Timothy Nolan

Timothy Nolan

Timothy Nolan is an NYC-based playwright, screenwriter, actor, and teacher. He received his MFA in playwriting at the Actors Studio Drama School at Pace University and was named an Indie Theater Now Person of the Year. His play Acts of Contrition received an Excellence in Playwriting award from the New York International Fringe Festival. Other plays include Stuck With Fred (AMT Theater New York, ROAD Theater...
Timothy Nolan is an NYC-based playwright, screenwriter, actor, and teacher. He received his MFA in playwriting at the Actors Studio Drama School at Pace University and was named an Indie Theater Now Person of the Year. His play Acts of Contrition received an Excellence in Playwriting award from the New York International Fringe Festival. Other plays include Stuck With Fred (AMT Theater New York, ROAD Theater Company Los Angeles), The Sugar Plant (Chain Theater One Act Festival, Actors Studio Drama School MFA Repertory Season, Rogue Theater Festival), E Minor Seventh (Jersey City Arts Center New Play Festival, 5th Ave Theater Company Special Mention), What Happened Was, What’s In A Name (Samuel French Critics’ Choice award), The Way Out (FringeNYC Excellence in Acting award), and The Bull Ring (Samuel French OOB Festival). He is a member of the Actors Studio Playwrights/Directors Workshop and the Dramatists Guild. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife, screenwriter Susannah Nolan. www.timothy-nolan.com

Plays

  • Stuck With Fred by Timothy Nolan
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: dark comedy, drama
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    Keyword: friendship, male/female friendship + 3 more
    Genre: dark comedy, drama
    Keyword: friendship, male/female friendship, alcoholism, brothers, human connection
    Hilly wants a friend, needs a friend, but the best she can do is Fred… thirty years older, irascible in the extreme, in poor health and a fellow recovering alcoholic. He’s not an easy friend. But neither is she. When his health takes a turn for the worst and his brother shows up to run interference, she finds out just how much of a friend he is.
  • The Sugar Plant by Timothy Nolan
    Cast: 
    2–10
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    Genre: drama, movement/physical
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    Keyword: marriage, art + 2 more
    Genre: drama, movement/physical
    Keyword: marriage, art, city life, ghosts
    Tami is married to Michael and wants to continue being an expressionist painter. She met Michael, a teacher, at her first big opening and fell in love. But to stay married she will have to reveal things she vowed never to reveal. She must choose between the husband she loves and the work that keeps her alive. Her choice will tell her things about her work and her love that she may not want to learn.
  • E Minor Seventh by Timothy Nolan
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    2
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    Genre: drama, experimental + 3 more
    Genre: drama, experimental, fantasy, tragedy, young audiences
    Man starts to play a song he remembers from high school, reminds him of Woman, who taught it to him when they were sixteen. Neither knew how to be with the other, him being shy and awkward, her being in an unstable living situation. Before they can figure out how they really feel, she has to leave. When he goes to find her many years later, he finds an awful truth.
  • Acts of Contrition by Timothy Nolan
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    4
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    Genre: drama, faith-based
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    Keyword: Catholic Clerical Sex Abuse
    Genre: drama, faith-based
    Keyword: Catholic Clerical Sex Abuse
    Steve, Tom, and Joe, best friends since their days in the Catholic seminary, want to enjoy a beach holiday away from their priestly duties. When Steve is late in arriving, he reveals that he’s been ordered by the Cardinal to reveal his history as a sex abuser to his friends under the seal of the confessional, in order for all of them to continue to “keep each other’s secrets.”
  • What's In A Name by Timothy Nolan
    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: drama, political
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    Keyword: Sixties, memory + 4 more
    Genre: drama, political
    Keyword: Sixties, memory, motherhood, sleeplessness, student radicals, Underground
    Susan Price just wants a good night’s sleep. But forty years of the same nightmare have forced her awake. Each night she dreams that she signs her name using her real name, Aileen Doherty. Susan has lived for forty years as a fugitive, having been conned into a bank robbery while she was a student radical. She has a grown son who has never known the truth. She’s held the line for this long, but which day will be the breaking point?
  • What Happened Was by Timothy Nolan
    Cast: 
    3–6
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    Genre: drama, mystery/thriller + 2 more
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    Keyword: drama, Expressionism + 2 more
    Genre: drama, mystery/thriller, political, young audiences
    Keyword: drama, Expressionism, legal, women's issues
    Liz wants to see the right thing happen for her friend Martha, who says she was raped by another friend, Mark. She’s been told to stick with the facts, but when she talks to her friends she finds the “facts” may not take her where she needs to go. She has to decide in a moment whether to follow the facts or the truth, and then live with the consequences.

    "Like if Law and Order were written...
    Liz wants to see the right thing happen for her friend Martha, who says she was raped by another friend, Mark. She’s been told to stick with the facts, but when she talks to her friends she finds the “facts” may not take her where she needs to go. She has to decide in a moment whether to follow the facts or the truth, and then live with the consequences.

    "Like if Law and Order were written by Beckett." B. Rhinehart, Actors Studio Drama School director.