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ROSS HOWARD (1978 - ) |
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Nationality: British Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: The Gersh Agency, NY |
Ross Howard's plays have been read at national playwriting conferences in the United States and received full productions notably in London, Las Vegas, Minneapolis, San Francisco, and at the Cherry Lane Theatre in New York City. In 2002, he was invited to join the Royal Court Theatre Young Writer's Group. In April 2008, he received a Playwright Fellowship from the Edward F. Albee Foundation, New York. His play "Arthur and Esther" was awarded "Best of Fringe" at Las Vegas Fringe Festival in June 2010. Described in Las Vegas Review Journal as having a "demented vision of life that is worth experiencing" and originally from Lancashire, England, Ross holds an M.F.A in playwriting from the University of Nevada and has since taught undergraduate theatre and playwriting classes in Central California. On returning to the UK, he now lives in London. He is represented by Quinn M. Corbin at The Gersh Agency.
Plays by Ross Howard
11am with Dr. Rupert, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | LOST Theatre, London | Nov 2011 | ||||
Company: | Made From Scratch 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 | #133937 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | As part of an evening of short plays "Made In Britain" | |||||
Synopsis: | The dying minutes of the eleventh hour with Dr. Rupert and Nurse Whitehall. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Arthur And Esther | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Studio @ Cherry Lane, New York International Fringe Festival | Aug 2007 | ||||
Company: | New York International Fringe Festival | |||||
| 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 | #72174 | |||
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Genre: | Monologues/ Black Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Facebook.com/arthurandesther. Winner of "Best of Fringe" at Las Vegas Fringe Festival 2010 | |||||
Synopsis: | Small town librarian Arthur Huey's world is crumbling. His best friend Chuck's was too, but wooing Esther as a Homo erectus and chasing her around his museum with a spear meant that things got better for Chuck. Not so for Arthur. He's lost his library which is being turned into office space. Bad enough, but when you are a direct descendant of the man who invented the Dewey Decimal Classification System there's a legacy at stake; a history. If Arthur's wife was around things might be okay. But Arthur's wife is, in fact, Esther, the woman chased around the museum by Chuck. Is there a way back for this star crossed couple? And where will this be? | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Enlightened | ||
| 1st Produced: | Linton Theatre Workshop | Apr 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 | #130307 | |||
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Genre: | One Act/Satire | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | It's been months since Rupert's funeral and young widow Jane hasn''t heard a peep out of "friends" Margaret and Alan. At a coffee shop, plain Jane discovers why she has been omitted from their progressive social circle and how she just might be too Caucasian. | |||||
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Hankerbox, The | ||
| 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 | #130309 | |||
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Genre: | One Act/Surrealist | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Staged reading at ADC Theatre, Cambridge as part of "Naked Stage" October 2011 | |||||
Synopsis: | Janice brings a box to husband Kenneth's workplace at lunchtime. What is it? | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Man Called Turd, A | ||
| 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 | #130308 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | One Act/Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | 11pm on November 1st, The Day of the Dead. Art gallery curator Roger Wagstaff and wife Anthea visit a Tuscan graveyard to pay tribute to Roger's ancestor, Italian war hero Giancarlo Alberto Francescoli. Only trouble is, Gramps is no longer there. He's recently been exhumed and replaced. Roger must do all he can if he is to get the Day of the Dead he was planning on. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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No One Loves Us Here | ||
| 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 | #130304 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Black Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | When Washington from the video store is invited to stay in the Beaumont's guest house, the ruthless Mr. Beaumont thinks he'll get one thing from the arrangement. But just as Mrs. Beaumont avidly tends to her flowers, so Washington decides to do some pruning himself. There is more to this teenager than meets the eye aside from a vivid imagination and it's Mrs. Beaumont who stands to gain. | |||||
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Relinquish | ||
| 1st Produced: | Paul Harris Theatre | May 2005 | ||||
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 | #107203 | |||
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Genre: | One Act/ Serio-comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Recipient of Davey Marlin-Jones Award for Best Short Play | |||||
Synopsis: | A mother agrees to meet her son for the first time in 30 years. 30 years since she gave him up for adoption . . . but there is one unusual condition to the reunion. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Rules of Assortment | ||
| 1st Produced: | Linton Theatre Workshop | Apr 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 | #130305 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | One Act/Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | At a bank's sorting centre a new employee's ambivalence to the confectionery around the office raises suspicion of his commitment to the company. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Staying at Dr. Brown's | ||
| 1st Produced: | Paul Harris Theatre | Apr 2005 | ||||
Company: | Nevada Conservatory 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 | #107204 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | One Act/Thriller | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Staged reading at ADC Theatre, Cambridge as part of "Naked Stage" January 2010 | |||||
Synopsis: | A literature professor and Robert Browning aficionado holds a student hostage in his basement, convinced that she's his Elizabeth Barrett. Emma just won't play along and it's been four days now . . . or five, depending on who you believe, and the power struggle is about to end. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Thackers of Westchester, The | ||
| 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 | #130303 | |||
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Genre: | Satirical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | In current development as a musical. | |||||
Synopsis: | Philanthropists Ferdinand and Constance Thacker are wealthy, British doctors running a free woman's healthcare clinic in Miami-Dade County, Florida. They're also trying for baby, but having no such luck. When local cleric and activist, Humberto Fonseca, promises them an orphan from his compound, things seem to be looking up. The only problem is that this Cuban-American orphan is handsome Esteban Recoba Rivero, and he's about to turn eighteen. With a teenager now thrust upon them, and their attempts to conceal the nature of their practice from the ultra- conservative cleric, the Thackers soon find themselves at loggerheads with the anti-Socialist hysteria of the Cuban exile community in Miami. Life in the sunny paradise of South Florida becomes complicated for these mischievous Brits abroad. The Thackers of Westchester is an outrageously dark, and comic romp exploring sexual politics, international politics and just what a husband and wife can go through when both the marital bed, and the quest to have a child of their own, is well and truly at stake. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Viewing, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Sep 2011 | |||||
Company: | In Company Theatre/Off Cut Festival | |||||
| 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 | #130306 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | One Act/ Black comedy/drama/political allegory | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A dream house in an occupied foreign land. Is it worth what it costs? | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Who We Found Instead | ||
| 1st Produced: | Pillsbury House Theatre, Minneapolis | Aug 2007 | ||||
Company: | Minnesota Fringe Festival | |||||
| 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 | #107202 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | One Act/Romance | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | US intelligence has found a miniature golf course in the mountains of Tora Bora. Surveillance has captured what appears to be a tall man roaming around the area with a stick. They think it could be Osama Bin Laden. It could be just someone playing miniature golf. It could even be Osama Bin Laden playing miniature golf. Private Garfunkel and Private Simon are sent to check it out and discover that war can be quite romantic. | |||||
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