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SIBYL KEMPSON |
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Nationality: USA Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: AO International represented by Ante Oegel |
Sibyl Kempson lives and makes theater plays in NYC and the Pocono Mountains. Plays include Crime or Emergency (Theater Bonn, Germany; Great Plains Theatre Conference, Omaha; Performance Space 122; Fusebox Festival, Austin; Soho Rep; Dixon Place); Potatoes of August (Dixon Place); So Much To Go Crazy (The Show Might Go On) (Sehr Langsam) (The Off Center/Fusebox Festival, Austin); The Wytche of Problymm Plantation (Dixon Place); Bad Girls Good Writers (Brick Theater; Bennington New Works Festival); Spargel Time! (Little Theater) and many others. Her work has been developed in workshops at Dixon Place, Soho Rep, CATCH! Performance Series, and Little Theater, as well as at New Dramatists. Current and upcoming projects include an as-yet untitled collaboration with Elevator Repair Service; a Full Stage USA commission, a program of New Dramatists and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for a new work in collaboration with Austin, TX groups Rude Mechs, Salvage Vanguard, Physical Plant, and Rubber Rep; a collaboration with David Neumanns Advanced Beginner Group; and a commission from the Playwrights Department of NYC Players in partnership with Abrons Arts Center. The 2011-12 season will see productions of her plays The Secret Death of Puppets (or) How Do Puppets Die? (or) Puppets Die In Secret (at Dixon Place) and Ich, KurbisGeist (by Big Dance Theater at the Chocolate Factory). Her plays have been published by the 53rd State Press (Crime and Kurbis), Play A Journal of Plays (Potatoes of August), Brooklyn Review (excerpts of Crime and Secret Death of Puppets), Midway Journal (excerpt of The Secret Death of Puppets). She is a 2010 MacDowell Colony Fellow, member of New Dramatists class of 17, a four-time recipient of Dixon Places Mondo Cane! Commission (2002, '07, '09, '11), and of individual grant support from the Greenwall Foundation 2009 & 10. She is a founding member of the Joyce Cho Initiative, an affinity of playwrights dedicated to the staging of problem plays, and of Machiqq Women's Auxiliary playwriting group. She has an MFA in Playwriting from Brooklyn College, 2007, where she studied under the instigation of Mac Wellman.
Plays by Sibyl Kempson
Bad Girls Good Writers | ||
| 1st Produced: | Brick Theatre | 2006 | ||||
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| 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 | #139582 | |||
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Genre: | comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | 2 Gender-flexible, 2 children, 1 rock band, 1 crowd | |||||
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Synopsis: | Flexible sets but environmental is best, rock music equipment. An ode to the Brooklyn College literary scene. Written on a dare from Mac Wellman. These girls are bad, bad girls. But they know how to write. But they are totally, completely badass. | |||||
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Binge: Short Plays with all the Fixins! | ||
| 1st Produced: | Interart Theatre, NY | 2008 | ||||
Company: | The Shalimar | |||||
| 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 | #92711 | |||
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Genre: | short plays | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | written by Michael John Garces, Kara Lee Corthron, Sibyl Kempson, Kirk Lynn, Bekah Brunstetter, Mando Alvarado | |||||
Synopsis: | In these short plays food is a character, a metaphor, a dramatic force of its own. Binding the plays together is a series of provocative videos that address the grotesque reality of today's food politics | |||||
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Crime or Emergency | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
Company: | Dixon Place Mondo Cane commission | |||||
| 1st Published: | 53rd State Press | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #62865 | |||
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Genre: | comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | written by Sibyl Kempson and MIke Iveson | |||||
Synopsis: | Routine medical examination goes critical, spirals. Common expectations of cause and effect obliterated. Inner, personal violences multiply. Audience members undergo mandatory post-logical transformation of self | |||||
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Ich, KurbisGeist | ||
| 1st Produced: | Big Dance Theater at the Chocolate Factory | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | 53rd State Press | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #139585 | |||
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It's a Good Life if You Don't Weaken | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 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 | #73262 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | a wicked and unnatural Halloween play. | |||||
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Potatoes of August | ||
| 1st Produced: | Dec 2008 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Play A Journal of Plays | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #92712 | |||
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Genre: | Science Drama/Comedy with songs | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | songs by Mike Iveson | |||||
Synopsis: | Potatoes of August is a theatricalist fugue wherein four retirees encounter a sack of sentient potatoes, and find their outworn belief systems forcibly confronted by the challenges of a highly integrated, enlightened metaphysics. These potatoes have brains, have read their Swedenborg, and don't always play fair. Parts kitchen sink drama, musical comedy, intimate biographical portraiture, museum educational presentation, opera, Renaissance fair, science fiction, science fair, and phenomenological debate, it is a fugue in both the musical and psychiatric sense, and also a swarm. A flight is tracked from comprehensible identity and habitual perception into an unknowable environment of vastness, multiplicity, and high, high entropy | |||||
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Secret Death of Puppets (or) How Do Puppets Die? (or) Puppets Die In Secret, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | |||||
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| 1st Published: | excerpts in Brooklyn Review | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #139584 | |||
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So Much To Go Crazy | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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| 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 | #139580 | |||
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Spargel Time! | ||
| 1st Produced: | Little Theatre | - - - | ||||
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| 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 | #139583 | |||
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Wytche of Problymm Plantation | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | |||||
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| 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 | #139581 | |||
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Zeit af der KurbisGeistNachten (or) It's a Good Life If You Don't Weaken | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 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 | #139594 | |||
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Genre: | one act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 15 | ||
Parts other: | 1 chorus | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Old-Time Agricultural Revenge Play, for Hallowe'en, One Act, best performed in woods bordering a farm. Inspired by a field of broken seed pumpkins near the airport in Graz, Austria, as viewed from a passing car. Told in a convergence of fictional archaic dialects, as collected from several imaginary points in medieval European history. Takes place in a patch of woods where the boundaries of feudal and religious systems, time periods, social order, biologies, and other classifications can manage total break-down in the face of paranatural crisis. | |||||
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