| Julia Brownell. Julia Brownell's play Smart Cookie won the 2008 Kendeda Graduate Playwriting Award and received its world premiere at the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia in January 2009. Smart Cookie was workshopped/read by the Minneapolis Playwrights' Center, The Public Theater and Babel Theatre Project. Her short play Good Girl was produced by the Actors Theatre of Louisville in January, 2009. She is the recipient of multiple commissions from the McCarter Theatre First Stage Company in Princeton, New Jersey. In addition to her work as a writer, Ms. Brownell has performed in numerous professional improv and sketch comedy groups throughout the Northeast. MFA in Dramatic Writing, NYU-Tisch School of the Arts. BA, Amherst College. |
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| "Comedy is easy to pick up, yet hard to master. Random Acts of Comedy is a collection of assorted plays that range in many types of humor from outright parody to twisting of classics to meta humor on the art of theatre. For anyone seeking to teach their students the art of humor, [this] is quite the excellent source for inspiration." |
| --Midwest Book Review |
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Comedy
Short, 50-60 minutes
8 females, 5 males, 3 either (16 actors possible: 5-15 females, 1-11 males)
$40.00 per performance; $8.99 per book
Five middle schoolers take on overzealous parents, crazy coaches, and
nostalgic relatives as they prepare for the annual spelling bee in this insightful comedy for young actors. With contestants that range from an unflappable cheerleader who cheers all her words to the anxiety-prone daughter of a movie star, spelling the words correctly may be the least of these kids' worries. This play wonderfully illustrates the pressure that kids feel to compete, and the family support that makes it all bearable.
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Comedy
Full-length, 100-115 minutes
4 females, 2 males (6-10 actors possible: 4-8 females, exactly 2 males)
$75.00 per performance; $8.99 per book
Socialite Cookie Walsh has the perfect life on the Upper East Side, the ideal family, and the answers to every problem. That is, until her son Spencer and his Spanish exchange student girlfriend come home from prep school with a big announcement. Cookie's used to running the show, but strong-willed Ana isn't letting her have her way -- and it looks like this might be a mess she can't just pay her way out of.
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| "Winner of the Alliance's prestigious Kendeda Graduate Playwriting Competition, this delightful little social satire suggests that Brownell is a pretty smart cookie herself." |
| --Wendell Brock, Atlanta Journal-Constitution |
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