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Susan Bernfield

SUSAN BERNFIELD

  
Nationality:    USA
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Susan Bernfield. Stretch (a fantAsia) was produced by People's Light & Theatre in Malvern, Pennsylvania in 2010, premiered at New Georges in New York City in 2008, and was seen in workshop form in Soho Think Tank's 2007 Ice Factory Festival at the Ohio Theatre. Full-length works include Big Hungry World, Barking Girl, Out From Under It, Tracy Petunia, and a solo musical, Tiny Feats of Cowardice, which have been presented or developed by the Eugene O'Neill National Playwrights Conference, Playwrights Horizons, adirondack Theatre Festival, FringeNYC, Magic Theatre, Vital Theatre Company, HB Playwrights, Synapse Productions, andHow Theatre, HeRe Arts Center, and Peculiar Works Project, among others. Her plays have been finalists for the Bay area Playwrights Festival, PlayLabs at the Playwrights Center and Mill Mountain Theater's New Play Competition. Ms. Bernfield is also the founder and artistic director of New Georges, an award-winning nonprofit Theater company that has produced and developed ambitious new plays (by women) in New York City since 1992. In this capacity, she serves on the Board of Directors of the alliance of Resident Theatres/New York and is the recipient of an OBIe award for artistic achievement.

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

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

         Barking Girl         Big Hungry World         Out From Under It         Stretch (A Fantasia)         Tiny Feats Of Cowardice         Tracy Petunia

Barking Girl

Synopsis:
Rae sees herself as independent, romantic, and unlike everyone else. So when the world thrusts a strange new identity on her, just because she's had a baby, she fights it with every fiber of her being. Until adventure abruptly reappears into her life, leaving her to create a connection with her child, on her own terms.
nytheatre.com

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Big Hungry World

Synopsis:
Catherine has made billions in Silicon Valley. Now she wants to give it away and sets up a charity. However, trying to feed the world does not fit into the rules of big business

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First Light Festival    2011

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Out From Under It

Synopsis:
Joanna thinks too much and works too much, and she's just starting to remedy her problem of dating too little, when she falls in the snow and doesn't wake up for three years; now that shes tuned to an unfamiliar clock, recovery might take longer than expected.

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1st Produced:
Vital Theatre Company, New York City    23 Jun 2003

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Play/Drama 90 min

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Male:  1            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Stretch (A Fantasia)

Synopsis:
imagines the final days of Rose Mary Woods, Richard M. Nixon's longtime loyal secretary, as she observes the presidential election of 2004 from her alliance, Ohio nursing home. She connects the past with the present while thinking about power, loyalty, and lying
- nytheatre.com

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Soho Think Tank's Ice Factory Festival (workshop) 17 Jul 2007

1st Produced:
The Living Theater, Ny    2008

Organisations:
New Georges

1st Published:
Playscripts, Inc (2010)   -

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Tiny Feats Of Cowardice

Synopsis:
Susan is fretful, hesitant, apprehensive, shy. . . She's scared, okay, she's chicken! aren't you? From the writer and composer of New Georges' downtown hit STReTCH (a fantasia) comes a one-woman musical about one woman's lifelong love affair. . . with worry. www.functioningfearful.com 1h 35m, Manhattan, NYC Musical, Solo Show
- http://www.fringenyc.org/

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music by Rachel Peters

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Precipice Partners

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1h 35m, Musical, Solo Show Musical

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Tracy Petunia

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