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Michael Puzzo

MICHAEL PUZZO

  
Nationality:    USA
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Michael Puzzo is a writer and actor living in NYC. He has been a LAByrinth Theater Company member since 1997. THE DIRTY TALK, (nominated for an Innovative Theater Award for best script) was originally presented in the 2005 FringeNYC and returned for a critically acclaimed run at Center Stage NY in 2007. The Dirty Talk is published in an acting edition by Dramatist Play Service and appears in NYTE's anthology Plays and Playwrights 2006. You can currently catch productions of the play in both India and Argentina. Other plays include: LYRIC IS WAITING (Irish Repertory Theater), THE HORSE SHOE KING OF JERSEY CITY (Aspen Comedy Festival) THE 11a.m GIRL SAYS "GOODNIGHT" (Access Theater), MY SOUL THE PAVEMENT (CSNY) GUARantEED SECOND BASE and SHE TALKS TO RAINBOWS (LAByrinth's Barn Series Reading Festival @ The Public) and #309 (Prithvi Theatre, Mumbai, India). As an actor Michael has appeared in many plays including THE BODY POLITIC (59E59), KILLING WOMEN (Samuel Beckett Theater) PHILIP ROTH IN KHARTOUM (The Public Theater) John Patrick Shanley's DIRTY STORY (Harold Clurman Theater) Stephen Adly Guirgis' IN ARABIA WE'D ALL BE KINGS (CSNY), Eponymous Theater's WHEN WORDS FAIL. . ..(FringeNYC), and as Father Sherman in the film version of John Patrick Shanley's DOUBT.

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

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         #309         11am Girl Says Goodnight, The         Dear Darkness. . .Plays That Go Bump in the Night         Dirty Talk, The         Faster Beats the Furious Heart         Fiendish Curse of the Mummy's Hand         Guaranteed Second Base         Horseshoe King of Jersey City, The         How To Catch A Monkey         Lyric is Waiting         My Soul The Pavement         She Talks to Rainbows         Slasher's Lament, The         Spirits of Exit Eleven
#309

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part of The Super 8

1st Produced:
Prithvi Theatre, Mumbai, India     2010

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http://www.indietheaternow.com/Plays   

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Genre:
short play

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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11am Girl Says Goodnight, The

Synopsis:
A charming nerd in his early 40s romances a goth-girl in her early 20s in a seemingly routine one-night stand set-up, but by the time 11am rolls around, he thinks he may have found something more.
- nytheatre.com

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part of Little Monsters

1st Produced:
Access Theatre, 380 Broadway, 4th Floor, New York, NY 10013     2009

Organisations:
Longstocking Productions

1st Published:
http://www.indietheaternow.com/Plays   

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Genre:
One Act

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Dear Darkness. . .Plays That Go Bump in the Night

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Jade Lane and Michael Puzzo present an evening of one-act plays, embodying all the glorious disguise and mystique of the eeriest holiday. With all new plays by John Patrick Shanley, Michael Puzzo, Bekah Brunstetter, Adam Szymkowicz, Halley Feiffer, David Bar Katz, and a few spooky surprises.

1st Produced:
New Ohio theatre
154 Christopher Street, Ste. 1E, New York City, NY 10014     04 Oct 2012

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short play

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Dirty Talk, The

Dirty Talk, The
Set in the mountains of New Jersey, this comedy is about two men who find themselves stranded in a hunting cabin during a ferocious storm. We find out these men are not here merely by happenstance but rather by a purposefully misguided Internet chat room connection. During their tumultuous day together the two explore what defines being a man and the value of intimacy.
nytheatre.com

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Andrea Ciannavei/Escapist Productions

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Faster Beats the Furious Heart

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Fiendish Curse of the Mummy's Hand

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Guaranteed Second Base

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1st Produced:
Labyrinth's Barn Series Reading Festival @ The Public    

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Horseshoe King of Jersey City, The

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1st Produced:
Aspen Comedy Festival     2003

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How To Catch A Monkey

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Lyric is Waiting

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A mysteriously sad tale, Lyric is Waiting follows a young, passionate couple as they struggle to contain their love that will either be their salvation or their untimely destruction. Racing against the dawn, the couple, a sexy Librarian and Bigfoot, survive break-ups, mental breakdowns, a stint with Catholicism, food issues, and an unnatural obsession with a Nirvana song. Michael Puzzo's Lyric is Waiting is a fast-paced, darkly comic Drama that explores the question, 'When we play the hero, who are we really saving?
- press release

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South Ark Stage & Kef Productions

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Genre:
90 min Play/Drama

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My Soul The Pavement

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Notes:
part of Rebel Verses

1st Produced:
Center Stage In New York City     2010

Organisations:
Developing Artists Theater Company

1st Published:
http://www.indietheaternow.com/Plays   

Music:
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Genre:
short play

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She Talks to Rainbows

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1st Produced:
Labyrinth's Barn Series Reading Festival @ The Public    

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Slasher's Lament, The

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part of DEAR DARKNESS. . .plays that go bump in the night

1st Produced:
New Ohio Theater In New York City     2012

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1st Published:
Best 10-Minute Plays 2013 Plays For Three Or More Actors. Published by Smith and Kraus, Inc.    

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ten min

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Spirits of Exit Eleven

Synopsis:
tells the darkly comic tale of a ragtag crew of outcasts, struggling to keep their dignity intact and their livelihood afloat, at a rundown New Jersey strip club/pizza parlor.

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1st Produced:
Lion theatre
410 West 42nd Street, New York, NY 10036     01 Nov 2013

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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