JANE SHEPARD   (1958 - )


Jane Shepard
   Nationality:
American
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Plays by Jane Shepard

JANE SHEPARD
Commencing
1st Produced:
1995
Company:
Billy Rose Productions
1st Published:
Kickass Plays For Women (Lulu Publishing)
1996
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Genre:
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Comedy
Parts:
Male
-
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: The beautiful Kelli can't wait for the blind date her office mates have set her up with, until it turns out to be one very disappointed lesbian named Arlin. Mutually appalled, yet appalingly intregued, they commence to pull the screws loose on both straight & gay women's culture, to find the common ground underneath in the search for love and identity.
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JANE SHEPARD
Eating The Dead
1st Produced:
showcase at Centerstage, NYC
2003
Company:
Live Theater Company
1st Published:
-
-
To Buy This Play:
I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page
Genre:
Drama with humor
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
2
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes: A vibrant theatrical tapestry that uses paint, sound, & shadow puppets to help convey this heightened story about the value of digesting the past in order to embrace life.
Synopsis: A mystical, funny and transcendent drama about five messed up people who all end up in a garage in Mexico on the Day of the Dead. Shay returns to the garage to save her sister, who is partying to her own demise, and to reclaim the sexy Spanish painter she abandoned. Aphim has followed to reclaim Shay and the drugs she stole from him. And Reynaldo is the Mexican spiritualist who brings a spritual perspective to a night in which they will confront one another and their own demons. In English with some Spanish.
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JANE SHEPARD
Fiona's Mane
1st Produced:
The Westbank Cafe
1996
Company:
The Lab Theater Company
1st Published:
-
-
To Buy This Play:
I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page
Genre:
drama
One Act
Parts:
Male
1 bm
Female
1 wf
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: Fiona is a white woman with obsessive-compulsive disorder. Shaquay is a black man 59 days into recover. A delay in subway trains become the vehicle for two strangers out of their isolation, and across a quirky bridge of contrasting lives and common need.
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JANE SHEPARD
Glass Jaw
1st Produced:
The Barrow Group's Studio Theater, NYC
1996
Company:
The Barrow Group
1st Published:
-
-
To Buy This Play:
I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page
Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
2
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes: A particularly theatrical play which uses sound & lighting to maximum effect to give us a sense of the worlds the sister and brother inhabit, and a touching story on the values of reality and imagination in living a full life.
Synopsis: The edge-of-your-seat account of a young social worker who arrives to pay a home visit to an unstable client, but once he discovers the man is harboring a sister with Dissociative Identity Disorder, he finds he must join their games in order to escape alive.
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JANE SHEPARD
God Is A Dyke
1st Produced:
The Westbank Cafe
1996
Company:
The LAB Theater Company
1st Published:
Monologues For Women By Women (Heinemann Publishers)
2004
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Genre:
-
One Act
Parts:
Male
-
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: When the unthinkable occurs, we often ask ourselves, "How could God have let this happen?" How does one find faith in the world when it offers us its worst? Life lessons from a butch Brooklyn dyke whose tender search for meaning finds philosophy in a dented garbage can.
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JANE SHEPARD
Juice
1st Produced:
-
-
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
To Buy This Play:
I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page
Genre:
drama
One Act
Parts:
Male
4
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: Set in a post-trial conference room, we witness the lament of a convicted man who has committed the lesser crime but received the greater sentence. It is not until we meet the other convict that we glean it is not a court of law, but a post-death trial in which their eternal fates have been sealed. And it is not until he meets his fate that the pedophile at the center of this story truly understands his crime. Because he must meet his victim: an 11-year-old girl, with no one to turn to in making sense of the chaos of life, except him.
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JANE SHEPARD
Last Nickel, The
1st Produced:
One Dream Theater
1996
Company:
One Dream
1st Published:
Kickass Plays For Women (Lulu Publishing)
1996
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Genre:
Long One-Act, Drama
One Act
Parts:
Male
2 (puppeteers)
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: It is another late night for Jamie, whose sleep is constantly disrupted by her persistently obnoxious sister Jo and a trio of sardonic puppets, all merrily and unturningly bent toward confronting the source of Jamie's self destruction. A touching tale of sisterly love and loss.
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JANE SHEPARD
Long Distance
1st Produced:
-
-
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
To Buy This Play:
I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page
Genre:
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Ten Min
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: -
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JANE SHEPARD
Nine
1st Produced:
Circle Rep Lab
1994
Company:
Circle Rep
1st Published:
Kickass Plays For Women (Lulu Publishing)
1996
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Genre:
Short Play, Drama
One Act
Parts:
Male
-
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: Two women held in a life-threatening situation and the mind games they play to keep one another alive. Held in a cell and chained apart, their only tool is language; ideas are the currency in trade; and balance of power is everything when a single word becomes the hanging point between life & death. A full scope of emotions is played out in their competitions, which are alternately funny, fragile & fierce. Illuminates the strength of the human spirit, and the psychological cost of survival.
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JANE SHEPARD
Rage of Chaos, A
1st Produced:
1994
Company:
The Lab Theater Company
1st Published:
-
-
To Buy This Play:
I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page
Genre:
funny drama
One Act
Parts:
Male
1
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: A reminder of the entire generation of young men we lost to AIDS.
Synopsis: The lone survivor of a group of friends now dead from AIDS returns to the site of their favorite weekend getaway, and struggles to strike a balance between the irresistable ghosts of the past, and the desperate need for meaning in the present. A funny, moving tour-de-force for one actor, and a story for anyone who has experienced loss and learned the healing power of love.
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JANE SHEPARD
Strange Grace
1st Produced:
Read at The Public Theater; Workshopped at New York Stage & Film
-
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
To Buy This Play:
I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page
Genre:
Drama with humor
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
1
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes: A play that appeals to a broad range of age groups, this is an exciting story that also inspires discussion on the causes of violent rampage, and the healing power of love.
Synopsis: Bob is the gentle philosopher who runs a remote roadside. Macy is the suicidal biker who picks the café as her final stop. And Win is the free spirit who blows in to rekindle Bob's heart. Their efforts to prevent Macy's suicide reawakens a previous tragedy for the older couple. One which has kept them forever apart. In witnessing the older couple's dilemma, the younger woman begins to find purpose. Written in response to the Columbine High School shootings, this play explores the futility of violence at a time when grieving is the true act of courage.
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JANE SHEPARD
Subway
1st Produced:
The Producer's Club
2004
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
To Buy This Play:
I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page
Genre:
Long 1-Act, comedy
One Act
Parts:
Male
-
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: A subway platorm is no place to make love, and so Darcy & Alice, who came to have sex, won't be coming tonight, unless Darcy will discuss the trouble she claims not to have, and any life or death that involves; and only if Alice can come to terms with her sexuality, whatever that may be, which probably won't get figured out by the time she gets home to her husband, but could happen in time for these two to realize that the mess they're in makes a perfect place to figure out what they're doing together.
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