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Laural Meade

LAURAL MEADE  

 Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    United Talent Agency  subiasm@unitedtalent.com


Laural Meade holds an MFA in playwriting from UCLA and a BA in theater from Occidental College, where she is currently a member of the theater faculty. In 1999, Meade was the Remsen Bird Guest Artist at Occidental, conducting writing courses, directing main stage productions, and guest lecturing in related departments. The residency became a regular appointment and today Meade continues her work with students by teaching courses in playwriting and dramatic literature that specifically focus on writers from divergent cultural and aesthetic backgrounds. Additionally, she mentors thesis projects, directs mainstage productions, and produces an annual festival of student-written plays directed and performed by guest artists from the Los Angeles theater community. Other teaching and guest lecturer appointments include work at the USC School of Theater, California Institute of the Arts, the Ojai Playwrights Conference, Cal State Los Angeles, and Fairfax High School.

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 Animal Logic         Biggest Game of All, The         Dynamite         Harry Thaw Hates Everybody         Leopold and Loeb: A Goddamn Laff Riot         Rock Paper Scissors         Suffragist Roadshow, The         Wide Open Ocean, The

Animal Logic

Synopsis:
written by Laural Meade and Corey Madden

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Mark Taper Forum    -

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1st Published:
a vaudevillian trunk show about the emotional and cognitive abilities of animals    -

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Biggest Game of All, The

Synopsis:
piece for all ages, which chronicles the true stories of young people involved in curbing the manufacture of sporting goods by children

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Dynamite

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"She is also at work on turning her most recent piece, Dynamite in to a musical with composer Steven Argila. Dynamite explores the union-backed 1910 bombing of the Los Angeles Times - an act of industrial terror that took place against a backdrop of class warfare that is eerily reminiscent of our current socioeconomic landscape. In the fall of 2011 she developed and directed a non-musical production of the piece in collaboration with her students and colleagues at Occidental College."

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musical

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Harry Thaw Hates Everybody

Laural Meade
Harry Thaw Hates Everybody is a genre-bending, high-speed, turn-of-the-century romp in four acts  each in a different theatrical style: vaudeville, living newspaper, courtroom farce and post-modern collage. Set against a backdrop of gilded-age opulence and accompanied by authentic period songs, the play takes as its starting point the real-life 1906 murder of New York's architectural eminence Stanford White at the hands of deranged coal baron Harry Thaw, his rival for the affections of Broadway super-soubrette Evelyn Nesbit. Using an eclectic mix of American pomp splashed with turn-of-the-century burlesque theatrics, Harry Thaw serves up a comedic tour de force for four great performers and a darkly whimsical look at the clash between hedonism and poverty, the emotional toll of romantic excess, and murderous revenge a la high society.

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Winner! Los Angeles Drama Critics' Circle award for Best Writing

1st Produced:
Los Angeles Theater Center, CA    -

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Indecent Exposure Theater company

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Genre:
dramatic comedy

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Leopold and Loeb: A Goddamn Laff Riot

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Seattles On the Boards    -

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Rock Paper Scissors

Synopsis:
written by Laural Meade and Corey Madden

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1st Produced:
Arizona, US    2009

Organisations:
Childsplay

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Suffragist Roadshow, The

Synopsis:
Originally developed in the Mark Taper Forum writers' lab, the piece is a semi-fictionalized account of a 1915 coast-to-coast roadtrip/publicity stunt undertaken by a group of radical suffragists.

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1st Produced:
Inkubator Reading Series at Los Angeles Skylight Theater    Jun 2012

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Wide Open Ocean, The

Synopsis:
about Los Angeles charlatan/evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson

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The Actors' Gang

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Genre:
musical vaudeville

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