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| Billy Aronson. Billy Aronson's plays have been produced at Playwrights Horizons, the Ensemble Studio Theatre, the Woolly Mammoth Theatre, and the Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theatre; published in Best American Short Plays 1992-93 and 1999-2000 (Applause Books), Best Stage Scenes 2003 (Smith and Kraus), Ten Minute Plays From the Actors Theatre of Louisville (Samuel French), and Plays From the Woolly Mammoth (Broadway Play Publishing); and awarded a New York Foundation for the Arts Grant. Plays published by Playscripts, Inc. are Light Years, Light Years Part One: Freshman Year, and Little Red Riding Hood. His writing for the musical theater includes the original concept and additional lyrics for the Broadway musical Rent. His writing for television includes scripts for Postcards From Buster (PBS), The Wonder Pets (Nickelodeon), Courage the Cowardly Dog (Cartoon Network), and Beavis & Butt-head (MTV). He lives in Brooklyn with his wife Lisa Vogel and their children Jake and Anna. |
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Comedy
Full-length, 75-100 minutes
2 females, 2 males
$75.00 per performance; $8.49 per book
Special 15% book discount!
Four college students pair up in every possible combination while trying to figure out who they are, where they're going, and what they're doing on earth. (Act I of this play can be performed independently as Light Years, Part One: Freshman Year.)
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| "Mr. Aronson provides a lightly absurdist view of the college years that is in the end melancholy and hopeful." |
| --The New York Times |
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Comedy
Short, 25-40 minutes
2 females, 2 males
$35.00 per performance; $5.99 per book
Special 33% book discount!
Four college students pair up in every possible combination while trying to figure out who they are, where they're going, and what they're doing on earth. (This play can be performed independently, or as Act I of Light Years.)
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| "In this performance of what is to be the first act of a full-length play in progress, it all works perfectly, and the stunning end leaves you wondering what could possibly happen in the rest of the play." |
| --The New York Times |
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Dark comedy
Short, 20-40 minutes
3 females, 2 males (5 actors possible: 0-5 females, 0-5 males)
$35.00 per performance; $7.49 per book
Special 17% book discount!
The classic fairytale, thoroughly bastardized.
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| "Inventive, funny, touching, well-played." |
| --James Hannaham, The Village Voice |
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