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JAMIE PACHINO |
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Jamie Pachino is an award-winning playwright and screenwriter with national and international credits. Her work has been produced in four countries, with numerous commissions, publications, and honors. In recent years, Ms. Pachino has won the Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays production grant, as well as Chicago's Joseph Jefferson ("Jeff") Award for Best New Work, among many others. Her plays have been nominated for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and Illinois Governor's Award, and named runner-up for the Osborn Award (American Theater Critics Association) and Jane Chambers Award. Other work has been invited to Women Playwrights' Festivals in Athens, Greece and ACT Theatre (Seattle), and has been showcased in festivals throughout the world. Ms. Pachino's plays include Waving Goodbye (world premiere at Steppenwolf and Naked Eye theatre companies), The Return to Morality (winner of eight national awards, and produced throughout the country), Aurora's Motive (named one of "Top Ten Productions of the Year" by the Chicago Tribune), and Theodora: An Unauthorized Biography. Her adaptation of Studs Terkel's bestseller RACE has toured the country in a version for young audiences (Long Wharf, Northlight, and Blue Heron, among others), reaching over 16,000 students, and her short plays and monologues have been published and produced in festivals across the world. Ms. Pachino's upcoming work includes Splitting Infinity, a new play commission from Steppenwolf; the book to the musical Hubbin' It: On the Road with Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys (with husband Lindsay Jones); as well as screenplays for DreamWorks, Walden Media, and Lifetime Television. Her plays The Return to Morality and Aurora's Motive have also been optioned for the screen. Ms. Pachino has served on the faculties of Northwestern University, Columbia College, and the Chicago Academy for the Arts. She currently makes her home in Los Angeles with her husband and their son Huck.
Plays by Jamie Pachino
Aurora's Motive | ||
| 1st Produced: | Teatro Vista Theatre Company, Chicago | 1999 | ||||
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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 | #26809 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | Named one of the "Top Ten Productions of the Year" by the Chicago Tribune, also named a finalist in half a dozen competitions. Called: "the most impressive work by a local author produced all year". . . "this play deserves a major production" . . . "a tale th | |||||
Synopsis: | The true story of Aurora Rodriguez who set out to give birth to a daughter that would lead Spain. Advertising in the newspaper in 1914 for a man to impregnate her, she was obliged by a merchant marine priest. She gave birth to a girl, Hildegart, a prodigy. A lawyer, author and activist before she was 17 years old, Hildegart lectured nationally on sexual freedom, socialist and the creation of the Spanish republic. At 18, she was invited to London by H.G. Wells and Havelock Ellis. Four days later, her mother killed her. | |||||
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Kreskin Be Damned | ||
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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 | #99214 | |||
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Genre: | Ten minute play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | An accountant saves an HIV+ man from throwing himself under a train | |||||
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Race | ||
| 1st Produced: | Strawdog Theatre Company, Chicago | 1994 | ||||
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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 | #26810 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | 2m, 2w (40 minutes running time) | |||||
Notes: | Adaptation of Studs Terkel's bestseller RACE: How Blacks and Whites Think and Feel About the American Obsession. Has been performed both in full length form, and in a version for young audiences, reaching over 15,000 students | |||||
Synopsis: | A searing confessional about the most difficult issues in modern culture | |||||
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Return to Morality, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Stage 3 Theatre Company, Sonora California | 1999 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc - New York | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #26811 | |||
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Genre: | 100-110 min Political satire | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | 3 males, 3 females (6-21 actors possible: 3-11 males, 3-10 females) | |||||
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Synopsis: | A lightning-paced political satire about the unraveling of a well-meaning liberal, caught in the maelstrom of his own good intentions. Tracing the fast rise and even faster downfall of college professor Arthur Kellogg, the play follows the publication of his first book, a scathing satire of the religious right. When the novel "accidentally" gets published as non-fiction, it spins out of his control and is embraced as a manifesto by the far right and militia groups -- turning Arthur into the poster boy for all he once sought to fight. Before Arthur has a chance to fix the book's misrepresentation, he winds up interviewed by Sixty Minutes, abandoned by his wife, and ultimately blackmailed into giving the keynote speech at the Republican National Convention, live, with unanticipated results. . . | |||||
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Splitting Infinity | ||
| 1st Produced: | staged reading, Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater, LA | 2007 | ||||
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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 | #61532 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Still Blonde Runs Deep | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1997 | ||||
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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 | #77700 | |||
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Genre: | One act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Theodora: An Unauthorised Biography | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1995 | |||||
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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 | #26812 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | THEODORA has been performed throughout the U.S. and presented at the Women Playwrights' Conference in Athens, Greece, 2000. Called "a historical free-for-all, like a combination of Meeting of the Minds and Laugh-In." . . . "a rich and amusing play about wor | |||||
Synopsis: | The unconventional "expose" of the courtesan, actress, and eventual Byzantine Empress alternately painted by history as a despot, a romantic heroine, a revolutionary and a nymphomaniac. Loosely tracking the events of her life, Theodora faces her historians across the ages-- characters named 1090, 1590, 1890 and a woman named 1990, filming her documentary. Using music, movement, and multi-media effects (though produced successfully without them), THEODORA is a thought-provoking and exuberantly funny exploration of the essential nature of history, biography, and whether you can ever know a woman completely. | |||||
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Waving Goodbye | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2001 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc - New York | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #26813 | |||
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Genre: | 115-125 min Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | 2 males, 3 females | |||||
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Synopsis: | Waving Goodbye is the story of Lily Blue, a 17-year-old photographer who loses her father in a mountain climbing accident, and must spend her 17th year with the mother who abandoned her. It's also a story of loss, grief, change, making art, wishing things were different, being stalled, finding love, not turning into your mother, and those irrevocable moments after which nothing is ever the same. | |||||
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