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STEPHEN KARAM |
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Nationality: USA Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: Creative Artists Agency NY |
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Plays by Stephen Karam |
Columbinus | ||
| 1st Produced: | Arena Stage Old Vat Room, Washington D C | 2002 | ||||
Company: | New York Theatre Workshop | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatic Publishing Company, 2007 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #54312 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 | ||
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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." | |||||
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Dark Sisters | ||
| 1st Produced: | Gerald W. Lynch at John Jay College, NY | 09 Nov 2011 | ||||
Company: | Gotham Chamber Opera and Opera Company of Philadelphia | |||||
| 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 | #133901 | |||
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Genre: | opera | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 6 | ||
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Notes: | Book & Lyrics By: Stephen Karam; Music By: Nico Muhly | |||||
Synopsis: | In a world where personal identity is forbidden, Dark Sisters follows one woman's dangerous attempt to escape her life as a member of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS), a sect that split from mainstream Mormonism in the early 20th century largely because of the LDS Church's renunciation of polygamy. The male founders of the Mormon faith (Joseph Smith and Brigham Young chief among them) have traditionally loomed large in American history; Dark Sisters puts the women of the FLDS sect front and center. The narrative draws inspiration from the flurry of media attention surrounding the two most famous raids on FLDS compounds (the 1953 raid at Short Creek, AZ, and the 2008 raid at the Yearning For Zion Ranch in Eldorado, TX) as well as from the stories of the more than 80 wives of Joseph Smith and Brigham Young. | |||||
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Emma | ||
| 1st Produced: | Brown University, Stuart Theater | 2000 | ||||
Company: | Brown University | |||||
| 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 | #73911 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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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 Director's Choice Award. | |||||
Synopsis: | A modernized, musicalized reinvention of the classic novel. Determined to help her protege - 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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Mister Murdery | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 2005 | ||||
Company: | Brown/Trinity Playwrights Rep | |||||
| 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 | #73912 | |||
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Genre: | One act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
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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Principal and the Pee, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 2005 | ||||
Company: | Brown/Trinity Playwrights Rep | |||||
| 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 | #73913 | |||
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Genre: | One act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
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. | |||||
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Sons of the Prophet | ||
| 1st Produced: | Laura Pels Theatre | 20 Oct 2011 | ||||
Company: | Roundabout 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 | #122854 | |||
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Genre: | comedic play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | Sons of the Prophet is a brutally funny new play about a Lebanese family in Pennsylvania in crisis. But as they deal with crazy bosses, medical mysteries, and the end of the family line, they never lose their unbreakable sense of humor. | |||||
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Speech & Debate | ||
| 1st Produced: | Roundabout Underground, Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre, NY | 2007 | ||||
Company: | Roundabout Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, 2008 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #73261 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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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 | |||||
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