ARIANA BURNS has been a writer most of
her life. Despite a role in an elementary school play,
she didn't discover theatre until college.
Her plays include Silver Wings on Blue; Tiny Lives, Tiny Deaths;
and Patchwork. BURNS' work has been produced and/or
developed
by the Lewiston Civic Theatre, Theatre Outside the Belljar, and the
University of Idaho as well as independently in Honolulu, HI &
Potsdam, NY.
Awards include:
a
reading at the Northwest Drama Conference of A Stick in the
Spoke; a prize
& production of Patchwork by the Northwest Playwrights
Guild.
She has studied screenwriting under Colin
Higgins and playwrighting under Micki Panttaja & David M. Cohen. |
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STAGEPLAYS
Three Keys of Captain Hellfire
Cast: 14
Genre: adventure, farce,
music
Wilhelmina Dowdy has a secret. Seven years ago she was
Captain Hellfire of the pirate ship, the Early Revenge. A
sudden tempest shipwrecked her and her crew, along with their
amassed stolen loot. Dowdy protected the treasure and waited. Now
her crew returns, old, meaner, and not much wiser to finally divvy
up the booty. A comedy by Ariana Burns, original shanties by
Shandeen.
Cheap Atomic Romance A Play
in Ten Scenes
Cast: 10; 7 F, 3 M
Genre: comedy, drama, period, science fiction
Set in a desert at small American diner at the beginning of the
Atomic Age when despite the danger, this new energy source promised
a “World of Tomorrow." Mardell who is said to do “impossible things”
comes to the diner to visit her Aunt Edna. When a bomb test goes
awry and sets fire to Edna’s pond, Edna decides her place will be
saved by her miraculous niece.
Silver Wings on
Blue
Cast: 10; 8 F, 2 M
story of the Women's Airforce Service Pilots,
civilians who worked for the Army Air Forces during World War II.
Tiny Lives, Tiny Deaths
Cast: 6 Genre: dark
comedy, experimental, fantasy, tragedy
Set at a wake, four
characters struggle with the passing of a close friend. Death just wants
to collect the Ghost and go. De-constructionist/surrealist look at
the grief process.
The
Oubliette
Cast: 3 Genre: dark comedy, fable/folktale,
fantasy, tragedy
Friends try to relate when one is hemmed in by
fear.
Patchwork
-- A Touring Project for the Palouse AIDS Network
Cast: 6;
3F, 3M
Genre: AIDS education, drama
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