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NAVEEN BAHAR CHOUDHURY (1975 - ) |
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Nationality: USA Email: n/a Website: Click here to visit |
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Naveen Bahar Choudhury is a playwright and fiction writer whose work has been produced in theaters and festivals in New York City and around the country. Her plays have been produced, presented, and/or developed by Ensemble Studio Theatre, The New Federal Theatre, Desipina & Co., at Second Stage Theater, and at The Lark Play Development Center. She was a finalist for The Public Theater's 2008 Time Warner Emerging Writers Group. An active participant in the South Asian American theatre community, she is a member of SALAAM Theatre and an alumna member of Desipina & Co. In 2006, she co-founded Desipina CoLab, Desipina's script development wing, and was Co-Artistic Director of CoLab for its first two years. In 2004, she received her MFA in playwriting from the Actors Studio Drama School, where she was a Dramatic Arts Scholar. Ms. Choudhury is a member of The Dramatists Guild.
Plays by Naveen Bahar Choudhury
Eusebius & Florestan | ||
| 1st Produced: | Actors Studio Drama School Theater at Westbeth | 2004 | ||||
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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 | #104529 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | Part of 8th Annual Actors Studio Drama School Repertory Season | |||||
Synopsis: | Composer Robert Schumann starts to lose his mind when the apparitions which normally inspire him, Eusebius and Florestan, begin to betray him. | |||||
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Kitchen, The -or- 9 ½ Minutes of Subcontinental Absurdity | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2009 | |||||
Company: | Ensemble Studio 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 | #104527 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | Part of Ensemble Studio Theatre's 10th Annual Going to the River Festival | |||||
Synopsis: | When a 38-year-old woman announces that she intends to be artificially inseminated, her parents will go to any lengths to stop her, no matter how absurd. | |||||
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Lies That Speak to Me | ||
| 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 | #104528 | |||
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Genre: | Tragicomedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | Prodigal daughter Mira returns home for her brother Raj's wedding, setting off a chain of events that alter Raj's life and the long-established dynamics of this Bangladeshi American family. | |||||
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Skin | ||
| 1st Produced: | Ensemble Studio Theatre | 17 Sep 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 | #132137 | |||
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Genre: | short play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | The Ensemble Studio Theatre and Going to the River have lined up some of the most gifted women playwrights of color - some new, some established - for a three-week presentation of nine short, under 10-minute plays in return of the series The River Crosses Rivers. The River Crosses Rivers II mixes established playwrights like Pearl Cleage and Regina Taylor with emerging playwrights France-Luce Benson, Christine Jean Chambers, Naveen Bahar Choudhury, Philana Omorotionmwan, Desi Moreno-Penson, Bridgette Wimberly and Cori Thomas. | |||||
Synopsis: | A classic tale of Hip Hop Wannabe Boy meets Disenchanted Poet Girl. | |||||
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Waiting Room, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Petoskey Theater Festival, Petoskey, MI | 2002 | ||||
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 | #104530 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | Sibling rivalries explode in hospital waiting room while a family patriarch undergoes open heart surgery. | |||||
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What Not to Sell | ||
| 1st Produced: | Richmond Shepard Theatre, NY, NY | 2008 | ||||
Company: | Desipina & 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 | #85129 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | 11 min play Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | Part of Desipina & Co. 6th Annual Seven.11 Convenience Theater, Richmond Shepard Theatre, June 2008 | |||||
Synopsis: | Convenience store clerk Yasmina is ecstatic that she has been chosen to be featured on a hit television convenience store makeover show, until she realizes that the show's two exuberant hosts are actually giving her ethnicity a makeover. | |||||
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