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Claudia Barnett

CLAUDIA BARNETT

  
Nationality:    USA
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Claudia Barnett grew up in the Bronx and lives in the woods of Tennessee. She has served as resident playwright at Stage Left Theatre and Tennessee Repertory Theatre and has developed four scripts with Venus Theatre. Her plays have been included in the Great Plains Theatre Conference, the Kennedy Center Page-to-Stage Festival, the MultiStages New Works Finalist Festival, Independent Actors Theatre's Short Women's Play Festival, Stage Left's LeapFest, and the Women's Work Festival in St. John's, Newfoundland. She teaches playwriting at Middle Tennessee State University and is the author of I Love You Terribly: Six Plays (Carnegie Mellon UP, 2012).

Research:    Member of the Dramatists Guild of America (as at 2015)

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         Absent Grace         Aglaonike's Tiger         Another Manhattan         Devoted         Door To Door         Eden         Emily Dickinson's Sister         He Killed My Bird, Or, Now That We're In Heaven         Henry         Highway16         I Love You Terribly         Kilometer 14         Lillie Meant Murder         Mice into Horses         No. 731 Degraw-street, Brooklyn, or Emily Dickinson's Sister         Pear Morte         Precipice         Pretty Young Girl, The         Sex Lessons         Sheryl's Mother Is Dead         Swimming in the Afternoon         Till Death         VELB         Witches Vanish

Absent Grace

Synopsis:
At a crossroads, a man who keeps seeing his dead friend finally confronts her

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Athens Area Council For The Arts, Athens, Tn    26 Sep 2012

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Best 10-Minute Plays 2013 Plays For Two Actors. Published by Smith and Kraus, Inc.    -

Music:
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Genre:
ten min

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Aglaonike's Tiger

Synopsis:
glaonike, the first female astronomer, could predict lunar eclipses, but her science was suspect because she was a woman. She therefore billed herself as a sorceress and claimed she could draw down the moon. Inspired by her unsung history, this coming-of-age play follows the protagonist through a series of challenges, both magical and scientific. Drawing on ancient Greek traditions and postmodern performance trends, Aglaonikes Tiger is stylized and visual and uses puppets and masks to explore political, ecological, and scientific themes.

Notes:
staged reading as part of the March Forth Summer Salon

1st Produced:
Davenport Black Box Theatre In New York    04 Aug 2014

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Another Manhattan

Synopsis:
Another Manhattan is the story of Liz, a 9-11 victim who finds herself transported to 17th-century New Amsterdam. Act 1 is set in the autumn of 1642 and act 2 in the winter of 1643. The setting is always a kitchen, first Anikas and then Willem Kiefts. Kieft, the Director-General of New Amsterdam, was a tyrant who declared war on the Indians (all of them) and thereby jeopardized the safety of the Dutch settlers. He fabricated lies about the Indians crimes in order to drum up support for his war, and he pitted tribes against each other by offering payment for scalps. Kieft is a historical figure; he does not appear as a character in the play, but he serves as an off-stage catalyst for the major actions and as a parallel for President George W. Bush. All the characters in this play are fictional but exist within the context of history

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1st Produced:
Staged Reading In The Portland Theatre Works Freshworks Program, Portland, Oregon    17 Sep 2007

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1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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-

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Male:  1            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Devoted

Synopsis:
In this love triangle (minus the love), revelations only strengthen the status quo

Notes:
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1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
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1st Published:
in The Art of the One Act.   -

Music:
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Genre:
Short play

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Door To Door

Synopsis:
A perky teenager meets an ominous intellectual.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
19th Annual Original Off-Off Broadway Short Play Festival    1994

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
in Dramatics, March 1993   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Short play

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Eden

Eden
A nude photo of Eve may lead to the end of Eden

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Short WomenS Play Festival, Independent Actors Theatre, Columbia, Mo    2010

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Contained in: "I Love You Terribly: Six Plays" published by Carnegie Mellon University Press    978-0887485541

Music:
-

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Genre:
Short play

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Emily Dickinson's Sister

Synopsis:
In the State Lunatic Asylum in 1874, three woman begin to fade away.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Reading. Mid-America Theatre Conference Playwriting Symposium, Chicago    2009

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
in Poems & Plays 16   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Short play

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  3            Other:  -

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He Killed My Bird, Or, Now That We're In Heaven

Synopsis:
De-Fictionalizing Women Who Kill. "When I teach Women Who Kill, a survey of American drama by women, Im amazed at how easily my students side with the murderesses, particularly when the plays are based on true stories, and real-life society ostracized these women. Why do audiences respond so receptively to these re-tellings? With characters inspired by the women who inspired Trifles, Machinal, My Sister in This House, and Self-defense, or death of some salesmen, my play examines how these stories work and what they reveal."

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Staged Reading At The Fourth International Conference Of American Drama And Theatre In Seville, Spain    29 May 2012

Organisations:
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1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Genre:
one act play

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Henry

Henry
Inspired by Ionesco, this absurdist reunion explores the indeterminate past, present, and future of a man and woman once (or twice) in love (or not).

Notes:
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1st Produced:
[Reading] Mid-America Theatre Conference Playwriting Symposium, Minneapolis    2007

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Contained in: "I Love You Terribly: Six Plays" published by Carnegie Mellon University Press    978-0887485541

Music:
-

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Genre:
Short play

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Highway16

Synopsis:
Highway 16 is a retelling of the Little Red Riding Hood fairy tale, inspired by numerous (real) vanishing women in British Columbia. In this coming-of-age play, Granny is a brothel keeper and the Wolf may be Reds fairy godmother.

Notes:
included in SWAN Day CLe 2013

1st Produced:
[Reading] Estro Xtended, Manhattan Theatre Source, New York    2012

Organisations:
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1st Published:
in Qu Literary Magazine   -

Music:
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Genre:
Short play

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  3            Other:  -

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I Love You Terribly

I Love You Terribly
A couple dance around issues of love and marriage, sidestepping history and truth

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Shoestring Radio Theatre    2010

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Contained in: "I Love You Terribly: Six Plays" published by Carnegie Mellon University Press    978-0887485541

Music:
-

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Genre:
Short play

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Kilometer 14

Synopsis:
Inspired by a Soviet prisoners memoir of Siberia, Kilometer 14 portrays two women (and one mammoth) at the end of the world.

Notes:
(Kilometer 14 is a scene from Witches Vanish.)

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
in Poems & Plays 21   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Short play

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Lillie Meant Murder

Synopsis:
Set in 1888 Chicago. Lillie Richmond discovers that her husband of two years is not really her husband at all, so she dresses as a man to shoot him incognito and frees herself in an unexpected way.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Short WomenS Play Festival, Independent Actors Theatre, Columbia, Mo    2012

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
in The Best American Short Plays, 2011-12.   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Short play

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Mice into Horses

Synopsis:
In this mouse-eyed view of Cinderella, a rodent mother grooms her daughters to attend the ball, but the dutiful stepdaughter wins the mouse prince.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
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1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Genre:
Short play

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  4            Other:  -

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No. 731 Degraw-street, Brooklyn, or Emily Dickinson's Sister

Synopsis:
Kate Stoddard murdered Charles Goodrich in 1873after he told her they werent really married and had her evicted from his Brooklyn brownstone in a blizzard. Kates struggles to maintain her sanity and her identity, both before and after she shot her one true love three times in the head, are the subject of this play, which moves backwards and forwards through time and invokes a poetry of madness.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Playshack, At 21 C Street In Laurel, Md    13 Nov 2013

Organisations:
Venus Theatre

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Pear Morte

Synopsis:
A woman paints to battle death

Notes:
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1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
in InterJACtions: Monologues at the Heart of Human Nature, volume 3.   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
short monologue

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Precipice

Precipice
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Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Contained in: "I Love You Terribly: Six Plays" published by Carnegie Mellon University Press    978-0887485541

Music:
-

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Genre:
Short play

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Pretty Young Girl, The

Synopsis:
Fourteen-year-old Rosie becomes so lost in the world of her romance novel that she poisons herself like its heroine. Based on the 1894 true story of Rosie Czeisler, who was found unconscious on a front stoop beside a bottle of carbolic acid and a novel called The Pretty Young Girl.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
East Village Chronicles Festival Of New Plays, Metropolitan Playhouse, New York    2011

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Genre:
Short play

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Sex Lessons

Sex Lessons
Jack and Sally celebrate his birthday.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Short WomenS Play Festival, Independent Actors Theatre, Columbia, Mo    2011

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Contained in: "I Love You Terribly: Six Plays" published by Carnegie Mellon University Press    978-0887485541

Music:
-

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Genre:
Short play

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Sheryl's Mother Is Dead

Synopsis:
A woman's prayers are answered when God smites her foe.

Notes:
part of Brief Acts Company's Whispers of Fall, an evening of one acts (Part II)

1st Produced:
Producers Club
358 West 44th Street, New York, NY 10036    21 Sep 2012

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Short monologue

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Swimming in the Afternoon

Synopsis:
A poet awakens to find out she's a pregnant marionette

Notes:
(Swimming in the Afternoon is a scene from Witches Vanish.)

1st Produced:
Reading. Ten-Minute Playhouse, Nashville    2011

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
in River Styx 93   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Short play

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Male:  -            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Till Death

Till Death
Julian and Felicity contemplate love, death, and Robert Browning

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Plays With Poetry, East Haddam Stage Company, East Haddam, Ct    2008

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Contained in: "I Love You Terribly: Six Plays" published by Carnegie Mellon University Press    978-0887485541

Music:
-

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Genre:
Short play

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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VELB

Synopsis:
A teenaged girl identifies with an endangered beetle and Gregor Samsa.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
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1st Published:
in Original Middle School Scenes and Monologues. ed. Kent R. Brown. Woodstock, IL: Dramatic Publishing, 2012. 192-94   -

Music:
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Genre:
short monologue

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Witches Vanish

Synopsis:
In a series of stylized, highly visual vignettes employing puppetry, poetry, and surrealism, the weird sisters from Macbeth explore the stories of women who disappear, whether by choice or force. Inspired by history, astronomy, and Shakespeare, Witches Vanish examines the nature of change and the value of human life.

Notes:
part of SFall 2011 Downstage Left Residency

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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