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Dale Griffiths Stamos

DALE GRIFFITHS STAMOS  

 Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    Robert A Freedman Dramatic Agency  


Dale Griffiths Stamos is a playwright and poet whose work has been produced and published in the United States and abroad. She received the Heideman Award from ActorsTheatre of Louisville for her ten-minute play The Unintended Video. She won the Jewel Box Theatre's Original Playwrighting Competition for her full length Drama Dialectics of the Heart. And she was nominated for an Emmy for her shared story credit on the CBS special Words Up! For various other one act plays and short works, she was also named finalist for the Heideman Award, Actors Theatre of Louisville, alternate for The Samuel French Festival, finalist for Love Creek Productions Short Play Festival and fourth place winner and also finalist for the West Coast Ten-Minute Playwriting Contest. Her productions have included: Dialectics of the Heart at Edgemar Center for the Arts in 2006, Blue Jay Singing in the Dead of Night, (workshop) at Actors Alley, 1999, The Unintended Video, produced originally at Actors Theatre of Louisville, 1996, and then worldwide at countless venues since; and numerous one act and short plays. Her newest full length: One White Crow has received developmental readings at Syzygy Theatre and Edgemar Center for the Arts. The Unintended Video has been published in: Ten-Minute Plays: Volume 4 from Actors Theatre of Louisville, Samuel French - publisher. A poet as well, her poetry has appeared in such publications as: Calyx: A Journal of Art and Literature by Women, ON THE BUS, Rattle: Poetry for the 21st Century, Into the Teeth of the Wind, The Lucid Stone, Mothering magazine, and rivertalk. Dale teaches yearly at the Santa Barbara Writers Conference where she co-leads a workshop in story structure.

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 Amanda Split         Birthday Escape         Blue Jay Singing in the Dead of Night         Dialectics of the Heart         Love Struck         One White Crow         Out Of The Rubble         Plenty Papaya         Running Away For Christmas         Unintended Video, The

Amanda Split

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1st Produced:
StillSpeaking Theatre, San Marino, California    06 Aug 2010

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Evolution of Love Festival

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Ten minute play

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Birthday Escape

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1st Produced:
Vortex Theatre, Albuquerque, New Mexico    04 Feb 2011

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Blue Jay Singing in the Dead of Night

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BLUE JAY SINGING IN THE DEAD OF NIGHT is the story of JAY JARRELL, a once legendary disc jockey from 60's "Underground" radio who finds himself a decade later stuck in the era of less talk, more hits radio. Now in his late forties to early fifties, he's been relegated to a graveyard shift and to working with an engineer, MAX, who is determined to squeeze him into the mold of the new FM DJ, all gloss and no substance. Meanwhile, Jay's much younger songwriter girlfriend, LAURA, whose career he's been nurturing, is wanting to try her own wings, and secretly begins to work with a musician, STEVE, on the side. This relationship satisfies her deepest musical longings, but also veers into the romantic. When these two realities converge for Jay, they propel him into a final act that some might call inspiration, others, lunacy, but that is ultimately a proclamation of the self against the odds.

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There Are 5 onstage parts And four "callers" (voice only) so some doubling is possible.

1st Produced:
Actors Alley, North Hollywood    1999

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Play/Drama

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Male:  6            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Dialectics of the Heart

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DIALECTICS OF THE HEART is a forbidden love story within the academic world of philosophy. ELIZABETH DREWER, a forty-year-old philosophy professor, knows who she is. She loves her work, is at the top of her field, and is a rationalist to the core. Her personal life is less certain. Her marriage to fellow professor, MARSHALL HEUGHINS, broke up over another woman. Her colleague, PHILIP MONOHAN, against whom she testified in front of an ethics committee for his affair with a student, seems to be holding it against her. Her best friend, anthropology professor, BARBARA BIDEN, wants her to stop burying herself in work. But none of these people disturb her complacency quite as much as the "new kid in town," charismatic and free-thinking teaching assistant and graduate student, RICHARD AMADO, 28. As the semester commences, Elizabeth tries to rein the young man in, but instead, despite herself, finds herself more and more attracted. It is only when Elizabeth emerges from this struggle, re-evaluating not only her world view, but the people within her world she had so carelessly judged, that this woman of the mind finds the synthesis that allows her to unite mind and heart into a new whole.

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1st Produced:
Edgemar Center for the Arts, Santa Monica, CA    2006

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Love Struck

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1st Produced:
Beverley Hills Playhouse    11 May 2012

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Short play

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One White Crow

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In ONE WHITE CROW, Journalist TESS O'NEILL reluctantly takes on the assignment to profile popular television medium JUDITH KNIGHT. Tess is a rationalist and skeptic, very much like her father who recently passed away, Pulitzer prize winning science writer, Robert O'Neill. At the first interview, Judith claims that it is not she who chose Tess for the job, but her dead father. This only adds fuel to the fire, and makes Tess determined to get to the truth of Judith's claims. Tess consults Alex RIMBAUD, Robert O'Neill's former protege and now celebrated professional skeptic, who is also Judith Knight's most outspoken critic. To complicate matters, when Tess was still a college girl of 19 and Alex was 29, a furtive attraction had developed between them which had culminated in a stolen kiss. Now, 15 years later, Alex is happy to help, hoping Tess will expose Judith as a fraud. But things don't go necessarily as planned. Tess becomes more and more unsettled by Judith's "visitations," while at the same time becoming re-entangled in feelings for Alex. As their three lives intertwine, Tess must deal with both her grief and a shifting certainty of where belief ends and truth begins.

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Several staged readings in Los Angeles Area, 2007, 2008

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Out Of The Rubble

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1st Produced:
Crown City Theatre, North Hollywood    30 Nov 2010

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Plenty Papaya

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A little adversity in every life

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1st Produced:
Crown City Theatre, No Ho, California    26 Oct 2010

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Running Away For Christmas

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1st Produced:
Crown City Theatre, North Hollywood    08 Dec 2010

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Unintended Video, The

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Clarissa doesn't realize when she takes a video of the man on the park bench surrounded by birds he's feeding, that he is a burn victim. But when she views the tape later, she sees his disfigurement and worse, sees him staring right at her! So she goes back and tries to make amends, a much more difficult proposition that she expects!

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Co-winner of the Heideman Award, Actors Theatre of Louisville, 1996

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Actors Theatre of Louisville

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Contained in: "Ten Minute Plays from the ActorsTheatre of Louisville volume Four" published by Samuel French Inc, 1998   -

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Genre:
Drama Ten Min

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