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Diane Grant

DIANE GRANT

  
Nationality:    USA
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Diane Grant is an award winning playwright and screenwriter, whose film Too Much Oregano, won the CAnnes Film Festival Jury Prize. She was a co-founder of Toronto's Redlight Theatre, the first professional women's Theatre in CanadA. Her plays, which have been produced and published in the US and Canada, include Nellie! How the Women Won the Vote, Sunday Dinner, Sex and Violence, the Piaggi Suite, all about Harold, a Dog's Life; and the Last Of the Daytons, a semi-finalist for the 2007 National Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center. Will To Win, a documentary on the Southern California Shakespeare Festival, written by Ms. Grant, and produced by filmmaker Kerry Feltham, previewed in Los Angeles and the Folger Shakespeare Library this year and is recommended by the Royal Shakespeare Company of London. She has just finished adapting the book, Wind In the Willows, by Kenneth Grahame, for composer and lyricist, William elliott. an accomplished actress and director, Ms. Grant has performed at the Stratford Festival and the National Arts Centre of CanadA. She was Literary Manager of Write act Repertory Company, a mentor for the young playwrights' group HOLa, and a member of Wordsmiths in Los Angeles. She is a Canada Council recipient, a member of the Dramatists Guild, the Playwrights Guild of Canada, the International Center for Women Playwrights, and is Vice-Chair of the alliance of Los Angeles Playwrights.

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

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         All About Harold         Cat Is Not A Sociable Animal, The         Dogs Life, A         Four Women In Search Of A Character         Has Anyone Here Seen Roy?         How To Get A Cat Out Of A Tree         Last Of the Daytons         Looking Bernice         Nellie! How the Women Won the Vote         Piaggi Suite, The         Procedure, The         Sex And Violence         Sunday Dinner         What Glorious Times they Had         Wind In the Willows

All About Harold

Synopsis:
Harold Dickerson is a charming man in beautiful clothes with a magnificent baritone voice and lots of irons in the fire. His wife, Jean, has adored him for twenty-four years. Linda secretly loved him, Emma sang with him, and Valerie made him her business partner. He left them all and nobody knows where he is. Why did he go? What did they do wrong? What is he doing now? Is he really the man they thought he was? and what did George Washington have to do with it? Jean, Linda, Emma and Valerie think it's all about Harold but discover that it's really about how we connect and sustain each other in surprising ways and sometimes find friendships that last a lifetime.

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two act Comedy

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Cat Is Not A Sociable Animal, The

Synopsis:
Bob the Cat is on his ninth life and on probation for tormenting dogs

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Ten minute play

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Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Dogs Life, A

Synopsis:
a Dog's Life is a romp, a two act farce with incidental music that uses Laban techniques, commedia del arte, meloDrama, improvisation, Method, and Shakespeare, and includes a parody of the story of Puccini's Tosca, featuring a trampoline. It's about human corruptibility, and the constant friction between commerce and art - a classic, enduring story of rent vs. artistic principles. It's a set, technical, and costume designer's dream, with falling paper flowers, offstage fights, illuminated moons, and actors dressed sometimes as cavaliers and sometimes as dogs.

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One set, running time 90 minutes

1st Produced:
Los Angeles, Ca, U.S.A.     2004

Organisations:
Write act Repertory Company

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Genre:
two acts Farce

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Male:  6            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Four Women In Search Of A Character

Synopsis:
Four of the many women seduced and dumped by Royal Smith

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1st Produced:
Rehearsed Reading At The Red Brick Theatre, Studio City, California     16 Apr 2010

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Genre:
Comedy

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Has Anyone Here Seen Roy?

Synopsis:
Sex, love and betrayal

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1st Produced:
Theatre Palisades, Pacific Palisades, Ca     18 Jan 2013

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Comedy

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How To Get A Cat Out Of A Tree

Synopsis:
Joy is angry that Billy's dog has chased her cat up a tree

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Last Of the Daytons

Synopsis:
the Last of the Daytons is about the universal human longing for family. It's also about how one incident can define and change a person's life forever. at first glance, Melina and Bob, Jodie and Devon might not be seen as "normal." Not that many people talk to invisible friends, escape from hospitals in their pajamas, or collect epitaphs. Not too many seventeen year old boys wear their Mother's bustiers. However, what these characters have found are various ways to cope with the past. all, except Devon, have put it into storage. Devon posts a message on LostRelatives.com; Bastard son searching for George Remington Dayton, and finds his uncle Matthew, who has been looking for him. Matthew, the seemingly normal one, brings everything into the open, and changes everybody. the family needs him, but in the end, he needs it more.

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Finalist in the 2007 Athe competition, semi-finalist for the 2007 O'Neill conference. 2017 PlayFest Award. First place.

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Genre:
Comedy/Drama in two acts

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Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  invisible woman

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Looking Bernice

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1st Produced:
Vox Humana Theatre One Act Play Festival     2009

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Genre:
One act

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Nellie! How the Women Won the Vote

Synopsis:
Nellie! How the Women Won the Vote traces the efforts of the Canadian suffragists to win the vote in Pre-World War I Manitoba. the play combines the themes of politics, prohibition and suffrage, but treats them with liberal amounts of humor, music and vitality. the result makes for a fast-moving, free-wheeling evening's entertainment.

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1st Produced:
Toronto, Ontario, Canada     1973

Organisations:
Redlight Theatre

1st Published:
Simon & Pierre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (also in copyscript form from the Playwrights Guild of Canada), 1974   

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Genre:
Historical Drama in two acts Historical

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Male:  2            Female:  4            Other:  musician

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Piaggi Suite, The

Synopsis:
the Piaggi Suite is a romantic comedy in which a monstrously self-absorbed and powerful diva visits a legendary New england musicians'retreat which has seen better days. Dangling the prospects of celebrity and success, she manipulates the collection of resident musicians as they struggle with the conflicts between career and love, the dangers of ambition, the perils of success, the pain of loss, and the glory of music. With elements of farce, incidental music, various coats, and a mysterious stranger.

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the Piaggi Suite took honorable mention in the McLaren Comedy Competition in Texas And won the Long Beach 2006 New Festival in California. One set, runs About 95 minutes

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Genre:
Romantic Comedy in two acts Comedy

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Male:  4            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Procedure, The

Synopsis:
a woman has trouble getting treatment.

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Genre:
Ten minute play

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Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Sex And Violence

Synopsis:
Sex, violence and headphones: a one act dark comedy about love, lust, betrayal, the Old Testament and the lure of Japan. then, of course, there's murder. approximately 30 minutes

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1st Produced:
Write Act Repertory, Los Angeles, Ca U.S.A.     2003

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Write act Repertory Company

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Genre:
dark comedy One act

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Sunday Dinner

Synopsis:
Sunday Dinner is an award winning, crowd pleasing, two act romantic comedy about love, marriage, and Mother. an ensemble piece for four actors, including a tour de force part for a middle-aged woman, it's a deceptively light comedy with deep currents underneath, in which an only son struggles to free himself from his single mother.

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Modern dress, has minimal set requirements - the living room of An Apartment serves both Acts - And is inexpensive to produce. each Act consists of one scene. Running time is 90 minutes. Winner - Dramalogue for Best Performance, the Jack Oakie Award for comedy

1st Produced:
The Complex, Los Angeles, Ca U.S.A.     1997

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andrew Frew and Paul Ruell

1st Published:
copyscript form from the Playwrights Guild of Canada., 2002   

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Genre:
Romantic Comedy in two acts Comedy

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Male:  1            Female:  3            Other:  -

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What Glorious Times they Had

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Written with members of the original cast

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Contained in: "Popular Performance Plays of Canada volume One" published by Simon and Pierre 1976   

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Wind In the Willows

Synopsis:
the Wind in the Willows is a family musical, based on the 1908 book, by the english novelist, Kenneth Grahame. It concerns Mole, an underground creature, who, feeling the stirrings of Spring, leaves his burrow for the World above. He wants to see a rainbow and hear the wind in the willows. Unsure of his abilities but spontaneous and inventive, with a good nose and poor eyesight, he courageously ventures into unknown territory. He meets Ratty, a river dweller and poet, Otter, the local gossip, the reclusive and authoritative Badger, and Toad, the feckless, reckless, motor enthusiast. He learns how to make his way in the world, braves the Wild Wood, does battle with the wicked Weasels, Stoats and Ferrets, and in the end, learns about friendship and self-worth. He sees the rainbow and hears the wind in the willows. Fulfilled, he returns to his home, happy with it and happy in the knowledge that he can leave it or come back to it anytime he wants.

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the music And lyrics Are by composer William elliott. the book Also works without the music As A play. Suitable for the whole family. Adapted from the book by Kenneth Grahame

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Genre:
Musical

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Male:  6            Female:  -            Other:  an ensemble of men and women, a children's chorus

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