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KENNETH LONERGAN |
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Nationality: USA Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: Creative Artists Agency CA |
Kenneth Lonergan has been represented in New York by Lobby Hero (Playwrights Horizons, John Houseman Theatre, Drama Desk Best Play Nominee, Outer Critics Circle Best Play and John Gassner Playwrighting Nominee, included in the 2000-2001 Best Plays Annual), The Waverly Gallery (Williamstown Theatre Festival, Promenade; 2001 Pulitzer Prize Runner-up), and This Is Our Youth (Drama Desk Best Play Nominee). Lobby Hero(Olivier Award Nominee for Best Play) andThis Is Out Youth have also received productions on London's West End. He co-wrote the film Gangs of New York which garnered a WGA and Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay. His film You Can Count On Me, which he wrote and directed, was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Screenplay, won the Sundance 2000 Grand Jury Prize and The Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award, the NY Film Critics Circle, LA Films Critics Circle, Writers Guild of America and National Board of Review Awards for Best Screenplay of 2001, the AFI Awards for Best Film and Best New Writer, as well as the Sutherland Trophy at the London Film Festival. He is currently in post-production on his film Margaret, which he wrote and directed. He is a member of Naked Angels. He is married to actress J. Smith-Cameron.
Plays by Kenneth Lonergan
Beauty Runs On Light Feet | ||
| 1st Produced: | Naked Angels (New York, NY, United States) | 1990 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc - New York | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #107219 | |||
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Genre: | 7-10 min Comedy/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | 1 male, 1 female | |||||
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Synopsis: | Mark comes home in the middle of the night to find his troubled wife, Ellen, still awake. However, Ellen's concern is less about where her husband has been and more about whether or not she is a good mother. Her anxiety sparks an argument over how to discipline their children, and neither of the two are willing to back down. Even face to face, the couple painfully struggles to communicate the things that matter most to them. | |||||
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Lobby Hero | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2002 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Grove Press, 2002 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #21198 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | When Jeff, a luckless young security guard, is drawn into a local murder investigation, loyalties are strained to the breaking point. As Jeff's tightly wound supervisor is called to bear witness against his troubled brother, and an attractive rookie cop finds she must stand up to her seasoned partner, truth becomes elusive and justice proves costly. | |||||
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Starry Messenger, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 16 Nov 2009 | |||||
Company: | The New Group | |||||
| 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 | #104885 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | Mark teaches astronomy in the basement of the Hayden Planetarium struggling with a dead-end career and the monotony of suburban married life. His world is transformed by a chance meeting with Angela, a driven young single mother stsriving for a brighter future for herself and her son. | |||||
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This Is Our Youth | ||
| 1st Produced: | Intar Theatre, New York | 1996 | ||||
Company: | The New Group | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1999 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #21199 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | In 1982, on Manhattan's Upper west Side, the wealthy articulate pot-smoking teenagers who were small children in the 60's have emerged as young adults in a country that has just resoundingly rejected everything they were brought up to believe in. | |||||
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True To You | ||
| 1st Produced: | Naked Angels (New York, NY, United States) | 1995 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc - New York | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #107220 | |||
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Genre: | 10-12 min Drama/Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | 1 male, 1 female | |||||
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Synopsis: | Mr. Austin Carmody has twenty-seven indictments against him for various counts of fraud, and he's desperate to avoid jail. Lucky for him, he has his doe-eyed secretary to take the blame for everything. Now all he has to do is convince her to take the fall. A play about the fragility of denial and the sacrifices that are made to keep the lie alive. | |||||
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Waverly Gallery | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1999 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Grove Press, 2000 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #21200 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | about the final years of a generous, chatty, and feisty grandmother's final battle against Alzheimer's disease. Gladys is an old-school lefty and social activist and long-time owner of a small art gallery in Greenwich Village. The play explores her fight to retain her independence and the subsequent effect of her decline on her family, especially her grandson | |||||
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