Bio
Paul Mullin’s plays have been produced in cities across the U.S., treating on subjects ranging from the race to decode the human genome to the uncelebrated underbelly of American History. His LOUIS SLOTIN SONATA won the L. A. Drama Critics Award for Outstanding World Premiere, and was read by invitation before scientists at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. The SONATA will be produced at the Empty Space Theatre in Seattle in September of 2006 in commemoration of the 60th Anniversary of the accident the play dramatizes. His most recent play, THE SEQUENCE, was originally commissioned by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, in collaboration with Ensemble Studio Theatre in New York City, and has received staged readings before audiences of scientists and bio-tech professionals in San Francisco, Chicago and Fairfax, Virginia. In addition to work for the stage, Mullin has written several feature film scripts and television documentaries. He wrote and starred in the independent feature film HITTING THE GROUND, which won the Gold Prize at the Houston WorldFest and later played in rotation on the Sundance Channel. His future plans include drafting a play that will change word by word over the next 10,000 years as a companion piece to the Clock of the Long Now slated to be built in the Nevada high country. Paul lives in Green Lake with his wife and two young sons.
SEATTLE DRAMATISTS
Paul Mullin
Current Plays
THE SEQUENCE
Synopsis:
In the competition to sequence the human genome, will the grand prize be the public good or private profit? And how will four people, amid the frenzied race to determine what makes a human being, discover their humanity?
Cast:
2W, 2M
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LOUIS SLOTIN SONATA
Synopsis:
With a structure inspired by classical music's sonata allegro form, LOUIS SLOTIN SONATA traces a brilliant scientist's last nine days, as his body and mind gradually succumb to the chaos wrecked by radiation. Reliving the moment of his accident again and again, Slotin slowly makes his own unique way to redemption.
Cast:
1W, 7M
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AN AMERICAN BOOK OF THE DEAD - THE GAME SHOW
Synopsis:
Plucked from the audience, three contestants live and die their way through a myriad of American incarnations as they compete for the ultimate prize, perfect enlightenment. Even when things seem like they couldn’t get weirder, they do, as the contestants start to reincarnate as each other and the understanding begins to dawn that enlightenment is now here and nowhere; a trillion light-years and just a blink away.
Cast:
7W, 7M
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THE GOOD SHIP MANHATTAN
Synopsis:
What do an obsessive-compulsive corporate comptroller, an ex-piano prodigy, a poetess-bartender and a burnt-out schoolteacher have in common? Well, for one they’re all mates on the Good Ship Manhattan, and as the action builds through the summer of 2001, whether they sense it or not, they’re sailing into some of the roughest seas this beaten old boat has ever seen.
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2W, 2M
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