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Steve Lyons

STEVE LYONS

  (1954 - )
Nationality:    USA
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Steve Lyons' stage plays have won multiple awards and have been produced throughout the United States and Europe, including London, Edinburgh, New York City, Boulder, San Diego, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. His articles have appeared in newspapers and magazines nationwide. He has published one book. Steve holds a degree in electrical engineering from UC Berkeley. Putting that degree to good use, he now writes plays and unproduced movie scripts and is a house husband for his wife and 10 year old son. In 1998, Steve founded the writing group Playwrights Cafe (www.PlayCafe.org) that meets once a month in Berkeley California. Playwrights Cafe is open to anyone who wants to come!

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

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

         Cockroach Infestation         Conception         Fun in Funeral, The         Ghosts of Tonkin, The         Inside the Coma Of Wayne Morse         Mystery Spot         Peaches En Regalia         These Altered Days
Cockroach Infestation

Synopsis:
Would performance art funerals work? "We're putting the fun back into funerals"

Notes:
Cockroach Infestation is About 90 minutes, plus An intermission. It has had one production. Reviewing it on SFGate (the online version of the San Francisco Chronicle), Anna Mantzaris said that Cockroach infestation is "engaging comedy that is sure to make you laugh." Honors include Top Ten, "McLaren Comedy Play Writing Competition," Finalist, "Pittsburgh New Play Festival", Finalist, Ashland New Plays Festival, Staged reading in Actors theatre of Santa Cruz "New Play Contest", Staged reading in San Francisco Playwrights Center "DramaRama" Festival

1st Produced:
New Langdon Arts, San Francisco     2002

Organisations:
Three Wise Monkeys

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Genre:
90 min Comedy

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Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Conception

Synopsis:
Norman and Carrie are arguing about pro-creation - but something odd is happening.

Notes:
30 minute one Act. In 1999, Conception premiered At the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art "One Act Festival" where it was honored with the "Best Play" Award. It has Also been produced At the Orange County Playwrights Alliance "Page to Stage" Festival And the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. An excerpt from Conception Appears in "60 Seconds to Shine: 221 One-Minute Monologues for Women" (Smith & Kraus)

1st Produced:
Boulder, Colorado     1998

Organisations:
Boulder Museum of Contemporary art "One act Festival"

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Genre:
comedy One act

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Fun in Funeral, The

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1st Produced:
Birdcage Theatre, Oroville, Ca     01 Feb 2014

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Ghosts of Tonkin, The

Synopsis:
The plot details the devastating true story about the Gulf of Tonkin resolution.

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1st Produced:
Bellingham, Washington by Bellingham TheatreWorks     29 Aug 2015

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Inside the Coma Of Wayne Morse

Synopsis:
Wayne Morse was one of two Senators to vote against the Gulf of Tonkin resolution in 1964, which gave Lyndon Johnson the authority to invade Vietnam. Now, 1974, Wayne Morse is close to death. He and a newborn baby struggle with life and death as the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin incident invades the coma of Wayne Morse. the senate hearing in the play is based on highly edited transcripts from the August 6, 1964 senate hearing on the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution. Other source material includes speeches taken from the Congressional Record, recordings of phone presidential conversations, a televised speech of LBJ, and a television interview with Wayne Morse.

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Selected for staged reading At the Willamette Repertory theatre's "Readings in Rep." 2008

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Genre:
Full length (85 minute) Dramady

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  4            Other:  ensemble of five for incidental parts

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Mystery Spot

Synopsis:
Dingo becomes a Women's Studies major at UC Santa Cruz so he can practice his hobby of chasing women around. To earn money for school, he gets a job at the Santa Cruz Mystery Spot. Dingo is convinced that the Mystery Spot is a magical place. His faith in the Mystery Spot is only strengthened when a customer files a class action suit against the Mystery Spot for false advertising. the court orders Mystery Spot tour guides to attribute the physical anomalies of the Mystery Spot to optical illusions, not to an inexplicable vortex of force. However, with Dingo's unshakable faith in the magical power of the Mystery Spot, he defies the court order and on his tours he continues to explain the Mystery Spot in terms of vectors of force. the owner is forced to fire Dingo. Dingo's efforts to save the Mystery Spot is complicated when he begins receiving visits from Sylvia Plath, who is on the reading list in his "Introduction to Feminisms" class. and Sylvia has her own agenda.

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Genre:
Full length 90 minute Comedy

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  3            Other:  ensemble of four covers incidental parts

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Peaches En Regalia

Synopsis:
Doug's Diner. Four strangers. a small side dish and a big plot twist.

Notes:
35 minute Peaches en Regalia premiered At the San Diego "Fritz Blitz" where it was honored with the "Best Play" Award. It has gone on to be produced in Edinburgh, London, San Francisco, New York City And Los Angeles. "Cute And quirky" KPBS Radio "Cleverly constructed, this hip little tale is great fun." San Diego Union "Lyons' text is clever And his jokes swift" Backstage West "Short but exquisitely structured." the Scotsman

1st Produced:
Fritz Blitz Festival, San Diego, Ca     2003

Organisations:
Fritz Theatre

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Genre:
comedy One act

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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These Altered Days

Synopsis:
Michael, twenty years old, returns home to his apartment to discover that a version of himself from twenty years in the future has moved in. the forty year old Michael confronts the twenty year old Michael about his alcoholism. In turn, the twenty year old challenges the forty year old to regain the spark that drove him to pursue his passion, photography. Boiling beneath the surface is an unspeakable tragedy that the older Michael is desperately trying to correct.

Notes:
Honors include selection for staged reading At City Lights theatre in San Jose, Actors theatre of Santa Rosa, And Last Frontier theatre Conference. It was A finalist in the Lark theatre's "Playwrights Week." Panelist feedback following A reading of these Altered Days At the Last Frontier theatre Conference: "Boy you had me. . . I loved this play All the way through." Paula Vogel; "I was crying, which doesn't happen very often for me." emily Mann; "I was intrigued from the beginning." David esbjornson, director

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Genre:
65 minute Drama One act

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  1 child non speaking

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