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Paul Barile

4261 W. Addison * Apartment One * Chicago, IL * 60641 * 708-557-0717
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THE SWEET SHOW OF ZACH AND PAUL (a suite of plays)
1. From the Fire
2. Easy Go
3. Highway 69
4. Hallo, My Name is Steve
The Abbie Hoffman Fest (The Sweet Life of Zach and Paul) August 2008

CHUNK – NOT CHUB (ten-minute play)
Seven Plays in Seven Days (n.u.f.a.n. ensemble)
July 2008

GHOST FLIGHTS (a one-minute play)

New Workshop Theater at Brooklyn College (NYC)

June 2008

ITALIAN LIGHTS; NOT STARS (two-act play)

World Premiere (n.u.f.a.n. ensemble)

April 2008

GLADIATORS LIVE! (a parody)
Bailiwick Repertory Theater Feb./March 2008

A MINOR VARIATION (a ten-minute play)
ChAoS, a new works festival (P. O. C. – Chicago) March 2008

STREET MUSIC (a ten-minute play)
Snowdance (Over Our Heads – Racine, WI) February 2008

St. Valentine’s Day Massacre (Dramatis Personae – Chicago)

February 2008

THE BOUND TRILOGY (three one-act plays)
Public Reading (self-produced)
June 2001
Staged Workshop Production (Banned in Batavia)
October 2001
World Premiere (C'est La Vie Drama Group)
December 2002
Published by Original Works Publishing
www.originalworksonline.com

January 2008
ONE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS (a monologue)

Merry F*@&king Christmas (Toy Boat Productions - OR)

December 2007

YOU GOTTA KICK UP YOU HEELS (ten-minute play)

A Table and Chairs (A Table and Chairs)

October 2007

GIRL BLUE (ten-minute play)

Seven Plays in Seven Days (n.u.f.a.n. ensemble) July 2007

A SUMMER’S TALE (full length one-act play)
Perfectly Perky Productions June 2007

HOMEGOING (two-act play)
Staged Reading (independent) March 2007

A SUBTLE TWIST OF THE DOG (two-act play)
World Premiere (n.u.f.a.n. ensemble) November 2006

THE ROAD TO ULTRA-LIGHT (a kid's musical)
Staged Reading (Another Chicago Theater Company)
December 2004
Staged Reading (Independent)
September 2006

WITH THESE HANDS (one-act play)

Seven Plays in Seven Days (n.u.f.a.n. ensemble)

July 2006

THE VALUE OF HORSES (two-act play)
World Premiere (n.u.f.a.n. ensemble) June 2006

THE CEMETERY TREE (two-act play)
Workshop (Inaugural Timberlake Playwrights' Colony)
Workshop (Victory Gardens Playwrights’ Workshop)
Staged Reading
(A New Theater Experiment)
World Premiere
(n.u.f.a.n. ensemble)
August 2002
September 2002
April 2004
May 2006

AFTER THE BALL (an ensemble piece)
Workshop (Chicago Dramatists)
April 2002
Staged Reading (A New Theater Experiment)
March 2004
World Premiere (n.u.f.a.n. ensemble)

November 2005
7LOVE (a one-act festival)
1. Gaps
2. His Father's Day
3. True Love's Ways
4. A Minor Variation
5. She's Painting Her Fingernails
6. The Green Dress
7. The Angels Won't Have it

World Premiere (n.u.f.a.n ensemble)

July 2005

GREAT LAND (two-act play)
Workshop (The Artistic Home )
December 2003
Staged Reading (A New Theater Experiment)
May 2004
World Premiere (n.u.f.a.n. ensemble)
April 2005
COLD WEATHER COMFORT (two-act play)
Staged Reading (Another Chicago Theater Company)
December 2004

HAVE A KUNG-FU CHRISTMAS (one-man play)
Touring Production (Prairie Grass Theater Company)
December 2001
The Chicago Cycle (independent)
December 2002
Production (n.u.f.a.n. ensemble) December 2004
Production (n.u.f.a.n. ensemble)
December 2005
Production (n.u.f.a.n. ensemble)

December 2006
IT'S A VERY KENNY CHRISTMAS (holiday play)
Touring Production (Prairie Grass Theater Company)
December 2001
Production (n.u.f.a.n. ensemble) December 2004
Production (n.u.f.a.n. ensemble)

December 2005
ROBERT MITCHUM HANGS OUT AT THE DUNKIN' DONUTS (two-act play)
Staged Reading (Portage Park Theater) October 2003
Staged Reading (Another Chicago Theater Company)
February 2004
World Premiere (Another Chicago Theater Company)

March 2004
AMERICAN FRIES (one-act play)
Staged Reading (Lefty's Pride Productions)

April 2003
THE ANGELS WON'T HAVE IT (a one-act play)
Public Reading (self-produced)
June 2001
Public Reading (self-produced)



September 2001
AWARDS AND COMMISSIONS
THE GHOSTS OF THISTLE MANOR (a play for young actors)
Commissioned for My Covered Bridge 2005 season Summer 2005

IN LONG SHADOWS (one-act play)
Winner of Dark Knight Theatricals
2004 one-act playwriting competition
June 2004
Full production Dark Knight Theatricals

January 2005
DIGGER'S WAR (one-act play)
Received honorarium from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign "Inner Voices" Social Issues Theater


March 2004
THEATER WRITING
Backstage Magazine May 2007


ASSOCIATIONS, ACCOMPLISHMENTS and ACCOLADES
Dramatists Guild of America
Discovery of the Year Chicagocritic.com (2002)
The Bound Triology
Network Playwright Chicago Dramatists (2002)
Creator of "Monodogs of War"
Founder/Artistic Director n.u.f.a.n. ensemble
Former playwriting teacher at Discovery Center
Writer/Performer/Musical Director for sketch group HEAVY
Creator of Table and Chairs fall play festival

TRAINING TO DATE


The Artistic Home

Winter 2003 Kathy Scambiaterra &
Nancy Beckett
Breadline Theatre
Fall 2002
Paul Kampf
Timberlake Theatre
Inaugural Playwright Colony
Summer 2002
June Pyskasek &
Brad Lyons
Chicago Dramatists
Summer 2002
Ann Noble
Chicago Dramatists
Spring 2002
June Pyskasek
Victory Gardens
Spring 2002
Claudia Allen
Columbia College
Summer 1992
B.A. Fiction Writing


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