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Tom Jacobson

TOM JACOBSON

  
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    Joan Scott  

Tom is a playwright who has had more than 50 productions in Los Angeles and around the country, including the Beloved Disciple, Cyberqueer, and Degenerate art. His adaptations Sperm at Circle X and the Orange Grove at Playwrights Arena were Critic's Choice in the Los Angeles Times. He is literary manager of the Theatre @ Boston Court, a founding member of Playwrights Ink, and a board member of Cornerstone Theater Company. He teaches playwriting and related courses for UCLa extension. In 2005 he collaborated with the Road Theatre Company on a sold-out, extended run of Bunbury following their 1998 production of Tainted Blood (winner of seven Valley Theatre League awards) and their 2004 production of Ouroboros (Garland award for playwriting, La Weekly awards for playwriting and Production of the Year). Bunbury was nominated for a GLaaD award and two Ovation awards and received a Ticketholder award and a Garland award for playwriting. In 2006 Bunbury was recorded by La Theatre Works (starring Peter Paige of Queer as Folk) and was broadcast on KPCC and other radio stations nationwide. Subsequently Bunbury was produced by the Diverionary Theatre in San Diego, Department of Theatre and Dance at Pomona College, and Long Beach Playhouse Studio Theatre. Born in Denver, Tom has also lived in Pennsylvania, Florida, Oklahoma and Illinois (Chicago) where he graduated from Northwestern University. He received an MFA in Playwriting from UCLA. He is a member of Lutheran Church of the Master where in 2003 he was married to the artist Ramone Munoz. Tom is the Senior Vice President of advancement at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.

Research:    Member of the Dramatists Guild of America (as at 2015)

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         Apocrypha         Battle Hymn         Bell Witch         Beloved Disciple, The         Bunbury         Chinese Massacre         Conserving Melissa         Cool My Tongue         Cyberqueer         Degenerate Art         Friendly Hour, The         Glory Of Her Sex, The         Hell Mouth         House Of the Rising Son         Ill Will         Inherent Vice         Journeys Of Yuzu, The         Lock With Five Keys         Los York         Man Of Honor         Orange Grove, The         Ouroboros         Pipstone         Rosy Fingers Of Dawn         Son Of Othello         Spareribs In the Material World         Sperm         Spontanious Human Combustion         Stereopticon         Sweeter Than Pussy         Tainted Blood         Twentieth-Century Way, The         Voice

Apocrypha

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the debate over which books to include in the New Testament

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Battle Hymn

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a black woman tries to stop her white boyfriend from marrying a Lebanese woman

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Bell Witch

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a poltergeist terrorises a Tennessee farm family in 1820

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Beloved Disciple, The

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Christopher Marlowe, sixteenth-century author of Doctor Faustus, was murdered at the age of 29. This tragicomedy speculates that his death was tied to his scandalous play about the relationship between Jesus and the disciple John. Pick of the Week and nominated for an L.a. Weekly award.

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Bunbury

Bunbury
When he discovers he is only a fictitious character in the Importance of Being earnest, Bunbury joins forces with Rosaline, Romeo's never-seen obsession from Romeo and Juliet. Together, they win back their loves and change the world by changing classic literature. Winner of a Ticketholder award and Garland award for Best New Play, Critic's Choice in the Los Angeles Times

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The Road Theatre Company, North Hollywood, Ca    2005

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Complete play with original cast: L A Theatre Works 2007

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Comedy. - - Gay, theme/character full length

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Chinese Massacre

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Based on a true story of a race riot in 1871 in Los Angeles. Nineteen Chinese men and boys were lynched

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Conserving Melissa

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a conservator becomes obsessed with the mummy she is restoring

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Renegade Theatre Experiment, San Jose, Ca    2004

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Cool My Tongue

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Five gay men at a Christian change programme as they struggle with desire and spirituality

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Cyberqueer

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a lonely college professor finds sex, danger and romance on the Internet in this comedy the Los Angeles Times called "dazzling" and the L.a. Weekly called "menacingly funny." a Critic's Choice in Drama-Logue.

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Celebration Theatre, Los Angeles, Ca    1996

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Degenerate Art

Synopsis:
an expressionist artist battles Nazis and his own ardent nationalism when his art is declared "degenerate" by the totalitarian regime.

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The Complex, Los Angeles, Ca    1991

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Friendly Hour, The

Friendly Hour, The
Based on the actual minutes of a women's club formed in rural South Dakota in 1934, this poignant comedy charts 70 years of personal and national history, from skinning skunks and julebukking in the 30s to restoring native prairie in the new millennium.

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The Road Theatre Company, North Hollywood, Ca    2008

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Glory Of Her Sex, The

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Chevalier d'eon de Beaumont imprisoned for wearing mens clothes

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Hell Mouth

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Tim discovers a previously unknown Caravaggio painting

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House Of the Rising Son

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When Trent brings Felix home to New Orleans to meet his Father and homophobic grandfather, the family's demons come slithering into the light. Watchful ghosts, sinister hustlers, and a myriad of parasites lead Felix on a Southern Gothic journey to St. Louis Cemetery No. 1.

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Ill Will

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a strange and perverse last will and testament

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Inherent Vice

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the museum is having an exhibition of erotic art and trying to woo a prudish donor

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Journeys Of Yuzu, The

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a young assassin trying to discover his origins finds a secret that destroys the World

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Verse Drama

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Lock With Five Keys

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an American professor goes missing in India leading to a search through time for him

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Los York

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Seduction and betrayal or self-sacrificing love? Otis is stuck between two coasts and his two gay uncles, in the middle of an America living in terror. Choosing a grad school was never this hard

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Man Of Honor

Synopsis:
a gay man sabotages his best friend's wedding because he cannot let her go

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Music by Kelly Green; lyrics And book by Tom Jacobson

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Orange Grove, The

Synopsis:
a small Lutheran choir in its death-throes provides the backdrop for this Chekhovian warning of the impending doom of mainline Protestantism in America. Laughter through tears with nice lemon bars. Critic's Choice in the Los Angeles Times.

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Playwrights Arena, Los Angeles, Ca    2005

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Ouroboros

Ouroboros
Two American couples get caught in a chronological palindrome on a trip to Italy. Stigmata, alchemy, adultery and St. Catherine of Siena's severed head plague a nun and a minister in this circular love story that is a comedy if performed forward and a tragedy if performed backward. Winner of Best New Play and Production of the Year La Weekly awards.

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The Road Theatre Company, North Hollywood, Ca    2004

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Broadway Play Publisher 2009   978-0881454192

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Tragicomedy

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Pipstone

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a woman believes that her aunt murdered her mother

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Rosy Fingers Of Dawn

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the show must go on - a Roman family insist on the play being performed even though Vesuvius is erupting

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Son Of Othello

Synopsis:
a modern African-American academic plunges into a 400 year-old intrigue when he finds a 16th-century Italian diary that mentions William Shakespeare. Monks, pirates, eunuchs and actors conspire to rewrite literary history.

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Celebration Theatre, Los Angeles, Ca    1998

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Comedy

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Spareribs In the Material World

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a medieval vestment with magical powers is the only thing to defeat an evil Jesus

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Sperm

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Pulled from the stomach of a whale, an American whaler is bleached blind and becomes a modern Tiresias in the court of Louis XVI. He seduces Marie antoinette and sets the king on a path to destroy France and ultimately humankind. a tragicomedy in rhymed couplets. Critic's Choice in the Los Angeles Times.

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adapted from Jacques Miroir's 18th-century play

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Circle X Theatre Company, Los Angeles    2005

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Spontanious Human Combustion

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Four college students seduce and betray each other

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Stereopticon

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a woman discovers that the man she is about to marry sleeps with other men. We see what happens if she goes ahead and marries him and what happens if she does not

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Gay, full length

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Sweeter Than Pussy

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the Odyssey recreated in a sauna

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Tainted Blood

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Oscar Wilde, Bram Stoker, and arthur Conan Doyle use logic and religion to fend off a seductive vampire in this fang-in-cheek comedy/thriller. Pick of the Week in the La Weekly, and winner of seven Valley theatre League awards.

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Main Street Theatre, Houston, Tx    1990

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Comedy Thriller Comedy

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Twentieth-Century Way, The

Synopsis:
Based on a little-known incident in Southern California history, this theatrical thrill ride explores the collision of reality and fantasy as two actors juggle various roles to entrap homosexuals for social vagrancy in public restrooms in 1914 Long Beach, California.

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Players Theatre , New York Festival Fringe    14 Aug 2010

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the Theatre @ Boston Court

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1h 20m Drama Multi-Media. - - Gay/Lesbian, of interest

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Voice

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a Seventeenth Century castrato wants to defy convention and get married

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