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Cassandra Medley

CASSANDRA MEDLEY

  
Nationality:    African American
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Literary Agent:    Elaine Devlin Literary, Inc.  

Cassandra Medley's plays including theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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         Cell         Coming up For Air         Daughter         Dearborn Heights         Flesh Of My Flesh         Flesh Of My Flesh II         Ma Rose         Maiden Lane         Mildred         Ms Edie         Noon Day Sun         Pay Our Respects         Relativity         Rosalie         Son         Terrain         Waking Women

Cell

Synopsis:
An African-American woman rescues her younger sister and adult niece from homelessness only to have a "minor" on-the-job mishap change her family forever.

Notes:
Ensemble Studio theatre's flagship festival of new one-act plays, the Marathon has played Annually At EST for over 30 years. 2011, marking the 33rd year of the Marathon, features All EST member playwrights.

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Organisations:
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1st Published:
in Outstanding Short Plays, Dramatists Play Service, NY,    978-0822225133

Music:
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Genre:
One Act

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Coming up For Air

Coming up For Air
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1st Published:
Contained in: "Best American Short Plays 2012 - 2013" published by Applause Theatre Book Publishing 2014   978-1480361744

Music:
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Daughter

Daughter
A mother struggles to cope with the injuries her daughter suffered in Iraq

Notes:
part of the Marathon of One-Act Plays

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1st Published:
Contained in: "Daughter and Son" published by Broadway Publishing 2011   978-0881454789

Music:
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Dearborn Heights

Synopsis:
In a home-style Diner, in Dearborn Heights, Michigan, two young women discover the meaning of racism and friendship, all before lunch is served

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Ensemble Studio Theatre, NY     1995

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1st Published:
in the Best American Short Plays 92-96, ed Howard Stein and Glen Young, Applause Books, NY, 1996   -

Music:
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Play One Act

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Male:  -            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Flesh Of My Flesh

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Flesh Of My Flesh II

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Ma Rose

Synopsis:
tells the story of three generations of black American women as matriarch is loath to yield power

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Apple Corps Theater, NY     1988

Organisations:
Women's Project

1st Published:
in Women's Works, Julia Niles, Applause, NY, 1989   -

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Maiden Lane

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1st Published:
Contained in: "Ensemble Studio Theatre Marathon '99 - the One Act Plays" published by Faber and Faber 2000   -

Music:
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Mildred

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1st Published:
in 13th Moon v10, Nos 1 & 2,    -

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Ms Edie

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1st Published:
Contained in: "Literature The Evolving Canon" published by Allyn and Bacon 1993   978-0205142224

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Noon Day Sun

Noon Day Sun
Wendy, whose secret birth name is Zena, is a negro-identified woman who is passing for white. Suddenly, on a 'white hot day in August', she crosses paths with her black husband from the past

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1st Produced:
Montclair State Theater, New Jersey     2001

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1st Published:
Broadway Play Publishers 2007   978-0881453225

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Pay Our Respects

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1st Produced:
52nd Street Project Childrens Theatre, New York     1986

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Genre:
Childrens play

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Relativity

Relativity
Claire is a leading melanin scientist: she believes people of color are genetically superior--physically, mentally, in every way--due to higher concentrations of melanin in their genetic makeup. the research of her daughter Kalima, a molecular geneticist at Johns Hopkins, proves otherwise, and threatens to destroy the relationship that each woman values most. Forced to choose between science and family, between her future and her history, Kalima must decide where her loyalty lies.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Ensemble Studio Theatre, NY     2006

Organisations:
First Light Festival

1st Published:
Broadway Play Publishers 1995   978-0881453195

Music:
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Rosalie

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Son

Son
During his sister's wedding party a man struggles with flashbacks to the war when he dropped a bomb on a wedding party

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1st Published:
Contained in: "Daughter and Son" published by Broadway Publishing 2011   978-0881454789

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Terrain

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Waking Women

Synopsis:
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1st Published:
in Antaeus: Plays in One Act, ed Daniel Halpern, the Ecco Press, NY, 1991   -

Music:
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Genre:
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