Welcome to the website for director and playwright Dean Lundquist.
On this website you will find a selection of Dean's ten-minute and other plays and monologues as well as tips on directing for the theatre. And until July 31st, 2009 - all scripts on this website are available to be produced by anyone, anywhere in the world - absolutely FREE.
That's right - no royalties, copyright fees, deposits - nothing at all. Just read through the descriptions of scripts to find something that suits your needs, download the script and get rehearsing.
The only condition is you must email Dean (dean@deanlundquist.com) and let him know where and when you produced his script, listing the director, cast and theatre. If you have any production photos, please send them as well as they may end up on this website.
If you need a play on a specific theme or cast, contact Dean and he may be able to write it for you.
BIOGRAPHY
Originally from Ventura, California, Dean now makes his home in Singapore. Trained as an actor, he studied Renaissance English dramatic literature and dramatic art at the University of California, Berkeley before studying at The American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco.
It was during his collegiate career that he began directing after brushes with celebrated directors Peter Sellars and Mary Zimmerman and studying with Dr. Christopher Herold. With his classmates, he helped found The East Bay Actor’s Collective who produced open air versions of Shakespeare in economically deprived neighbourhoods.
While in the San Francisco bay area, he frequently attended performances at the San Francisco Opera where he began to investigate techniques for directing opera and musicals as they differed from plays. While pursing his graduate degree at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, he worked closely with the music department directing opera and taught acting for operatic performers.
Under the mentorship of the late Davey Marlin-Jones, Dean also gained invaluable insight into the role the director plays in developing new works while beginning to write plays himself under the tutelage of Julie Jensen. In 1998, his first produced play, The Haircut, a play about a Korean War veteran and his HIV positive barber, was produced in both the United States and Canada recieving productions in Las Vegas and Toronto.
He was honoured by the American College Theatre Festival (ACTF) as well as the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) for his directing and playwriting. While in Las Vegas, he directed numerous new works, operas and plays while also acting in original plays and musicals.
He interned at Seattle Opera under the guidance of Stephen Terrell and Speight Jenkins on the 2000 production of Delibes' Lakme'. Later that year after completing his graduate degree, Dean moved back to Sothern California where he worked with Golden Globe winning director/producer Mel Swope as his assistant.
Branching out on his own, Dean’s hilarious 2002 production of Peter Shickley’s Oedipus Tex and his own adaptation of Mozart’s The Impresario received rave reviews in the Los Angeles Times.
In search of new artistic inspiration, Dean headed East to Japan. There he worked as a teacher, voice-over actor, writer and director. While in Tokyo, he also formed Tokyo Silverfish, an experimental theatre company producing original works reflecting Japanese and cross-cultural exchange.
Since moving to Singapore in 2004, he has been busy writing, directing, teaching and occasionally acting.
In 2004-5 he created and ran the speech and drama training program for Modern Montessori International. Thereafter, he began teaching at serveral institutions in Singapore. As part of the inaugural 2007 Short & Sweet Singapore festival, he received the award for best director for his production of Alex Broun’s award-winning 10,000 Cigarettes. Also in 2007, he wrote and directed Dying of Thirst, highlighting the water shortage crisis for the Asia-Pacific Water Forum held in Singapore. He collaborated on the original musicals Georgette by Ng Yi Sheng and BELIEVE! by Alex Wang for Musical Theatre Ltd.
He is the author of New Directions: a pragmatic guide to directing. He has taught at Modern Montessori International, American Academic Alliance, Raffles Institution, The Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts and the LASALLE College of the Arts.
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