Tom Lavagnino

Tom Lavagnino

Tom Lavagnino is an award-winning playwright, screenwriter, fiction author and journalist. His play ELEANOR TUESDAY won the 2018 Marandy Award (Julie Harris Playwright Competition); NINETEEN KINDS OF PERIL was a runner-up for the 2010 Yale Drama Series prize, and was subsequently performed at The Forge Festival (Sheffield, U.K.); NEGOTIATING NATHAN was the winner of the 2004 Actors' Theatre (Santa Cruz)...
Tom Lavagnino is an award-winning playwright, screenwriter, fiction author and journalist. His play ELEANOR TUESDAY won the 2018 Marandy Award (Julie Harris Playwright Competition); NINETEEN KINDS OF PERIL was a runner-up for the 2010 Yale Drama Series prize, and was subsequently performed at The Forge Festival (Sheffield, U.K.); NEGOTIATING NATHAN was the winner of the 2004 Actors' Theatre (Santa Cruz) Full-Length Play Contest; and one-acts HANK MANQUE and W.A. have been published in Confrontation and Dramatics, respectively. Tom co-wrote the 2015 Sony Pictures / Darko Entertainment feature film HOME SWEET HELL; he has been privileged to be a member of the Skylight Theatre Company's "Skylab" since August 2012, and was selected as one of the initial "PLAY LA" fellows, for 2015-2016, by Humanitas / Center Theatre Group.

Plays

  • QUARANTINE by Tom Lavagnino
    Cast: 
    6
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    Genre: drama, science fiction
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    Keyword: corporate corruption, gross + 1 more
    Genre: drama, science fiction
    Keyword: corporate corruption, gross, Chemical Warfare
    In the aftermath of a toxic spill, a commercial chemical lab is quarantined -- and its six employees forbidden to leave. But when one of the chemists formulates a desperation-fueled “hail mary” antidote, and successfully administers it to himself and his comrades, the concoction’s positive effects not only vanquish the toxic infection, but improve everyone’s senses to a super-human degree.
  • BEA WHY OH BEA by Tom Lavagnino
    Cast: 
    6
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    Genre: farce
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    Keyword: absurd farce, psychological baggage + 1 more
    Genre: farce
    Keyword: absurd farce, psychological baggage, drama
    Bea St. Jacques sees hockey player Jesse Madrazo on ESPN one night –- and instantly recognizes that he’s her soulmate. Unable to contact him, Bea concocts a wild scheme -- pretending to "have a son dying of cancer” whose “last wish” is to "meet his hero Jesse.” When Jesse responds, Bea hires a street kid to pretend to be her son (and feign terminal cancer), setting the ruse into motion ... with darkly comic results.
  • PICK YOUR PART by Tom Lavagnino
    Cast: 
    6
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    Genre: dark comedy, drama + 1 more
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    Keyword: Robots, sex robots + 1 more
    Genre: dark comedy, drama, science fiction
    Keyword: Robots, sex robots, estrangement
    It’s 2056. “Synths” are indistinguishable from humans. But when two flesh-and-blood brothers inherit the family “Pick Your Part” salvage yard (no longer focused on automobile parts, but, rather, on the selling of arms, legs, heads, and other robot items), then agree to work the business together (despite severe philosophical misgivings), their combustible relationship takes on decidedly “old-fashioned” emotional dimensions.