INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
by Richard Lyons Conlon
The main character in misanthropic novelist Victor Pagán’s third novel is Vivien Langford, who happens to be the world’s biggest movie star. Vivien Langford, however, is a flesh-and-blood human being — an accomplished writer herself — and she’s having none of it. Outraged by the unwanted misappropriation of her persona, she immediately sues to stop the book’s distribution. But she goes further — much further. Contacting Victor directly in a series of FaceTime exchanges, she proceeds to dismantle his misogynistic, condescending character (and meager oeuvre), finally leaving him one option for redemption: She’ll allow his book to come out if he agrees to a very public humiliation. Based on true events.
- Cast Size: 2M 3W
- Running Time: 90+ minutes
- Royalty Rate: $75 per performance
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About the Playwright
Richard Lyons Conlon is a Resident Playwright Alumnus at Chicago Dramatists
and proud member of the Dramatists Guild of America. He is an O’Neill
Playwrights Conference Honoree, and was selected as a 2020 Kennedy Center
Playwright. His work has won numerous awards and has been published by Next
Stage Press, Eldridge Publishing, and Smith & Kraus.
Richard has written over 50 plays, including: 7 MINUTES TO LIVE (production: Chicago Dramatists, August 2024; Eugene O’Neill Playwrights Conference Semi-Finalist), and ONE TIME (record-breaking production: Next Act Theatre; Winner: Best Comedy at the 2022 Legacy Play Festival, published in 2022 by Next Stage Press, Gold Prize Winner: the Beverly Hills Stage Play Competition).
His multi-award-winning play about artificial intelligence and literature – THE
VOLITIVE EFFECT OF ORAL LITERARY INUNDATION ON THE LSTM
RECURRENT NEURAL NETWORK – was the First Prize Winner of the 2017
Stonybrook University Science Playwriting Award and was a featured
presentation at the 2022 TEDx Conference.
Additionally, his latest play THE EDUCATION OF FRAT BOY ROOFIE was selected for the SMITH & KRAUS anthology, Best Women’s Monologues 2023. And MEMORY, SPEAK was Finalist for Sky Blue Theatre’s 2021 British Theatre Challenge.
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY has been a Finalist and received numerous staged reading in numerous playwriting competitions. An excerpt was included included in the SMITH & KRAUS anthology: Best Women’s Monologues 2021.
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