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Emmett Loverde
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Emmett Loverde
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  • Good Business Sense
  • The Maginot Line
  • A Timely Maneuver
  • Emmett Loverde grew up in Berkeley, California and studied theater at UCLA. In addition to A Timely Maneuver, Good Business Sense, and The Maginot Line, his stage comedies include Beauty, Brains, and Personality; Jesus Awakens the Little Girl; The Killist; Peace and Quiet; Play How You Play; Love Fax; Sensitivity, USA; Till You Get To Baraboo; So Much Snow; Uneasy Overture; Spotlight; and Santa's Letters. Over 150 separate productions of his plays have been mounted worldwide to date.

    Mr. Loverde's comedic short films and music videos have been making the rounds at film festivals and online for several years. He is currently completing work on his second full-length motion picture, Till You Get To Baraboo, an adaptation of his stage play (tillyougettobaraboo.com). His science fiction feature screenplay Codec was nominated for the Best Science Fiction Feature Script at the 2009 Action On Film International Film Festival in Pasadena, California.

    His other writing projects include a children's picture book, Clawdette the Cat, a commission for adapting Edgar Rice Burroughs' The Moon Maid for National Public Radio, and a book of short stories called Gifts for Good Friends.

    Mr. Loverde is a former member playwright of the Playwrights Kitchen Ensemble of Los Angeles, a former teacher with the Los Angeles Unified School District, a member of The Rough Draft Theater Ensemble of Santa Monica, and a proud volunteer for The Virginia Avenue Project of Santa Monica, California.

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    Good Business Sense by Emmett Loverde   More Info Add to Cart
    Comedy
    Short, 25-30 minutes
    1 female, 1 male, 1 either (3 actors possible: 1-2 females, 1-2 males)
    $35.00 per performance; $7.99 per book

    Tonight, businessman Bartholomew Braniff is making the biggest boardroom presentation of his life: a proposal of marriage to the equally industrious Claudia. Everything is perfect -- the numbers have been crunched, the projections have been double-checked, and even the ring has been market-tested. But Claudia wants flowers and violins, not charts and graphs...
    "Good Business Sense" by Emmett Loverde. A Santa Monica, California production of Good Business Sense
    Reviews
    "A script charged with wit and humor!"
    --Pepperdine Graphic


    The Maginot Line by Emmett Loverde   More Info Add to Cart
    Comedy
    Full-length, 95-110 minutes
    5 females, 2 males
    $75.00 per performance; $8.99 per book

    Kelly Maginot is throwing her girlfriends the perfect dinner party ... or so she thinks. Her impossible mother, Brigitte, is in town. Plus her brother is secretly dating her friend Zoe, who just quit her job, and her other friend Lorrie has postponed a wedding, and her sexy almost-boyfriend Enrique might drop by at any moment. Will Kelly make it through the evening in one piece, or will she fly off the handle, pitch a fit, push everyone's buttons, and completely alienate all her friends -- in short, will she become her mother?
    "The Maginot Line" by Emmett Loverde. A staged reading of The Maginot Line in Santa Monica, California (1997)


    A Timely Maneuver by Emmett Loverde   More Info Add to Cart
    Comedy
    Short, 15-25 minutes
    1 female, 1 male
    $35.00 per performance; $7.99 per book

    Arrow-stiff Jane is unpleasantly surprised when her reckless blind date, Reggie, sets an egg timer on their table. Five minutes later the timer goes off, and Reggie makes a shocking proposition...
    "A Timely Maneuver" by Emmett Loverde. A Timely Maneuver, Thurston High School, Springfield, Oregon (2003)
    Reviews
    "Fascinating!"
    --Back Stage West / Drama-Logue
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