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Tom Diriwachter

TOM DIRIWACHTER

  (1963 - )
Nationality:    USA
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Born in 1963, Tom Diriwachter is a lifelong resident of Staten Island. Much of his writing is set in the borough, and it influences his work thematically, as his demimonde characters live in the shadow of Manhattan, commuting by ferry, not really belonging to either world. He is a graduate of Rutgers University, with a Masters in Cinema Studies from The College of Staten Island, CUNY. Though his plays tend more toward the traditional, his background is film, having begun writing for the stage only after repeatedly being told that his screenplays were too reliant on dialogue, finally discovering his passion. He's had five full-length plays produced in Manhattan, notably at Theater for the New City, and The American Theatre of Actors, and countless one-acts, at many of the city's off-off Broadway theaters, including The Drafts at Horse Trade, Love Creek, Pulse Ensemble, Theater Studio, Inc., the Riant Theatre's Strawberry Festival, and the Turnip Theatre Company's 15 Minute Play Festival. He's also worked with Penguin Rep Theatre, Personal Space Theatrics, and West Coast Ensemble. For the past four years, he has been a featured playwright in the LES Festival of the Arts. In addition to being a playwright, he is a screenwriter, and has published non-fiction in The New York Times, Backstage, and is a regular contributor to the literary website Mr. Beller's Neighborhood.

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

         Age Out         Asterisk         Bear         Great Kills         Guaranteed to Never Lose Suction         Pests         Prescribed Fire         Shock Therapy

Age Out

Synopsis:
a fight with a rude customer results in Tim being fired from the Times Square restaurant where he's worked for the past eight years, sparking an existential crisis. as Tim's co-workers get off from work, they join him in the bar next door to commiserate over beers. Will he figure out what it all means before the revenge plot against their incompetent manager unfolds to potentially tragic ends?
- nytheatre.com

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1st Produced:
Theater for the New City
155 First avenue, New York, NY 10009    14 Jan 2011

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  7            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Asterisk

Synopsis:
Vin, Phil, Sykes, and Ralph have all gone in on tickets to a Mets game where Barry Bonds' single season home run record has a chance to be broken, and they're sitting right in the home-run zone! What was originally supposed to be a guys' night watching the game turns into a fight over baseball, steroids, and an imaginary home-run ball. as history approaches in a controversial fashion friendships are tested and secrets come out. In a world where records are followed by an asterisk and history has a price tag, is any man ever what he seems?
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1st Produced:
American Theatre Of Actors, 314 West 54th Street, New York, Ny 10019    2007

Organisations:
March Forth Productions

1st Published:
http://www.indietheaternow.com/Play/asterisk   -

Music:
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Genre:
dark comedy 90 min

Parts:
Male:  7            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Bear

Synopsis:
The vacuum goes, light switch needs to be replaced, car fails inspection: it's the little things that get you in the end.

Notes:
part of 18th Annual Lower East Side Festival of the Arts (LES)

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1st Published:
http://www.indietheaternow.com/Play/lower-east-side-plays   -

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Genre:
short play

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Great Kills

Synopsis:
Great Kills, written in a style reminiscent of such plays as David Mamet's American Buffalo, and Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night, is a darkly comic, emotionally gripping tale of a get-rich-quick scheme that goes awry. With the changing landscape of mental health, Meadowbrook, the institution where Mr. G has worked in maintenance for over thirty years, is shutting down. When Mr. G mentions to his son, Tim, who's living home after having lost his position as an adjunct professor of literature, how the institution's furniture -- "the kind of stuff you find in a doctor's office" -- is lying abandoned in a field, he dreams of making a fortune from selling the salvage. To finance the plan, he involves his estranged childhood friend, restaurateur, Robert. Over the course of a drunken evening of scheming, the plan becomes less real, as the men's desperate realities become more apparent, and a devastating family secret is revealed.

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1st Published:
http://www.indietheaternow.com/Play/great-kills   -

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Genre:
Play/Drama 90 min

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Guaranteed to Never Lose Suction

Synopsis:
The vacuum goes, light switch needs to be replaced, car fails inspection: it's the little things that get you in the end.

Notes:
part of 17th Annual Lower East Side Festival of the Arts (LES)

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Organisations:
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1st Published:
http://www.indietheaternow.com/Play/lower-east-side-plays   -

Music:
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Genre:
short play

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Pests

Synopsis:
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Notes:
The Drafts Fest for 2010 is the collaborative effort of seven playwrights, seven directors, and ten multifaceted actors. Playwrights receive randomly compiled cast lists and create stories tailored to The Drafts and their invited Guests based on this years theme, Pre-Existing Condition. All of the playwrights who participated in the Pre-Existing Condition Draft's Fest were given the theme and two or three cast members before they started to write. They had one month to complete their short piece which was limited to ten minutes. Many of the playwrights met with their director and actors during the writing process in order to get to know the actors better. All of the actors "auditioned" for the playwrights, with one comedic and one dramatic monologue as well as a special skill, fact, or story they wanted to share about themselves. In this way, the playwrights grew to have some understanding of the actors' 'types' prior to writing. The theme taken from our health care vocabulary inspired a variety of writing, from pests and childhood emotional scars, to futuristic realities and poverty. Overall, we generated some exciting new work, some of which have been developed into full length plays.

1st Produced:
The Drafts Fest By Horse Trade    2010

Organisations:
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1st Published:
in "Pre-Existing Condition", http://www.indietheaternow.com/Plays   -

Music:
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Genre:
10 min play

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Prescribed Fire

Synopsis:
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1st Produced:
Penguin Rep Theatre, Stony Point, New York    2009

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Shock Therapy

Synopsis:
The vacuum goes, light switch needs to be replaced, car fails inspection: it's the little things that get you in the end.

Notes:
part of 18th Annual Lower East Side Festival of the Arts (LES)

1st Produced:

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
http://www.indietheaternow.com/Play/lower-east-side-plays   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
short play

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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