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SHAWN FISHER
(1970 - )Nationality: USA
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Literary Agent: Gurman Agency LLC
Shawn Fisher is a playwright, designer and director who currently runs the MFA program in Theatre design at Utah State University. a native of NJ, Shawn has worked professionally as a designer throughout the United States. as a playwright he has written several plays including SCOPe, Chumming, the News: august 4, 2005, the Commodore Murder and the Crow Song. Chumming, a short-form play, was workshopped at the Kennedy Center in Washington. SCOPe and "the News" were produced by the Fusion Theatre Project, an ensemble-based socially-minded Theatre group founded and directed by Fisher.
Research: Member of the Dramatists Guild of America (as at 2015)
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(obsolete) Unkindness Of Ravens, The Chumming Crow Song, The Do Not Hit Golf Balls Into Mexico Fear Not Beasts Of Sand How To Make Rope Swing News, The: August 4, 2005 Scope Shuck, The Streetlight Woodpecker(obsolete) Unkindness Of Ravens, The
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After days of hiking in the pouring rain six strangers converge on a hillside shack. Marley and wife Deb had hoped that being away together might patch up their failing marriage. Bee who is 16 is with her new companion 40 year old companion Edward. Brando is about to be kicked out of college and has his fantasy loving step brother with him
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Lesbian characters drama full length
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Top of PageChumming
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Two brothers Chip(17) and Buck (14) are on a dock fishing and chopping chum. they reflect on their abusive father, baseball and fishing. By the end of the play (which is the beginning of the story) we learn how and why their lives have just changed, and the truth behind their choice of "bait".
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a three-minute play in four scenes. This play is performed in reverse sequential order. each new scene is set earlier in the timeline to the previous scene.
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The Kennedy Center, Washington, Dc (Staged Reading)
2005
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Kennedy Center Playwriting Intensive
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Genre:
Short-form Drama
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Male: 2 Female: - Other: 1 non-speaking male
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Top of PageCrow Song, The
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a wandering and sad young girl meets an aggressive and hated crow in the forest. the Girl, ostracized for her deafness and the Crow, ostracized for his voice meet their matches in each other. after a rocky start, the two become friends, learn to communicate and redefine what makes them unique and valuable.
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Children's play with one deaf Actor who uses sign language.
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West Chester, Pa
1993
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the Public Theatre Company
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Children's One-act / Deaf theatre
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Male: 1 Female: 1 Other: 6 any gender
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Top of PageDo Not Hit Golf Balls Into Mexico
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A former bus driver a tired and broken man has retired. The skeletons twelve Mexican migrants are discovered in the Arizona desert and he thinks back to that fateful day
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Top of PageFear Not Beasts Of Sand
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Nell and her boyfriend Brooks escape from rehab and head for her families summer cottage. Then her parents turn up for the Fourth of July and then her older brother from med school.
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Top of PageHow To Make Rope Swing
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Wealthy town matriarch and former elementary school principle Delores Wright gets trapped in an old school house with the school custodian Bo. It gets darker and colder. They talk about the past. In 1952the schools became integrated and Bo's wife was the first black teacher. However she was drowned in a freak accident involving a swing. Bo starts to suspect from what Miss Wright is saying that maybe it was not an accident and Miss Wright knows what really happened
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Top of PageNews, The: August 4, 2005
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Six unrelated characters reflect on a single days news (August 4, 2005) during which patriotism, family, war and heroism are the headlines.
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a ten-minute play done in A fragmented direct Address style. Six monologues Are intertwined with varying perspectives on America, heroism, war And family. Based on one day's Actual newscast.
1st Produced:
Caine Lyric Theatre, Logan, Ut
2006
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the Fusion Theatre Project
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Short-form Drama Ten min
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Male: 3 Female: 3 Other: Some roles may change gender
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Top of PageScope
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the story follows two soldiers, a US army sniper and his partner/spotter in the days following a flawed mission. the sniper suddenly faces his most difficult battle when he comes face-to-face with his recent and unidentified target, now lying wounded in a hospital. the space is intended to be simple and sparse. the play moves from the real-time setting of a military hospital ante-room into various flashbacks of battle and home-life. actual quotes taken directly from the US army Sniper Manual are a recurring motif.
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This play is fiction inspired by true events.
1st Produced:
Caine Lyric Theatre, Logan, Ut
2006
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the Fusion Theatre Project
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Black Comedy/Drama
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Male: 4 Female: 3 Other: 1 Female Voice (live or recorded)
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Top of PageShuck, The
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1974 and a new President is being inaugurated. Constance is on her rusting fishing boat - she too is past her prime. Her son has been lost at sea. An old retired fisherman tries to woo her but she is having none of it. Her estranged daughter turns up wanting to crash on the boat
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Top of PageStreetlight Woodpecker
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Benji returns home from the war wounded. He cannot stay at what was the family home as his father has committed suicide and the house has gone. He moves in with old school friend Sam who is openly gay. His older sister a strict Catholic disapproves of this and keeps warning him about Sam. Benji tries his best to thwart Sam's budding romance and he causes trouble at the gay bar when he goes. A woodpecker has started pecking at a metal street light making a terrible noise. Benji wants to shoot it
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Gay drama full length
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