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Shawn B Hirabayashi

SHAWN B HIRABAYASHI  

 Nationality:    USA
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Shawn B. Hirabayashi has been playwriting in New York City since 1992. He has had productions and readings at various Theatres (e.g., Vital Theatre Company, Ripple Productions, Circle Rep Lab, Sundog Theatre). He's won a couple of awards (Berrilla Kerr and OOBR), had a residency (New River Dramatists), and been commissioned (Starfish Theatreworks and Reckless Theatre Company). He earned an MFA in playwriting from the Yale School of Drama and is a member of the Dramatists Guild.

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         East River Blue         Funny         Hijinks         Poor Ophelia         Rocks And Shadows         Tav         Wheat And the Moon, The

East River Blue

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Funny

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the first act occurs in the New York apartment of alice and Delia. alice has ordered a hit on her life-long friend and roommate. as the curtain rises, alice is in the process of changing her mind about the hit. Before she does so, Delia's ex-boyfriend, Giovanni, shows up. alice is trying to get Delia and Giovanni to leave when the hit man, ex, arrives. ex normally doesn't change plans once they are set in motion, but he has recently been infected by the voice of a girl named Ruthie who nags him until he does what she wants. One thing leads to another and by the second act they find themselves in a jungle in Papua New Guinea, where the consequences of alice's impulsiveness will out.
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Full-length. 2002-2003 OOBR Award. Review < www.oobr.com/top/volNine/twelve/1006funny.php>

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Dark Comedy Comedy

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Hijinks

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Poor Ophelia

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Young Woman sits on branch above a pond, reading an oversized edition of Hamlet and sipping champagne. Distraught, she jumps. In the pond, she finds she can breathe and she discovers a cave. In dreamlike fashion she is visited in turn by six characters who encourage her to stay away from the cave
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For this production the male parts And two of the female parts where doubled

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McGinn Cazale theatre    2006

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absurd One act

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Rocks And Shadows

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Southern Rep New Play Bachanal    Jan 2011

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Ten minute play

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Tav

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Tension rises between two old friends, one Japanese-American and the other Jewish who meet at a cemetery in rural France.
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part of Vital theatre Company presents its Annual festival of new works, Vital Signs.

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McGinn Cazale theatre    2006

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Short Play One act

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Wheat And the Moon, The

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Drawing from the African myth "the Wheat and the Moon", the Greek myth "Orpheus and euridice", and Oscar Wilde's "the Rose and the Nightingale", the play integrates myths familiar and obscure to create the story of Hafizi and Nitida, lovers separated by death who are willing to sacrifice the order of the universe to be together one last time. With Orpheus also pursuing Nitida and the Gods Bes, Baba Yaga, and apollo encouraging the two lovers to move on for the sake of the world.
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Access Theatre, 380 Broadway, 4th floor, New York, NY 10013    2004

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Fable, full length

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Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  3 (played by one actor)

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