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JEFF GROVE (1961 - ) |
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Nationality: USA Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Jeff Grove teaches drama and chairs the aesthetics department at Stanton College Preparatory School in Jacksonville, Florida, and serves on the board of directors of the Florida Association for Theatre Education. He has presented workshops at conferences for drama teachers, and has adjudicated at many high school theater festivals. A self-proclaimed history-and-science nerd, he loves classical music, and most especially opera. He holds a B.A. and an M.A.T. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He also proudly pleads guilty to having coached, directed, taught, and otherwise encouraged all of Playscripts' Rand siblings.
Plays by Jeff Grove
And Your Mama, Too! | ||
| 1st Produced: | Nease High School at Florida District 2 Thespian Festival (Jacksonville, FL, United States) | 2006 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc - New York | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #61387 | |||
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Genre: | 20-25 min Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 6 | ||
Parts other: | 8 males, 6 females, 6 either (8-22 actors possible: 3-12 males, 5-10 females) | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Typecasting can be a real pain for a performer, as a middle-aged actress realizes in this fast-paced, surreal farce. Our heroine, perpetually cast as the mother, dozes off while running lines at home, only to be visited in her dreams by her "children" from plays in her past. Harangued by figures from such disparate shows asMedea, The Music Man, and The Glass Menagerie, she frantically searches for a way out of her theatrical nightmare. | |||||
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At the Punch Bowl | ||
| 1st Produced: | Florida District II Thespian Festival (Jacksonville, FL, United States) | 1988 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc - New York | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #14833 | |||
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Genre: | 25-35 min Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 9 | ||
Parts other: | 1 male, 9 females (10 actors possible: 0-1 males, 9-10 females) | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | When five former classmates from a private girls' school attend their fifteen-year reunion, old secrets and conflicts come to light -- thanks to the presence of five additional performers voicing the women's true inner thoughts. At the Punch Bowl delivers a witty and perceptive look at prejudice based on race, weight, appearance, gender, sexual orientation, and social status. | |||||
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Dinner With the MacGuffins | ||
| 1st Produced: | Stanton College Preparatory School (Jacksonville, FL, United States) | 2004 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc - New York | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #50047 | |||
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Genre: | 20-25 min Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | 3 males, 2 females, 3 either (7-8 actors possible: 3-6 males, 2-5 females) | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | At first glance, this is a typical family comedy: teenage James and girlfriend Karen try to make out one afternoon, only to face repeated interruptions by other members of James' family. But the ultimate interruption comes when a cell phone goes off in the audience, breaking the "fourth wall" so that James can see the spectators. As James tries to convince his increasingly worried family that a wall is missing from their house, and that people are watching them, the play takes more left turns than Bugs Bunny should have taken at Albuquerque -- until it reaches a happy (if twisted) ending. | |||||
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Judgment Day | ||
| 1st Produced: | Ridgeview High School (Orange Park, FL, United States) | 2007 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc - New York | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #81342 | |||
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Genre: | 15-20 min Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 9 either (9-30 actors possible: 0-15 males, 0-15 females) | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | You work yourself to the bone preparing your entry for the local high-school (or college) one-act play festival. You proudly present your show to the other participating schools. All goes well until you face. . .the judges. How on earth do they come up with such mean, cruel, pointless things to say? This hilarious poison-pen valentine to adjudicators everywhere reveals the surprising answer! | |||||
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Ray and Milo | ||
| 1st Produced: | Stanton College Preparatory School - Florida Thespian Festival (Jacksonville, FL, United States) | 2006 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc - New York | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #56957 | |||
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Genre: | 20-25 min Comedy/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | 3 males, 5 females | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Ray and Milo are penguins living in a zoo. They're also buddies, but when their friendship begins to look like courtship, an amiable zookeeper and an image-conscious docent clash over what, if anything, should be done about it. An engaging drama leavened with humor, Ray and Milo beautifully conveys timely messages about love and the meaning of family. | |||||
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Readiness Is All, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Stanton College Preparatory School (District 2 Thespian Festival) (Jacksonville, FL, United States) | 2004 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc - New York | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #51225 | |||
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: | 35-40 min Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 12 | ||
Parts other: | 8 males, 12 females (15-20 actors possible: 7-8 males, 8-12 females) | |||||
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Synopsis: | When Mrs. Causey's high school drama students botch their scene performances due to inadequate preparation, their teacher casts a spell that makes them live out their roles for twenty-four hours. We follow the antics of two surfer dudes trapped in their own version of Waiting for Godot, a football player and a cheerleader spouting neo-Elizabethan blank verse a laRomeo and Juliet, and a shy girl and a Gothic girl morphing into N'Awleans-drawling denizens of A Streetcar Named Desire . . . until these experiences teach them that, when it comes to acting, the readiness is all. | |||||
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