MELANIE MARNICH   


Melanie Marnich
   Nationality:
USA
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Plays by Melanie Marnich

MELANIE MARNICH
Beautiful Again
1st Produced:
2003
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
-
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Genre:
Comedy/Drama
Comedy
Parts:
Male
1
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
A young girl seeks mystical help to rebuild her parents relationship as her father seeks fulfillment from a compassionate hairdresser
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MELANIE MARNICH
Bill of (W)Rights
1st Produced:
2004
Company:
-
1st Published:
Playscripts, Inc, 2004
ISBN
-
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Genre:
Comedy/Drama
Comedy
Parts:
Male
13
Female
10
Parts Other:
10 females, 13 males; Running time: 80-90
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Bill of (W)Rights is a political funhouse growing from a moment in history when self-censorship abounds and the populace is increasingly governed by fear. Nine playwrights offer ten plays, each based on one of the U.S. Constitution's first ten amendments. These pieces focus less on government interference and more on the interpersonal, from a father and daughter facing a criminal trial to the silence of an unfaithful husband "pleading the fifth" to his family -- not to mention a company of actors yelling "Fire!" in a crowded theater. The creation of the script, encompassing a diversity of voices and opinions, was itself an act of democracy, demonstrating that theatre can be a voice of revelation and revolution.
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MELANIE MARNICH
Blur
1st Produced:
The Public Theatre - staged reading (New York, NY, United States)
1999
Company:
-
1st Published:
Playscrips, Inc - 840, 2006
ISBN
-
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Genre:
Comedy/Drama
Comedy
Parts:
Male
3
Female
3
Parts Other:
3 females, 3 males; Running time: 80-90 mins
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Life is wonderfully safe in the eccentric world of Dot Di Prima and her mother, until the day Dot is diagnosed with a genetic disease that will cause her to gradually lose her vision. Now Dot must learn how to find and create relationships with friends an
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MELANIE MARNICH
Calling All
1st Produced:
Guthrie Theater (Minneapolis, MN, United States)
2006
Company:
-
1st Published:
Playscripts, Inc., 2007
ISBN
-
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Genre:
Comedy/Drama
-
Parts:
Male
4
Female
2
Parts Other:
2 females, 4 males
Notes:
Running time: 55-65 mins
Synopsis:
It's the last night of Pledge Week at Twin Ports Public Television, and the telemarketing crew is fighting apathy, dwindling donations, and angry former patrons. As management enforces desperate new tactics and the gang rebels, someone (or something) out there begins to call on the callers to change their ways, and possibly change the world.
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MELANIE MARNICH
Dive
1st Produced:
2001
Company:
Guthrie Experience actor training program
1st Published:
Playscripts, Inc, 2003
ISBN
-
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Genre:
Comedic drama
Comedy
Parts:
Male
2
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
Running time: 10-15
Synopsis:
Sammie, Sara, Dolly and Donnie are caught up in their own comically existential apathy. The only activities they enjoy are self-destruction and self-absorption. But their world explodes in an instant when Sammie sees a woman fall, then fly, from a window. Her leap jolts them into reality by opening their eyes to the potential of a single life.
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MELANIE MARNICH
Gone Goth
1st Produced:
-
-
Company:
-
1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY,
ISBN
-
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Genre:
short play
One Act
Parts:
Male
-
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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MELANIE MARNICH
Heaven and Hell (On Earth): A Divine Comedy
1st Produced:
2001
Company:
-
1st Published:
Humana Festival 2001: The Complete Plays, ed Tanya Palmer & Amy Wegener, Smith & Kraus, 2001
ISBN
-
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Genre:
Short Play
One Act
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
written by Robert Alexander, Jenny Lyn Bader, Elizabeth Dewberry, Deborah Lynn Frockt, Rebecca Gilman, Keith Glover, Hilly Hicks, Jr., Karen Hines, Michael Kassin, Melanie Marnich, Jane Martin, William Mastrosimone, Guillermo Reyes, Sarah Schulman, Richar
Synopsis:
In this comic anthology - a collection of scenes and monologues - an array of devilishly talented playwrights put a contemporary spin on a fascinating eternal obsession. Grappling with their own diverse experiences of vice and virtue, salvation and damnation, characters from the twentysomething generation interpret their world with amusing revelations and surprising insights
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MELANIE MARNICH
Quake
1st Produced:
Dallas Theater Center (Dallas, TX, United States)
2000
Company:
-
1st Published:
Humana Festival 2001: The Complete Plays, ed Tanya Palmer & Amy Wegener, Smith & Kraus, 2001
ISBN
-
To Buy This Play:
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Genre:
Comedy/Drama
Comedy
Parts:
Male
3
Female
3
Parts Other:
3 females, 3 males; Running time: 70-80 mins
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Lucy is on a cross-country mission, looking for the love of her life. Her journey takes her across the American landscape, through hilarious and eccentric relationships in which time and emotion pass in a warped instant. When her quest becomes intertwined with that of a quirky female serial killer (an astrophysicist gone bad), the landscape changes once again, as they cross state lines and faultlines, exploring the geography of the human heart.
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MELANIE MARNICH
Sleeping Country, A
1st Produced:
2009
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
-
To Buy This Play:
I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page
Genre:
-
Comedy
Parts:
Male
2
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
A dreamy new comedy about sleep lost and hope found. In New York City, a desperate woman becomes certain that she has the Worst Insomnia in the World. In a search for answers, she travels to Venice to chase down the fabulous (and sleepless) Countess who might be a distant relative and hold the remedy to her dilemma - as well as the key to her heart. Gregg Henry directs the area premiere of a humorous but poignant play about facing your fears and knowing the difference between not sleeping and being truly awake.
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MELANIE MARNICH
Slide/Over
1st Produced:
2003
Company:
staged reading
1st Published:
Playscripts, Inc, 2003
ISBN
-
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Genre:
serious comedy
Comedy
Parts:
Male
2
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
Running time: 20-30
Synopsis:
High school students Trish, Steph, David, Scott, and Jay form a tight-knit, eccentric clique. Jay, who happens to be gay, throws the whole group off-balance when she kisses Scott. The friends have to grapple with this event as Jay pursues an attraction that transcends labels. Realistic conversations are interspersed with wild dream sequences and a cell phone chorus, as the friends all try to come to terms with change, potential, and shifting identity.
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MELANIE MARNICH
Tallgrass Gothic
1st Produced:
Peter Jay Sharp Theatre, NY (reading)
2007
Company:
Red Bull Theater
1st Published:
-
ISBN
-
To Buy This Play:
I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page
Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
Red Bull Theater presents Revelation Readings, its 2007-2008 reading series that explores both new and classic plays of heightened language
Synopsis:
A spare, haunting play based on the Jacobean tragedy The Changeling, Tallgrass Gothic takes place in the Great Plains, where Laura yearns to leave her hometown and escape her abusive husband. A lover appears to promise her a way out, but that path leads to a devastating climax. If you loved the gorgeous starkness of There Will Be Blood, this is your kind of play
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