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B WALKER SAMPSON (1976 - ) |
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B. Walker Sampson's plays include: Silent Steps: A Play with MacGuffins (Outsider's Inn Collective); Puppet Kafka (Drama of Works, with assistance from the Henson Foundation and the 2007 Chashama/NEA Performance Development Award); Absence of a House (Double Take Theatre); What Do You Think of the Moon? (Audacity Theatre Lab's "Eye in the Sky" radio theatre project); and Roosevelt Island (BRIC Studio; HERE Art Center's American Living Room Festival). His play Alceste was part of Soho Rep's 2004/05 Writer/Director Lab reading series, and additionally his plays have been read at the Playwrights' Center, Theatre of NOTE, Manhattan Theatre Source, and the Flea Theater. His plays, poetry, and articles have been published in Midway Journal, The Saint Ann's Review, The Brooklyn Review, Stirring, and American Theatre.
Plays by B Walker Sampson
Absence of a House | ||
| 1st Produced: | American Theatre of Actors, 314 West 54th Street, New York, NY 10019 >>> | 2004 | ||||
Company: | Double Take Theatre | |||||
| 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 | #94406 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy/drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Workshop: Powerhouse Theatre, New Canaan, CT, May 2003. Reading: Manhattan Theatre Source, NYC, Jan 2004. | |||||
Synopsis: | In Absence of a House, Henry and Hayley are in a country house suspended in a void. Everything looks like life, yet the young couple find themselves removed from any sense of smell, taste, touch-and numb to each other. But there's no escape from this house when there's ground at all to step on beyond their front doorstep-which does make it more mysterious when a stranger arrives to peek his head in through their window. | |||||
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Alceste | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 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 | #94407 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Developed in Soho Rep's 2004-05 Writer/Director Lab. Readings: Soho Rep, NYC, Apr 2005; Theatre of NOTE, Los Angeles, Feb 2009. | |||||
Synopsis: | A free adaptation from Euripides, Alceste pits together gods, ghosts, and superheroes with ordinary so-and-sos who make extraordinary sacrifices to try to tell the Future to consider itself. Objects are too brightly colored to see without squinting, while others remind us of people we're trying to forget. Boats and bathtubs roll in to where they have no business, and there's a terrible hissing that sounds like the end of things. | |||||
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Assistance | ||
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Company: | n/a | |||||
| 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 | #94408 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Semi-Finalist for PlayLabs Festival, Playwrights' Center, 2008. Semi-Finalist for PlayPenn Conference, 2008. Thesis project for Brooklyn College Playwriting MFA Program, 2004. Readings: Playwrights' Center, Minneapolis, Jan 2007; Theatre of NOTE, Los Angeles, Mar 2008. | |||||
Synopsis: | Assistance takes place on the 76th story of an office building in either New York or on an island north of Siberia-nobody in the office is really all that sure. It is after the close of the working day, and the assistants who could hardly think of someplace else to be are finding their way through the wee hours of the morning, while the head of the company-a figure of absolute mythic proportions-makes him or herself know to them for the very first time. | |||||
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Clear Across | ||
| 1st Produced: | Harold Clurman Theatre | 1999 | ||||
Company: | Off-Off Broadway Play Festival, NYC | |||||
| 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 | #94409 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Harold and Marilyn Cohen Prize for Playwriting, 1998. | |||||
Synopsis: | An encounter on a cross-country train between a man and a girl, each trying to escape from opposite sides of domestic abuse. | |||||
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Feel Your Breath | ||
| 1st Produced: | Source, 1835 14th Street NW, Washington, DC | 19 Jun 2011 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Feel Your Breath is the story of two nameless lovers who communicate largely through electronic means. X (Sarah Strasser) and Y (Edward Daniels) are busy texting and updating their statuses, but gradually realize their longing for a more human connection. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #129359 | |||
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Genre: | short play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | part of The 2011 Source Festival of new plays | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
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Full View | ||
| 1st Produced: | Jean Cocteau Rep, NYC | 2001 | ||||
Company: | Aftershocks evening of short plays, Brooklyn College | |||||
| 1st Published: | Brooklyn Review (2002) | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #94410 | |||
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Genre: | Short play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A broken play, fragments of sight and reconciliation, after a dark gray cloud passes too close to the ground. | |||||
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Hold Music | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Living Theatre | 12 Mar 2011 | ||||
Company: | Pegleg Productions | |||||
| 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 | #125811 | |||
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Genre: | 80 min symphonic story | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | writen by Calla Videt and B. Walker Sampson | |||||
Synopsis: | A symphonic story about the way people listen to each other and to the world around them, Hold Music takes us on a journey into the musical world of speech and memory, language and thought. Drawing upon live music, video, movement, and text to tell intertwined and parallel stories, the performance begins with the question: Why and how does music make us feel? How do things get stuck in our head? | |||||
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Open Grave | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 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 | #94411 | |||
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Genre: | Short play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Reading: Theatre of NOTE, Los Angeles, Mar 2008. | |||||
Synopsis: | Open Grave concerns three possibly recognizable Shakespearean kings-played by three actors, male or female, in long shaggy old man beards-around the spare setting of an open grave. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Puppet Kafka | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2009 | |||||
Company: | Drama of Works | |||||
| 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 | #94412 | |||
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Genre: | Puppet theater | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Developed for Drama of Works. Chashama/NEA Performance Development Award, 2007. Henson Foundation Seed Grant, 2007. Excerpts performed 2007-2008 in NYC at: Chashama, Collective Unconscious, Henry Street Settlement, Dixon Place, and Galapagos Art Space. | |||||
Synopsis: | Puppet Kafka delves into the work, life, and peculiar perspective of Franz Kafka as imagined for performance by traditional Czech marionette, found object, and shadow puppets along with an ensemble of actors. Within Gregor Samsa's tiny bedroom, three versions of Kafka are manipulated by forces from the outside. One is Gregor-Bug, a transforming creature who is losing sense of the human being he once was as he learns to use his many new legs. A second version is Franz Kafka himself, a sickly man and the cynical, suspicious center of his own works. And finally, the small letter 'k', a permanently young and reticent character haunted by an authoritarian father figure. Using the The Metamorphosis as the main framework along with references to The Trial, numerous Kafka short stories, his letters and diaries, Puppet Kafka examines the many parallels between life and art | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Roosevelt Island | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2003 | |||||
Company: | HERE Arts Center's American Living Room Festival | |||||
| 1st Published: | Midway Journal (2009) | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #94413 | |||
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Genre: | experimental One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Workshop: BRIC Studio, NYC, Mar 2003. | |||||
Synopsis: | In Roosevelt Island, Franklin put something he shouldn't of in the food processor. Eleanor puts her umbrella down on the floor, but means to pick it back up. The couple tries to hold on before the song ends, but outside the jello air is so thick one of them could walk away on it. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Silent Steps: A Play with MacGuffins | ||
| 1st Produced: | Stone Soup Downstage, Seattle, WA | 2008 | ||||
Company: | Outsider's Inn Collective | |||||
| 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 | #94414 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 9+ | Female | 9+ | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Semi-Finalist for PlayLabs Festival, Playwrights' Center, 2006. Readings: HERE Arts Center, NYC, July 2002; Theatre of NOTE, Los Angeles, July 2007. Excerpt performed in Drama of Works' Carnival of Samhain, Nov 2004, at HERE Arts Center. | |||||
Synopsis: | Silent Steps depicts a modern paranoid romance between a lonely taxidermist and a mysterious female spy as they struggle to develop their relationship in a Hitchcockian world populated by MacGuffins keen on thwarting any upstart romance with misplaced nostalgia, deception and doubt. Intimate conversations revolve around secrets and clandestine meetings arranged through creatively coded messages on cooked eggs; while relationship anxiety dreams feature repeated encounters with a dead body and an impatient British railway conductor. | |||||
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that time, and the time before that, and | ||
| 1st Produced: | Dixon Place | 30 Sep 2011 | ||||
Company: | SIGHTLINE creates | |||||
| 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 | #132619 | |||
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Genre: | 60 min piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Author: B. Walker Sampson, James Morris, and Calla Videt | |||||
Synopsis: | Things do not 'just happen.' Time does not just pass. that time, and the time before that, and intertwines independent stories of time travelers who eventually meet one another at the end of time. Someone wants to remember. Someone wants to forget. A series of relativistic twists and turns and a couple of time machines later, they find themselves in a new landscape of time. The project explores the beautiful paradoxes of memory, identity, regret and time travel through puppetry, dance, text, and image. | |||||
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There are shapes on the ceiling that look like bats | ||
| 1st Produced: | Source, 1835 14th Street Northwest, Washington, DC 20009 >>> | 14 June 2010 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 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 | #115556 | |||
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Genre: | Ten Min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | part of The Source festival | |||||
Synopsis: | Girl meets boy and his unusal companion. | |||||
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They all look like bats in the dark | ||
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Company: | n/a | |||||
| 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 | #94415 | |||
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Genre: | Short play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | 1 | |||||
Notes: | Finalist for Heidemann Award, Actors Theatre of Louisville, 2005. | |||||
Synopsis: | Boy and girl break up, and have strange visions on lonely nights. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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