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DAVID FELDMAN (1939 - ) |
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Nationality: USA Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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David Feldman has an MFA in play writing from Brandeis University, where he studied under Miracle Worker author William Gibson. His plays have been produced in Manhattan, Brooklyn, the Boston area, Colorado Springs, Los Angeles and Syracuse, NY, where he lives and was for 23 years Artistic Director and a producer for Armory Square Playhouse, a playwrights' collective organization. He has been a theater critic for Stages Magazine and the Syracuse New Times. He has taught at SUNY Cortland, Leslie College, Onondaga Community College and Syracuse University.
Plays by David Feldman
Bill and Mary, Right Now! At Happy Endings! | ||
| 1st Produced: | Happy Endings Cake and Coffee House, Syracuse, NY. | 1996 | ||||
Company: | Armory Square Playhouse | |||||
| 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 | #82019 | |||
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Genre: | Site-specific comedy/drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Can be adapted for most coffee houses, even with minimal production facilities. Contact author | |||||
Synopsis: | A site-specific play about an experimental theater company putting on a site- specific play at Happy Endings Coffee House, in which the major characters turn out not to be the two former lovers who have come for coffee and a possible reconciliation, but the stage manager who is slowly going insane and the technical director who recently dumped her. | |||||
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Erie Canal Afternoon | ||
| 1st Produced: | Park Slope Theater, Brooklyn, NY | 1999 | ||||
Company: | The Gallery Players | |||||
| 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 | #82020 | |||
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Genre: | drama One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
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Synopsis: | Two lovers meet by the Erie Canal in upstate New York. He hates his job as an architect; she has just witnessed something horrible at the hospital where she works. She knows their affair is over; he doesn't--until she flies off with a hot air balloonist who happens to have landed nearby | |||||
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Falling for You | ||
| 1st Produced: | Kitchen Theatre, Ithaca, NY | 2005 | ||||
Company: | Kitchen 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 | #82021 | |||
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Genre: | comedy One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Very simple production requirements: Open space; one bench. | |||||
Synopsis: | A robot (or maybe a ditzy college student) crashes into earth near where a middle-aged man awaits his girlfriend so they can look at a house to purchase together. He discovers a woman who the robot helps him realize is far better for him. The robot leads off the jilted woman to meet the real estate dealer. | |||||
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Fifty Year Game of Gin Rummy, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Spingold Theatre, Waltham, MA | 1971 | ||||
Company: | Brandeis University | |||||
| 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 | #82022 | |||
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Genre: | drama One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | All performers in their 60s; roles require accurate NYC Jewish accents | |||||
Synopsis: | Three elderly Jewish men await the arrival of a fourth friend. They have been playing in the same weekly card game since they landed at Ellis Island 50 years ago. The fourth man does not show up. The others learn he has died of a heart attack. They come to deal via humor and reminiscence with their anger and their loss | |||||
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Georgie Porgie | ||
| 1st Produced: | Laurie Premier Theatre, Waltham, MA | 1970 | ||||
Company: | Brandeis University | |||||
| 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 | #82023 | |||
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Genre: | full length Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
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Synopsis: | George has just learned that a Disneyland-type company has purchased property near his estate and will use eminent domain to get land for a road through his property. George, meanwhile, has just begun an affair with the young daughter of the town's mayor. George's assistant would much rather his affair were with her, and the local townspeople would like to see George driven out of town by force if necessary | |||||
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He and She | ||
| 1st Produced: | Colorado Springs, CO | 1987 | ||||
Company: | Performers Forum | |||||
| 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 | #82024 | |||
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Genre: | Short experimental play One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Simple setting: Open space, chairs | |||||
Synopsis: | A man and a woman replay their affair via the seasons of its year | |||||
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Sitting Quietly, Doing Nothing, Spring Comes and the Grass Grows | ||
| 1st Produced: | Waterside Theater, New York City | 1990 | ||||
Company: | The Playformers | |||||
| 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 | #82025 | |||
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Genre: | Mid-length romantic drama Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Slightly experimental; breaks the fourth wall | |||||
Synopsis: | A young man, rejected by what he thinks is the love of his life, wanders around upstate New York and in and out of glitzy restaurants until by chance he comes upon the true love of his life--or actually, she realizes that he is and finally he realizes it, too | |||||
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Steinberg | ||
| 1st Produced: | New York City | 1977 | ||||
Company: | Quaigh 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 | #82026 | |||
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Genre: | drama One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | 1 juvenile male | |||||
Notes: | Can be produced as part of a two one-act evening with The Fifty Year Game of Gin Rummy | |||||
Synopsis: | Steinberg, an elderly man, steals out, as he does each spring, to sit in the sun in front of his apartment building. On this first day of good weather, the building superintendent tells him that residents may no longer sit in that area. The following confrontation comes to include a local cop, Steinberg's embarrassed daughter-in-law and a young boy who lives in the building | |||||
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Steinberg in Scarsdale | ||
| 1st Produced: | Masonic Temple Theatre, Syracuse, NY | 1994 | ||||
Company: | Contemporary Theatre of Syracuse | |||||
| 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 | #82027 | |||
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Genre: | drama with touches of comedy One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Same central character as in Steinberg and The Fifty Year Game of Gin Rummy | |||||
Synopsis: | Steinberg, living in the suburbs north of New York City, discovers a long-lost cousin who turns out to be a bit of a con artist. But after several adventures including a wild night in a motel with a stripper, the cousin convinces Steinberg that you're never too old to enjoy life | |||||
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Wonder of It, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Theater Row Studios, New York City | 2000 | ||||
Company: | Love Creek 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 | #82028 | |||
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Genre: | Experimental One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | A dance teacher, giving lessons offstage, reminisces with her unconscious onstage, on the occasion of her 50th birthday about the relationship she almost had with a ballerina in New York City. The teacher comes to accept that while she may never have been sexually fulfilled due to the mores of the time when she was young, she has achieved professional satisfaction late in life | |||||
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