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Michael Kassin

MICHAEL KASSIN

  (1947 - )
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    Robert A Freedman Dramatic Agency  

Born in Chicago, IL on September 10, 1947. B.A., summa cum laude, University of Minnesota; M.A., University of MinnesotA. Professional act-ing credits include the Guthrie Theater; the Richard allen Center; Mixed Blood Theatre. Recipient: Guthrie Theater award; Playwrights' Lab Grant; Mr. Kassin is a published, award-winning playwright whose work has been done Off-Broadway, at the Actors Theatre of Louisville's Humana Festival (twice), at the O'Neill National Playwrights Conference, and around the country

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

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below is a list of Michael Kassin's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Brother Champ         Face, The         Federation Of United Colored Kinsmen         Heaven And Hell (On Earth): A Divine Comedy         I-Kissandtell         Night School         No Mourning After Dark         Parable Of Abram, A         Peace         Sophie And Willa         Sorry         Today A Little Extra

Brother Champ

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Based on the true story of a South Carolina convict-turned-boxer, Brother Champ is a play-within-a-play in which a young man finds himself by learning to stand apart from his past.

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Mixed Blood Theatre, Mn    

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Drama, full length

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Face, The

Synopsis:
A scientist disagrees with the findings of fellow scientist in to the Turin Shroud

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Rehearsed Reading At The Church Of St Paul The Apostle Parish Center, New York     07 Apr 2004

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Federation Of United Colored Kinsmen

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Heaven And Hell (On Earth): A Divine Comedy

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In this comic anthology - a collection of scenes and monologues - an array of devilishly talented playwrights put a contemporary spin on a fascinating eternal obsession. Grappling with their own diverse experiences of vice and virtue, salvation and damnation, characters from the twentysomething generation interpret their world with amusing revelations and surprising insights

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written by Robert Alexander, Jenny Lyn Bader, Elizabeth Dewberry, Deborah Lynn Frockt, Rebecca Gilman, Keith Glover, Hilly Hicks, Jr., Karen Hines, Michael Kassin, Melanie Marnich, Jane Martin, William Mastrosimone, Guillermo Reyes, Sarah Schulman, Richar

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Humana Festival 2001: the Complete Plays, ed Tanya Palmer & amy Wegener, Smith & Kraus, 2001   -

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Genre:
Short Play One act

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I-Kissandtell

I-Kissandtell
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Dramatists Play Service, NY,    978-1575255995

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Short Play One act

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Night School

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No Mourning After Dark

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Center Stage, Mn    

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Parable Of Abram, A

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Peace

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Faith clashes with science in a play about war, peace and healing. Red Broida, a scientist who worked on the Bomb, collides with Laura Oveida, a young woman who "heals" with her hands. Both are part of the 1978 scientific team investigating the Shroud of Turin-a cloth many believe is the burial cloth of Jesus
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Reading At The Actors Company Theater (Tact), NY     2006

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Play/Drama

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Sophie And Willa

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about two women, one old and Jewish, the other thirtyish and Black, who, as roommates, teach each other to accept love by accepting themselves.

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Playwrights Lab, Mn    

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Genre:
full legth Comedy

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Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Sorry

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Today A Little Extra

Synopsis:
about an old kosher butcher and the young unkosher hotshot who buys him out. It is a changing of the guard, a story of traditions passed in pain, laughter and love

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Center Stage, Mn    

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in Best Short Plays 1982, Applause,
In New Plays for Mature actors, seniortheatre.com    -

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Genre:
Tragi-comedy, full length Tragedy

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