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Stephen Adly Guirgis

STEPHEN ADLY GUIRGIS

  
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    William Morris Endeavor Entertainment, LLC  represented by John Buzzetti

Stephen Adly Guirgis, winner of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for "Between Riverside and Crazy. . .", is a longtime member of NYC's LAByrinth Theater Company. His plays have been produced on five continents and throughout the United States. They include: the extended, sold-out run of THE LAST DAYS OF JUDAS ISCARIOT, OUR LADY OF 121st STREET (named one of the ten best plays of 2003; Lucille Lortel, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle Best Play Nominations), JESUS HOPPED THE A TRAIN (Edinburgh Fringe First Award, Olivier Nomination as London's Best New Play, Barrymore Award, "Detroit Free Press" Best Play Award), and IN ARABIA WE'D ALL BE KINGS (Ten Best of '99, "TimeOut New York," critics pick, "TimeOut London"). All four plays were originally produced by LAByrinth, directed by Philip Seymour Hoffman, and are published through Dramatists Play Service and by Faber & Faber. Stephen was awarded a 2004 TCG fellowship, attended the 2004 Sundance Screenwriter's Lab, was named one of the 25 New Faces of Independent Film by "Filmaker Magazine," and appeared in "Entertainment Weekly's" 2005 Summer Must List. He has received new play commissions from Manhattan Theater Club and South Coast Rep, is a member of New Dramatists and the MCC Playwright's Coalition, and has contributed to "ESOPUS" magazine. Television writing credits include NYPD Blue, The Sopranos, David Milch's CBS drama Big Apple, and Shane Salerno's NBC drama UC: Undercover. As an actor, he has appeared in Brett C. Leonard's GUINEA PIG SOLO, produced at the Public Theatre in New York, and played leading roles inTodd Solondz's "Palindromes," and Brett C. Leonard's award-winning "Jailbait," opposite Michael Pitt. Currently, he is developing a project with Mos Def and HBO, and is writing his first feature film for Scott Rudin Productions, to be directed by George C. Wolfe. He lives in New York City.

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

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         Between Riverside and Crazy. . .         Boom Boom Boom Boom         Den Of Thieves         Dominica the Fat Ugly Ho         In Arabia, We'd All Be Kings         Jesus Hopped the 'A' Train         Last Days Of Judas Iscariot, The         Little Flower Of East Orange, The         Motherfucker With the Hat, The         Our Lady Of 121St Street         Race, Religion and Politics         Sissy Letters, The: Numbers 14, 29, And 47         Yelba, Princess Of 10th Avenue

Between Riverside and Crazy. . .

Synopsis:
Ex-cop and recent widower Walter Pops Washington and his newly paroled son Junior have spent a lifetime living between Riverside and crazy. But now, the NYPD is demanding his signature to close an outstanding lawsuit, the landlord wants him out, the liquor store is closedand the church wont leave him alone. When the struggle to keep one of New York Citys last great rent-stabilized apartments collides with old wounds, sketchy new houseguests, and a final ultimatum, it seems that the old days may be dead and gone.

Notes:
Winner of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize

1st Produced:
Linda Gross Theatre, New York     10 Jul 2014

Organisations:
Atlantic Theatre Company

1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, Inc. NY (2015)   978-0822233404

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Drama

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Boom Boom Boom Boom

Synopsis:
Boom Boom-Boom Boom is set on the S.S. El Fayoumy, an Egyptian cruise ship that is in no hurry to take business from Carnival Cruise Lines and is centered around love on the Nile-more specifically, the fat boy getting the beautiful girl.

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Genre:
Comedy

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Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Den Of Thieves

Synopsis:
Maggie is a newly single, junk-food-bingeing shoplifter looking to change her life and her self-hating ways. Paul is her passionately convicted, formerly four-hundred-pound compulsive-overeating sponsor in a twelve-step program for recovering thieves. Maggie's jealous ex-boyfriend is a charismatic wannabe Puerto Rican small-time thief of uncertain ancestry named Flaco who spins a grammatically challenged but persuasive yarn about seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars in unprotected drug money sitting in a safe in a downtown disco guarded by an easily distracted crackhead. This dubious and ragtag would-be criminal crew is rounded out by Flaco's new girlfriend, the fabulous Boochie-a malAprop-slinging topless dancer who refuses to let her troubled childhood or her third-grade reading level stand in the way of her inevitable path to fame, fortune and fur. When things don't quite go according to plan, this bickering quartet of hapless thieves finds themselves at the mercy of Louie "the Little Tuna" Pescatore,

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1st Produced:
Black Dahlia Theatre, Los Angeles     10 Apr 2002

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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY   -

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Genre:
Comedy Drama Comedy

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Dominica the Fat Ugly Ho

Synopsis:
In the play, Rolando (Carlo Alban) tries to rekindle the affections of Mylene (Liza Colon-Zayas) after she has stabbed him. While these two teens -- slightly older than Romeo and Juliet -- trade gradually loving remarks, Rolando's homeboy, Carlo, (Dominic Colon) stands in the shadows whispering verbal billets-doux like a Hell's Kitchen Cyrano. The path of true love eventually runs smoother for Rolando and Mylene, especially when Rolando says, "I love you so much, Mylene, it's like I have to grow more to fit it in my body." But Guirgis, ever the sly one, keeps a few cynical surprises until the last, tangy moments of this perfect exercise. - http://www.theatermania.com/

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1st Produced:
E.S.T. Marathon     01 Jun 2006

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Genre:
one act play

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Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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In Arabia, We'd All Be Kings

Synopsis:
Lenny is a recently released ex-convict. Despite his imposing size, he was gang raped repeatedly while incarcerated and struggles to find his manhood on the outside. Daisy, his alcoholic girlfriend, craves a "real" life with a "real" man and abandons him at a seedy pre-Giuliani Times Square bar in pursuit of some cheap Chinese takeout. at the bar is Skank, a former failed actor turned junkie, who is trying to outlast the rain storm and get a buyback from the long-missing Irish bartender as he begins to go through withdrawals. also at the bar is Sammy, an old, dying guilt-ridden drunk who exists somewhere be-tween reality and the afterlife. DeMaris, a seventeen-year-old gun-brandishing single mother, wants to learn to turn tricks. She enlists the aid of Chickie, Skank's girlfriend, a young crackhead hooker who plays Go Fish with the simple-minded day bartender Char-lie, who thinks he's a Jedi warrior and who buys meals for Chickie because he loves her and because he lives for the day they can go out someday, "

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Play/Drama. - - Gay, theme/character full length

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Jesus Hopped the 'A' Train

Synopsis:
the Young angel Cruz is in Jail awaiting trial for shooting Reverend Kim. While in jail he meets Lucius Jenkins, an inmate whose pride and religious zeal defies the bars that hold him prisoner.

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Directed by Phillip Seymour Hoffman. the play is dedicated to David Hoghe (1963 2000)

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Methuen Drama
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Last Days Of Judas Iscariot, The

Synopsis:
the Last Days of Judas Iscariot takes place in Hope, a small section of Purgatory where litigation determines the fates of its inhabitants. Thanks to a writ signed by God, himself, Judas Iscariot-Jesus's infamous betrayer-is on trial, though he is in a catatonic state in Hell. In a hilarious and well-written dramedy, viewers will find themselves questioning their own opinions on despair, morality, and salvation
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Male:  9            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Little Flower Of East Orange, The

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In a Manhattan charity hospital, an unidentified woman floats in and out of consciousness. In prison, her son tries to figure out how she got there

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Motherfucker With the Hat, The

Motherfucker With the Hat, The
Love and addiction in New York City. Things are looking up for Jackie. He's out of jail and staying clean thanks to his sponsor. He might even have found a job. And of course there's Veronica, who he's loved since 8th grade. Nothing could come between them  except a hat. Poetic, profane and hilarious, this whip-smart look at love and addiction finds light even in the darkest corners of New York City.

Notes:
Lyrics By: Anna D. Shapiro; written by Stephen Adly Guirgis

1st Produced:
Schoenfeld theatre
236 West 45th Street, New York, NY 10036     11 Apr 2011

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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY, 2012
Oberon Books (2015) >>>    978-0822225485

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Genre:
dark comedy

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Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Our Lady Of 121St Street

Synopsis:
the Ortiz Funeral Room is in big trouble: the body of beloved community activist and nun Sister Rose has been stolen from the viewing room, and waiting for her proper return are some of New York City's most emotionally charged, life-challenged neighborhood denizens, trying to find a place to put their grief, checkered pasts and their uncertain futures. among the equally hilarious and tragic twelve characters, you'll meet Rooftop, a chronically unfaithful but otherwise popular Los Angeles DJ, looking to reconcile with the love of his life; Pinky and edwin, two brothers tragically linked forever; and the outrageously angry Norca, who doesn't let the fact that she slept with her best friend's husband deter her from the full expectation of being immediately forgiven of her sin by her best friend, Inez, still in pain fifteen years later. the rest of the crowd in this dark, insightful and very funny comedy inevitably square off on each other, motivated by rage, pain and a scary desire to come clean-perhaps for the

Notes:
the theatre was off-off Broadway--in A studio on the 4th floor of the the building. the Play Also was produced And ran :LaByrinth theater Company, Our Lady of 121st Street, Union Square theatre 100 east 17th Street February 18 - July 27, 2003

1st Produced:
Center Stage/Ny 48 West 21St Street, NYC     20 Aug 2002

Organisations:
LaByrinth Theater Company

1st Published:
American Theatre Magazine, NY - February, 2003
Dramatists Play Service, NY   -

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Genre:
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Race, Religion and Politics

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Race, Religion, Politics looks at relationships and social philosophy among blue collar workers in a bar.

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Sissy Letters, The: Numbers 14, 29, And 47

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ensemble Studio theatre's 28th Annual presentation of the Marathon, featuring one-act plays

1st Produced:
Ensemble Studio Theatre, NY     2006

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Yelba, Princess Of 10th Avenue

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part of ensemble Studio theatre's 29th Annual Marathon-a festival of new short plays from A diverse spectrum of American playwrights

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Genre:
short play One act

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