Craig Abernethy
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This site introduces Craig Abernethy's plays and includes
dialogue selections, reviews, his bio, and useful links.
"State of the Art"
"delightfully clever" "dazzling" "side splitting"
3 characters in a writer's mind and black boxes...
"used as needed"
"A View Unassisted"
"intriguing and misleading...
what she's after is more precious than gold"
"What do I have to do to get a...?"
"Absolutes"
"wit is dry and deft"
an apolitical comedy for a "corporate couple"
"The Sort of Happy Ending to
The Sad Tale of Mr. Ali Ali, Or:
The Lighter Side of Outsourcing Torture"
"Black humor, political rhetoric... the life blood of this
pungent romp" "sublimely ridiculous... deliciously malicious"
"Over Coffee"
2 women, 1 man, and no coffee... what "spiritual retreat!?"
Craig's Bio
Coming up: Two new plays: "That Day" and "Choices, Choices!"
in the New Perspectives Festival, San Diego, CA, and
"A View Unassisted" in the New Works Play Festival, Royal Oak, MI.

Recent productions include"Mr Ali Ali" Noor Middle-Eastern
Play
Festival,
Wings Theatre (NYC), "View" in EndTimes Productions "Vignettes
for the Apocalypse 2" (NYC), "State of the Art" at the Intentional
Theatre (Waterford,CT) and "Mr Ali Ali" by Subversive Theater Collective
(Buffalo,NY), and readings of
"That Day" at Theatre Limina
(Minneapolis,MN) and Ohio State U's New Works Lab.
Craig returned to the Fritz Blitz of New California Playwrights
with "A View Unassisted" (also selected for Studio Rep's
"Insert Title Here: Part Deux!" new play festival).
The timely "Mr Ali Ali" was produced at San Diego's Sixth at Penn
Theatre and "Cruz the East Festival" at Santa Cruz's Actors Theatre, and
received a staged reading at USD's Joan Kroc Inst for Peace and Justice.
“State of the Art” (6th @ Penn) was a critical and audience
favorite, and "Absolutes" was also a Blitz hit and
selected for "OKtoberfest '04" (NYC).
Craig studied
Dramatic Art at the University of California, Berkeley;
worked backstage at venues including the New York Shakespeare Festival,
San Francisco Opera, and Los Angeles Civic Light Opera, and acted on the
stages of the Melrose Theatre and American Theatre Arts in L.A.
Craig is member of the Dramatists Guild of America, Inc.
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Craig Abernethy
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