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Dominic Orlando

DOMINIC ORLANDO  

 Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    William Morris Endeavor Entertainment, LLC  


Dominic Orlando came to Minneapolis in 2003 on a Jerome Foundation Fellowship to The Playwrights Center. Since then, he's worked with The Gurthrie Theater, Nautilus Music-Theater, The Jungle Theater, Teatro del Pueblo and THIRST in the Twin Cities and The Cornucopia Arts Center in Lanesboro. Other playwriting fellowships include The MacDowell Colony (residency, multi-year), The Edward Albee Foundation (residency, multi-year), The Ucross Foundation (residency), and a MasterClass with Paula Vogel at The Atlantic Center for the Arts. In NYC, Dominic's work was supported by The New York State Council on the Arts and ART/NY and presented at HERE Center for The Arts, The Lincoln Center/American Living Room Festival (multi-year), The New York International Fringe Festival (multi-year), The Samuel Beckett on Theatre Row and in an international exchange with The Pasinger/Fabrike Theatre in Munich, Germany. Dominic's Jerome play, "Juan Gelion Dances for The Sun" was workshopped at The Bay Area Playwrights Festival and will be produced by Crowded Fire Theatre in San Francisco in March. His work has been published by Playscripts and Heinemann Press. He is a CORE Member of The Playwrights Center.
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 Fissures (lost and found)         Flow, The         Juan Gelion Dances For The Sun         Little Green Men         Measures, The         Monkey Sue         Nevermore         Sands         Short Play About Globalization, A

Fissures (lost and found)

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Written by Steve Epp; Cory Hinkle And Dominic Orlando

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Contained in: "Humana Festival 2010: The Complete Plays" published by Playscripts Inc   -

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Flow, The

Synopsis:
What is "The Flow" -- an after-school club? A team? Or something far more dangerous? Lonely Kevin Sorenson's about to find out, in a story that mixes fairy tale motifs with modern teens' struggles for acceptance and love.

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1st Produced:
Guthrie Theater (reading) (Minneapolis, MN, United States)    2004

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Playscripts, Inc - New York   -

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28-35 min Play/Drama

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Male:  10            Female:  9            Other:  10 males, 9 females, 2 either (19-29 actors possible: 9-16 males, 8-15 females)

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Juan Gelion Dances For The Sun

Synopsis:
A South American peasant may be the Second Coming but a group of American Christians set out to destroy him.

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1st Produced:
-    2006

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Crowded Fire @ The Traveling Jewish Theater

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Little Green Men

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1st Produced:
Side Project Theatre, Chicago    06 Aug 2004

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Genre:
Short play

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Measures, The

Synopsis:
The story of a young playwright's love for her emotionally disturbed brother and an unfinished play.

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Play/Drama

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Monkey Sue

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1st Produced:
-    2006

Company:
Aurora Theatre's Global Age Project

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Nevermore

Synopsis:
H P Lovecraft becomes obsessed with solving the events around the death of Edgar Allan Poe

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1st Produced:
-    15 May 2006

Company:
Bristol Valley Theater

1st Published:
Playscripts Inc 2010   -

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Genre:
Thriller

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Male:  4            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Sands

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Short Play About Globalization, A

Synopsis:
An FBI agent travels to Mexico to find his missing journalist sister.

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1st Produced:
Waring Jones Theatre, Minneapolis    -

Company:
Workhaus Playwrights Collective

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Genre:
Dark Comedy

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  Video segments that require at least 2 males and 2 females.

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