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JOHN CLANCY
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John Clancy is an OBIe award winning director and executive artistic Director of Clancy Productions, Inc. He is the founding artistic Director of Present Company and a founding artistic Director of the New York International Fringe Festival. He is an award-winning playwright and his productions have toured the world. He has been honored with five Scotsman Fringe Firsts at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, two Best of the Festivals at the Adelaide Fringe Festival, a Glasgow Herald angel award for direction and a New York Magazine award for "creativity, enterprise and vision." In 2007, his company was awarded the inaugural Edinburgh Festival award by the Edinburgh International Festival and commissioned to create a new work for the Festival. He serves as the executive Director of the League of Independent Theater, the advocacy organization for 99-seat Theaters and their practitioners in New York City. He lives on the Lower east Side with his wife and partner, Nancy Walsh.
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Another Beautiful Story
the Narrator stands center stage. But before anything is revealed, he falls over, dead. enter Artsy Guy, Lead actress, and Fourth Character who attempt to take over where the Narrator left off. a play about the idea of "meta" in the theater and whether a play can have meaning if the story is never told.
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1st Produced:
Crux (The 24 Hour Company) (New York, Ny, United States) 1998
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1st Published:
Playscripts, Inc - New York 978-0970904690
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10-12 min Comedy/Drama
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Male: 1 Female: 1 Other: 1 male, 1 female, 2 either (4 actors possible: 1-3 males, 1-3 females)
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Apocalyptic Road Show With Your Hosts Gdjet And Lulu, The
Synopsis:
Join your hosts Gdjet and Lulu (and their mysterious musical companion) as they guide you through the coming apocalypse and bid a fond farewell to the late, great, damned and doomed human race. a fierce and ragged, comic and profane cabaret that slices down to the hidden reality of the way we live now. a little shot of courage in the face of a terrible truth. This is part of Ice Factory 2012.
- nytheatre.com
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by John Clancy, music and lyrics by Tim Brinkhurst
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Clancy Productions and the Occasional Cabaret
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Play/Drama 65 min
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Male: 1 Female: 2 Other: -
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Broccoli Incident, The
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the Narrator stands center stage. But before anything is revealed, he falls over, dead. enter Artsy Guy, Lead actress, and Fourth Character who attempt to take over where the Narrator left off. a play about the idea of "meta" in the theater and whether a play can have meaning if the story is never told.
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Captain Overlord's Folly, or, The Fool's Revenge
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What starts as a Shavian play along Major Barbara lines takes a Pirandello turn with the appearance of six clowns in search of an author. Kurt Rhoads plays the Captain, a man with a past but also a rich, beautiful ward, Melissa Lynch's Sue. after some suitable pomposity with his pal, Baron Waterloo Gallipoli (Dave Calvitto), we see Sue committing to the Captain's handsome factory worker Tom (Wil Petre) the day before she inherits on her 18th birthday. a spanner arrives in the substantial person of Mike McShane playing John Staine, an evil man who demands Sue's hand (not to mention body and cash) in return for keeping an unmentioned dark secret. after the interval, the play deconstructs as the clowns, led by a delightfully whacky Paul Urcioli, stage a bloody massacre and take over the plot, observed and commented on by a trio of unintelligible professors.
- Peter Fisher, britishtheatreguide.info
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commissioned by the Edinburgh International Festival, Jonathan Mills, Director, in 2007
1st Produced:
stage reading: Edinburgh International Festival Aug 2008
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commissioned by the Edinburgh International Festival. (eIF)
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Play/Drama 120 min
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Male: 10 Female: 4 Other: -
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Charmer
Synopsis:
A young man with paranormal powers escapes from an institution with his trainer and is sold off to the highest bidder.
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1st Produced:
29th Street Repertory Theater, New York City 1992
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Play/Drama 90 min
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Male: 5 Female: - Other: -
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Event, The
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a man appears in a pool of light in front of a room of suddenly silent strangers and the eVeNT begins. Matt Oberg delivers this comic & probing look at the act of theater and the way we live today.
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New York International Fringe Festival at Players Theatre 2009
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63 min monologue
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Male: 1 Female: - Other: -
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Fatboy
John Clancy's satire on modern America's insatiable appetites, where the population gobbles pork chops, sex and consumer durables while the government gobbles up small nations, is big, broad and brash. the word "subtle" does not enter its theatrical vocabulary. This is a world where Fatboy is a great big bully who, like the US, takes "what I want" and destroys the rest. Played as a zany Punch and Judy show, a theatre within a theatre, the piece has some very nice touches, particularly in its play on theatrical conventions. the best moments come in a courtroom scene where Fatboy is on trial for war crimes. the justice system proves itself incapable of standing up to his bullying tactics, and he outlines his plans for world domination "leading a coalition of the weak and willing". - Guardian
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1st Produced:
Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh 2004
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assembly Theatre
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Genre:
Brutal Comedy
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Male: 4 Female: 1 Other: -
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Notice of Default and Opportunity to Cure
Synopsis:
A monologue about the role of money in our lives and the price or "worth" of art in the world.
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Notice of Default and Opportunity to Cure premiered at The Theatorium in New York City in March of 2000. It was produced by The Present Company, directed and designed by Nancy Walsh and performed by John Clancy. It was inspired and made possible by Brookshire Equities, Ltd, the landlords of The Theatorium and their decision to serve papers on The Present Company in an attempt to evict the company from The Theatorium. The play was written in the three months between the serving of the papers and the court date given to the plaintiffs.
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Theatorium in New York City Mar 2000
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Present Company
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monologue 65 min
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Male: 1 Female: - Other: -
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Paper Man
Synopsis:
Jake looses his job and goes to live on the streets and explores the dark side of the city he knew from years before
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1st Produced:
Present Company, New York 1996
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Drama
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Male: - Female: - Other: -
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Piano Store Plays, The
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Remember the old Piano Store back when it was an illegal speakeasy? Before there was a Present Company or a New York Fringe? Back when we were performing at midnight on the Lower east Side when the Lower east Side was the Lower east Side? these short plays were written for that venue in the early 1990s by John Clancy, and now return to NYC for the first time. This is Clancy's first appearance as an actor in NYC in ten years.
- nytheatre.com
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1st Produced:
House of Borax at The Piano Store on Ludlow Street, New York City Aug 1991
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four short plays
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Male: 3 Female: 1 Other: -
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Secret Agent Man
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1st Produced:
Samuel Beckett Theatre, New York 1994
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