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King Liz

  • Fernanda Coppel
  • Full Length Play, Drama, Contemporary, New Millennium/21st Century
  • 3M, 3F
  • ISBN: 9780573799853

Sports Agent Liz Rico has money and an elite client roster but a woman in a man's industry has to fight to stay on top.

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Drama
  • 120 minutes

  • Time Period: Contemporary, New Millennium/21st Century
  • Target Audience: Teen (Age 14 - 18), Adult
  • Set Requirements: Interior Set, Unit Set/Multiple Settings

  • Performance Group:
  • College Theatre / Student, Professional Theatre, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups
Sports agent Liz Rico has money and an elite client roster but a woman in a man's industry has to fight to stay on top. She's worked twice as hard to get where she is and wants to take over the agency that she's helped build. Enter Freddie Luna, a high school basketball superstar with a troubled past. If Liz can keep this talented yet volatile young star in line, she just might end up making not only his career, but her own as well. But as what price?
REVIEWS:

"Ms. Coppel's dialogue is finely honed, her characters drawn with a keen sense of both their forceful drives and inner conflicts."

 The New York Times

"The play never stumbles, it keeps you gasping with excitement value and polish, introduces a fine new writer who is going places, and makes a star out of Karen Pittman. I was overwhelmed."

 Observer

"King Liz is a welcome addition to the theatrical landscape. Coppel's writing -- particularly the self-aggrandizing pitch Liz delivers to the young basketball protégé Freddie Luna -- can be razor-sharp, with juicy zingers sprinkled throughout."

TheatreMania

"Coppel's quick-witted, whip-cracking dialogue...ensure(s) that things always unfold on exactly the time frame they should, without sacrificing tension, suspense, or theatricality along the way."

 Talkin' Broadway

Premiere Production: King Liz premiered at Second Stage Theatre Uptown in New York City in July 2015 under the direction of Lisa Peterson.

Characters

  • Casting: 3M, 3F
  • Casting Attributes: Role(s) for Latino Actor(s), Strong Role for Leading Woman (Star Vehicle), Role(s) for Black Actor(s), Multicultural casting

  • LIZ RICO - 40's, African-American, a powerful sports agent, scares men.
    GABBY FUENTES - 30's, Latina, Liz's assistant, a disgruntled overachiever.
    MR. CANDY - 60's, the CEO of a top sports agency, a self-starter, liberal when it's convenient.
    FREDDIE LUNA - 19, Afro-Latino, a star basketball player, naive, defensive, a diamond in the rough.
    COACH JONES - 50's, African-American, head coach of the New York Knicks, terrified of getting fired.
    BARBARA FLOWERS - 50's, a world-renowned journalist with a prime time investigative TV show.

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    Sports agent Liz Rico has money and an elite client roster but a woman in a man's industry has to fight to stay on top. She's worked twice as hard to get where she is and wants to take over the agency that she's helped build. Enter Freddie Luna, a high school basketball superstar with a troubled past. If Liz can keep this talented yet volatile young star in line, she just might end up making not only his career, but her own as well. But as what price?

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