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Alexandra Collier

ALEXANDRA COLLIER

  (1979 - )
Nationality:    Australian
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Literary Agent:    HLA Management Pty Ltd  USA: Gersch Agency New York

alexandra Collier is a writer and performer from Melbourne based in New York city. Her play, Still Waiting, won the Re Ross Trust award (2003) and was profiled in the Australian Scriptwriting Centre's collection of the best Australian plays of 2006 and in their Stand alone monologue audition collection (2007). She performed in the premiere of Still Waiting at La Mama (2005), and at the Adelaide Fringe Festival (2006). Other awards/fellowships: Dame Joan Sutherland award (2009), MacDowell Fellowship (2009), Highly Commended in the Marian eldridge National Women's Australian Writing award (2006), Playworks development for Girl's Growing Small, which also received a mentorship from the Victorian Writer's Centre (2005). Other credits include, eclipse, Melbourne Fringe (2000), Tasmania University (2006) and the Will of the Cockroach (NYC, 2007), produced by the Production Company as part of the Australia Project. She was a writer for the Monarch Theatre Company's one minute play festival (NYC, 2007) and for a series of monologues written by female playwrights - So She Said - at the abingdon Theatre (NYC, 2008). Her play Deathless was selected to be workshopped by the Soho Think Tank's Sixth Floor Series and was recently read at the Lark Playwright's Development Center. She is currently the Literary Manger for the Production Company in New York, an Australian-American alliance.

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

         Deathless         Eclipse         Holy Day         Red Letterbox         Still Waiting         Take Me Home         Underland         We Play For the Gods         Will Of the Cockroach, The         Willow's One Night Stand

Deathless

Synopsis:
Plastic particles can be found in every trace of the ocean, water is becoming the new fuel and an area twice the size of Texas in the Pacific is clogged with rubbish as far as the eye can see. Things are falling apart. Meanwhile, Professor Cleave, a passionate biologist, has left America to take up residency in a watery, third world city, to continue his research into radically extending human life. But before long, his daughter and his ex-wife are on his doorstep, each searching for their own life and death solutions. as their existence becomes more and more fragile, each one must face what they are living for.

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as yet unproduced.

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Eclipse

Synopsis:
a woman walks down a secluded street at night. alone. One can only expect the worst. and she does. But what she discovers is far more frightening than she could ever have possibly imagined.

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1st Produced:
Melbourne Fringe Festival    2000

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One Off Productions

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Holy Day

Synopsis:
On their honeymoon Cal finds a photograph of a mysterious woman in husband Tim's passport

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Red Letterbox

Synopsis:
a private eye and his dog are on a secret job when he meets a sexy hitchhiker

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East 13th Street Theater, New York    -

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Still Waiting

Synopsis:
It's Madeleine's last day at the restaurant. But as each day ticks over, with uncanny similarity, she is still waiting. But just beyond the domestic chaos of her unfulfilling job, a cabaret-esque world beckons. In this other world, Shakespeare and song meld and Madeleine performs atop the restaurant tables. In reality, orders are misplaced, customers are obnoxious, and accordion music plays on loop - all punctuated by the constant soundtrack of the kitchen bell. To make matters worse, Madeleine is romantically entangled with Paris, the wannabe poet and waiter; and Dave, the rough-as-guts chef. at any moment, things can and will tip over into a Dean Martin dance sequence. Still waiting. a world where everyone wants to be someone and somewhere else.

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awarded Re Ross Trust Playwright's Development Award, 2006. Profiled in the Australian Script Centre's collection of the best Australian plays of '06.

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Genre:
Comedy/Drama Comedy

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Take Me Home

Synopsis:
Three audience members are taken by taxi to various New York locations

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1st Produced:
Other Forces Festival, New York    07 Jan 2014

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Underland

Synopsis:
a schoolgirl discovers a Japanese business who has just crawled out of the earth having dug his way from Tokyo. He later turns up dead - victim of the Beast

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We Play For the Gods

Synopsis:
"We Play for the Gods was prompted by the question 'on whose shoulders do we as women theater artists stand?'" says Women's Project Producing artistic Director Julie Crosby. This question led 14 artists of the Women's Project Lab to ellen Stewart, the legendary founder of La MaMa who in the 1960s blew open the doors of Dramatic expression and gave voice to an extraordinary and diverse generation of theater artists. Inspired by her words, 'We play for the Gods and in return, they play for us,' this collaborative play was developed at Womens Project over eighteen months, three workshops, abundant good humor, and the occasional mojito." We Play for the Gods is the tale of four ordinary women working in a research institute and one trickster goddess who messes around with their lives as only a deity can.
- nytheatre.com

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Created By: Alexandra Collier, Elizabeth R. English, Charity Ballard, Jessi D. Hill, Andrea Kuchlewska, Manda Martin, Dominique Morisseau, Kristen Palmer, Sarah Rasmussen, Mia Rovegno, Melisa Tien, Nicole A. Watson, Stephanie Ybarra, Stefanie Zadravec

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Cherry Lane theatre
38 Commerce Street, New York, NY 10014    01 Jun 2012

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Will Of the Cockroach, The

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the Production Company presents the Australia Project II: Australia Strikes Back!, A program of new works by Australian playwrights. the following description is from the show's press release: "Twelve Acclaimed Australian playwrights create pieces based on their perceptions of the United States. the Australia Project II: Australia Strikes Back! includes new plays from some of Australia's most celebrated playwrights. the Production Company's work promotes And deepens cultural exchange between the United States And Australia And encourages Artists to explore the relationship between the two countries."
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Willow's One Night Stand

Synopsis:
Willow and her indie rock band disappeared without trace whilst on tour. She is now back and about to do a performance for an audience of one but she is haunted by strange forces

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Written by Alexandra Collier and Greta Gertler

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Genre:
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