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Fran Handman

FRAN HANDMAN

  
Nationality:    USA
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THEATRE -SHORT PLAYS- Musical and non-musical. produced at Turtle Shell Productions, Samuel French, 13th St. Repertory, Turnip Marathon, UnitedArtists, Wings Theatre, Triangle Theatre, Midtown International Short Play Lab,ADDING MACHINE, the Musical, staged readings sponsored by TRU (Theatre Resources Unlimited) and American Renaissance Theatre. 2006,SHORT CIRCUITS Revue/sketches & songs at Neighborhood Playhouse 2005,ORIGINAL SONGS Don't Tell Mama - TRU cabaret 2008 PUCELANDIA Family musical - Turtle Shell Productions - produced in 2008 and 2009,CHILDREN's SHORT PLAYS - Youthfest, Turtle Shell productions, 2008, 2009,2011,2012,BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE - Reading in the " Notes from a Page" Series,EAT (Emerging Artists Theatre) 2012. NORTH STAR Songs included in Workshop Theatre Show Tunes 2, 8/2014, 90TH ANNIVERSARY GALA STARRING JIM DALE AND BROADWAY STARS - Episcopal Actors Guild - wrote connecting script. EUREKA TINA Children's musical, HAPPILY EVER AFTER - Family musical - nominated for Jerry Kaufman award.TV & ANIMATION,POLKA DOT DOOR - TV scripts - half-hour children's show on TV-Ontario, including original stories and songs.FIX & FOXI scripts -Children's animated show - RTV Family Entertainment, Germany,PUBLICATIONS The Upside Down King of Minnikin - Annick Press, Toronto, Canada, Open Court Publishing - Textbook material for Language Arts Program for grades 3,4,5 McGraw-Hill - Textbook material for Psychology 101,anthology of Scenes for Kids 7-15 - Applause Books, Reviews in Brief - Book Review, NYTimes,Short pieces for Travel Section, NYTimes,Quarterly Quiz - Education Supplement - NYTimes, AWARDS,GRantS,MISCELLANEOUS,AWARD Kaufman Development award for Pucelandia 2011,AWARD Kaufman Development award for Adding Machine, The Musical. 2008 AWARD Moondance International Film Festival Adding Machine, The Musical 2008, AWARD It's Only Temporary national Canadian competition best sitcom CDCD TV,Montreal, Canada,AWARD Best playwright - Turtle Shell 8 Minute Madness Festival, 2009, SECOND PLACE - Pucelandia Jackie White Memorial National Children's Play Writing Contest 2010,FINALIST Adding Machine,The Musical - Building Theatre in Chicago 2003, FINALIST Eureka Tina - Anna Zornio Memorial Playwriting Competition, The University of New Hampshire, 2013,HONORABLE MENTION - Pucelandia TRU (Theatre Resources Unlimited) 9th Annual TRU New Musicals Reading Series, 2008,GRant Ontario Arts Council for development of children's stories.WORKSHOPS: LEHMAN ENGEL's BMI Musical Theatre. Participated in the lyricist and librettist workshops, American Renaissance Theatre Co. & Workshop Theatre,Dramatists Guild, Writers Guild of Canada, SOCAN, TRU,SAG-AFTRA,AEA. Grantwriter for the Episcopal Actors' Guild, a charity that gives money and support to professional performers in financial crisis in the New York area, regardless of faith.

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

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below is a list of Fran Handman's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Abuse From Another Life         Adding Machine, The         As Long As We Keep Talking         Being There         North Star         Pucelandia

Abuse From Another Life

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Midtown International Short Play Lab Festival     25 Oct 2014

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Adding Machine, The

Synopsis:
a musical adaptation of Elmer Rice's play, The Adding Machine

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music by Sheldon Gartner, book and lyrics by Fran Handman

1st Produced:
[reading] Theater Workshop. New York, NY     20 Nov 2015

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Midtown International Theater Festival

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As Long As We Keep Talking

Synopsis:
a serious rift develops in a secular Jewish family when one daughter becomes Orthodox.

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part of Summer Shorties

1st Produced:
Turtle's Shell Theater, NY     2008

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Turtle Shell Productions

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Being There

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American Renaissance Theatre at Cap 21, New York, NY     06 Jan 2016

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North Star

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The central character, Dr. Milton Alexander Ross, was a Canadian abolitionist, medical doctor, ornithologist and naturalist. He was a fascinating mixture - a scientist, an adventurer, and a seriously, moralistic, tight-assed stuffed shirt with a strong sense of entitlement. He didn't smoke, drink, swear, dance, nor was he tolerant of anyone who did? Sex? Never mentioned in his autobiography. Though he was tried in a southern courtroom on the charge of helping a slave escape he was not intimidated, barely refraining from lecturing them on the evils of slavery. On the pretext of studying southern birds, he wangled invitations to southern plantations as a means of personally contacting slaves. He knew John Brown and even tried to intercede with the Governor of Virginia on his behalf. Ross helped shorten the duration of the Civil War. Personally commissioned by Lincoln, he exposed a plot by southerners to invade the northern states from Canada. I thought it would be great fun to have him tangle with Melanie, a beautiful slave, escaping from a bordello, who arouses in him unexpected, strange feelings. She takes him through the journey from detached ideological humanism to an appreciation for the everyday, commonplace beauty of the world around him.

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North Star has been workshopped at the American Renaissance Theatre and Theatre Workshop with a score by Sheldon Gartner. An excerpt appeared in the Spring Reading Series of the American Renaissance Theatre in 2012, but has not gone the next step to a full staged reading.

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Genre:
Historical musical

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Pucelandia

Synopsis:
Featuring an evil tango-dancing villain, a cymbal-clashing page, yardstick-dueling decorators, a crazy inventor, a silly king, and a spunky little girl who saves the day. Bring the whole family to celebrate all the colors of the holidays with this goofy family musical, in which the bright colors of Christmas, Hanukkah's festival of lights, and the vibrant hues of Kwanzaa win out against gloomy yucky PUCe-the only color allowed in Pucelandia
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book And lyrics Fran Handman; music Mark Sheldon Gartner

1st Produced:
Turtle Shell Theater, NY     2008

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Turtle Shell Productions

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Genre:
Musical

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