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2006

New York Theatre Workshop

Dramatic Publishing Company

2007

If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise
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Notes: written by Stephen Karam and PJ Paparelli. columbinus received four Helen Hayes Award nominations including Best Resident Play and Best Director, Resident Play

Synopsis: A play sparked by the April 1999 massacre at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, probes the psychological warfare of alienation, hostility and social pressure that goes on in high schools across America. Created by The United States Theatre Project, written by Stephen Karam and PJ Paparelli, with dramaturgy by Patricia Hersch, and conceived and directed by PJ Paparelli, columbinus weaves together excerpts from discussions with parents, survivors and community leaders in Littleton as well as diaries and home video footage to bring to light the dark recesses of American adolescence. When columbinus premiered in 2005 at the Round House Theatre, Peter Marks of the Washington Post called it, "An ambitious examination of the suburbanization of evil, directed with a surefire sense of theatricality by PJ Paparelli."

Brown University, Stuart Theater

2000

Brown University

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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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Notes: Music by Stephen Karam; lyrics by Stephen Karam; book by Stephen Karam. Based on the novel by Jane Austen. Winner of the Kennedy Center's ACTF Musical Theatre Award and the NYMF Directors Choice Award.

Synopsis: A modernized, musicalized reinvention of the classic novel. Determined to help her protégé - a gay orphan and part-time janitor - Emma Woodhouse navigates her way around the small, conservative community of Highbury, CT, and finds herself turning everything upside-down in the process. With plot twists around every corner, this musical is quirky, fresh, and funny.

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2005

Brown/Trinity Playwrights Rep

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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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Notes: Performed with "The Principal and the Pee" under the overall title: "Girl On Girl"

Synopsis: A violent storm rages outside of Citytown General Hospital. Nurse Cherry and Nurse Silver wait helplessly (and in fetching white uniforms) after learning that three of Citytown's residents (including the gay half of the two-person police force) have been murdered. With only a radio at their disposal, the two women must rely on each other for survival. A wicked comedy with startling twists and sharper turns around every wing of the abandoned hospital.

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2005

Brown/Trinity Playwrights Rep

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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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Notes: Performed with "Mister Murdery" under the overall title: "Girl On Girl"

Synopsis: A power-mad school administrator takes over Citytown General High School as if it were a kingdom. He arms his janitors (in a move to prevent school shootings), expels a lesbian student for spreading an STD (Pink Eye), and reveals dark family secrets as he struggles to hold on to his principality in an age where good old-fashioned tyranny doesn't seem to be appreciated by anyone.

Roundabout Underground, Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre, NY

2007

Roundabout Theatre Company

Dramatists Play Service

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Synopsis: Sex. Secrets. Performance-art video blogs with a George Michael beat. Just another typical day when you're a teenager in Salem, Oregon. SPEECH & DEBATE is Stephen Karam's fiercely funny and surprisingly timely new play. Even though they go to the same school, misfits Solomon, Diwata and Howie have never met. But when a shocking scandal involving one of their teachers brings them together through an unexpected chain of events, they realize three voices are stronger than one. And since their school has no speech and debate squad, maybe this is their chance to be heard at last - by the school and even the world.--Press Materials