Duncan Pflaster (b. 1973) is an American Off-Off-Broadway playwright, composer and actor. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Off-Off-Broadway refers to theatrical productions including plays, musicals or Performance art pieces performed in New York City in smaller theatres A playwright, also known as a dramatist, is a person who writes dramatic literature or Drama. A composer (literally meaning 'one who puts together' is a person who creates Music, usually in the medium of notation, for Interpretation and Performance His first play Wilder and Wilder (a transvestite adaptation of Alice in Wonderland), was produced in 1995 at Florida Playwrights' Theatre in Hollywood, FL. This article deals with the history of the word 'transvestite' Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865 is a novel written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson better known under the Pseudonym Lewis Florida Playwrights' Theatre or FPT was a 54-seat Black box theatre in Hollywood Florida that was in operation from 1993 to 1999. Hollywood is a city in Broward County, Florida, United States. He now lives in New York, where many of his plays have been produced in theatre festivals, such as the Spotlight On festival and the Midtown International Theatre Festival. New York ( is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States and is the nation's third most populous Theatre festivals amongst the earliest types of festival Classical Greek theatre was associated with religious festivals dedicated to Dionysus. His plays have often been labeled as magic realism; they frequently deal with metaphysical or science fiction plots, such as parallel universes, cloning, life extension, fairy tales and mythology. Magic realism, or magical realism, is an artistic Genre in which magical elements or illogical scenarios appear in an otherwise realistic or even "normal" Parallel universe or alternative reality is a self-contained separate reality coexisting with one's own Cloning in Biology is the process of producing populations of genetically-identical individuals that occurs in nature when organisms such as Bacteria, Insects Life extension refers to an increase in maximum or average lifespan, especially in humans by slowing down or reversing the processes of aging. A fairy tale or fairy story is a fictional Story that may feature folkloric characters (such as fairies, enchantments]] often involving The word mythology (from the Greek grc μυθολογία mythología, meaning "a story-telling a legendary lore" His writing often touches on themes of family, community, religion, and homosexuality. Family denotes a group of People affiliated by consanguinity affinity or co-residence In biological terms a community is a group of interacting Organisms sharing an environment. A religion is a set of Tenets and practices often centered upon specific Supernatural and moral claims about Reality, the Cosmos Homosexuality refers to sexual behavior with or attraction to people of the same sex or to a Homosexual orientation. Pflaster is gay. In the English language, gay is an Adjective that in modern usage refers to Homosexuality. [1]
He also writes freelance theatre reviews for BroadwayWorld. Theatre (or theater, see spelling differences) is the branch of the Performing arts defined by Bernard Beckerman as what "occurs when one com and HX magazine.
He has written music on SongFight! under the name Level Nivelo - the band name is a reference to the Esperanto used in Red Dwarf
Awards
- Prince Trevor Amongst the Elephants
- 2006 Spotlight On Award, "Best New Play (Writer's Award)"
- Eternity: Time Without End
- 2005 Spotlight On Award, "Best New Play (Writer's Award)"
- 2005 Spotlight On Award, Best Actress Clara Barton Green
- 2005 Spotlight On Award, Best Supporting Actor Jason Specland
- 2005 Spotlight On Award, Featured Actor Joe Fanelli
Works
Full-Length
- Ore - A love story about Greed and Lust and Yamashita's Gold - 2007
- The Thyme of the Season ~or~ A Mid-Autumn Night's Dream - a sequel to Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. Song Fight! is a weekly online songwriting and recording competition in which amateur artists are openly invited to participate References to Esperanto, a Constructed language, have been made in a number of films and novels According to the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram, a red dwarf star is a small and relatively cool Star, of the Main sequence, either late K Yamashita's gold, also referred to as the Yamashita treasure, is the name given to the alleged Loot stolen in Southeast Asia by Japanese forces William Shakespeare ( baptised A Midsummer Night's Dream is a romantic comedy by William Shakespeare, suggested by " The Knight's Tale " from - 2007
- Admit Impediments - A Musical about Marriage - Gay, Straight, and Convenient - 2007
- The Wastes of Time - A Gay love story dealing with the generation gap surrounding the AIDS crisis- 2006
- Prince Trevor Amongst the Elephants - A Big Epic Naked Shakespearean Fairy Tale Play - 2005
- Eternity: Time Without End Eleven people come to a secluded beach looking for the fountain of youth; but when they find it, it's not what they expected - 2004
- Sleeping in Tomorrow - A play about parallel universes, in which the main character visits the same cocktail party in different dimensions - 2002
- Dik and Jayne are Not the Same - A play about cloning and lesbians - but not about Cloning Lesbians - 2001
- Amazing Dædalus - A play about what happens in the time between myths - 1998
- Eskimo: The Musical
- Wilder and Wilder - A transvestite adaptation of Alice in Wonderland, crossed with Walk on the Wild Side
One-Acts
- Patrick and Lisa's Wedding A bridesmaid ducks out of the wedding reception of her ex-boyfriend, and ends up bumping into the young bride, who is having second thoughts about her new husband. Musical theatre is a form of Theatre combining Music, Songs spoken Dialogue and Dance. NOTICE TO WOULD-BE ROMEOS ************** Same-sex marriage (also referred to as gay marriage) is a term for a legally or Socially recognized Marriage between two people of the same A marriage of convenience (plural marriages of convenience) is a Marriage contracted for reasons other than the reasons of relationship family or love In the English language, gay is an Adjective that in modern usage refers to Homosexuality. A generation gap is a popular term used to describe big differences between people of a younger generation and their elders William Shakespeare ( baptised A fairy tale or fairy story is a fictional Story that may feature folkloric characters (such as fairies, enchantments]] often involving The Fountain of Youth is a legendary spring that reputedly restores the youth of anyone who drinks of its waters Parallel universe or alternative reality is a self-contained separate reality coexisting with one's own Cloning in Biology is the process of producing populations of genetically-identical individuals that occurs in nature when organisms such as Bacteria, Insects A lesbian is a Woman who is romantically or sexually attracted only to other women This article is about the mythological character For other uses see Daedalus (disambiguation. Greek mythology is the body of stories belonging to the ancient Greeks concerning their gods and Heroes the nature of the world and the origins and significance Musical theatre is a form of Theatre combining Music, Songs spoken Dialogue and Dance. This article deals with the history of the word 'transvestite' Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865 is a novel written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson better known under the Pseudonym Lewis "Walk on the Wild Side" is a Lou Reed song from his 1972 second solo album Transformer.
- Pinhead A partnered Gay man brings home a young man to seduce, and is caught by his partner.
- The Fugly Train Two young pretty women have a philosophical crisis on the subway. A rapid transit, underground, subway, elevated railway or metro(politan system is an electric passenger railway
- Six Silences in Three Movements An experimental work which contrasts the things people don't say in a relationship.
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