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ALANA MACIAS |
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Nationality: USA / Nicaraguan Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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Alana Macias is a writer, arts organizer, and activist. Her plays and performance pieces are best known for their mixture of wildly divergent cultural influences, forms, sounds, and literary references to form a theatrical experience that embraces the changing, expanding, and transcultural meaning of what it is to be an American at the turn of the twenty-first century. Alana's parents were guerillas in the Nicaraguan civil war and she was born in a make-shift hospital in the ruins of post-earthquake Managua. Her upbringing was radical in every sense of the word, as her mother was an Irish-American former Maryknoll nun and her father was the college-educated son of Nicaraguan peasants, traumatized from extreme poverty, war, and exile. She received her MFA in Playwriting/Writing for Performance at CalArts. Her mentors are Suzan-Lori Parks, Erik Ehn, Carl Hancock Rux, Anne Garcia-Romero, and Luis Alfaro. She was a Finalist for the 2007 Sundance Screenwriters' Lab, the 2007 Jerome Fellowship at the Playwrights' Center, and the Public Theater's 2007-2008 Emerging Writers Program.
Plays by Alana Macias
Circle Course | ||
| 1st Produced: | Marion Huber Theater, New Jersey | 2007 | ||||
Company: | Two River Theater 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 | #81379 | |||
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Genre: | Dance/movement theater with text and sound score | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | Directors: Mira Kingsley (co-writer) and Chi-wang Yang | |||||
Synopsis: | Given Mira Kingsley's research and notes: The movement of flight, the movement of bodies, the movement of Amelia Earhart's self in time and space. Celestial navigation and finding the way through, apart, within, and in spite of actual historical events. To find the person in a legend means moving beyond biography. | |||||
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Denny's Chronicles | ||
| 1st Produced: | Red Rooster Theater | 1996 | ||||
Company: | Key West Theater Festival | |||||
| 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 | #81381 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | Director: Patrice Bailey | |||||
Synopsis: | Three A.M. at Denny's and all the crazy that goes with it. Two teens sit down over coffee and fumble towards revelation and release as we learn one has a parent who is dying. | |||||
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Episode One: Lonely Together | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Mac | 2006 | ||||
Company: | Kitchen Dog Theater 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 | #81380 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Multi-media short piece with live cameras | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Director: Tina Parker. New Plays Festival Medea Project Short Plays Staged Reading | |||||
Synopsis: | On this weeks' COPS episode: Maria is illegal, unwanted, and suspects Jason is fooling around when he leaves the trailer park. When she threatens their dog Toby, the patrolling officers realize they've got some great ratings material. | |||||
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Sand and Snow | ||
| 1st Produced: | Bath House Cultural Center | - - - | ||||
Company: | Ground Zero Theater 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 | #81382 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Ten min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Director: Elizabeth Ware | |||||
Synopsis: | Francine needs to pass this legal intake to escape Cameroon and detainment and torture. But the new American world outside her window is vast and covered in shining white, a new thing called snow. Forsaken wanderers, inhospitable havens, Christmas. | |||||
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Sandinista Sam | ||
| 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 | #81377 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | Finalist, New York Public Theater's Emerging Writers Program | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
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When the Tigris Runs Black | ||
| 1st Produced: | Ford Amphitheater, Los Angeles, Latino Playreading Series | 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 | #81378 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | 2007 Jerome Fellowship Finalist. Director: Luis Alfaro | |||||
Synopsis: | Dr. Loren Malone is having interludes with the ancient Sumerian hero Gilgamesh while salvaging her archeological dig from looting and bombing. Rahail Al-Jamil is getting around the fact that she wrote a best-selling book planning Iraqi reconstruction without ever having been there. One of our oldest places and all of its' unprotected treasure is smashed to bits. | |||||
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