Joshua Fardon
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Chicago, IL
Writes dark and funny. Chicago Dramatists Resident Playwright. A graduate of Northwestern University and the acting department of the Yale School of Drama.
Biography

JOSHUA FARDON (he/him/his)’s plays include 1=0 (Theatre of NOTE, Los Angeles), The Condition (Annoyance Theatre, Chicago; Naked Angels production at The Atwater Village Theatre, Los Angeles), The Burning of Kenneth Carrion (Benchmark Theatre Fever Dream Festival, Chicago workshop), Do Not Disturb (NOTE), Shake (NOTE), This Contract Limits Our Liability – Read It! (NOTE) and Miss Henrietta Stralson (Yale Cabaret). His one-acts and short musicals have been produced in Chicago, Toronto, Los Angeles, New York, Denver, and Fort Lauderdale. His short films Tenant and Shattered Bits were official selections of danceswithfilms. He sold a pilot to Miramax Television.

A three-time O’Neill semifinalist, a graduate of Northwestern University and the acting department of the Yale School of Drama; a member of the WGA America-East, the Dramatists Guild, SAG-AFTRA and AEA.

He is the Creative Director of Naked Angels Tuesdays@9 Chicago and a Chicago Dramatists Resident Playwright.

Plays

by Joshua Fardon

Elizabeth rings mathematician Kevin’s doorbell and announces she’s a Facebook friend. Kevin has no memory of her – but that doesn’t stop the manic, determined and highly disturbed Elizabeth from changing the course of his life.

Cast:
KEVIN – 30s, a mathematician living in Los Angeles. He’s recently divorced and suffers from agoraphobia. ELIZABETH – 30s, pretty, but frazzled in the way that people who have walked long distances are frazzled. It is not necessary for Elizabeth to have a Southern accent. If she does have an accent, it should be specific to Knoxville, which is a hard Appalachian clip and not the broad drawl of the plantation South.
by Joshua Fardon

As Dr. Kick examines her, it becomes apparent that Ruthie can't remember the purpose of the clinical study she's undergoing. It doesn't help that Dr. Kick's questions grow increasingly invasive and personal, even breaking boundaries of logic and time.

Cast:
RUTHIE, female, 20s-30s, a bit of a mess with untamed hair. DR. KICK, male, 50s, in a long white coat and balding, with a serious but compassionate disposition. JOYCE, female, 60s, heard, but never seen.

Successes

Chicago Dramatists Resident Playwright