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Sam Chanse

SAM CHANSE

  
Nationality:    USA
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Sam Chanse is a writer and theater artist based in New York. A 2015 Sundance Ucross Playwright Fellow, MacDowell Fellow, and member of the Ma-Yi Writers Lab, her work has also been supported by the Lark, the Yale Institute for Music Theatre, Labyrinth Theater, Leviathan Lab, the Claque, Second Generation, Ars Nova, and Tofte Lake Center. Sam received her MFA in playwriting from Columbia University, and in musical theater writing from NYU/Tisch.

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

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

         About That Whole Dying Thing         Back To The Graveyard         Correctional         Fruiting Bodies         Gilgamesh and the Mosquito         Locked House: A Tragicomic Fairytale Of Indeterminate Nature         Lydia's Funeral Video         Marian Jean         Sleeper         Will Sing

About That Whole Dying Thing

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Ars Nova Ant Fest, New York    2011

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Back To The Graveyard

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Usaaf, San Francisco    2009

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Correctional

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Music by Bob Kelly; lyrics and book by Samantha Chanse

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Fruiting Bodies

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Mush (Michelle) is on a mission to decontextualize celebrities because the world needs an intervention. Her tech-oriented sister Vicky is convinced apps will save us. Their semi-estranged dad Ben is really into fungi. When a routine mushroom-hunting expedition goes awry, the three of them wind up in a fog-enveloped forest with a mysterious young boy, and together they search for the road back to Vickys precious Tesla. Can they find their way in the face of limited visibility, a preoccupation with an absent brother, the interfamilial politics of race and gender, and no wifi?

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Nominated for The Kilroys 2015. The Kilroys is a group of playwrights and producers in LA who publish an annual industry survey of excellent new plays by female and trans playwrights. It is a tool for producers committed to ending the systemic underrepresentation of female and trans playwrights in the American theater.

1st Produced:
Ma-Yi Theatre, New York    2013

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dark comedy

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Gilgamesh and the Mosquito

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Music by Bob Kelly; lyrics and book by Samantha Chanse

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Goodspeed Opera House, East Haddam, Ct    Feb 2014

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Locked House: A Tragicomic Fairytale Of Indeterminate Nature

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Ma-Yi Theatre, New York    2011

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Lydia's Funeral Video

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In a not-so-distant future, abortions are legal only within 28 days of conception. apocalypse-obsessed bank clerk Lydia Clark-Lin, commanded by her dream-invading embryo, has a month to create her funeral video, terminate a pregnancy, and do some standup comedy. www.LydiasFuneralVideo.com 1h 55m, San Francisco, California Comedy, Solo Show
- http://www.fringenyc.org/

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1h 55m, Comedy, Solo Show

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Marian Jean

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Ma-Yi Theatre, New York    2012

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Sleeper

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addicted to playing cards and the half-hearted pursuit of job interviews, a young woman is visited by a young man with a strange invitation: to join him as a would-be prophet. Replete with rapid-fire banter, paranormal activity, and secreted children, Sleeper (a Chronicle of the Return of the Remarkable) is a comedic tale of a distracted writer and a long-lost brother in search of activation.
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1st Produced:
Asian American Theatre Company, San Francisco, California    2004

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Will Sing

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an experiment in inappropriate singing.
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part of Ice Cubes A one time only Ice Factory studio series. By the Ma-Yi theater Company Writers Lab (Samantha Chanse, Carla Ching, Mia Chung, Michael Lew And Qui Nguyen)

1st Produced:
3LD Art & Technology Center
80 Greenwich Street, New York, NY 10013    28 Jul 2011

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