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William Mastrosimone

WILLIAM MASTROSIMONE

  (1947 - )
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    William Morris Endeavor Entertainment, LLC  represented by Jonathan Lomma

William Mastrosimone's agent is Jonathan Lomma at William Morris Endeavor Entertainment (jdl@wmeentertainment.com).

Research:    Member of the Dramatists Guild of America (as at 2015)

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         Afghan Women, The         Bang Bang You're Dead         Benedict Arnold         Burning Desire         Cat's-Paw         Dirty Business         Extremities         Heaven And Hell (On Earth): A Divine Comedy         Just Hold Me         Like Totally Weird         Nanawatai         Precipice         Ride the Tiger         Shivaree         Stone Carver, A         Sunshine         Tamer Of Horses         Tantalizing, A         there Is A Thin Line Between Love, Hate, Guns Sex And Death         Understanding, The         Undoing, The         Woolgatherer, The

Afghan Women, The

Synopsis:
An Afghan woman returns to her country to found an orphanage

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1st Produced:
Mill Hill Playhouse, Trenton, New Jersey     2003

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Play/Drama

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Bang Bang You're Dead

Synopsis:
a resource for dealing with a broken world that's violent, unhealthy, unfair, and beyond the power of anyone to fix except today's generation. the play is a free gift for students to perform in schools, garages, street corners, parks, houses of worship -- anyplace there can be communication and discovery about how we've made the world's violence our own. And how we can change it.

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1st Published:
http://bangbangyouredead.com/,    -

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Genre:
Play 40 min

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  minimum of 11 actors

Further Reference:
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Benedict Arnold

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Burning Desire

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Cat's-Paw

Synopsis:
terrorist kills 27 people in protest at destruction of world's water supply, then plays cat and mouse game with reporter justifying his action

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1st Produced:

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Samuel French, NY, 1987   -

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Dirty Business

Synopsis:
A party girl is caught between the mafia and the newly elected President of the United States

Notes:
aka Ride the Tiger

1st Produced:
Florida Studio Theatre     2008

Organisations:
First Stage New Works Festival

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Extremities

Synopsis:
During an attempted rape, a woman captures her attacker and proceeds to torture him. Her roommates return home and struggle to determine who is guilty of a crime, the woman or her would-be rapist

Notes:
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1st Produced:
New Brunswick, New Jersey     1980

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Samuel French, NY, 1984   -

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
Theatre Record Volume XXXI (2011) Issue 08 Page 411

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Heaven And Hell (On Earth): A Divine Comedy

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

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

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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Humana Festival 2001: the Complete Plays, ed Tanya Palmer & Amy Wegener, Smith & Kraus, 2001   -

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Genre:
Short Play One Act

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Just Hold Me

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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1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
in Heaven and Hell (on Earth): A Divine Comedy, Dramatist Play Service, NY,    -

Music:
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Genre:
Play One Act

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Like Totally Weird

Synopsis:
Two "totally weird" teens steal into a Hollywood mansion to meet their idols, a film producer and his leading lady. But these mega-stars of the 90s soon find themselves trapped in a reenactment of a "body-bag" action thriller, a frightening scenario of their own making. This edgy, suspensful Drama portrays what can happen when life imitates art--and art is all murder and mayhem

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1st Produced:

Organisations:
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1st Published:
in Humana Festival Anthology, Newbury, Vermont, Smith & Kraus, 1998   -

Music:
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Genre:
Short Play One Act

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Nanawatai

Synopsis:
capture and execution of a Soviet tank crew shortly after the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Los Angeles     1985

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Samuel French, NY, 1986   -

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  10            Female:  1            Other:  chorus

Further Reference:
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Precipice

Synopsis:
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1st Produced:
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1st Published:
in Ten Minute Plays From Actors Theatre Of Louisville, Vol 5, Samuel French NY   -

Music:
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Genre:
Ten Min

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Ride the Tiger

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Several years ago, Bill wrote and produced a mini-series for CBS about the life of Frank Sinatra. He spent a couple of weeks hanging out with Sinatra in Palm Springs. Sinatra knew he was at the end of his life and didn't care who he pissed off, so he revealed to Bill that the Kennedy assassination was a mob hit. He told him exactly what happened. Bill wanted to put this in his teleplay but CBS wouldn't let him, so he wrote a play about it, which was originally produced at Florida Studio theatre under the title DIRTY BUSINESS. It's now called RIDE the TIGER and it's brilliant. the characters are Jack Kennedy, Joseph Kennedy (his father), Frank Sinatra, Sam Giancana (the head of the Mafia) and Judith Exner. She's basically the central character.
- Lawrence Harbison

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Shivaree

Synopsis:
a young haemophilic youth kept by his mother, of necessity, in a very sheltered existence finds love with a belly dancer

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1st Produced:

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Samuel French, NY, 1984   -

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Stone Carver, A

Synopsis:
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1st Produced:
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1st Published:
in William Mastrosimone: Collected Plays. Newbury, Vermont, Smith & Kraus, 1998   -

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Sunshine

Synopsis:
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1st Produced:
New York     1989

Organisations:
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1st Published:
in William Mastrosimone: Collected Plays. Newbury, Vermont, Smith & Kraus, 1998   -

Music:
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Tamer Of Horses

Synopsis:
Teachers Ty and Georgianne Fletcher find a 15 year old fugitive from juvenille detention hiding in their barn and decide to try and help the little "troll"

Notes:
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1st Produced:
New Brunswick, New Jersey     1985

Organisations:
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1st Published:
in William Mastrosimone: Collected Plays. Newbury, Vermont, Smith & Kraus, 1998   -

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Tantalizing, A

Synopsis:
A lonely professional woman brings a once-elegant tramp to her home. She offers him charity, but instead, he teaches her a lesson in self-respec

Notes:
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1st Produced:

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Samuel French, NY, 1985   -

Music:
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Genre:
One Act

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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there Is A Thin Line Between Love, Hate, Guns Sex And Death

Synopsis:
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Notes:
part of An evening of 10-minute plays written by John Cariani, Josh Liveright And William Mastrosimone

1st Produced:
Interart Annex, 500 West 52 Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10109     19 Jan 2010

Organisations:
Royal Family Productions

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Ten Min

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Understanding, The

Synopsis:
family conflict as retired stone mason refuses to leave his compulsorily purchased house to make way for new highway

Notes:
aka A Stone Carver

1st Produced:

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Samuel French, NY,    -

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Undoing, The

Synopsis:
A woman's journey through guilt to truth and ultimate redemption is orchestrated by the stranger who comes to work for her in a poultry slaughtering house

Notes:
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1st Produced:

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Plays From Actors Theatre Of Louisville, Edited by Michael Bigelow Dixon, Broadway Play Publishing, 1989   -

Music:
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Genre:
Two Acts Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  4            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Woolgatherer, The

Synopsis:
a hard drinking hard working truck driver drifts into the life of a shy salesgirl whose life centres around reveries and daydreams

Notes:
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1st Produced:
New Brunswick, New Jersey     1979

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Samuel French, NY, 1981   -

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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