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Carlos Murillo

CARLOS MURILLO

  
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    Antje Oegel International  represented by Antje Oegel

Carlos Murillo is a playwright, director, and educator.

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         Augusta and Noble         Dark Play or Stories for Boys         Diagram of a Paper Airplane         Fragment Of A Paper Airplane         Human Interest Story, A (or the Gory Details and All)         Intimacy         Mayday Mayday Tuesday         Mendacity Or the Herd Of Elephants In the Room         Mimesophobia (Or Before And After)         Near Death Experiences With Leni Riefenstahl         Never Whistle While You're Pissing         Offspring of the Cold War         Patron Saint of the Nameless Dead         Schadenfreude         Storyboards Of Crime         Subterraneans         Thick Description of Harry Smith (Volume I), A         Unfinished American Highwayscape 9 & 32 or the Broken Tractor Graveyard         Your Name Will Follow You Home

Augusta and Noble

Synopsis:
A girl in High School asks about her heritage and her family's journey to America

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Vittum Theatre, Chicago     13 Apr 2013

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Youth play

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Dark Play or Stories for Boys

Synopsis:
During a college sexual encounter, the girl in Nick's bed wants to know why his abdomen is covered in scars. Does Nick tell the truth, or does he do what he does so well-weave an elaborate tale? the question launches him into a memory. An outsider at age fourteen, Nick discovers the intoxicating pleasures of inventing fake personalities in the chat rooms of the World Wide Web. Adam's online profile, and the words "I want to fall in love," pique his curiosity. Nick invents Rachel, the girl of Adam's dreams, and his curiosity becomes obsession. As Adam mounts the pressure to meet his Internet love in the real world, Nick creates ever more elaborate deceptions to fuel Adam's desire. When the boys finally meet in the real world, the consequences are catastrophic. A tale of deception, fluid personality and sexual license in the Internet age, DARK PLAY examines what happens when the real world and virtual world collide.

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1st Published:
Playscripts, Inc - New York   -

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Diagram of a Paper Airplane

Synopsis:
Diagram of a Paper Airplane is an emotionally wrenching, multi-layered, play that deserves to reach a larger public audience. A once gifted playwright, Javier C., who mysteriously disappeared several decades before, drowns in a flash flood in New Mexico. Three of his once closest friends, now at odds with each other, network the news from their separate New York City tenement apartments. Before his death, Javier sent separate pieces of Diagram of a Paper Airplane to the three friends dictating that his play, like a puzzle, could only be made whole if the pieces are read together. But Murillo builds the complexity by layering the frame story with a post-mortem delivery of a father's letter to his only daughter. "the greatest danger to a child is the Father and mother that brought you into the world." In reaction, as the individual mourners retell their personal memories, that's when the true reasons for the break up of family and friends becomes clear.
- Rosalind Lacy, dctheatrescene

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1st Produced:
Page To Stage Festival, Washington, Dc     2009

Organisations:
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1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Genre:
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Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Fragment Of A Paper Airplane

Fragment Of A Paper Airplane
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
in 2009: the Best 10-Minute Plays for Two or More Actors, Smith & Kraus (December 1, 2009)   978-1575257594

Music:
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Genre:
Ten Min

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Human Interest Story, A (or the Gory Details and All)

Synopsis:
Somewhere in America, a man fantasizes about his best friend's wife. In another city, a young housewife momentarily loses sight of her children. Elsewhere, a politician relives a tragic second that forever changed his life, and a mother wonders where her teenage son got the gun. And in one town, a man on the verge of committing a horrific act of violence watches all this unfold on his TV screen. A HUMAN INTEREST STORY (OR the GORY DETAILS AND ALL) is an unflinching portrait of an America obsessed with voyeurism. This mesmerizing, funny and frightening work asks the question: Is the imagination more cruel and unforgiving than reality?

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1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY (2009)   -

Music:
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Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Intimacy

Synopsis:
Customers are caught on the wrong side of the counter

Notes:
Original Playwright - Marina Krapivina

1st Produced:
Book Wings, University Of Iowa     14 Mar 2013

Organisations:
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1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Genre:
Translation

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Mayday Mayday Tuesday

Synopsis:
"Mayday Mayday Tuesday" a legendary unreleased album by Gummy Ricket is supposed to wreak havoc on whoever listens to it

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Genre:
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Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Mendacity Or the Herd Of Elephants In the Room

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
-    

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Best 10-Minute Plays 2013 Plays For Three Or More Actors. Published by Smith and Kraus, Inc.    -

Music:
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Genre:
ten min

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Mimesophobia (Or Before And After)

Synopsis:
They seemed like the perfect couple. Attractive. Well-educated. Affluent. Why did the husband brutally murder his wife and take his own life? Aaron and Henry, two young wannabe screenwriters at a writer's retreat struggle with crippling blocks as they seek to solve the mystery. Shawn, an academic teetering on the edge of insanity grapples with her own possible involvement in the killing, while writing a book about Americas obsession with violence. Meanwhile, the murder victim's sister attempts to reconstruct the truth from the ashes of her late sister's diary, becoming a celebrity in the process. What really happened that violent night, and will any of them come close to uncovering the truth?

Notes:
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1st Produced:

Organisations:
Forum Theatre

1st Published:
http://www.broadwayplaypub.com/   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Near Death Experiences With Leni Riefenstahl

Synopsis:
Farfra Oasis a small town in the desert is thrown into chaos when a French woman arrives with ideas on transforming it

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Red Eye, Minneapolis     1996

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  doubling

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Never Whistle While You're Pissing

Synopsis:
A young man returns to the US after some time abroad. He is detained by customs officials because he has a suspicious text in his back pack

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1st Produced:
Group Theatre, Seattle     1998

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Offspring of the Cold War

Synopsis:
Miranda accuses her neighbour Marcus of spying on her. they fall through a space-time continuum and see the lives of lovers through the twentieth century

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1st Produced:
Walkabout Theatre, Chicago     2002

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  doubling

Further Reference:
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Patron Saint of the Nameless Dead

Synopsis:
An immigrant in the Lower Eastside needs money to bring his beloved to the US. the only job he can get involves grave robbing and burning down tenement blocks.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
-     1998

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
One act Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Schadenfreude

Synopsis:
Elizabeth Nietzsche is torn between her ant-Semitic husband, Bernhard Forster and her mad brother FriedErich

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Circle X, Los Angeles     2001

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  doubling

Further Reference:
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Storyboards Of Crime

Synopsis:
A young man makes a pitch to a bored movie executive. But his story catches the executive's interest. Unfortunately the young man has no idea how the film will end

Notes:
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1st Produced:
City Theatre, Delaware     2000

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Ten minute play

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Subterraneans

Synopsis:
Roxanne starts getting anonymous love letters. She discovers that they are written by George, the man she lives with

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Nada, New York     1994

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  doubling

Further Reference:
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Thick Description of Harry Smith (Volume I), A

Synopsis:
This is a developmental workshop of a new play. It takes the audience on a wild ride through the life, work, and times of filmmaker, musicologist, painter, anthropologist, collector, occultist and fabulist, Harry Everett Smith. Best known for editing the seminal Anthology of American Folk Music, Smith's peculiar life is an emblem of American bohemian life in the 20th Century. Conceived as a psychedelic Prairie Home Companion, Harry Smith uses reworked folk songs, radio vignettes of real and imagined episodes of Harry Smith's life, Foley work, and a wide variety of storytelling styles to reveal an alternative conception of American identity.
- nytheatre.com

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1st Produced:
Cultural Project
45 Bleecker Street, New York, NY 10012     28 Jun 2012

Organisations:
Page 73 Productions

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Unfinished American Highwayscape 9 & 32 or the Broken Tractor Graveyard

Synopsis:
Eight people travelling the back roads at night each escaping their past

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Theatre@Boston Court, Pasadena     2006

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  4            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Your Name Will Follow You Home

Synopsis:
Danny Santiago wrote a novel about Chicano life in East LA but how much was authentic?

Notes:
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1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Drama

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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