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Isaac Rathbone

ISAAC RATHBONE

  
Nationality:    USA
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Isaac Rathbone is the author of Captain Ferguson's School For Balloon Warfare (59E59 Theaters, UK Premiere at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival), Breakfast For Dinner(NYC Fringe Festival & Last Frontier Theater Conference), The System (Kraine Theatre), There's Always A Band (Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater Lab & Great Plains Theater Conference), Jon Katsberg (Sam French Festival), Nice Paper (Teatro Iati), Bensonhurst (BoCoCa Arts Festival), Finnegan's Wake (Triskelion Arts Center),Welcome Back, Lloyd (Harvest Festival at the 14th Street Y Laba Theater). Historical plays include: Undeclared History, The Bonus Army (Both commissioned by Hofstra University), Little Eva (Greater Milford Historical Association) andViolet to Ruth Ann (National Baseball Hall Of Fame). He has been a featured expert on Investigation Discovery's Deadly Women series. His two ten-minute playsThe Guests At Table 11 & Prodigal Father were selected as finalists for the Actor Theater of Louisville's Heideman Award. Many of his plays are published by JAC Publishing and Promotions. He is a founding member of Oracle Theatre Inc. and a graduate of Hofstra University

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         Audition, The         Besonhurst         Breakfast For Dinner         Brooklyn Labyrinth         Captain Ferguson's School for Balloon Warfare         Chub         Death and Motor Vehicles         Finnegan's Wake         Gnome, The         Guests At Table 11, The         Hold the Bus         Jon Katsberg         Little Eva         March Of The Bonus Army, The         Nice Paper         Prodigal Father         Stan Bradley's World Of Dreams         System, The         There's Always A Band         Violet to Ruth Ann         Welcome Back, Lloyd         X-Mas Marks the Spot
Audition, The

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Brooklyn Lyceum, New York    

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Besonhurst

Synopsis:
A working class family from South Brooklyn must escape the mistakes of the past in this modern adaptation of the Minotaur myth.

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part of a one-act play cycle entitled "Brooklyn Labyrinth" produced by Oracle Theatre Inc

1st Produced:
Bococa Arts Festival In Brooklyn, NY     2011

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Genre:
one act 30 min

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Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Breakfast For Dinner

Breakfast For Dinner
This film noir-inspired dark comedy explores the distortion of words and the perversion of information. A murder investigation reveals corruption buried deep within. Suspense, extortion, invasion of privacy and murder lead to the discovery of the vicious truth. By day's end, Breakfast For Dinner satisfies the dangerous appetite for routine order and tidy closure. Shadows of Evil versus Online Predators, this drama is reminiscent of classic noir with a modern twist. If you enjoy CSI, Law & Order, or just a hard-boiled detective story, save some room for Breakfast For Dinner.

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Venue 7: Henry Street Settlement - Experimental

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Organisations:
Oracle Theatre, Inc

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JAC Publishing and Promotions   

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Genre:
Comedy Drama, 70 min

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Male:  4            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Brooklyn Labyrinth

Synopsis:
This is part of the BoCoCa Arts Festival. these three interwoven narratives, retelling the Minotaur myth with a contemporary voice, show us that monsters are rarely who we expect - and that safety might not be outside the maze looking in, but the other way around. . .
- nytheatre.com

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written by Sergei Burbank, Kate Kertez, And Isaac Rathbone

1st Produced:
Ceol, 191 Smith Street, Brooklyn, NY     17 Jun 2011

Organisations:
Conflict of Interest Theater company

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three narratives

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Captain Ferguson's School for Balloon Warfare

Synopsis:
On the eve of the US involvement in World War I, Captain Thomas Ferguson must transform a ragtag assembly of hayseeds and dropouts into a battalion of agile, tactically minded reconnaissance balloonists. Unconcerned about the tactical limitations of his balloons, and believing that the new "airplane" created by his friends Orville and Wilbur is a passing fad, Ferguson pitches himself and his men headlong against military convention, the German Army, and his superiors' orders. But with the Great War surging into France, Ferguson learns firsthand the price of hubris. This hilarious and moving ode to patriotism and misguided genius was inspired by the true story of Captain Charles deForest Chandler, the first head of the Aeronautical Division, U.S. Signal Corps, which later became the United States Air Force.
- nytheatre.com

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1st Produced:
59E59 theaters
59 East 59th Street, New York, NY 10022     25 Aug 2011

Organisations:
Oracle Theatre, Inc.

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http://www.indietheaternow.com/Plays   

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Genre:
One Act 60 min

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Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Chub

Synopsis:
Jill and Gary buy their two year old a glove puppet for his birthday. A strange odour starts to come from the puppet

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1st Produced:
Shelter Theatre, New York     2018

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Death and Motor Vehicles

Death and Motor Vehicles
Jim is waiting at the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV). He is greeted by Death, who has come for him. . .and to turn in his old plateswhy not kill two birds with one stone, right? As they wait, mysteries of the beyond and poor reading at the DMV are discussed.

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JAC Publishing and Promotions   

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Genre:
short play

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Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Finnegan's Wake

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Gnome, The

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1st Produced:
Barter Theatre, Abingdon, VA     13 May 2015

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Guests At Table 11, The

Guests At Table 11, The
A man and woman awkwardly engage in conversation at a mutual friend's wedding. At first, their intentions seem innocent, but as the play progresses, we learn that they shared an intimate and dark night together.

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finalist for the Actor Theater of Louisville's Heideman Award

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JAC Publishing and Promotions   

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Genre:
ten min play

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Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  voice

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Hold the Bus

Hold the Bus
Two strangers meet up at a bus stop. After a brief confrontation and argument about which bus has passed them by, the dark connection between the two is revealed.

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JAC Publishing and Promotions   

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Genre:
Ten minute play

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Jon Katsberg

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part of the 2008 Long Island City One Act Play Festival. Featuring 12 One Acts in 2 sets

1st Produced:
Secret Theatre, NYC     2008

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the Queens Players

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One Act

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Little Eva

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Greater Milford Historical Association    

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March Of The Bonus Army, The

Synopsis:
Six actors use text and period music to illuminate a little known US historical event when WWI veterans during the Great Depression marched on Washington to demand a bonus they were promised, but never received.

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originally commissioned by Hofstra University, to be presented as part of the "Democracy in Performance" Conference held in conjucntion with the 2012 Presidential Debate

1st Produced:
Hofstra University Campus     14 Oct 2012

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http://www.indietheaternow.com/Plays   

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Genre:
one act 80 min

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Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Nice Paper

Synopsis:
follows the inner monologues of two commuters on the subway, a woman in love with the man behind her; the man in love with her newspaper's sports section.
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
part of Elephants on Parade 2010

1st Produced:
Teatro Circulo, NY     13/2010

Organisations:
EBE Ensemble

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Genre:
short play

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Prodigal Father

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finalist for the Actor Theater of Louisville's Heideman Award

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Genre:
ten min play

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Stan Bradley's World Of Dreams

Synopsis:
Stan Bradley artist, animator and theme park creator

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1st Produced:
Rehearsed Reading At Boomerang Theatre Company, New York     28 Mar 2009

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Genre:
Drama

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System, The

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There's Always A Band

Synopsis:
the relationships of men thrown together by war

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Genre:
One act

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Violet to Ruth Ann

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1st Produced:
National Baseball Hall Of Fame    

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Welcome Back, Lloyd

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1st Produced:
Harvest Festival At The 14th Street Y Laba Theater    

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X-Mas Marks the Spot

X-Mas Marks the Spot
A daughter has finally had enough of her over-bearing mother, as they prepare for the holiday season. The husband (and father) must mediate the meltdown between the two.

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1st Published:
JAC Publishing and Promotions   

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Genre:
short play

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Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

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