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Theresa M Diamond

THERESA M DIAMOND   

Nationality:   USA    Email:   Click here to contact    Website:   Click here to visit

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Theresa Diamond is a playwright that lives in New York City. She is a prolific author of almost exclusively lesbian themed plays. She has written numerous full-length and short plays including, Rose Toibin, Fair Fight, Waiting for the Show, The Tender Thread, Relationship Jones, Last Call, The Martyr of St. Gilles, The Last Perfect, One Good Thing, The Italian Shoe, and Queen of the Underworld. Her work has been presented in an assortment of Off-Off-Broadway venues including the Stage Left Studios, The Philadelphia Fringe Festival, WOW Cafe Theater, Nuyorican Poets Cafe, Dixon Place, The Club at La Mama, The A-Train Plays at Neighborhood Playhouse, and Centered Margins at Circle East at Chashama. Her screenplay The Fighting Irish: Racing Toward Bethlehem was a quarterfinalist in the 2007 Scriptapalooza Screenwriting Competition. She's contirbuted short fiction to Best Lesbian Erotica 2010, and is a finalist for BLE 2011. She's a contributing writer to Curve Magazine. Her non-fiction essays and theater reporting has been published in QW and Show Business Weekly. Her plays have been published by Dialogus Press and in the literary journal Downtown Brooklyn. She is listed in GAY AND LESBIAN AMERICAN PLAYS: AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY by Ken Furtado and Nancy Hellner. She is formerly an assistant professor of English at Long Island University and often a member of the Dramatists Guild. Theresa owns Diamond Consulting Inc, a strategic planning and fundraising practice for artists and arts organizations. Currently, she writes grants in the Institutional Giving Department of Manhattan Theater Club.

Plays by Theresa M Diamond

Good Thing, The

1st Produced:

Shetler Annex, NY

2007

Company:

Mackwell Productions

1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

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Music:

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#76533

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Genre:

adaptation One Act

Parts:

Male

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Female

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Notes:

based on Anton Chekhov's short story 'The Witch', part of Duet, an evening of new one-act plays by Tommy Smith and Terry Diamond

Synopsis:

He thinks she's a witch who controls the weather. She thinks he's a useless slacker who's ruined the family business. A dangerously isolated couple, Samuel and Rita Gykin, try to reconcile their failing marriage in the middle of a blizzard
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Jesus, Liza and Me

1st Produced:

Stage Left Studio, 438 W. 37th St., Suite 5A, New York, NY 10018 >>>

24 Apr 2010

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

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Music:

-

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#113117

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Genre:

short play

Parts:

Male

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Female

1

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

n/a

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Rose Toibin

1st Produced:

WOW Cafe Theater
59-61 East 4th St., 4th floor, New York, NY 10003

06 Mar 2003

Company:

The WOW Cafe Theater

1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#118239

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Genre:

Lesbian

Parts:

Male

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Female

4

Parts other:

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Notes:

Four (4) principals (female) Three secondary female (2 roles doubling) + 1 male (doubling) Range: early 20's, late teens to early 40's. Two roles - late teens, and early 20's require Irish accents. March 6- 15 2003 and March 2- 28 2004 at the WOW Cafe Theater.

Synopsis:

Rose Toibin is a full length play with an all-female cast set in two time periods - 1848 and contemporary New York City. 1840's story is about a pair of Irish immigrant women domestics in a New York City household. Rose Toibin is a plain, sturdy female in her late 20's who is a competent cook and housekeeper. Rose is a stalwart oldest daughter of a large family still living in famine stricken Ireland. Sally Tiernan is a young girl just arrived from Ireland. Rose refuses to share a room with her and threatens to quit. Mrs. Ryerson, a widow is the sole occupant of the house. She is a lonely woman and attempts at times to tyrannize the staff. She has unorthodox political views: women's emancipation, the abolition of slavery and dabbles in transcendentalism. The play shifts to the present. Charlotte is a professor of history, 35, divorced and a very committed recluse. Simone is a newly hired gender studies specialist, an out lesbian. Simone discovers Charlotte's tucked away dissertation cast-off, a study of the lives of immigrant Irish women - Rose and Sally's story -- and the two of them spar about the importance of the subject.

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Waiting for the Show

1st Produced:

Philadelphia Fringe Festival

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Company:

n/a

1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#91384

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Genre:

Play/Drama

Parts:

Male

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Female

2

Parts other:

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Notes:

-

Synopsis:

Waiting for the Show centers on the events of one afternoon's rehearsal of a Right-to-Life skit by two women in the basement of a major research hospital. Nina, is a 30ish suburban housewife and Christian evangelical and the director; Anne, is a twentysomething, timorous, re-enactor of the Declaration of Independence and the actor. Director and actor diligently rehearse their skit in a bid to win the National Christian Tolerance Variety Show Competition. Every day the rehearsal is interrupted by Nina's trip to the Treatment Room. Mad scientists Dr. Freud and Dr. Nietzsche enter to observe 'The Treatment'. On this day however, the women turn the tables on the doctors. Inmates rebel, bedlam erupts, and the screams curdle your blood.
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