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Scenes and Monologues for Young Actors |
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Compiled and Edited by Kent R. Brown. Written by Sandra Fenichel Asher, Max Bush, James Still, Joanna H. Kraus, Ric Averill, John O'Brien, Mike Thomas, Ted Sod, Linda Daugherty, Jonelle Grace, Allison Gregory, Nancy Hanna, Eleanor Harder, Silvia Gonzalez S., Michael Schneider, Jett Parsley, Mark Plaiss, Laura Shamas, Elizabeth Wong, Steven Sater and Caridad Svich. This contemporary anthology contains over 125 challenging and entertaining roles written for young actors of middle and high school age. The book is geared to the classroom environment, allowing drama teachers to assign work of varying complexity to advanced as well as beginning students. Of particular interest are several pieces which require between four and 17 actors and stimulate ensemble concentration and energy. The material is also excellent for auditions and competitions. Included are tips for interpreting scenes and portraying characterizations. 6 x 9 - 280 pages.
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| 0871299585 |
| 02/04/2000 |
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|  | Sandra Fenichel Asher has published 24 books for young readers (as Sandy Asher) and over two dozen plays, including Across the Plains; Dancing with Strangers; Emma; I Will Sing Life; Little Women: Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy; Once, in the Time of Trolls; The Wise Men of Chelm and A Woman Called Truth (all Dramatic Publishing) and The Wolf and ...More |  | Ric Averill was the artistic director for the Seem-To-Be Players professional children's theatre touring company, Lawrence, Kansas, for many years and currently serves as writer-in-residence and drama program director at the Lawrence Arts Center. His published plays include Reliable Junk; Frankenstein; Robin Hood: The Courtship of Allan A'Dale (with Jeanne Averill); The Seven Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor; Bird Woman: ...More |  | Kent R. Brown's works have been produced throughout Canada, Belgium, The Netherlands, Australia and the United States. American venues include People's Light and Theatre Company, Walnut Street Theatre, Greenbrier Valley Theatre, Company One, BoarsHead Theater, West Coast Ensemble, Boston Theatre Works, Pulse Ensemble, Dobama Theatre, The Side Project and Moving Arts. Brown's published titles include Valentines and Killer Chili, Two ...More |  | Max Bush is a freelance playwright and director whose plays are widely produced on professional, educational and amateur stages across the country. He's won many awards for his work including the Distinguished Play Award from AATE, the IUPUI National Playwrighting Competition, and Individual Artist Grants from Michigan Council for the Arts. He's been commissioned by the Nashville Academy Theatre, Emmy ...More |  | Linda Daugherty is playwright in residence at Dallas Children's Theater, named as one of the country's top five children's theaters by Time magazine. More than 25 of her plays have premiered at Dallas Children's Theater, and national touring productions of her plays have been presented in more than 150 cities in 41 states. Her plays have also been produced at ...More |  | Silvia Gonzalez S. is the author of 16 plays and two musicals for which she has received many awards, among them the Lila Wallace/Reader's Digest New Play Award, Kennedy Center's New Visions/New Voices, and two Lee Korf Playwriting Awards. Gonzalez is also an accomplished actress, director, stand-up comedienne, and a published poet.More | | | | | | Nancy Hanna was a 2000 finalist for the Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center's National Playwrights Conference. Her play, Away the Bear, won the 1998 Regent University playwriting competition and has been produced in Virginia and Vancouver. The Psalm of Edie Catz has received readings at the Deep Ellum Center for the Arts in Dallas, Texas, and at Circle Theatre in Chicago. ...More |  | Eleanor Harder, author, composer/lyricist, has written over 20 plays and musicals, many with her husband, Ray. A graduate of UCLA in theater and music, she has received numerous awards for her work, was given a grant from the state of Michigan for a new musical, was honored by the Authors and Celebrities Forum and The Los Angeles Board of Education, ...More |  | Joanna H. Kraus is the award-winning author of 14 published and internationally produced plays. Her popular play The Ice Wolf appears in New Women's Theatre, Dramatic Literature for Children, Around the World in 21 Plays and Theatre for Young Audiences: 25 Great Plays for Children. It was first produced off-off-Broadway and is published in an acting edition by Dramatic Publishing. ...More |  | John O'Brien graduated from Tufts University in 1951, magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa. A teacher of English and theatre at Malden High School, Malden, Mass., and a literary fellow of the National Endowment for the Arts, O'Brien has two full-length plays and seven one-act plays in the Dramatic Publishing catalog, plus seven scenes and monologues in Scenes and Monologues ...More | | | | | | | | Michael Schneider began his theatre studies at Reed College and graduated from Northwestern University's School of Speech. Since then he has taught a wide variety of students in an even wider variety of schools and school districts: in the Peace Corps in Borneo; in a rural elementary school in Pembroke, Ill., in a suburban middle school in Lakewood, Colo., at ...More |  | Laura Annawyn Shamas is a writer and mythologist. Her work intersects theatre, mythology and film. She has written more than 30 plays. Her playwriting awards include a 2008 Garrard Best Play Award from the Five Civilized Tribes Museum (Oklahoma), a Drama-Logue Award and a Warner Brothers Award. Shamas holds a Ph.D. in mythological studies and teaches in the M.F.A. Screenwriting ...More | | |  | James Still's award-winning plays have been produced at theatres throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, Japan and Australia. He is the playwright-in-residence at the Indiana Repertory Theatre, a winner of the William Inge Festival's Otis Guernsey New Voices in American Theatre Award, the Medallion for Sustained Achievement from the Children's Theatre Foundation of America, and the Charlotte B. Chorpenning Playwright ...More | | | | |  | Elizabeth Wong, playwright, is a graduate of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. She directed her latest play Dating and Mating in Modern Times at Theatre Emory in Atlanta, Ga and at the 2003 Brave New Works Festival. The Happy Prince, her opera for young audiences with Grammy-winning composer Michael Silversher, was commissioned by the Kennedy Center ...More |
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