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STEFANIE ZADRAVEC (1968 - ) |
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Nationality: USA Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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Literary Agent: Abrams Artists Agency |
STEFANIE ZADRAVEC is a resident playwright at New Dramatists and the 2012 Women's Project Lab. Her plays have been produced/developed at The Kennedy Center, PlayPenn, Theater J, The Working Theater, The Women's Project, The Barrow Group, San Francisco Playhouse and New Dramatists among others. Honey Brown Eyes (Theater J, Washington D.C., Working Theater, NYC) received the 2009 Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding New Play and was published in American Theatre magazine. The Electric Baby received the Women in Arts and Media's 2011 Collaboration Award and we premiere this Spring at Quantum Theatre in Pittsburgh. Save Me received the Baltimore Playwrights Festival's Carol Weinberg Outstanding New Play Award as well as the Phoenix Theatre's National Playwriting Award. Stefanie's collaborative work includes The Fear Project (The Barrow Group, NYC), 167 Tongues (Theatre 167, NYC), You Are Now The Owner This Suitcase (Theatre 167, NYC) and the upcoming We Play for the Gods (The Women's Project, NYC). She has received fellowships from The Dramatists Guild, Playwrights Realm and The Sewanee Writers Conference and received grants and commissions from NYSCA, OSF/Full Stage USA, the Working Theater and Epic Theatre Ensemble. www.szadravec.com
Plays by Stefanie Zadravec
167 Tongues | ||
| 1st Produced: | P.S. 69, 77-02 37th Ave, Jackson Heights (Queens), NY | 07 May 2010 | ||||
Company: | Jackson Repertory Theatre | |||||
| 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 | #114328 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | large cast | |||||
Notes: | conceived and directed by Ari Laura Kreith. The piece is written by 11 writers: Jenny Lyn Bader, Meny Beriro, Alvin Eng, Steven Fechter, Jennifer Gibbs, Les Hunter, Anna Kushner, Rehana Mirza, Jeffrey Solomon, Suzanne Sheptock, and Stefanie Zadravec. | |||||
Synopsis: | 167 Tongues explores the emotional geography of Jackson Heights, the most culturally diverse neighborhood in the world. Intermittent street scenes weave together alongside continuous stories in this 37-character play. An Indian sweet shop vendor struggles to keep her store going and her suitors at bay, a Nepali woman and a Mexican man fall in love across a linguistic divide, an Irish ghost befriends an troubled Ecuadorian girl and her Bangladeshi best friend, a Dominican manicurist wonders whether her Jewish Chinese boyfriend will propose before she is deported by the INS, and a Rwandan night nurse attempts to understand the 167 distinct languages spoken in the local Emergency Room. This theatrical experience combines street scenes with continuous narratives, found sounds, and movement in an exploration of Jackson Heights, Queens, the most diverse neighborhood in the world. | |||||
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Dora's Box | ||
| 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 | #61459 | |||
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Genre: | Play Ten Min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Dora can't let her relationship go, so she shows up at her ex's house with decoupage. | |||||
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Electric Baby, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Pittsburgh, PA | 30 Mar 2012 | ||||
Company: | Quantum Theatre | |||||
| 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 | #134525 | |||
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Genre: | Full- length Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | 2011 Women in Arts and Media Collaboration Award; Playwrights Realm Fellowship. | |||||
Synopsis: | After a young man is killed in a car accident, a group of fractured souls come in contact with a magical dying baby and begin to rewrite the stories of their lives. International folktales and folklore weave throughout this story of sad endings, strange beginnings and people that take you from one place to the next. | |||||
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Fear Project, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 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 | #46671 | |||
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Genre: | Short Play One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | program of seven short plays by Trish Alexandro, Joshua James, K. Lorrel Manning, Scott Organ, Eric Paeper, and Stefanie Zadravec | |||||
Synopsis: | linked by original footage and compiled media images. The plays all deal with the question of finding balance between being informed and staying functional. The press release says, "Fear surrounds us in the media, in politics, in advertising. Everywhere you look something or someone is exploiting our fears. These shorts explore the subject from all angles, with humor and candor." | |||||
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Haunted | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2006 | |||||
Company: | The Barrow Group | |||||
| 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 | #61457 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Sounding Theater Co., Lillian Theater, Mae West Fest, Estrogenius Fest. | |||||
Synopsis: | Dan has taken Audrey to His secret hideaway to propose: Audrey thinks Dan is going to kill her. Comedy ensues when you are hungry for love, but watch too much Lifetime television. | |||||
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Honey Brown Eyes | ||
| 1st Produced: | Washington D.C. | Oct 2008 | ||||
Company: | Theater J | |||||
| 1st Published: | American Theatre Mag. Feb 2009 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #65641 | |||
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Genre: | Full- length Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | 2009 Helen Hayes Award - Best New Play. Also produced by The Working Theater, NYC (Off Broadway premiere Jan 2011) and San Francisco Playhouse (West Coast Premiere, September 2011) | |||||
Synopsis: | Inspired by actual events, Honey Brown Eyes contrasts the everydayness of domestic settings with the ravages of the Bosnian War. Set in two kitchens, the play follows two ex-musicians caught on opposite sides of the war - one who has to face the consequences of his own brutality, and another who comes to terms with his own cowardice | |||||
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Leaving | ||
| 1st Produced: | 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 | #61458 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Play Ten Min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Chaos and comedy befall a couple who have been ordered to evacuate Connecticut. After all, who would want to hurt the Nutmeg State? | |||||
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Save Me | ||
| 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 | #61456 | |||
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Genre: | Full-length Comic Drama Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | 2007 Cherry Lane Mentor Project Finalist; BPF's Carol Weinberg Award winner, Winner of the Phoenix Theater's National Playwriting Competition. Kennedy Center Page to Stage 2007. | |||||
Synopsis: | Save Me is the story of Beth, an Evangelical Christian, who comes to New York to heal her estranged sister of a brain tumor, but ends up saving her daughter and herself. It is a comic drama about family, faith, and the miracles that transform us. Save Me is ripe with humor, and demonstrates how life's greatest gifts come in odd packages - a bright red wig, a postcard from the edge, a superhero sex addict, or a bouquet of flowers from a woman without a nose. | |||||
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You Are Now The Owner Of This Suitcase | ||
| 1st Produced: | P.S. 69, 77-02 37th Ave., Jackson Heights (Queens), NY | 11 Mar 2011 | ||||
Company: | Theatre 167 | |||||
| 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 | #125817 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Author: Mando Alvarado, Jenny Lyn Bader, Barbara Cassidy, Les Hunter, Joy Tomasko, Gary Winter, Stefanie Zadravec. Conceived and Directed By: Ari Laura Kreith | |||||
Synopsis: | A young woman arriving from Ecuador accidentally switches suitcases with a mysterious stranger. Her quest to recover the missing suitcase will lead her to encounter lovers, dreamers, fighters, a magical cell phone, books that come to life, and the best guitar player in the world. Picking up where last year's 167 Tongues left off, You Are Now The Owner Of This Suitcase is the second part of a trilogy exploring the emotional geography of Jackson Heights, Queens, the most culturally diverse neighborhood in the world. | |||||
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