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PINTER REVIEW PRIZE IN
DRAMA
SUSAN SMITH BLACKBURN PRIZE
OJAI Playwrights Conference – workshop
New York Stage and Film at Vassar - worskhop
Publications: A
Map of Doubt and Rescue - University
of Tampa Press
The landscape
of this play is a small town, Hollywood, the canvas of our history,
and the struggle of those who try to make sense of it all as they
endeavor to create and connect. The characters who inhabit and run
throughout the territory of the play are part of one another’s
lives sometimes directly and sometimes in ways that are revealed as
things unfold.
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On the dust jacket: Charlotte Saloman, "Life? or Theatre?" from the Collection of Jewish Historical Museum, Amsterdam.
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THE
GRAND DESIGN |
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The Grand Design will be released
as a short film, starring Eric Stoltz
and Frances Conroy, screenplay by Susan Miller
12th Annual One Act
Festival
- Winner's Circle Moving Arts Theatre, Los
Angeles
Benefit for Cure Autism Now – starring
Lily Tomlin and Eric Stoltz.
Directed
by Robert Egan.
Brave New World Benefit: American Theatre Responds to 9/11
- Town Hall, New York. With Marsha Mason
and Scott Cohen
Finalist Heideman Award – Actors
Theatre of Louisville
Publications: Great Short Plays Volume 6
Playscripts, Inc,
Best
American Short Plays 2003-2004 - edited by Glenn
Young.
Applause Theatre & Cinema Books
Take
Ten, Vol. II - edited by Eric Lane and Nina Shengold.
Vintage
For books
and performance rights: contact www.playscripts.com
A scientist
works on a new message about humanity to send into space, while
his mother walks across the United States.
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Eric Stoltz directing Frances Conroy

Frances Conroy

David Hyde Pierce and Lily Tomlin
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OBIE award in Playwriting
SUSAN SMITH BLACKBURN PRIZE (shared)
Premiered at Actors' Theatre of Louisville's Humana Festival
Performed by Author. Directed by Nela Wagman.
Vital Theatre Company - New York: benefit for Vital Theatre - October 2008
7 Stages Theatre - Atlanta, Georgia, "a new 3 character restaging"
- February 2007
City Theatre of St. Louis – April, 2004
New Repertory Theatre - Boston - April, 2002
Theatre J - Washington, D.C. - April, 2001
Hampstead Theatre - London: Benefit for Breakthrough - October, 2000
Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati - May, 2000
Oak Street Theatre - Portland, Maine - 1998
Celebration Theatre - Los Angeles, California - 1998
Pennsylvania State University - 1998
Out North - Anchorage, Alaska - 1997
The Group Theatre - Seattle, Washington - 1997
Trinity Repertory Co. - Providence, Rhode Island - 1996
Walnut Street Theatre - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - 1996
Buddies In Bad Times Theatre - Toronto, Canada - 1996
Frontera Hyde Park Theatre - Austin, Texas - 1995
Watermark's Wordfire Festival at the Ohio Theatre - New York - 1995/96
Benefit for Gilda's Club - Skirball Cultural Center - Los Angeles
- 1997
Naked Angels - New York - 1994
French production - Le Foyer Theatre du Palais Royal -Paris,
Canadian Touring Company - Shameless
Hussy Productions
Publications:
O
Solo Homo - Grove Press - Edited by Holly Hughes and David
Roman,
The
Best American Short Plays 93/94 - Applause Books - Edited
by Glenn Young
Plays
From the Humana Festival 1994 - Smith and Kraus - Edited by
Marisa Smith
The
Breast. An Anthology - Global City Press - Editor: Susan
Thames
L'AVANT-SCENE - Paris, December
For books and
performance rights: contact www.playscripts.com
“I am a one
breasted, menopausal, bisexual lesbian mom -- and I am the topic of
our times. I’m the hot issue. I’m the cover of Newsweek,
the editorial in the paper. I’m a best seller. And I am coming
soon to a theatre near you!” |



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READING
LIST |
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Vital Signs, New Works Festival - New
York |
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Publications: Great Short Plays Volume 6 -
Playscripts, Inc,
"The
Best Ten-Minute Plays
3 or More Actors 2006" - Smith and Kraus
"The Best American Short Plays, 2004 - 2005" - Applause Books, Editor: Parisi, Barbara 2008
For books
and performance rights:
contact www.playscripts.com |

CAST: Kathryn Grody, Maha Chehlaoui, Bridgit Antoinette
Evans, Jay Smith, Michael Rudko, Happy Anderson. Directed by Cynthia
Croot |
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Fountainhead
Theatre - Los Angeles
Finalist Actor's Theatre of Louisville's Ten Minute play Contest
VITAL SIGNS New Works Festival
- New York
Numerous college productions
Publications: Actors'
Book of Gay and Lesbian Plays - Penguin. Editors: Eric
Lane and Nina Shengold
The
Best American Short Plays of 1992-93 Applause Books.
Editors: Howard Stein and Glenn Young
For books
and performance rights: contact www.playscripts.com
A gay version/homage
to Thornton Wilder’s “Our Town.”
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REPAIRS
Home
For Contemporary Theatre And Art - New York
Publications: Facing
Forward - Broadway Play Publishing.
Edited by Leah Frank
Repairs of the
basement and the heart
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The Joseph Papp Public Theatre - New York
Finalist Susan Smith Blackburn Prize
Modern relationships |
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Joseph Lambie, Christine Estabrook, Tony Shalhoub, and
Laila Robins |
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OBIE Award for playwriting
The Joseph Papp Public Theatre - New York
The St. Nicholas Theatre - Chicago IL
Theatre On The Square - Indianapolis, IN
Finalist Susan Smith Blackburn Prize
Publications: Amazon
All Stars - Applause Books.
Edited by Rosemary Curb
“A serious
social comedy” in which the friends, lovers, and son of a charismatic
woman gather in a hospital waiting room, after she has suffered a
sudden cerebral hemorrhage. Raleigh, 38, talks to the audience as
she takes this journey toward her death. We see the dynamics of each
relationship through their interactions with Raleigh and one another. |


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Second Stage - New York
The Public Theatre - New York
The American Repertory Co. - London
The Phoenix Repertory Co. - New York
A college instructor’s
dilemma in the classroom and in her personal relationships. Caught
between sentiment for the passion of previous decades and the present
reality of her pragmatic, though bright students, Jess faces a crisis
that puts everyone else to the test. |
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The
Mark Taper Forum - Los Angeles
Interart Theatre - New York
Publications: West
Coast Plays, Vol. I
Edited by Robert Valine
Using inventive
prose as dialogue, the journey of Perry Chaiken, through her
marriage, friendships, love affair with a student, motherhood
and turning 30. A story of letting go and self discovery. |
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The Eugene O'Neill National
Playwrights Conference - Waterford, CT
The Mark Taper Forum - Los Angeles, CA
Publications: Gay
Plays - Avon. Editor William Hoffman
Growing up female. A humorous,
and emotional look at the rituals of initiation, sex, friendship,
ambition. The main character, Ronnie, goes from puberty to marriage.
Her sexual ambiguity is explored with a college roommate, Coop. Her
adult experience with love comes through her marriage to David. In
the background of these scenes is a chorus of Cheerleaders and Lettermen,
who later become her suburban neighbors. |

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Cast Theatre - Los Angeles,
California
Semifinalist Dramatists Guild/CBS New Play Contest
American Theatre Association's National Conference
- Reading presented by Joseph Papp
A contemporary comedy
which explores the creation and destruction of modern heroes. An English
professor and his graduate film student girlfriend invade the privacy
of the famed, reclusive J.D Salinger and hold him hostage in return
for all the unpublished manuscripts he has written over the years. |
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HUMAN
AFFAIRS
Finalist for Actors Theatre of Louisville's Heideman Award
Standing on Ceremony - The Gay Marriage Plays
The Attic Theatre, El Portal Theatre - Los Angeles
Two couples
and their friendships
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Looking
for someone, longing for someone. It's everyone's question.
That and how am I going to die. There's this one inescapable
and encompassing thing you have. Which is yourself. So
the question, which belongs to everyone, which is everyone’s
to ask, is—who is going to be with me? Who is going
to make it less terrible to be me? |
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DENIM
LECTURE
Finalist Actor's
Theatre of Louisville Ten Minute Play Contest
Mark Taper Forum's Lab Theatre
A person
turning a certain age goes on tour and speaks of jeans as metaphor.
A dark comedy.
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LECTURER
(After gazing at his notes and sizing up the audience,
he plunges ahead.)
The
central issue ... and there's no beating around the bush,
there's no point in asking me to manage myself - my notes.
I won't. I can't. The central issue has assembled and
collected around thighs, buttocks, crotches, and bellies.
For me, at least. The way I see it, at any rate. The way
it feels. The rough and tough of it. And everybody has
something at stake here. It boils down to this -- THERE
HASN'T BEEN A F--K DONE YET THAT'S AS GOOD AS THE PROPER
PAIR OF JEANS. Resist. I'll argue that proposition to
my death. LOVE IS DENIM! HARMONY IS DENIM! |
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SILVERSTEIN & CO.
Jews in America – a dark family comedy
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ETHEL:
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You're exhausted,
Ernie. We'll have dinner in an hour. You want a
drink first? |
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I have to make a few house calls
tonight. What's for supper? |
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Ernie, listen, I'm very concerned
about your daughter. |
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What? |
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It's Pam. She doesn't look well. |
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Is she complaining about anything?
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No, it's just her general condition. |
ERNIE:
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Probably just growing pains. |
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Now what does that mean? |
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Let the kid alone. |
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She's deteriorating. You look
at her. She's getting smaller... and she continues
to dwell in the past. |
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She's only 16. How much of a past
can she have? |
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A
COMMOTION OF ZEBRAS
The Alice Theatre - New
York City
An avant garde
riff on women's relationships. |
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DADDY
The Alice Theatre - New
York City
Racial role reversal in
the context of the “family” unit. |
Pennsylvania State University
Publications: Pyramid - Vol. I
A tango of identity
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