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JANINE NABERS |
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Nationality: USA Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: William Morris Endeavor Entertainment, LLC |
Janine Nabers recent honors: Sundance @ UCross Residency, The Macdowell Colony Residency and The Sam French New School for Drama Emerging Writer Award and the 2009-2010 Dramatist Guild Playwriting Fellowship. Janine is currently a member of Ars Nova Play Group and the Dorothy Strelsin New American Writer's Group and is an alumni of Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab. Her play WEST OF THE WILLOW TREE was a finalist for: the Princess Grace Award, The Victory Gardens Theater Ignition playwriting Award, The Theodore Ward Playwriting Prize, Bay Area playwrights Festival and the winner of the 2009 New Professional Theater Playwriting Award. Other plays include: WELCOME TO JESUS (Soho Rep), WHEN THE LEVEE BROKE (Workshop Theater Company), JUNIPER; JUBILEE (Samuel French Festival Winner 08), and GENERATION GRAFFITI (Samuel French Festival finalist 09). Her play ANNIE BOSH IS MISSING will be developed at the TLC emerging writing program this fall. Janine is published by Sam French. MFA: The New School for Drama.
Plays by Janine Nabers
Black Girl Gone | ||
| 1st Produced: | Commodity Quay, St Katharine Docks, London E1W 1AZ | 01 09 2011 | ||||
Company: | Headlong | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1848422308 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #132464 | |||
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Genre: | short piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | part of Decade: Two towers. Ten years. Twenty plays. Ten years after 9/11, twenty international writers respond to the defining event of our times. Published here are their individual plays, which woven together formed the basis of Decade, an immersive theatrical production from Headlong theatre company. The writers: Samuel Adamson, Mike Bartlett, Alecky Blythe, Adam Brace, Ben Ellis, Ella Hickson, Samuel D. Hunter, John Logan, Matthew Lopez, Mona Mansour, DC Moore, Abi Morgan, Rory Mullarkey, Janine Nabers, Lynn Nottage, Harrison David Rivers, Simon Schama, Christopher Shinn, Beth Steel, Alexandra Wood. | |||||
| No-one can forget the moment they heard the news. September 11th, 2001 sent shockwaves across the globe. It was a day that was supposed to change the world forever.Ten years on, a team of major writers and thinkers explore our responses to the defining event of our times in a new production from Headlong, creators of the multi award-winning ENRON. Rupert Goold's theatre company transforms a former trading hall into an immersive theatrical experience, taking you from the tranquil setting of St Katharine Docks on the River Thames to the bright blue skies of downtown Manhattan and beyond. | |||||
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Family Business | ||
| 1st Produced: | Producer's Club, The Royale Theater, NY | 2007 | ||||
Company: | Etc., in association with Lovecreek | |||||
| 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 | #83457 | |||
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Notes: | written by Paul DeSena, Megan Lohne, Margaret McCloskey, Janine Nabers | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
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Generation Graffiti | ||
| 1st Produced: | Peter Jay Sharp Theatre, NY | 2009 | ||||
Company: | 34th Off Off Broadway Samuel French Short Play 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 | #101582 | |||
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Genre: | short play | |||||
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Synopsis: | Janine Nabers' Generation Graffiti: Welcome to Spice Lane, where every boy you know is a Latin King. . .but only one can be Jesus. | |||||
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Gentrifusion | ||
| 1st Produced: | LABA Theatre at the 14th Street Y | 29 Jan 2011 | ||||
Company: | Red Fern Theatre 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 | #124209 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Notes: | written by Carla Ching, Joshua Conkel, Michael John Garces, Jon Kern, Janine Nabers, Crystal Skillman | |||||
Synopsis: | In Gentrifusion, playwrights Carla Ching, Joshua Conkel, Michael John Garces, Jon Kern, Janine Nabers and Crystal Skillman explore the different truths surrounding the gentrification of New York's neighborhoods. The playwrights were charged with breaking down the cliched idea of "gentrification." Their pieces dig deeper to address the ways that change both improves and diminishes a community. All residents are given voice in this series, ultimately discovering that both long time residents and the new crop of gentrifiers benefit and suffer in different measures and different ways. | |||||
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Juniper:Jubilee | ||
| 1st Produced: | Peter Jay Sharp Theatre, NYC | 2008 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays, 33rd series, Samuel French, Inc - New York >>> | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-573-67036-7 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #94439 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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| Juniper is a thirteen-year-old South African girl who has just moved to America and is homesick for the country she left behind. She quickly meets Matt; a drum-playing, yarmulke-wearing kid from school and the two hit it off. When Juniper's innocent sexual encounters with Matt begin to trigger certain memories from her forgotten childhood in Sudan, Juniper is forced to come head to head with the ghosts of her past. | |||||
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Let's Tap | ||
| 1st Produced: | Ars Nova | 01 Feb 2011 | ||||
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 | #124479 | |||
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Genre: | short play | |||||
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Synopsis: | Part of The Wii Plays. This is an evening of original short plays and live music, inspired by the titles of Nintendo Wii games. The selections are: Wii Tennis by Molly Smith Metzler, directed by Lila Neugebauer, Barbie as the Island Princess by Tasha Gordon-Solmon, directed by Lila Neugebauer, Let's Tap by Janine Nabers, directed by Portia Krieger, Marvel Superhero Squad by Chad Beckim, directed by Stephen Brackett, Buck Fever by Samuel D. Hunter, directed by Portia Krieger, Alien Monster Bowling League by Matthew Lopez, directed by Laura Savia, Tomb Raider: Anniversary by Kara Lee Corthron, directed by Laura Savia, Burger Island by Gregory Moss, directed by Portia Krieger, All Star Cheer Squad by Jenny Connell, directed by Laura Savia, Sword Play: Speed Slice by Kristoffer Diaz, directed by Lila Neugebauer, Bob the Builder: Festival of Fun by Amy Herzog, directed by Stephen Brackett, and Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games by Joe Tracz, dir. by Stephen Brackett. | |||||
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Missed Connections | ||
| 1st Produced: | Ars Nova, NY | 26 Jan 2010 | ||||
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 | #82123 | |||
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Genre: | short play | |||||
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Notes: | Part of a program of short plays and killer live music inspired by ads for the ones that got away. Featuring plays by Annie Baker, Bekah Brunstetter, Dylan Dawson, Kristoffer Diaz, Zayd Dohrn, Tasha Gordon-Solmon, Amy Herzog, Samuel D. Hunter, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Steven Levenson, Matthew Lopez, Janine Nabers, and Samuel Brett Williams, all of the play titles are taken directly from actual Craigslist Missed Connections ads. | |||||
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