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PROFILE OF
Z. SHARON GLANTZ
aka Lailu Loon
(Second Life)
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Lailu Loon
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BOOKS
| The Sanity Patrol Handbook
is a
whimsical lyrical romp for those who consider
themselves sane...an ideal gift for caregivers of all
types offers validation, inspiration and giggles of
delight. |
| The Shpieling Haggadah
is an
accessible Passover haggadah for Jews, lapsed Jews and
non Jews. It is scripted and includes colorful
illustrations and song lyrics. This haggadah is
education and entertaining, designed to maximize
participation. |
| Stages
of Ages: A Manual of Corrective Parenting
lays out the
basics of a powerful intervention known as corrective
parenting (previously reparenting). Written in
collaboration with Elaine Childs-Gowell who also
published this book. |
The Masterpack is a novel that looks at the coming
together of a group of unlikely friends who walk their
dogs illegally off leash in the park. It is written in
third person, as well as from the point of view of one
of the dogs. This "Masterpack" battles a group of
sociopaths, bent on mutilating dogs for their own
alleged spiritual growth.
STATUS: completed but as
yet unpublished
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3X: Online
Triangles and Other Relationships is a novel that utilizes formats of
online chat, email and instant messages to reinforce
the prose that explores love relationships, doing
business and scientific discovery on the
Internet.
STATUS:in
progress |
Slut, A Sexual Memoir
is an erotic
novel about one woman's sexual exploits in real life
and online.
STATUS:in
progress |
INDUSTRIAL
PLAYS
The Sanity Patrol
Players subcontract regional theaters to produce the following
plays designed for training programs or some facsimile thereof
that include facilitated discussions, preferably with a
specialist following the performance. Audiences include
government agencies, corporations, educational institutions and
special interest groups.
STATUS:ready for
production
| HIV at
Work |
60 min. 2 female 3 male
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This piece looks into
fears and behaviors of workers in an ad agency
as one of them discovers he is HIV positive,
contracts AIDS and with the help of the miracle
cocktail, confronts the experience of returning
to work albeit part-time and in a lower
position. Information on transmission is
related, but the focus is largely on the fear
of death, dying, intimacy and how AIDS effects
each and everyone.[video
documentatiion]
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| Working Relations
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70 min. 3 female 3
male
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This piece explores what constitutes sexual
harassment, the gray areas, a wide range of
opinions about sexual harassment and working
relationships and what top management needs to
due to deal with issues of sexual harassment in
the workplace.
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| Workforce Coming of
Age |
70 min. 2 female 1
male
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This piece looks at the ramifications of an
aging workforce relative to age discrimination,
myths reinforced by previous generations, and
the complexities of the changing
workplace.
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EDUCATIONAL
THEATER
Stages of Ages was written as two
one-acts to be included in Stages of Ages, A Manual on
Corrective Parenting in collaboration with Elaine
Childs-Gowell RN PhD. It has since been turned into a
full-lengty play. The play relates information on each of the
developmental stages.
STATUS:ready for
production
| Stages of
Ages I |
45 min. 2 female 2
male
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This piece covers Stages: 0. Connecting
(prenatal); 1. Being (0-6 months); 2. Doing
(6-18 months); 3. Thinking (18 months-3 years).
During each stage, actors rotate playing the
negative parent, his/her child, the positive
parent and his/her child. However, there is a
consistency of character throughout the
play.
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| Stages of
Ages II |
60 min. 2 female 2 male
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This piece covers Stages: 4. Identity (4-6
years); 5. Skills Development (6-12 years); and
6. Regeneration (12-19 years). As in Stages
of Ages I, actors rotate playing the
negative various characters.
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| Stages of
Ages |
90 min. 2 female 2
male
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Combines the two one-act plays below into a
percussive musical that watches four people
integrate their early childhood experiences
with the behaviors and experiences of adult
life, thus changing the way they make choices.
The cast is diverse, the issues wide-ranging.
However, this is a very physical and
entertaining piece of work.
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| Through
the Eyes of a Friend |
30 min. 1
female
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Kitty, Anne Frank's imaginary friend from
her diaries, comes to life and tells the story
of Frank's life before the war, as the war
progressed and in the concentration camps.
Originally, this monologue was backed up video
footage from World War II.
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FULL LENGTH
PLAYS
| I Gave At
The Office |
75 min. 6 female 5
male
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This piece was
commissioned by A Contemporary Theater,
Seattle. A woman finds more comfort in her
machines than in the people with whom she needs
in order to fulfill her job as marketing
coordinator for a law firm. Her equipment is
anthropomorphically replaced by those with whom
she works: her secretary becomes a clock, head
of accounting becomes an adding machine, the
managing partner becomes her computer, her
phone lover and her best friend become the
phone, and fallen pencils become a Greek chorus
of partners. Needless to say, this changes her
life.
STATUS:ready
for production
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| Oxymoronic Fusion |
120 min. 6 female 3 male
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A suspense thriller
and comedy that explores the ways we construct
reality as individuals as well as by consensus.
Serendipity channels an entity. Her lawyer
(female), who helps her sue the entity and her
psychiatrist (male) have been reincarnated with
her for many lifetimes. Her agent is an alien
from another planet. Serendipity's lover is
actually the goddess Persephone. The channeled
entity has an affair with her psychiatrist.
Serendipity's psychic is her lawyers long-lost
mother. The psychic has a cat who is actually a
poet/physicist from another dimension, working
on the formula for oxymoronic fusion, that will
allow contradictory belief systems to
peacefully co-exist. Everyone comes together
for Serendipity's birthday party where the
formula for oxymoronic fusion is used to help
everyone get what they
want.
STATUS:ready
for
production
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| Tarot for
Fools |
120 min. minimum 3 male 2 female
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The Fool, awakened by
his Dog, decides to visit each of the major
arcana in the Tarot. The dynamics of meeting
them in order follows the requirements for a
good story. As The Fool learns more and more,
he is forced to make difficult decisions,
losing Dog in the process. Actors can play many
roles.
STATUS:ready for
development
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| Exercising
Belief |
80 min. 6 male or
female
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Ernest Seeker learns
about God, sin and other processes related to
the act of believing from: Fred Faust, a
theoretical scientist; Dr. Phud, a
psychotherapist; Polly/Paul Scythe, a
sociologist; Val Challah, a ceremonial
magician; and Aenid Verse, a poet. This play
includes non-intrusive audience
participation.
STATUS:ready for
production
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| The Last
Mikvah |
100 min. 6
female
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The Shekhinah brings
together: a widow and fried of Muhammad's wife
Aisha, from 7th century Medina
(Saudi Arabia); a young teacher from
11th century Khazaria (Russia); a
Sephardic refugee from 15th century
Barcelona (Spain); a co-founder of Tel Aviv
from the 19th century; a fickle Sufi
turned occultist from 1920's New York (New
York); and a 21st century free-lance
writer in Seattle (Washington). The Shekhinah
uses these women, who are related through
blood, as a way of checking out her status as
an equal to
God.
STATUS:work in
progress
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ONE ACT PLAYS
| I, Monster
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25 min. 1 male 1 female 1-5 chorus
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A young woman works with
her therapist on issues of abuse. She is
haunted by a chorus of voices that express her
inner thoughts. Finally, she is able to find
comfort from her therapist.
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| After Eros
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20 min. 1 male 1 female
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Over three
meetings, Danny and Laura come together, fall
apart, and come together again while sipping
espresso.
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| The Column
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15 min. 1 male 4
female
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A legal secretary,
striving to be a writer, tries to integrate her
two jobs. At first she receives a warm
reception, looks forward to what she can
finally consider upward mobility, but later is
rejected and has to be satisfied with living in
two worlds.
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| Personal
Answers |
10 min. 1 male 3
female
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Writer decides to
answer a personal ad in the newspaper. Her
alter egos, Child, Man and Woman, tell them
what they think. In between performing various
tasks (Man plants shrubs, Child builds with
blocks, Woman works on computer or assists Man
and Child), they advise her in how to answer
the ad.
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OTHER
SCRIPTS
| Playwright of Through the Eyes of a
Friend, a
multi-media piece on the holocaust written from the
point of view of Kitty, Anne Frank's imaginary friend,
touring middle schools and high
schools. |
| Scriptwriter of a laser show for
school children in Singapore on their history for Laser
Fantasy. |
| Scriptwriter of a video for the
Washington State Apprentice in the Trades
Program. |
THEATRICAL PRODUCER
Following the efforts of Plays
That Work that produced industrial plays and closed
down in 1997, Konnexxus took on the task of marketing
and producing these plays. Organizations that have
utilized these productions as part of trainings
include:
-State of Washington Department
of Information Services
-Interagency Committee of State Employed Women
-Puget Sound Power & Light
-City of Seattle Department of Housing & Human
Services and Department of Parks and Recreation
-U.S. Department of Forestry
-Bonneville Power Administration
-Washington Mutual Bank
-The Executive MBA Program at the University of
Washington
-Harbor Properties
-The Young President's Organization
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VIRTUAL PROJECTS
| Writer, designer,
technical director of The
Sanity Patrol Is Out To Get You on Second
Life [2008-ongoing] |
| Moderator of The
Meaning of Life Chat (topics on the psychology of
Second Life and real life) and Domme Chat at The Forum
of Second Life. [2007-ongoing] |
| Performer (Snug) in Midsummer Night's Dreamon Second Life. [2008] |
| Writer, designer (100+ slides) and
performer in In The
Pink,a full length play
affiliated with V-Day (global performances of The
Vagina Monologues) [2008] |
| Performer
(Floor Manager) for Eyebeam, producing Double
Happiness, virtual manufacturers on Second Life of
customized jeans produced at the Sundance Film Festival
[2008] |
| Chat Manager for The Writer's Club,
overseeing 40+ chats on America Online [1998] and Host
of weekly chat Writing on the Edge [1997-2002] |
| Host of
weekly chat for Parascope, discussing metaphysical and
esoteric topics, on America Online [1999-2002]
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| Chat Host for
OMNI Magazine Online on America online [1997] and on
their website [1998], including interviews with popular
science fiction writers. |
NONPROFIT
DEVELOPMENT
TECHNICAL PROJECT
MANAGEMENT
| Sole proprietor of Konnexxus,
developing website content, mini-siting strategies and
partnering opportunities. |
| Chief Operating Officer of 3X
LLC, developing online marketing strategies.
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| Manager of Chats, overseeing
40 chats for the Writers Club on America Online.
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| Chat Host for the Writers
Club, OMNI Magazine Online and Parascope.
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| Developer of the New Media Lab
for the Pacific Northwest Writers Conference. Vendors
included America Online, CompUSA, Design Intelligence,
NEC, Toshiba and other high tech companies. Activities
included online discussions with attending authors,
writing exercises and resource management of volunteer
computer professionals. |
| Speaker at the Participatory
Design Conference of the Computer Professionals for
Social Responsibilities on using theater development
techniques for creating websites. |
LEGAL
| Legal Assistant Northwest Justice
Project, Seattle Domestic Violence Project |
| Legal Assistant at Graham &
Dunn |
| Legal Assistant in family law
for Roberta E. Doyle (7 years). |
| Executive Assistant for the
head of the Corporate Finance Department at Bogle &
Gates (7 years). |
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