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S P MISKOWSKI |
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Nationality: USA Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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Short story and stage play author S.P. Miskowski earned a Master of Fine Arts in playwriting at the University of Washington and has received two NEA Fellowships (for short fiction and playwriting). She's been commissioned by ACT Theatre three times as part of FirstACT and her scripts have been produced by UW, Seattle Theater Project, Youth Theater Northwest and 14/48 the World's Quickest Theater Festival. She's had workshops and staged readings of her plays at GEVA and Cherry Lane Alternative in New York. Her latest full-length play "my new friends (are so much better than you)" received a 2008 Footlight Award from the Seattle Times and was nominated for a 2009 Steinberg/ATCA Award, the nation's largest new play award.
Plays by S P Miskowski
Aftershock | ||
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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 | #96524 | |||
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Genre: | 60 min One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | The play's scenes may be performed in any order. A series of poetic repetitions: Bedtime stories, betrayal, murder, incest and a tango. A husband and wife recall their travels and early marriage, shaping the history of two neglected and abused daughters to fit their vanity. | |||||
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Baby Whisperer, The | ||
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Company: | 14/48 the world's quickest theater festival | |||||
| 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 | #96531 | |||
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Genre: | Ten Min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | Overprotective new parents call in a psychic to find out what their infant really thinks. | |||||
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Boom City | ||
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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 | #96523 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | An ambitious young reporter lands a job at a small Seattle newspaper, Boom City, during the 1990s economic upswing. His brutal honesty and unabashed materialism are refreshing, and he becomes popular. Along the way he displaces a columnist obsessively devoted to DIY idealism. So the columnist devises a hideous form of revenge, in the name of justice, goodwill and Seattle nice. | |||||
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Cockapoo | ||
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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 | #96530 | |||
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Genre: | monologue 15 min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | A woman enrolls in a pest control training program. | |||||
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Daughters of Catastrophe | ||
| 1st Produced: | Theatre Off Jackson, Seattle, WA | 2007 | ||||
Company: | Mae West Fest | |||||
| 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 | #67131 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy/drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | doubling | |||||
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Synopsis: | Electra, Phaedra and Medea as tabloid American stories, circa 2005. A darkly satirical triptych set among the trendy rich of Manhattan, Seattle, and Hollywood. The plays unsparingly explore our sacred myths about money, marriage and motherhood. | |||||
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Emerald City | ||
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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 | #96514 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy/drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 4 | ||
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Synopsis: | Four women have a love/hate relationship with the city of Seattle. Each is looking for something, in this urban tale lightly inspired by the Wizard of Oz: Dot owns a home she inherited from her aunt and uncle, but she questions its value in a rapidly changing landscape and market; Scarlett is writing a dissertation on Duwamish folk tales when she makes a startling discovery about the house her friend Tina is renting from Dot; Tina yearns for the love of a man she's been stalking for years; all of her jobs are excuses to remain in her adopted city, so she can be near a man who doesn't want her; Lillian is trying to overcome her crippling fear of being alone while her lover Scarlett is away. | |||||
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Feasting | ||
| 1st Produced: | Trotsky's Garage | 1995 | ||||
Company: | AHA! Theatre | |||||
| 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 | #96519 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 5 | ||
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Synopsis: | Don't try this without a university theater department at your disposal. You need at least 12 performers, an inventive scenic designer, costume designer and a choreographer. The script calls for several Rat Dances. The climactic moment requires a gigantic rat, or some combination of rat sounds and effects to suggest a gigantic rat. Someone told me this play was about nature being better than industrialization. I hope not. For me, the terrifying moments of this colorful, grimy fairy tale are those in which nature reigns, merciless and mindlessly self-serving. A couple of artists were generous enough to choose me for a playwriting fellowship from the NEA, thanks to Feasting. It's a strange and as yet untapped play, as mysterious to me as it is to friends who have read it. | |||||
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For Carol and Those All | ||
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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 | #67132 | |||
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Genre: | 20 min One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | A late night heart-to-heart between mother (50) and youngest daughter (12) reveals some embarrassing family secrets in a dry comedy set in Decatur, Georgia in 1970. | |||||
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Form v Content | ||
| 1st Produced: | Live Girls!, Seattle, WA | 2009 | ||||
Company: | Live Girls! Quickies 10 | |||||
| 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 | #96527 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 4 | ||
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Synopsis: | Four adult sisters debate the semantics of grief at their father's memorial service. Physical comedy, with an extensive fight scene. | |||||
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Holiday Show, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | MWF, Seattle, WA | - - - | ||||
Company: | Mae West Festival | |||||
| 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 | #96525 | |||
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Genre: | 60 min One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | A playwright/director, an actress, a stage manager and a theater subscriber meet in the dilapidated rehearsal room of a failing theater company. Their mission is to create a list of local performing artists for a desperately needed fundraising festival. Unfortunately, they can't agree on who is a worthy artist and who is a pretentious idiot. | |||||
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Kayak Man Returns | ||
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Company: | 14/48 the world's quickest theater festival | |||||
| 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 | #96526 | |||
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Genre: | Ten Min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | A woman who has turned mourning for her adventurous husband into an art suddenly discovers that her marriage was not as idyllic as she remembers. | |||||
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La Valse | ||
| 1st Produced: | Open Circle, Seattle, WA | 1999 | ||||
Company: | Seattle Theater Project | |||||
| 1st Published: | Rain City Projects (1999) | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #96522 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | A famous Catholic poet envies his bohemian sister's freedom and considers her habits a sign of instability. Ultimately he has her committed to an asylum, where she spends the last years of her life. Now facing his own mortality and trapped in an imaginary purgatory, the elderly poet reviews and relives the past to satisfy an unseen counsel. But however he tries, he is unable to admit his betrayal. The poet's story is a world swept together out of memory, gossip, wishful thinking, and cross-referenced scenes from his stage work and his sister's passionate life. The play's structure imitates the shape of Camille Claudel's sculpture La Valse. | |||||
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Mi Cubicle Su Cubicle | ||
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Company: | 14/48 the world's quickest theater festival | |||||
| 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 | #96529 | |||
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Genre: | Ten Min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | Two female office workers share a cubicle of spite and hatred in this comedy of petty revenge. | |||||
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my new friends (are so much better than you) | ||
| 1st Produced: | Shoebox Performance Space, Seattle, WA | 2008 | ||||
Company: | New City Theater w/ Open Heart 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 | #96515 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | may be played by one actress | |||||
Notes: | he piece may be performed by two actresses, but the play's questions about identity are enhanced by having one actress play both women, alternating without change of makeup or costume, in very simple transitions. | |||||
Synopsis: | This solo piece, performed by Morgan Rowe in 2008 and 2009, was inspired by several true stories of social networking and cyber-bullying, combined with observations of online relationships. The script is a series of monologues, sometimes funny and sometimes harrowing, alternating between two characters: Nancy is an outgoing, witty, worldly person who is popular but who reserves the right to define herself on her own terms. Gwen is a woman who has not quite found herself in her career or in motherhood. Between these former friends stands the memory of a teenage girl whose attempt at making friends online ended in tragedy. But that is not the end of the story& | |||||
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Nothing Between Us | ||
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Company: | 14/48 the world's quickest theater festival | |||||
| 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 | #67133 | |||
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Genre: | Ten min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | Two adopted brothers compare notes during a jailhouse visit, and find they have even less in common than they thought. | |||||
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Number 9 | ||
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Company: | 14/48 the world's quickest theater festival | |||||
| 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 | #96528 | |||
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Genre: | Ten Min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | A Seattle bus driver, stuck in traffic on a bridge, tries to keep his oversensitive passengers from panicking. | |||||
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Pandora's Box | ||
| 1st Produced: | YTN, Mercer Island, WA | - - - | ||||
Company: | Youth Theater Northwest | |||||
| 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 | #96518 | |||
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Genre: | Youth | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 8 | ||
Parts other: | multiple roles | |||||
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Synopsis: | An adaptation that owes as much to Raymond Chandler as Greek mythology, this comic detective story was originally commissioned by Youth Theatre Northwest and performed by eight teenage girls in multiple roles. | |||||
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Red Room, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Richard Hugo House, Seattle, WA | 2001 | ||||
Company: | Arriba! | |||||
| 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 | #96521 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Synopsis: | With the fearful complicity of her young daughters, Ruth Parker robbed and killed more than a dozen men in the 1940s and '50s, most of them traveling salesmen who had the misfortune to visit her Georgia farmhouse by chance. It is 1960, and Ruth is dying. Oldest daughter Alma returns home after several mysterious liaisons. Martha has remained at home to care for the youngest sister, Louise. Martha expected to take over the orchard and the beekeeping managed by their mother--and financed by her numerous victims--but now Alma challenges Martha's authority. The three sisters alternate roles and play games with one another, in an escalating struggle to see who will be queen of the hive after Ruth dies. The Red Room is a violent psychological thriller, poetic and brutal, with several movement pieces and tableaux integral to the story. | |||||
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Second Nature | ||
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Company: | 14/48 the world's quickest theater festival | |||||
| 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 | #67134 | |||
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Genre: | Ten min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | 1 female child | |||||
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Synopsis: | An adorable young girl gets the attention of two strangers in a hotel lobby, and recounts a tale of terrifying misadventure. | |||||
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Walking the Walls | ||
| 1st Produced: | Northwest Actors Studio, Seattle, WA | 2000 | ||||
Company: | Gotta Go! and Northwest Actors Studio | |||||
| 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 | #96516 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 4 | ||
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Synopsis: | The Stranger critic called the play a Southwestern Odyssey. Two loners decide to travel together for a while: Leona is looking for a perfect spot to scatter the ashes of the father she betrayed years ago in a case of fake repressed memory. Ex-con Lloyd is staying one step ahead of the law, indulging in his passion for the poetry of Rod McKuen, "the only poet who ever made real money," and strangling people who irritate him. From Montezuma Castle to Arcosanti, Lloyd and Leona make their way along the backside of the American Dream. | |||||
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Watusi | ||
| 1st Produced: | Richard Hugo House, Seattle, WA | 2000 | ||||
Company: | Hyperion | |||||
| 1st Published: | Rain City Projects (2000) | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #96517 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 5 | ||
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Synopsis: | Thirteen-year-old Marty offers a slideshow-style look at her home in 1965 Decatur, Georgia with running commentary and Southern cocktails. | |||||
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Wojcik | ||
| 1st Produced: | UW, Seattle, WA | 1992 | ||||
Company: | University of Washington | |||||
| 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 | #96520 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 | ||
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Synopsis: | A man has only one thing left to lose, and loses it. Georg Buchner's creature is adrift in a soggy Pacific Northwest city, following a series of financial and ecological catastrophes. He hunts stray dogs with his friends, at night, and sells his plasma to a clinic. His girlfriend is drifting away, following her hunger for more than a roof and a couple of meals a day. As desperate as things may be at the moment, the future looks worse, and in this state of mind he lashes out. | |||||
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