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Dana Lynn Formby

DANA LYNN FORMBY

  
Nationality:    USA
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Dana Lynn Formby is a Resident Playwright at Chicago Dramatists. Her play Johnny 10 Beers' Daughter was listed on the Kilroys' Honorable mention list for 2015. Her play American Beauty Shop was read at Steppenwolfs First Look 2014. It was also nominated for Kilroys 2014s The List. Her plays have been produced, workshopped, and read by Pegasus, Chicago Dramatists, Mortar Theatre Company, Steep, PICT, Victory Gardens, WordBRIDGE, Florida Studio Theatre, The Alliance Theatre of Atlanta, The Kennedy Center, and New York Theatre Workshop. Her short play A Deck of Monsters was featured in Goodman's New Play Bake-Off. Her play Until Death was produced in 2015 at Concordia University Chicago in association with Chicago Dramatists. She was a Finalist for the 2015 Princess Grace Award in playwriting.

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below is a list of Dana Lynn Formby's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         American Beauty Shop         Armed With Peanut Butter         Christmas Armaments         Corazon De MANZana         Corazon de Manzana         Deck Of Monsters, A         If You Split A Second         Inherit The Whole         Johnny Ten Beer's Daughter         Labeller         Small Of Her Back, The         There's An Ocean In Nebraska         Until Death

American Beauty Shop

American Beauty Shop
Sue struggles to open a beauty shop in her basement, Daughter Judy waits for a letter of acceptance from Berkeley

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1st Produced:
Dramatists Theater, Chicago     Mar 2011

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1st Published:
Bloomsbury Methuen Drama 2016   978-1474293570

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Armed With Peanut Butter

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It takes a couple of minutes for the Dramatic reveal in armed with Peanut Butter, but it is a potent moment. Clarice (Sara Barker) is institutionalized due to a war-time injury that makes her want to isolate herself from her husband Nick (Seth Vaughn) and her daughter Julie. Nick has to find a way to help Clarice fight through her bitterness and embrace life again, and making a peanut butter sandwich is part of that plan.
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1st Produced:
Source Festival, Washington Dc     2009

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Christmas Armaments

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1st Produced:
Dramatists Theater, Chicago     Dec 2014

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Step Up Productions

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Short Play

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Corazon De MANZana

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Three sets of mothers and daughters find their lives inexplicably intertwined when a child in Juarez is murdered

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Corazon de Manzana

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Three sets of mothers and daughters living in Canada, America and Mexico. The Mexican daughter goes missing

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WordBRIDGE     June 2009

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Deck Of Monsters, A

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in Goodman's New Play Bake-Off

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If You Split A Second

Synopsis:
Mick Johnson sits in a prison cell thinking about the events that led to him to be there. A split second decision

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1st Produced:
Alliance Theatre, Atlanta     Feb 2011

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Inherit The Whole

Synopsis:
A Vietnam vet lives in isolation in the house he inherited from his parents. His siblings turn up and start looking for a box of gold their father allegedly buried thirty years ago

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1st Produced:
Mortar Theatre Company, Chicago     June 2010

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Johnny Ten Beer's Daughter

Synopsis:
A man joins the Marines. Sixteen years later his daughter joins too. They are both sent to Iraq. Now back in the States they go fishing

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1st Produced:
Dramatists Theater, Chicago     Aug 2014

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Labeller

Synopsis:
Two sisters must decide how to lay their mother to rest. The mother has left her will as a podcast

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1st Produced:
Dramatists Theater, Chicago     June 2015

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Small Of Her Back, The

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Danielle Fitzman believes the glass ceiling has been shattered, allowing her to climb her way up the corporate ladder of the NP Power company. When an opportunity opens on the board, Danielle must battle tit for tat - learning tit works more than tat. She finds defining the difference between sexual harassment and harmless flirting akin to drawing a line in sand during a windstorm. a hilarious and timely look at workplace sexual politics.

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There's An Ocean In Nebraska

Synopsis:
Struggling actor Peter yearns to perform but his mother fills him with guilt. Dodie steals Gus a talking blowfish from a pet shop

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1st Produced:
Dramatists Theater, Chicago     Mar 2014

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Until Death

Synopsis:
Feminist Devon Thompson is head over heels in love with Josiah Boor. She proposes to him. The trouble is that Josiah is a Mormon and his mother has definite ideas about how a family should be run and the wife's place in it

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1st Produced:
Dramatists Theater, Chicago     Aug 2012

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