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Martin Casella

MARTIN CASELLA

  
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    Elaine Devlin Literary, Inc.  represented by Elaine Devlin

After graduating from California Institute of the Arts, I spent three years as an assistant to director Steven Spielberg, on the films 1941; CLOSE ENCOUNTERS the THIRD KIND: the DIRECTOR's CUT; USED CARS (as assistant to Bob Zemeckis) and the Academy-award winning classic, RAIDERS OF the LOST ARK. I then spent the next few years pursuing an acting career, appearing in numerous plays, TV movies and features films, including a leading role in Tobe Hooper and Mr. Spielberg's POLTERGEIST, before I started writing for the Theatre, television and feature films.

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

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         Beautiful Dreamer         Big Enchilada         Desert Fire         Directions For Restoring the Dead         George Bush Goes To Hell         Grand Junction         Happy Holidays         Irish Curse         Mates         Paper Moon         Paydirt         Play It Cool         Report, The         Saint Heaven         Scituate         Taking Care of Mrs Carroll

Beautiful Dreamer

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Big Enchilada

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Desert Fire

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Directions For Restoring the Dead

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Best friends have to face a life changing tragedy

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the 2013 Winner of the Great Gay Play Contest, sponsored by Pride Films and Plays in Chicago

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Randolph, Vermont    

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3rd Annual Chandler Summer Pride Festival

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Gay, full length

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George Bush Goes To Hell

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This one-act play was written for a theater festival here in NYC during the mid-2000's. It's about how George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld are killed in a terrorist shooting. they end up in Hell. "W" is a weepy mess, Cheney is cursing and shouting his head off and "Rummy" wants to speak to someone in charge about the mistake that's been made. Who shows up to welcome them but President and fellow Texan Lyndon B. Johnson. the late Prez answers their questions about why all four of them are in Hell. Apparently it has to do with how the four men sold their souls - at one time in their lives - to a little company named Halliburton, which in Johnson's time was known as Root, Kellogg and Brown. It also turns out that Hell is actually a cold, dark place where there is no light or warmth. Because there is no oil. Not a drop.

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Grand Junction

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Happy Holidays

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The matriarch of an Italian-American family prepares for Christmas by making her traditional Christmas Eve gnocchi

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Music and lyrics by Michele Brourman & Amanda Broom; Anne Hampton Callaway; Giles Chiasson & Linda Coler; James McBride; Gerald Sternbach & Lindy Robbins; David Strickland & Ellen Scwartz; book by Martin Casella

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Gay/Lesbian musical

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Irish Curse

Irish Curse
What the Irish Curse is - and how it manifests itself - is the raw centerpiece of this wicked, rollicking and very funny new play. From its blistering language to its brutally honest look at sex and body image, the Irish Curse is a revealing portrait of how men, and society, define masculinity. In doing so, it dares to pose the fundamental question that has been on the minds of men since the beginning of time: Do I measure up to the next guy? Size matters to a small group of Irish-American men (all professionally successful New Yorkers) who meet every Wednesday night, in a Catholic church basement, at a self-help group for men with small penises. This alleged Irish trait is the focus of their weekly sessions, as they all feel this "shortcoming" has ruined their lives. One evening, when a twenty-something blue-collar guy joins the group, he challenges everything the other men think about "the Irish Curse" . . .tackling their obsession with body image and unmasking the comical and truthful questions of identity, masculinity, sex and relationships that men must face every day in the world.

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440 Studios, NY    

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Linhart Theatre NY International Fringe festival

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Comedy. - - Gay/Lesbian, of interest

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Mates

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Paper Moon

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Music by Larry Grossman; lyrics by ellen Fitzhugh; book by Martin Casella

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Paydirt

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Play It Cool

Play It Cool
In 1953 Hollywood, gay life was a world of shadows, innuendo and fear. But at Mary's Hideaway, a stiff gin, a wink and a hot jazz number made it all worthwhile. Play It Cool explores gay underground life in Hollywood in the early 1950s. a young man fresh off the bus finds his way to a speakaway and meets Mary, the very butch owner of the club, who teaches him about jazz, but what she really teaches him is how to live his life.

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Music by Philip Swann; lyrics by Mark Winkler; book by Martin Casella. 4 Los Angeles Ovation Award nominations, including Best World Premiere Musical. 2 GLaaD Media Award nominations (Los Angeles And New York).

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Los Angeles cast album: Cafe Pacific Records (724101883828) 2006

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Musical. - - Gay, full length

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Report, The

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1943. The deadliest civilian tragedy of WWII happened in a London tube station. The British government lied to its people. Now one man must make sense of it all. A haunting, unknown true story. From the author of THE IRISH CURSE.

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Martin Casella, Based on the Novel by Jessica Francis Kane

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Venue #13: Lynn Redgrave Theater @ Culture Project, NY    

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Barry Goralnick, Sarahbeth Grossman, Craig Zehms in Association with Cutting Hedge Productions

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Drama FringeHIGH 2h 10m

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Saint Heaven

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a young doctor, Thom Rivers returns from the North to his Kentucky home in Saint Heaven. His Father has died and he has decided that once he has put his father's affairs in order he will return. then he falls in love with a preacher who speaks in tongues. Believing her to be an epileptic he wants to treat her

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Music by Keith Gordon; lyrics by Keith Gordon; book by Martin Casella

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Blue Heron Arts Center, New York    

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Scituate

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Stewart Lombardi won't get out of bed. the reason why is at the heart of this witty and powerful new play. In an attempt to make him rejoin the world, Stewart's family and friends gather to share the memories of his lover, Robbie-the good. . .and the not-so-good. Scituate, Mass. Not your usual destination
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TBG Arts Complex, NY    

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Outcast Productions

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Play/Drama

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Taking Care of Mrs Carroll

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A group of friends gather to protect the late Mrs Carrol's property from developers. A fading actress, her gay manager, his former lover and Mrs Carroll's estranged son

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Music by David Mettee; lyrics by Georgia Holoff; book by Martin Casella. Based on the book "Taking Care of Mrs Carroll" by Paul Monette

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