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LEON CHASE
(1973 - )Nationality: USA
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Leon Chase grew up in the industrial suburbs south of Detroit. "The Last Carburetor" was Chase's first and only full-length drama; It enjoyed two off-off-Broadway runs in New York City, and was subsequently published as part of Martin Denton's "Plays and Playwrights 2003". Chase also wrote the book, music, and lyrics for "Temp!", a musical comedy about office workers. A scene from this musical, which he directed, was produced by San Francisco's Popcorn Anti-Theater in January 2000. He is a co-founder of the custom-van-themed site rockinvan.com, and a sometimes contributor to the fringe-cinema magazine "Cashiers du Cinemart", which featured him in its anthology "Impossibly Funky: A Cashiers du Cinemart Collection". For nearly a decade, Leon Chase has fronted the band Uncle Leon and the Alibis. He created several distinctively lo-fi videos for the group, including their most recent, "Wild Ways". He orchestrated the guerrilla video project "Beer Train", performed live on the New York City subway, for the 2013 Couch by Couchwest Festival, where it won Most Creative Location and was runner-up for People's Choice. He also sings for the science-fiction-themed metal band Reign of Zaius. In late 2013, he created the video "The Pill Girls", a short parody of '60s sexploitation films, which he wrote, cast, costumed, directed, edited, and scored. Although untrained in art, Leon enjoyed painting privately for many years. In March of 2014, he officially went public with a series of paintings entitled "Don't Let Our Youth Go to Waste", which showed at Supercollider in Brooklyn, NY. He currently lives in Brooklyn, New York, where he divides his time between painting, music, filmmaking, the occasional writing project, and working on his van.
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Last Carburetor, The Temp!Last Carburetor, The
The American family, or what's left of it anyway, comes under scrutiny in a taut Drama of dysfunctionality. Doug, 50, is a broken-down shadow of a man-not unlike the rotting 1970 Plymouth Barracuda that has awaited repair in his suburban Michigan garage for more than two decades. Doug's elder son Keith left home to become a success in the computer biz on the West Coast. Younger son Josh, who idolized dad and car, grew up with neither affection nor respect. He served in Desert Storm (to the consternation of his Vietnam vet father), and now works as a bounty hunter. Mom has left, though Doug seems unable to say for sure whether she's on vacation or gone for good. The youngest child, Ayla, is in college, looking eagerly forward to escape from her family. Josh and Doug maintain an uneasy truce. And then Keith turns up, unannounced, in a ditch near Doug's house. Thus begins, in earnest, Chase's drama, in which all the stuff Doug thought he knew, and everything Ayla and Josh though they understood, and the old emotions Keith thinks he's going to rediscover-all these things blow up in everybody's face, in a cathartic, life-changing weekend.
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Present Company theatorium, New York, NY 2001
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Overlap Productions
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in Plays and Playwrights 2003, the New York Theatre experience, Inc >>>
Print version is out of print. Available as an e-book. ISSN 1546-1319 09670234-4-0
Print version is out of print. Available as an e-book. ISSN 1546-1319 09670234-4-0
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about office workers
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wrote the book, music, And lyrics
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