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Charles Gordone

CHARLES GORDONE  (1925 - 1995)

 Nationality:    African-American
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Literary Agent:    William Morris Endeavor Entertainment, LLC  


Born in Cleveland, OH on October 12, 1925. B.A., Los Angeles State College. Served in the U.S. air Force. actor and Director. Member: actor's Studio; Ensemble Studio. Recipient: National Institute of Arts and Letters; Drama Desk award; Critic's Circle award; Obie award (acting); Pulitzer Prize.

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 Anabiosis         Baba Chops         Block, The         Gordone Is A Muthah         Last Chord, The         Little More Light Around The Place, A         No Place To Be Somebody         Qualification For Anabiosis, A         Under The Boardwalk         Worl's Champeen Lip Dansuh An' Watah Mellon Jooglah

Anabiosis

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City Players, St Louis, MO    1983

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Baba Chops

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Wilshire Ebell Theatre, Los Angeles    1974

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Block, The

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Musical

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Gordone Is A Muthah

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a series of monologues, similar in type to the ones introduced in the author's No Place to Be Somebody.

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The work was first published And offered for sale to the public At the 1970 Carnegie Recital Hall production by Springer-Warner Productions. The present copyright owners Are his widow - myself, jeanne warner - And his four children. We have no documentation of publishing rights Assigned to Chilton. We can be contacted At jw162@att.net. thank you. jeanne warner

1st Produced:
Carnegie Recital Hall, New York    1970

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in "Best Short Plays 1973", Chilton, Radnor, Pennsylvania, 1973   -

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One act

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Last Chord, The

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Bishop Gregory runs afoul of the Mafia in a very complex plot

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Melodrama

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Little More Light Around The Place, A

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From the novel by tSidney Easton

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Sheridan Square Playhouse, New York    1964

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adaptation

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No Place To Be Somebody

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Black innkeeper tries to survive in an American neighbourhood controlled by white thugs.

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1st Produced:
Public Theatre, New York Shakespeare Festival, N.Y.    1969

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Bobbs Merrill, Indianapolis, 1969   -

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Genre:
Black-Black Comedy

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Qualification For Anabiosis, A

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aka Anabiosis

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New York    1978

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Under The Boardwalk

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1st Produced:
Reading, Frank Silvera Writers' Workshop, Teachers, Inc., New York    1976

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Genre:
Screenplay

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Worl's Champeen Lip Dansuh An' Watah Mellon Jooglah

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NYSF, at the Other Stage    1969

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