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Kyle Jarrow

KYLE JARROW  

 Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    Creative Artists Agency CA  


Kyle Jarrow is a Brooklyn-based writer and musician. He writes for film and for television as well as for the stage, and he plays in the glam rock band The Fabulous Entourage. He won an OBIE award at age 24 for his Off-Broadway hit a Very Merry Unauthorized Children's Scientology Pageant, which also had a successful run in Los Angeles in fall 2004, and revivals in NYC, Boston, and Atlanta in 2006. Kyle's follow-up play armless won the Overall Excellence award at the New York International Fringe Festival, and productions of his plays President Harding is a Rock Star and Gorilla Man (now available from Samuel French) played in NYC to critical acclaim. Kyle's playwriting work has been presented at Performance Space 122, The John Houseman Theatre, HERE Arts Center, Boston Theatre Works, New Dramatists, The Flea, The Hangar Theatre, and Dad's Garage in Atlanta among others. Kyle was a 2005-2006 Dramatists Guild Fellow. He was nominated for a 2004 Los Angeles Drama Critics' Circle award and a 2004 Backstage West Garland award for a Very Merry. . ., and was runner-up for the 2002 Princess Grace Playwriting award for his play Hypochondria. He was winner of the 2001 John Golden Prize. Kyle has guest-lectured at Juilliard and Pratt. His band The Fabulous Entourage has appeared as part of the 2006 Whitney Biennial, on the Knitting Factory Mainstage, at Joešs Pub, Viper Room, Bowery Ballroom, and with bands such as Hot Chip and We are Scientists.

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 Armless         Fuckplays         Gorilla Man         Hostages         Love Kills         President Harding Is A Rock Star         Rip Me Open         Troposphere         Very Merry Unauthorized Children's Scientology Pageant, A         Whisper House

Armless

Synopsis:
John is a normal man, except for one thing: he wants his arms cut off. John suffers from Body Integrity Identity Disorder, a psychological condition in which an individual paradoxically doesn't feel "whole" unless he loses one or more major limbs. When John attempts to find a doctor willing to perform this operation, it triggers a twisted romp filled with mistaken identities, missed chances, and tragic consequences. a provocative farce about notions of personal freedom and medical ethics

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Fuckplays

Synopsis:
This is a program of eight new plays that collectively take a voyeuristic journey through eight playwrights' most private places and offer a sincere examination of our most basic carnal desires. It's a co-presentation of Soho Thinktank, Galapagos art Space, Working Man's Clothes Productions, The Thursday Problem, and Jeffrey Schulman.
nytheatre.com

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authors: Bekah Brunstetter, Justin Cooper, Joshua Hill, Kyle Jarrow, William Charles Meny, Greg Romero, Eric Sanders, Casey Wimpee

1st Produced:
Ohio Theatre, NY    2007

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Working Man's Clothes, The Thursday Problem, Soho Thinktank, Galapagos art Space EVOLVE Series, and Jeffrey Schulman

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Gorilla Man

Synopsis:
Waking one morning to find thick fur growing on the backs of his hands, young Billy discovers the awful truth his mother has been hiding from him for 14 years. Cast from his home, he sets out on a journey to find his father, the legendary Gorilla Man. Combining influences as diverse as Tod Browning, Tom Sawyer, and T. Rex, Gorilla Man is a strikingly original new music-theater piece. It's a darkly comic coming-of-age tale that explores issues of violence, identity, and free will against the backdrop of a warped American landscape

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Book, Music & Lyrics by Kyle Jarrow

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PS122

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Musical

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Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  2 either m. or f

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Hostages

Synopsis:
Hostages is a darkly funny, quietly moving love story between two American hostages held captive in a war-torn country. With text by acclaimed wordsmith Clay McLeod Chapman and indie rock songs by Kyle Jarrow, it's a provocative look at America's place in the world today -- and the enduring power of love in tragic times.

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written by Clay McLeod Chapman And Kyle Jarrow

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Crown Point Festival

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Love Kills

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Based on a true story. 1958. Teenage lovers Charlie and Carrill have murdered eleven people. The police are desperate to get a confession out of them

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1st Produced:
New York Musical Theatre Festival    2007

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President Harding Is A Rock Star

Synopsis:
as bizarre and surreal as President Harding is, the real President Harding, and his times, were more bizarre and surreal, and to fully appreciate the musical you have to know what really happened. after the presidency of the dyspeptic intellectual Woodrow Wilson, America was ready for something completely different. We got it in Harding, a sweet, dignified-looking fellow straight out of Central Casting, and dumber than a toaster. He knew it, too. He frequently confessed to friends that he was not up to the Presidency. Indeed, he may not have been up to any job. He had been hospitalized five times over his life for nervous exhaustion by the time he was nominated. When he was not overtaxed by thinking, though, he was a genuinely swell guy. He supplemented his dimness with a manic need to please people. His father, who survived him, noted that had he been a woman he would have been "in a family way all the time" because of his inability to say no. Harding's father, a country doctor, would have been a better President than Harding. Harding's dog would have been a better President. Harding's insatiable desire to please had predictable results: his friends betrayed it. Interior Secretary albert Fall gave a no-bid oil lease to somebody who loaned Fall money at no interest; attorney General Harry Daugherty presided over a kickback scam with bootleggers; and there were a half-dozen other scandals involving high government officials. In the meantime, Harding vigorously and enthusiastically indulged his taste for young women, impregnating the lovely Nan Britton (in a White House closet (here transported to the Oval Office desk). He hosted boozy poker parties in the White House, flaunting the prohibition laws he was sworn to defend. He was a mess.
- Tim Treanor, dctheatrescene

Notes:
Book, music And lyrics by Kyle Jarrow

1st Produced:
DC Arts Center, Washington, DC    2008

Company:
Landless Theatre Company

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Genre:
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Rip Me Open

Synopsis:
She's a private dick who's seen it all. He's a blonde bombshell waiting to explode. In this filthy, lonely city, some secrets just can't stay hidden. Rip Me Open follows two wise-cracking, desperate souls as they investigate a strange sexual act in a case of threatened violence and psychosexual intrigue. Drawing on influences from Dennis Cooper to Haruki Murakami to Double Indemnity, Rip Me Open combines pulse-pounding mystery with crackling comedic dialogue and several original songs

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written by Desiree Burch, Michael Cyril Creighton, Kyle Jarrow, Brian Mullin

1st Produced:
Galapagos, NY    2006

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EVOLVE Theater Series

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comedy/drama Comedy

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Troposphere

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part of The Wikipedia Plays is A mini-marathon of short plays that surf the wikipedia wave through 17 related entries. The press materials describe it thusly: "In this brave new world of instant gratification where the internet can live in your pocket, one group of writers has created A mini-marathon of short plays that surf the wikipedia wave through seventeen related entries." The plays And playwrights Are: Mike Batistick (Castration Anxiety), Evan Cabnet (Prokop the Great), Ron Fitzgerald (Turbulent), Liz Flahive (Bohemia), Sam Forman (Fetish), Etan Frankel (The Defenestration of Prague), Kyle Jarrow (Troposphere), Nick Jones (Global Warming), Barry Levey (Yale Law School), Carly Mensch (Democracy), Elizabeth Meriwether (Particle Board), Lin-Manuel Miranda (Golf Ball), Rachel Shukert (Stiletto Heels), Mat Smart (Weather Forecasting), Aurin Squire (Uncertainties), Adam Szymkowicz (Bill Clinton) And Beau Willimon (Wooden). The Wikipedia Plays Are directed by Evan Cabnet, Michael Goldfried, Maria Goyanes, Meredith McDonough, Shira Milikowsky And Moritz von Stuelpnagel.

1st Produced:
ars Nova, NY    2007

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Very Merry Unauthorized Children's Scientology Pageant, A

Kyle Jarrow
a jubilant cast of children celebrate the controversial religion in uplifting pageantry and song. The actual teachings of The Church of Scientology are explained and dissected against the candy-colored backdrop of a traditional nativity play. Pageant is a musical biography of the life of L. Ron Hubbard, with child-friendly explanations of Hubbard's notion of the divided mind (embodied by the lovely identical twins Emma and Sophie Whitfield in matching brain outfits' and a device called the e-meter (or electropsychometer', used to monitor the human psyche, which is demonstrated by stick puppets. Grade school children, portraying Tom Cruise, Kirstie alley, John Travolta, and other less starry Scientologists, brings the controversial Church of Scientology to jubilant life in story and song.

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by Joel Markowitz And Kyle Jarrow. Winner 2004 OBIE Award; from A concept by Alex Timbers

1st Produced:
The Tank and The John Houseman Theatre, NY    18 Dec 2003

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Les Freres Corbusier

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Original cast recording: Ghostlight (SHKB 5656) 2004

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Genre:
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Male:  5            Female:  5            Other:  doubling possible

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Whisper House

Kyle Jarrow
1942. Christopher's father dies whilst fighting in the War. Christopher is sent to live with his aunt on a remote lighthouse. Christopher discovers it is haunted.

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Music And lyrics by Duncan Sheik; book by Kyle Jarrow

1st Produced:
Old Globe Theatre, San Diego    13 Jan 2010

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Original cast recording: RCa Victor 2009

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