DONNA SPECTOR
| Nationality: | American |
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Plays by Donna Spector
Another Paradise |
| 1st Produced: | Players Theatre, NYC | 1986 | ||
| 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: | Comedy/Drama | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: Mother and daughter tell conflicting stories of the same events in Kentucky | ||||
Burying Mother |
| 1st Produced: | Staged reading: Arthur Seelen Theatre, NYC | 2006 | ||
| Company: | Manhattan Oracles | |||
| 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: | Comedy/Drama | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Semi-finalist for the 2006 Eugene O'Neill Playwrights Conference | ||||
Synopsis: A comedy/drama about Emily and her dynamic, controlling, dead mother, the play moves fluidly between past, present and future, between what could and couldn't happen, as the play takes place in Emily's memory and dreams, including a vaudeville act on the nature of time, a funeral, in St. Paul's cathedral, that never happened, a surgery to find her sister's heart, Death as a stand-up comic, and her mother's interview with Death, a neurotic character who refuses to grant her immortality. | ||||
Dancing With Strangers |
| 1st Produced: | Staged readings: Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey | 1999 | ||
| Company: | The Harbor Theatre, NYC | |||
| 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: | Comedy/Drama | Comedy | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 5 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Semi-finalist in the Chesterfield Writer's Film Project, 2001. Staged reading: Wings Theatre, NYC, 2001; Short-listed in the BBC/British Council International Playwriting Competition, 2001 | ||||
Synopsis: Five older (70's-80) women try a communal living experiment. | ||||
Golden Ladder |
| 1st Produced: | Players Theatre, NYC | 2002 | ||
| Company: | Players Theatre | |||
| 1st Published: | in Women Playwrights: The Best Plays of 2002, Smith and Kraus | 2003 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | Comedy/Drama | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Finalist, Herbert Mark Newman Theatre contest (then titled How to be Really Jewish). Produced at Hope College, Michigan, 2004. Staged readings: Mirror Stage, Seattle, 2004; International Women Playwrights Conference, Athens, Greece, 2000; Grove St. Playhouse, NY,1999 | ||||
Synopsis: A bittersweet comedy, GOLDEN LADDER explores the confusion in a family divided by different religions. Catherine relives her bewildering childhood and adolescence when her Christian mother denied that her father was Jewish and her father gave up his religion to please his wife. Catherine discovers friendship, sex and love as her often misguided attempts to reconcile her parents' conflicting agendas lead her on a spiritual odyssey until she finds the golden ladder in a story her father tells and claims her Jewish heritage. | ||||
Hanging Women |
| 1st Produced: | University of California, Hayward | 1998 | ||
| 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: | Comedy/Drama | Comedy | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: Mother and her daughters fantasise about killing the man who left them | ||||
Life Lines |
| 1st Produced: | Bruce Mitchell Room, ART/New York Spaces, NY | 2006 | ||
| Company: | Reverie Productions | |||
| 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 | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Finalist: Theatre Unbound Competition, Minneapolis, 2005, and Reverie's Next Generation Contest, 2006 | ||||
Synopsis: ELIZABETH SCHULMAN, a doctor at a Northern California abortion clinic, who is forced to reevaluate her life's work as a result of increasingly violent attacks by militant right-wing Christian groups. | ||||
Manhattan Transits |
| 1st Produced: | Players Theatre, NYC | 1989 | ||
| 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: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: 2001 Semi-finalist: Beverly Hills/Julie Harris contest & Chesterfield Writer's Film Project | ||||
Synopsis: Loosely based on an article in the New York Times Magazine and on the Demeter-Persephone myth, this play deals with the problem of homelessness in New York. A tragedy with some comic relief, MANHATTAN TRANSITS is about JOSE CARTELLO, a fourteen-year-old runaway who lives in the Port Authority Bus Terminal and looks to CARLOS FAVA, a nineteen-year-old "street kid" and to two older bag ladies for love. | ||||
Not for the Ferryman |
| 1st Produced: | Pickup Styx, NY, with grant from Dodge Foundation | 1993 | ||
| 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: | Comedy/Drama | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: Appalachian/Greek love story based on folktales | ||||
Sense of Movement, A |
| 1st Produced: | NY Council for the Arts Production | 1987 | ||
| 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: | Comedy/Drama | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: 3 related one-acts | ||||
Synopsis: New York love stories | ||||