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JULIAN OLF |
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Nationality: USA Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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Julian Olf taught and directed theater at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Olf's short comedy, 1-900-SEX-DATE, won first prize in the Nantucket Short Play Competition. It was produced by the West Coast Ensemble (L.A.), New Century Theater (Northampton, MA) and Phare Play Productions (NYC). His short dramas, I LUV BETSY + JOEY + MARY LOU . . . and FUN WITH JAY LENO: A SHAMELESS DOMESTIC DRAMA were staged in NYC; UNAIRED PUBLIC RADIO SEGMENT, in Vancouver, BC. His SWF: A LOVE STORY FOR THE STAGE, received a staged reading at the Boston Center for the Arts. Olf's short play, (PEOPLE ALMOST ALWAYS SMELL GOOD IN THE ART MUSEUM), appeared in the Fall, 2008 issue of The Massachusetts Review. The play was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. (To read the play at no cost, select the play title on http://www.massreview.org/07_arch_00_TOC.html4903.) Olf's play CAT IN A BOX appeared in the 2011 Boston Theater Marathon and was published in the BTM XIII 2011 anthology by Smith & Kraus. His play JUDITH received a 2012 Julie Harris Playwright Award - sponsored by the Beverly Hills Theatre Guild. His feature-length screenplay, ANTHONY (inspirec by HAMLET) received a Gold Award at WorldFest International Film Festival - Houston and was given a professional reading by The Drama Garage of Hollywood. His screen adaptation of Henry James's short story, THE LIAR, was finalist in America's Best Screenplays.
Plays by Julian Olf
(People Almost Always Smell Good In The Art Museum) | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Curtain Theater | 2008 | ||||
Company: | University of Massachusetts | |||||
| 1st Published: | Massachusetts Review, Fall, 2008 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #98545 | |||
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Genre: | single-character play. Comedy. One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Extremely simple production requirements. This play requires that the single actor create a believable interlocutor with whom he interacts. A DVD of the author performing the play is available. The play was nominated by the Massachusetts Review for a Pushcart Prize. The published play may be read without charge on http://www.massreview.org/07_arch_00_TOC.html4903 | |||||
Synopsis: | A man of indeterminate age meets a friend in a tavern. In the course of an evening the man attempts to convey his extraordinary perceptions of the people and objects in his world. His friend doesn't seem to get it. | |||||
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1-900-SEX-DATE | ||
| 1st Produced: | Nantucket Actor's Theater | 2003 | ||||
Company: | Nantucket 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 | #69593 | |||
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Genre: | Short. (20 minutes) Comedy One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | Simple production requirements. Winner of the Nantucket Short Play Award. Production history: 2004 - West Coast Ensemble (L.A.); 2007 - New Century Theatre, (Northampton, MA); 2007 - Phare Play Production (NYC). Notwithstanding its premise, this play is appropriate for most adult audiences. | |||||
Synopsis: | A shy man attempts to have a phone sex date with a veteran of the trade. Despite her best efforts to construct a fantasy exchange, their conversation runs into a series of comical mishaps. When all appears lost, they stumble into the possibility of a relationship grounded in reality. | |||||
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Cat In A Box | ||
| 1st Produced: | Wimberly Theatre, Calderwood Pavilion, Boston. | May 2011 | ||||
Company: | Boston Theater Marathon XIII | |||||
| 1st Published: | Smith & Kraus (2012) | ISBN/ASIN: | 1-57525-785-8 . | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #143343 | |||
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Genre: | 10-Minute Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | Excellent for college-age actors and older. Scenically very spare - a park bench and a shrub. Informal contemporary dress. The play has special relevance at a time when the misusue of social networking is having serious fallout on its users. Might prompt an interesting post-show discussion. | |||||
Synopsis: | Joseph, a timid man, is accosted in the park by a woman who is smitten by his beauty. Joseph suspects she may have been put up to this by his friend, but her manner and beauty win him over. Joseph's initial fears turn out to be true, but he doesn't learn this until his world has gone topsy-turvy with near disastrous consequences. | |||||
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Fun With Jay Leno: A Shameless Domestic Drama | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Players Lab, New York City | 2005 | ||||
Company: | NativeAliens - Short Stories 7 Annual Playwrights 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 | #98543 | |||
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Genre: | farce Ten Min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | Extremely simple production requirements. | |||||
Synopsis: | Should Iggy confront his mother regarding her sexual hobbyhorse, or should he go blow up a crowded Laundromat? A madcap, irreverent comedy. | |||||
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I Luv Betsy + Joey + Mary Lou | ||
| 1st Produced: | Brooklyn Lyceum | 2004 | ||||
Company: | Swamp King 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 | #98541 | |||
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Genre: | drama Ten Min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | Extremely simple productions requirements. Also produced in 2005 by Turtle Shell Productions at the Marjorie S. Deane Little Theater, NYC. | |||||
Synopsis: | Mary Lou seeks only what's best for her children; her plan, however, inflicts pain on the man who most cherishes them. | |||||
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Judith | ||
| 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 | #143344 | |||
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Genre: | Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | Judith was recipient of a 2012 Julie Harris Playwright Award - sponsored by the Beverly Hills Theatre Guild. The focus of the play is on character relationships, not biblical history. The milieu is an ancient never-land, with costumes and locations as unwed to specific time and place as the characters are. The performance area for Judith simultaneously represents the entire world of the play, with characters moving fluidly among stationary areas - the locations indicated, perhaps, by platforms, ramps and emblematic pieces. | |||||
Synopsis: | Judith was inspired by the apocryphal Book of Judith - an ancient story of the beautiful Israelite widow who, on the eve of her people's destruction, interrupts her period of mourning, travels unarmed to the enemy camp, seduces the general, murders him, liberates her people, and returns to her period of mourning. The story has captured the imagination of painters and poets throughout the ages. The play wholly reinvents the characters and tale for contemporary audiences. At its center stand the pitted adversaries, Judith and General Holofernes, whose dawning love is as inevitable as it is impossible. | |||||
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SWF: A Love Story For the Stage | ||
| 1st Produced: | Boston Center for the Arts | 2007 | ||||
Company: | Boston Theatre Works - Equity Staged Reading | |||||
| 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 | #98544 | |||
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Genre: | Short (15 - 20 minutes). Comedy One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | Extremely simple staging requirements. | |||||
Synopsis: | Two performers, He and She, meet on a stage to map out the details of a tryst between characters who've responded to a personal ad. The performers struggle to accommodate the needs of Laurent, a character with a nose for love, and Clara, a character whose love site is resides in another part of her anatomy. The challenge in telling the story of Laurent and Clara is compounded by the fact that each performer adopts the point of view of the character of the opposite gender. As with love, story-telling here traverses a slippery slope. | |||||
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Twins | ||
| 1st Produced: | unproduced | - - - | ||||
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 | #98546 | |||
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Genre: | full length Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | The play requires a single setting representing a NYC brownstone apartment. Set today. The action occurs over a 2 day period | |||||
Synopsis: | Ernie wants to help his brother's widow, an immigrant named Raisa. But a scheme to defraud United States immigration law explodes in a hilarious no-holds-barred battle of the sexes - with surprising consequences for the two contestants. | |||||
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Unaired Public Radio Segment | ||
| 1st Produced: | 10 X 10 Short Play Festival, Vancouver, BC | 2005 | ||||
Company: | Two Trees 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 | #98542 | |||
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Genre: | Short play (20 min.) Social satire One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | One walk-on (M or F) plus offstage voices. | |||||
Notes: | An edgy, dark satire on voyeurism and the packaging of violence by the media. | |||||
Synopsis: | The taping session for a radio interview takes on a life of its own as the host tries to develop a human interest story with the victim of a sex crime. The victim has an agenda of her own. | |||||
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