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Abby Rosebrock

ABBY ROSEBROCK

  
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    ICM Partners  represented by Ross Weiner

Abby Rosebrock is a New York-based playwright and actress from South Carolina. Before turning to theatre, she taught writing on a literature fellowship and completed a doctorate in medieval English at Columbia University. Her plays have been produced or read at Cherry Lane, Playwrights Horizons, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Dixon Place, The Brick, IRT, Naked Angels, Littlefield, The Flea, INTAR, C.O.W., and more. Abby has been named a finalist for the Eugene O'Neill National Playwrights Conference (SINGLES IN AGRICULTURE), received two EST/Sloan Foundation commissions for her short plays, and been featured in various best-of anthologies by Smith & Kraus and Applause (SIA, DIFFERENT ANIMALS, DIDO OF IDAHO). Recent acting credits include shows and workshops with La Jolla Playhouse/WOW Festival, Classic Stage, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Clubbed Thumb/Playwrights Horizons, UCB, The PIT, and LA Fringe (nominee, Best Actress). She originated the role of Meg in Chiara Atik's bicoastal hit WOMEN and the role of Blondi in Mac Wellman's critically acclaimed new play THE OFFENDING GESTURE. Her webseries MY EX IS TRENDING, co-created with Layla Khoshnoudi and Jennifer Wilson, appears on Control Top TV. Abby has been a member of Playground at The Lark Play Development Center and The Tank NYC's TV- and new media-writers collective. She is currently a proud member of the Obie Award-winning playwrights' collective EST/Youngblood.

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

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         "Jolene, Jolene"         Afterparty         Allegory of Love         Annunciation         Breakfast Juice         Dido and Aeneas         Dido Of Idaho         Different Animals         Divorees         Flour Girls         Great Expectations         Harmonizers, The         House of Mechanicals, The         How About We         Jolene, Jolene         King of Guam, The         La Fragolina         Looking For Someone         Marie's Toast         Mary Ann Starr         Nashville Dreams         No One Is Home         Out of Control         Pastor Kristy         Phoenixes, The         R&J interludes         Sandra Bullock Play, The         Singles In Agriculture         Sloppy Relations         Train Scene         Tuny and Biscuit         Worrywart & Rocket Man

"Jolene, Jolene"

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A school teacher arranges for her lover who is an audiologist to talk to the pupils about good hearing

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Afterparty

Synopsis:
A dragon obsessed blogger looses patience with her care giver sister

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Payan Theatre     2011

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Allegory of Love

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Geoffrey Chaucer and post star Madonna are cohabiting in Hell

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Annunciation

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Carla's late mother leaves Heaven

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Breakfast Juice

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A New Yorker invites a number of rejected poets to a workshop

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Dido and Aeneas

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Dido Of Idaho

Synopsis:
An alcoholic musicologist competes with a former Miss Idaho for the love of a married English professor.

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Different Animals

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In the wake of a soul-crushing affair with her pastor, a Lutheran woman agrees to a threesome with her husband and his unbalanced coworker.

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Drama

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Divorees

Synopsis:
A newly divorced woman falls in love with a lesbian

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Wednesday Repertory Company     2012

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Lesbian one act

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Flour Girls

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West Virginia storeowners Deena and Lammy have built up a clientele of loyal customers. Deena's conman brother turns up and threatens to expose them as a lesbian couple

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Great Expectations

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A carer has to break the news that the old lady's fiance has died

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Harmonizers, The

Synopsis:
A schizophrenic and two teen buskers compete for space on a subway platform

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The Dirty Blondes / C.O.W.     Mar 2014

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House of Mechanicals, The

Synopsis:
An ingenue lives in New York with her director lover - he is looking for his big breakthrough. Three actors also live there including the director's ex-boyfriend

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The Flea (workshop/reading)     Oct 2013

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Gay theme/character full length

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How About We

Synopsis:
A suburban couple meet an aristocratic couple of swingers

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UglyRhino / Littlefeld     Jan 2014

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Jolene, Jolene

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King of Guam, The

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La Fragolina

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Selected to represent EST/Youngblood

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Green Plays (Gowanus Art + Prod.)     Sep 2015

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Looking For Someone

Synopsis:
An assassin falls in love with a spy she has been contracted to kill

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Written by Abby Rosebrock and Shane Tunny

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Marie's Toast

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Aunt Marie proposes a toast on the eve of Juliet's marriage to Paris

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Mary Ann Starr

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Upright Citizens Brigade NYC     2011

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Nashville Dreams

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The Tank NYC     Dec 2014

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No One Is Home

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Ensemble Studio Theatre     Oct 2015

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Out of Control

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The Tank NYC     Sep 2014

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Pastor Kristy

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Calliope Theatre Salon (excerpts)     May 2014

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Work in Progress

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Phoenixes, The

Synopsis:
An aspiring professor is caught off guard at a job interview with the news that River Phoenix has died

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Nylon Fusion Collective     Oct 2014

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R&J interludes

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The Flea, NY     Jan 2013

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Sandra Bullock Play, The

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Ensemble Studio Theatre     Feb 2015

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Singles In Agriculture

Synopsis:
On their last night together at an annual dating convention for farmers, a South Carolina army widow who loves Modern Family and talks to her pygmy goats angles for romance with a fundamentalist dairy farmer from Oklahoma.

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Finalist for the Eugene O'Neill National Playwrights Conference; recipient of a Drama League Rough Draft Residency; developed with support from IRT, Drama League, EST/Youngblood and more; selected for The Brick's 2015 Summer Festival (Theatre is Easy Best Bet) and the Dixon Place Works-in-Progress series

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The Brick / Dixon Place, NY     2015

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Sloppy Relations

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1963 a middle aged suburban housewife is having an affair with a high schoolboy

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Train Scene

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devised adaptation of Kris Jansma's novel The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards

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The Flea, NY     Fall 2013

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Tuny and Biscuit

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A foul mouthed dog abandoned by her owners moves in with a blind woman

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The Flea, NY     Dec 2013

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Worrywart & Rocket Man

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Naked Angels/Naked Radio     Mar 2015

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