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Joseph Hullett, writer		Plays and Fiction
Joseph Hullett is author of the 1993 Julie Harris Playwright Award winning drama THE PLEDGE, CROSSING THE LINE, DESIGN, WISH YOU WERE HERE, CONFIRMATION, TRUE BELIEVER, and TRAIL OF TEARS, In addition to the *Julie Harris Award, his works have garnered the Ventana Publications Play Award, 2^nd prize* in the South Carolina National Playwrights Competition, runner-up for the Lee Korf Award, 4th Prize in the West Coast Playwrighting Contest, and finalist selection for the Pittsburgh International Play Competition, the 24th Annual Dubuque One-Act Playwriting Contest, the Robert J. Pickering Award for Playwrighting Excellence, the Heideman Award, and the 2002 Arts and Letters Drama Prize. His newest full-length drama MOCKINGBIRD recently received *Silver Medal in the Pinter Review Prize for Drama.*			Hear "A Simple Case of Sniffles" Joe's latest story from Art Times June 2009
Joseph Hullett receives the 13th Annual Julie Harris Award from Academy Award Winner Karl Malden		Hullett's plays have been presented from New York to Los Angeles. THE PLEDGE and AND ALL YE NEED premiered off-Broadway at Theatre-Studio. CONFIRMATION, WISH YOU WERE HERE, and TRAIL OF TEARS all premiered at southern California's Chance Theater. CROSSING THE LINE and TRUE BELIEVER were first performed at the El Camino Real Theater. His work has been chosen for the 3rd Annual New York City Playwrights Festival, the Albany Civic Theatre Playwrights Festival; the El Camino Real Playhouse NewPlays Series; the West Coast Playwrights Six at Eight Series; the Trustus Theatre Playwrights' Festival; and the Original Theatre Works Summer Theatre. Hullett is also author of the novels KILLING RAIN, KILLING FIRE and, soon to be published, ANOTHER TIME. Some of his short stories are collected in MEN WITH WOMEN (Aventine Press). A psychiatrist, he lives in southern California.
Theatrical Works synopses
Mockingbird unpublished, available for premiere consideration Winner Silver Medal Pinter Review Prize for Drama	An orphan whose life has been destroyed by severe stuttering confronts her beloved childhood speech teacher after discovering that the teacher’s misbegotten World War II experiment had, in fact, created the stutter. synopsis	Trail of Tears Robert Lindneux, Woolaroc Museum Premiered 2002 at Southern California's Chance Theater MainStage	Past and future entwine as a renowned Professor probes the history of an 1838 Cherokee farm-woman forced onto a long, winter death-march where 5000 perished. Obsessed with her story, he ignores political currents swirling around him. Rising too late to aid his assailed mentor, he finds himself betrayed -- compelled to chose between honor and family. synopsis
THE PLEDGE Premiered at Manhattan's Theatre-Studio 13th Annual Julie Harris Award Ventana Play Award Finalist Pittsburgh New Play Competition	Dreams in decaying Detroit take wing when a strange man -- madman, inventor, or thief? -- convinces an elderly Russian pawnbroker to accept as Pledge a mysterious black box he promises will move the world. synopsis	Confirmation World Premiere 2001 Chance Theater 2nd Prize South Carolina National Play Award Finalist Pittsburgh New Play Competition	Opponents of the President's high-court nominee pressure a fragile intern to air a shocking discovery, embroiling the nominee and his former lover -- a fiery, feminist author -- in an uncivil warfare that pits the right to privacy against the consequences of its betrayal. synopsis
CROSSING \| THE LINE chosen Albany Civic and Camino Real Playwrights' Festivals	An unhappy woman -- separated by taboo from her psychiatrist -- pierces the doctor's professional armor and falls in love with a hidden self she discovers in his out-of-print book of poetry dedicated ... "To Phaedra." Despite warnings that her therapy has once again become a seductive dance, patient and doctor chasse ever closer to the taboo line until -- in the no-man's land which had separated them -- both learn that doctors are also patients, that patients can be doctors, and that the touch of either can both heal and harm. synopsis	Wish You Were Here World-premiere 1999 Chance Theater	Christmas in the Information Age. Exit aging baby-boomer Abel Joiner -- a disposable, blue-collar man-of-hands -- the last 'human resource' in a downsized Bulloni sausage factory. Snatching at a brass-ring promotion, Abel is thwarted by a Bulloni psychiatrist who knows that Industrial Age dinosaurs like Abel could spoil Bulloni's fractured plans for the future. When Christmas ends with yet another pink slip, Abel risks all on a daybreak idea -- a loony, happiness-sharing scheme that lands him in a mental hospital on New Year's Eve. synopsis
And All Ye Need Premiered at Manhattan's Theatre-Studio Finalist Robert J. Pickering Award for Playwrighting Excellence 24th Dubuque One-Act Playwriting Contest 2002 Arts and Letters Drama Prize	Human nature is the catalyst for this Romance in a Single Act wherein the National Academy of Life Science teaches a new researcher and his green assistant all they need to know when they discover in an abandoned desk three seemingly magical Federal Requisition Forms. synopsis	True Believer selected for the Chance Theater Evolving Stage Series	Man, woman, birth, death, infinity -- and bracketing the procession, a weary bartender who has seen the insubstantial pageant fade. Award-winning playwright Joseph Hullett weaves seven short tales -- including *Heideman and West Coast Playwright Contest finalists* -- into a memorable evening of quick-fire comedy and drama. synopsis
DESIGN	Having lost all, a good doctor lies dying in a Laguna Beach hospice while three visitors -- absolving God of blame -- insist that Man brings misery on himself. Knitting a modern moral context for the ancient problem of evil, DESIGN reweaves the Biblical story of Job with a startling twist when the Doctor confronts God to prove that God's actions can rightfully be judged in human terms! synopsis	Father's Day Grunion Hunt Small World Friends True Believer	Short plays synopses
Fiction Works
How about a sample? Buy it now at Amazon.com or Barnes & Noble or bookstores everywhere. Ask by author or ISBN: 159330014X Get it as a serial Podcast Coming soon an EBOOK edition at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and elsewhere		Men With Women is a collection of thirteen short-stories by award-winning playwright Joseph Hullett. The individual pieces comprising this outstanding anthology include: The Girl in the Red 'Vette; Outside Mombasa; He Rarely Thought of Her At All; Grunion Hunt; Something Borrowed, Something Blue; Father's Day; Gift of the Maggie; Tattoos; Friends; Rhapsody; End Zone; True Believer; And All Ye Need. Written around the core theme of relationships and the flaws within the male heart, Men With Women offers both a unique look into human nature and a thought-provoking experience in the ups and downs of male-female romantic interactions. Midwest Book Review Men with Women (a gutsy twist on the Hemingway title) is a wrenching collection about men – creatures Hullett casts as tragic figures who, although never really alone, must stand apart to define themselves. Crisp dialog renders genuinely poignant many of these self-made souls. I particularly liked Outside Mombasa, a tale of men told by a woman. Rhapsody has a razor edge, Grunion Hunt is disturbing, and And All Ye Need is one of the most romantic little pieces I have ever read ……. Robert Kester, reviewed for Amazon.com Hear "True Believer" from Men With Women
How about a sample? Get it as a serial Podcast Coming soon an EBOOK edition at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and elsewhere		The blockbuster first novel by award winning playwright Joseph Hullett. Headlines tag her The River Trail Jogger -- a woman gang-raped and discarded for dead near the southern California stadium where the Angels sometimes play. Heart failing, she begs her ex-husband, detective Pete Pinel -- END IT! Torn between the faltering letting-go of grief and the desperate holding-on of vengeance, Pinel charges wounded and fever-fired toward an apocalyptic climax in the savage world of El Tigre and the Fallen Angels. But nothing can obscure Veronica's plea. Returning full circle to her bedside -- to a last goodbye haunted by echoes of a first hello -- Pinel discovers what she really wants ... but can he give it? (262 pages in three parts)
Let's take a free peek		Sneak a peek at next year's long-awaited sequel to Killing Rain, Killing Fire. A madman's cryptic message plunges a grieving Pinel into a web of drug companies and university scientists -- a web entangling a beautiful psychiatrist who needs someone to watch over her.
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