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Welcome to the website for playwright and director Dean Lundquist.
One of the world’s fastest rising ten-minute playwrights, Dean’s short plays have been produced all over the world from Singapore to New York in numerous productions.
On this website you will find a collection of Dean’s ten-minute and full-length plays, production photos, videos and musings on directing. And here’s the good news - for the next year - till July 31st, 2010 - all scripts on this website are available to be produced by anyone, anywhere in the world - absolutely FREE.
That’s right - no royalties, copyright fees, deposits - nothing at all. Just read through the descriptions of scripts to find something that suits your needs, download the script and get rehearsing.
The only condition is you must email Dean and let him know where and when you produced his script, listing the director, cast and theatre. If you have any production photos send them along as well and they may just end up on this website.
There’s everything you can think of from plays suitable for drama schools and children’s theatres to monologues perfect for your next audition - and they’re all available here!
If you need a play on a specific theme or cast, contact Dean as well and he may be able to write it for you.
Dean’s goal is to have 100 different ten-minute plays produced across the world. So join in and play your part in helping him reach the century. Happy reading!
About Dean Lundquist
Born in California, but now residing in Singapore, Dean has enjoyed considerable success in the theatre as a playwright, actor and director. He also enjoys teaching writing, directing and acting.
As a writer he has had plays performed in the USA, Singapore, Malaysia, Japan, Canada and Australia. His first full-length play, “Jennifers”, was a finalist at Action Theatre (Singapore) Theatre Idols Contest in 2009. He won the inaugural Short+Sweet Singapore award for Best Director for Alex Broun’s “10,000 Cigarettes” in 2007. He also won the inaugural Short+Sweet Malaysia award as Best Playwright for “I Can Tell Your Handbag is Fake”. The play also netted the People’s Choice Award based on audience voting, and the play’s director, Melissa Teoh garnered the award for Best Director. In the same festival he directed the Short+Sweet Award for Best Overall Production of Alex Broun’s “Somewhere Between the Sky and the Sea”.
A specialist in short plays, in recent years he has had numerous scripts produced in Singapore, Malaysia, Australia, Japan, Canada and the USA.
Directing credits include: Thornton Wilder’s “The Skin of Our Teeth”, “Speakeasy” and “Tennesse Waltz” for Lasalle College of the Arts; “Time Out” for the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts; Peter Shickley’s “Oedipus Tex” and Mozart’s “The Impresario” for Ventura College Opera Theatre; Donizetti’s “The Elixir of Love” and Mozart’s “The Impresario” for UNLV Opera Theatre; Jonathan Gavin’s “Sleepless Night”, Alex Broun’s “10,000 Cigarettes” and “Somewhere Between the Sky and the Sea” for Short+Sweet; “The Taming of the Shrew” for Nevada Stage Company; Delibes “Lakmé” at Seattle Opera (asst. to Stephen Terrell); Britten’s “Noah’s Flood” for Ventura College Opera Theatre (asst. to Mel Swope); Douglas Carter Beane’s “As Bees in Honey Drown” at UNLV (asst. to Davey Marlin-Jones); Stephen Sondheim’s “Assassins” at UC Berkeley (with Amir Talai) and many more.
Dean is an independent theatre artist and member of the Dramatists Guild of America, Inc., and the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers, Inc., an independent labor union.
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