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RENEE CALARCO |
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Nationality: USA Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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Renee Calarco lives and works in Washington, DC. Her play SHORT ORDER STORIES received the 2007 Charles MacArthur Award for Outstanding New Play. Her full-length play GOOD COUNSEL was read as part of Charter Theatre's First Draft Reading Series in March 2007 and was read as part of Geva Theatre Center's Regional Playwrights Festival in April 2008. A ten-minute version of GOOD COUNSEL was read at the 2004 Source Theatre Ten-Minute Play Competition, where it received an Honorable Mention. Other ten-minute plays include WARRIORS, HEAVY METAL, and THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY DEFECTIVE PEOPLE. Renee is an Artistic Associate at Charter Theatre and an Associate Member of the Dramatists Guild of America. She teaches improvisational comedy for the Theatre Lab.
Plays by Renee Calarco
Good Counsel | ||
| 1st Produced: | Warehouse Theatre, Washington, DC | 2007 | ||||
Company: | Charter Theatre (First-Draft Reading Series) | |||||
| 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 | #93792 | |||
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Genre: | Full-length comic drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | Play was also read as part of Geva Theatre Center's Regional Playwrights Festival in April 2008. (Rochester, NY) | |||||
Synopsis: | Mo's a workaholic lawyer with a wiseass husband and a baby fetish. When her best friend Patti announces she's putting her brilliant career on hold for marriage and kids, Mo contains her envy pretty well. Until Patti's husband admits that he used to be gay. And then things get complicated. GOOD COUNSEL is a comedy that examines the compromises that people make to stay together. Or not. | |||||
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Heavy Mettle | ||
| 1st Produced: | Page to Stage Festival. John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts, DC, USA >>> | 2008 | ||||
Company: | Accokeek Creek Theatre Co. | |||||
| 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 | #88684 | |||
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Genre: | comic drama Ten min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | Playwrights residing in D.C., Maryland, and Virginia present a series of short plays set in a standard American diner at Christmas. Playwrights include Renee Calarco, Audrey Cefaly, Joe Dennison, Deborah Finkelstein, Lynne Lerych, Mark Harvey Levine, Steve Lewis, John Shanahan, Gwydion Suilebhan, Jeffery Sweet, and Walter Thinnes. | |||||
Synopsis: | Sometimes you hit the lottery and sometimes you don't. | |||||
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If You Give a Cat a Cupcake | ||
| 1st Produced: | Adventure Theatre, 7300 MacArthur Blvd in Glen Echo Park, Glen Echo, MD. | Mar 2011 | ||||
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 | #125989 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation TYA | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Based on the book by Laura Numeroff | |||||
Synopsis: | If you give a cat a cupcake, he'll ask for some sprinkles to go with it. When you give him the sprinkles, he might spill some on the floor. Cleaning up will make him hot, so you'll give him a bathing suit . . . and that's just the beginning! | |||||
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Mating of Angela Weiss, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Source Festival, Washington DC | 2009 | ||||
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 | #100257 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
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Synopsis: | weaves various storylines together in a funny tapestry of life, or more precisely, Angela's life, with ruminations about motherhood, mothering, and nurturing, even panda style. Angela is a studious and serious animal scientist preparing to give her first important presentation and is coached to get it just right. Only later do we learn that all her meticulous preparation was to address middle-school kids prone to asking off the chart questions about the teacher instead of the animals. It is while being subjected to a barrage of unexpected, adolescent questions that Angela reveals her travel plans to visit China, the land of her heritage. Although hints popped up in early scenes about her having been adopted, finally getting her to admit plans to travel and find her birth-mother was an intriguing revelation that helped spin the tale into even more fascinating territory, especially with the various scenes involving Angela's interactions with her devoted and patient adoptive mom. | |||||
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Religion Thing, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Theater J, 1529 Sixteenth Street, NW Washington, DC | 04 Jan 2012 | ||||
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 | #135688 | |||
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Genre: | comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | The Religion Thing is the centerpiece to Theater Js new festival, Locally Grown, celebrating the work of Washington area playwrights. | |||||
Synopsis: | Mo and Brian are a picture-perfect DC couple: they're smart, they're witty, and they have a beautifully remodeled kitchen. But when Mo's best friend Patti announces she's found Jesus and is putting her own career on hold, Mo must take a closer look at the harder truths surrounding her own marriage. A brand new comedy about relationships, faith and the fine line between compromise and regret. | |||||
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Seven Habits of Highly Defective People, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Source Theatre Company, Washington, DC | 2003 | ||||
Company: | Source Theatre Company - Ten-Minute Play Competition | |||||
| 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 | #93794 | |||
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Genre: | comedy Ten min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
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Short Order Stories | ||
| 1st Produced: | Theatre on the Run, Arlington, VA | 2006 | ||||
Company: | Charter 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 | #93791 | |||
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Genre: | Full-length comic drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | Winner: 2007 Charles MacArthur Award for Outstanding New Play | |||||
Synopsis: | What happens to people when they leave the place they hate and the people they love? And what happens to the people who stay? SHORT ORDER STORIES is a comic drama that explores the rifts between those who leave home and those who stay. | |||||
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Warriors | ||
| 1st Produced: | Source Theatre Co., Washington, DC | 2008 | ||||
Company: | Cultural Development Corp. - 2008 Source 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 | #93793 | |||
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Genre: | drama Ten min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | Jackie is having the worst day of her life: her son Brandon has been wounded in Iraq and Brandon's best friend Matt is in love with her. As Jackie prepares to fly to Germany to be with Brandon, he shows up. And so does Matt. | |||||
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