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J. BOYER THUMBNAIL RESUME
Creative Writing Program
Department of English
Arizona State University
Tempe, Arizona 85287-0302
USA
Tel: 480-965-7644
Tel: 480-965-3168 (TO LEAVE MESSAGES)
FAX: 480- 965-3451
WEBSITE: http://www.public.asu.edu/~jmboyer/
EMAIL: J.Boyer@asu.edu
TO LEARN MORE ABOUT J. BOYER, SEARCH THE INTERNET MOVIE DATABASE
(http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3417845)
SELECTED BOOKS AND SCRIPTS
(all available from Amazon.com)
SIDNEY LUMET, 1993.
ISBN 0-8057-9329
BOB RAFELSON: HOLLYWOOD MAVERICK, 1996.
ISBN 0-8057-4612-9
WOLLICOTT’S TRAVELING RABBIT’S FOOT
MINSTRELS, 2002.
ISBN 1-894910-08-7. (Winner, 2005 Theatre Publicus Award For Drama, Best One-Act Play.)
TIME WENT BY, BUT SLOWLY, 2002.
ISBN 1-894910-08-9
POACHING DEER IN NORTHERN ARIZONA, 2003.
ISBN 1-894910-34-6
FIVE NEW YORK BIKER CHICS, OUT OF CONTROL. ISBN 1-894910-X
SUICIDE GAL, WON'T YOU COME OUT TONIGHT, COME OUT TONIGHT, 2006. ISBN 1894910-62-1 (Winner, 2006 New Rocky Mountain Voices Prize); To be included in the bilingual (English/Mandarin Chinese) An Anthology of American Short Plays, Volume III, ed. Jianqui Sun. Beijing, China: Foreign Language and Research Press.
THE CROWN PRINCE OF PERFECT, 2007. ISBN 9781894910-682
FOR SOME REASON COMMA SHE LAUGHED (Forthcoming, to be published in Winter, 2008)
LOVE IN THE TIME OF PARIS HILTON AND OTHER STORIES
(Forthcoming, to be published Summer, 2009)
SHORT WORK:
NEWSWEEK, THE NATION, THE PARIS REVIEW, etc.
MOST RECENT NONFICTION:
"About Ron Carlson: A Profile," Ploughshares, Fall, 2006, Vol. 32, Nos. 2 & 3
"The Harmless Thoughts of a London Gynaecologist," The Persistence of Dreams [UK], January, 2005, ISSN 1744-1102
"Flight," The Copperfield Review, April, 2005, http://www.copperfieldreview.com/fiction/flight.htm
"The Third Planet from the Sun," Ascent Aspirations Magazine, Volume 9, Number 3, August, 2005, ISSN 1715-085X [Canada] http://www.ascentaspirations.ca/thirdplanet.htm
"Sad Little Stories To Tell," 2005 Biscuit International Prizewinning Short Stories, December, 2005, ISBN 1-9033914-26-4 [UK]. (Second Place, 2005 Biscuit Prize For Fiction)
"Sad Little Stories To Tell," Compact Disc, read by Matthew Bactat. International Prize Winning Stories, Broadening Horizons CD, January, 2006 [UK]
"In the Garden of Earthly Pleasures," Sage of Consciousness E-Zine, Volume 1, Issue 2, August, 2005, ISSN 1555-192X
http://www.ez2.sageofcon.com/ss/pleasures.htm
"Singles," The Redbridge Review: Online Journal of Art [UK], July, 2004, http://www.redbridgereview.co.uk/html/j_boyer.html
"Allegiances," Carve Magazine, July, 2004, ISSN# 1529-272X (Shortlisted, 2004 Raymond Carver Award For Short Fiction)
"The Night Mechanic," The Anthology of 2004 Biscuit Prize Poetry and Fiction Winners [UK], October, 2004, ISBN 1-903914-10-8 (Finalist/With High Commendation, 2004 Biscuit Prize For Fiction)
"A Reversal Of His Fortunes," The Istanbul Literature Review, Spring, 2006 (Turkey) http://www.ilrmagazine.net/stareversal.htm
"The Secret Lives Of London Detectives." Arabesques: Journal of Literature and Cultures, Volume II, Issue One, Winter, 2006, ISSN 1112-6329, [Algeria] http://www.arabesquespress.org
"Silent Witness," Carve Magazine, Volume Seven, Number Four, July, 2006. ISSN 1592-272X (Shortlisted, 2006 Raymond Carver Award for Short Fiction).
"My Roommate Anne-Marie," 55 Words, August, 2006 [Canada] http://www.birdandmoon.com/55words/guest.html
"Run Away," Fiction Attic, Issue 19, Summer, 2006; to be excerpted in 221 One-Minute Monologues From Literature, eds. John Capecci, Irene Ziegler, New York: Smith & Kraus, Autumn, 2007; 60 Seconds To Shine: 221 One-Minute Monologues from Literature, Volume IV. Eds John Capecci, Irene Ziegler. New York: Smith & Krauss, 2008.
"The Game Keeper," Staples: Literary Journal of the University of Adelaide," Winter, No. 5, 2006. [AUSTRALIA]
"The Night Mechanic," Ploughshares, Volume 32, No. 4, Winter, 2006.
"29 Novembar Street," Just West Of Athens, Winter/Spring, 2007.
"In Advance Of The Elegiac Novel You Are Sure To Expect," WTF Magazine, Volume One, January/February, 2007. [CANADA]
"The Musical Afternoon Of An Odd November Day," To appear in Great Works, 2007. [UK]
Mekanik E Shabkar Asheqaneh I Aram Dar Dar Fasl E Kootach (The Night Mechanic: A Romance Novel in Ten Short Chapters, as translated into Farsi by Asad Amraee), Published as a chapbook by Eshigh Publications, June, 2007 [IRAN]
"What Passes For Love," Oregon Literary Review, Vol.3, Number 2, July, 2008.
“Vivian,” Paradigm, Issue 3, Summer, 2008. Collected in Paradigm Volume II, ed. Paul Fuhr, Columbus, Ohio: Rain Farm Press, 2009.
“The Anthrax Concerto,” Denver Syntax, Fall, 2008. “The Love Song Of J. Alfred Hitler,” Sein und Werden, Volume 2, No. 5, September, 2008. [UK]
“Mrs. Dalloway,” Fiction At Work, Issue 12, September, 2008.
“I Know Who You Are, It’s Like Looking In A Mirror, I’m Lost Too, I See The Same Dark Heart,” audience, Volume 3, Number 2, September, 2008.
“Interviewing Brando,” The Benefactor Magazine, Volume 1, Issue B, 2008. “Stars,” reprint, New Plains Review, Volume 8, Number 2, Fall, 2008.
“The Winter Of The Goldfinch,” The Clearfield Review, No. 1, January, 2009.
“Tote,” Pumpkin, Volume I, Issue 1, 2009. [UK]
“Sorrow and Regret,” Tobybashi: The First-Person Review, #1, 2009.
“Having Just Been Dumped By Her Asshole Of A Boyfriend…,” Shape Of A Box (YouTube’s first literary magazine), # 20, February, 2009.
“Her and Him,” serialized in seven installments in PicFic (Twitter’s first literary magazine), March, 2009. Winner, Three Cheers Award—see http://folded.wordpress.com/2009/04/01/3-cheers-march-2009.
“The Musical Afternoon Of An Odd November Day” The Black Market Review (Edge Hill College), Volume I, March, 2009.[UK]
“The Anorexic’s Mother” and “Toward The End,” Postcard Shorts, April, 2009, www.postcardshorts.com.
FORTHCOMING SHORT FICTION PUBLICATIONS
“The Christmas We Made Gifts For Our Pets.” To be published in The Fabulist, 2009.
“The Suicide’s Final Thought.” To be published in The Picayune Literary Review, Spring, 2009.
“Autograph.” To be published in Boston Literary Magazine, June, 2009.
RECENT PLAY PRODUCTIONS:
THREE PLAYS AND A BED. Off-Off-Broadway, American Theatre of Actors, January, 2001; Creative Place Theatre, February, 2001; Riant Theatre, Greenwich Village, March, 2001; Close-up Theatre/Studio City, Los Angeles, November, 2001; Reading, Hollywood Court Theatre/Playwright's Express, Hollywood, California, June, 2007. Excerpted in Best Stage Monologues For Women, 2000.
HEARTBEATS. Off-Off-Broadway, Creative Place Theatre, April, 2001; Pinnacle Playhouse, Belleville, Canada, August, 2001; Off-Off Broadway/Greenwich Village, Belly, June, 2004.
MAKING OUT. Off-Off-Broadway, Studio Too/John Houseman Theatre, July, 2001; Bar Noir, Philadelphia, August, 2001; Reading, North Fringe, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, England, November, 2004.
TAKE IT AND LEAVE. Hudson Backstage Theatre, Los Angeles, September, 2001; Theatre of Hope, Los Angeles, August, 2002; Reading, Hollywood Court Theatre/Playwright's Express, Hollywood, California, June, 2006.
THE THIRD PLANET FROM THE SUN. Off-Off-Broadway, Creative Place Theatre, December, 2001; Reading (as SUBTEXTS), FirstStage/Playwright’s Express, Los Angeles, May, 2004.
FIVE JEWISH BIKER CHICS, OUT OF CONTROL. Off-Off-Broadway, Creative Place Theatre, December, 2001.
AWKWARD PAUSES. Reading, Edward Albee Theatre Festival, Valdez, Alaska,
June, 2000; Reading, Player-Playwrights, London, England, January,
2002;
Developmental Performances, Tempe Performing Arts Center, Phoenix ,
April, 2002; Kerr Cultural Center, Phoenix, April, 2003; Reading, Off-Broadway,
The Neighborhood Playhouse, July, 2004.
THREE NEW PLAYS (Camping In The Badlands Of Human Desire, Life Goes On, In The Garden Of Earthly Pleasures). Reading, FirstStage/Playwright’s Express, Los Angeles, April, 2002.
URBAN/RURAL. Jewel Box Theatre, Los Angeles, April, 2002.
TIME WENT BY, BUT SLOWLY. Off-Off-Broadway, Studio Too/John Houseman Theatre, May, 2002; Stark Theatre, London, England, May, 2002; Hand To Mouth Theatre Company, Croton-On-Hudson, New York, August, 2002; Off-Off-Broadway, Theatre Studio, September, 2003; Off-Off-Broadway, Player's Theatre, September, 2007.
DANCING MY MOTHER TO SLEEP. Reading, Off-Off-Broadway, Upper West Side Theatre Company, May, 2002.
SIX TONY WOMEN, SHOPPING FOR SHOES. Off-Off-Broadway, The Beckman Theatre, June, 2002.
THE EURIPIDEADS. Reading, Off-Off-Broadway, The Genesius Guild/Studio B Theatre, September, 2002.
POACHING DEER IN NORTHERN ARIZONA. Theatre West At The Alma, Bristol, England, November, 2002; Reading, Off-Off-Broadway, Actors Chapel/St. Malachy's Church, March, 2006; Author's Playhouse, Bay Shore, Long Island (New York), March, 2006.
A HISTORY OF THE LAST MILLENNIUM. Robert Gill Theatre, Toronto, Canada, March, 2003.
SAD LITTLE STORIES TO TELL. Reading, FirstStage/Playwright’s Express, Los Angeles, April, 2003.
FALLING IN LOVE AGAIN. Reading, Stage Two Theatre, Chicago, April/May, 2003; Off-Of-Broadway, Grand Theatre, July/August 2008. Finalist for the 2002 Tennessee Williams Prize.
THE FIRST NEGOTIATION. Reading, FirstStage/Playwright’s Express, Los Angeles, April, 2003; Off-Off-Broadway, Studio Too/John Houseman Theatre, July, 2003; Source Theatre, Washington, D.C., August, 2003; Paw Paw Playhouse, Kalamazoo, Michigan, February, 2004; Jump-Start Theatre, San Antonio, Texas, May, 2004; Off-Off-Broadway, Equity Showcase, The Little Theatre, June, 2004; Changing Scene Theatre, Bremerton, Washington, July, 2004; Reading, Eureka Theatre, San Francisco, August, 2004; FusionWorks, Billerica, Massachusetts, August, 2004; Reading, Yerba Buena Theatre, San Jose, California, August 2004; Off-Off Broadway, American Theatre of Actors, June, 2005; Reading, Oregon Stage Works Theatre, Ashland, Oregon, July, 2005; Barestage Theatre, Red Bluff, California, September, 2005; Studio Repertory Company, Providence, Rhode Island, September, 2006.
SUKKOT. Reading, FirstStage/Playwright’s Express, Los Angeles, April, 2003; Off-Off-Broadway, Studio Too/John Houseman Theatre, July, 2003; Reading, Playwrights Workshop Theatre, Montreal, Canada, June, 2005; Village Scene Theatre, Montreal, Canada, September, 2005.
THE WYRD SISTERS. Dangerous Theatre Company/Buntport Theater, Denver, Colorado, August, 2003.
FOR SOME REASON COMMA SHE LAUGHED. Reading, Tri-State Actors Theater/Crescent Theatre, Sussex, New Jersey, August, 2003; Reading, Memorial Theatre, Wayne, New Jersey, October, 2004; Reading, Revolution Theatre, Chicago, Illinois, August, 2006.
FREE TICKETS. Off-Off-Broadway, Creative Place Theatre, October, 2003; Reading, FirstStage/Playwright’s Express, Los Angeles, May, 2004.
STANDARDIZED TESTS. Colloquial Theater, Buffalo, February, 2004; Geery Theatre, Sacramento, July-August, 2004. Published by SwankWriting, July, 2003; Harrogate Theatre (UK)/Brooklyn College, New Workshop Theatre, Brooklyn, New York, June, 2005, Harvest Theatre, Toledo, Ohio, September, 2006; Published by SwankWriting, July, 2003.
THREE PLAYS AND A DESK (ROOM FOR ADVANCEMENT, HEARTBEATS, MAKING OUT).Reading, Script–To-Stage At The Arts Centre, London, February, 2004.
VOX POPULI. Reading, Off-Off-Broadway, Studio 710, March, 2004.
BLUE MOVIE and SAY YOU LOVE ME (from THREE PLAYS AND A BED). Hit and Run Theatre Company, The Rhumb Line, Gloucester, Massachusetts, In A Pig’s Eye, Salem, Massachusetts, April, 2004.
TWO WOMEN, ONE MAN, AND A BED (from THREE PLAYS AND A BED).Reading, Hunziker Theatre/William Patterson University of New Jersey, Wayne, New Jersey, April, 2004; Off-Off-Broadway, The Deane Little Theatre, June, 2005; Reading, New Works Lab, Ohio State University Theatre Department, Columbus, Ohio, March, 2008; Flint City Theatre, Flint, Michigan, March, 2008.
ORAL DEFENSE.Reading, FirstStage/Playwright’s Express, Los Angeles, May, 2004.
THE SUBWAY SONATA. Off-Off-Broadway, The Little Theatre, June, 2004; Off-Off-Broadway, 92nd Street Y/Steinhardt Center, August, 2004; Off-Off-Broadway, Belly, April, 2005; Off-Off-Broadway, American Theatre of Actors, June 2005.
A CASE IS NEVER CLOSED. Reading, Oklahoma City Theatre Company, July, 2004; Reading, Spotlight Theatre Company, Wayne, New Jersey, March, 2005; [Reading of excerpts], Off-Off-Broadway, The Actors Chapel of St. Malachy's, November, 2006; Reading, Off-Off-Broadway, The Brecht Forum, May, 2007; [Reading of excerpts] Dramatists Guild Friday Night Football Series, Scottsdale Center For The Performing Arts, Scottsdale, Arizona, June, 2007. Finalist, 2004 Southwest Theatre Association New Play Award.
THE CROWN PRINCE OF PERFECT. Reading, Hunziker Theatre/William Patterson University of New Jersey, Wayne, New Jersey, June, 2004; Off-Off-Broadway, Theatre Studio, December, 2004; Anaheim Community Theatre, Anaheim, California, June, 2005.
EMPTY STAGES. Reading, Theatre 28 Ensemble/Jermyn Street Theatre, London, England, June, 2005.
LOOKING FOR LOVE. Reading, FirstStage/Playwright's Express, Los Angeles, May, 2005; Off-Off-Broadway, Times Square Art Center, August/September, 2006; Off-Off-Broadway, Players Theatre, June, 2007.
SAY YOU LOVE ME (from THREE PLAYS AND A BED). Off-Off-Broadway, American Theatre of Actors, June 2005; (as THIS IS NOT MY BEAUTIFUL WIFE), Arts Fifth Avenue Theatre, Dallas, Texas, August, 2005; (as THIS IS NOT MY BEAUTIFUL WIFE), Addison Theatre Center, Dallas, Texas, March, 2007.
CARDS WE WISH WE'D SENT. Co-written with Steve McGaw, Bob Francis, Chris Bradley, et al. Fifth Avenue Arts Theatre, Fort Worth, Texas. December, 2005.
SPACE SLUTS ARE HOTTIES. Off-Off-Broadway, New York Artists Unlimited/Downeast Arts Center, August, 2005.
VAGABONDS. Off-Off-Broadway, Shetler Studio 54 Theatre, January, 2006.
SUICIDE GAL, WON'T YOU COME OUT TONIGHT, COME OUT TONIGHT. Author's Playhouse, Bay Shore, Long Island [New York], March/April, 2006; Reading, Hollywood Court Theatre/Playwright's Express, Hollywood, California, June 2006; Silver House Theatre, Houston, Texas, July 2006; Westcliffe Center For The Performing Arts/Jones Theatre, Westcliffe, Colorado, September, 2006; Reading, New Twenty-Two Productions, Boulder, Colorado, October, 2006; Stevens Theatre/Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, November, 2006; Impact Theater, Brooklyn, New York, February, 2007; Reading, Bangor Opera House, Bangor, Maine, May, 2007; Off-Off Broadway, Beckman Theatre, September, 2007; Reading, Gaia Studios/Hoboken Historical Museum Theatre, Hoboken, New Jersey, July, 2008; Reading, Off-Off-Broadway, Theatre/Dance Workshop,INC, December, 2008; Off-Off-Broadway, Theatre/Dance Workshop, INC, Summer, 2009.
SECOND CHANCE. (book and lyrics, J. Boyer; music, Dan Acquisto; choreography, Jessica Redish) Off-Off-Broadway, The Flea Theatre, April, 2006.
BEYOND THE BOUNDARIES I & II. (Co-written with Bobby Holder, et al) Off-Off-Broadway, Shetler 54 Theatre/Abingdon Theatre, April, 2006.
RECORDING THE DARKNESS FAITHFULLY: A PERFORMANCE/MEDIA INVESTIGATION OF THE DISTURBANCES IN THE MIDWESTERN PSYCHE. Original text and libretto, J. Boyer, Suzanne Day, and Joanne Selesker; score, Daniel Konhauser. CounterPULSE, San Francisco, California, November, 2006.
BLUE MOVIE (from THREE PLAYS AND A BED).Theatre of Note/Hollywood Performance Marathon, Hollywood, California, January, 2007; Monologue Mania/Pianos Bar and Grill, Bloomfield, New Jersey, July, 2008; Monologues and Madness/Cornelia Street Cafe, Greenwich Village, August, 2008.
MENAGE-A-SOMETHING. Off-Off-Broadway, Abingdon Theatre (Main Stage), February, 2007.
MANNEQUIN. Off-Off-Broadway, Bowery Poetry Club, November, 2007.
THE GLASS WHATEVER, Off-Off-Broadway, Abingdon Theatre Main Stage, February, 2008. Video clip available on YouTube.
WOLLICOTT’S TRAVELING RABBIT’S FOOT MINSTRELS. Reading, Hollywood Court Theatre, FirstStage/Playwright’s Express, Hollywood, California, June, 2008; Reading, Off-Off-Broadway, Theatre/Dance Workshop, INC, December, 2008; Off-Off-Broadway, Theatre/Dance Workshop, INC, Summer, 2009.
TWO J. BOYER MONOLOGUES: CROSS WORDS, SORROW AND REGRET, Monologue Mania/Pianos Bar and Grill, Bloomfield, New Jersey, September, 2008. To see actors Mark Szep performing Cross Words and Gus Ibranyi performing Sorrow And Regret, go to http://www.monologuemania.com/video.html.
MRS. DALLOWAY. Monologues and Madness/Cornelia Street Café, Greenwich Village, October, 2008.; Monologue Mania/Pianos Bar and Grill, Bloomfield, New Jersey, November, 2008.
AUTOGRAPH. Monologue Mania/Pianos Bar and Grill, Bloomfield, New Jersey, April, 2009.
ALEX AND ANNE. Off-Off Broadway, Bowery Poetry Club/Sticky Ten-Minute Play Series, October/November, 2008; Studio Theatre, Wellington, Florida, October/November, 2008.; Acme Theatre, Maynard, Massachusetts, January, 2009. Selected for The Best Ten-Minute Plays 2009, ed. Lawrence Harbison, Smith & Kraus, publication date Winter, 2009-10.
THEATRICAL AFFILIATIONS:
J. Boyer is a member of the Plawrights and Directors Unit of New York Artists Unlimited, a playwright-member of Actors Project NYC, as well as a member of the Dramatists Guild.
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GRADUATE STUDENTS OF ENGLISH ASSOCIATION'S OUTSTANDING GRADUATE MENTOR AWARD/CREATIVE WRITING, 2007-2008.
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Distinguished Quality Teaching Award, 1994-95.
Jay
Boyer Named ASU's June 1997 Teacher of the Month
Jay
Boyer Named Arizona Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation,
1995
Jay Boyer awarded the Alumni Association
Distinguished Teaching Award, 2002
FOR A MAGAZINE INTERVIEW WITH JAY BOYER ON THE WRITER'S LIFE, http://researchmag.asu.edu/stories/boyer.html
TO READ ONE OF J. BOYER'S RECENT SHORT STORIES, OPEN ONE OF THE MAROON WEBSITE LINKS IN THE SHORT STORY SECTION ABOVE.
TO VIEW SIXTY SECONDS OF J. BOYER'S PLAY "STANDARDIZED TESTS," GO TO www.screamingmediaproductions.com, open 2005 BROOKLYN PLAYS, then open "STANDARDIZED TESTS."
FROM THE PROGRAM "TOTH'S WORLD," THE AUDIO FROM AN INTERVIEW WITH J. BOYER BY THE PROGRAM'S HOST PAUL TOTH. GO TO
then download (to I-POD, MAC, or PC) at Toth20.mp3.