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ALEX DEFAZIO |
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Nationality: USA Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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Literary Agent: n/a |
Alex's recent NY productions include two one-acts, "Mountainlight" and "Can I Touch You" (The Fall Collection Festival), and Radium (Elixir Productions). "Mountainlight" was also chosen for the annual festival of original one-act plays at TADA! Youth Theater. Other NY productions: Writing Ground Zero (Dixon Place/The Raw Space), Christine (The Raw Space), and "Mixed Up Molly Eden" (Surf Reality). His translation of Euripides' Medea is taught at Lehigh University, and he was a semi-finalist for the One In Ten Screenplay Contest and a finalist for the Princess Grace Playwriting Award. He received a B.A. in English and Drama from SUNY Purchase and an M.F.A. in Playwriting from Columbia University.
Plays by Alex Defazio
1-900-SELFPLEX | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Studio @ Cherry Lane Theatre, New York International Fringe Festival | 2009 | ||||
Company: | Elixir Productions Theatre Company | |||||
| 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 | #100827 | |||
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Genre: | 1h 10m Drama Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | Dial into the imagination where the self is as slippery as the myriad stories constructing it. In 1-900-SELFPLEX, a 40-year-old writer/"sexpert" finds herself and subsequent worldwide celebrity by assuming the identity of a transgendered, teenage boy. | |||||
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2 Burn | ||
| 1st Produced: | New York International Fringe Festival | Aug 2011 | ||||
Company: | Elixir Productions Theatre Company | |||||
| 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 | #129745 | |||
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: | Drama Performance Art | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | www.elixirproductions.org | |||||
Synopsis: | Ever give an apple to your teacher to get his attention? In this gay, noir drama, one college student is willing to give much more as he and his professor vie for power over language, sex, and each other. | |||||
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Can I Touch You | ||
| 1st Produced: | NYC at The La Tea Theater, CSV | 2004 | ||||
Company: | The Fall Collection Festival | |||||
| 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 | #56022 | |||
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: | 10-minute, Drama, Gay Ten Min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | One person's memories meld with the possible outcomes of a crucial moment between an abused teenager and his molester. "Can I Touch You" explores the symbiotic connections between memory, the abuse, and the theater. | |||||
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Medea | ||
| 1st Produced: | Regional at The C.A.S.T.L.E. Theatre | 2000 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #56024 | |||
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: | Tragedy, Translation Tragedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - Euripides | |||||
Synopsis: | Medea plots revenge against her treacherous husband in this new translation that cuts to the vulgar heart of Euripides' tragedy | |||||
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Mountainlight | ||
| 1st Produced: | NYC at The La Tea Theater, CSV | 2004 | ||||
Company: | The Fall Collection Festival | |||||
| 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 | #56021 | |||
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: | Drama, Gay, Theater for Youth One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | Also presented as a staged reading at TADA! Youth Theater | |||||
Synopsis: | a tender and funny coming of age story. Will the unlikely friendship between two loners - a sensitive boy and a scrappy girl - withstand old secrets and new truths as the two best friends grow older? | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Radium | ||
| 1st Produced: | NYC at The Jewel Box Theatre, WorkShop Theatre Company | 2005 | ||||
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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 | #56020 | |||
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: | Full Length Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | Naked. Fragile. Radioactive. Radium is a study of five gay men and their search for intimacy | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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To Be Loved | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2006 | |||||
Company: | Elixir Productions | |||||
| 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 | #56019 | |||
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: | Full Length Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | A reworking of the classic Kabuki tale The Scarlet Princess of Edo (1813) by Tsuruya Namboku, To Be Loved traces the story of a monk haunted by the death of the boy he loved, whose soul is reincarnated in the body of a young female prostitute-an uncanny turn of events which sets the events of the play in motion against a stark, futuristic landscape whose totalitarian attitudes toward freedom and sexuality bear a striking resemblance to our contemporary world. | |||||
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Writing Ground Zero | ||
| 1st Produced: | NYC at Dixon Place & The Raw Space | 2002 | ||||
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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 | #56023 | |||
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: | Drama, Dance | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | 2 dancers | |||||
Notes: | Also presented in New Brunswick, NJ, at Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University | |||||
Synopsis: | Combining theatre and dance, Writing Ground Zero follows eight characters fighting for strength in the face of 9-11 | |||||
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