TOM JACOBSON
| Nationality: | American |
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Plays by Tom Jacobson
Beloved Disciple, The |
| 1st Produced: | The Complex, Los Angeles, CA | 1994 | ||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | - |
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Synopsis: Christopher Marlowe, sixteenth-century author of Doctor Faustus, was murdered at the age of 29. This tragicomedy speculates that his death was tied to his scandalous play about the relationship between Jesus and the disciple John. Pick of the Week and nominated for an L.A. Weekly Award. | ||||
Bunberry |
| 1st Produced: | The Road Theatre Company, North Hollywood, CA | 2005 | ||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 3 |
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Synopsis: When he discovers he is only a fictitious character in The Importance of Being Earnest, Bunbury joins forces with Rosaline, Romeo's never-seen obsession from Romeo and Juliet. Together, they win back their loves and change the world by changing classic literature. Winner of a Ticketholder Award and Garland Award for Best New Play, Critic's Choice in the Los Angeles Times | ||||
Cyberqueer |
| 1st Produced: | Celebration Theatre, Los Angeles, CA | 1996 | ||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 1 |
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Synopsis: A lonely college professor finds sex, danger and romance on the Internet in this comedy the Los Angeles Times called "dazzling" and the L.A. Weekly called "menacingly funny." A Critic's Choice in Drama-Logue. | ||||
Degenerate Art |
| 1st Produced: | The Complex, Los Angeles, CA | 1991 | ||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 |
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Synopsis: An Expressionist artist battles Nazis and his own ardent nationalism when his art is declared "degenerate" by the totalitarian regime. | ||||
Friendly Hour, The |
| 1st Produced: | The Road Theatre Company, North Hollywood, CA | 2008 | ||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 5 |
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Synopsis: Based on the actual minutes of a women's club formed in rural South Dakota in 1934, this poignant comedy charts 70 years of personal and national history, from skinning skunks and julebukking in the 30s to restoring native prairie in the new millennium. | ||||
House of the Rising Son |
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | - |
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Synopsis: When Trent brings Felix home to New Orleans to meet his father and homophobic grandfather, the family's demons come slithering into the light. Watchful ghosts, sinister hustlers, and a myriad of parasites lead Felix on a Southern Gothic journey to St. Louis Cemetery No. 1. | ||||
Journeys of Yuzu, The |
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
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Los York |
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | - |
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Synopsis: Seduction and betrayal or self-sacrificing love? Otis is stuck between two coasts and his two gay uncles, in the middle of an America living in terror. Choosing a grad school was never this hard | ||||
Orange Grove, The |
| 1st Produced: | Playwrights Arena, Los Angeles, CA | 2005 | ||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 4 |
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Synopsis: A small Lutheran choir in its death-throes provides the backdrop for this Chekhovian warning of the impending doom of mainline Protestantism in America. Laughter through tears with nice lemon bars. Critic's Choice in the Los Angeles Times. | ||||
Ouroboros |
| 1st Produced: | The Road Theatre Company, North Hollywood, CA | 2004 | ||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | Tragicomedy | - | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 |
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Synopsis: Two American couples get caught in a chronological palindrome on a trip to Italy. Stigmata, alchemy, adultery and St. Catherine of Siena's severed head plague a nun and a minister in this circular love story that is a comedy if performed forward and a tragedy if performed backward. Winner of Best New Play and Production of the Year LA Weekly Awards. | ||||
Son of Othello |
| 1st Produced: | Celebration Theatre, Los Angeles, CA | 1998 | ||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 2 |
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Synopsis: A modern African-American academic plunges into a 400 year-old intrigue when he finds a 16th-century Italian diary that mentions William Shakespeare. Monks, pirates, eunuchs and actors conspire to rewrite literary history. | ||||
Sperm |
| 1st Produced: | Circle X Theatre Company, Los Angeles | 2005 | ||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 2 |
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Notes: adapted from Jacques Miroir's 18th-century play | ||||
Synopsis: Pulled from the stomach of a whale, an American whaler is bleached blind and becomes a modern Tiresias in the court of Louis XVI. He seduces Marie Antoinette and sets the king on a path to destroy France and ultimately humankind. A tragicomedy in rhymed couplets. Critic's Choice in the Los Angeles Times. | ||||
Tainted Blood |
| 1st Produced: | Main Street Theatre, Houston, TX | 1990 | ||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | Comedy Thriller | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 3 |
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Synopsis: Oscar Wilde, Bram Stoker, and Arthur Conan Doyle use logic and religion to fend off a seductive vampire in this fang-in-cheek comedy/thriller. Pick of the Week in the LA Weekly, and winner of seven Valley Theatre League Awards. | ||||