Anthony D'Juan
Agent: Ashley Glenn
Sacramento, California, United States Email: a.djuan@thepeoplescinema.com
Home page: www.thepeoplescinema.com
MSN: a.djuan@hotmail.com
Anthony D’Juan
a.djuan@hotmail.com
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a.djuan@thepeoplescinema.com
Biography
Anthony D’Juan is the author of over twenty-five screenplays and thirty plays (twenty of which have been staged in Northern and Southern California.) His screenplays include Ruby Blues, Hudson Apples, Blind Innocence (which made it to the top one-hundred in the Writer’s Network competition of 2004), an urban adaptation of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment, Auburn Murder, All the Bright Lights, Macabre of a Thief, and Tell Me Some More. His stage plays include Bailey, The Irony Effect, To Avoid the Grim Reaper (produced twice in 2001), MEN IN RIFFS, theory of the dream, Untitled, The Purveyors, Night Jobs for Men (which was adapted into a short film by Timeline Pictures), Negro Folklore, The Origin of Jim Crow, and Suburban Snow Fall. In 2003 he was commissioned by California Musical Theatre to write Keeping the Dream Alive, in honor of the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr theatre project. Based on the show’s success, he was commissioned to write …And the Dream Goes On! (ranked “Best New Musical of 2004”), which will run for it’s third year in a row, January 2006. He was, recently, commissioned by the B Street Theatre/Children’s Theatre of California to write Safe At Home: The Jackie Robinson Story, which is scheduled to open January 2006.
In addition to playwriting, Anthony has directed eighteen plays since 2000. They include Alice in Wonderland (a new adaptation by Katie Partington), subUrbia, Five Women Wearing the Same Dress, Our Town, Endgame (named “Best Drama” by the Sacramento Bee in 2003), A Clockwork Orange (the musical), bash: latter-day play, and The Distance from Here.
He studied at the Actor’s Workshop/Theatre of Sacramento for nine years under Edward Claudio, and served as Artistic Director for three years (2002-2005). He is the CEO of The Peoples Bureau of Cinema (along with his partner Ian Preston Cinnamon), which completed three films in 2005 – Love Thieves, Unknown Pleasures, and South Paw Grammar.
Interests: Playwrite & movie scripts
Published writer: Yes
Freelance: Yes |
