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Greg Oliver Bodine

GREG OLIVER BODINE

  
Nationality:    USA
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Greg Oliver Bodine is an actor and writer living in New York City. His plays includeWicked Tavern Tales, Poe Times Two, I, Carpenter, a Hollywood Lesson in Physics, Heavy Flora, War of the Worleys, the Bottom Line and adaptations of the Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad, the Thieves Who Couldn't Help Sneezing, by Thomas Hardy, Plautus' the Pot of Gold,Charles Dickens' a Christmas Carol, andthe Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Mr. Bodine is a Nassau Grants For the Arts Recipient, (a Christmas Carol) awarded by the New York State Council on the Arts and the Long Island Arts Council. He currently works as a Theatre Teaching artist in the Long Island School Partnership Program with Tilles Center For the Performing Arts in Brookville, NY. Mr. Bodine is a graduate of Hobart College and the M.F.A. Drama Program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild.

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

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         Christmas Carol, A         Christmas Thieves: A Small Town Radio Play         Company Men         Fatwa Of Corpsman Johnny Jones, The         Hound, The         I, Carpenter         Poe, Times Two         Requiem for Sherlock Holmes, A will be performed as a staged reading from August 8th- 10th, 2013 at the WorkShop Theater Company. The theater is located on 312 West 36th Street, Fourth Floor East New York, NY 10018 Between 8th and 9th avenues. This new, full- length play has been adapted from The Final Problem and The Adventure of The Empty House by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Performances are FREE and open to the public. To order tickets online, visit: https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/926217 (Limi         Secret Sharer, The         To Build A Fire         Wicked Tavern Tales         Yellow Wallpaper, The

Christmas Carol, A

Synopsis:
Charles Dickens' 1867 American Reading Tour is off to a rough start. Due to an inexplicable loss of his luggage, he regretfully announces that he will be unable to read from his beloved classic, a Christmas Carol. all is not lost however; Dickens delivers what he promised by performing from memory the magical story of ebenezer Scrooge's journey from miserliness to redemption with warmth and humor. This one-man play is based on the condensed version Dickens himself used on his historic reading tours of the United States.

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1st Produced:
WorkShop theater
312 West 36th Street, 4th floor, New York, NY 10018    16 Dec 2012

Organisations:
WorkShop Theatre Company

1st Published:
Playscripts, Inc - New York   -

Music:
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Genre:
60-70 min Comedy/Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Christmas Thieves: A Small Town Radio Play

Synopsis:
It's Christmas eve in America's heartland, and radio host Bjorn Gundlarrsen is preparing for the telethon performance that will keep his tiny polka station afloat. Unfortunately, the prize troupe of British actors he's hired has all fallen ill due to a dastardly combination of indigestible foreign meats. With time running out, will Bjorn be able to replace them in time and save the show? after all, it's not like Christmas is known for miracles. . .

Notes:
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1st Produced:
New York Artists Theatre Co. (Oyster Bay, Ny, United States)    2000

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Playscripts, Inc - New York   -

Music:
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Genre:
45-55 min Comedy

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Company Men

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
public reading at Working theatre
NY, USA    Aug 2011

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Fatwa Of Corpsman Johnny Jones, The

Synopsis:
A wounded Navy Corpsman, home on leave, struggles to relate his war experience in Afghanistan to his Vietnam Vet father.

Notes:
part of They That Have Borne The Battle One-Act Play Festival. A program of new short plays that have military themes in honor of Veterans Day

1st Produced:
WorkShop theater
312 West 36th Street, 4th floor, New York, NY 10018    05 May 2011

Organisations:
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1st Published:
http://www.indietheaternow.com/Play/the-fatw-of-corpsman-johnny-jones   -

Music:
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Genre:
short play 18 min

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Hound, The

Synopsis:
Midnight. Late December, 1937. Reed, a discredited archeologist and aesthete, is running for his life. Having stolen an ancient amulet from the fetid grave of a neglected Holland churchyard, he locks himself in the library of his London townhouse in order to evade the pursuit of some 'malign being.' In shocking detail, he recounts a gruesome testimony of unnatural occurrences surrounding the totem's theft. . .and the appalling consequences for all who come to possess it.

Notes:
part of Things At the Doorstep. This is A disturbing double-bill of solo performances Adapted from And inspired by the man whom Stephen King describes As "the Twentieth Century's greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale," Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890-1937)

1st Produced:
Manhattan Theatre Source
177 MacDougal Street, New York, NY 10011    14 Mar 2011

Organisations:
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1st Published:
http://www.indietheaternow.com/Play/the-hound   -

Music:
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Genre:
short piece 40 min

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

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I, Carpenter

I, Carpenter
On a quiet summer evening, a master carpenter named Rick is caught finishing his work on a gazebo when his younger boss shows up after receiving a noise complaint. This tightly paced drama explores the consequences of taking away one's reason to be when that reason is simply to work.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
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1st Published:
in "Great Short Plays: Volume 10", Playscripts Inc, 2014   -

Music:
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Genre:
Short Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Poe, Times Two

Synopsis:
This is a double bill of short one-man plays adapted from edgar allan Poe's stories "the Cast of amontillado" and "the Black Cat."
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
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1st Produced:

Organisations:
Straight From The Source Summer Showcase Series

1st Published:
http://www.indietheaternow.com/Play/poe-times-two   -

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama 65 min

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Requiem for Sherlock Holmes, A will be performed as a staged reading from August 8th- 10th, 2013 at the WorkShop Theater Company. The theater is located on 312 West 36th Street, Fourth Floor East New York, NY 10018 Between 8th and 9th avenues. This new, full- length play has been adapted from The Final Problem and The Adventure of The Empty House by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Performances are FREE and open to the public. To order tickets online, visit: https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/926217 (Limi

Synopsis:
Holmes meets his match, the criminal mastermind, Prof. Moriarty, in a climactic struggle above the Reichenbach Falls in Switzerland, leaving a grief-stricken Dr. Watson to pick up the pieces and help solve a brutal murder nearly three years later in this new

Notes:
This new, full- length play has been adapted from The Final Problem and The Adventure of The Empty House by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. A Requiem for Sherlock Holmes has received developmental support at Lost and Found Theatre Company in Canada, Writers At The Players and WorkShop Theater Company in NYC, where it has received three public readings since 2013. The most recent reading was presented at WorkShop as part of the company's Sundays@Six Series on Sept. 21, 2014

1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
http://www.indietheaternow.com/Play/a-requiem-for-sherlock-holmes   -

Music:
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Genre:
adaptation 135 min

Parts:
Male:  25            Female:  8            Other:  -

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Secret Sharer, The

Synopsis:
In 1909, a young sea captain is torn between his duty to his ship and his loyalty to a fugitive, whom he has offered refuge after the murder of a mutinous crew member. Set against the background of the sea at the end of the "age of Sail," the play is both an adventure tale and a symbolic story of self-exploration and identity.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
South Street Seaport Museum (Reading) (New York, Ny, United States)    2001

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Playscripts, Inc - New York   -

Music:
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Genre:
50-60 min Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  10            Female:  -            Other:  -

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To Build A Fire

Synopsis:
It's Man vs. Nature set in the unforgiving landscape and sub-zero temperatures of the Yukon, adapted here from the classic, 1908 short story of survival by Jack

Notes:
part of COLD SNAPS 2012 One-Act Play Festival

1st Produced:
WorkShop Theater Company    Dec 2012

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
http://www.indietheaternow.com/Play/to-build-a-fire   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
one act 15 min

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Wicked Tavern Tales

Synopsis:
Production Consolidated and Manhattan theatre Source present Wicked Tavern Tales, a program of three short plays by Greg Oliver Bodine adapted from short stories by edgar allen Poe. the following description is from the show's press release: "Wicked Tavern Tales, adapted from three of edgar allan Poe's best short horror stories: 'the Cask of amontillado', 'the Tell-tale Heart', and 'the Black Cat', combines classic storytelling and Drama in the genre of the macabre. Welcome to the Hell's Hound (circa 1850s)-a tavern in an unnamed city where the beer flows freely and the tales are tall! Or are they? On a brisk October night, just as last call is announced, the tavern proprietor and a barmaid are entreated by the audience to entertain them with 'a good story' before closing time. the narrators oblige and begin to spin-not one-but three yarns of mystery and murder. Soon, the characters from each story appear, breathing life into the words of their storytellers, supplying the action, and bringing to each vignette its own harrowing denouement."
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
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1st Produced:

Organisations:
Production Consolidated & Manhattan Theatre Source

1st Published:
http://www.indietheaternow.com/Play/wicked-tavern-tales   -

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama 80 min

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Yellow Wallpaper, The

Synopsis:
New england, 1891. Jane, a sensitive and imaginative woman, finds herself sequestered on a remote estate that her husband, a physician, has rented for the summer. She is forbidden to write, and must hide her journal entries as she recuperates from what he has diagnosed as a "temporary nervous depression following the birth of their baby. Without anything or anyone to stimulate her, Jane becomes obsessed by the wallpaper in her bedroom as the effect of her domestic oppression and stifled creativity begins to take a toll on her sanity.

Notes:
adapted from the short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

1st Produced:

Organisations:
North Shore Theatre Group

1st Published:
http://www.indietheaternow.com/Play/the-yellow-wallpaper   -

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama 65 min

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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