerome Fellow at The Playwrights' Center of Minneapolis, where he developed his play Music Lovers. His solo show Goats premiered at the Festival of Emerging American Theatre at the Phoenix Theatre in Indianapolis. It will be seen at The Production Company in New York in January and February. His other plays include The Big Bang, produced with the Riverside Repertory Theatre in Albuquerque, New Mexico; and Mourning Rituals,produced by Blackball Ensemble in Phoenix, Arizona. He has a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing with an emphasis in Playwriting.
Plays by Alan Berks
# Ringtone | ||
| 1st Produced: | Fallout Arts Initative, Minneapolis | 06 Aug 2010 | ||||
Company: | Minnesota Fringe Festival | |||||
| 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 | #127202 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Almost Exactly Like Us | ||
| 1st Produced: | WorkShop Theater, 312 West 36th Street, 4th floor, New York, NY 10018 >>> | 22 Apr 2010 | ||||
Company: | Theatre of the Expendable | |||||
| 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 | #113798 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | If your world were different, would you be different, too? Almost Exactly Like Us shows us four people in different realities, from a totalitarian regime to an evangelical college and a post-apocalyptic war zone, and examines how the world around us shapes who we are and who we will become. | |||||
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Goats | ||
| 1st Produced: | Indianapolis | 2005 | ||||
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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 | #46919 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Synopsis: | Goats is the journey of one young man to a place where the personal and political intersect and almost everyone dines with God. After the historic Oslo Accords, after a year and a half of relative peace, an extremist assassinates Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, re-igniting the cycle of violence in the region. An urban, secular American Jewish boy finds himself living on a mountain outside Jerusalem, tending to the goats of a mysterious hermit. Before he can discover his destiny as a man, he must first learn to think like a goat | |||||
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Home of the Brave | ||
| 1st Produced: | Guthrie Theater (reading) (Minneapolis, MN, United States) | 2004 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc - New York | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #51176 | |||
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Genre: | 30-35 min Comedy/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 6 | ||
Parts other: | 4 males, 6 females, 3 either (13-20 actors possible: 4-14 males, 6-16 females) | |||||
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Synopsis: | A soldier named Luke returns home from battle to discover that no one in Goodland is allowed to speak. Fascist Hounds, wily ghosts, and limping, love-struck mayors chase Luke, his high school sweetheart, and some rebellious Gabbers through the forests of the Minnesota Iron Range -- making love and war with words. Home of the Brave is about the fight for freedom where you least expect it. | |||||
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