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David Lawson

DAVID LAWSON

  
Nationality:    USA
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Lawson's full-lengths have been produced at/by The Brick Theater, Dixon Place, IRT Theatre, the Downtown Urban Theater Festival (at Manhattan Movement & Arts Center), The FRIGID New York Festival (at UNDER St. Marks), The Dream Up Festival (at Theater for the New City), The Parkside Lounge, Blowout Theatre Company, The Poppin' Festival (at Alive Theatre, CA). His short plays have been produced at/by La MaMa ETC, The Secret Theatre, Love Creek Theatre, Hyper Aware Theatre Company, Caps Lock Theatre, The Seoul Players (South Korea), n.u.f.a.n. ensemble (Chicago), The Secret Room Theatre (Philly), Boston Playwrights Theatre, Stratford Summer Theatre Festival (CT) and Boca Raton Theatre Guild (FL) among others. Lawson holds a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre from Emerson College (MA) and studied at the O'Neill National Theater Institute (CT).

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

         Children's theatre         Floundering About (In An Age Of Terror)         Gloves For Guns         Insomnia in Space         Loco Slomo Pomo         Public Service         Thanks For Travelling         Turning Atomic Tricks         VCR Love

Children's theatre

Synopsis:
wonders if children mimic adult behavior or if adults are constantly trapped in playing children's games.
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
part of Play Date. the collection contains four premiere one-act pieces All written by emerging playwrights. each play in this series subverts theatrical convention in unique And exciting ways. With non-linear narratives, shapeshifting characters, And fourth walls breaking, this production is sure to thrill And delight Audiences bored with unadventurous theatre

1st Produced:
Producers Club
358 West 44th Street, New York, NY 10036    20 Oct 2011

Organisations:
Blowout Theatre Company

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Genre:
short play

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Floundering About (In An Age Of Terror)

Synopsis:
This show is part of the 2010 FRIGID New York Festival. Here's their official blurb: "a coming-of-age story set in the paranoia-filled, post-9/11 suburbs of Washington, D.C. an orange alert world where deadly powders are in the mail, snipers are opening fire in strip malls and only duct tape and oxygen masks can stop the evildoers."
- nytheatre.com

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Gloves For Guns

Synopsis:
This show is part of the Dream Up Festival. This is the official blurb: after shooting up their high school and killing themselves in the process, two teenagers find themselves in purgatory with nothing but a baseball, a baseball glove and a portal that randomly shows them scenes from the world they've left behind.
- nytheatre.com

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1st Produced:
Theater for the New City
155 First aVenue, New York, NY 10009    08 Aug 2010

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1st Published:
http://www.indietheaternow.com/Play/gloves-for-guns   -

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Genre:
70 min Drama One act

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Insomnia in Space

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1st Produced:
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Loco Slomo Pomo

Synopsis:
an ambitious IOU writer goes on a quest through modern suburban technology

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1st Produced:
Providence Players, Falls Church, Va    Jan 2010

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Public Service

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Notes:
Cheese, beer And janitors

1st Produced:
Cherry Poppin' Play Festival, Long Beach    Feb 2009

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Genre:
Short play

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Thanks For Travelling

Synopsis:
Two airport security officers are due to be married - but their plans fall apart when they get sacked after an attempted hijack of one of the planes they were responsible for. they later discover that the hijacking was not all it was made out to be

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1st Produced:
Producers Club, New York    18 Nov 2010

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1st Published:
http://www.indietheaternow.com/Play/thanks-for-traveling   -

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Genre:
Drama 89 min

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Turning Atomic Tricks

Synopsis:
A woman begins working as a prostitute after an accident in a small town built around a nuclear power plant.

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1st Produced:
Parkside Lounge, New York City    10 Mar 2012

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1st Published:
http://www.indietheaternow.com/Play/turning-atomic-tricks   -

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Genre:
one act 80 min

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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VCR Love

Synopsis:
Celebrity sex tapes, "braille porn" for the blind, progressive/feminist porn . . . in 2012 pornography is both bigger and more diverse than it has ever been. From watching scrambled Skinamax as a teenager to watching the never-ending parade of men jerking off on Chatroulette, VCR Love is a solo show that uses stories both personal and universal to explore, lampoon, question and celebrate how the last 25 years in porn have resulted in a world where no matter how strange your fetish or kink is . . . there's porn about it.

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1st Produced:
Dowtown Urban Theatre Festival    23 Jun 2011

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Genre:
piece

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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