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Alexis Clements

ALEXIS CLEMENTS  (1980 - )

 Nationality:    USA
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alexis Clements is a writer, performer, and pamphleteer currently based in New York City. an alumna of the Women's Project Playwrights Lab, a former fellow of the Dramatists Guild of America, recipient of two Puffin Foundation artist Grants, and a Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation grant, she writes plays, short stories, articles, and reviews, and is the founder of New acquisition. Her work has been produced and published in both the US and the UK. Recent theatrical productions include: Place ReImagined (New York, NY); Your Own Personal apocalypse (New York, NY); The Interview (Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Scotland, UK); CaUSAlity (Wheeling, WV); Three Choices (Chesterfield, UK); Pieces (Washington, DC, & Iowa City, Ia); Class and The Great American Novel (Washington, DC); Finding Words and Unfettered (Kansas City, MO). She is the co-editor of the two-volume anthology of plays, Out of Time & Place, which includes her performance piece, Conversation. Her plays, Pieces and Three Choices, have been published by KNOCK. Her short stories have appeared in a handful of literary magazines and collections, including two different anthologies published by Route(UK), Bonne Route and Ideas above Our Station, and also in the Guardian. Her articles and reviews have appeared in magazines and newspapers such as The Brooklyn Rail, Nature, aesthetica, and Travel New England. She regularly writes about theater and performance art for The L Magazine. She has a M.Sc. in Philosophy & History of Science from the London School of Economics and Political Science and a B.a. in Theatre Studies from Emerson College.

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 Casuality         Conversation         Global Cooling: The Women Chill         Interview, The         People Watching         Your Own Personal Apocalypse

Casuality

Synopsis:
Set in a contemporary city the play looks at love, childhood, superstition, ego, and the many ways that we try to explain how and why a certain thing has happened through the eyes, words, and deeds of five characters whose lives interact and react.

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Company:
Oglebay Institute

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Conversation

Synopsis:
Imagine you could have a perfect conversation every time, getting exactly what you want from the other person. Katharine, the main character in this show, has a theory she thinks will help you do just that.

Notes:
available in Out of Time & Place, Volume 2

1st Produced:
Ethical Society, Philadelphia Fringe Festival    Sep 2010

Company:
actio/reactio

1st Published:
Women's Project, aug 2010   978-0-578-06017-0

Music:
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Genre:
Solo performance

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Global Cooling: The Women Chill

Synopsis:
For these plays, there is no curtain, no footlights, no stage. Just six site-specific, short related plays from Women's Project Theater Company written for the lobbies, mezzanines, escalators, bridges, nooks, and crannies of the World Financial Center complex, 220 Vesey Street, that people pass through every day. The plays, grouped under the title Global Cooling: The Women Chill, share one topic: global warming is not so hot. all written, directed, and produced by women, these plays take place in real time and touch on the issues of Global Cooling that affect not only real people but scientists and mother nature. Global Cooling: The Women Chill is the third site-specific theatrical event Women's Project has delivered to artsWorld Financial Center and is another installment of 'hit and run theater' where business people, tourists and shoppers traveling through the World Financial Center may walk around, through or in a play without even knowing they have a role in the performance. Part of this experiment from Women's Project's playwright, director and producer lab is to see how real people react as a play happens next to them or around them or even with them
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1st Produced:
World Financial Center Complex, 220 Vesey Street, NY    2009

Company:
Women's Project

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Music:
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Genre:
short Play

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  6            Other:  -

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Interview, The

Synopsis:
This play focuses on the way that two individuals, faced with an extreme set of circumstances, make very different choices about their lives. Set in a near-barren room, each person has been given the task of interviewing the other for a familiar purpose. The play quickly opens up into a study of two characters struggling to make individual choices in a world that demands that everyone should follow the same set of

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Company:
actio/reactio theatre company

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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People Watching

Synopsis:
This play is an ensemble piece requiring 5 actors and actresses to play 18 different roles. The setting for the play is a busy city park and the action centers on two characters: a young girl, Milly and an older businessman, Phil. Throughout the play a bond grows between the two after Milly loses her mother in the park. Other characters move in and out of the scene, listening to and watching the pair, or being listened to and watched themselves. The dialogue deals with friendship, love, and possession, but the central theme remains throughout-how our role as passive observers effects the decisions and judgments that we make about others.

Notes:
Winner of the 10th Annual Playwriting Contest At Emerson College.

1st Produced:
Emerson College, Studio Theatre    2001

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Your Own Personal Apocalypse

Synopsis:
Barbara, a chicken farmer living in Upstate New York has traveled to the city to spread the word to the masses about 'Your Own Personal apocalypse.' She has brought with here hundreds of printed pamphlets, a basket full of baby chickens and a desire to communicate her message to everyone she meets. She sets up shop in storefronts, on the streets or in whatever space she can muster, drawing the audience in to her world and ideas through the pamphlets, her words, a video she has created and a handful of activities, including a method of predicting when your personal apocalypse is going to happen.

Notes:
This piece is A mix of performance, installation, literary pamphlet And web project. To read more About the project visit www.newacquisition.org

1st Produced:
-    2007

Company:
New acquisition

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Experimental Piece

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