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| Elaine Romero. An award-winning playwright, Elaine Romero has had her plays Barrio Hollywood, Secret Things, Curanderas! Serpents of the Clouds, The Fat-Free Chicana and the Snow Cap Queen, and Day of Our Dead presented at such theatres as Actors Theatre of Louisville, Arizona Theatre Company, Borderlands Theater, Women's Project and Productions, Magic Theatre, Kitchen Dog Theatre, San Diego Rep, INTAR, City Theatre, the Miracle Theatre, the Phoenix Theatre, Invisible Theatre, the Curious Theatre Company, Urban Stages, the Working Theatre, and the New Theatre among others. She has been published by Vintage Books, Samuel French, University of Arizona Press, University of Iowa Press, Smith & Kraus, Playscripts, Inc. and Heinemann Press, and has an upcoming publication with Simon & Schuster. A past Guest Artist at South Coast Repertory and the Mark Taper Forum, Romero serves as Playwright-in-Residence at the Arizona Theatre Company, managing their National Latino Playwrights Award. Romero participated in the TCG/Pew National Theatre Artist in Residency Program and the NEA/TCG Theatre Residency Program for Playwrights. She attended the Sundance Institutes Playwrights Retreat at the Ucross Foundation where she began Walk into the Sea, for which she received a 2005 Magic Theater/Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Science and Technology grant. Curious Theatre Company commissioned Romero to write Rain of Ruin for their War Anthology, which won a Henry Award for Best New Play in Denver, Colorado. Romero is a Core Member of the Playwrights Center and a member of the Dramatists Guild. She recently participated in the CBS Diversity Institutes Writers Mentorship Program in Los Angeles. The Zachary Scott Theatre commissioned and toured Alicia in 2006 for their Project InterAct. |
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$14.95 per book
Discover a monologue book like no other. Actor's Choice: Monologues for Men 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, Mac Wellman, Tanya Barfield, Jordan Harrison, Tony Award winner David Henry Hwang, and many more!
Also in this series:
Actor's Choice: Monologues for Women
Actor's Choice: Monologues for Teens
Actor's Choice: Scenes for Teens
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Alicia by Elaine Romero
Inspired by the works of Lewis Carroll |
 
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Fantasy
Short, 45 minutes
2 females, 2 males (4-13 actors possible: 2-6 females, 2-7 males)
$35.00 per performance; $7.99 per book
A bilingual adaptation of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, in Spanish and English. When Alicia is sent to her room for misbehaving, she's convinced that her parents have no idea who she really is. She confides in her beloved hamster Alfredito, who suddenly escapes through a hole in the wall, and miraculously, Alicia is able to follow him all the way into Wonderlandia. On her journey through this topsy-turvy world she meets all sorts of fantastic characters, negotiating strange situations before finally returning to her room a little wiser.
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Drama
Full-length, 75-80 minutes
2 females, 3 males
$75.00 per performance; $8.99 per book
When Delia, an ambitious journalist, receives anonymous articles about Mexican-Americans claiming to have hidden Jewish roots, she is intrigued ... even if it means returning to her native town in New Mexico to investigate. She's on the outs with her editor/ex-boyfriend, and he wants her to say the story is a myth to save her job. But her estranged family, her mysterious dreams, and an alluring Crypto-Jew keep pointing her inward to a surprising truth. Will Delia be able to finish her story -- not just the one she was sent to write, but her own?
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