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ANDY BLOCH |
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Nationality: USA Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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aka Rooster Mitchell. Produced and published work includes NEVER THE SAME RHYME TWICE (Los Angeles, Chicago, Off Broadway), THE KILLER AND THE COMIC (Los Angeles, Chicago, Off Broadway), 10 AM IN PITTSBURGH (Los Angeles), and DEAR DAISY (Los Angeles) as well as staged readings for THE BRONX HEBREW SCHOOL AND SPORTS BOOK (with James Farentino, Dan Lauria, and Ralph Macchio) and DODGING THE BULLET (with Joe Mantegna and Stephanie Zimbalist). The author's THE KILLER AND THE COMIC, the longest running play of the Mary Arrchie Theatre Company's history, received two Joseph Jefferson Awards (Chicago's Tony) and was nominated for three. Other credits include the feature script for NEIGHBORZ for 4am Films and an episode of PBS's award-winning series, CROSSROADS CAFe.
Plays by Andy Bloch
10 Am In Pittsburgh (Aka Blood Strangers) | ||
| 1st Produced: | Santa Monica Playhouse, Santa Monica, CA | - - - | ||||
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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 | #45640 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Two brothers duke it out in a hellish hour of brotherly love. A realistic two-hander; funny and very moving | |||||
Synopsis: | Two estranged brothers rob a bank together then get holed up in a dingy motel room in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Hiding from the cops and plotting their next move, they are forced to re-learn all about each other in the most desperate of circumstances. | |||||
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Bellflower Sessions, The | ||
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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 | #101318 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | A biting commentary on America's economy - and just how far we'll allow ourselves to fall. finalist in the Sin City Playwrighting Contest in Las Vegas sponsored by the Onyx Theatre. "The Bellflower Sessions" was runner-up in a nationwide search of over 300 plays. | |||||
Synopsis: | Jack Calvin, a self-proclaimed victim of the recession, finds himself unemployed, depressed, and quickly losing his mind. He visits Dr. Wendy Bellflower, a mentally unstable psychiatrist, who uses a vulnerable Jack to avenge her former lover; an act that ultimately costs Jack his best friend, his marriage, his sanity, and his freedom. | |||||
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Bronx Hebrew School And Sports Book, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | staged reading: The Coronet Theatre, Los Angeles | - - - | ||||
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| 1st Published: | The Best Men's Monologues (2000) and Best Stage Scenes (2000) by Smith and Kraus., 2000 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #45641 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | male voice, 1g | |||||
Notes: | A fun period piece full of Runyunesque dialogue. A bit tawdry in places | |||||
Synopsis: | Matzo. Murder. Mayhem! Set in the Bronx in the 1930's, a small time, down and out, Jewish mob, who runs a bookie joint from the Bronx Hebrew School, fixes a horse race to pay for the children's annual Seder | |||||
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Dear Daisy | ||
| 1st Produced: | Actors Forum Theatre, Los Angeles, CA | - - - | ||||
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 | #45642 | |||
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Genre: | Bittersweet comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | A very Neil Simon-esque play (my first!) | |||||
Synopsis: | The story of an agoraphobic and his wife who write an advice column for a New York City newspaper. The column is named for their beloved daughter, Daisy. Ed, the husband, blames himself for her death and refuses to ever leave the house again. Fran will risk everything to save him | |||||
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Dodging The Bullet | ||
| 1st Produced: | Staged reading: The Coronet Theatre, Los Angeles | - - - | ||||
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 | #45643 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy/drama Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | A compelling staged reading with the great Joe Mantegna as William "Col" Collins, the heart-broken and conflicted cop. | |||||
Synopsis: | A veteran Chicago policeman faces his mortality both on the job and in his failing marriage to Annie, who, when the play begins, has left him. All this and a crazy cop killer who wreaks havoc on the city. | |||||
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Killer And The Comic, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Mary Arrchie Theatre, Chicago | - - - | ||||
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| 1st Published: | The Best Men's Monologues (1999) by Smith and Kraus, 1999 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #45608 | |||
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Genre: | Black comedy Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Received rave reviews in Chicago and New York. Ran for over one year in Chicago and earned two Joseph Jefferson Awards (Chicago's Tony). A true crowd pleaser with, as the Chicago Tribune said, a "satisfying bloody conclusion". | |||||
Synopsis: | An old time comedian sidetracked in a winter storm near Buffalo, New York, ends up inside the log cabin of a wanted serial killer | |||||
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Never The Same Rhyme Twice | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Mary Arrchie Theatre, Chicago | - - - | ||||
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| 1st Published: | The Best Women's Monologues (1999) by Smith and Kraus and Original Works Publishing >>>, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #45639 | |||
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Genre: | Black comedy Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 4 | ||
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Notes: | A great play for four daring women! The full length version of this play was shortened to create Act Two for Buffalo Kill: Two Brutal Comedies, which ran Off Broadway at the 29th Street Rep. Act One was The Killer And The Comic | |||||
Synopsis: | Four con-Women from upstate New York-- Jo, Sam, Tommi, and Charlie -- have joined for their weekly game of poker. Tonight the stakes are higher as they chomp cigars, guzzle whiskey, recant razor-sharp dialogue, and plot to expose the shady under-dealings of one of their own. Guns, revenge, karma, and "nothing wild but the night". | |||||
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