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Arlene Hutton

ARLENE HUTTON

  
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    Beacon Artists Agency  UK representative Ki Agency

Arlene Hutton is a member of New Dramatists and a MacDowell Colony fellow. She is the author of Last Train to Nibroc(2000 New York Drama League Best Play nomination) and the Shaker Drama as It Is In Heaven, both of which were selected for Smith & Kraus Best Women Playwrightsanthologies. a four-time Heideman award finalist and a three-time Samuel French Short Play Festival winner, her New York credits include 78th Street Theatre Lab, the Barrow Group, Circle-in-the-Square Downtown, Alice's Fourth Floor, ensemble Studio Theatre, HeRe, and Vital Theatre.

Research:    Member of the Dramatists Guild of America (as at 2015)

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         Academia         As It Is In Heaven         Closing Costs         Corbin, Kentucky         Fairie Tale, A         Gorges Motel, The         Gulf View Drive         Happy Worst Day Ever         Houseplay         I Dream Before I Take the Stand         Last Train To Nibroc         Letters To Sala         Lights Up!         Remedial Lessons         Running         See Rock City         Vacuum         Vero Beach         War At Home, The         Women@Work

Academia

Synopsis:
a collection of short pieces about university life:- POOH TaKeS a SaBBaTICaL, an ageing professor learns lessons for life from his daughter's dissertation topic. OFFICe HOURS, two office mates test their friendship. CLaSS DISCUSSION, a male colleague is warned about his liaisons with women students. eURIaL PaSS, on her way abroad a student discovers a lot about her mother's college days. TeNURe TRaCKS, a committee tries to oust a colleague who hasn't kept up with technology. ReMeDIaL LeSSONS, both are victims of campus politics, but who is more handicapped - a graduate student with cerebral palsy or her tightly-wound professor?

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Readings And Workshops At Ensemble Studio Theatre    2002

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Collection of short pieces, 90 min

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Male:  3            Female:  4            Other:  -

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As It Is In Heaven

Synopsis:
a religious community is changed when a non-believer has an ecstatic experience. the 1830's Shaker society of Pleasant Hill, Kentucky, is set in ordered ways. their once Dramatic form of worship has by now developed into routine. the arrival of Fanny upsets the harmony; the Sisters suspect her to be a "winter Shaker," one who suddenly converts when life gets too hard on the farm. Fanny sees angels in the meadow, and soon all the young women are receiving spiritual "gifts" of songs, drawings, ideas and giggles, completely upsetting the community. the leaders question Fanny's intentions and honesty: Is this a resurgence of the original Shaker celebration or something manufactured by Fanny so that she can remain with the Shakers? eldress Hannah is jealous that she, the most devout of Shakers, has not been privileged to see the visions. But only the ones who question need visual proof. Whether they were heavenly or earthly, the angels were there. "Hands to Work, Hearts to God" is their motto, and in each scene the Sisters are always at tasks. the set is as simple as the Shakers: benches, baskets and laundry. Hymns sung a cappella punctuate the scenes of the play, which ends with a joyful explosion of Shaker singing and ecstatic dance.

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Genre:
Drama, 90 min

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Male:  -            Female:  9            Other:  -

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Closing Costs

Synopsis:
After viewing four hundred apartments, has Harrison finally found the right co-op, or simply the right real estate agentAlice? Harrison must decide if it's time to trade in his artificial fishand finally grow up.

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1st Produced:
Barrow Group's Mainstage (312 West 36th Street, Floor 3, NY, NY)    29 Jul 2013

Organisations:
part of Short Stuff 7

1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, Inc. NY (2015)   978-0822231493

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one act

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Corbin, Kentucky

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Developed At New Dramatists with the help of A grant from Loyola Marymount University.

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90 min Play/Drama

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Male:  1            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Fairie Tale, A

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Gorges Motel, The

Synopsis:
A series of short plays that intertwine to tell one story. 'Lives intersect in comic and dramatic fashion in a motel that has seen better days in Watkins Glen, New York. Break-ups, make-ups, a teddy bear and a drone attack, the ridiculous and the sublime all come together in one unlikely place.'

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written by: Gretchen Cryer, Craig Pospisil, Arlene Hutton, Lynne Halliday, James Hindman, Isaac Himmelman and Ankur Parikh

1st Produced:
TBG Theatre at The Barrow Group Studios (312 West 36th Street 3rd Floor), NY    07 Oct 2015

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short plays

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Gulf View Drive

Synopsis:
Gulf View Driveis the third play in arlene Hutton's Nibroc Trilogy-the trio of Hutton's plays that began with Last Train to Nibroc (1999) and continued with See Rock City (2005). In the first two plays, a young pair of Kentuckians named May and Raleigh meet, fall in love, marry and try to reconcile marital expectations and their opinionated mothers-in-law. In GULF VIeW DRIVe, the time frame has moved from World War II to 1953, and May and Raleigh have moved to Florida, where the crush of dreams, families and the turbulence of events just outside their door threaten their comfortable life. their dream house shrinks as relatives descend, further testing the couple's love in this glimpse of life in the 1950s, as they make unconventional decisions in a changing world.

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Genre:
Short Play One act

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Male:  1            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Happy Worst Day Ever

Synopsis:
Unlikely 6th-grade friends struggle with self-identity, school cliques, peer pressure and the ever-present power of popular media in this new comedy by the author of "Last Train to Nibroc." Winner of the 2010 Macy's New Play Prize.

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www.arlenehutton.com

1st Produced:
New York International Fringe Festival    Aug 2011

Organisations:
the Journey Company and Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park

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1h 0m FringeJR Comedy

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Houseplay

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part of 3Graces. This is A program of seven short plays from 3Graces theater Co

1st Produced:
Csv Cultural Center    2006

Organisations:
Spring Shorts 2009

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I Dream Before I Take the Stand

Synopsis:
a defense lawyer cross-examines a woman during her testimony in a sexual assault case -- and in doing so, horribly distorts her perfectly innocent walk in the park.

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1st Produced:
Edinburgh Festival Fringe (Edinburgh, , United Kingdom)    1995

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Playscripts, Inc - New York   -

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Genre:
20-25 min Play/Drama

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  1 male, 1 female

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Last Train To Nibroc

Synopsis:
In December 1940, an east-bound cross-country train carries the bodies of the great American writers Nathanael West and F. Scott Fitzgerald. also on board is May, who shares her seat with a charming young flyer, Raleigh. Religious and bookish, May plans to be a missionary. Raleigh has been given a medical discharge and, inspired by West and Fitzgerald, is heading to New York to be a writer. Raleigh and May discover they are from neighboring appalachian towns, and he decides to change trains for Kentucky, promising to take May to the next Nibroc Festival. Scene Two finds May and Raleigh at the festival, but a year and half later. Unfit for war, and needing to support his parents, Raleigh has been working in a Detroit factory. May is teaching school and dating an itinerant preacher. When Raleigh confronts her, May admits her prejudices against his family. It is not until the following spring as they sit on May's front porch, watching a lumberyard fire in the distance, that the two are finally able to resolve their differences and discover the depth of their feelings. May accepts Raleigh's sudden proposal to elope, as the sky grows red like a sunrise.

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1st Produced:
119991Play/Drama    1999

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Dramatists Play Service, NY,    -

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Genre:
Comedy, 90 min Play/Drama

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Letters To Sala

Synopsis:
Adapted from the book Sala's Gift by Ann Kirschner and based on a true account, LETTERS TO SALA is a remarkable story of a young girl's survival during wartime Germany. Five years. Seven Nazi labor camps. Over 350 hidden letters. Sala Garncarz Kirschner kept her secret for over fifty years, concealing her incredibly painful history in a Spill and Spell box. Everything changes when Sala reveals the cache to her grown daughter, Ann. LETTERS TO SALA draws from the emotional journeys that begin for both Ann and Sala when the letters resurface. Through scholarly research, Ann discovers that her mother has made a historically significant impact on Holocaust documentation. As Ann processes her own reaction to her mother's story, her daughters, Caroline and Elisabeth, also realize for the first time the weight of their Jewish heritage. Simultaneously, Ann's study of the letters throws Sala into the past again. She relives her youth, recalling her naive desire for adventure, the disillusionment of her life in the work camps, and her loss of communication with the outside world as the war progressed around her. Playwright Arlene Hutton drives the two stories to a single question: What is to be done with these letters? If Sala risked her life to hold onto them as a young woman imprisoned in a work camp, are they merely the emotionally rich relics of her past life? Or are they worthy and important historical documents that demand to be shared with the public? Three generations of Kirschner women must work together to sift through the past and come to terms with the true gravity of Sala's letters. LETTERS TO SALA has a flexible cast size and flexible staging. Images of the actual letters and photos of the real people are available online for projections, programs and displays. Sala's letters, which were displayed in a special exhibition at the New York Public Library in 2006, are an important addition to Holocaust research, called, as one journalist noted, "the greatest find since Anne Frank's diary."

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Based on A book by Anne Kirschner

1st Produced:
Annie Russell Theatre, Rollins College, Florida    11 Feb 2007

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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY, 2013   978-0822227724

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drama

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Male:  4            Female:  12            Other:  doubling, flexible casting up to 5 men, 21 women

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Lights Up!

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written by Arlene Hutton, Silvia Gonzalez S., Catherine Filloux, Neena Beber, Wendy Hammond, Liz Duffy Adams, Barbara Wiechmann

1st Produced:
Players Theatre, NY    2007

Organisations:
Wizard Oil Productions

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Remedial Lessons

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Ten Min

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Running

Synopsis:
It's the weekend of the New York City Marathon, and Stephen, preparing for his first race, needs a good night's sleep. emily, his wife's old roommate, shows up unexpectedly in the wee hours of the morning. In crisis and unable to find a hotel room, emily is returning to the apartment she once lived in and where, years ago, she and Stephen may or may not have met. Seeing her old home brings back memories and Stephen, dealing with his own troubles with marriage and work, is jarred from his complacency and forced to face his failures. Late night conversations become late night confessions and connections. Will Stephen be running on empty?

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1st Produced:
The Cherry Pit    13 Aug 2010

Organisations:
the Journey Company

1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, Inc, 2012   978-0822225126

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Genre:
1h 30m comedy Drama

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See Rock City

Synopsis:
Raleigh's appalachian love story continues with See Rock City as the couple plans a honeymoon in Rock City, Tennessee in 1943. When victory overseas brings unexpected consequences at home, May and Raleigh are forced to face hidden truths and find common solutions to the challenges of a new, postwar America

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sequel to "Last Train to Nibroc"

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Vacuum

Synopsis:
Which is more important -- preserving the world economy or curing a fatal disease? at an exclusive desert resort an idealistic scientist squares off against a billionaire-industrialist in this daring new Drama full of deception, sexual intrigue and corporate power-plays.

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1st Produced:
Venue #12: Cherry Lane Theatre, Fringe NYC, NY    16 Aug 2012

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the Journey Company & Wild Card Productions

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1h 30m Drama

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Vero Beach

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War At Home, The

Synopsis:
part of five provocative new shorts by writers arlene Hutton, Barbara Lindsay, K. Lorrel Manning, Dee ann Newkirk, and Julia Ryan focusing on the Iraq War and its effect on our culture at large.
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1st Produced:
Barrow Group, NY    2007

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Women@Work

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a collection of short pieces:- VeRO BeaCH, a humerous look at three women in a resort boutique, dealing with beauty and ageism. PUSHING BUTTONS, (actors' theatre of Louisville Heideman finalist, an absurdist nightmare. IN the MIND's eYe, a quick glimpse at a power struggle over an eye chart. CUBICLeS, (actors' theatre of Louisville heideman finalist), a funny view of romance and co-workers. TeSTTIMe, an absurdist monologue in which a teacher gives the wrong test to the wrong class. CaFeTeRIa, an observation of three friends threatened by layoffs. a CLOSeR LOOK, (Samuel French Short Play Festival winner) a study of backstage at a TV talk show.

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1st Produced:
Douglas Fairbanks Theatre    1999

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Genre:
90 min Play/Drama

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