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Sandra Hosking, M.F.A. |
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Expanded Web site: www.geocities.com/sandrahosking/Sandrahosking.htm |
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Biographical Information |
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2005
Last Frontier Theatre Conference, Valdez, AK—Bemused Radiant Theatre’s Women’s Playwriting Festival, Portland, Ore.—Romeo & Juliet: Part II Publications: Literary Salt and Midwest Book Review
2004
Meriwether Publishing Ltd. scene anthology, Gerald Lee Ratliff, editor—Romeo & Juliet Part: II Actors Theatre of Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, Calif., Rest of the Best reading—The Fast Track
2003
Speaking Ring Theatre, Chicago, Vitality Festival finalist—Bemused Herring Run Arts Fest, Middleboro, Mass.—Jacob’s Shoe Dubuque Fine Arts Players, Dubuque, Iowa., New works contest, Second Place—Twilight Nutcracker Spokane Civic Theatre, Spokane, WA, Playwrights Forum Festival, Featured Entry—Detours Stormy Weather Players, Newburgh, N.Y., Pregnant Chad Festival, Honorable Mention—Jacob’s Shoe Actors Theatre of Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, Calif., Eight Tens @ Eight, a winner—Jacob’s Shoe DramaRama, San Francisco Semi-Finalist—Bemused Associated Writing Programs, Intro Journals Project nominee for Eastern Washington University—“Visitations,” a short story
2002
Spokane Civic Theatre, Spokane, WA, Playwrights Forum Festival, Audience Choice Award—Bemused Smith & Kraus Publishers, Best Women's Monologues 2000 and Best Stage Scenes 2000—Romeo & Juliet: Part II Theatre in the Raw, Vancouver, B.C., Touring program—Fortune’s Fool Samuel French Off Off Broadway Original Short Play Festival, New York, N.Y.—Romeo & Juliet: Part II Palladium Theatre, St. Petersburg, Fla., New works festival, Winner—Romeo & Juliet: Part II
2001
Theatre in the Raw, Vancouver, B.C., one-act play contest, Second Place—Fortune's Fool Jane Chambers Playwriting Award, Finalist (Student Category) - Jigsaw Bylines Magazine, Spokane, WA, Featured author Spokane Civic Theatre, Spokane, WA, New Works for the New Millennium series—Jigsaw Stormy Weather Players, Newburgh, N.Y., Pregnant Chad Festival—Fortune's Fool American Theatre of Actors, New York, NY—Object Lesson Spokane Civic Theatre, Spokane, WA, Playwrights Forum Festival, First Place—Romeo & Juliet: Part II Eastern Washington Center for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing & the Washington State Deaf Association conference—Remember Gallaudet
1998-1999
West Coast Ensemble, Hollywood, Calif. Director’s Lab—Detention Spokane Civic Theatre, Spokane, WA Playwrights Forum Festival—Detention |
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Sandra Hosking's plays have been performed in New York City, Los Angeles, Canada, and elsewhere. She writes for InSight for Playwrights, for which she has interviewed Horton and Daisy Foote, Steven Dietz, Jeffrey Sweet, and others. The playwright is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America and the International Centre for Women Playwrights.
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A nurse tries too hard to protect her younger, handicapped sister from the world. |
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Jigsaw |
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A young woman finds herself employed by an eccentric woman and her sculptor son. |
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Three Shades |
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Full-Length Plays |
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Bemused a 30-minute comedy, set in an apartment, 2001, 2m1f - Matthew Packard wakes up one morning with a hangover and discovers Damon, a muse, sitting on his chest. Damon convinces Packard, a writer, that he needs help getting his career in gear and convinces him to sign a six-month contract. Damon’s ‘inspirational’ style is more like a dictator than a coach, and Packard resists him. Finally, Calliope, the head muse steps in to reveal that Damon is an imposter. |
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Bemused |
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“Detention,” a 25-minute black comedy in English, set in a classroom, 1997, 1m1f Miss Fiddler, a young high school English teacher, tries to control an unruly male student, Mitch. Through a series of power plays, Mitch gets her to reveal an incident in her past involving a former student. |
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Detention |
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"Detours,” a 25-minute comedy in English, set on a highway, mid-morning, 2002, 2m2f A group of travelers get more than they bargain for during a construction delay—including highway robbery. |
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Detours |
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"The Fast Track," a 10-minute comedy in English, set in Limbo, or something like it, anytime, 2m2f or 3m1f Bill is nearly dead and excited to get to . . . well, you know. But, before he can begin his journey, he finds he has to wait in line. |
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The Fast Track |
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"Fortune’s Fool," a 10-minute or 25-minute comedy in English, set in a palm reader's shop, about 3 a.m., 2000, 1m1f Jack enters the palm-reader’s shop one night after the bars close. Selena is up late playing cards and offers to read his palm. He is skeptical of fortune telling and fortune tellers. Each takes a turn making assumptions about the other, finding that generalizations about people are never right. Or, are they? |
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Fortune’s Fool |
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"The Glabrous Four,” a 20-minute bare-stage absurd comedy in English, set in a society completely comprised of bald people, day, 3m1f ( flexible gender casting) Four bald people in a society completely comprised of bald people contemplate their social order and their fascination with the illegal substance—hair. |
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The Glabrous Four |
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"Jessica's Last Day,” a 25-minute comedy, set in an office, the present (2004), 2m2f Jessica comes to work on her last day and finds she's been replaced by a wart. |
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Jessica’s Last Day |
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“Object Lesson,” a 35-minute drama in English, set in area staging, 1998, 2m1f Katherine, married to a psychiatrist, is having an affair with a math teacher. She wants to end it, but her lover, Doug, is not quite ready to let go. |
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Object Lesson |
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“Romeo & Juliet: Part II,” a 25-minute farce in English, set in the home of Mr. and Mrs. R. Montague, Verona, Italy, 14 years after the tomb, about 1609 (17th century), 2m1f Romeo and Juliet survived and stayed together. Fourteen years after the tomb encounter, Juliet is about to bear her 13th child, Romeo is unemployed, and Friar Lawrence, now a drunk, comes to dinner. |
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Romeo & Juliet: Part II |
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“Scribbledoodle,” a 20-minute absurd comedy in English, set in a room in a house, any time of day, 2000, 1m3f—Woman doodles on paper while she flirtatiously talks on the phone to a man. Scribble and Doodle create her drawings physically while developing their own romantic relationship. Red enters and tries to entice Scribble, thereby forming a love triangle. |
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Scribbledoodle |
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"Sexy Greenspan," a 30-minute comedy in English, set a company lunchroom, lunchtime, early 1997, 1m2f—Three friends eat lunch in the company lunchroom and discuss what's hot and what's not and give each other advice on their respective relationships (or obsessions as the case may be). |
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Sexy Greenspan |
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“Twilight Nutcracker,” a 20-minute comedy-drama in English, set on a front porch, late afternoon, 2002, 1m3f—Evie's longtime friend, Flo, is moving away to be closer to her son. Flo visits Evie in order to unload some of her belongings. Evie rejects them and has an even harder time saying good-bye.” |
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Twilight Nutcracker |
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One-Act Plays |
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"“Blanket Primary,” a 10-minute absurd drama, set in a bedroom, morning to evening, winter, 2004, 1m2f - |
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Blanket Primary |
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"Homecoming," a 10-minute drama, set in a living room, afternoon, 2004, 2m2f - Bill is trying to get the house cleaned up before his wife comes home, but his teenage son, Jeff, is unwilling to help. When Maggie returns home, however, we learn the true reason for her being away and the nature of Jeff's rebellion. The homecoming then becomes a triumphant yet bittersweet farewell. |
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Homecoming |
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"Jacob's Shoe,” a 10-minute drama in English, set in a Nazi labor camp, WW II, day, 1m3f - Rachel arrives at a Nazi labor camp where she is instructed to sort shoes. She discovers her husband’s shoe in her pile. She wonders where he is and realizes that this is a much more dangerous place than she has expected.
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Jacob’s Shoe |
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"What's Mine Is Mine," a 10-minute black comedy in English, set in a living room, anytime, 1m1f—A couple sorts through their belongings before a divorce. |
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What’s Mine is Mine |
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Ten-Minute Plays |
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