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Sandra Marie Vago

SANDRA MARIE VAGO  

 Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    Robert A Freedman Dramatic Agency  


Sandra has been involved with live theatrical stage productions since early childhood as an actor, director, producer and playwright. She has been associated with many professional producing organizations and playwrights groups in New York City, Los Angeles, St. Louis and Chicago. She has been commissioned to write works for The Football Hall of Fame by Contract Players Theatre Group in Canton, Ohio and The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Children's Theatre and has won or been a finalist in many U.S. National play festivals. In New York she has been a chosen, 4 time participant in NYC's "Work's By Women, New Plays and Playwrights' Series", The New School's Playwrights' Reading Series, New Georges Theatre Company's New Works program, a 4 time participant in Polaris Repertory Company's New Plays & Playwrights' Program. She has been an invited member of The Playwrights' Group, Westbeth Theatre's, New Plays Program and Greenwich Street Theatre's, New Voices Project. In Los Angeles she was a member of Los Angeles Playwrights, The Playwrights Group and FirstStage LA, as well as other organizations around the country, The ICWP, Philadelphia Dramatists Center and is a New York Dramatists Guild member. Sandra has worked with actors Joanna Miles, Ralph Waite, Nicolas Coster, Anne Bloom, Michael Durrell and Diane Ladd on several of her works and has adapted several plays for film due to interest from independent producers. Two of her screenplays were optioned

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 Connie & Sabrina in Waiting         Listen!         Ordinary Woman Under Stress, An         Treading Backward Through Quicksand (Without wearing your water wings)         When Starbright Fades

Connie & Sabrina in Waiting

Synopsis:
The poignant story of two wonderful women, whose friendship literally outlasts their lives. Sabrina, while waiting at their favorite pizza joint for their latest reunion, discovers her lifelong friend, Connie, has passed away. While at the funeral parlor to say her good-byes and relive some hilarious and bittersweet memories of her wild and wacky best friend and their lives together, she also meets the last man in Connie's life and reason her friend most likely died with a smile.

Notes:
The play should be done with one set, the funeral parlor And side scenes entered into And out of through A kind of mind haze on either side.

1st Produced:
Kirkwood Theatre Guild, St. Louis, MO, USA    1990

Company:
City Players of St. Louis

1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1994   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy/Drama Comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  doubling

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Listen!

Synopsis:
"Listen", is the powerful, Dramatic story of Nadine Roberts, a young farm wife in the deeply religious South, who disappears from her farmhouse one day without warning, is brutalized and left for dead. When she is found in a farmers field, naked and alone, miles away from her small community, badly hurt and unable or unwilling to recount to anyone what has really happened to her, too many half-truths and outright lies are suddenly assumed. As rumors abound, her fear and inability to cope takes over and her life and the lives of her family and community are changed forever. She feels she must find a way to save her husband and her children from the painful truth but the fear and her religion paralyzes her, until one day she realizes what she must do to make it all end.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Greenwich St. Theatre, NYC    2000

Company:
-

1st Published:
agent,    -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Ordinary Woman Under Stress, An

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
A simple set for the fading days of A once prominent bar with the center focus on An old jukebox. The side scenes should be done without going to black but by incorporating set movers As vendors, mAIDS, slot machines etc., thereby keeping the play in constant motion.

1st Produced:
City Players Theatre, St. Louis, MO USA    1994

Company:
City Players of St. Louis

1st Published:
Sarah Blackstone Hightower decides to "bump off" her stuffy, cold, philandering, husband after far too many indiscretions with an old but eternally young, acquaintance. However, she is suddenly sidetracked during her quest when she meets Jake P. Little, bartender and philosopher extraordinaire, and begins to question what's important in her life. These two strangers take a funny, yet poignant journey from painful past to new beginnings filled with music, dance, passion and love., 1996   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy/Drama Comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  doubling

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Treading Backward Through Quicksand (Without wearing your water wings)

Synopsis:
Sophie, a Jewish widow, living on the Upper Westside of Manhattan and Mattie, her best friend, an Italian, married but going through a divorce from her Deli owning husband in Queens, have decided to start life over together in Sophie's rooftop apartment. Sophie's deceased husband, Bernie, also resides there and Sophie talks to him about everything, everything except the Texan, that is. Together, thru laughter and tears, a little craziness, a stint wearing a leopard's tail, a broken bed and a few matzo balls that are good for the soul, they learn they are most definitely not too old to start over!

Notes:
Play takes place in A rooftop garden in New York City.

1st Produced:
Off The Cuff Theatre, St. Louis, MO USA    1998

Company:
Works By Women

1st Published:
agent,    -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy/Drama Comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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When Starbright Fades

Synopsis:
Laura Randall is far too young to have lived through so much pain, so she creates a fantasy world of make believe and art where she can escape from the real world, which is too cruel. She tries desperately to draw her husband into her "prince charming" and her life bright with happiness instead of sorrow, but when it all starts falling apart around her, she must face the truth and fight back in order to survive. With the help of her eccentric neighbors, Mitzi & Louella, she finds the courage to do just that.

Notes:
The setting is An old rooming house in Augusta, GA in the early 1960's And side scenes on An Army base.

1st Produced:
Lindell Blvd. St. Louis, MO USA    1990

Company:
City Players of St. Louis

1st Published:
Best Scenes for Women, Best Scenes for One Woman/One Man, Smith & Kraus Books,    -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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