Alexander Pine’s first play, "Immortality Crisis":
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Top 20 Candidate for the American Playwriting Foundation's 2018 Relentless Award
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Finalist for Benchmark Theatre’s 2019 Fever Dream Fest
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Semi-Finalist for the 2020 Bay Area Playwrights Foundation Fest
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Semi-Finalist for the 2018 Eugene O’Neill Playwrights Conference
His other Full-Length, "The (Other)" and 1-Act, "Not All There" are currently awaiting festival status.
The playwright has worked as a suicide hotline volunteer for over 3.5 years, he has been a SAG commercial actor for over a decade, and has a B.A. in writing television from Columbia College Chicago.
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read the play here
...Immortality Crisis...
A suicide hotline is forced to have suiciders struggling with their own traumas take calls in a world where people can't stay dead.
They disappear and return...
in about 2 to 4 minutes.
What if we lived in a world where we were
literally killing ourselves?
A Full Length 2-Act
...Immortality crisis...
2021 playwrights' Arena GhostLight Series
finalist
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watch the trailer here
...immortality Crisis...
2020 bay Area playwrights festival semi-finalist
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...Immortality Crisis...
2019 fever dream festival
Finalist
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...Immortality Crisis...
named top 20 of 2018
by
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Read the NYTimes article
featuring the 1st place winner:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/13/theater/harrison-david-rivers-relentless-award.html
See the Full List of nominees:
https://americanplaywritingfoundation.org/decembertest/index.html
The (Other)
Ricky lives with his mother and his Mother's Other,
a terrifying demon that she cannot see. When his first serious girlfriend, Ellie moves in the relationship is put to the test.
Abuse Is Home.
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A Full Length 2-Act
Read it Here
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Not All There
A 1-Act Play
Imaginary friends of a grown-ass man plan to kill their creator.
Read it Here
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Baby Shark
A 10 Minute Play
Two friends meet near their 18th birthdays;
the day society expects them to kill their parents
in a world where population control is mandatory.
Read it Here
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A 10 Minute Play
A young woman returns home at night.
Based on a true story.
Read it Here
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Story Device
A 10-minute [insert genre] play
Story Device
A 10 Minute Play
Story device:
"a plot mechanism, or any technique in a narrative used to move the plot forward..."
Characters find themselves experiencing as many story devices that can fit into a 10-minute play with a clever reveal.
“ A meta-twisted meta-tale that is part Beckett and part Pirandello. Highly flexible casting and minimal staging allow for plenty of places to explore Pine's interesting bit of mystery and metaphysics. ”
-Playwright, Dr. Kevin Delin