Theater Masters' Take Ten Vol. 1

Theater Masters' Take Ten Vol. 1

Theater Masters' Take Ten Vol. 1

Theater Masters' Take Ten Vol. 1

Theater Masters' Take Ten Vol. 1

Overview

The collection, Theater Masters' Take Ten Vol. 1 is comprised of the following plays:

DONNA'S FIRST BRAZILIAN by Lydia Blaisdell 
A recent divorcee returns to the dating pool and treats herself to a wax.

ENGLISH LESSON by Paula Vesala
A Finnish mother teaches her son English. When they keep meeting an old Puerto Rican woman, the only native language they share is the language of loss. 

THE BATTLE OF CONEY ISLAND by David Jacobi
Now in "People Heaven," Nicola Tesla and Thomas Edison deal with the repercussions of their life-long feud. An angry elephant may or may not show up.

NORDIC AMBITION by Phillip Howze
A suspended man comes face-to-face with the terror and hilarity of his mortality. As memory and language unhinge, can spectacle save us from the shame of our American present—or will history once again repeat itself?

OF OUR OWN by Matthew Capodicasa
Six years years ago, Theo disappeared, leaving Becky behind. After a chance encounter in the park, Becky and Theo walk through the spaces of their old life together, and face the impossibility of ever truly finding what’s been lost.

OFF TACKLE GLIDE by Sean David DeMers
Off Tackle Glide is a chance encounter between an NFL prospect and a Catholic priest. With the potential to make large amounts of money and achieve instant fame, Adam takes a detour into a church to explore his choices for the future. When Father James helps talk through his options, Adam considers subverting expectations by taking the road less traveled.  

LAODAMIAD by Chas LiBretto
Laodamia is the first woman to be widowed by the War in Troy. To cope, she decides to carry on her marriage with a statue of her husband’s likeness. Can her father halt spiraling descent into madness before it’s too late? And what can he do about his nation’s grief? Based on fragments from Euripides’ lost play Protesilaos, Laodamiad explores love, war, and loss. 

TIME DIFFERENCE by Lin Tu
For the Chinese young couple Yuan and Fan separated from each other with one in the US and the other in China, time difference is not the only difference that awaits them.

Authors

Lydia Blaisdell

Lydia is a current fellow at the Michener Center for Writers. Her play, The Silent Woman, recently won the 2015 Kentucky Women Writers Conference Prize. Her immersive, retro-future piece, Apocalypse Radio had a workshop production in Austin in spring 2015. In March 2014, her ...
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Paula Vesala

Paula Vesala is a Finnish playwright, musician and actor. Paula studied music at Sibelius Academy from 2002 to 2011, her main instrument being classical singing. She earned her BA from Theater Academy Helsinki in 2014, where she studied playwriting and dramaturgy. She is curr ...
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Chas LiBretto

Chas LiBretto is a writer and performer based in New York. He is the co-founder of Psittacus Productions, a theatre company specializing in the collision of ancient and modern stories. His recent writing includes the Pulitzer nominated Cyclops: A Rock Opera (w/ Landon Marc ...
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Phillip Howze

Phillip Howze is an American writer and theater maker whose works include Self Portraits (BRIC-Arts Media) and Frontieres Sans Frontieres (Bushwick Starr). His plays have been developed or produced at Bay Area Playwrights Festival, Clubbed Thumb, Cutting Ball, New York Theate ...

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Matthew Capodicasa

Matthew Capodicasa’s plays include Next/Life, All the People You've Been, The City in the City in the City, The Scenarios, You Remind Me of You, Frelmetsch the Maneater, The City Of, and Chaos and Caesar Salad. His work has been presented or developed at the Kennedy Center, t ...

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Sean David DeMers

Sean David DeMers is a playwright with Maine- and New York City-based roots. His plays include Great Emergencies, Little Blue Pill, The Suicide of Mark Twain (Harvest Theatre Festival), A Life in the Round and the musical Jules Verne’s From the Earth to the Moon. Sean is a gr ...
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David Jacobi

David Jacobi’s plays have been performed throughout the U.S. and in China, including the Peter Jay Sharp Theater, FringeNYC, Penghao Theatre, and 798 Dashanzi Art District. His work has been developed at Portland Center Stage’s JAW Festival (Mai Dang Lao,) Cutting Ball Theate ...
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Lin Tu

Lin is a playwright/screenwriter, born and grew up in Beijing, China. Lin began writing proses and short fictions since early teen, and had some of them published, such as OF SEPARATION, in teen literature magazine Top Novel. In late teens, she joined in literature competitio ...
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