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GARRET JON GROENVELD (1967 - ) |
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Nationality: USA Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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Garret Jon Groenveld is a poet, teacher and playwright based in San Francisco. He has an MFA in Poetry and an MA in Playwrighting from San Francisco State University and has studied with Edward Albee at the University of Houston. He has some 100 short plays and full lengths include: "The Absence of Birds", "The Spy", "Missives", "The Voyage of St. Brandæn" and "The Grand Divorce." Involved with PlayGround since it's inception, he's also the company Dramaturg and Education Coordinator. His plays have been presented as part of the Bay Area Playwrights Festival, and he was selected as the first representative of the Sister City Exchange by the Playwrights Foundation. "Missives" received it's world premiere in 2005 at Theatre Rhinoceros in San Francisco.
Plays by Garret Jon Groenveld
Absence of Birds, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Bay Area Playwrights Festival | 1999 | ||||
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| 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 | #59453 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 4 | ||
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Notes: | Produced as part of 1999's BAPF, this serious work holds a mirror to many of our modern conflicts around the world, where ethnicity and distinctions can be used to ruin society and understanding can be used to rebuild. | |||||
Synopsis: | In a tiny apartment in 1994's Sarajevo, a couple struggles with their morals: is murder still murder in a war? Ethnicity and the tenuous moral conundrums of surviving a conflict you do not choose play into choices, good or bad. The second act happens five years later, and five years earlier. | |||||
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Couple, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1999 | ||||
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| 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 | #68662 | |||
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Dear Alix | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1998 | ||||
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| 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 | #80476 | |||
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deconstructed/Scrooge | ||
| 1st Produced: | Berkeley Repertory Theater, California | 2000 | ||||
Company: | Monday Night Playground | |||||
| 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 | #97552 | |||
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Genre: | Sort play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Frantic Swedes Hunt American | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1998 | ||||
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| 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 | #80477 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Good Fools Nice Women | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1997 | ||||
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| 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 | #68378 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Grand Divorce, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | reading at PlayGround | 2007 | ||||
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| 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 | #59455 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | This play has been commissioned by PlayGround. | |||||
Synopsis: | The perfect couple have the perfected their marriage to the point that they try the only thing they can do to make it more perfect: the perfect divorce! | |||||
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Long Arm Of The Law | ||
| 1st Produced: | NCTC, San Francisco | 2008 | ||||
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 | #102196 | |||
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Genre: | Short play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Originally performed as one play in an evening of short plays called "Men In Uniform" | |||||
Synopsis: | A man sun bathing in the nude is being watched by a policeman hidden in the bushes | |||||
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Medea Speaks | ||
| 1st Produced: | Berkeley Repertory Theater, California | 2000 | ||||
Company: | Monday Night Playground | |||||
| 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 | #97553 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Sort play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Menacing Phantom | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1999 | ||||
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| 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 | #134606 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Originally performed as part of "Duboce Triangle" with three other plays | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
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Missives | ||
| 1st Produced: | Theatre Rhinoceros | 2005 | ||||
Company: | Theatre Rhinoceros | |||||
| 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 | #59451 | |||
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Genre: | Drama (with lots of jokes) | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | Told in an epistolary style, this moving play sweeps you up with soap operas, a charming sociopath, odd jobs and tons and tons of flowers. | |||||
Synopsis: | The story of an unlikely friendship between a white, gay man and a black straight woman and the unexpected act of violence that comes between them. | |||||
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Ondine | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2001 | |||||
Company: | Monday Night Playground | |||||
| 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 | #74296 | |||
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Genre: | One act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
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Spy, The | ||
| 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 | #59454 | |||
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Genre: | Intrigue | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 4 | ||
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Notes: | This play has been a finalist in the BAPF twice, but it's large cast prevents many companies from taking the chance. No character has a name, and the created world becomes a mirror to our own era of distrust and deceit. | |||||
Synopsis: | Our country and the other country. A spy across the border, is he theirs or ours? In a landscape where alliances are fluid and trust is guaranteed by payment, where academia is not applicable and the war seems to go on forever, can a mother figure out, "Who is the Spy?" | |||||
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Twin, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2000 | |||||
Company: | Monday Night Playground | |||||
| 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 | #74297 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | One act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Voyage of St Brandaen, The | ||
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| 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 | #59452 | |||
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Genre: | Mythic Drama/Religious Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | St. Brandæn can be played by one person or many, and the other creatures and characters can be done in mask or puppetry | |||||
Notes: | This one act adapted poem is a way for companies to explore religion, theatre and stage craft from many different perspectives | |||||
Synopsis: | The tale of a 14th Century mythical Dutch saint who destroyed the Truth and is cast out onto the sea for Seven years to find it again. Told in verse, his adventures lead him to strange encounters, from a miniature man who sails the world on a giant leaf, to a tortured king, to memories of rotten childhood, to Judas Iscariot (half his body frozen, half his body in flames). Stage craft and puppetry, or a simple solo meditation on the search for faith when one has no reason to believe. | |||||
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