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Kevin O'Morrison

KEVIN O'MORRISON

  
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    Ann Wright Representatives  

Born in St. Louis, MO, he was tutored privately for university equivalent. He has written for TV: the House of Paper, A Sign for Autumn (NBC); And Not a Word More, (CBS) and written films, all in the documentary field. His acting credits include the Water

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

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         Dark Ages         Helen of Troy Tells What Really Happened         Ladyhouse Blues         Long War, The         Morgan Yard, The         Mutilators, The         Nightgatherers, The         Party for Lovers, A         Report to the Stockholders         Requiem

Dark Ages

Synopsis:
Both take place in the near future, after the Collapse. ON LINE deals with the reaction to the Collapse by four strangers who meet on the line where all citizens of the city have been summoned by their new masters, the Civil Servants of the City, who are the only ones who know where the remaining civic resources are. ON ICE takes place a few years after ON LINE: the city is now shrouded in thick polution. Mick and Meg, two of its elderly citizens, in partially refrigerated state that requires less oxygen, outwit the young Recruiters for the deadly Games that are held by the Managers.

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On Lin & On Ice

1st Produced:
Impossible Ragtime Theatre, NYC     1981

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Two 1 Act Plays One Act

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Male:  5            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Helen of Troy Tells What Really Happened

Synopsis:
Without herself knowing why, Helen appears in the theatre where the audience has assembled, and after realizing what has happened, seizes the opportunity to set the record straight about her life, during which recitation, she makes clear that despite all the plays and books that have been written about her, her story has never been told. It is a story that recognizes all the known events, but, in each instance, gives a different meaning to them.

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Ladyhouse Blues

Synopsis:
In South St. Louis, people used to say, "When you're standin' there hurtin' so bad you could die, an' you know you won't-that's the blues." And in August, 1919 in the midst of war-born inflation, while her eldest daughter is being wasted by tuberculosis-Liz Madden, a widow at forty-one, tries with what laughter, tears, and raillery she can muster, to hold her three younger daughters around - at least until Bud, her only son, "can get back from the Navy."

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William Morris Agency

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Samuel French, London, 1979   -

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Genre:
Musical Drama, full length Musical

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Male:  -            Female:  5            Other:  extras

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Long War, The

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aka Three Days Before Yesterday

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University Of Minnesota    

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in "Playwrights For Tomorrow Vol.4" University of Minnesota, 1967   -

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  18            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Morgan Yard, The

Synopsis:
A widow's resistance to the US Government's attempt to annex a private burying ground in the Ozark Mountains with mines and arms leads to fatal results that neither side wants.

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Samuel French, London, 1975   -

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Mutilators, The

Synopsis:
the City of Athens has been at war with Sparta for 17 years, and now, on the eve of her embarkation for an attack on the City of Syracuse, the city is a cauldron seething with frightened civilians and brawling soldiers, both of them frightened by the prospects of this greatest sea-attack ever mounted. And on this night of fear and apprehension, a band of bitter young veterans comit an act of terror against the populace: they deface the images of the god who guards wevery house that can afford one, thus throwing the city into such a paroxysm of fear that they turn their affairs over to a demagogue, who proceeds to lay waste to them and their democratic institutions. This man's power is finally broken by the testimony of a young man - the first on record to put forth the idea that an Accused person should be considered innocent until proven otherwise. With a semblance of sanity restored at last, this young man's Curtain line sums up the play's action: "the Spartans, when we began to fight them, were no better t

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Nightgatherers, The

Synopsis:
Four cast-offs live in one of the abandoned tunnels under New York City's Walforf Astoria Hotel, ekeing out a living by redeeming the city's cast-off cans and bottles. Three of them are veterans. their discovery of the long-dead body of another veteran, and how to deal with it, leads to their personal redemption.

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Awarded the Pinter Review Gold Medal for Drama, 2006

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Party for Lovers, A

Synopsis:
Even as bulldozers and jackhammers threaten his fashionable restaurant-home in New York's East 50's, eighty-three-year-old Vito Vitale holds a betrothal party for the daughter of his old age and her fiance, and tries to resist the mounting force of his family's at-tempts to persuade him to uproot himself - "for his own good."

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William Morris Agency . Won National Repertory theatre's First Prize for Drama

1st Produced:
-     1981

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1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1982   -

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Genre:
Comedy/Drama, full length Comedy

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Male:  4            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Report to the Stockholders

Synopsis:
Chairman of the Board gives an accounting of his stewardship, cradle to the grave: 1915 to "now."

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with 32 original songs, music by Larry Grossman

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Requiem

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University Of Montana    

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