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Jonathan Caren

JONATHAN CAREN

  (1981 - )
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    William Morris Endeavor Entertainment, LLC  represented by Jonathan Lomma

Jonathan Carens plays include The Recommendation (The Flea 2013, The Old Globe 2012, Craig Noel Award for Best New Play), The Morning the Sun Fell Down (MTC 7@7 2013), Let Me Go (2013 Rattlestick Fest, JPP), Catch the Fish (Most Outstanding Play, NY Fringe) and The Venerable Raman Gupta (Flea 2012 First Look Series). His work has been developed at theaters across the country including The Manhattan Theater Club, Ensemble Studio Theater, Ars Nova, The Roundabout Underground, The Pasadena Playhouse, The Keen Company, Woodshed Ensemble, Berkshire Playwrights Lab as well as developmentally at The Lark, New York Stage and Film, The Jewish Plays Project, Partial Comfort and in The Samuel French OOB Festival and The Old Vic in London. He is a 2013 MacDowell Colony Fellow, A 2012 Dramatist Guild Fellow, the 2011 New York Stage and Film Founders Award Winner, a member of The T.S Eliot Old Vic/New Voices Network, a two time recipient of a Fellowship to SPACE @ Ryder Farm, a two-time Lecomte du Nouy award winner and a recipient of the Theater Publicus Prize for Dramatic Fiction. Additionally, he was a finalist for the 2012 Laurents/Hatcher Award, a nominee for the 2012 Otis Guerney New American Playwrights Award, and a finalist for The 2013 Sundance Theater Lab and The Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab. Jonathan is a graduate of The Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program at The Juilliard School and Vassar College where he studied mythology and religion. Hes a proud member of the downtown New York theater company Partial Comfort and originally hails from Los Angeles.

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

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below is a list of Jonathan Caren's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Catch the Fish         Dance Company, The         Friends In Transient Places         Morning the Sun Fell Down         Recommendation, The         Ten         Venerable Raman Gupta, The

Catch the Fish

Synopsis:
a fast talking journalist follows three fast-lane kids and plans to write a scathing expose of their lives.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
The New School For Drama, New York International Fringe Festival    2006

Organisations:
New York Fringe Festival

1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY, 2013   978-0822229032

Music:
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Genre:
1h 30m dark comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Dance Company, The

Dance Company, The
Three former jocks infiltrate an all-girls high school dance company.

Notes:
The Dance Company was presented as part of Keen Teens 2013, a unique and free educational theatre program, run by the Drama Desk and Obie award-winning Keen Company. Keen Teens seeks to improve the quality of plays written for high school students by commissioning scripts from highly regarded playwrights, and gives students the opportunity to work with professional artists in an Off Broadway setting.

1st Produced:
Theatre Row, NYC    03 May 2013

Organisations:
Keen Company - Keen Teens Season 7

1st Published:
http://www.samuelfrench.com/p/12725/dance-company-the-keen-teens-volume-1   978-0573702051

Music:
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Genre:
30 min comedy

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  7            Other:  -

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Friends In Transient Places

Synopsis:
a series of interwoven stories on an airplane journey from one terminal to another.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
The Juilliard School    -

Organisations:
the Juilliard School

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Genre:
Comedy/Musical

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Morning the Sun Fell Down

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
Rattlestick Fest    2013

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Recommendation, The

Synopsis:
Who is your best friend? the person who treats you the nicest? the person who knows you the best? Or is it the one who owes you the most? When a chance encounter with a street hustler sheds new light on their friendship, Iskinder and Feldman are forced to question the ties that bind them together.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
The Sheryl And Harvey White Theater    -

Organisations:
the Old Globe

1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY, 2013   978-0822229056

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Ten

Synopsis:
To celebrate their 10th anniversary, Partial Comfort Productions will present TeN, is a single evening of 10 short plays by 10 writers helmed by 10 directors and featuring a cast of 10 actors.
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
written by Samuel D. Hunter, Thomas Bradshaw, Robert O'Hara, Laura Marks, Chad Beckim, Ross Maxwell, edith Freni, Jonathan Caren, Greg Keller, Sam Marks

1st Produced:
Wild Project
195 East 3rd Street, New York, NY 10009    18 Sep 2012

Organisations:
Partial Comfort Productions

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Genre:
short play

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Venerable Raman Gupta, The

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
Flea First Look Series    2012

Organisations:
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1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Genre:
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Parts:
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