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Victor Lodato

VICTOR LODATO

  
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    Agency for the Performing Arts  represented by Beth Bickers

Victor Lodato is a 2002-2003 Guggenheim Fellow, as well as the recipient of the 2003 Weissberger award for his playMotherhouse. Other plays include the Bread of Winter, Wildlife, Margo and Zelda, and a Book of Harsh Geometry. In 2002, Victor received the Helen Merrill award for Playwriting. This past fall he was a playwright-in-residence at the Camargo Foundation (Cassis, France). Other honors include fellowships from the National endowment for the Arts, the Princess Grace Foundation, the Robert Chesley Foundation, and art Matters. His play the evictionrecently received its world premiere at the Magic Theatre, and won a Roger L. Stevens award from the Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays. His play the Woman Who amuses Herself was selected as the 2002 winner of the Mill Mountain Theatre New Play Competition, and was produced by Mill Mountain in 2003. Other works have been produced at ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati, A.k.A. Theatre (Tucson), and Institute for Studies in the Arts. His plays have received workshops and readings at Manhattan Theatre Club, the Guthrie Theater, Williamstown Theatre Festival, A.S.K. Theatre Projects, Primary Stages, the Play Company, the Playwrights' Center, and the Bay area Playwrights Festival. Mr. Lodato has twice developed work at the O'Neill Playwrights Conference. He has received commissions from South Coast Repertory and the Magic Theatre. His writing has been published in North American Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, the Southern Review, and Northwest Review.He is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Rutgers University, and a member of New Dramatists and the Dramatists Guild of America.

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

         Arlington         Book Of Harsh Geometry, A         Bread Of Winter, The         Bye Bye         Dear Sara Jane         Eviction, The         Great Father, The         House Of Tricks         Little         Margo And Zelda         Motherhouse         Rami And Zed         Slay the Dragon         Snapshot         Wildlife         Woman Who Amuses Herself, The

Arlington

Synopsis:
It's a sunny day and Sara Jane is trying valiantly to keep it that way. Her young husband, Jerry, is away at war, and though Sara Jane believes in the cause, nothing has seemed quite right latelyespecially the last few messages from Jerry. At least she has her pianoand Jerry's bourbonto keep her company as she tries to figure things out. But how far will she go to keep the impending storm at bay? ARLINGTON is a stirring, funny and powerful new work from playwright/novelist Victor Lodato and award-winning composer Polly Pen.

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book and lyrics by Victor Lodato, music by Polly Pen

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Dramatists Play Service, Inc. NY (2015)   978-0822231653

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Genre:
musical

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Book Of Harsh Geometry, A

Synopsis:
Confined to a state institution as a boy he battles against schizophrenia and attempts to find the mathematical formula to allow children to fly.

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Genre:
Monologue play

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Bread Of Winter, The

Synopsis:
In a very bitter winter ten year old Gregory is estranged from his mother and prefers the housekeeper. His older brother bullies him

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  2 boys

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Bye Bye

Synopsis:
Two homeless men survive on what they can scavenge from the river.

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Dear Sara Jane

Dear Sara Jane
Sara Jane waits at home for her soldier husband to come home from the war. She waits with a bottle of Bourbon.

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1st Produced:
Capital Festival, Washington Dc     2009

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Contemporary American Theater Festival

1st Published:
Contained in: "the Backstage Book Of New American Short Plays 2004" published by Back Stage,    978-0823088041

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Genre:
Monologue play

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Eviction, The

Synopsis:
The night before he is due to be evicted a man starts talking to himself over his options. This leads to a full battle with the narrator of the play

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Great Father, The

Synopsis:
a young man and woman in a psychiatric ward confront the violence lurking in history and in their own pasts. This piece is part of Snapshot, an anthology of short plays. To perform this piece independently, click "add to Shopping Cart" above. To perform this piece as part of the full-length collection, go to Snapshot.

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5-10 min Play/Drama

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  1 male, 1 female

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House Of Tricks

Synopsis:
a young man kills his abusive father. He escapes to the city and survives through prostitution.

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Genre:
Monologue play. - - Gay, full length

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Little

Synopsis:
after assisting her son with his suicide a mother has a break down

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  1 boy

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Margo And Zelda

Synopsis:
Josef Mengele the notorious Nazi doctor and the twin girls he experimented on.

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  2 girls

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Motherhouse

Motherhouse
the play follows an African-American family in a low-income neighborhood whose lives are ultimately ruined by their surroundings. Clive arrives unexpectedly at the house of his mother and his sister. He says that he is fleeing from the police - but perhaps it's another one of his delusions. Unbeknownst to him, he has shown up on a tragic anniversary. Three years prior, his sister's child was killed in a brutal shooting. as fate seems bent on shattering the walls, mother Mae valiantly attempts to keep house.

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Rami And Zed

Synopsis:
Two boys skip school to throw stones at tanks in the war zone

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Ten minute play

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Slay the Dragon

Synopsis:
a young mentally retarded man decides to escape from his "party girl" mother and dotty grandmother.

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June Havoc Theatre, New York     28 Jun 2010

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Genre:
Comedy

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Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Snapshot

Synopsis:
a photograph captures and documents a single moment in time and space -- a snapshot of history, of a reality bounded by the photo's frame. But what lies outside, beyond, behind the photograph? and what stories, memories, or associations does an image of place inspire? In this multi-writer project from Actors theatre of Louisville, a diverse assortment of talented playwrights encounter and transform Mount Rushmore, South Dakota, 1969, a compelling image of the monument by renowned photographer Lee Friedlander. their thought-provoking scenes and monologues range from delightful comedy to utterly serious tragedy, each approaching the photo's themes through a new lens. To perform the entire collection, click "add to Shopping Cart" above. To perform an individual piece independently, click on its title below:

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Genre:
80-100 min Drama/Comedy

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Male:  11            Female:  11            Other:  11 males, 11 females (4-25 actors possible: 2-15 males, 2-15 females)

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Wildlife

Synopsis:
after a disastrous exhibition in New York a conceptual artist and his wife escape to the country. But things in the country are never dull.

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Genre:
Comedy

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Woman Who Amuses Herself, The

Synopsis:
1911 an Italian house painter steals the Mona Lisa and keeps it in his garret for two and a half years.

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Genre:
Comedy

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Male:  6            Female:  5            Other:  or can be performed by 1 male

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