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Steven Schutzman, Playwright, Fiction Writer

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The Plays: 
"A Question of Water"
"Werthheimer Is Dead/Long Live Werthheimer"
"no known country"
"The Conquest of Mexico"

 
"A Question of Water"  2M 60-70's, 4M 30-40's, 1M 20's, 1F 20's, 1 F 30's
A grieving man, his two sexy daughters, a wild road-weary work crew, a doomed fish and an oddball fisherman/prophet/ghost are thrown together in this serio-comic parable about spiritual redemption.  A two time top-tier finalist for the Eugene O'Neill Center National Playwrights Conference.  Read Act One  
 
"Werthheimer Is Dead/Long Live Werthheimer"  85 min, 3M 30-40's, 1F 30's
A magical-realistic serio-comedy about unrequited love, corporate greed and manipulation, spying, secret identities, the nature of love and the creative process, mysterious illness and even more mysterious  recovery, weird marriage proposals and puppetry among many other things.  To order go to Purchasing Copies and Rights
 
"no known country"  110 min,  4M 30-40's, 3F 20-30's
Friends turn into enemies and women into birds (no kidding) as the war between the sexes takes place against the backdrop of an ancient neverending ethnic war.
 
"The Conquest of Mexico"  100 min, 3M 30-40's, 1M 60's, 1F 20''s
Two parallel stories, the conquest of the Aztecs and the fall of a modern politician, penetrate and influence each other.  The fascinating Dona Marina helps Cortez engineer Montezuma's downfall as the gifted illegal Marina brings down the mayor of a large city. Read it in Scene 4 Magazine http://www.scene4.com/archivesqv6/may-2007/The_Conquest_of_Mexico.pdf To order go to Purchasing Copies and Rights