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Joseph Goodrich is a writer and actor from Minnesota. His plays have been produced in New York City (Jean Cocteau Repertory, HERE Arts Center, New York Fringe Festival, Six Figures Theatre Company), Los Angeles (Padua Hills Playwrights Festival, Circus Minimus, Theatre of NOTE, Sharon's Farm, and others), San Francisco (SF Fringe Festival), New Orleans (Zeitgeist Center for the Arts), Minneapolis/Saint Paul (Red Eye Collaboration, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Study Cow Productions, and others) and Portland, ME (Portland Stage Company).
His play White Russian is included in The Back Stage Book of New American Short Plays 2005 (Craig Lucas, editor; Back Stage Books); Steak Knife Bacchae is included in Padua: Plays from the Padua Hills Playwrights Festival (Padua Hills Publications, distributed by TCG). His poetry has appeared in the Venice West Review, his fiction in Bullet magazine, Shots magazine and Vacant Funhouse e-zine, and he is a contributor to Conducting a Life: Reflections on the Theatre of Maria Irene Fornes (Smith and Kraus). His work runs the gamut from opera libretti (The Art of Eating, music by Jeffrey Lependorf, which received its premiere in Hudson, NY in October 2004) to comic books (Human Interest, written for Marvel Comics' Spider-Man Unlimited series, January 2004). His screenplay Symbiotica was filmed in July-August, 2005 in Indiana.
He is a member of New Dramatists, the Mystery Writers of America, the Screen Actors' Guild and Actors' Equity Association.
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$14.95 per book
Discover a monologue book like no other. Actor's Choice: Monologues for Women gives you an extraordinary array of cutting-edge new monologues, from comedic to dramatic and everything in between. Unlike other monologue books, the source of every monologue is easily accessible -- each play is available through one website (www.playscripts.com), where you can read nearly the entire published script online for free. Explore the work of today's most celebrated theatrical voices, including Naomi Iizuka, Rinne Groff, Jane Martin, Pulitzer Prize winners Lynn Nottage and David Lindsay-Abaire, and many more!
Also in this series:
Actor's Choice: Monologues for Men
Actor's Choice: Monologues for Teens
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Drama
Full-length, 90-115 minutes
1 female, 7 males
$75.00 per performance; $5.99 per book
Special 33% book discount!
Because he's been drinking too much, Dave loses his job as Captain 11, the host of a space-themed afternoon cartoon show for children, and is forced back into a violent, surreal world he had hoped to abandon forever. He and his once-and-former partners in crime Cal and Jocko pursue their less-than-legal pursuits until their nemesis, the mysterious Sorge, returns to the scene. Dave, Cal, and Jocko face a fight to the death...if they're lucky.
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Medea by Joseph Goodrich
a new adaptation of Euripides |
 
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Drama
Full-length, 95-105 minutes
3 females, 7 males (9-10 actors possible: exactly 3 females, 6-7 males)
$75.00 per performance; $5.99 per book
Special 33% book discount!
A new adaptation of Euripides' classic -- a lean, mean, vibrant Medea for our times.
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Drama
Full-length, 80-100 minutes
3 females, 5 males (6-9 actors possible: 2-5 females, 4-7 males)
$75.00 per performance; $5.99 per book
Special 33% book discount!
The Old Man is dying. The family's falling apart. Booze, sex, fairytales, Louisville sluggers, and orange juice won't postpone the inevitable. But death is not the end...or is it?
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Drama
Short, 30 minutes
1 female, 1 male
$35.00 per performance; $5.99 per book
Special 33% book discount!
Lucy disappeared for 36 hours. Upon her return, she can't -- or won't -- tell Toby where she's been. Toby's attempts to discover the truth about her absence propel them both to the edge of psychic and physical violence...and over.
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Drama
Short, 30 minutes
3 males (3 actors possible: 0-1 females, 2-3 males)
$35.00 per performance; $5.99 per book
Special 33% book discount!
A neo-noir meditation on love, loss, and the weight of the past.
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