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ELIZABETH MERIWETHER (1982 - ) |
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Nationality: USA Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Elizabeth Meriwether. Ms. Meriwether's play The Mistakes Madeline Made was originally produced by Naked Angels Theater, and was subsequently produced at Yale Rep and published by Dramatists Play Service. Her other plays include Heddatron, an adaptation of Hedda Gabler featuring live robots which was produced by Les Freres Corbusier, and is published by Playscripts, Inc.; Nicky Goes Goth, which was first produced in 2004 in the New York Fringe Festival; and Oliver, which will be workshopped by the Vineyard Theatre. Ms. Meriwether is currently working on commissions from the Yale Repertory Theatre, Ars Nova, and Manhattan Theatre Club.
Plays by Elizabeth Meriwether
90 Days | ||
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| 1st Published: | Contained in: "Elizabeth Meriweather The Collected Short Plays" published by Playscripts Inc | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #137377 | |||
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Genre: | Short play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Abby phones her boyfriend Eliot in rehab | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Clinically Negative (A Viral Comedy) | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
Company: | MC Enterprises | |||||
| 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 | #63563 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | written by Elizabeth Meriwether, Sam Forman, Billy Eichner, Annie Baker, Beau Willimon | |||||
Synopsis: | a collectively-written new comedy about AIDS. The following description is from the show's press release: "Playwright Beau Willimon curates an evening of work by several playwrights dealing with the issue of AIDS. The result is Clinically Negative, a full length play in which each of the five contributing writers picks up where the previous writer left off. The result is a hysterically irreverent take on the experience of getting tested for HIV." | |||||
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Dixie's Tupperware Party | ||
| 1st Produced: | Ars Nova, NY | 2007 | ||||
Company: | Ars Nova | |||||
| 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 | #64877 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | written by Elizabeth Meriwether and Kris Andersson | |||||
Synopsis: | The following description is from the show's press release: "Dixie Longate, the fast-talking Tupperware Lady, has packed up her catalogues, and left her children in an Alabama trailer park to journey to The Big Apple. Join Dixie as she throws a good ol' fashioned Tupperware Party filled with outrageous tales, free giveaways, and the most fabulous assortment of Tupperware ever sold on a New York stage. See for yourself how Ms. Longate became the number one Tupperware seller in the world, as she educates her guests on the many alternative uses she has discovered for her plastic products!" | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Heddatron | ||
| 1st Produced: | Les Freres Corbusier (HERE Arts Center) (New York, NY, United States) | 2006 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Contained in: "Play - A Journal Of Plays" issue three | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #47396 | |||
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Genre: | 65-75 min Comedy/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | 6 males, 4 females, 2 either (10-14 actors possible: 4-8 males, 4-6 females) | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A pregnant housewife is abducted by robots and taken to the rainforest and forced to performHedda Gabler by her robot captors. Meanwhile, her family is back home in Michigan trying to find her, and Henrik Ibsen is in Norway attempting to write Hedda Gabler, as Strindberg taunts him. A hilarious and savage journey to freedom. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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I Bought A Bunker, Bitch | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Contained in: "Elizabeth Meriweather The Collected Short Plays" published by Playscripts Inc | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #137378 | |||
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Genre: | Short play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Bad Boy breaks up with his girlfriend. He buys a bunker and moves in to it. The salesman has provided the bunker with two French floozies who definitely are not ladies | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Little Tales of Misogyny | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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 | #70809 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Based on the book: "Little Tales of Misogyny" by Patricia Highsmith | |||||
Synopsis: | The life of Patricia Highsmith as seen through her book of short stories | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Mistakes Madeline Made, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Culture Project, NY | 2006 | ||||
Company: | Naked Angels | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, 2007 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #62187 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | doubling | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | What happens if you just stop showering? THE MISTAKES MADELINE MADE is a twisted and hilarious coming-of-age story about a girl who develops Ablutophobia, the fear of bathing. Struggling with a soul-crushing job as a personal assistant, she wages a furious, funny war against all things complacent, pampered and clean. As her smell starts to overwhelm her co-workers and many casual lovers-a series of bad poets-the play raises the questions: Is dirty living a political act? And is clean living even possible in these times of unrest? An unlikely story of love and dirty people. | |||||
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My Mental Illness | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Contained in: "Elizabeth Meriweather The Collected Short Plays" published by Playscripts Inc | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #137379 | |||
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Genre: | Short play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | Me has an anxiety attack. She hires two lesbian porn stars to interpret the attack through dance | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Nicky Goes Goth | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 2004 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts Inc | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #70810 | |||
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Genre: | Black comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | The love story of Nicky Hilton and a Goth called Shithead. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Oliver Parker! | ||
| 1st Produced: | Cherry Lane Theatre, 38 Commerce Street, New York, NY 10014 >>> | 17 May 2010 | ||||
Company: | the stageFARM | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts Inc | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #114308 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Oliver is 17 and Jasper is 60. They are best friends. Oliver wants to get laid, and Jasper wants to help. Jasper wants to drink himself to death, and Oliver wants to save him. And they share a secret that could ruin them both. . . if it hasn't already. A jet black comedy about hurting the ones you love, and loving the ones that hurt. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Particle Board | ||
| 1st Produced: | Ars Nova Theater (New York, NY, United States) | 2007 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc - New York | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #69897 | |||
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Genre: | 10-15 min Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | 1 male, 2 females, 3 either (3-6 actors possible: 1-4 males, 1-5 females) | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | The mini-biography of the world's first and foremost Particle Board comedian, Harold Cretts, who punctuated every joke by hitting himself on the head with a piece of wood. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Poor Bob | ||
| 1st Produced: | The 24 Hour Company at The Signature Theater (New York, NY, United States) | 2005 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in 24 by 24: The 24 Hour Plays Anthology, Playscripts Inc | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-9709046-9-0 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #96601 | |||
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Genre: | 8-10 min Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | 3 males, 1 female | |||||
Notes: | In 1995, a group of writers, directors and actors gathered on Manhattan's Lower East Side for what was supposed to be a one-time-only event: write, direct, produce and perform new plays with the span of 24 hours. More than a decade and just over 300 plays later, The 24 Hour Plays have been produced on Broadway, in London, Los Angeles, Chicago and across the globe. | |||||
| Kitty always uses the her brother, Seymour, to breakup with her boyfriends, because she is secretly obsessed with Atreyu from The Neverending Story. This time, Kitty decides that things are going to be different when she brings Bob to visit Seymour's dorm at Harvard. But after a game of Yahtzee and meeting Seymour's mysterious friend, Kitty discovers it may not be time to grow up just yet. | |||||
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Sketch Comedian | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Contained in: "Elizabeth Meriweather The Collected Short Plays" published by Playscripts Inc | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #137380 | |||
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Genre: | Short play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A college gets invited back to the apartment of her favourite comedian. She gets tongued tied and sits silently while he rambles on about his life | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Sound in the Throat, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Kraine Theatre, NY, USA | 2006 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Contained in: "Elizabeth Meriweather The Collected Short Plays" published by Playscripts Inc | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #55037 | |||
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Genre: | Short play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | part of The Australia Project | |||||
Synopsis: | explores the relationship between the United States and Australia | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Sutton | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 2006 | ||||
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 | #70811 | |||
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Genre: | One act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | The party loving, heavy drinking daughter of the President of the United States clashes with her black bodyguard. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Too Little Too Late | ||
| 1st Produced: | HERE Arts Center - Dorothy B. Williams Theater, 145 6th Avenue, New York, NY 10013 >>> | 03 Feb 2010 | ||||
Company: | Red Elevator Productions | |||||
| 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 | #110463 | |||
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Genre: | short play | |||||
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Notes: | Too Little Too Late is the first theatrical venture from the young company, Red Elevator Productions. Featuring original and premiere short plays from six of the most promising and arresting young writers on the New York theater scene, Too Little Too Late explores the problem of (dis)connect in a complicated world-because in our breakneck lives of over-stimulus media, instant mass communication, restlessness, and expectation, how does anyone really connect? | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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True Love Story of My Parents | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 2005 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Contained in: "Elizabeth Meriweather The Collected Short Plays" published by Playscripts Inc | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #70812 | |||
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Genre: | Short play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
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Synopsis: | A daughter retells the story of her parents' relationship to her parents | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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