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Jeff Lewonczyk

JEFF LEWONCZYK

  
Nationality:    USA
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Photo courtesy of Ken Stein/Runs with Scissors. Jeff Lewonczyk is a writer, director, producer and performer who serves as Co-artistic Director of Piper McKenzie (pipermckenzie.com) and associate Director of Brooklyn's Brick Theater. as a playwright, his produced works include the Bubble of Solace, Bethlehem or Bust: How the Three Kings Teamed Up to Deliver the World's First Christmas Presents, Theater of the arcade: Five Classic Video Games adapted for the Stage, Craven Monkey and the Mountain of Fury, the Granduncle Quadrilogy: Tales from the Land of Ice, and Babylon Babylon, all of which were originally presented by Piper McKenzie at the Brick. a graduate of Bard College, he is married to his longtime partner and collaborator, Hope Cartelli.

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         Adventures Of Caveman Robot         Babylon Babylon         Bethlehem Or Bust: How the Three Kings Teamed Up To Deliver the World's Very First Christmas Presents         Bizarre Science Fantasy         Bubble Of Solace, The         Craven Monkey And the Mountain Of Fury         Cursed Captives Of the Voodoo Lounge         Folly Ball, The         Granduncle Quadrilogy, The         Hall Of Virtual Presidents, The         Ich Liebe Jesus! / the Ultimate Fate of the Solar System and Other Plays Without Words         Interveners, The         Macbeth Without Words         No Second Acts: A Collection Of Short American Lives         Piper Mckenzie's Dainty Cadaver         Sexadelic Cemetery (A Bizarre $Cience Fantasy)         Shit the Future Says         theater Of the Arcade: Five Classic Video Games Adapted For the Stage

Adventures Of Caveman Robot

Synopsis:
Caveman Robot - Cavie - and his friends battle against the evil forces of Burnt-Out an ex-hippie who now has the power the throw flames and Colonel 3headedspacepony a Nazi officer whose brain has been transplanted into a penguin.

Notes:
Book: Jeff Lewonczyk; Music: Debby Schwartz; Lyrics: Debby Schwartz And Jeff Lewonczyk

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Piper McKenzie Productions and the Brick Theater, Inc.

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Musical

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Babylon Babylon

Synopsis:
the place is the archetypally decadent yet holy city of Babylon-history's most notorious hot spot. the time is 539 B.C., the eve of Babylon's conquest by the marauding Persian army. the location is the Temple of Ishtar, goddess of love and war, where, according to a strange, sensational paragraph in Herodotus, 'every woman who is a native of the country must once in her life go and sit and there give herself to a strange man'. Welcome to Babylon Babylon, the new show by Piper McKenzie Productions at Williamsburg's Brick theater. the Brick will itself be transformed into the Temple of Ishtar during the strange, Dramatic final hours before Babylon's unsuspecting fall. Piper McKenzie will craft a sweeping narrative in this exotic environment of ritual prostitution-an unholy mix of Herodotus, Cecil B. DeMille, Kenneth anger, Richard Schechner, the Bible, Charles Ludlam, Robert! altman, and much more. addressing issues of sex, religion, war, and history through a cracked lens of comedy and movement, Babylon Babylon explores the ways in which the past both reflects and refutes the present. a tapestry of intertwining narratives winds its way through the temple: untrustworthy historians, gyrating priestesses, doomsday prophets, grasping plutocrats, undercover lovers, displaced Jews, seekers of bloody vengeance-all of these, and many more, meet beneath the erotic, leveling stare of Ishtar
- press release

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1st Produced:

Organisations:
Piper McKenzie Productions

1st Published:
Playscripts, Inc   -

Music:
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Genre:
comedy

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  3            Other:  (8-22 actors possible: 3-22 females, 5-22 males)

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Bethlehem Or Bust: How the Three Kings Teamed Up To Deliver the World's Very First Christmas Presents

Synopsis:
This is part of Fight Fest at the Brick. everyone knows about the Three Kings and their gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh, but not so many people know about the adventures they had on their way to the manger. Bethlehem or Bust, Piper McKenzie's first-ever family show, envisions the Wise Men as swashbucklers on an action-packed journey where they need to brave all sorts of robbers, monsters, Roman soldiers - and the occasional shepherd - on their way to meet one of history's most famous babies. (Great for kids age 7 and up!)
- nytheatre.com

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1st Produced:
Brick theatre
575 Metropolitan avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11211    40523

Organisations:
Piper McKenzie Productions

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Genre:
Family Piece

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Bizarre Science Fantasy

Synopsis:
Remember those science fantasy comics of yore? the ones that politicians and preachers condemned? Now three stories are brought to the stage from the pages of "Bizarre Science Fantasy". "the amphibians" the citizens of a remote town by a lake are plagued by frogs. "North of Polaris" sees two buxom female astronauts overcome heartache in the depths of space. "Hell's Belles" the country boy's first visit to the big city

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1st Produced:

Organisations:
Piper McKenzie Productions

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Music:
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Bubble Of Solace, The

Synopsis:
This is part of the Comic Book Festival at the Brick theater. a.J. has his dream job'running a comic-book shop that doubles as a shrine to all of his favorite obscure classics. It doesn't even matter that no one else shares his obsessions'when he closes the doors at night, his immersive relationship with his favorite titles makes the rest of the world disappear. But with his shop in jeopardy, he finds that the stories no longer behave as expected, and he's forced to reckon with his feelings about his equally odd mother, the pretty girl who runs the sex-toy shop next door, and a strange fan who possesses a secret about a.J.'s past.
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Brick theatre
575 Metropolitan avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11211    25 Jun 2011

Organisations:
Piper McKenzie Productions

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Craven Monkey And the Mountain Of Fury

Synopsis:
Can one perverted simian overcome his family, a gang of grotesque predators and Mother Nature herself to evolve to the next level of life? Or will he end up just another damn dead monkey? Combining elements of comparative mythology, silent comedy, capoeira, video game violence and modern dance, Craven Monkey and the Mountain of Fury features a troupe of actor/dancers performing in the unique wordless style of Piper McKenzie's "Bizarre Science Fantasy" series. the result is a savage, sexy, slapstick spectacular that pumps new theatrical life into the notion of "survival of the fittest
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
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1st Produced:

Organisations:
Piper McKenzie Productions

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Genre:
Piece

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Cursed Captives Of the Voodoo Lounge

Synopsis:
a new serialized comedy/soap opera about a fantastical version of the titular bar that mysteriously appears at various locations around the world in order to snare the souls of the damned. However, this Voodoo Lounge is a cut-rate portal to Hell, as evidenced by the incompetent staff, whose own lives, loves, and misfortunes create a continuous thread between episodes. there is the manager, an existential Frenchman named Yves Moutarde; Chanteuselah, a ditzy immortal torch singer; Sissy the Skirt, the paranoid beatnik bartender; Slappy McFlanahan, the bouncer, a 19th-century Bowery gangster; and Gary 'Nails' Goldfarb, the bar's most recent staff member, a faded punk who couldn't turn down the lure of a regular gig as a musician. Think of it as a cross between Fantasy Island, Casablanca and the Flying Dutchman, spiked with a significant dose of Fawlty Towers.
Press release

Notes:
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1st Produced:
the Voodoo Lounge, Lucky Cheng's, NY    2006

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1st Published:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Folly Ball, The

Synopsis:
January 1933. Officer Mike McPherson of the NYPD seeks after-hours warmth at Chumley's, the most literary speakeasy in Greenwich Village, but finds his equilibrium diminished by an unexpected visit from the notorious Zelda Fitzgerald.
nytheatre.com

Notes:
part of An Assembly of Quotable Gents. This is A three-week festival of original one-act plays And live music performances that celebrate New York City's infamous saloon life, presented in city bars

1st Produced:
Mo Pitkin's House of Satisfaction, NY    2007

Organisations:
Redd Mask Theater Company

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
One act

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Granduncle Quadrilogy, The

Synopsis:
a frozen northern country. Mammoths and walruses. the legendary death of a saintly child. a twisted winter celebration. the Granduncle Quadrilogy is a holiday special for a made-up holiday. Listen to Granduncle, ancient storyteller and veteran of an endless war, as he and his fellow citizens mix folktales, fictional ethnology, and war stories to conjure a mordant yet moving portrait of an imaginary icebound world that curiously mirrors our own.
- press release

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Hall Of Virtual Presidents, The

Synopsis:
Its one of the most popular tourist attractions of the future: a live holographic stage show featuring representations of the 50th through 80th Presidents of the United States of America (and Related Properties). Its as if theyre really right there in the room with you - everyone from Lushious Hollywood, our first stripper president, all the way to the beloved cloud of sentient chlorine gas known to 23rd-century voters as Kllhhlhllhllhhhha. In a quaint format hearkening back to the animatronic displays of bygone times, the Hall of Virtual Presidents brings the unexpected twists and turns of the long, long history of American democracy to vivid life, with all 30 late-period presidents appearing simultaneously before your very eyes! Part performance installation, part speculative history pageant and part sci-fi spectacle, the Hall of Virtual Presidents is the latest theatrical experiment from the creators of Craven Monkey and the Mountain of Fury and theater of the arcade: Five Classic Video Games adapted for the Stage. the half-hour performance will feature more than 30 actors and play several times over the course of a single day, offering a satirical look at the future of America and allowing audiences to mingle with holographic representations of presidents-to-be.
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Brick theatre
575 Metropolitan avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11211    09 Jun 2012

Organisations:
Piper McKenzie Productions

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
30 min one act

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Ich Liebe Jesus! / the Ultimate Fate of the Solar System and Other Plays Without Words

Synopsis:
Ich Liebe: Jesus loves you, and now you can thank Him in person. the Brick will be filled with Jesus-love as we follow our Hero from His earliest pooping, puking days in the manger to the countless acts of love, sacrifice and maiming He inspired in the centuries to come. Ultimate Fate: Schoolchildren stage an apocalyptic pageant. A deadly drug refracts time, with violent results. A daisy chain of spirits and humans breaks hearts across worlds.
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
Written and Directed by: Robert Honeywell; Jeff Lewonczyk

1st Produced:
Brick theatre
575 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11211    29 Nov 2012

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Ich Liebe: Jesus loves you, and now you can thank Him in person. the Brick will be filled with Jesus-love as we follow our Hero from His earliest pooping, puking days in the manger to the countless acts of love, sacrifice and maiming He inspired in the centuries to come. Ultimate Fate: Schoolchildren stage an apocalyptic pageant. A deadly drug refracts time, with violent results. A daisy chain of spirits and humans breaks hearts across worlds.   -

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Interveners, The

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Bowery Poetry Club, New York City    07 Mar 2011

Organisations:
Nosedive Red Ribbon Gala

1st Published:
in "Nosedive Red Ribbon Gala 2011", http://www.indietheaternow.com/Plays   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
short play

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Macbeth Without Words

Synopsis:
Shakespeare without all that dull, dull blank verse

Notes:
part of Pretentious Festival

1st Produced:

Organisations:
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1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Genre:
One act

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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No Second Acts: A Collection Of Short American Lives

Synopsis:
F. Scott Fitzgerald said that there are no second acts in American lives, and the Brick sets out to prove him right with this collection of one-act plays. Taking on themes of U.S. history, politics and culture, these little nuggets of Americana take full advantage of our constitutional right to free speech in their wild, varied and often uncouth takes on our national experience.
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
part of A collection of short plays written by Gyda Arber, James Comtois, Jeff Lewonczyk, Justin Maxwell, August Schulenburg, Trav S.D., Crystal Skillman, Alexis Sottile, Stephanie Swirsky, Art Wallace

1st Produced:
Brick theatre
575 Metropolitan avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11211    01 Jun 2012

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
short play

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Piper Mckenzie's Dainty Cadaver

Synopsis:
18 playwrights. 3 plays. One performance of each. Piper McKenzie's Dainty Cadaver is an exquisite Corpse-style playmaking project in which multiple playwrights collaborate on a single work without knowing what the hell the others are doing. each writer reads the previous scene, writes a new scene, and passes it on to the next writer - who doesn't see any of what came earlier. Beautiful madness ensues. For its inaugural edition, Piper McKenzie will present one-night-only performances of three new plays written in this unique collaborative style, with results ranging from inspired chaos to eerie synchronicity - all tied together by the unique voices of 18 hot playwrights, divided into three teams and staged by three directors. the teams and their performance details are as follows: TeaM a: Fri 1/28, 8pm: Johnna adams, Eric Bland, Jeff Lewonczyk, Mac Rogers, Crystal Skillman, art Wallace. Directed by Jordana Williams. TeaM B: Sat 1/29, 8pm: Danny Bowes, Matt Freeman, Qui Nguyen, Carolyn Raship, August Schulenburg, alexis Sottile. Directed by Hope Cartelli. TeaM C: Sun 1/30, 3pm: Maggie Cino, James Comtois, John DeVore, Cara Francis, Rich Lovejoy, Justin Maxwell. Directed by John Hurley.
- nytheatre.com

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1st Produced:
Brick theatre
575 Metropolitan avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11211    28 Jan 2011

Organisations:
Piper McKenzie Productions

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Sexadelic Cemetery (A Bizarre $Cience Fantasy)

Synopsis:
a film director and his producer have taken their actors to a cemetery to film scenes for the vampire movie they are making. the parts are a male and female vampire and two nubile females. the director and producer bicker over the script and then the cast start dying

Notes:
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1st Produced:

Organisations:
Piper McKenzie Productions & the Brick Theater.Inc.

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Shit the Future Says

Synopsis:
ForePlay is Flux Theatre Ensemble's annual exploratory staged reading series where playwrights riff on the themes of Flux's main production. Human 2.0 riffed on August Schulenburg's play about the next step in human evolution, DEINDE. Over three nights, Flux presented short plays by 14 playwrights imagining what various human senses will look like in the future. What if we had the capacity to smell like a dog? Use radar like a bat? See all the colors of the electromagnetic spectrum? How will we upgrade our sense of beauty and justice? What will happen when we truly have unlimited memory? All of these short plays explore what it means to be human in an era of rapid technological change.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Bruce Mitchell Room at ART/NY    09 Apr 2012

Organisations:
a ForePlay staged reading series by Flux Theatre Ensemble

1st Published:
in "Human 2.0 Part 3", http://www.indietheaternow.com/Plays   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
short play

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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theater Of the Arcade: Five Classic Video Games Adapted For the Stage

Synopsis:
an apelike brute holds an innocent young woman captive and attacks anyone who dares approach. a glutton eats everything in sight while running away from the ghosts that haunt him. are these the plots of classic video games, or are they searing narratives of modernist Drama? In this collection of short plays, the creators of Brick hits Suspicious Package and Craven Monkey and the Mountain of Fury explore what happens when stories born of the arcade are given the high literary respect and Dramaturgical rigor they deserve.
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Brick theatre
575 Metropolitan avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11211    13 Jul 2010

Organisations:
the Brick Theater

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Piece

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  2            Other:  -

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