{"product_id":"laugh-lines-short-comic-plays-9780307277138","title":"Laugh Lines: Short Comic Plays","description":"This one-of-a-kind anthology features thirty-six hilarious short plays by major American playwrights and emerging new voices, all guaranteed to send readers and audiences into peals of laughter. From the surrealistic wit of Steve Martin's \"The Zig-Zag Woman\" to the biting political satire of Steven Dietz's \"The Spot,\" from Christopher Durang's wonderfully loopy \"Wanda's Visit\" to Shel Silverstein's supremely twisted \"The Best Daddy,\" there's something in here to make everyone laugh. There are plays for casts of all sizes, from monologues to large ensembles, with diverse and challenging roles for actors of every age and type. Even the titles are funny: Mark O'Donnell's \"There Shall Be No Bottom (a bad play for worse actors),\" Elaine May's \"The Way of All Fish,\" and Alan Ball's \"Your Mother's Butt.\" A bonanza for theatergoers, performers, and comedy fans, \u003ci\u003eLaugh Lines \u003c\/i\u003ewill bring down the house.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eEric Lane and Nina Shengold have been editing contemporary theater anthologies for more than twenty years. Eric Lane's award-winning plays have been published and performed in the United States, Canada, Europe, and China. Plays include \u003ci\u003eRide, Times of War, Heart of the City, Dancing on Checkers' Grave, \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Filming O'Keeffe. Floating\u003c\/i\u003e, a PlayPenn finalist, was workshopped at Raven Theatre. Eric's short plays are published in \u003ci\u003eBest American Short Plays, Poems and Plays\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eForeign Language Press\u003c\/i\u003e (Beijing). He wrote and produced the short films \u003ci\u003eFirst Breath\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eCater-Waiter\u003c\/i\u003e, which he also directed; both films screened in more than forty cities worldwide. For TV's \u003ci\u003eRyan's Hope\u003c\/i\u003e he received a Writers Guild Award. Honors include the Berrilla Kerr Playwriting Award, the La MaMa Playwright Award, and fellowships at Yaddo, VCCA, and St. James Cavalier in Malta. Eric is an honors graduate of Brown University, and artistic director of Orange Thoughts, a not-for-profit theater and film company in New York City. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNina Shengold's plays include \u003ci\u003eFinger Foods, War at Home, Homesteaders\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eRomeo\/Juliet\u003c\/i\u003e, and have been produced around the world. Her one-act \u003ci\u003eNo Shoulder\u003c\/i\u003e was filmed by director Suzi Yoonessi, with Melissa Leo and Samantha Sloyan. Nina won a Writers Guild Award for her teleplay \u003ci\u003eLabor of Love\u003c\/i\u003e, starring Marcia Gay Harden; other teleplays include \u003ci\u003eBlind Spot\u003c\/i\u003e, with Joanne Woodward and Laura Linney, and\u003ci\u003e Unwed Father\u003c\/i\u003e. Her books include the novel \u003ci\u003eClearcut\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eRiver of Words: Portraits of Hudson Valley Writers\u003c\/i\u003e (with photographer Jennifer May), and a growing posse of pseudonymous books for young readers. A graduate of Wesleyan, she is currently teaching creative writing at Manhattanville College. Nina lives in New York's Hudson Valley, where she has been books editor of \u003ci\u003eChronogram\u003c\/i\u003e magazine since 2004.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50917539709202,"sku":"9780307277138","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_27a3d9c3-f8f2-4346-9731-0d439471af9e.jpg?v=1738867863","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/laugh-lines-short-comic-plays-9780307277138","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}