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KEITH MCGREGOR (1949 - ) |
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Nationality: USA Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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McGregor earned his BA in English and Fine Arts from Rice University in Houston and his MFA in Theatre Directing from the University of Houston. In addition to collaborating on the Grace and Doris Mystery Comedies for Community Theatre, Keith has written a number of other plays that have been widely produced. Among other awards, Keith has won the National Play Award from The National Repertory Theatre Foundation; The Festival of Firsts New Play Competition, sponsored by the city of Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA (twice); and the Gordon Mauermann Overall Best Manuscript Award at the Pacific Northwest Writers Conference. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild, an individual member of the American Association of Community Theatres, and in Seattle he is a member of the Northwest Playwrights Alliance. He lives near Seattle, Washington (USA), and hobbies include hiking and gardening.
Plays by Keith McGregor
Far End of the Earth, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Sunset Center, Carmel, California | 1993 | ||||
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| 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 | #95854 | |||
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 | 3 | ||
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Notes: | This play is a past winner of the National Play Award, sponsored by the National Repertory Theatre Foundation in Los Angeles; the Festival of Firsts Playwriting Award, sponsored by the City of Carmel-by-the-Sea, California; and the Oglebay Institute/Towngate Theatre New Play Award (Wheeling, West Virginia) | |||||
Synopsis: | The Far End of the Earth is an intense, but at the same time intimate drama of reconciliation among three generations of the women of one northwest family. The grandmother, Annie, is something of a hermit and the owner of one of the last privately owned, old-growth forests in western Washington. Her daughter, Gayle, is a single working mother who wants Annie to sell the trees, so she'll have the money to take care of herself in her old age, and also so that she can put Jo, the granddaughter, through college, and thereby guarantee her future. Woven through the threads of this story are ideas about the fragile nature of our environment, the importance of intelligent and responsible actions in all phases of our existence, and some questions as to the limits of knee-jerk fundamental Christianity as a source of solutions to the problems that face our world today. | |||||
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Murder Inn | ||
| 1st Produced: | Off the Wall Theatre, Monroe, Washington | 2000 | ||||
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 | #95855 | |||
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: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 8 | ||
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Notes: | Written by Keith McGregor and Howard Voland. Murder Inn is a one-set, two-act, murder mystery comedy written specifically for the community theatre market. It is intended to be fun for the actors, fun for the production team, and fun for the audience. For more information visit www.ravenwriters.com | |||||
Synopsis: | Murder Inn is set in New England, at the Barnsley Inn, a dilapidated eighteenth century inn, which is supposedly haunted by Marco, a knife-throwing poltergeist. A group of tourists, on a tour-Ghosts and Ghouls of New England-is forced, by a storm, to make an unscheduled stop at the Barnsley. What looks to be an unpleasant and uncomfortable detour soon turns into a night of mayhem and madness as knives begin to pop up&in the most unexpected places. As the storm builds and the body count rises, the survivors try to figure out who done it. And even more important-who's likely to have it done to them next? Murder Inn is a one-set, two-act comedy with a cast of twelve (4m-8f). It has a running time of approximately two hours plus intermission. The play is perfect for Halloween, or any other spot in your season. | |||||
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