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ANDREW R HEINZE |
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Nationality: USA Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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Raised in New Jersey and educated at Amherst College (B.A.) and the University of California, Berkeley (M.A. & Ph.D.), Andrew R. Heinze worked as a professor of American History in the San Francisco Bay Area from 1988-2006, then left academia, moved to New York City and began playwriting in 2007. He has published nonfiction books and essays (his book, JEWS AND THE AMERICAN SOUL, was named one of the "Best Books of 2004" by PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY), and his play "The FQ" will be published in THE BEST 10-MINUTE PLAYS, 2011 (Smith & Kraus). Andrew R Heinze is a member of Dramatist Guild of America
Plays by Andrew R Heinze
Bar Mitzvah of Jesus Goldfarb, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Stone Soup Theatre, Seattle | May 2010 | ||||
Company: | Stone Soup Theatre | |||||
| 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 | #114744 | |||
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Genre: | One-Act Comedy (10-15 min) | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | American Globe Theatre | |||||
Synopsis: | Jason Goldfarb wants a new name for his Bar Mitzvah. This causes a big problem for Rabbi Deborah Silverman. | |||||
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F Q, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | American Globe Theatre, 145 West 46th Street, 3rd Floor, New York, NY 10036 >>> | 20 Apr 2010 | ||||
Company: | Turnip Theatre Company and American Globe Theatre | |||||
| 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 | #113821 | |||
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Genre: | One-Act Comedy (10-15 min) | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | part of 16th Annual New York City 15 Minute Play Festival. WINNER: Audience Choice, Best Play | |||||
Synopsis: | An aspiring writer finds her script vulgarized by the requirements of cable TV. | |||||
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Invention of the Living Room, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | HB Studio Theater, New York City | Dec 2009 | ||||
Company: | HB Studio 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 | #114745 | |||
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Genre: | short Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | The Lower East Side, 1943. Bessie Levin tries to protect her museum of a parlor from an incursion by the men of the house -- armchair-philosopher husband Abe; GI son Billy; pious brother Moishe -- who are fed up with life in the kitchen. | |||||
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Invention of the Living Room, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | public reading at Orlando Shakespeare Theatre | Nov 2011 | ||||
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 | #136095 | |||
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Genre: | Drama/Comedy (full-length) | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | This is a full-length expansion of the short play of the same title; running time is 90 minutes w/o intermission. | |||||
Synopsis: | It's 1946. An apartment on the Lower East Side of New York City. Bessie Levin, an emotionally fragile yet dynamic woman, is haunted by the past but about to be hurled into the future. Bessie wants to keep her home unchanged and her racially-mixed, religiously-divided family together. Her son, Billy, is preparing to launch Levinstown, the first big postwar suburb, which he calls "the future of America." But will the Levins survive Levinstown? And will Bessie survive the future? | |||||
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It's Terrible What We Do For Love | ||
| 1st Produced: | 45th Street Theatre (formerly Phil Bosakowski Theatre) | Jan 2012 | ||||
Company: | Mark Forlenza Productions | |||||
| 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 | #136096 | |||
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Genre: | One-Act Comedy (10-15 min) | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | A liver for your thoughts . . . Truman Bluman needs a liver for his wife. Hospital administrator Darla Colloway needs Truman. She's ready to negotiate. Is he? A black comedy. | |||||
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Masha: Conditions in the Holy Land | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Cell Theatre (Albuquerque, NM) | 07 Jun 2012 | ||||
Company: | Fusion Theatre Company (Albuquerque, NM) | |||||
| 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 | #139659 | |||
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Genre: | One-Act Drama (10-15 min) | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | Jury Prize Winner for Best Script, 2012 New Works Festival, Fusion Theatre Company (748 scripts submitted) | |||||
Synopsis: | A lonely American Jew, a smart Russian prostitute, a run-down room in Tel Aviv. He wanted her to talk, or so he thought . . . | |||||
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Nude Scene, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | American Globe Theatre | 26 Apr 2012 | ||||
Company: | Turnip Theatre Company & American Globe Theatre | |||||
| 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 | #139493 | |||
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Genre: | One-Act Comedy (10-15 min) | |||||
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Synopsis: | Long-time friends VICTOR (27) and ANNA (27) have their first big break, he as a film director and she as his leading lady, IF . . . VICTOR can get ANNA to do something she really, really doesn't want to do. . . | |||||
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Turtles All the Way Down | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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 | #136501 | |||
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Genre: | farce | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | 90 minutes w/o intermission | |||||
Synopsis: | The year is 2028. Out of President Dick Wonder's sexual past comes Volvita Volva, the Biracial, Intersex Ex-Sex Queen Who Would Be . . . In one high-velocity 24-hour period, Volvita scales the heights of power to liberate President Wonder from the hypnotic grip of Mitch, the sociopathic childhood chum who covertly rules the country in his name. Along the way, she/he liberates the First Lady from a life of erotic frustration and introduces the President to the son he never knew he had, the very same young man whom the sixteen-year-old First Daughter plans to marry. All this, and a surprise ending - did someone say Queen? - never before seen in the annals of America. | |||||
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