Duncan Pflaster

Duncan Pflaster (born 1973) is an American Off-Off-Broadway playwright, composer and actor. His first play Wilder and Wilder (a transvestite adaptation of Alice in Wonderland), was produced in 1995 at Florida Playwrights' Theatre in Hollywood, FL. 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. 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. His writing often touches on themes of family, community, religion, and homosexuality. Pflaster is gay. [1]

He also writes freelance theatre reviews for BroadwayWorld.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

• Say Something Shocking, or the spit-take Play
  • Winner Spare Change Theater's 2011 One-Minute Play Festival
• The Empress of Sex
  • "Audience Favorite", MT Works NewBorn Festival 2011
  • Semi-Finalist, About Face Theatre's 2010 XYZ Festival of New Work
• The Thyme of the Season
  • 2010 Planet Connections Award, "Outstanding Playwriting for an Adaptation, Revival or Sequel"
  • 2010 Planet Connections Award, "Outstanding Costumes" Mark Richard Caswell
  • 2010 Planet Connections Congeniality Award - Duncan Pflaster
• 2009 MITF Award, "Outstanding Supporting Actor" for his performance in Kyle Baxter and John Crefeld's I Hate Love.

• Prince Trevor Amongst the Elephants
  • 2008 MITF Award, "Outstanding Playwriting for a New Script Play OR Book of a Musical" (Tie with Monica Bauer for The Higher Education of Khalid Amir)
  • 2008 MITF Award, "Outstanding Overall Production of a New Comedy Play"
  • 2008 MITF Award, "Outstanding Lead Actor in a Play" Carlos Rafael Fernández (Tie with Eric Percival for Bubby's Shadow)
  • 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

• Sweeter Dreams - A multimedia play about an independent filmmaker in a love triangle with her husband and her leading actor. - 2011
• The Empress of Sex - A sex comedy set in Ancient Greece - 2011
• The Starship Astrov - A play using Chekhovian tropes to explore life on a space ship that doesn't have weekly adventures.
• Suckers - A Vampire Play - 2009
• Ore, or Or - A love story about Greed and Lust and Yamashita's Gold - 2009
• The Thyme of the Season ~or~ A Mid-Autumn Night's Dream - a sequel to Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. - 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.
• 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.
• Six Silences in Three Movements An experimental work which contrasts the things people don't say in a relationship.
• Hold Thy Peace, Thou Knave Backstage at a production of Twelfth Night, a last-minute understudy for Sir Toby Belch goes a little haywire onstage, causing consternation amongst the rest of the cast.
• First to Fall Asleep A dark comedy about frat hijinx that get out of hand when a freshman passes out at a frat party.

References

• Pflaster's personal site
• Duncan's playwright listing on Doolee.com
• Pflaster in the "P" listings of On the Purple Circuit, a listing for GLQBT playwrights

External links

• The Plays of Duncan Pflaster
• Duncan's playwright listing on Doolee.com
• Duncan in the "P" listings of On the Purple Circuit, a listing for GLQBT playwrights
• January 2010 Interview for StageBuzz.com
• Podcast Interview from mikeypod.com, promoting Admit Impediments
• March 1998 Interview with Duncan (from an Anthony LaPaglia fansite)
• Poem inspired by Amazing Dædalus by an actress in one of the college productions

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