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Every Man Jack of You (ehnevery)

Everyman Jack of You is an overture to Ehn's Soulographie series. Jack, a recurring character, abandons his first wife, leaving his Oklahoma home for a drunken spree in Vegas. He travels against the backdrop of the NATO bombings in Bosnia, conflated with the Tulsa race riot of 1921. His increasingly dissolute efforts at mindless release never succeed in drowning out the complexity of the political world (pushed into his consciousness by various avatars of Julia Caesar/Caesar’s Palace), or in rendering him innocent of his place in context with historical events. Clair, his wife, increasingly politicized, breaks free. Part of Ehn's linked multi-play series, Soulographie.

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Premiere Year
1998
Premiere Theater
Cloven Patriachs
Premiere City
New York
Premiere Creative

Cast: John Holley, Dana Claire Gottlieb, Renee Bourrut and Catherine Porter

Director: Sean McGrath

Major Production Year
2012
Major Production Theater
La MaMa
Major Production City
New York
Major Production Creative

Directors: Krzysztof Garbaczewski & Marcin Cecko

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The Saint Plays (ehnsaint)

An ongoing series of short plays (over 150 to date) on faith, which have been performed in multiple iterations around the country. Watch an archival video of Sledgehammer Theatre's 1992 production here.

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Premiere Year
1994
Premiere Theater
Annex Theatre
Premiere City
Seattle
Premiere Creative

Cast: Kathleen Clarke, Robin Dicker, Hunt Holman, Josh Parks, Audrey Freudenberg, Jody Hahn, John Holyoke, Heather Hughes, Natache LaFerriere, Allison Narver, Michael Shapiro, Cynthia Whalen

Directed by Erik Ehn

Major Production Year
2010
Major Production Theater
Factory 449
Major Production City
Washington, D.C
Major Production Creative

Director: John Moletress

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Elevada (callaeleva)

New York City. Right now. Ramona's going on lots of first dates but is intentionally sabotaging her chances for a second. Khalil, a social media superstar, is about to close a huge deal that will take him completely off the market. They'll do anything to float above their own lives, even as fate tries to pull them both back down to earth. Elevada is a warm, witty, and wise romantic comedy about the fear of being alone—and the fear of not being alone. A finalist for the 2014 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize.

Yale Rep Production (April 24-May 16, 2015)
Premiere Year
2015
Premiere Theater
Yale Rep
Premiere City
New Haven, CT
Premiere Creative

Cast: Laurel Casillo, Greg Keller, Alfredo Narciso, and Keira Naughton; Dancers: Frankie Alicea, Luis Antonio, Evan Gambardella, Melissa Kaufman, and Rebecca Maddy; Director: Jackson Gay

Major Production Year
2019
Major Production Theater
Shotgun Players
Major Production City
Berkeley, CA
Major Production Creative

Cast: Wes Gabrillo, Karen Offereins, Soren Santos, and Sango Tajima; Dancers: Ebony Araman, Jonas Aquino, Andy Collins, Maggie Kelley Connard, Xiaomin Jiang, Jason Torres Hancock, Paul Melish, Mimu Tsujimura, Jessica Uher, and Quinci Waller; Director: Susannah Martin

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Fever / Dream (callafever)

Say your father was the President of a multinational corporation and you were chained to the customer service desk as soon as you could dial a phone... if someone made you CEO for a day, would you go crazy? And if all around you the inner workings of the company were in turmoil——people in disguise, marriages plotted, overthrows planned——and you were told that everything happening to you is only a dream, what would you do? A modern corporate dynasty phantasmagoria freely adapted from Pedro Calderón'’s Life Is A Dream.

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Premiere Year
2009
Premiere Theater
Woolly Mammoth
Premiere City
Washington, D.C.
Premiere Creative

Cast: Daniel Eichner, Drew Eshelman, Jessica Frances Dukes, Kimberly Gilbert, Kate Eastwood Norris, KenYatta Rogers, Michael Willis

Director: Howard Shalwitz

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Lascivious Something (callalasci)

It’s 1980 and Reagan has just been elected. August fled the country six years prior to be with his beautiful young Greek bride on a secluded Mediterranean island, where he planted a modest vineyard. Now, his young wife is pregnant, his crop is robust, and he is about to have his first tasting, when a strange woman in a large-brimmed hat arrives at the couple’s guesthouse.

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Premiere Year
2010
Premiere Theater
Women's Project / Cherry Lane
Premiere City
New York
Premiere Creative

Cast: Rob Campbell, Dana Eskelson, Ronete Levenson & Elisabeth Waterston

Director: Daniella Topol

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Marie Antoinette (adjmimarie)

"I wasn’'t raised I was built: I was built to be this thing; and now they’'re killing me for it." The eyes of the court are on her, and nothing good can come of it. They used to love Marie just the way she was. But now change is in the air and things are about to be different for France’'s isolated young queen. Things are about to be different for everybody. Aren'’t they? Marin Ireland played Marie in the world premiere of this raw, fantastical, and funny production about a moment in time when the political suddenly got very personal. You'’ve never seen a history play quite like this.

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Premiere Year
2012
Premiere Theater
ART / Yale Rep (Co-Production)
Premiere City
Boston / New Haven
Premiere Creative

Cast: Fred Arsenault, Hannah Cabell, David Greenspan, Marin Ireland, Vin Knight, Jo Lampert, Polly Lee, Steven Rattazzi, Jake Silbermann, Teale Sperling, Brian Wiles, Ashton Woerz

Director: Rebecca Taichman

Major Production Year
2013
Major Production Theater
Soho Rep
Major Production City
New York
Major Production Creative

Cast: Marsha Stephanie Blake, David Greenspan, Jennifer Ikeda, Marin Ireland, Aimee Laurence, Karl Miller, Quentin Morales, Will Pullen, Steven Rattazzi, and Chris Stack Director: Rebecca Taichman

Major Production 2 Year
2015
Major Production 2 Theater
Steppenwolf
Major Production 2 City
Chicago
Major Production 2 Creative

Cast: Matthew Abraham, Alana Arenas, Andi Earles, Tim Frank, Keith D. Gallagher, Joe Goldammer, Tim Hopper, Kelly Owens, Mark Page, Tamberla Perry, Ericka Ratcliff, Ariel Shafir, Dustin Whitehead, and Alan Wilder

Director: Robert O'Hara

Major Production 2 Date
5-Feb-15
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Stunning (adjmistunn)

Sixteen year old Lily knows nothing beyond the Syrian-Jewish community in Brooklyn where she lives a cloistered life with her much older husband. Soon an unlikely relationship with her enigmatic African-American maid opens Lily'’s world to new possibilities, but at a big price. This daring play shifts from caustic satire to violent drama as it exposes the ways we invent and defend our identities in the melting-pot of America.

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Premiere Year
2008
Premiere Theater
Woolly Mammoth
Premiere City
Washington, D.C.
Premiere Creative

Cast: Quincy Tyler Bernstine, Clinton Brandhagen, Gabriela Fernandez-Coffey, Michael Gabriel Goodfriend, Laura Heisler and Abby Wood

Director: Anne Kauffman

Major Production Year
2009
Major Production Theater
LTC3 (Lincoln Center)
Major Production City
New York
Major Production Creative

Cast: Sas Goldberg, Danny Mastrogiorgio, Cristin Milioti, Steven Rattazzi, Jeanine Serralles, Charlayne Woodard Director: Anne Kauffmann

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The Dog Says How
Autobiographical Stories
In this wonderfully original collection of autobiographical stories, popular storyteller and NPR commentator Kevin Kling deftly weaves pitch-perfect scenes of childhood antics and adulthood absurdities with themes of overcoming tragedy, forging lifelong friendships, and living with disabilities in a complex world.
 
In “Circus,” Kling recollects how his love of boats, animals and adventure inspired him to join a traveling circus troupe—but it was the all-you-can-eat buffet that cinched the deal. In “Dogs,” Fafnir, Kling’s new wiener puppy, leads him into the world of show dogs, those resembling “cleaning implements—perfumed, powdered, and pampered.” In the poignant title story, Kling straddles the realm of the ordinary and one rivaling Dante’s underworld as he learns how to use voice-recognition software after his near fatal motorcycle accident.
 
These and many more classic and never-before-told tales are collected in The Dog Says How. In Kling’s universe, “the mundane becomes magical, the fantastic becomes accessible and through it all his profound sense of curiosity about the world transforms the everyday to the timeless” (Queen Anne News).
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Vinegar Bone
Poems

Vinegar Bone, the first full-length collection by Martha Zweig, reveals the world in strange but startlingly apt images. Intelligent, salty, full of extraordinary imagination and linguistic texture, these poems delve deep into the meanings of winter mornings, early peas, rocks, stars, the deaths of animals, and the death of love. A single mother and former factory worker, Zweig is no stranger to hard times. Her poems are precise, original, and moving. Whether she is uncovering the similarities between a cave and a kiss or meditating on murder, Zweig's love of language is exceed only by her taste for truth.

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Monkey Lightning
Poems

Martha Zweig's fourth collection of poems is her strongest. With a voice and verbal texture like no other contemporary poet's, she transfigures the sonorous traditional English lyric with an audacity that's rugged and unruly but sublimely literary. Zweig's etymological wizardry recalls the intoxicating wordplay of the rustics and faeries in Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream. Yet in their dramatic candor, Zweig's new poems are also as bull's-eye direct as John Berryman's blues-drenched Dream Songs. From the howling, buzzing, frosty reaches of the north woods we bring you . . . Monkey Lightning! The best work yet by a virtuoso conjuror.

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