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Paul Knox

PAUL KNOX

  
Nationality:    USA
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PAUL KNOXs plays have been seen at the Circle Repertory Company Lab, Circle East, the Neighborhood Playhouse, the 42nd Street Workshop, Harvard University, New York State Summer School for the Arts, SALAAM, with Desipina at the New York Tenement Museum, Columbia University Dramatists, the South Asian-American Theater of Boston at Wellesley College, and other locales as far as Cape Town. Paul has directed numerous other works, including William M. Hoffmans Cornbury, the Queens Governor and Gilles de Rais. He was executive director of Circle East, which he founded in 2000 with artistic director Michael Warren Powell, the former artistic director of the Circle Rep Lab. With Circle East, Paul produced more than thirty short plays in festivals, three full-length plays including Craig Lucass Mother Bird, and dozens of readings and workshops of plays in development. Paul is a co-recipient of the United Nations Society of Writers Award for his exchange work with the Russian Academy of Theater Arts in Moscow.

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below is a list of Paul Knox's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Eating Jain         Gehri Dosti         I Am Mou         Informed Consent         Kalighat         Loving Japamala         Tara Tara Didi         Two Men In Shoulder Stand         What Flavor Is Your Slurpee

Eating Jain

Synopsis:
Bobby from New York is on a train from Calcutta to Puri with his Indian boyfriend Mahvi. Bobby thinks that he is going to meet the in-laws - but Mahvi has no intention of revealing his sexuality and is planning to marry and have sons.

Notes:
Performed As part of "Gehri Dosti"

1st Produced:
Bernie West Theatre, New York    2005

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Genre:
One act. - - Gay, one act

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Gehri Dosti

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Five one Act plays under the one general title: "eating Jain"; "I Am Mou"; "Loving Japamala"; "Tara Tara Didi" And "Two Men in Shoulder Stand"

1st Produced:
Bernie West Theatre, New York    2005

Organisations:
Circle east

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Genre:
5 short plays. - - Gay, full length

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I Am Mou

Synopsis:
Based on actual letters. a bored upper-class Indian woman in a loveless marriage has an affair with her maid and they are discovered by her husband.

Notes:
Performed As part of "Gehri Dosti"

1st Produced:
Bernie West Theatre, New York    2005

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Genre:
One act. - - Lesbian, one act

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Informed Consent

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Kalighat

Kalighat
a young gay American man volunteers to work in one of Mother Teresa's Calcutta hospitals in this wise and compelling two-act Drama. Paul Knox's plays have been seen at Circle Repertory Lab, Circle east, and the Neighborhood Playhouse among others. He is executive director of Circle east which he co-founded in 2000. (read an interview with the author)

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1st Produced:
Circle Repertory Lab, Circle East    2004

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Play/Drama. - - Gay, full length

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Loving Japamala

Synopsis:
a Puerto Rican gay man helps out once a week at a Bronx soup kitchen. He has become friendly with one of the nuns, Sister Japamala - who is being sent back to India as she has fallen in love with Tommy.

Notes:
Performed As part of "Gehri Dosti"

1st Produced:
Bernie West Theatre, New York    2005

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Genre:
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Tara Tara Didi

Synopsis:
a spoof of a Bollywood movie. Waiting for their arranged marriage partners the two boys end up with each other as do the two girls.

Notes:
Performed As part of "Gehri Dosti"

1st Produced:
Bernie West Theatre, New York    2005

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Genre:
One act. - - Gay, one act

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Two Men In Shoulder Stand

Synopsis:
Two men Hasan and Sarath are lovers. One is Hindu and the other is a Muslim and one of them is dying of an aIDS related illness.

Notes:
Performed As part of "Gehri Dosti"

1st Produced:
Bernie West Theatre, New York    2005

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Genre:
One act. - - AIDS, one act

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What Flavor Is Your Slurpee

Synopsis:
Place: a 7-11 convenience store just outside Wilmhackey, South Dakota. Time: Way past any sensible person's bedtime.
- http://www.aatrevue.com

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Salaam    2004

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