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		Joseph Hullett is author of the 1993 Julie Harris Playwright Award winning drama THE PLEDGE. 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.
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. 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 a novel KILLING RAIN, KILLING FIRE and a collection of short stories MEN WITH WOMEN. A psychiatrist, he lives in southern California.
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 Playwright Award -- finalist Pittsburgh New Play Competition
	Pro-choice opponents of a new 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
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
And All Ye Need	Premiered at Manhattan's Theatre-Studio -- finalist Robert J. Pickering Award for Playwrighting Excellence -- 24th Annual 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
Trail of Tears (unpublished)	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. -- (Painting by Robert Lindneux Woolaroc Museum)
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