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Calamity West

CALAMITY WEST

  
Nationality:    USA
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Calamity West is a Chicago-based, award-winning, and Kilroy cited playwright. She earned her BA in playwriting at Webster University and her MFA in playwriting from California College of the Arts in San Francisco. Most recent full-length productions of Calamity's work include: THE PEACOCK (Jackalope), THE GACY PLAY (Sideshow), COMMON HATRED (The Ruckus), and IBSEN IS DEAD! One of her newest plays, GIVE IT ALL BACK, was developed at Sideshow Theatre Company this past April as a part of their new play development program. In February 2016 Jackalope Theatre Company will be producing Calamity's newest play entitled, ROLLING. Calamity's short plays have been seen in at/with: Victory Gardens, The Inconvenience, Chicago Dramatists, Rhinofest, ParityFest, Abbie Fest, Chicago Home Theatre Festival, LiveWire, One-Minute Play Festival, The Anatomy Collective, Broken Nose Theatre, Fight Night, First Floor Theater, and The Good Night Ladies. She was born and raised in Missouri.

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         Administration Offers Our Answer, The         Common Hatred         Doll's House Project: Ibsen Is Dead         Gacy Play, The         Give It All Back         Ibsen Is Dead         Island of Yap, The         Miley Cyrus Is Still Twerking, or, I Know You         Peacock, The         Retribution Play, The: part One         Thing About Chekov, The

Administration Offers Our Answer, The

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Viaduct Theater, Chicago    26 Jul 2012

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Common Hatred

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Side Project Theatre, Chicago    22 Jun 2012

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Doll's House Project: Ibsen Is Dead

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Manhattan November 1st 1989 - the day that the Berlin Wall came down. Stockbroker Thorvald goes to work. His wife Nora waits for her friend Christine. Christine has just been dumped by her politician boyfriend and wants Nora to bail her out

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Athenaum Theatre, Chicago    2012

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Gacy Play, The

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Its Christmas, 1975, and the crawlspace is open in suburban Chicago. John Wayne Gacy, Jr. is a man with secrets beneath his floor, but when his wife and friends start asking questions, he withdraws into his own world and his late-night conversations with the smoking, swaggering Duke who shares his name. As ghosts begin crowding the household, the divide between dream and reality vanishes, and the smell just keeps on getting worse. Calamity West delves deep into the mind of one of Americas most notorious killers and unearth an otherworldly meditation on masculinity and violence that hits all too close to home, even now.

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1st Produced:
Theatre Wit, Chicago    23 Jun 2012

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Gay of interest, full length

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Give It All Back

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In a swank French hotel room in the mid-1960s, an artist hides out from a world that's turned on him. He smokes, talks, drinks, and tries not to think about acoustic versus electric. Calamity West delivers a funny, sardonic and theatrical examination of how you hold on to your art when everyone else thinks that it's theirs.

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Nominated for The Kilroys 2015. The Kilroys is a group of playwrights and producers in LA who publish an annual industry survey of excellent new plays by female and trans playwrights. It is a tool for producers committed to ending the systemic underrepresentation of female and trans playwrights in the American theater.

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Sideshow Theatre Company (Chicago)    2015

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dark comedy

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Ibsen Is Dead

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adaptation of A Doll's House. Set in New York City, November 9th 1989 - aka, the day The Berlin Wall fell.

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1st Produced:
Interrobang Theatre Project (Chicago)    2014

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adaptation comedy

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Island of Yap, The

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A fund is collecting money to raise a statue to Robocop

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1st Produced:
Viaduct Theater, Chicago    28 Jul 2011

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Miley Cyrus Is Still Twerking, or, I Know You

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Broken Nose Theatre Company (Chicago)    2014

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comedy

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Peacock, The

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The Peacock transports us to December 1946, where the fiction-writing workshop at an American university is in session. Consisting of young veterans of World War II, and sons of upper class - the workshop possesses but one woman: Nan. A one-legged wunderkind who is forced by her peers to re-examine her violent fiction as a result of the recent suicide of their classmate Eleanor. Based in a world where intellectual prowess is currency, Calamity West brings us this uniquely American exploration of violence, authorial intent, and gender.

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1st Produced:
City Lit Theatre, Chicago    07 Nov 2013

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Retribution Play, The: part One

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When Maybelles lover Boon abandons her, she leaves the only home shes known to seek retribution. On her bloodthirsty adventure, Maybelle acquires a sidekick, Cashno Peza, stumbles upon an outlaw looking for a gang, Carthage Shirley, a by a stroke of bad luck, is forced to travel with a man of no words named Wide Mouth Mason. The Retribution Play is an episodic, action packed Western with grit and heart about one womans quest to find her place in a mad and dirty world.

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1st Produced:
Reading, Two Birds Casting (Chicago)    2013

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Genre:
adventure

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Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  1

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Thing About Chekov, The

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Side Project Theatre, Chicago    22 Jun 2012

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