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Denver Center Theater

2007

Developed at Soho Rep

Chapbok, Denver Center Theater

2007

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Notes: Developed in 2004-05 Soho Rep Writer/Director & Phase 2 Labs and Colorado New Play Summit; read at Baltimore Centerstage and Last Frontier Conference (Valdez, AK)

Synopsis: 1001 spins themes and variations from the classic 'A Thousand and One Arabian Nights' to explore the incarnations of love, sex, religion, cruelty and war from ancient Baghdad to the post-9/11 era. Playwright Jason Grote combines savage wit, political insight, Borgesian time-warping, and theatrical ingenuity in a dazzling tour de force that Sheherezade herself would envy.

Read at the Williamstown Theatre Festival

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Synopsis: A free adaptation of the Sophocles play, inspired by Kafka, Nietzsche, and Baudrilliard; Antigone is accused of burying her brother, but no one but her has seemed to notice that there isn't any body there

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The Working Theater, NYC

2006

The Working Theater

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Synopsis: In the extensively researched Box Americana: A Wal-Mart Retail Fantasia, the Ghost of Sam Walton is resurrected with his own personal chorus of Chinese workers to sing the praises of consumer Utopia. Located at Wal-Mart #24-2-128, the economic epicenter of Sprawlville, USA, the play takes place at a moment when the world's largest employer is defending itself against the largest class-action lawsuit in American history for gender discrimination. It follows Kelly, a delusional but passionate cheerleader for the Wal-Mart ideology, and Danae, an African American mother escaping the double threats of Hurricane Katrina and her violent, impoverished past. They both seek a future of advancement based on merit and hard work, but when push comes to shove with this corporate behemoth, they discover that the Promised Land is a swamp of inequity and empty rhetoric. Inspired by DUKES V. WAL-MART, the largest class action suit in history (info available at walmartclass.com), and described in Liza Featherstone's book SELLING WOMEN SHORT

Summerworks Short Play Event

2006

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Brick Theater, NY, USA >>>

2007

The Brick Theater

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One Act

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Notes: part of The Baby Jesus One-Act Jubilee: Second Coming, a selection of world-premiere yuletide-themed plays

Synopsis: Seven years have passed since Marley's Christmas death, and Scrooge has not changed a bit. But, on this particular Christmas, the shrimp boats lower their nets. Marley pushes his face against hers. She screams and flees back to Scrooge; on her cheek stands out in red the marks of two rows of teeth.
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Ensemble Studio Theater

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Play/Drama

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Notes: Recipient of EST/Sloan grant

Synopsis: On his trip aboard the HMS Beagle, Charles Darwin wanders into a cave on Galapagos and finds himself on the set of the 21st-century realty TV show DARWIN'S CHALLENGE. He gets kicked off in act two.

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Soho Rep

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Notes: developed in 2005-06 Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab

Synopsis: An autobiographical play set in Hamilton Township, New Jersey, in which the teenage author saves a prostitute from the legendary Jersey Devil.

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Contained in Knock the journal of Antioch University, Seattle

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Synopsis: A wacky take on Phaedra

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Contained in Knock the journal of Antioch University, Seattle

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Synopsis: The secret origin of Roosevelt Island.

chashama

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Back Stage Books

2004

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Tragicomedy

Tragedy

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Notes: One-woman show, 20 min. long; winner of Swamp King, produced at NYU, The Makor, The American Living Room @ HERE

Synopsis: A tragicomic meditation on groceries and catstrophe. Ellie takes us on a tour of a suburban grocery store in the wake of a personal - and national - trauma.

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Notes: Based on "Maria Stuart" by Friedrich Schiller

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HERE Arts Center, NY >>>

2004

American Living Room Festival

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Notes: Also appeared in Hell Festival; developed/read at Salvage Vanguard, Circle X, The Makor, The Ohio, New Dramatists

Synopsis: PARADISE LOST meets FAST FOOD NATION in this fable of a 21st-century Hell. Mahu works in a meat plant that turns undesirables into fast food consumed by Moloch, an elder-demon. Faced with an invasion from Heaven, his daughter Dawn is forced to hide with two AWOL angel assassins to survive.

TBG Theatre, NY

2007

Personal Space Theatrics

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Notes: written by Arthur Kopit, Theresa Rebeck, Israel Horovitz, Rachel Axler, Ian Cohen, Brian Dykstra, Jason Grote, Julien Schwab, Matthew Paul Olmos, Saviana Stanescu, and Lloyd Suh.

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The Bloomington Playwrights' Project

2004

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Play/Drama

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Notes: Staged readings at the Flea, The Playwrights' Center of San Francisco, Coe College (Cedar Rapids, IA); winner of DRAMARAMA, Reva Shiner Award, Coe College Playwriting Award, runner-up for Princess Grace, semifinalist (top 5%) for Cesterfield Writers' Film

Synopsis: Diana tries to unionize her workplace (a call-center in Jersey City), but faces OMNIVORE - a powerful computer surveillance program that invades her personal life and her dreams.

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Fifteen minute play

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Synopsis: Torture techniques used at Guantanamo Bay.

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Soho Rep

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Comedy/Drama

Comedy

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Notes: Developed in 2003-04 Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab

Synopsis: Part urban romantic comedy, part Kabbalistic horrorshow, part allegory for Israel and Palestine that doesn't quite add up, part cautionary tale about power, and part historically inaccurate look at Hannah Arendt and Walter Benjamin.