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David Foley

DAVID FOLEY

  
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    Gordon Dickerson  

David Foleys plays have been performed across the United States and Europe and have been translated into French, Italian, German, Czech, Greek, and Dutch. New York productions include NANCE ONEIL and PARADISE with Blue Coyote Theater Group, THE LAST DAYS OF MADALYN MURRAY OHAIR, IN EXILE and CRESSIDA AMONG THE GREEKS at the Ohio Theatre, THE MURDERS AT ARGOS at FringeNYC, and A HOLE IN THE FENCE at the Ohio. CRESSIDA and A HOLE IN THE FENCE have also been produced at the White Bear Theatre in London. CRESSIDA received the Dramarama Award from the Playwrights Center in San Francisco. SUFFERING THE WITCH won the Southwest Theatre Association Award and has been performed (as AMERICAN WITCH) at Théâtre de Poche in Brussels and at Théâtre Proscenium in Liège. Other plays include SAD HOTEL (nominated for an American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award), MOTHER CALDWELL, and ANTINOUS, OR THE PROBLEM OF BEAUTY. His thriller DEADLY MURDER was nominated for a 2008 Edgar Award (under its original title IF/THEN) and is published by Samuel French. His other plays are published by Oberon Books in London. His first novel, THE TRAVELERS COMPANION, is available as an e-book on Amazon. He has an MFA in Fiction Writing from New York University and is working on his second novel.

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         Cressida Among the Greeks         Deadly Murder (As If/then)         Earning a Sharp Rebuke from Emily Post         Hole In the Fence, The         Last Days Of Madalyn Murray O'Hair In Exile, The         Mother Caldwell         Murders At Argos         Nance O'Neil         Paradise         Sad Hotel         Standards Of Decency 3: 300 Vaginas Before Breakfast         Standards Of Decency Project         Suffering the Witch         Switch

Cressida Among the Greeks

Synopsis:
post 9/11 version of the Troilus and Cressida legend. Cressida among the Greeks takes place during the last days of the Trojan War. the story of the doomed lovers is woven together with the foibles of the Trojan royal family as they try to stave off teh impending disaster.

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New York    -

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Deadly Murder (As If/then)

Deadly Murder (As If/then)
It's got everything you associate with the venerable dinner theatre's thriller oeuvre - recognisable faces in the cast, a high standard of realism in the set design, guns and knives in the props cupboard, and blackmail, murder, cross and double cross aplenty in the script.
- Matt Boothman, British theatre Guide

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1st Produced:
Theatre Workshop Of Owensboro    14 Jun 2007

Organisations:
International Mystery Writers' Festival

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Genre:
Mystery

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Earning a Sharp Rebuke from Emily Post

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1st Produced:
-    2006

Organisations:
Blue Coyote Theater Group

1st Published:
in "Standards of Decency Series 1", http://www.indietheaternow.com/Plays   -

Music:
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Genre:
short play

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Hole In the Fence, The

Hole In the Fence, The
It's 1919 and the US naval base in Newport, Rhode Island, is mired in 'conditions of vice'. Mr Vole has a plan to clean it up. He orders a group of young sailors to infiltrate Newport's dens of depravity, meet other young sailors and have sex with them; then uses their graphic reports to conduct a string of arrests. Only when the investigation snares an episcopal priest does it explode in a scandal that reaches up to the highest level of government. Based on a real-life sex scandal, a Hole in the Fence is a comic exploration of desire, duplicity, and the slippery terrain of public morality.

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Organisations:
Box of Tricks Theatre Company

1st Published:
Oberon Books, London >>>, 2007   1840027908

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  11            Female:  -            Other:  doubling

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Last Days Of Madalyn Murray O'Hair In Exile, The

Synopsis:
imagines an alternative conclusion to the real-life disappearance of a notorious atheist.

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1st Published:
in Three Plays by David Foley published by Oberon,    1840024739

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Play/Drama

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Mother Caldwell

Synopsis:
a devout conservative standing for office is tricked into believing that she has heard the voice of God

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1st Published:
in Three Plays by David Foley published by Oberon,    1840024739

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Murders At Argos

Murders At Argos
the Murders at argos retells the Oreseia story with Orestes and electra as murderous teens. the play is set in ancient Greece but the world of the play is hilariously, horrifyingly modern: the absent father, the self-involved mother, the alienated children sinking into violence and madness in society gone terribly awry.

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Organisations:
Hyperion Theatre, Seattle

1st Published:
Oberon Books, London >>>,    1840023236

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  10            Female:  10            Other:  -

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Nance O'Neil

Synopsis:
When actress Nance O'Neil arrived in Boston in 1904 with her repertoire of tragic heroines, the critics hailed her as "the American Sarah Bernhardt." But it was her relationship with the infamous Lizzie Borden that caused the bigger sensation. David Foley's Nance O'Neil, imaginatively elaborated from a historical footnote, examines the fascinating relationship between these two women. Were they in love? Or were there other motivations at play?
- nytheatre.com

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Organisations:
Blue Coyote Theater Company

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Genre:
Play/Drama. - - Gay/Lesbian, of interest

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Paradise

Synopsis:
follows three Manhattan couples and a dissolute priest who inadvertently set off a chain of events that leads to consequences none could have foreseen. the press release says, "Pieced together like a beautiful mosaic, this somber comedy-Drama eavesdrops on their poignant and often very funny musings on love and faith as each couple searches for connection, lasting passion, and (perhaps) redemption."

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1st Produced:
Access Theatre, 380 Broadway, 4th Floor, New York, NY 10013    03 Feb 2006

Organisations:
Blue Coyote Theater Group

1st Published:
http://www.indietheaternow.com/Play/paradise   -

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  8            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Sad Hotel

Sad Hotel
Sad Hotel is a fictionalised account of Tennessee Williams' relationship with his lover, Frank Merlo. Set in a house on the Florida coast in the early sixties, the play traces the dissolution of a 15-year relationship under pressures of fame, failure and addiction.

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1st Published:
Oberon Books, London >>>, 1999   1840020857

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Genre:
Biographical. - - Gay/Lesbian, historical characters

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Standards Of Decency 3: 300 Vaginas Before Breakfast

Synopsis:
Blue Coyote theater group commissioned eight of their favorite playwrights to create new short plays meditating on new media and pornography. Presented in a stripped-down style, the plays are raunchy, funny, and surprisingly tender. Is our pornutopia breaking down our capacities for empathy and reflective thought, for intimacy and sustained attention? Standards of Decency 3: 300 Vaginas Before Breakfast uses a very old medium to explore what the new media are doing to us, publicly and privately, for better and for worse, at the place where technology, sex, and relationships collide.
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
written by David Johnston, Matthew Freeman, David Foley, Mac Rodgers, Jordan Seavey, Bruce Goldstone, Jacqueline Christy, Cheri Magid, Adam Szymkowicz

1st Produced:
Access theatre
380 Broadway, 4th floor, New York, NY 10013    02 Jun 2011

Organisations:
Blue Coyote Theater Company

1st Published:
http://www.indietheaternow.com/Play/standards-of-decency-series-3   -

Music:
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Genre:
short play

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Standards Of Decency Project

Synopsis:
Blue Coyote theater Group presents a program of nine new short plays that collectively the notions of decency and obscenity. the playwrights were asked to write a piece that includes at least one of these elements--nudity, blasphemy, and violence--in a manner that is fully warranted and justified (that is, that avoids mere gratuitousness or sensationalism), while also intended to offend conventional standards of decency. Blue Coyote says that it seeks to spark a discussion about the uses and abuses of transgressive performance onstage with this presentation.
nytheatre.com

Notes:
the playwrights Are: David Johnston, Mathew Freeman, David Foley, Brian Dykstra, Boo Killebrew, Laura Henry, Kristen Palmer, John Yearley, And Stan Richardson

1st Produced:
Access Theatre, 380 Broadway, 4th Floor, New York, NY 10013    2006

Organisations:
Blue Coyote Theater Group

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Short Play One act

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Suffering the Witch

Synopsis:
a young woman returns to her God-fearing home town to confront her troubled past.

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1st Produced:
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1st Published:
in Three Plays by David Foley published by Oberon,    1840024739

Music:
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Switch

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
-    2008

Organisations:
Blue Coyote Theater Group

1st Published:
in "Standards of Decency Series 2: Blue Coyote's Happy Endings", http://www.indietheaternow.com/Plays   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
short play

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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