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ELLEN MCLAUGHLIN |
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Nationality: USA Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: The Gersh Agency, NY |
Ellen McLaughlin's plays have received numerous national and international productions. They include Days and Nights Within, A Narrow Bed, Infinity's House, Iphigenia and Other Daughters, Tongue of a Bird, The Trojan Women, Helen, The Persians, Oedipus, Ajax in Iraq, Kissing the Floor, and Penelope. Producers include: Actors' Theater of Louisville, The Actors' Gang L.A., Classic Stage Co., N.Y., The Intiman Theater, Seattle, Almeida Theater, London, The Mark Taper Forum, L.A., the Public Theater in NYC, The Oregon Shakespeare Festival, The National Actors' Theater, New York, The Getty Villa, California., and The Guthrie Theater, Minnesota, among other venues. Grants and awards include: Great American Play Contest, Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, the NEA, the Writer's Award from the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund, the Berilla Kerr Award for playwrighting. T.C.G./Fox Residency Grant -- for Ajax in Iraq, written for the A.R.T. Institute. She has taught playwrighting at Barnard College since 1995. Other teaching posts include Breadloaf School of English, Yale Drama School and Princeton University, among others. Ms. McLaughlin is also an actor. She is most well known for having originated the part of the Angel in Tony Kushner's Angels in America, appearing in every U.S. production from its earliest workshops through its Broadway run.
Plays by Ellen McLaughlin
Ajax in Iraq | ||
| 1st Produced: | Flamboyan Theater | 04 Jun 2011 | ||||
Company: | Flux Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #123856 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 6 | ||
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Synopsis: | Past and present collide in Ellen McLaughlin's mash-up of Sophocles' classic play Ajax and today's war in Iraq. The play follows the parallel narratives of the ancient Greek military hero Ajax and a female American soldier, both undone by the betrayal of a commanding officer. Originally developed over sixteen months in 2009 with the graduate acting students at A.R.T. and inspired by material collected from interviews with Iraq war veterans, Ajax in Iraq explores the timeless ways soldiers struggle to make sense of war | |||||
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Days And Nights Within | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | TCG in Plays in Process., | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #23470 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | In a prison in East Berlin in 1950, a woman accused of spying matches her intellect and determined strength against the full power of the state and the keen insights of her interrogator | |||||
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Helen | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #75534 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - Euripides | |||||
Synopsis: | Everyone knows the story of Helen of Troy, wife of Menelaus, mistress of Paris, whose face launched 1,000 ships. But what if Helen never actually made it to Troy? 'That story is not true. You never sailed in the benched ships. You never went to the city of Troy,' wrote the 6th century poet Stesichorus. Instead, he proposes, she remained pure and safe in Egypt while her phantom, or eidolon, went on to Troy. What is the story of that Helen, the one who could only watch from the sidelines as cities were burned and epics sung? Inspired by such questions, Euripides's tragedy Helen is presented with this alternate, Egypt-bound version | |||||
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Infinity's House | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | TCG in Plays in Process, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #23471 | |||
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Genre: | Two Acts Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 13 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | 1c | |||||
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Synopsis: | As Oppenheimer and his colleagues await the detonation of the first nuclear warhead, specters of past American pioneers converge in a desert dreamscape. This provocative play is an epic exploration of humanity's ceaseless struggle to control the world, tracing our uncertain progress in the journey toward infinity | |||||
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Iphigenia and Other Daughters | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2006 | |||||
Company: | Temporary 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 | #60742 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 4 | ||
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Synopsis: | Years ago, the Greeks told stories of war: the murders, the fathers who sacrificed, the sons who avenged deaths, and the women who waited for them. Iphigenia and Other Daughters is Ellen McLaughlin's fascinating retelling of these stories. With biting and lyrical dialogue, set in a timeless, war-torn home, this play violently and tenderly explores these women: the daughters sacrificed, the mothers left childless, and the others left pondering their places in a man's world of war, a world destined to become his story | |||||
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Kissing the Floor | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2008 | |||||
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 | #83092 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | part of the Ernst C. Stiefel 7@7 Reading Series | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
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Lysistrata | ||
| 1st Produced: | University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH | 2006 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc (2010) | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #123855 | |||
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Genre: | 60-80 min Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 13 | Female | 7 | ||
Parts other: | (13-26 actors possible: 8-16 females, 5-10 males | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Aristophanes | |||||
Synopsis: | This fresh, fast-paced comedy, inspired by the Aristophanes play, follows Lysistrata, an Athenian housewife, who calls for the women of Greece to help end the Peloponnesian War. She proposes a radical plan: all Greek women must refuse to engage in love making until the men see reason, lay down their arms and come home to lay down with their wives in peace. The women agree to make the sacrifice and all hell breaks loose as men wander the country in an agony of unsatisfied lust. Will Lysistrata and her crew accomplish what the politicians could not? | |||||
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Narrow Bed, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1987 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #23472 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | two women coping with loneliness and loss as the last members of a rural commune founded in the 60's | |||||
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Oedipus | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #123857 | |||
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Penelope | ||
| 1st Produced: | Public Theater, NY | 2008 | ||||
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 | #91387 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | book and lyrics Ellen McLaughlin; music Sarah Kirkland Snider | |||||
Synopsis: | A woman's ex-husband appears at her door after an absence of 20 years, suffering from brain damage. A veteran of a modern war, he doesn't know who he is and she doesn't know who he's become. While they wait together for his return to himself, she reads him The Odyssey, and in the journey of that book, she finds a way into her former husband's memory and the terror and trauma of war | |||||
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Persians, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Aurora Theatre, Berkeley, California | 03 Sep 2004 | ||||
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 | #123826 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - Aeschylus | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
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Septimus and Clarissa | ||
| 1st Produced: | East 13th Street Theatre, 136 East 13th Street, New York, NY 10003 >>> | 25 Jun 2010 | ||||
Company: | Red Bull Theater | |||||
| 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 | #108917 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 6 | ||
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Notes: | Based on "Mrs Dalloway" by Virginia Woolf | |||||
Synopsis: | This is a developmental production of a new play based on Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway. Looking through the eyes of a veteran and a wealthy socialite whose past comes back to haunt her, this new play offers a politically charged and shockingly relevant story of war and its aftermath. | |||||
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Tongue Of A Bird | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1997 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | American Theatre Magazine, NY - March, 1999 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #23473 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 5 | ||
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Synopsis: | lyrical exploration of loss as search and rescue pilot is engaged to search for 12 year old girl who has been kidnapped | |||||
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Trojan Women, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #123858 | |||
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