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AURIN SQUIRE |
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Nationality: USA Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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As a playwright, screenwriter and reporter, Aurin Squire has been published and produced around the country. Born and raised in Opa Locka, Florida, he graduated from Northwestern in 2001 with a radio/TV/film degree and a minor in writing. During and immediately after college Squire wrote for various prize-winning publications, including the Miami Herald and Chicago Tribune. He received a grant from the AFL-CIO and AFSCME Union for his play on AIDS in the Black community, "Crash." In Miami, he directed two documentaries on the efforts to rebuild the inner-city school system. While working on his play "Boxing the Sun" he was awarded the Change Inc. Grant for emerging artists and his play "Defacing Michael Jackson" won Samuel French's annual One-Act Play Competition. Upon completing his playwriting MFA at the Actors Studio, Squire continues to be produced as a playwright while working as a script doctor for screenplays and freelance reporter. He res ides in Brooklyn, New York.
Plays by Aurin Squire
Am I Black Enough? | ||
| 1st Produced: | Creative Space Theatre | 2003 | ||||
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 | #60713 | |||
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Genre: | Comedic Opera One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | The re-imagined first date of my parents set in the 70s in a greasy Miami diner | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Art Gallery | ||
| 1st Produced: | Manhattan Theatre Source | 2004 | ||||
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 | #60709 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | The lives of three patrons become jolted by a controversial painting that may be art or a piece of crap. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Baby Talk | ||
| 1st Produced: | American Theatre of Actors, 314 West 54th Street, New York, NY 10019 >>> | 2005 | ||||
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 | #60701 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | Energetic, smart, fresh out of the Ivy leagues, a Black poet's dreams are dashed and she's forced to take a job as a nanny. She becomes apart of the strange underclass of Jamaican nannies that populate Central Park West | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Black Spell, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | Bank Street Theatre | 2005 | ||||
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 | #60702 | |||
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Genre: | Drama One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | 3 chorus parts | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | On the verge of a fatal drought, a local water station manager falls in love with a UN social worker. Politics, plague, and the local Native American myth of water cannibals haunt them and drive them apart. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Bleed | ||
| 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 | #60718 | |||
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Genre: | Dark Comedy, full length | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Something creepy, disturbing and utterly ridiculous is happening to everyman Alex. Much to his inconvenience he's bleeding. A lot. As he makes his way through his last day, Alex doesn't find much sympathy and discovers the key to life: rage. Bleed is a dark comedy about what happens when a disappearing man tries to make one last stand at mattering. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Boxing the Sun | ||
| 1st Produced: | Actors Studio Repertory Season | 2005 | ||||
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 | #60699 | |||
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Genre: | Drama, Full Length | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | In the slums of the Bronx, the lives on a neighborhood block entangle, fall apart and explode on the hottest day of the year. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Children Lost | ||
| 1st Produced: | Actors Studio Repertory Season | - - - | ||||
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 | #60720 | |||
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Genre: | Drama, Full Length | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 5 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | When a child is kidnapped, the event sets off chain reaction of fear and grief in a community. Children Lost is a drama of three interlocking stories of a group of friends who must deal with their loss of innocence | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Crash | ||
| 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 | #31882 | |||
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Genre: | Drama One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | AFSCME and AFL-CIO union commission, 2001 | |||||
Synopsis: | A young couple lures a stewardess back to an airport motel room with the promise of a fun night. Instead they reveal that they're infected with HIV, dying, and they know that she's the woman who gave the disease to the husband, and now they want their revenge. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Dear God | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2004 | |||||
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 | #60706 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | In a letter to God, a pick-up driving, beer guzzling redneck conservative, reveals his deep fears about the future of the country and an underground conspiracy by the 'Queer Eye for the Straight Guy' fashionistas. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Death Of A Primitive | ||
| 1st Produced: | Red Room Theatre | 2003 | ||||
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 | #60711 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A young hot painter must battle his dealer, a reporter trying to get the scoop on his show, and his knuckle dragging, sinister inner-child that inspires him and also threatens to kill him. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Defacing Michael Jackson | ||
| 1st Produced: | McGinn Cazale Theatre | 2005 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #60694 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | winner of Samuel French One-Act Festival 2005 | |||||
Synopsis: | Thriller, the Pepsi fire, cocaine cowboys, and a white family moving into a black neighborhood: it's 1984 in a rural Florida town of Opa-Locka and life is about to get a whole lot more confusing for a group of kids who want to be the 'gloved one.' Published in the collection Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays, 30th series. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Devil's Workshop, The | ||
| 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 | #60719 | |||
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Genre: | Dark Comedy One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Golfing, badminton, and evening lockdown. Life in a minimum security corporate prison can be rough for the rich. But for a group convicted CEOs, their penitentiary term is merely a time to regroup and think of new ways to scam and con each other for sadistic delight and off-shore bank accounts | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Elijah | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2005 | |||||
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 | #31952 | |||
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Genre: | Drama One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | one-act extracted from full-length play, "Children Lost." | |||||
Synopsis: | With their child missing for over two days, a husband and wife question their relationship. As they wait for a TV press conference to begin, they tear each other apart | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Family Manual for Kwanzaa, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2003 | |||||
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 | #60710 | |||
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Genre: | Absurdist Comedy One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Set over six calamitous days of Kwanzaa, a family discovers how much they hate each other | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Flight Of Dadaelus | ||
| 1st Produced: | Actors Studio Black Theatre Festival | 2004 | ||||
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 | #60707 | |||
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Genre: | Drama One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Set at an airport gate, a group of strangers prepare to depart when an unexpected occurrence cuts through all their lives | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Great Black Sambo Machine, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | workshopped at Lark Theatre and Lincoln Center Lab | 2005 | ||||
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 | #60695 | |||
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Genre: | full legth Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | When a Black family's TV explodes, everyone is transported into a magical world where all their pixilated dreams can come true'for the small price of their soul. The Great Black Sambo Machine is a satire on Blacks in the media, hip hop, and the American way | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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It's Giuliani Time | ||
| 1st Produced: | McGinn Cazale Theatre | 2006 | ||||
Company: | Vital Theatre Company | |||||
| 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 | #58649 | |||
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Genre: | Short Play One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | part of Vital Theatre Company presents its annual festival of new works, Vital Signs. | |||||
Synopsis: | A look at the fear that creates shocking rifts between neighbors, friends and lovers when race, crime and politics come into play. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Match Me | ||
| 1st Produced: | Mazer Theatre/ New York Fringe Festival | 2005 | ||||
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 | #60693 | |||
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Genre: | Absurdist One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Two women match wits in a contest for sanity. As their tales begin to disintegrate, friends become rivals, and their stories become their only hope for salvation. Match Me is an absurdist trip through the minds of two disturbed women. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Matthew Takes Mannahatta | ||
| 1st Produced: | McGinn Cazale Theatre, NY | 17 Oct 2009 | ||||
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 | #104889 | |||
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Genre: | for ages 3-12 Story | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | book by Aurin Squire; lyrics by Sammy Buck; music by Daniel S. Acquisto | |||||
Synopsis: | In the adventures of Matthew Takes Mannahatta, Matthew and his sister Piper take a magical adventure back in time, where they discover the Manhattan of the past held a very different Thanksgiving than the one we all know today | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Naturalization of the Garcias, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Actors Studio Latino Theatre Showcase | 2004 | ||||
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 | #60733 | |||
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Genre: | Absurdist Comedy One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | An El Paso interracial family must decide between their Mexican roots and the promise of a future as American citizen. Naturalization is a social comedy narrated by unemployed Mexican telenovela actors | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Nueva Cancion | ||
| 1st Produced: | Phil Bosakowski Theatre | 2004 | ||||
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 | #60704 | |||
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Genre: | Drama, Full Length | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Youth Theatre Grant 2004 | |||||
Synopsis: | Series of interwoven scenes and songs about the rise and fall of Salvador Allende, the hope for a free South America during the 60s, and the music which inspired it all: nueva cancion. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Placebo | ||
| 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 | #60716 | |||
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Genre: | Drama, Full Length | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A priest dying of AIDS must confront the conflict between his reality and his appearance amongst his congregation and his protege priest | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Rape Of Marie, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Actors Studio Black Theatre Festival | 2004 | ||||
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 | #60708 | |||
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Genre: | Absurdist One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | In an unnamed third world country in the distant future, the son of the leader and his soldiers raid a whorehouse and rape the prostitutes. Driven mad, one of the women becomes convinced she's caring the child of God. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Rheinfield | ||
| 1st Produced: | Actors Studio Repertory Season | 2005 | ||||
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 | #60697 | |||
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Genre: | Drama One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | The simple life of a housewife begins to crumble when a mud-covered woman arrives from the Rheinfield river, fleeing from her worst nightmare and something from both their pasts. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Room Facing the Moon, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | Actors Studio Repertory Season | 2005 | ||||
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 | #60698 | |||
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Genre: | full legth Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Three rooms and the three questions of love present themselves over one night in a hotel. In room one a man walks into a job interview that turns into a first date. In the second room it's the obsession of a person who has been stalking his love since childhood. In the final setting, a two couples slowly drift apart during a ballroom dance competition. A Room Facing the Moon is a Pinteresque romantic comedy about love, fate, and obsession. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Shadows In The Light | ||
| 1st Produced: | ETA Chicago | 2001 | ||||
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 | #60715 | |||
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Genre: | Drama, Full Length | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | For a young Cuban couple (one dark-skinned and the other light skinned), the awaiting paradise of Miami turns out to be a living hell of racial strife, poverty and desperation. After the local police shoot and kill a young Black kid, tensions are ratcheted up even more by the hot-headed anti-Castro radicals and bitter Black leaders which destroy the young couple's hopes and promises for each other. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Strange Fruit | ||
| 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 | #60717 | |||
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Genre: | Dark Comedy, full length | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Two brothers invite a Black drifter home and try to persuade him to kill their blind, crippled and racist mother who holds the keys to the family inheritance and pesticide empire | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Summer Solistice | ||
| 1st Produced: | Social District Warehouse Club | 2004 | ||||
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 | #60705 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | At the end of the summer, a group of mourners gather for a wake to celebrate the life of a guy they slowly start to realize ruined their lives | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Sweet n' Low/ Mailman | ||
| 1st Produced: | Parsons School of Design | 2003 | ||||
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 | #60714 | |||
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Genre: | Comedic Opera One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Two interlocking monologues about a fading Southern matriarch gazing out at the burning sugar cane fields, and a mailman slowly becoming unraveled by the never-ending mail | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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To Whom It May Concern | ||
| 1st Produced: | Fresh Fruit Festival | 2006 | ||||
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 | #60700 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | To Whom it May Concern addresses the effects of America's 'peace keeping mission' in Afghanistan as it focuses on the long-distance communication between a battle-scarred young marine stationed in Kabul and an emotionally out-of-control adolescent boy in Abilene, Kansas. The boy attracts the marine's attention by deciding to pretend that he is an 18-year-old female with a crush after having read an article about the soldier's heroic activities in a local paper. They begin a cyber-romance that is temporarily shattered when the marine decides to pay a visit to 'the girl' of his dreams. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Uncertainties | ||
| 1st Produced: | Ars Nova, NY | 2007 | ||||
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 | #69908 | |||
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Genre: | short play One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | part of The Wikipedia Plays is a mini-marathon of short plays that surf the wikipedia wave through 17 related entries. The press materials describe it thusly: "In this brave new world of instant gratification where the internet can live in your pocket, one group of writers has created a mini-marathon of short plays that surf the wikipedia wave through seventeen related entries." The plays and playwrights are: Mike Batistick (Castration Anxiety), Evan Cabnet (Prokop the Great), Ron Fitzgerald (Turbulent), Liz Flahive (Bohemia), Sam Forman (Fetish), Etan Frankel (The Defenestration of Prague), Kyle Jarrow (Troposphere), Nick Jones (Global Warming), Barry Levey (Yale Law School), Carly Mensch (Democracy), Elizabeth Meriwether (Particle Board), Lin-Manuel Miranda (Golf Ball), Rachel Shukert (Stiletto Heels), Mat Smart (Weather Forecasting), Aurin Squire (Uncertainties), Adam Szymkowicz (Bill Clinton) and Beau Willimon (Wooden). The Wikipedia Plays are directed by Evan Cabnet, Michael Goldfried, Maria Goyanes, Meredith McDonough, Shira Milikowsky and Moritz von Stuelpnagel. | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
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Under the Skin | ||
| 1st Produced: | Actors Studio Repertory Season | 2005 | ||||
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 | #60696 | |||
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Genre: | Drama One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | The lives of a group of friends and family in South Florida interweave and come undone over one evening in four simultaneous scenes | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Versatile | ||
| 1st Produced: | Gay and Lesbian Actors Studio Showcase | 2005 | ||||
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 | #60703 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A young sex worker is hired by a client to do the one thing that she fears most: talk about her personal life | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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While Submerged From All Sides | ||
| 1st Produced: | South Oxford Space, NY (reading) | 2008 | ||||
Company: | Freedom Train 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 | #87644 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A personal drama of overcoming sex addiction inside a sex-phobic U.S. society and within a sex-positive queer community | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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White Bread: A Hip Hopera | ||
| 1st Produced: | Actors Studio Black Theatre Showcase | 2003 | ||||
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 | #60712 | |||
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Genre: | Comedic Opera One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | 2-4 chorus | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | How can an Australian white rapper and a conservative Black judge be twins from the same mother? Take a voodoo hex, a wild storm and a series of Dickensian twists and you begin to understand. White Bread is a comedy sung and rapped entirely in verse about identity and hip hop. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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