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Gregory Pierce

GREGORY PIERCE

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

Gregory Pierce's plays including theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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Research:    Member of the Dramatists Guild of America (as at 2015)

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below is a list of Gregory Pierce's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Andra         Brick, The         Cardinal         Fellow Travellers         Her Requiem         Kick Stop         Kid Victory         Landing, The         Odyssey Room         Quarry, The         Slowgirl         Suburbanoids, The         Windup Bird Chronicle, The
Andra

Synopsis:
A boy who loves mathematics meets a carpenter who loves mythology. They form a friendship and the carpenter introduces the boy to the wonders of fiction and astronomy

Notes:
Music by John Kander; lyrics and book by Gregory Pierce. Originally performed with two other one act musicals under the overall title: "The Landing"

1st Produced:
Vineyard Theatre, New York     01 Nov 2013

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
One act musical

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Brick, The

Synopsis:
A boy is staying with his aunt. She is obsessed with all things to do with 1930s gangsters. She had bought a bullet riddled blood soaked brick from the wall of the garage where the St Valentine's Day Massacre took place

Notes:
Music by John Kander; lyrics and book by Gregory Pierce. Originally performed with two other one act musicals under the overall title: "The Landing"

1st Produced:
Vineyard Theatre, New York     Npv 2013

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
One act musical

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Cardinal

Synopsis:
A woman decides to brighten up her town by painting it red

Notes:
Written as Greg Pierce

1st Produced:
-    

Organisations:
2nd Stage Theater

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Fellow Travellers

Fellow Travellers
The McCarthy witch hunt for Communists also included one to root out gays from governmental offices - "The Lavender Scare". Hawkins "Hawk" Fuller who works in the State Department and recent university graduate Timothy Laughlin who works for a Senator. They meet and fall in love. Miss Lightfoot suspects something is going on and reports them Hawk is called in for questioning. He is told to walk in a straight line to see if he swings his hips, he has to read a passage with lots of "s's" in it to see if he lisps and given a lie detector - which he passes. Hawk tells Tim he wants to spice things up by them having a threesome. Tim is appalled tells him to get out. Hawk realises his mistake. Time passes Tim is outed and fired. Hawk marries a woman

Notes:
Music by Gregory Spears; lyrics and book by Gregory Pierce. Based on the novel "Fellow Travellers" by Thomas Mallon

1st Produced:
Cincinnati Opera     Jun 2016

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
Original cast recording: Fanfare Cincinnati 2017

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Genre:
Musical - Gay musical

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Her Requiem

Synopsis:
The mother and father have different reactions when their daughter wants to change everything

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Lincoln Center's Claire Tow Theater, New York    

Organisations:
2nd Stage Theater

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Kick Stop

Synopsis:
An unstable man is forced to moved back in with his estranged wife - thus thwarting the son's plans

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Workshop at Second Stage Theater, New York    

Organisations:
2nd Stage Theater

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Kid Victory

Synopsis:
wo of theatre's top talents -- legendary composer John Kander (Chicago) and acclaimed playwright Greg Pierce (Slowgirl) -- bring this chilling new musical to the Signature Theatre stage. The highly anticipated show centers around 17-year-old Luke, who returns home after mysteriously vanishing one year previous. Profoundly changed, Luke and his parents struggle to adjust to life following his disappearance. Luke only finds solace with Emily, the quirky proprietor of an offbeat garden shop, as he grapples with a past undone and a coming of age that came too late to a boy who just wants to fade away. Kander and Pierce previously collaborated on the well-reviewed off-Broadway musical The Landing.

Notes:
music by John Kander

1st Produced:

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
musical

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Landing, The

Landing, The
The boy is adopted by a gay couple

Notes:
Music by John Kander; lyrics and book by Gregory Pierce. Originally performed with two other one act musicals under the overall title: "The Landing". apply for a license: www.theatricalrights.com/contact-us/

1st Produced:
Vineyard Theatre, New York     01 Nov 2013

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
Jay Records (CDJAY 2 1432)

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Genre:
One act Gay/Lesbian musical

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Odyssey Room

Synopsis:
Three estranged friends meet at their old middle school the day before it is due to be demolished. Nothing is as they remembered

Notes:
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1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Quarry, The

Synopsis:
Jean McClain an anti-social widow investigates when unsettling things are discovered in a Vermont quarry town

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Vermont Stage Company, Burlington, VT    

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Play with music

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  doubling

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Slowgirl

Synopsis:
Slowgirl is the story of Becky, a teenager who flees to her reclusive uncle Sterling's retreat in the Costa Rican jungle to escape the aftermath of a horrific accident. the week they spend together forces them both to confront who they are as well as what it is they are running from.
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Claire Tow Theater, 150 West 65th Street, NY     04 Jun 2012

Organisations:
Lincoln Center Theater

1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service Inc   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Suburbanoids, The

Synopsis:
An evil alien emperor terrorises a suburban family

Notes:
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1st Produced:

Organisations:
the Horse Trade Theater

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Windup Bird Chronicle, The

Synopsis:
This is part of the Under the Radar Festival. Interdisciplinary, multimedia theatrical performance based on the international best-selling novel by Haruki Murakami combining live performance and puppetry with video projections and hypnotic soundscapes. At once a detective story, an account of a disintegrating marriage and an excavation of buried secrets from World War II, this surreal mystery follows an unassuming "everyman," Toru Okada, as he searches for his wife who has inexplicably vanished. Toru soon encounters a cast of strange characters, each with their own intriguing stories, who begin showing up in his dreams, opening doors to a hallucinatory world charged with sexuality and violence. As the lines between dreams and reality dissolve, Toru must confront the dark forces that exist inside him as part of his human nature.
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
written by Stephen Earnhart And Gregory Pierce

1st Produced:
Ohio Theatre, NY     15 Jan 2010

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  13 performers

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