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Sally Oswald

SALLY OSWALD

  
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    Abrams Artists Agency  

Sally Oswald is a playwright and editor. She is the recipient of a Jerome Fellowship from the Playwrights' Center in Minneapolis, a Thurber House Playwriting Fellowship, and fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the Millay Colony for the Arts, the Dramatists Guild, and a New Voices fellowship from the Ensemble Studio Theater. Her work has been developed and presented at Clubbed Thumb, Portland Center Stage, the Foundry Theater, New Georges, and St. Ann's Warehouse, among others. She has also written text for puppet-Theater artist Dan Hurlin and a libretto for composer Nora-Kroll Rosenbaum. With Jordan Harrison she edits Play A Journal of Plays and publishes DEVICE, an online collection of multimedia performance writing.

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         Desmond or Abraham and Frances         Disfarmer         Goat Songs         Incubator Artists at Large         Little Revolution         Painful Adventures         Plutonics         Pony         Two Spent Swimmers         Vendetta Chrome

Desmond or Abraham and Frances

Synopsis:
A poor neighbourhood is subsiding. One of the families dream of escape - either through a talent show or a crime spree

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One act

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Disfarmer

Synopsis:
Disfarmer is inspired by the 40-year career (1917-1956) of portrait photographer Mike Disfarmer, who for decades shunned his family and neighbors while operating the only portrait studio for miles around Heber Springs, Arkansas. the play recreates a visceral sense of the photographer's interior and exterior worlds, illuminating the contradictions in the life of this American hermit whose intimate and revealing portraiture documented an entire mid-twentieth century, Dust Bowl community. . ..Disfarmer is represented in the play by a series of puppets, each an exact replica of the last, except two inches smaller. During the course of the play, Disfarmer shrinks like the rest of rural America, until he is completely gone, and we are left with the quiet and nervous expectancy of standing perfectly still for a long exposure. Using the direct manipulation style of American 'table-top puppetry' and antique optical techniques like Magic lantern slides and 8mm home movies, five puppeteers show us Disfarmer in his studio as he categorizes his every possession, barricades himself from the outside world, and compulsively measures constantly expanding distances between things."
- press release

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text by Sally Oswald, conceived by Dan Hurlin

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St. Ann's Warehouse, NY    2009

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Play/Drama

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Male:  5            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Goat Songs

Synopsis:
A body has been found and a boy has been playing truant. His teacher had been lusting after him

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Incubator Artists at Large

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written by Sally Oswald, Katja Loher, And Ray Sweeten

1st Produced:
Galapagos Art Space, NY    2006

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Ontological-Hysteric Incubator

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Little Revolution

Synopsis:
France and her quarrelsome brothers are on the brink of homelessness when the eldest, Winston, loses the house in a high-stakes bingo game. Luckily, France has hired a mystic and his strange sister to help them solve their financial woes. Will they be the answer to the family's prayers, or will the shady dealings of Winston's past doom them all? A play with a song.

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Brooklyn Center High School (Brooklyn Center, Mn, United States)    2009

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Playscripts, Inc - New York   -

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Genre:
30-35 min Comedy/Drama

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Male:  5            Female:  3            Other:  5 males, 3 females (8 actors possible: 0-8 males, 0-8 females)

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Painful Adventures

Synopsis:
Ms Seabottom as seen by her unreliable chronicler Mr Heights

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Genre:
Black comedy

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Plutonics

Synopsis:
When Jason Pluto disappears the women in his life have things to come to terms with

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Drama

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Pony

Synopsis:
Pony moves to a new town to live as a man. He meets a woman obsessed with a local murder

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Drama

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Two Spent Swimmers

Synopsis:
the air is infected and the people of the city cannot sleep.

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Vendetta Chrome

Synopsis:
It's the '90s. the 1890s. And poor Vendetta has always been a bit behind the rest of the girls in her elocution class. But now it's up to her to save her school, her family, and herself-and it's all in the dance moves
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1st Produced:
Ohio Theatre, NY    2008

Organisations:
Clubbed Thumb

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Genre:
Play Drama

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