chris van strander
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say what i said then

2f
a rhyming play about finding your double.

2014: New York Madness

baby ivy

3f
radio play
3 operators at an upper west side "childhood advisory firm" cope with their lost, out-of-control charges and their parents.

2013: Co-Op Theatre East

salvation

1 (either)
no set
a revival preacher enlists the audience's help to send four souls to heaven.

2012: New York Madness

truth clown

1 (either); audience volunteer
no set
an "evil, postmodern" clown plays truth or dare with an audience volunteer.

2012: Mottola Theatre Project—Cherry Picking Festival

inwood answer song

2 (either)
no set/site-specific
inwood, nyc. a local barfly bets a new resident she can't say "i love inwood" 50 different ways.

2012: Have Another Series 

missed

1f, voiceovers
no set
a missing girl. a frantic mother. a tabloid reporter deleting the missing girl's voicemails. 

you are here

computerized voiceover
site-specific
a highly dubious museum-style audio tour of an upper manhattan dive bar.

2011: Have Another Series/Uptown Arts Stroll 

with you

1m, 1f
minimal/no set
a man contacts his dead mother, to see if she knows who killed her.

2012: La Petite Morgue
2011: EndTimes Productions—Vignettes for the Apocalypse Festival 

stonewall

flexible cast (4 to 12)
no set
chronicles a rash of teen suicides caused by LGTBQ bullying, and a culture that permits it.

2011: Packawallop Productions

true nails

1 m, 2f
one set
tracking the bandits who've nabbed the crucifixion nails? piece a' cake. defending the church's sins to get 'em back? harder. a theological noir.

2011: Source Festival, Washington, DC

“Clever... a hilarious parody. One of the highlights of the Source Festival. The fun of True Nails may be worth the admission price alone.” - DC Theatre Scene.com
“Fun, plain and simple.” Washington City Paper 

pacific rim

2m, 1f
no set
a naughty play about two perverted, clueless, racist WASPs.

august

2m, 1f
minimal/no set
the dog days of summer. an internet sex tape. as the scandal surrounding the tape unfolds, the lives of its subject--a local politician--and its viewers--two impressionable young men--are changed forever.

2010: Developed/read by Packawallop Productions

guinness®

1m, 1f
minimal/no set
a play about product placement.

the national

1m, 1f
no set
a babushka lady rolls out the red carpet for a young immigrant newly arrived on her shores. neither, of course, is who they appear to be.

2008: Developed/read by Circle East Theater Company

o captain my captain

2m, 1f
minimal/no set
after their cruise ship sinks, three survivors must vote on who'll captain their lifeboat to safety. an election satire.

2008: Bloomington Playwrights Project, IA; Rogue Valley Ten-Minute Plays Festival, Ashland, OR

cut

3f
minimal set; could be site-specific
two synchronized swimmers revenge themselves on the coach who cut them from the olympic team.

2002: Word of Mouth Productions’ SwimShorts Festival

the mothering instinct

1f
minimal/no set
1930. an appalachian midwife recounts the incredible lengths she's gone to in order to bear a child of her own.

2001-2007: Emerging Artists Theatre’s One Woman Standing Festival; The 92nd Street Y's Makor/Steinhardt Center; Theater Catalyst’s Eternal Spiral Project, Philadelphia; The Producer’s Club 

again and again

2m, 1f
minimal/no set
a boy attempts to reunite with his estranged life atop an abandoned quarry. the unexpected presence of an older man, already holding his own vigil there, threatens to thwart the reunion.
2001-2002: Circle East Theater Company; American Theatre of Actors; The Producer’s Club 

the real granola

1m, 1f
one set
a folk crooner turns down a bottled-water endorsement deal... then wakes in a toronto hotel room. an ominous, vacuum-wielding maid and incriminating videotape soon follow...

2001: The Producer’s Club

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