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Stephanie Fleischmann

STEPHANIE FLEISCHMANN

  
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    Beacon Artists Agency  

Stephanie Fleischmann is a core member of the Playwrights Center and an alumnus of New Dramatists. Grants/awards/Fellowships/Residencies include: a NYSCa Individual artists Commission for Red Fly/Blue Bottle, two New York Foundation for the Arts fellowships; N.e.A. Opera/Music Theater New American Works Commissioning Grant (Far Sea Pharisee, music by Miki Navazio); Tennessee Williams fellow in playwriting, Sewanee, University of the South; Frederick Loewe award (the Hotel Carter, music by Jenny Giering); Pew Charitable Trust Philadelphia Theatre Initiative Grant (the Street of Useful Things, act II Playhouse); Whitfield Cook award (eloise & Ray); Joe Callaway award. She is a resident artist at HeRe Arts Center for Red Fly/Blue Bottle(music by Christina Campanella, NYFa sponsored project, New York State Music Fund grant and residencies at Chashama and DPI, premiering at HeRe in April 2009). She has been a Macdowell fellow as well as in residence at Hedgebrook and Mabou Mines/Suite. additional works for Theater include: lyrics for the Greeks, Part 2 & 3(Juilliard); Tally Ho (Synchronicity International Womens Playwrights Festival);the Secret Lives Of Coats (Playlabs);Viper; Orpheus (HeRe); What the Moon Saw (Interart); the World Speed Carnival(Soho Rep Summercamp); Omonia-3; andthe Polish Doorman. Her plays have been produced/developed at venues across the U.S. and in Italy and published by Smith & Krauss; Play, a Journal of Plays;Playscripts, Inc.; and others. She has collaborated with numerous composers, including Olga Neuwirth. She teaches playwriting at Skidmore College. MFA: Brooklyn College, where she studied with Mac Wellman.

Research:    Member of the Dramatists Guild of America (as at 2015)

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         Dream Book Of Orla Curtiss, The         Dream Of the Dancing Bear         Egg Girl Or Why Birds Sing, The         Eloise & Ray         Far Sea Pharisee, Aka Fish Fry         Friction/the Steadfast         Hotel Carter         Match Or Spooky Action (At A Distance)         Orchard,the, The Handkerchief And the Carbon Copyists         Questa         Red Fly/Blue Bottle         Street Of Useful Things         theatre For One         Viper         Wonder-Seeker, The         World Speed Carnival, The

Dream Book Of Orla Curtiss, The

Synopsis:
Orla Curtiss is 102 and she reflects on her life and how her husband invented the aerial bomb.

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Ten minute play

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Dream Of the Dancing Bear

Synopsis:
the Snow Queen and the abominable Snowman are at odds can the Dancing Bear sort things out?

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Performed under the title "What the Moon Saw or I Only Appear to be Dead - A Compendium" A homage to Hans Christian Andersen After 9/11. Inspired by "the Snow Queen" by Hans Christian Andersen

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-    2002

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One act

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Egg Girl Or Why Birds Sing, The

Synopsis:
the mayor is too worried about what is decent and what not and a duck egg has been stolen from Central Park.

Notes:
Performed under the title "What the Moon Saw or I Only Appear to be Dead - A Compendium" A homage to Hans Christian Andersen After 9/11. Inspired by "the Nightingale" by Hans Christian Andersen

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-    2002

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Eloise & Ray

Synopsis:
Ray skips town on a mysterious mission, only to come back home and find that his eloise has been sitting by the side of the road for three days as long as he's been gone. But what better place for a 16-year-old girl to figure out who she is and where she stands in the scheme of things than under the big sky that stretches across a great rolling plain, her painted face exposed to the forces of weathering from sun and wind and sudden violent rain? a lyrical, bittersweet tale of a coming of age.

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1st Produced:
University Of The South (Sewanee, Tn, United States)    2000

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Playscripts, Inc - New York   -

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Genre:
70-80 min Play/Drama

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Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  1 male, 2 females

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Far Sea Pharisee, Aka Fish Fry

Synopsis:
a carnival showman is stranded in the desert with three rebellious mermaids and a mad scientist who wants to kidnap them.

Notes:
Music by Miki Naazio

1st Produced:
-    1995

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Male:  3            Female:  4            Other:  puppets

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Friction/the Steadfast

Synopsis:
the tin soldier has only just met the love of his life - the dancing girl - when he is sent to war.

Notes:
Performed under the title "What the Moon Saw or I Only Appear to be Dead - A Compendium" A homage to Hans Christian Andersen After 9/11. Inspired by "the Steadfast Tin Soldier" by Hans Christian Andersen

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-    2002

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One act

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Hotel Carter

Synopsis:
a cartographer with no sense of direction and a very pregnant young woman are guided around Hell's Kitchen by three youngsters.

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1st Produced:
-    1998

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Male:  5            Female:  6            Other:  -

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Match Or Spooky Action (At A Distance)

Synopsis:
What happens when two girls from different worlds trade places.

Notes:
Performed under the title "What the Moon Saw or I Only Appear to be Dead - A Compendium" A homage to Hans Christian Andersen After 9/11. Inspired by "the Little Matchgirl" by Hans Christian Andersen

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-    2002

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Orchard,the, The Handkerchief And the Carbon Copyists

Synopsis:
an actress acts out a play about a long lost orchard

Notes:
Inspired by the play "Turn to the Right" (1916 by Winchell Smith

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Questa

Synopsis:
the bus station in Questa, New Mexico. a mother waits for her estranged daughter; there is a runaway; a foster child who wont talk and the woman who waits for a long lost love day after day.

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1st Produced:
-    1991

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  1            Female:  3            Other:  1 boy, 1 girl

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Red Fly/Blue Bottle

Synopsis:
a clock explodes. a man departs for destinations unknown. Hypnotic songs fill up an empty house as a lone woman peers through her microscope. a theatrical event that bridges concert, cabinet of curiosities and video installation, Red Fly/Blue Bottle challenges how we listen, look, and remember. aided by an elderly entomologist and a young doppelganger straight out of silent film, composer/performer Christina CampanElla spins a sonic web that traces a young woman's discovery of her companion's deployment to a secret war and the steps she takes to make sense of his absence. Staged as a concert that unfolds within a layered video installation landscape, this production delivers a richly dense aural and visual experience. Tightly crafted songs emerge from an evocative terrain of found sounds, ticking clocks, and analog tone generators. Miniature noir films are projected onto floating surfaces and live and pre-made video animates still objects. Red Fly/Blue Bottle explores the mediating effects of memory and how we use the power of our imagination to surmount that which we have lost
- press release

Notes:
book And lyrics Stephanie Fleischmann; music Christina Campanella

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HeRe Arts Center & Latitude 14

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Genre:
Musical

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Street Of Useful Things

Synopsis:
antonia Kaspar managed to escape the Holocaust. She has now returned to Frankfurt and to the family home only to find her grandmother's recipe book has disappeared.

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1st Produced:
-    2002

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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theatre For One

Synopsis:
theatre for One is a portable performing Arts space for one performer and one audience member that turns public events into private acts, making each performance a singularly intimate exchange.
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
written by Zayd Dorn, Stephanie Fleischman, Jacquelyn Reingold, emily Schwend, Beau Willimon

1st Produced:
Duffy Square, 46th Street And Broadway, NY    07 Jun 2011

Organisations:
Christine Jones, in association with LOT-eK architects

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site specific

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Viper

Synopsis:
Helen and Rose are in their sixties. their schizophrenic cousin turns up having roller skated from Florida.

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Genre:
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Wonder-Seeker, The

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1st Produced:
Empty Space Theatre Seattle    2006

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Postcard Plays   -

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Genre:
Short play

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World Speed Carnival, The

Synopsis:
a woman born without the sense of balance has the ride of her life.

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1st Produced:
-    2000

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  2            Female:  4            Other:  -

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