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Lucas Kavner

LUCAS KAVNER

  
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Literary Agent:    ICM Partners  represented by Diana Glazer

Lucas Kavner's plays include Fish Eye (Time Out and New York Magazine Critics Picks, included in New York Magazine's Best Theatre of the Year), Carnival Kids (NY Times Critics Pick, recently optioned for film), The Gum Play (EST/Sloan commission), Clickshare, and Barnes & Noble: Frisco, Texas, (solo show, Ars Nova). His plays have been developed with Naked Angels, Rattlestick, Ars Nova, Williamstown, SPACE, Studio 42, The Flea, Colt Coeur, IAMA Theater Co, Ensemble Studio Theatre and others. As a journalist his essays and articles have appeared in The Washington Post, The New Yorker, New York Magazine, The Believer, Dallas Morning News, The Billfold, Flavorwire, McSweeneys, and as a staff reporter for The Huffington Post. His original comedy videos have been viewed over a million times online, and have been featured on MSNBC, NPR, The Atlantic, Vanity Fair, and many others. As an actor he has performed or workshopped shows at the Kennedy Center, Playwrights Horizons, Atlantic, Abingdon Theatre, Dixon Place, Ars Nova, The Playwrights Realm, New Dramatists, Naked Angels, the American Repertory Theater (in the 2011 Elliot Norton/Broadway World Award winning show, The Blue Flower, for which he was also nominated for Best Supporting Actor), and the Williamstown Theatre Festival, where he spent two seasons. He most recently co-starred in the world premiere of John Mellencamp and Stephen Kings Ghost Brothers Of Darkland County, with music direction from T-Bone Burnett, which debuted at the Alliance Theatre and toured major theaters and rock venues around the country.

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

         Carnival Kids         Clickshare         Donovan         Fish Eye         Gum Play, The         Late Hour Happy Hour         Love Money: A Recession Rock Musical         Shirt         Untitled

Carnival Kids

Carnival Kids
When an aimless former rock musician finds himself broke with nowhere to go, hes forced to move in with his son in his cramped New York City apartment. As they try to forge a new existence together, an unusual money-making scheme further complicates their lives and loves. A dramedy about the people we choose to let in, and the parts of ourselves we refuse to live with.

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Developed with Naked Angels and at SPACE on Ryder Farm

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dramatic comedy

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Clickshare

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A group of employees at a popular news website live and die by the viral content of their pieces. But when they break a story thats bigger than anything theyve ever seen before, their lives will hang in the balance. A dark satire of internet culture in the age of viruses real and imagined.

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Wright Theatre, Middlebury College     Dec 2015

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Donovan

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IANA Fest     Nov 2015

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Fish Eye

Fish Eye
At a bar across from a falafel place, Max and Anna meet again, or is it for the first time? A funny and emotionally raw portrait of a couple struggling to hold on to one another without losing themselves, Fish Eye explodes the traditional chronology of romance and offers a modern take on the exhiliration of love  when nothing means everything and everything means nothing  and the entire world can shrink down to a single moment.

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1st Produced:
HERE Arts Center - Dorothy B. Williams theater
145 6th aVenue, New York, NY 10013     02 Jun 2011

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Colt Coeur

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Gum Play, The

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In the late 1800s, brutal and disgraced former Mexican president and general Santa Anna was exiled to Staten Island, New York, where he hoped to make some quick cash and return to Mexico. But when he and the American assigned to watch over him strike up a unique partnership, everything takes a turn for the far, far worse. A comedy based on the true story of the invention of gum in America.

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Commissioned by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and Ensemble Studio Theatre

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Developed and workshopped at EST     2014

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Late Hour Happy Hour

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Williamstown, Juilliard    

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Love Money: A Recession Rock Musical

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an audience favorite at Ars Nova's a.N.T. Fest last fall, LOVe MONeY is the story of one temp's fateful day at the troubled Bank of North America, where bailouts make billionaires and Belgian Poodles hold terrible, terrible secrets.

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Created By Thompson Davis, Lucas Kavner And Willie Orbison

1st Produced:
Dixon Place, New York International Fringe Festival     2009

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the ZOO

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1h 40m Musical Comedy

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Shirt

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Williamstown, Juilliard    

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Untitled

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by Lucas Kavner And Willie Orbison. Part of Summer 2007 After Dark, A free series of new And experimental work.

1st Produced:
Atlantic Stage 2 (Staged Readings)     2007

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Potomac Theatre Project

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