SHIRLEY LAURO



RAILING IT UPTOWN

PLAY OVERVIEW:
A streak of lightening 10 minute play exposing the class clash between a "have" and a "have not". Trapped in an empty Manhattan subway car, racing uptown, are an upper middle class New Yorker, and an underclass homeless person. The contact between the characters is terrifying and electrifying. Casting of the characters can leap boundaries of race, age and gender.
2 characters

PLAY HISTORY:
New York's Ensemble Studio Theatre

Alice's Fourth Floor, New York


AVAILABLE FROM:

Take Ten: New 10-Minute Plays
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SELECTED WORK

Anthology of Plays
Full Length Plays
"AKA"
Dark comedy of shifting identities and cultures.
ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT
"Jeff Recommended" WORLD PREMIERE June 2005
CLARENCE DARROW's LAST TRIAL
2006 Carbonell Award Nominee; 2004 NEA "Access to Excellence Award", in collaboration with New Theatre, FL; 2001 New American Play Prize (Finalist)
OPEN ADMISSIONS
Tony & Drama Desk nominations, New York Times pick for the “Ten Best Plays of the Year” list, Dramatists Guild Hull-Warriner Award.
A PIECE OF MY HEART
The Barbara Deming Prize for Women Playwrights, The Susan Blackburn Prize (Finalist, The Kittredge Foundation Award.
THE CONTEST
National Foundation for Jewish Culture Award
MARGARET AND KIT
Susan Smith Blackburn Award (finalist)
PEARLS ON THE MOON
National Endowment for the Arts Residency Grant at The Alley Theatre of Houston, TX Jane Chambers Play Award (finalist)
SPECKLED BIRDS
Multigenerational play commissioned by Theatreworks, USA.
One Act Plays
OPEN ADMISSIONS
New York Times pick for the “Ten Best Plays of the Year” list, Dramatists Guild Hull-Warriner Award, Samuel French OOBA Festival Award.
NOTHING IMMEDIATE
Samuel French Play Writing Award
THE COAL DIAMOND
The Heidemann Prize at Actors Theatre of Louisville's Humana Festival, selected for "Best Short Plays of 1980"
BACK STORY
A play commissioned by Actors Theatre of Louisville showcasing the work of their Playwrights.
Other Work



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