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KAREN HARTMAN |
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Literary Agent: Bret Adams Ltd |
Karen Hartman is an award-winning playwright and librettist whose work has been supported by the Rockefeller Foundation, the N.E.A., the Helen Merrill Foundation, a Daryl Roth "Creative Spirit" Award, a Hodder Fellowship, a Jerome Fellowship, a Fulbright Scholarship to Jerusalem, a New Dramatists residency, and Core Membership at the Playwrights Center. Her plays, Goliath, Donna Wants, Gum, Going Gone, Anatomy 1968, Troy Women, ALICE: Tales of a Curious Girl, Leah's Train and others have been commissioned and/or staged by dozens of theaters including the Women's Project, McCarter Theater, ACT in San Francisco, Center Stage, the Magic Theater, and Dallas Theater Center, and are published by TCG, DPS, Backstage Books, and Playscripts, Inc. Current projects include the musical book for A Sea Change, score by AnnMarie Milazzo, which the Araca Group will workshop in December 2008, directed by Leigh Silverman. NAATCO (National Asian-American Theater Company) will premiere her play Leah's Train in early 2009. Carmen, La Gitana, a pop musical from Bizet's opera for which Ms. Hartman co-wrote the book, is scheduled for a commercial run in Madrid, Fall 2009. She holds a B.A. from Yale University and an M.F.A. from the Yale School of Drama. She has taught playwriting in a wide range of settings including four years at the Yale School of Drama.
Plays by Karen Hartman
ALICE: Tales of a Curious Girl | ||
| 1st Produced: | Dallas Theater Center (Dallas, TX, United States) | 1999 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc - New York | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #70401 | |||
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Genre: | 90-100 min Serious comedy with songs | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | 3 males, 2 females (5-46 actors possible: 0-42 males, 2-46 females) | |||||
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Synopsis: | On a hot spring day, Alice leaps from a stifling photographer's studio into Wonderland, a world where cakes talk, cats smoke, and little girls change size. In Part Two, she tries to repeat the adventure by stepping Through the Looking Glass. Alice's second journey is more inversion than fantasy, a place of fleeting memories and mismatched childhood dreams. An invigorating race through the brain of a curious girl, based on Lewis Carroll's Alice books. | |||||
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Alice's Wild Ride: The True Story of a Pioneer on Wheels | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 2000 | ||||
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 | #70402 | |||
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Genre: | Childrens play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Alice Huyler Ramsey was the first woman to drive across America. | |||||
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Anatomy 1968 | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 2004 | ||||
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 | #70403 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A young couple try and enjoy their honeymoon whilst he is on leave from fighting in Vietnam | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Antigone Project, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Women's Project Theater, NY | 2004 | ||||
Company: | Women's Project | |||||
| 1st Published: | No Passport Press, CA (2009) | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #83298 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | By Tanya Barfield, Karen Hartman, Chiori Miyagawa, Lynn Nottage and Caridad Svich | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Dancing With Abandon | ||
| 1st Produced: | Dixon Place, New York International Fringe Festival | 2009 | ||||
Company: | Small Pond Entertainment | |||||
| 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 | #100882 | |||
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Genre: | 2h 0m Musical Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | written by Karen Hartman And Phil Lebovits | |||||
Synopsis: | The "Oprah of Opera" hits rock bottom when her crazed abandoned rocker son returns and moons her at the Kennedy Center Honors! Scandal ignites, landing her diva ass in the nuthouse! A Rock 'n' Opera bio musical based on a true story. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Girl Under Grain | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 2000 | ||||
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 | #70404 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | When they are abandoned by their men Sugar tells her daughters-in-law to go back home. Orpah starts off straightaway but Ruth clings to Sugar | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Going, Gone | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2001 | |||||
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 | #15780 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Desire and baseball in a Jewish home in the 1930s. This is the story of a sports commentator in the States in the 1930s, and is an affectionate and warm portrait of this very imperfect man, his growing family and the immediacy of live sport. | |||||
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Goldie, Max and Milk | ||
| 1st Produced: | Rinker Playhouse, West Palm Beach, Florida | 15 Dec 2010 | ||||
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 | #125121 | |||
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Genre: | Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | Max a single lesbian has just given birth but has no idea how to look after her child. Goldie is an Orthodox Jewish lactation consultant who has been sent to look after Max. Can the two opposing cultures work together? | |||||
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Gum | ||
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1999 | ||||
Company: | Women's Project | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #41861 | |||
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Genre: | drama One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
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Synopsis: | In this violent fairy tale, two cloistered sisters discover new appetites. GUM takes place in a fictional fundamentalist country, inspired by a true scandal in which young Egyptian women were rumored to have had sex with boys in cars. The explanation? Tainted gum, part of a foreign plot to undermine the virtue of traditional girls. Too outrageous to be real, too terrifying to be anything else, GUM depicts the glee and the horror of sexual awakening in a fiercely restrictive culture. Explicit sexual content. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Leah's Train | ||
| 1st Produced: | Yale University. New haven, CT | 01 Apr 1994 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc (2010) | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #70405 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | 1 boy 11 1 girl 12 | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | In Leah's Train, three generations of love and anger are ignited when a young doctor refuses to attend her grandmother's funeral and what transpires after she boards a train, and its destination mysteriously becomes her Russian Jewish family's untold history | |||||
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Mother Of Modern Censorship, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1996 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #41899 | |||
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Genre: | Play One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | tells the story of a power grab in a world where purity is the ticket to success. The setting is the Music Censorship Headquarters of a fictional fundamentalist country. In the face of ever-shifting rules and restrictions, the chief music censor and her loyal assistant must prove they are worthy to screen out the smut. | |||||
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Troy Women | ||
| 1st Produced: | Trapdoor Theater Company (Chicago, IL, United States) | 1996 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc - New York | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #70406 | |||
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Genre: | 65-85 min Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 9 | ||
Parts other: | 3 males, 9 females (12-20 actors possible: 3-5 males, 9-15 females) | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Hecuba and the women of Troy mourn and celebrate their city on the morning after its destruction. Together, they grieve the deaths of their husbands and children as they await their fates at the hands of their Greek captors. With modern elements adapted into Euripides' classic, Troy Women is a chilling, brutal, but accessible portrait of women during war. | |||||
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