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MARJORIE DUFFIELD |
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Nationality: USA Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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Off-Broadway: Ice Island: The Wait for Shackleton (The Melting Pot Theatre Company). New York and regional credits include: Sit-In at the Five and Dime with composer Janice Lowe (The New Harmony Project, Barrington Stage Company, Voice & Vision Envision Retreat, Coastal Concerts and the Henlopen Theatre Project, and Dixon Place), In a Lake of Fire (Williamstheatre - Winner of the Moss Hart Award and Finalist for the Richard Rodgers Awards) and Tit Tales with composer Greg Pliska (Williamstheatre, WOW Cafe), Lucky Hans with Danny Ashkenasi (White Bird Productions), Cyber-Alice with composer Sunmee Cho (Lincoln Center Directors Lab at HERE), On The Road To Last Chance (Dixon Place), and Fever (La Mama La Galleria. Marjorie received her MFA from the Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program, Tisch School of the Arts, NYU, where she was a Jacob Javits Fellow. She is a member of the Dramatists Guild and a 2003-2004 recipient of the Jonathan Larson Memorial Musical Theatre Fellowship.
Plays by Marjorie Duffield
Cyber-Alice | ||
| 1st Produced: | staged reading, HERE Arts Center, 145 6th Avenue, New York, NY 10013 >>> | 2002 | ||||
Company: | Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab | |||||
| 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 | #112728 | |||
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Genre: | Sci-fi musical, 70 minutes | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Written with composer Sunmee Cho. | |||||
Synopsis: | A 'cyber-opera' about memory, forgetting, love, and loss -- set in the futuristic nightclub of the oracle-like Alice. | |||||
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Fever | ||
| 1st Produced: | La MaMa La Galleria, 74A East 4th Street, New York, NY 10003 >>> | 1994 | ||||
Company: | Women's Project & 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 | #112729 | |||
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Genre: | Disco-monologue Ten min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | A comic one-woman coming out disco monologue. | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
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Ice Island: The Wait For Shackleton | ||
| 1st Produced: | Theatre Three, 311 West 43rd Street, 3rd floor, New York, NY 10036 >>> | 1999 | ||||
Company: | Melting Pot 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 | #112730 | |||
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Genre: | Drama/adventure - 90 minutes | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
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Synopsis: | Based on the 1914 Shackleton expedition to the South Pole, the play lyrically retells this thrilling adventure while exploring the themes of heroism, brotherhood, and dignity. Set against the haunting beauty of the ice, the play chronicles the ship's journey and the harrowing wait for rescue as the men left behind use humor and Shakespeare to survive. | |||||
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In Lake of Fire | ||
| 1st Produced: | Williams College, Williamstown, MA (USA) | Apr 2000 | ||||
Company: | Williamstheatre | |||||
| 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 | #112731 | |||
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Genre: | Musical/drama - 90 minutes | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Winner of the Moss Hart Award (New England Theatre Conference). Written with composer Greg Pliska. | |||||
Synopsis: | IN A LAKE OF FIRE is a music-theatre/media piece based on the 1994 Susan Smith case that borrows from the tragedy of Medea. The piece thematically explores perception; racist accusation; the nature of desperation; lying and the need to tell the truth; and what it is to unravel psychologically and spiritually. It also examines what community does in the face of tragedy, and how it moves beyond it. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Lucky Hans | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2002 | |||||
Company: | White Bird 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 | #112732 | |||
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Genre: | Family musical - 40 minutes | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Written with composer Danny Ashkenasi | |||||
Synopsis: | Based on the Brother's Grimm fairytale "Hans in Luck," and set in Brooklyn (New York), this family musical follows Hans through a series of wacky encounters and comic business deals as he sets out for home to see his mother. | |||||
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On The Road To Last Chance | ||
| 1st Produced: | New York, NY | 1994 | ||||
Company: | Theatre 133 | |||||
| 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 | #112733 | |||
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Genre: | 30 min One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | Hobby Sage has a truck to drive and a load to deliver -- and this evening will be his last. His wife, ever conscious of how he has disappeared into himself and into time, begs him to stay. But staying doesn't come easy to Hobby. Set against the backdrop of time and the midnight Arizona desert, this play chronicles a man's desire to disappear into the universe. | |||||
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Tit Tales | ||
| 1st Produced: | WOW Cafe Theater, 59-61 East 4th St., 4th floor, New York, NY 10003 >>> | 1996 | ||||
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 | #112734 | |||
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Genre: | A Body-Politics Cabaret - 60 minute comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Written with composer Greg Pliska. | |||||
Synopsis: | A comic body politics cabaret that follows the adventures of three characters as they deal with being female, and more specifically, having breasts. | |||||
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Viva La Evolucion! | ||
| 1st Produced: | The SoHo Playhouse | 19 Aug 2010 | ||||
Company: | AtomicTuna Productions & Travel Large | |||||
| 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 | #117253 | |||
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Genre: | 1h 15m National Los Angeles, CA | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Diana Yanez, developed by Diana Yanez and Marjorie Duffield | |||||
Synopsis: | Don't tell my mother about my one-woman show! First generation Cuban-American comedian Diana Yanez makes 'mojitos out of the limones' of her life with hilarious yet poignant tales of growing Cuban and queer in Miami. (1st Prize, Drama Queens Competition) | |||||
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