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Louis Phillips

LOUIS PHILLIPS  (1942 - )

 Nationality:    USA
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Born in Lowell, MA On June 15, 1942. B.A., Stetson University, FL; M.A., Radio, TV and Motion Pictures, University of North Carolina; M.A., English and Comparative Literature, City University of New York. Author of a comic novella, theodore Jonathan Wainwright Is Going to Bomb the Pentagon and numerous books for children, including the Brothers' Wrong and Wrong Again (McGraw Hill), the Man Who Stole the Atlantic Ocean (Prentice-Hall). His poetry has appeared in many magazines and anthologies, including New American Poetry. Recipient: State University of New York Research Fellowship, 1972; State University of New York Playwriting Contest, 1973, 1975; Winner of First Earplay Contest.
Address (in 1981): 447 East 14th St., 12D, New York, NY 10009 (212) 260-2088
Agent (in 1981): Charles Hunt, Fifi Oscard Agency, 19 West 44th St., New York, NY 10036 (212) 764-1100

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

 Alchemy Da Vinci         Arbuckle's Rape         Ballroom in St Patrick's Cathedral, The         Banquet, The         Bone the Speed         Carwash         Conrad On the Vine         Convention of Tuba Players Convenes in Fat City, A         Dead Stars         Envoi Messages, The         Ethiopia         Goalie, The         God Have Mercy on the JuneBug         Great American Quiz Show Scandal, The         Immortals, The         Last of the Marx Brothers' Writers, The         Life Guard         Man Who Ate Einstein's Brain, The         Pilgrimage         Precision Machines         Radio Station WGOD Is on the Air         Warbeck         Who Here Has Seen the Color of the Wind

Alchemy Da Vinci

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Arbuckle's Rape

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Westbeth Exchange for the Arts, NYC    -

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Ballroom in St Patrick's Cathedral, The

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glowing beauty," the play centers on a family of Greek-Americans in a small Massachusetts town during the closing days of World War II. "It is a naturalistic play, whose setting and details of character and dialogue could not be more specific and lifelike."

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Colonnades Theatre Lab, NYC    -

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Banquet, The

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Bone the Speed

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A spoof about the ultimate snake-pit: Hollywood. With a nod to David Mamet's SPEED-the-PLOW, and any number of other works on that subject.

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Carwash

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A comic surrealistic nightmare when a man's car disappears at the carwash

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Conrad On the Vine

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Imagine Joseph Conrad alive today and being interviewed on a television talk-show

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Convention of Tuba Players Convenes in Fat City, A

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Dead Stars

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Envoi Messages, The

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"Western Union has arrived with messages sent from the 1930s when all was not well with the world. ENVOI MESSAGES sends clear messages of both desperation and optimism. the play is a tight knit story about messages and how they affect both the people who receive them and those that must deliver the news, good or bad." Roberta Seabury, Contra Costa Times

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Harpur College, Binghamton, NY    -

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Modern International Drama, 10/75,
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Ethiopia

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A totalitarian future where food is so scarce that people pay to watch others eat

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Goalie, The

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God Have Mercy on the JuneBug

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Great American Quiz Show Scandal, The

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Immortals, The

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Last of the Marx Brothers' Writers, The

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Jimmy Bryce, an ex-vaudevillian and comedy writer lives in a run-down hotel in Los Angeles. As he waits for a young comic writer to arrive for comedy lessons, Bryce remembers his past life. His memory conjures up his ex-wife Alice and an original "Marx-brothers-like" character called Flammo or Julius Dumont. the play is studded with wild verbal and slapstick comic turns and tries to explore the world of terror and surrealism that lies on the other side of comedy

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Old Globe Theater, CA    -

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West Coast Plays, Berkeley, CA,    -

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Life Guard

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WPA Theater, NYC    -

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Man Who Ate Einstein's Brain, The

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the title of this play says it all

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Pilgrimage

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Precision Machines

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Inanimate objects take on a life of their own

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Foolkiller Theater, Kansas City, KS    -

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in Six One-act Plays, Broadway Play Publishing, New York,    -

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Radio Station WGOD Is on the Air

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Prologue Press, 447 E. 14th St., New York, NY 10009,    -

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Warbeck

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Colonnades Theatre Lab, NYC    -

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Journal of Irish Literature, Proscenium Press, P.O. Box 361, Newark, DE,    -

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Who Here Has Seen the Color of the Wind

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