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Mrinalini Karmath

MRINALINI KARMATH  

 Nationality:    USA
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Mrinalini (pronounced Mrih-NAHL-ih-knee) Kamath received her M.F.A. in playwriting from the Actors Studio Drama School of the New School University, and her B.A. in The Writing Seminars from The Johns Hopkins University. Her plays , which include Sloppy Second Chances, A Rush of Wings, Views, Celestial Motions,The Some of All Parts and many others have been performed around the country, as well as the United Kingdom, Australia and India. Celestial Motions won first place in the 2005 East West Players (Los Angeles, CA) Got Laughs? Asian-American Comedy Play Contest. She was also a Tennessee Williams Scholar at the 2003 Sewanee Writers Conference in Sewanee, TN, a finalist for the 2004 Jerome Fellowship at the Playwrights Center in Minneapolis, MN, and was commissioned by Fluid Motion Theatre and Film in 2006 to write an adaptation of the story of Jason and the quest for the Golden Fleece. Mrinalini has attended the New Play Development Workshop of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education three times as a playwright, and her short plays have been published in several Smith and Kraus anthologies. She has also been published by playscripts.com. Recently, she decided to try her hand at filmmaking, and the result is a short film called What Happened on the Fourth Date adapted from her much-performed play The Some of All Parts. She is a member of the Ma-Yi Theatre Writers Lab and The Dramatists Guild and an alumnus of Youngblood, the emerging playwrights collective at the Ensemble Studio Theatre.

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 Bemused         Boom         Bunnicuba         Celestial Motions         Confessions From The Afterlife         Good Man Is Hard To Find, A         Hart's Palpitations         Hiding The Pink         If Wishes Were Horses         Like Pearls Strung On A String         Quest, The (or What Happened on the Quest for the Golden Fleece, as Told By Orpheus the Musician)         Roulette         Rush Of Wings, A         Some Of All The Parts         Sweet Dreams, Baby         Taking Charge         Views

Bemused

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Hell hath no fury like a Muse scorned.

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Boom

Synopsis:
Ashok and Sheela realise that they have very different views on ethnic identity.

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Bunnicuba

Synopsis:
Harold a gay urban professional has nigh time visits - from a half woman, half rabbit succuba

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Gay, one act

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Celestial Motions

Synopsis:
Leela's parents emmigrated from India to the United States - they forgot to take into account the time differences when drawing up her birth astrological chart.

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Confessions From The Afterlife

Synopsis:
Two 18 year old friends Rahul and Steven meet in the afterlife.

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Good Man Is Hard To Find, A

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Hart's Palpitations

Synopsis:
A ten-minute musical that takes place in a clinic for the treatment of love-related injuries. Can Dr. Hart overcome his previous bad experience with love, save his love-struck patient and finally notice the loyal Nurse OPlasty  all in ten minutes? Written as part of Raw Impressions Musical Theatre event number seventeen (Raw Impressions Musical Theatre #17  love by degrees)

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Hiding The Pink

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If Wishes Were Horses

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Like Pearls Strung On A String

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Quest, The (or What Happened on the Quest for the Golden Fleece, as Told By Orpheus the Musician)

Synopsis:
Jason approaches Orpheus, a budding musician with a hit song and a loving fiancee, to help him get back his kingdom. The Quest for the Golden Fleece seen through the eyes of Orpheus.

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Commissioned by Fluid Motion Theatre and Film

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Roulette

Synopsis:
Clearing out her uncle's apartment after his death, Gina finds something quite explosive about him.

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Rush Of Wings, A

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Emilie and Ishmael appear to be having the same dream.

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Some Of All The Parts

Synopsis:
If he seems to good to be true - he probably is. . .. . .

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Sweet Dreams, Baby

Synopsis:
Grace a thirty something bookseller wakes up to find the man of her dreams is with her.

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Taking Charge

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Views

Synopsis:
David and Diane were high school sweethearts who married after Diane became pregnant. Now they live in a cramped studio apartment in Manhattan, where Diane takes care of their two-year old son. When David announces that his boss has fired him, the couple spirals into an argument that forces them to reevaluate their married life together.

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