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Bruce Coughran

BRUCE COUGHRAN

  (1955 - )

Nationality:    USA
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Bruce Coughran's first produced play, The Secret of Life, was nominated for Best New Play by the Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle in 2016. He studied at UCSD, UCLA and Playhouse West in LA. He lives in Berkeley.

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

        Darwin in Malibu         Secret of Life, The



Darwin in Malibu

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1st Produced:
Berkeley City Club, Berkeley, CA     26 Dec 2016

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Secret of Life, The

Synopsis:
It is early in 1951. In Cambridge, England a precocious 23-year old American, James Watson, arrives to work at Cavendish Laboratories and is put into a shared office with 36-year old English graduate student Francis Crick. Several miles away in London, a brilliant British crystallographer, Rosalind Franklin, comes back from 3 years in Paris to work at Kings College Laboratories, and is given an assignment to work with a new sample of pure DNA, unknowingly intruding on the work of Dr. Maurice Wilkins at the same lab. The two groups will clash and chafe, and within a year one of the most important discoveries of the 20th century will emerge; the structure of the DNA molecule. The discovery will be called one of the most important in the history of Biology. Francis Crick referred to it simply as The Secret of Life.

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Nominated for Bay Area Theater Critics Circle Award for Best New Play in the Bay Area - 2015

1st Produced:
Berkeley City Club, Berkeley, CA     2015

Organisations:
Indra's Net Theater

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Genre:
Drama

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  1            Other:  -

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