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WILLIAM BORDEN (1938 - 2010) |
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Nationality: USA Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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Literary Agent: Ed Udovick |
William Borden's plays have won over 90 national playwriting competitions and have had over 300 productions, at Actors Theatre of Louisville and in New York, Los Angeles, India, South Africa, Spain, Canada, Germany, Norway, and elsewhere. His full-length play, Many Worlds, premiered in New York, while Dancing on Air recently won the Heller Theatre Competition, which brings with it a production at the Heller Theatre in Tulsa, OK. Turtle Island Blues, the winner of four competitions, has been produced more than thirty times, and Don't Dance Me\r\nOutside won the Grand Valley Shakespeare Festival Plays in Process Competition and premiered at Playwrights Premiere Theatre, Williamsburg, VA. The film adaptation of his play, The Last Prostitute, starring Sonia Braga and produced by Universal Studios, was shown on Lifetime Television and in Europe and is on video. His play Reunion, retitled I Remember You Now, was filmed for theatrical release by Darinka Productions and has been shown in New York, Paris, London, Croatia, Romania, and Wales.\r\n\r\nHis plays have been published in over 20 anthologies, including The Playwrights' Center Monologues for Women; The Best Ten-Minute Plays 2007, 3 or More Actors; More Scenes and Monologues From The Best New Plays; Scenes and Monologues from the Best New International Plays; Scenes and Monologues From The Best New Plays II; The Best Stage Scenes 1998; and Contemporary International Plays For Young Audiences. His plays have been translated into French, German, Spanish, Catalan, Czech, and Guajarti. His novel, Dancing with Bears, is forthcoming from Livingston Press. Superstore, first published in the U.S. by Harper & Row and in England by Victor Gollancz, was later reissued by Orloff Press. His short stories have won the PEN Syndicated Fiction Prize and The Writers Voice Fiction Competition and have been published in over 40 magazines and anthologies. His narrative poem, "Eurydice's Song," with monotypes by Douglas Kinsey, was published by Bayeux Arts, Calgary, Alberta, and St. Andrew's Press, Laurinberg, NC. His poems have appeared in over 20 anthologies and in over 80 magazines and in a chapbook, Slow Step and Dance. A Core Alumnus Playwright at The Playwrights' Center in Minneapolis, he was a member of PEN, the Dramatists Guild and the Authors Guild.
Plays by William Borden
Alien Hypothesis, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Loft Productions, Tampa, FL | 1996 | ||||
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 | #43352 | |||
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Genre: | Ten Min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 1 m voice, 1 f voice | |||||
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Synopsis: | Larry wonders why he feels as if he doesn't "belong." Could he be an alien? If he is an alien, why haven't the aliens told him? He gets a message-apparently-from his alien wife, who lives in other dimensions, and news of the kids. | |||||
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Apples | ||
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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 | #43340 | |||
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Genre: | 30 min One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | In a deconstructed Garden of Eden Adam finds an Uzi, Lilith tempts lust, and Satan and Eve reach an understanding. | |||||
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Blues Street Jazz Club Rehearses, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1995 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in 2009: The Best 10-Minute Plays for Two or More Actors, Smith & Kraus (December 1, 2009) | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1575257594 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #43350 | |||
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Genre: | Ten Min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
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| Five would-be musicians meet to "play" to recorded music. Their various loves intertwine like strands of music, improvised and unpredictable | |||||
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Bluest Reason: Journey Into History | ||
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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 | #4029 | |||
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Genre: | Historical drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | Bluest Reason re-enacts the Lewis and Clark Expedition's winter of 1804-5 in what is now North Dakota. The play begins with the first event as they step over the current North Dakota border, the court martial of Private John Newman. Fort Mandan is built; relations with the nearby Mandans are established, strained, repaired, upset, and re-established; an English trader visits; Lewis organizes specimens to send to Jefferson; Charbonneau touts his culinary expertise, is hired, fired, and re-hired; Sakakawea makes her case to accompany the Expedition; differences between the whites and the Indians are explored; tensions erupt; romance blossoms; jealousy and disease follow; humor surfaces with gratifying frequency; Sakakawea gives birth to her baby; and from time to time York provides a relevant commentary. | |||||
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Don't Dance Me Outside | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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 | #4030 | |||
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Genre: | Dramatic Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Don't Dance Me Outside won the 1999 Grand Valley Shakespeare Festival Plays in Process Competition and had staged readings in Allendale, MI, and Grand Rapids, MI, October 20 and 22, 1999, and at The New Tradition Theatre Company in St. Cloud, MN, April 11 | |||||
Synopsis: | Butch, a novelist who reveals more about himself in his novels than he thinks, and Ardis, an architect who wants to design a humane mall, each married to someone else, begin an affair. During an afternoon and an evening, in first one hotel room and then another, they discover each other, reveal their pasts, fantasize their future, call their spouses, fight, risk, and love. This two-character romantic comedy explores, with lightness and imagination, contemporary issues such as sexuality, fidelity, romance, ambition, and fame. | |||||
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Garage Sale | ||
| 1st Produced: | Grand View College, Des Moines, IA | 1996 | ||||
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 | #43346 | |||
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Genre: | 60 min One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Warren's starting over. He's selling everything-pajamas, wedding pictures, his past. Bargain-hunters, including his daughter and his ex-wife, find more than they expected, while Garcia, an old hand at garage sales, gives Warren advice and wins at Monopoly | |||||
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Gourmet Love | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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 | #4031 | |||
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Genre: | Dramatic Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | Gourmet Love had a staged reading by The Asylum, Las Vegas, NV, November 5, 1997 and was a Finalist in the Sonoma County Repertory 2001 SCRipts Festival, the 2000 Buntville Crew Competition, and the 1998 Midwest Theatre Network Original Play Competition | |||||
Synopsis: | Hungry for love? Or for food? How long can Sally and Arnie keep their affair from their spouses, who are having an affair of their own? And when everyone finds out about the affairs-at supper-what will they have for breakfast? | |||||
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Gunning For Life | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in 2010 The Best 10-Minute Plays, Smith & Kraus (September 1, 2010) | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1575257723 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #121806 | |||
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Genre: | Ten Min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Hangman | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Brooklyn Publishing | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #124346 | |||
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Genre: | Twelve minute play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Theodore tries to get friendly with his executioner | |||||
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I Want To Be an Indian | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1982 | |||||
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 | #43347 | |||
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Genre: | 30 min One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A liberal who wants to be an Indian gets his chance one night in a bar on a reservation | |||||
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Last Prostitute, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | NYC | 1982 | ||||
Company: | Raft Theatre | |||||
| 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 | #4032 | |||
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Genre: | Dramatic Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A famous call girl, retired and farming in the Midwest, is visited by two teenage boys who want to be "initiated." | |||||
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Loon Dance | ||
| 1st Produced: | Arcata, CA | 1988 | ||||
Company: | Humboldt State University | |||||
| 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 | #4033 | |||
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Genre: | Romantic comedy Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
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Synopsis: | A man invites his new mistress to a family reunion on a Minnesota lake. | |||||
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Many Worlds | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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 | #43343 | |||
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Genre: | Play 120 min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | Axel and Maggie have been having an affair for so long it seems like a marriage, and all the motel rooms are beginning to look alike. Today, however, Maggie has to decide whether to tell Axel that she has terminal cancer, as Axel, in his usual self-obsessed way, tries to explain the "Many Worlds" theory of quantum physics, and from time to time several possible "other worlds" open up, some involving Maggie's husband, Skip, and we see that life has more possibilities than we imagined, even as we are reminded that every life, finally, has only one endi | |||||
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Meet Again | ||
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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 | #43344 | |||
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Genre: | romantic comedy Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
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Synopsis: | A romantic comedy that takes a playful, sexy look at reincarnation. Six characters fall in love with unexpected people in unexpected lives. Beneath the confusions, the play asks what are our boundaries, what are our identities, sexual and otherwise, and what are we here for, after all, whether we're here once or many times? | |||||
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One Evening in Prague | ||
| 1st Produced: | Love Creek Productions, New York, NY | 1994 | ||||
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 | #43351 | |||
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Genre: | Ten Min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | It's 1911 in Prague. At Berta Fanta's weekly salon an up-and-coming physicist, Albert Einstein, meets a little-known author, Franz Kafka | |||||
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Quarks | ||
| 1st Produced: | Cleveland Public Theatre, Cleveland, OH | 1992 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in 2009: The Best 10-Minute Plays for Two or More Actors, Smith & Kraus (December 1, 2009) | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1575257594 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #43348 | |||
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Genre: | Ten Min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
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| A man and a woman meet at a singles bar. His opening line, "Take off your panties," gets unexpected results | |||||
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Tap Dancing Across The Universe | ||
| 1st Produced: | Kansas City, MO | 1982 | ||||
Company: | Unicorn Theatre | |||||
| 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 | #4035 | |||
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Genre: | Romantic comedy Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
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Synopsis: | A college professor who wants to run away from home gets his chance when he and his wife are visited by a would-be shaman, a runaway mother, and a hippy. | |||||
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Turtle Island Blues | ||
| 1st Produced: | Bemidji, MN | 1992 | ||||
Company: | Listening Winds Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | Listening Winds Theatre Press, 2000 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #4036 | |||
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Genre: | Historical tragi-comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | 500 years of American (Turtle Island) history, featuring Sitting Bull, who travels through space and time, Columbus, Isabella (who, disguised as a cabin boy, accompanies Columbus to the new world), Pocahontas, Leonard Peltier, and others. The story of Leonard Peltier's trial and incarceration alternates with Jefferson's writing the Declaration of Independence (with the help of Sally Heming, his African-American mistress), the Trail of Tears, the Battle of the Little Big Horn, Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, the discovery of the North Pole, the murder of Sitting Bull, and other events, both in the ordinary world and in the spirit world. | |||||
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Wonderful World | ||
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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 | #4037 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
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Synopsis: | The down-at-the-heels neighborhood tavern is empty tonight except for CHARLEY, the bartender, and ALICE, a local independent businesswoman. Their apparently idle conversation meanders from ALICE'S son, a soldier in the middle east, to CHARLEY'S daughter, an Army helicopter pilot, to "quantums," uncertainty, national security, and God, when two strangers show up for a meeting. They seem to be terrorists-a Muslim and a Christian, forging an alliance. As the two apparent terrorists test the limits of their trust in each other, ALICE and CHARLEY learn of the violent deaths of their children. They take revenge on the terrorists at hand-or are they terrorists, after all? Among other questions, Wonderful World asks: Does the passion for security lead only to insupportable insecurity? Has fear and anger collapsed into fatigue and hopelessness? Does quantum physics explain the larger world? | |||||
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