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DAVID GREENSPAN (1956 - ) |
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Nationality: USA Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: Judy Boals, Inc |
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Plays by David Greenspan |
2 Samuel 11, Etc | ||
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1989 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Plays in Process", New York, 1990 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #14567 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | inspired by the story of David and Bathsheba, examines issues of sexual compulsion and artistic creation | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Argument, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Kitchen, New York | 2007 | ||||
Company: | Target Margin Theater | |||||
| 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 | #68086 | |||
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Genre: | adaptation One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | The Argument, based on both Aristotle's Poetics (c. 350 B.C.) and the essays of Gerald F. Else, is a passionate student's love-letter and farewell to his teacher-reminding us of the personal pathos that binds us to the Greeks, and firing us up to capture that chimera, art. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Closet Piece, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1989 | ||||
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 | #14568 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Coraline | ||
| 1st Produced: | Lucille Lortel Theatre, NY | 2009 | ||||
Company: | MCC 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 | #97838 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | book by David Greenspan; music and lyrics by Stephen Merritt | |||||
Synopsis: | Poor bored Coraline. She's left to rattle 'round her perpetually distracted, workaholic parents' house all by her lonesome. But late one night, her dreams of a better reality come true as she opens a big, carved, wooden door at the far end of the drawing room and passes into a perfect replica of her own world. When she's greeted there by a vastly loving Other Mother and a kindly Other Father, she's thrilled! But as the rats start to creep from the floorboards, and the way home becomes increasingly unclear, Coraline begins to suspect that, perhaps, all is not as perfect as it seems. . . | |||||
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Dead Mother, Or Shirley Not All In Vain | ||
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1991 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Grove New American Theatre Anthology", Grove Weidenfeld, New York, 1992 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #14569 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | the matrix of the play is a contretemps in which a man accedes to his brother's request to assume the character of their dead mother | |||||
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Dig A Hole And Bury Your Father | ||
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1987 | ||||
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 | #14570 | |||
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Dog In A Dancing School | ||
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1993 | ||||
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 | #14571 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Five Frozen Embryos | ||
| 1st Produced: | Kraine Theater, New York | 10 Aug 2002 | ||||
Company: | New York International Fringe Festival | |||||
| 1st Published: | Contained in: "Play - A Journal Of Plays" issue one | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #100509 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | An ex-husband challenges his ex-wife in court when she wants to use sperm he had frozen when they were married | |||||
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Four Dialogues Of A Monologue | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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 | #14572 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
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Go Back to Where You Are | ||
| 1st Produced: | Playwrights Horizons Peter J Sharp | 12 Apr 2011 | ||||
Company: | Playwrights Horizons | |||||
| 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 | #126182 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | A forgotten chorus boy from the theater of Ancient Greece, stuck in a lonely purgatory these past 2000 years, is sent back to earth on a mission from God. He now finds himself among a vacationing family in the Hamptons, caught off-guard by his re-discovered ability to feel love. Go Back To Where You Are is a melancholy comic romance, told with Greenspan's unique brand of theatrical wit and exquisite lyricism. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Home Show Pieces, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1988 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Plays in Process", New York, 1990 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #14573 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | includes Doing the Beast, Too Much in the Sun, Portrait of the Artist, The Big Tent | |||||
Synopsis: | portrait of the artist as a compulsive young man, struggling to separate from his family. Each play is set in a different area of 'the house' | |||||
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Horizontal, The And The Vertical | ||
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1986 | ||||
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 | #14574 | |||
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Jack | ||
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1987 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "The Way We Live Now", Theatre Communications Group, New York, 1990 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1559360050 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #14575 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 3 | ||
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| a female trio recalls the disoriented history of Jack and his death from an unnamed illness | |||||
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Jonas | ||
| 1st Produced: | Duke on 42nd Street | 15 Jul 2011 | ||||
Company: | Transport Group | |||||
| 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 | #130638 | |||
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Genre: | short play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | A darkly funny and mercurial exploration of doppelgangers past and present and lives real and imagined. Join us in this thrilling and haunting journey of identity. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Jump | ||
| 1st Produced: | Public Theater | 11 Jan 2011 | ||||
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 | #123615 | |||
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Genre: | 60 min Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | This is part of the Under the Radar Festival. In 1905, while performing in Victorien Sardou's melodrama La Tosca, the renowned French actress Sarah Bernhardt jumped from a balcony in the final scene, sustaining an injury that some believe contributed to the loss of her right leg. In this kaleidoscopic music-theatre exploration of the life of Sarah Bernhardt and the story of Tosca, acclaimed stage director JoAnne Akalaitis joins forces with musician Nora York and playwright David Greenspan to examine the making of art and the passion that inspires it. Jump interweaves Bernhardt's autobiographical writings, scenes from Sardou's play, and arias from Puccini's Tosca with York's original song inventions. | |||||
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Myopia, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Ice factory, NY | 2003 | ||||
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 | #58480 | |||
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Genre: | Solo Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | The show consists of Greenspan sitting in a chair and describing the show, which is otherwise unstageable. Or rather, three shows, each of which enjoys a symbiotic relationship with the others. One of these is a musical (without music or lyrics) about Warren G. Harding's failure to avoid being elected president. Another concerns the turbulent marriage between a fellow named Febis (who happens to be writing a musical about Warren G. Harding) and Koreen, a giantess with long Rapunzel hair. The third throughline (which self-consciously explodes after intermission) follows Barclay, a glowing orb, as he tries to write a play about Febis and Koreen. (There's actually a fourth show, of course, and that's the show we're watching, The Myopia.) | |||||
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Old Comedy from Aristophanes' Frogs | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2008 | |||||
Company: | Target Margin Theater | |||||
| 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 | #84189 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | Old Comedy from Aristophanes' Frogs, a new adaptation by David Greenspan and commissioned by Target Margin Theater, begins in Aristophanes's Athens, which is mired in a horrible and losing war, bereft of political and artistic leadership. It explores a cultural crisis: are the theater's great creators gone? And, if so, how are we to find or create new ones? Aristophanes's heroes search for a poet because the state itself needs guidance. Only the poets know what can be done to save it, and what kind of leadership speaks to us meaningfully today. These questions extend to the larger cultural and political life of our country. In the end, Old Comedy from Aristophanes' Frogs gives us the opportunity to reflect on our own culture's loss of an apparent center | |||||
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Pneumonia | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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 | #14576 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | a gruesome farce in which a man is visited by his sexual | |||||
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Principia | ||
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1988 | ||||
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 | #14577 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | a man in a cage fashioned from memories, observes his remembered past, participates in it | |||||
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Something's Gotta Give | ||
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1993 | ||||
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 | #14578 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | about a male couple and the obstacles they encounter establishing a relationship | |||||
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Son Of An Engineer | ||
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1993 | ||||
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 | #14579 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | recalls television sitcoms of the 1950s and 60s, boy returns home to find his family has gone, second act takes place on Mars | |||||
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Start From Scratch | ||
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1993 | ||||
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 | #14580 | |||
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Genre: | music play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | dramatises the inability of characters to separate the past. | |||||
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Them | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1999 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Humana Festival 1999: The Complete Plays, ed Michael Bigelow Dixon & Amy Wegener, Smith & Kraus, 1999 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #14581 | |||
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Genre: | Phone Play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | Audience members enter one of several phone booths, pick up the receiver and listen to a three-minute play unfold in conversation | |||||
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Trains Passing | ||
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1993 | ||||
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 | #14582 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | four characters meet and develop relationships on the platform on an underground station | |||||
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