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Neeley Gossett

NEELEY GOSSETT  

 Nationality:    USA
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Neeley Gossett is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America and was named a finalist in the Kendeda National Graduate Playwright Competition; as a result, her play, Roman Candle Summer, will receive readings at Lark Play Development Center in New York and at the Alliance Theatre in AtlantA. Her works have previously received productions and readings at Manhattan Repertory Theatre, the Coastal empire New Play Festival, the Great Plains Theatre Conference, Mill Mountain Theater, Riverside Theatre, Studio Roanoke, the ethel Woolson Lab, One Minute Play Festival Atlanta with actor's express, and Big Dawg Theater. Her play, Carolina Dive, is published by YouthPLaYS, and she has worked as a Dramaturge at the alliance Theater. She holds an MFA from the Playwright's Lab at Hollins University, Ma in English from the University of North Carolina Wilmington and a Ba in Theater Arts from Marymount Manhattan College. Neeley currently teaches college English, is a teaching artist at the Alliance Theatre, and is a contributing editor for the Chattahoochee Review.

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

         7600         Breadcrumb Sins         Carolina Dive         Deal         Outsourced         Roman Candle Summer

7600

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7600 is a stylized examination of the forced sterilization and eugenics of welfare recipients in the American South during the 1960s and 1970s.

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Breadcrumb Sins

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When WPa photographer, Iris, arrives to document a 1936 Baptist camp meeting in South Georgia, she develops a romantic relationship with the pastor's wife, Ruth. When the revival participants begin to suspect the relationship, Ruth must choose between Iris and the community in which she was raised.

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Manhattan Repertory theatre
303 West 42nd Street, New York, NY 10036    40446

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Carolina Dive

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Jenna is a teenager living in a place known only for race-cars and beauty pageants. When her friends discover an old bridge, diving off it becomes her obsession. Her strange, solitary nighttime practices make her an outcast, but the possibility of diving for a college team gives her a way to escape the small town. Her future plans are put in jeopardy when a dive damages her inner-ear, and she can no longer keep her balance.

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Deal

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Lillian and Ruby, PhD candidates in statistics, leave the comforts of their university for the summer and join Ruby's brother Jake in New Mexico to play underground, high-stakes poker.

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Outsourced

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the closing of a local textile mill impacts a North Carolina family as Deidre, a single mother and former factory worker, struggles to raise her detached teenage son and cope with her unfaithful common-law- husband. Things become more complicated when a local Hispanic migrant worker is found dead and another is severely beaten.

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Big Dog Productions, Wilmington, NC    Apr 2005

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Roman Candle Summer

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Bitsy is a society woman who appears to have everything she could want - except a child. During a hot alabama summer filled with carnivals and bottle-rockets, her life collides with Tess, a fourteen-year-old girl bouncing around foster homes and selling fireworks on the state border.

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