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Mike Batistick

MIKE BATISTICK

  (1975 - )
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    Creative Artists Agency NY  

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         Bodega Lung Fat         Castration Anxiety         Chicken         Flag         Gail         Manbaby         Ponies         Port Authority Throw Down         Tempo         Urban Legend

Bodega Lung Fat

Synopsis:
In a row of stores in Brooklyn there's a Chinese restaurant called Lung Fat next to a shop selling alcohol, candy and sandwiches that calls itself a bodega. Two glazed frames on the set suggest we must be outside the shop fronts but the behaviour of their owners, sitting on plastic beer crates, make it seem much more like their back entrances. these are Chinese Charlie (or is he Vietnamese? his neighbour calls him a Gook) and Wheelchair, so called because he damaged his back when little and so spent time in a wheelchair, the Latino Spic who owns the bodega. they are joined by Sampson, who has known Wheelchair since they were kids when his mother used to help the young invalid. they are an ill-assorted trio who are joined by a strange outsider from the South side, a Hassidic Jew called Menachem, and later by a young woman in a NY Police cap who appears to be a meter maid and Sampson's girlfriend.
- Howard Loxton, British theatre Guide

Notes:
first fully-staged production, Hackney empire Studio, 2009

1st Produced:
Reading At New York's Public Theatre    2003

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Castration Anxiety

Synopsis:
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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.

1st Produced:
Ars Nova, NY    2007

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Genre:
short play One act

Parts:
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Chicken

Synopsis:
Wendell's wife, Lina, is pregnant. His wayward best friend, Floyd, sleeps nightly on their couch. and as if things aren't stressful enough, he's under constant pressure to "father" his messed-up neighbors in the Bronx. In an effort to get some money together, Wendell takes in a rooster to train for an illegal cockfight. as they discover that training a bird for a death match in Washington Heights is not for the faint of heart, this dysfunctional family comes to blows before the fight ever takes place. In this devilish comedy, playwright Mike Batistick investigates power, community and loss, and searches for grace in the most unlikely places.

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1st Produced:
Studio Dante, NY    2007

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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY, 2008   -

Music:
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Genre:
full length Comedy

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  6 actors

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Flag

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
Hangar Theatre, Ithaca, New York    -

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Music:
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Genre:
Drama

Parts:
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Gail

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
Working Theatre, New York    -

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Genre:
Drama

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Manbaby

Synopsis:
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Genre:
One act

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Ponies

Synopsis:
Thousands of miles from his war-torn native Croatia, Drazen spends his days betting on horses at a Lower east Side Off-Track Betting establishment. His friend Ken, a Nigerian no longer welcome in his own country, joins him. Drazen is going to help Ken win at the ponies-and aid him in making payments on his brand new livery cab. Both men quickly discover that no matter what part of the world you come from, America can be a dangerous place.

Notes:
Ponies was given its first workshop reading by the LaByrinth theater Company (John Ortiz And Philip Seymour Hoffman, co-artistic directors) on June 13, 2002, in Saratoga Springs, New York, As part of the company's Annual Summer Intensive. After A workshop production in the 2003 New York International Fringe Festival, it had A run in London in Summer 2004 At the Hen & Chickens theatre in Islington. It then premiered Off-Broadway At Studio Dante in October 2004.

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Rising Phoenix Repertory

1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY, 2005   -

Music:
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Genre:
full length Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  voice

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Port Authority Throw Down

Synopsis:
Pervez is a cab driver. He's also on the run from the FBI. While driving home yesterday, he discovered Bureau agents ransacking his house. Pervez just kept on driving; he knew they were looking for his brother, Nawaz. For the past twenty-four hours, he has been hiding out in his cab outside Port authority. there, he will meet a Christian missionary and a homeless man, both searching for a connection from a world in which they feel alienated.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Culture Project, NY, NY    2006

Organisations:
Culture Project and the Working Theater

1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY, 2008   -

Music:
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Genre:
full length Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Tempo

Synopsis:
Jim is a pharmaceutical salesman. He is a failure and he is taking his own drugs. His wife is leaving him. He comes up with a plan to solve things - only it is not legal

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Rehearsed reading at Echo Theater Company, Los Angeles    23 Feb 2015

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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Drama

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Urban Legend

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
Source Festival Of Ten Minute Plays    2008

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Ten minuteplay

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