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NOELLE DONFELD (1946 - ) |
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Nationality: USA Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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NOELLE DONFELD (book writer, lyricist) has written sixteen musicals, most of which have been staged or fully produced by theatres. In 2011, MISS VULCAN 1939 (lyrics) commissioned and produced twice by Red Mountain Theatre in Birmingham, Alabama, was produced by Actors' Co-op Too. GHOST(S) (lyrics) and POWDER PUFF PILOTS (lyrics) were part of Stages 2011, at the Lonny Chapman Theatre, July 16 and 17. A MATCH MADE IN HEAVEN (lyrics) was read at the Academy for New Musical Theatre. MITA, THE MAGNIFICENT (book, music, lyrics) is represented by www.YouthPLAYS.com. In 2009 - 2010, THE REVOLUTION OF BETSY LORING (book and lyrics) was read at Encore Theater in Dayton, Ohio (and formerly workshopped for The Tomorrow Project, Casa Manana Theatre, Ft. Worth) ; THE ANTIQUE SHOPPE, (lyrics) was featured in the July/August 2010 issue of The Dramatist Magazine; SQUEAK (lyrics) premiered at the La Canada Theatre; GHOST(S) (lyrics) was staged by the Lyric Theatre, L.A, and POWDER PUFF PILOTS (lyrics) was staged at the UCI Musical Theatre Festival. THE SPARK, HANNAH SENESH (book and lyrics) was performed at Pacific Palisades Playwrights Festival and at Theatre Building Chicago, and CARJACKED! (libretto) premiered at 10 by 10 at the Triangle, the Arts Center, Carrboro, N.C. Earlier produced works include: HANDS (book, lyrics and co-music) in Stages 2000 at Theatre Building Chicago; TWAS (lyrics) commissioned by Nextstage Productions, Houston, SHAHRAZAD, HEADS OR TALES (co-book, lyrics) staged at Century City Theatre and Mercury Musicals, London, and LATC, and AESOP (book and lyrics) at Musical Theatre West. She has also written: FORBIDDEN KINGDOM (lyrics) and BIG TOP (book and lyrics). Affiliated with the Dramatist Guild, ANMT, LAFPI and ASCAP, Ms. Donfeld is a graduate of the University of Southern California, magna cum laude. She is a triple semi-finalist of the Eugene O'Neill Musical Theatre Project.
Plays by Noelle Donfeld
Aesop | ||
| 1st Produced: | staged reading at the Carpenter Center, Long Beach | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 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 | #86754 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Book: Noelle Donfeld, Music: Thomas Bahler, Lyrics: Noelle Donfeld (with additional lyrics by Thomas Bahler) | |||||
Synopsis: | Aesop, a musical based on the slave/philosopher's life | |||||
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Antique Shop, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | part of Friday Night Footlights of the Dramatist Guild, in Los Angeles | 30 Apr 2010 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 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 | #130353 | |||
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Genre: | fairy tale | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | with multi casting | |||||
Notes: | Book: Noelle Donfeld and Peter Kuo, Music: Nathan Wang, Lyrics: Noelle Donfeld. | |||||
Synopsis: | he Antique Shop, a fairy tale about a bewitched Antique Shop, its lovesick shopkeeper and a girl determined to reverse some unfortunate curses. | |||||
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Big Top | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 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 | #86755 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 10 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Music by Nathan Wang; lyrics by Noelle Donfield; book by Noelle Donfield | |||||
Synopsis: | a fanciful, full-length musical comedy filled with mystery, mayhem, circus feats and. . .was it murder? Can a country hick win the affection of a delicate and highly desired tightrope walker whose heart longs only for Mikhail Baryshnikov? | |||||
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Carjacked | ||
| 1st Produced: | Ten By Ten Festival, Carrboro, NC | 09 Jul 2009 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 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 | #102868 | |||
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Genre: | ten min musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Book and lyrics: Noelle Donfeld, Music: Bonnie Janofsky. | |||||
Synopsis: | Carjacked! A ten-minute musical about an elderly woman who reports that she has been carjacked when her beloved Ford is missing from a parking lot. This was part of the 10 By 10 Festival in the Triangle | |||||
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Forbidden City | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 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 | #130354 | |||
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Genre: | musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | with multi casting | |||||
Notes: | Book, Sachi Oyama. Lyrics, Noelle Donfeld. Music, Nathan Wang | |||||
Synopsis: | Forbidden City, is a full-length musical tale of impossible love that takes place in the Court of the last empress of China during the time of the Boxer Rebellion. A sensitive young eunuch is introduced to the cruelty of the court by head of the Empress' opera company, who seeks the freedom to create true art. The musical made the finals of Stages 2002 as well as the O'Neill Musical Theatre Conference. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Ghost(s) | ||
| 1st Produced: | Academy of New Musical Theatre, North Hollywood | 16 Jul 2011 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 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 | #129802 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Music by Brian Woodbury; lyrics by Noelle Donfeld; Brian Woodbury; book by Kincaid Jones | |||||
Synopsis: | Ghost(s), a modern day musical comedy version of Ibsen's classic, where a recently fired PR executive who moves to Mendocino expects to produce the new musical, "Ghost", based on the romantic movie, and instead is stuck with a horrendous version of Ibsen's "Ghosts" along with the musical's testy composer. A series of parallel events occurs | |||||
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Hands | ||
| 1st Produced: | Stages 2000 by Theatre Building Chicago | 2000 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 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 | #86756 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Music by Nathan Wang; lyrics by Noelle Donfield; book by Noelle Donfield. Based on "Uncle Tom's Cabin" by Harriet Beecher Stowe | |||||
Synopsis: | Tom is sold to the evil Simon Legree. Legree is determined to break Tom after he helps a woman a her child escape. He is spotted and befriended by Eva a young girl. She persuades her father to buy Tom. Eva's aunt is jealous of the close relationship between her niece and the slave and when both Eva and her father die and despite having Tom's emancipation papers she send him to the slave auction. | |||||
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Hannah Senesh | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 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 | #134058 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Music by Sandy Shanin; lyrics and book by Noelle Donfield | |||||
Synopsis: | 1943. Hannah Senesh an Hungarian poet parachutes into Nazi held territory to rescue Jews but is captured | |||||
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Heads or Tales/Me and Shahrazad | ||
| 1st Produced: | rehearsed reading @Theatre museum, London | 25 Oct 2005 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 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 | #124654 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | written by Stephen Oles, Sandy Shanin, Noelle Donfeld, Chris Burgess and Denise Wright | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Match Made In Heaven, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | Rehearsed reading at The Academy For New Musical Theatre, North Hollywood | 29 May 2011 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 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 | #127226 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | Cast of 8. Three male leads, 1 female lead and an ensemble of 3 women and 1 man. | |||||
Notes: | Music by Lisa Bloom Cohen; lyrics by Noelle Donfield; book by Marian Partee | |||||
Synopsis: | A Match Made in Heaven, features two disgraced match-making angels who are given one last chance to get off of cloud cleaning duty by matching up two complete opposites, a compulsive gerontologist and a thrill-seeking columnist for a trashy teen magazine. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Miss Vulcan 1939 | ||
| 1st Produced: | Red Mountain Theatre | 2007 | ||||
Company: | Red Mountain Theatre | |||||
| 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 | #97432 | |||
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Genre: | Musical comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Music by Jan Powell; lyrics by Noelle Donfeld; book by Marian Partee | |||||
Synopsis: | Birmingham, Alabama is putting on a beauty contest to crown the Vulcan's queen. , Evelyn Tully of the 5 & Dime wins despites the conniving of the town's deputantes and finds true love in the process. Based on a true story, with audience participation | |||||
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Mita, the Magnificent | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 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 | #130355 | |||
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Genre: | one-act children's musical tale | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | teens or adults | |||||
Notes: | Available for production through www.YouthPLAYS.com. Book, lyrics, music: Noelle Donfeld, additional arrangements: Peggy Sandvig. | |||||
Synopsis: | about Mita, a sweet underground termite who desperately wants a friend, but whose huge appetite constantly gets her in trouble. There has been a drought, and Mita's neighbors are all seriously hungry. Mariposa, a monarch butterfly, has just flown up from Mexico to visit a garden, but its flowers have all died in a drought. Abe, a feisty bee, also needs pollen, and Aran, a crafty spider, is trying to entrap Mariposa for dinner! Can Mita save them from starvation and prove that everyone deserves a friend? Information on "the bugs and the bees" is a bonus in this suspenseful, fun and highly portable show, which includes some Spanish. | |||||
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Powder Puff Pilots | ||
| 1st Produced: | Lonny Chapman Theatre, North Hollywood | 16 Jul 2011 | ||||
Company: | Irvine Festival of New Musicals | |||||
| 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 | #129803 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Music by Cindy O,Connor; lyrics by Noelle Donfeld; book by Marian Partee | |||||
Synopsis: | Powder Puff Pilots, depicts the challenges America's most prominent aviatrixes, including Amelia Earhart, Marvel Croisson and Louise Thaden, as they compete in the country's first female cross-country air race in 1929. Determined to prove that women can be as successful and spunky as their male counterparts, the undaunted flyers face cultural taboos, possible sabotage as well as unplanned danger in what becomes a fatal flight. | |||||
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Revolution of Betsy Loring, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Casa Manana (workshop) | 2002 | ||||
Company: | Casa Manana (workshop) | |||||
| 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 | #86757 | |||
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Genre: | Musical drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | Ensemble actors | |||||
Notes: | Book and lyrics, Noelle Donfeld. New musical score, Denise Wright. | |||||
Synopsis: | Betsy Loring, spies on British General Sir William Howe to gain information for the rebels during the American Revolution, but becomes conflicted when she falls in love with him. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Shahrazad, Heads or Tales? | ||
| 1st Produced: | Mercury Musicals, London (workshop) | 2005 | ||||
Company: | Mercury Musicals, London and Playwrights Arena, L.A. | |||||
| 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 | #97433 | |||
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Genre: | Musical Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | Multi-part casting | |||||
Notes: | Book: Stephen Oles and Noelle Donfeld. Lyrics, Noelle Donfeld. Music, Sandy Shanin. | |||||
Synopsis: | Magic leads to mayhem in this tragic-comic musical tale of love, lust, power and madness, adapted from the classic 1001 NIGHTS, when a character out of one of Shahrazad's stories becomes a real tyrant and murderer. Shahrazad uses a Genie to capture the tyrant and joins her beloved Sultan within one of her tales. | |||||
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Spark, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Theatre Building, Chicago | 2009 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 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 | #103071 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | multi casting | |||||
Notes: | Music by Sandy Shanin; lyrics and book by Noelle Donfeld | |||||
Synopsis: | a full-length musical based on the life of Israel's most admired heroine, who risks her live to save Hungary's Jews. In her prison cell, Hannah faces torture and the imprisonment of her mother by a Warden who wants her to reveal a military secret, by mentally escaping into more joyous moments of her young life. The musical has made the finals of Stages 2009, Theatre Building Chicago's yearly festival as well as the finals of the Eugene O'Neill Musical Theatre Conference. It was selected for the first musical in the Monday Night Musicals at Theatre Building Chicago and for a reading in the Pacific Palisades Playwriting Festival, April 20, 2010. | |||||
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Squeak | ||
| 1st Produced: | La Canada Theatre | 07 May 2010 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 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 | #86758 | |||
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Genre: | Musical One act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Book, Sachi Oyama. Lyrics, Noelle Donfeld. Music, Brian Leader. | |||||
Synopsis: | presents a never before seen love quadrangle. What happens when a laboratory mouse falls for her scientist, who loves a waitress, who is looking for true love, such as the love felt by a rejected mouse for the lab mouse of his dreams? A truly unusual love story! | |||||
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Twas | ||
| 1st Produced: | Cashman Theatre, Las Vegas | 2001 | ||||
Company: | NextStage Entertainment | |||||
| 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 | #97434 | |||
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Genre: | Musical comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Book: Guy Toubes, Music: Thomas Bahler, Lyrics: Noelle Donfeld | |||||
Synopsis: | Feeling ignored when his parents are expecting a new child, a young boy hides in Santa's bag and exploring a magical world discovers the meaning of love. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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