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JEROME HAIRSTON |
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Nationality: USA Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Jerome Hairston. Originally from Yorktown, Virginia, Jerome Hairston received his BA from James Madison University and is a graduate of Columbia University's MFA playwriting program. His play a.m. Sundaypremiered in the 26th Annual Humana Festival at Actors Theatre of Louisville, and was later produced at Centerstage in Baltimore, Maryland. His other plays includeL'Eboueur Sleeps Tonight, Forty Minute Finish, and Method Skin. His work has been developed and presented at theaters such as Playwrights Horizons, the Atlantic Theater Company, Hartford Stage, Arena Stage, the Underwood Theater, New York Stage and Film, as well as the Shenandoah Playwrights Retreat, the Sundance Theater Lab, and the Eugene O'Neill National Playwrights Conference. He was featured twice in the Young Playwrights Festival in New York (1993 and 1994), and was also the recipient of the 1998 Kennedy Center/American College Theater Festival's National Student Playwriting Award. He has received commissions from The Kennedy Center, Centerstage Baltimore, the Guthrie Theater, The Public Theatre/NYSF, and the Manhattan Theatre Club, where he was a 2001 playwriting fellow. He is also developing several film and television projects. He currently lives in Brooklyn, New York with his wife, Cindy.
Plays by Jerome Hairston
AM Sunday | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2002 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | in Humana Festival 2002: The Complete Plays, Edited by Tanya Palmer and Amy Wegener, Smith and Kraus, 2002 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #15089 | |||
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Genre: | Two Acts Play/Drama | |||||
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Synopsis: | Beginning on a Sunday morning and spanning the course of five tense days, a.m. Sunday is an extraordinary portrait of a family confronting where they stand in one another's worlds. This moving and subtly-rendered drama is the tale of an interracial couple, R.P. and Helen, who reach a painful turning point in their relationship. It is equally the story of their two sons, Jay and Denny, both of whom are arriving at a time in their lives when everything is in question. Fifteen-year-old Jay's romance with a white girl adds another complex layer to this cross-generational examination of how difficult it is to love and be loved in the face of difference. | |||||
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Cable Man | ||
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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 | #75420 | |||
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Carriage | ||
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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 | #75421 | |||
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Forty Minute Finish | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1999 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | Humana Festival 1999: The Complete Plays, ed Michael Bigelow Dixon & Amy Wegener, Smith & Kraus, 1999 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #15090 | |||
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Genre: | Ten Min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | part of Life Under 30 | |||||
Synopsis: | A potentially fatal accident forces two young men to wrestle with universal uncertainties before they clock-out for the night. Will life's big questions take a backseat to the comforting lure of escapist entertainment? | |||||
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In Love Of Bullets | ||
| 1st Produced: | Joseph Papp Public Theater | 1994 | ||||
Company: | Young Playwrights Festival | |||||
| 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 | #40430 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Synopsis: | This play centers on Sydney trying to escape addiction, and her lover Darius who plans to quit a life of murder and drug dealing. But first, he's going on one more job - though just what it's about is unclear in the muddled exposition. Meanwhile, Sydney has a dream about a Mephistophelian figure leading to an overwrought ending. | |||||
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Iqbal | ||
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| 1st Published: | http://www.playsforyoungaudiences.org | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #97001 | |||
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Genre: | Youth Audience | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 10 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | Author: Francesco D'Adamo, translated by Ann Leonori | |||||
Synopsis: | In a Pakistani carpet factory where they are kept as slaves, five children play a game telling each other their. Inside, Fatima dreams and gazes through the tiny window. Then a young overseer, the master's lackey Karim, orders, 'Back to work!' Although the children tease Karim, he has power over them in this world where hunger and cruelty are as much a part of daily life as the constant weaving. Every child in the factory has a slate on which each line signifies a rupee. For each day of work Hussain Khan, the owner, supposedly erases one line. A clean slate means freedom, but slates never get clean. One day Hussain brings a new worker, Iqbal, a silent boy and a brilliant weaver. In whispers at night, the children learn Iqbal was sold by his father so his family might survive. He is extraordinary - unafraid of the Master. He and Fatima secretly become friends who dream of writing unanswerable questions on kites that sail away, and he tells her a secret: someday they will escape. American clients come to see the rare Blue Bukhara rug Iqbal is weaving. The visitors admire the rug but when they ask to see the artisan's magic hands, Iqbal pulls out a sharp knife and destroys the carpet. The master throws him in the Tomb. Iqbal survives unbearable heat for five days and nights only because the children take great risks and bring him water and mouthfuls of food. Still, when Hussain brings Iqbal back in shackles the others are afraid to embrace his plans for escape. One morning after a terrible storm, he is simply gone. Fatima urges the children to stand up to the Master. They will not, until Khan goes to throw the tiniest girl, Maria, into the Tomb. The children take a stand. Then Iqbal returns with officials, who arrest Hussain Khan and free the children. Some go home. Some make new homes. And although we learn that Iqbal was killed - for speaking out against child labor - we also learn many children were liberated because of him. Maria and Fatima end the play together flying kites as they once could only dream of doing. They are free to let go of the brutal past. | |||||
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L'Eboueur Sleeps Tonight | ||
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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 | #75422 | |||
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Synopsis: | After torching the restaurant owned by his crime boss a man asks the hit man sent to kill him if he can deliver a fur coat to his mother first. | |||||
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Live from the Edge of Oblivion | ||
| 1st Produced: | Playwrights Horizons, NY | 1993 | ||||
Company: | Young Playwrights Festival | |||||
| 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 | #40429 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Synopsis: | in which the cries of crack mothers are submerged in the din of an embattled ghetto landscape. This terrain is monitored through the eyes of Johnas (Akili Prince), a black teenager who sees in H.G. Wells' "War of the Worlds" a metaphor for his surrounding apocalypse-in-progress | |||||
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Matter Of Time | ||
| 1st Produced: | Minetta Lane Theatre, New York | 09 Sep 2002 | ||||
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 | #113667 | |||
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Method Skin | ||
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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 | #75423 | |||
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Three Dimensions | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2003 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc - New York | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #51235 | |||
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Genre: | 10-12 min Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | 2 males, 1 female | |||||
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Synopsis: | Two men, Art and Dale, battle each other and themselves in midst of coping with the aftermath of a terrible incident involving a shared loved one. Meanwhile, Sheila, the loved one, struggles to make sense of her post-traumatic existence. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Wings of Ikarus Jackson, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Family Theater of the Kennedy Center, 2700 F Street, NW Washington, DC. | 04 Feb 2012 | ||||
Company: | The Kennedy Center Family 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 | #136425 | |||
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Genre: | musical adaptation 45 min | |||||
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Notes: | Adapted by Jerome Hairston from the book Wings by Christopher Myers. Music by R. MacKenzie Lewis | |||||
Synopsis: | There is something puzzling about the new boy at school. Instead of a backpack, Ikarus Jackson has a feathery white set of wings and can fly. To get away from the kids who are taunting him for his uniquely feathered look, Ikarus soars through the city, over rooftops and playgrounds, like a slow-motion instant replay. Just when he thinks he's all alone, a brave schoolgirl tells him what someone should have from the start: "your flying is beautiful." Caldecott Honor and Coretta Scott King Honor winner Christopher Myers's colorful and lovingly assembled collage-illustrated children's book comes to life as an all-new dance-theater piece. For age 6 and up. | |||||
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