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SUSAN HANSELL |
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Nationality: USA Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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Susan Hansell began writing for theatre by constructing text/s for dancers, choreographers, and performers (herself and others) in San Francisco in the 1980's. Some of her works from this period have been published in Heinemann's More Monologues for Women by Women (among other publications), and produced as A Day In, Affair on the Air, Drop It, Don't, 14 Ladies in Hats, Pink Rope, and Trolls (at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Poetry Center of San Francisco State; Artists Television Access of San Francisco; Intersection for the Arts in San Francisco; Project Artaud in San Francisco; and at The Harold Clurman in New York City, among other venues). In New York City in the 1990's, Susan Hansell began writing full-scale plays, including My Medea, a selection of the 1996-97 Best American Short Plays series, subsequently staged by the CSULB Players in 2005. A commissioned work, American Rose: Our Gals on the Homefront, 1941-1945, was produced at the Ohio Theatre in New York City by Sightlines Theatre Company in 1997. Her script for American Rose went on to win Honorable Mention in the 1998 Jane Chambers National Playwriting Contest. More published plays by Susan Hansell include It Means Dick (Spot Literary Magazine 2.1Spring 2008) We Are All Dick 3 (Oasis 11.3 Oct-Dec 2003 and SLM 1.1 Spring 2007); Little Kings (Oasis 10.1 Jan-Mar 2002 and SLM 3.2 Fall 2009); MaryMary (Inflatable Magazine, Winter 1999 and SLM 1.2 Fall 2007); My Medea (The Best American Short Plays 1996-1997, and The Best American Short Plays 1996-1998, Applause Theatre Books, NYC); Rollover Othello (Oasis 5.1 Jul-Sep 1996 and SLM 2.2 Fall 2008); Don't (More Monologues for Women by Women, Heinemann, 1996); Affair on the Air (More Monologues for Women by Women, Heinemann, 1996); and Lady in the Purple Velvet Hat (Rockford Review 11, 1992). Susan Hansell is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America. She has taught in the Creative Writing Department at San Francisco State University, in the English Departments on two CUNY campuses (Brooklyn College and Kingsborough Community College), in the English Department at Long Beach City College, and most recently, at California State University, Long Beach, in the Departments of English, History, and Theatre. Her degrees are a B.A. with High honors in Sociology from U.C. Berkeley, an M.A. in English: Creative Writing from San Francisco State University, and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing: Playwriting from CUNY - Brooklyn College, in which program she subsequently taught the M.F.A. playwriting tutorials. Susan Hansell is presently at work on a new play, Waiting for Two, an excerpt of which is published in Spot Literary Magazine 3.1 (Spring 2009). The playwright was born in Stockton, California. In 2005 she married the noted scientist and U.S. Judo coach, Gerald Uyeno; they reside together in Tucson, Arizona.
Plays by Susan Hansell
14 Ladies In Hats | ||
| 1st Produced: | Centerspace Studio Theatre | 1988 | ||||
Company: | Project Artaud, San Francisco | |||||
| 1st Published: | Heinemann - More Monologues for Women by Women, 1996 | ISBN/ASIN: | 0-435-07022-3 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #104934 | |||
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Genre: | monologues | |||||
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Synopsis: | 75 minute series of character monologues exploring the tension between expression and repression in the lives of contemporary American women and girls. Produced in 1988 at Centerspace Studio Theatre in Project Artaud, San Francisco; subsequent portions produced throughout the U.S.; two ("Don't" and "Affair on the Air") | |||||
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American Rose | ||
| 1st Produced: | Ohio Theatre, NYC | 1997 | ||||
Company: | Sightlines Theatre Company | |||||
| 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 | #104935 | |||
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Genre: | Ensemble cast | |||||
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Synopsis: | 90 minute, ensemble-cast play follows the lives of five diverse American women during the WWII period (juxtaposed with additional roles iconic of a variety of historically accurate individuals in the events of that period), who enter war production workplaces and war situations during the 1940s. Commissioned by Sightlines Theatre Company and produced in 1997 at the Ohio Theatre in New York City. 1998 Jane Chambers Playwriting Award honorable mention for the text of the play by Hansell. | |||||
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It Means Dick | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Spot Literary Magazine, 2007 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #104936 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | 45 minute sequel and second act to WE ARE ALL DICK 3, with one additional Human added to the mix of the First Two (above), as the (subsequent) Three continue to examine their cosmological position/s | |||||
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Little Kings | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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| 1st Published: | OASIS 10.1 Jan.-Mar. 2002 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #104937 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | 60 minute tragicomedy of a contemporary American family, five members of which exist as quasi-versions of characters from KING LEAR via Hansell's original deconstructed satire that sends-up 400 years of human civilization and family history. 2 female, 2 males, 1 of either | |||||
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Mary Mary | ||
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| 1st Published: | INFLATABLE MAGAZINE Winter 1999, and in SPOT LITERARY MAGAZINE 2.1 Fall 2007 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #104938 | |||
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Synopsis: | 20 minute romp through the life-history of a suburban Californian family, shrunk through the snapshot scope of three Christmases, each in different decades. | |||||
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My Medea | ||
| 1st Produced: | Players Threatre, Long Beach, CA | 2005 | ||||
Company: | Cal Rep | |||||
| 1st Published: | Applause - The Best American Short Plays 1996-97 (1998) | ISBN/ASIN: | 1-55783-317-6 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #104939 | |||
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Genre: | verse | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | multiple | |||||
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Synopsis: | 90 minute, ensemble-cast (including a chorus which chants contemporary slang, in verse) tale that tells a deconstructed reconstruction of the Euripides classic set in contemporary Los Angeles and featuring an exploration of current events related to class, race, gender and the worship of celebrity. Published in THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT PLAYS 1996-97 (Applause). Premiered March 4-19 2005 at the Players Theatre, CSULB. | |||||
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Rollover Othello | ||
| 1st Produced: | Harold Clurman, NYC | 1999 | ||||
Company: | Love Creek | |||||
| 1st Published: | Oasis, 1996 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #104940 | |||
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Genre: | Experimental adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | 25 minute stylized one-act in which Oth, Desdie and I. find themselves (and each other) in a contemporary Brooklyn police house, where they "talk" (over their personal history/ies.) Nominated for a Pushcart Prize as published in OASIS 5.1 Jul.-Sep. 1996. 2 males, 1 female. | |||||
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We Are All Dick 3 | ||
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| 1st Published: | OASIS 11.3 Oct.-Dec. 2003 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #104941 | |||
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Synopsis: | 45 minute two-character male/female love/history comedy/drama spun from an idea of RICHARD THE THIRD as backdropped by the contemporary events and entertainments of our American world | |||||
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