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Bridgette Dunlap

BRIDGETTE DUNLAP  

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Bridgette Dunlap is a writer, theater director and the artistic Director of the ateh Theater Group. For the ateh, she directed her adaptations of Kelly Link's The Girl Detective, aimee Bender's The Girl in the Flammable Skirt, Judy Budnitz's Long Distance and alice's adventures in Wonderland. Other productions include The Odyssey (The Loft Theater); The Frog Prince, The Little Prince and her adaptations of alice's adventures in Wonderland and Grimms' Tales (atlantic for Kids); This is the Rill Speaking, a Dopey Fairy Tale, Sure Thing and Shut Up (atlantic Conservatory); her adaptation of Milorad Pavic's The Dictionary of the Khazars and Now Here by Rachel Hoeffel (Williamstown Theater Festival Workshop); The Vagina Monologues (NYU); Bobby Gould in Hell (Shuvi Productions); a Slant of Sun and her adaptation of Sylvia Plath's Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams (FringeNYC). Bridgette is a graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the arts where she studied at the atlantic Theater Company and with the Sfumato Theater in Bulgaria, Romania and Poland. She is a member of the Lincoln Center Directors' Lab and teaches at the atlantic Theater Company acting School.

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

Alice's Adventures In Wonderland         Girl Detective, The         Girl In The Flammable Skirt, The         Grimms' Tales         Long Distance



Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

Synopsis:
The White Rabbit races by and alice is off on a mad adventure that will turn her world upside down. alice's adventures in Wonderland is a fun, frenetic re-imagining of Lewis Carroll's fantastic cats, queens, and caterpillars and the feisty little girl unlike anyone they have ever met before.

Notes:
adapted from the book by Lewis Carroll. "as inspired An Adaptation of A children's classic As I've ever seen." -The New York Times

1st Produced:
The atlantic Theater, New York, NY    -

Organisations:
The atlantic Theater Company

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Children's, comedy

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  12 (flexible)

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Girl Detective, The

Synopsis:
The Girl Detective is a master of disguise. She finds missing things, chases tap-dancing bank robbers and eats our dreams. But in her life of intrigue and adventure one mystery remains: the whereabouts of her long lost mother.

Notes:
adapted from the short story by Kelly Link. "Beneath its fizzy fun, the play Asks A question that haunts our nightmares: What if life is A series of increasingly serious losses-first, A cat runs Away, then our husband vamooses with the secretary, then we forget our mother's face-until the underworld claims All And we Are left with nothing?" -The Village Voice

1st Produced:
The Connelly Theater, New York, NY    2007

Organisations:
The ateh Theater Group

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Magical realism, comic drama, full length play

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  8            Other:  flexible

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Girl In The Flammable Skirt, The

Synopsis:
Mimi is a closet mermaid. annie's lover is experiencing reverse evolution. The fire girl can't stop burning things. a pregnant teen is sent to live with a hunchback. and a girl goes up in flames. The Girl in the Flammable Skirt investigates otherness and isolation with humor and pathos.

Notes:
adapted from the stories of Aimee Bender.

1st Produced:
The Connelly Theater, New York, NY    2005

Organisations:
The ateh Theater Group

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Magical realism, comic drama, five short plays

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  5            Other:  flexible

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Grimms' Tales

Synopsis:
a princess fails to honor her agreement with a ball-fetching frog and is tried in a fantastical court. ashputtle escapes her cinders for the palace while her ravishing but brutal sisters face their fate. a mouse, a bird and a sausage set up housekeeping. With modern twists and returns to the classic stories, Grimms' Tales is a wild, enchanting retelling of the timeless "Hansel & Gretel," "The Frog King," "ashputtle," and "The Mouse, the Bird and the Sausage."

Notes:
Don't expect every character in ''Grimms' Tales'' to live happily ever After. Don't expect some of them to live At All. But Bridgette Dunlap, who Adapted And directed these four stories, knows that A little gruesomeness can be very funny. - The New York Times

1st Produced:
The atlantic Theater, New York, NY    2004

Organisations:
The atlantic Theater Company

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Children's, Fairytale, five short plays

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  6            Other:  flexible

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Long Distance

Synopsis:
amy's little sister went off to college and caught leprosy; Meredith's parents' refusal to ask for directions could be deadly; Lisa's mom will get out of her mammogram even if she has to break the laws of space and time to do it. These funny and frightening plays ask us: how do you protect a loved one from a chaotic universe?

Notes:
adapted from the short stories "Visitors," "Flush" And "Skin Care" by Judy Budnitz. "Dazzling. . .leaves you savoring what A strange And powerful thing familial love is." -The New York Times

1st Produced:

Organisations:
The ateh Theater Group and Collective PaST at chashama

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Magical realism, comic drama, three short plays

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  6            Other:  flexible

Further Reference:
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