Pamela Hobart Carter

Pamela Hobart Carter

Carter's plays have been produced and read in Seattle (her home), in Montreal (where she grew up as a landed immigrant), and in Fort Worth. Her full-length, "Rondo," made The Icicle Creek New Play Festival final 10. Of her dozens of short plays (minis to one-acts) and 8 full-lengths, more than 30 have received readings, and more than 12 have been produced. Carter also writes fiction, non-fiction...
Carter's plays have been produced and read in Seattle (her home), in Montreal (where she grew up as a landed immigrant), and in Fort Worth. Her full-length, "Rondo," made The Icicle Creek New Play Festival final 10. Of her dozens of short plays (minis to one-acts) and 8 full-lengths, more than 30 have received readings, and more than 12 have been produced. Carter also writes fiction, non-fiction, and poetry. Her poetry publications include 3 chapbooks: "Her Imaginary Museum," "Held Together with Tape and Glue," and a Yavanika Press mixed-genre winner, "Behind the Scenes at the Eternal Everyday." Also a visual artist, Carter has painted scenic flats for all of Drunken Owl Theater's productions. Summers, she hikes in the Cascades. Winters, she skis in them.
Education: A.B., Geology, Bryn Mawr College; M.S., Geology, Indiana University; Teaching Credential and Graduate Studies in Elementary & Early Childhood Education: Pacific Oaks College/The Little School;
Montessori Teacher Preparation of Washington. Numerous courses at Freehold and Richard Hugo House in Seattle, WA.

Plays

  • Paula 101 by Pamela Hobart Carter
    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: biography, drama
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    Keyword: ground-breaking female artist, art history + 4 more
    Genre: biography, drama
    Keyword: ground-breaking female artist, art history, painter of nudes, changing academic paradigms, who gets to teach what, friendship
    In “Paula 101,” Paula, an art history doctoral candidate, wants the world to know about the artist Paula Modersohn Becker, so she imagines a reinvented Art History 101, to revolve around the early German Expressionist. Despite the warnings from her friend, Gina, and her husband, Martin, and the refusal from her department, Paula resolves to go ahead secretly with her conception of art history. When the...
    In “Paula 101,” Paula, an art history doctoral candidate, wants the world to know about the artist Paula Modersohn Becker, so she imagines a reinvented Art History 101, to revolve around the early German Expressionist. Despite the warnings from her friend, Gina, and her husband, Martin, and the refusal from her department, Paula resolves to go ahead secretly with her conception of art history. When the department finds out, Gina turns both Paulas into celebrities.
  • Rondo by Pamela Hobart Carter
    Cast: 
    6
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    Genre: dark comedy, drama
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    Keyword: rondo, classical music + 7 more
    Genre: dark comedy, drama
    Keyword: rondo, classical music, philharmonic, coma, twins, violin concerto, semi-vegetative state, communication, birthday
    On the eve of her 60th birthday, composer Joan Klein lies incapable of communicating with her family as the result of a car accident. Her daughters, daughter-in-law, and grandson arrive to celebrate/mourn. The family flounders without its center. Also without its center, Joan’s latest symphony sits unfinished. Without telling each other, both Joan’s daughters decide to patch the hole in its middle, a rondo...
    On the eve of her 60th birthday, composer Joan Klein lies incapable of communicating with her family as the result of a car accident. Her daughters, daughter-in-law, and grandson arrive to celebrate/mourn. The family flounders without its center. Also without its center, Joan’s latest symphony sits unfinished. Without telling each other, both Joan’s daughters decide to patch the hole in its middle, a rondo movement. When Frances’s attempts fail, she solicits the help of Gerry, the philharmonic director, and initiates an amusical collaboration. When Gerry arrives for dinner with the clan, he reveals that he has received not one, but three versions of the rondo, one suitable for the philharmonic performance—that by the mystery composer. When the identity of the composer emerges, the family regains its center.
  • A Few Things Remain by Pamela Hobart Carter
    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: drama
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    Keyword: memory, Alzheimer's Disease + 7 more
    Genre: drama
    Keyword: memory, Alzheimer's Disease, family, funeral, ritual, flowers, ceremony, gardening, neurology
    Through a doctor's unconventional exercise involving giving attention to flowers, an elderly man with memory loss connects to his past and his family.
  • The Robot Decision by Pamela Hobart Carter
    Cast: 
    5
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    Genre: comedy, science fiction
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    Keyword: Robots, decisions + 4 more
    Genre: comedy, science fiction
    Keyword: Robots, decisions, judgebots, love, human-robot relationships, dinner party
    THE ROBOT DECSION is a robom-com in which Anders, the head of a company (which can make robots), must decide whether or not decision-making robots, judgebots, would be a good thing to produce. She attends a dinner party put on by the robot designer and his robots. She must also decide if it is possible to love a robot, and if it is possible for a robot to love her. Anders appears to fall for a robot, while a...
    THE ROBOT DECSION is a robom-com in which Anders, the head of a company (which can make robots), must decide whether or not decision-making robots, judgebots, would be a good thing to produce. She attends a dinner party put on by the robot designer and his robots. She must also decide if it is possible to love a robot, and if it is possible for a robot to love her. Anders appears to fall for a robot, while a robot appears to fall for her. She discovers that the robot designer, in his shyness, has been pretending to be one of his robots. They begin both a romance and a business arrangement.
  • Nesting Ground by Pamela Hobart Carter
    Cast: 
    4–5
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    Genre: comedy
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    Keyword: kakapo, Endangered Species + 6 more
    Genre: comedy
    Keyword: kakapo, Endangered Species, bird-watching, life list, marriage, lost, retirement, divorce
    Set on a tiny jungle island in the south Pacific, a group of adventurers from a cruise ship search for a glimpse of the endangered kakapo at its supposed nesting ground. Heather, the naturalist, leads the group through the vegetation on this unsanctioned venture to add to their "life lists." When the others discover that she has brought them to the island without the knowledge of the cruise captain,...
    Set on a tiny jungle island in the south Pacific, a group of adventurers from a cruise ship search for a glimpse of the endangered kakapo at its supposed nesting ground. Heather, the naturalist, leads the group through the vegetation on this unsanctioned venture to add to their "life lists." When the others discover that she has brought them to the island without the knowledge of the cruise captain, and Beth twists her ankle, they fear they may get stuck on the island and all go extinct with the kakapo. While Heather loses and finds their craft to get back to the cruise ship in safety, retirees Delores and Abe, and newly-divorced Beth interact with the rare kakapo. Looking for, and finding, the kakapo reminds them of what matters in life and helps Abe and Delores sort out their marriage, and Beth sort out her new single-hood.

    The kakapo may be played by Heather with a puppet, or may be suggested with lighting and sound effects, or with film, etc.

  • Rook and Marcella Test the Waters by Pamela Hobart Carter
    Cast: 
    5–7
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    Genre: drama, fantasy
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    Keyword: violation hearing, rescue + 4 more
    Genre: drama, fantasy
    Keyword: violation hearing, rescue, ocean, twins, swim lesson, rule breaking
    ROOK AND MARCELLA TEST THE WATERS takes place in an alternate here and now where societal rules are draconian. Rook and Marcella have violated a rule about touching another person when he pulled her from the water as she was drowning. Before they face a violations hearing, wily Rook wants to craft a plan with goody-goody Marcella to get them off. In the process he learns about her fear of water, developed after...
    ROOK AND MARCELLA TEST THE WATERS takes place in an alternate here and now where societal rules are draconian. Rook and Marcella have violated a rule about touching another person when he pulled her from the water as she was drowning. Before they face a violations hearing, wily Rook wants to craft a plan with goody-goody Marcella to get them off. In the process he learns about her fear of water, developed after her twin brother nearly drowned and she rescued him. Marcella agrees to swim lessons from Rook, in part to spend time together, in part to be honest at the violations hearing. Marcella's relationship with the water is played out in dance form, several dancers representing the ocean.





  • Vagabond Lives of the Barnacle Poets by Pamela Hobart Carter
    Cast: 
    3–5
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    Genre: comedy, romantic comedy + 1 more
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    Keyword: marine life, poetry and poets + 5 more
    Genre: comedy, romantic comedy, verse
    Keyword: marine life, poetry and poets, longing, love, happiness, climate change, whales
    Sloan and Briny, acorn barnacles attached to a gray whale, encounter a variety of marine characters, discover themselves and their love for each other, and create new poems about their vagabond lives.
  • Snowpocalypse Rendez-Vous at Taverna Seattle by Pamela Hobart Carter
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: comedy, romantic comedy
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    Keyword: blizzard-meet-up, dating + 2 more
    Genre: comedy, romantic comedy
    Keyword: blizzard-meet-up, dating, friendship, meaning of life
    Portia and Luke are on a date at Taverna Seattle when a blizzard traps them there. Rich and Tippy are new to town and looking for ways to keep their minds from atrophying. In recognizing that life on earth is like being trapped together during a snow storm, the four become instant friends, maybe more. "Snowpocalypse Rendez-Vous at Taverna Seattle" runs under 5 minutes.

    Written for #...
    Portia and Luke are on a date at Taverna Seattle when a blizzard traps them there. Rich and Tippy are new to town and looking for ways to keep their minds from atrophying. In recognizing that life on earth is like being trapped together during a snow storm, the four become instant friends, maybe more. "Snowpocalypse Rendez-Vous at Taverna Seattle" runs under 5 minutes.

    Written for #SeattleDGParty with the two word prompt, "Seattle, snow."