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Gabriel Jason Dean

GABRIEL JASON DEAN  (1979 - )

 Nationality:    USA
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Gabriel Dean is a multi-disciplinary theatre artist whose plays have been produced and read at Dad's Garage Theatre, actor's Express, Horizon Theatre, aurora Theatre, Relativity Theatre Concern, Stage Door Players, The Process Theatre, Emory University and Oglethorpe University. His adaptation of Beowulf is published by PlayScripts and has been produced in Canada, Georgia, New Jersey, Wisconsin and New York. Gabriel's poetry, fiction and journalism has been published in Snake Nation Review, The Tower, Eclectica Magazine, The Melic Review, South E-Zine, Creative Loafing and aRTlanta Magazine. Gabriel is the recipient of several distinctions for his writing including the City of Atlanta Bureau of Cultural affairs Playwriting award, the Porter Flemming Prize for Fiction, the Sidney Lanier Prize for Poetry, and the Horizon Theatre Young Playwright's Festival. as an actor, he's performed in over 40 plays and musicals. as a singer, Gabriel debuted professionally at the age of 18 at Carnegie Hall singing the solo in Kirby Shaw's jazz arrangement of "God Bless America." He studied the interdisciplinary art of Musical Theatre at CaP21 at New York University's Tisch School of the arts and earned his B.a. in Playwriting from Oglethorpe University where he also studied theatre criticism abroad at the University of Manchester in England. Gabriel founded and facilitated the Odyssey Program, a drama/creative writing workshop for Morry's Camp, a non-profit camp for underprivileged inner city kids in New York. He is a co-founder of Relativity Theatre Concern in Atlanta, a member of the Dramatist's Guild of America, a member of Theatre Communications Group and the former Marketing Director and Playwriting instructor at actor's Express Theatre. Gabriel is currently a playwriting fellow pursuing his M.F.a at the James a. Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas-austin.

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below is a list of Gabriel Jason Dean's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

 Beowulf         Blue Fingernails         Buy My House Please!         Fugue For Amorous Tornadoes         Iron Moon         Piece         Pigskin, The         Qualities Of Starlight         Riffed         Saltwater In The Eye         Women Of Thornwell, The

Beowulf

Synopsis:
The great warrior Beowulf comes to the aid of the King of the Danes in a quest to kill the monster Grendel and free his people from terror. as he follows the heroic code of their ancient society, he must face new dangers and overcome the challenges of being a king. a re-telling of the classic epic poem, this adaptation highlights the language of the original in a hybrid style of movement, music, and ritual.

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1st Produced:
actor's Express (Atlanta, Ga, United States)    2003

Company:
actor's Express

1st Published:
Playscripts, Inc - New York   -

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Genre:
45-60 min Play/Drama

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  6 either (6-11 actors possible: 0-11 males, 0-11 females)

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Blue Fingernails

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1st Produced:
Dad's Garage Theatre    2009

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Genre:
comedy Ten Min

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Buy My House Please!

Synopsis:
Think your wallet's tight? Imagine you're seven month's pregnant and suddenly discover that your husband lost his job and your house is going into foreclosure in 60 days. . .just in time for the new baby! Meet Bryn Lark, a young elementary school art teacher in a desperate situation. at the suggestion of their flamboyant Realtor, Bryn and her husband agree to put their house and lives on the market. . .on a national reality TV show called BUY MY HOUSE. . .PLEaSE! hosted by celebrity interior designer, Shelby Whitstone. To top it all off, Bryn's estranged father wants to make peace with her in the middle of the hullabaloo. What ensues in this highly theatrical, visually inventive story, is pure hilarity as the Larks discover the true meaning of "home."

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1st Produced:
aurora Theatre, Lawrenceville, Ga    09 Oct 2009

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Fugue For Amorous Tornadoes

Synopsis:
Fugue for amorous Tornadoes is literally a romance between two tornadoes. Piper (Kari Ginsburg) is a sultry and jealous lover of Five (Christian Sullivan), a strong and independent force who cant be contained and goes where the winds take him. They are reunited after Piper finally tracks Five down after a prior encounter (You cant just swallow a girl up like that and leave her in the clouds.)
- Steven McKnight, dctheatrescene.com

Notes:
part of The 2011 Source Festival of new plays

1st Produced:
Source, 1835 14th Street NW, Washington, DC    19 Jun 2011

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Genre:
short play

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Iron Moon

Synopsis:
Iron Moon tells the story of a rural Southern family of misfits desperately seeking to connect with God and each other. It is the story of their collective journey toward redemption. The play is semi-biographical as it is inspired from real-life events in Mr. Dean's own family. In the surrealistic haze of a dream the action of the play leaps in and out of reality, from 1939 to the present and from poetry to prose leaving the audience mesmerized. although the play has a religious tone it is not for the faint of heart - as it puts faith to the test and reminds us of the potential horror of our own collective morality.

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1st Produced:
aurora Theatre, Lawrenceville, Ga    2007

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aurora Theatre

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Genre:
drama comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  6            Other:  -

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Piece

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1st Produced:
Horizon Theatre, Atlanta, Ga    2005

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Genre:
comedy Ten Min

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Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Pigskin, The

Gabriel Jason Dean
From the initial pool of over 850 submissions, the Final Forty plays were chosen to be performed over a period of one week. a panel of judges comprised of celebrity playwrights, theatrical agents and artistic directors nominated one or more of each evening's plays as finalists. The final round was then held on the last day of the festival. Out of these plays, six winners were chosen by Samuel French, Inc. to receive publication and licensing contracts.

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1st Produced:
Lion Theatre, Theatre Row
410 West 42nd Street, New York, NY 10036    18 Jul 2010

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1st Published:
in Off Off Broadway Festival Plays, 35th Series, Samuel French, Inc. (January 19, 2011)   978-0-573-69930-6

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Genre:
One act

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Qualities Of Starlight

Synopsis:
Theo Turner is a young, prolific astronomer, living with his wife in California, on the verge of publishing a cosmological theory that would blow apart the foundations of modern astronomy. But Theo's "big bang" isn't just theoretical. Theo's universe explodes when he and his barren wife, Polly, travel back to the appalachian South to visit his aging parents and deliver the news that the State of California has approved them for adoption, pending interviews with his parents. In the three short years since Theo has seen his parents, they've drifted light years away from their son-the aging couple has a rampant addiction to crystal meth. While Theo's father, Junior, is in constant denial about their addiction, Theo's mother, Rose, plunges into a heavy, but hilarious, methinduced psychosis filled with hissing lizards, Elvis impersonations and grown men in baby diapers. Qualities of Starlight is a weighty modern comedy that presents a new picture of the contemporary South. It's a story about the frailty of faith, the unspoken bonds of family and the ethereal expansion of the universe.

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Genre:
Drama / Comedy

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Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Riffed

Synopsis:
Two brothers - Palace: serving a life sentence for murder; Jason: a criminal attorney - share a terrible family secret. When Jason's firm gets his brother released, it leaves the ex-con with no place to live, so Jason and his fiancee find themselves taking in a heavily tattooed houseguest. as their mutual father, a traveling blues guitarist, makes a visit, Palace painfully unearths the brothers' devastating secret. Riffed explores the complications of abused love and tackles the gray area between justice and forgiveness. as Dad riffs on his guitar, the play leaves audiences in a dizzying tailspin of emotion filled with the woeful sounds of a lonely blues guitar.

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1st Produced:
actor's Express, Atlanta Ga    2005

Company:
actor's Express

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Saltwater In The Eye

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Women Of Thornwell, The

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1st Produced:
Oglethorpe University, Atlanta, Ga    2001

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Genre:
comedy One act

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