David Kranes papers, 1958-2011

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Kranes, David
Title
David Kranes papers
Dates
1958-2011 (inclusive)
Quantity
14.5 linear feet
Collection Number
ACCN 2450
Summary
The David Kranes papers (1958-2011) contain the plays, short stories, book manuscripts and teaching files. Kranes is a nationally recognized Utah writer, primarily writing plays and short fiction.
Repository
University of Utah Libraries, Special Collections
Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library
University of Utah
295 South 1500 East
Salt Lake City, UT
84112-0860

Telephone: 8015818863
special@library.utah.edu
Access Restrictions

Twenty-four hour advanced notice encouraged. Materials must be used on-site. Access to parts of this collection may be restricted under provisions of state or federal law.

Languages
English

Historical NoteReturn to Top

David Kranes is a nationally recognized Utah writer, primarily writing plays and short fiction. He received his Doctor of Fine Arts from Yale University in 1971, and began teaching in the English department at the University of Utah the same year. He served as the acting director of the Creative Writing program from 1992-1995, and again in 1997-1998. Dr. Kranes also served for fourteen years as Artistic Director of the Sundance Playwrights’ Lab.

Content DescriptionReturn to Top

The David Kranes papers (1958-2011) contain the plays, short stories, book manuscripts and teaching files of David Kranes.

Use of the CollectionReturn to Top

Restrictions on Use

The library does not claim to control copyright for all materials in the collection. An individual depicted in a reproduction has privacy rights as outlined in Title 45 CFR, part 46 (Protection of Human Subjects). For further information, please review the J. Willard Marriott Library’s Use Agreement and Reproduction Request forms.

Preferred Citation

Collection Name, Collection Number, Box Number, Folder Number. Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, The University of Utah.

Administrative InformationReturn to Top

Arrangement

Materials are arranged alphabetically.

Acquisition Information

Donated by David Kranes in 2009.

Addendum donated by David Kranes in 2011.

Separated Materials

Photographs have been transferred to the Multimedia Division of Special Collections.

Processing Note

Processed by Julia Huddleston in 2009.

Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top

Play Manuscripts, A- BluReturn to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folder
1 1
1101 and 1102
1 2
Anthem, National High School Institute
1998
1 3
Audience
1 4-5
Beautiful Dreamer, Script and Notes
1998-2001
1 6-7
The Bear Garden
1986
1 8
Blind Love
1 9
Blue Cello

Play Manuscripts, Bra- FroReturn to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folder
2 1
Brain Coral- Impulse, Wordbridge Playwright's Laboratory
2003
2 2
Brain Impulse
2 3
Cantrell
2 4
Catch and Release
2 5
Change
2 6
Compliments of the House
2 7
Country and Eastern, Two One-Act Plays
2 8
Criminals
2 9
Fugue
2 10-11
From Here...

Play Manuscripts, Fro- InReturn to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folder
3 1
From Here..., One-Act
3 2
Future Tense
3 3
Getting There
3 4
Going In
3 5
Horay
3 6-7
House, Bridge, Foundation, Gate
1993
3 8
I'm Nobody
3 9
In Development and Keat's Ghost
3 10-11
In the Valentine Lounge
1986-1997

Play Manuscripts, Inf-PacReturn to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folder
4 1
Infrastructures
4 2
Keat's Ghost
4 3
Life on the Moon
4 4-5
Loss of Appetite, Script and Notes
2000-2004
4 6
Making Action
4 7
Montana
4 8
Moonbirds
4 9-10
The New Kid
1995-1997
4 11
The Norman Show
4 12-13
Orpheus Lex: a libretto
1990-1991
4 14
Paco Latto and the Anchor Woman

Play Manuscripts, Pla-WinReturn to Top

Container(s) Description
Box Folder
5 1
Plays to Films
5 2
Private Space with Privileges
5 3-4
The Salmon Run
5 5
The Service Sisters
5 6
Shooters
5 7
Things, First Notes
5 8
Tucker, With Notes
5 9-10
Winter of the Deer

Play Manuscripts, Whi-WorReturn to Top

Container(s) Description
Box Folder
6 1
Whitespace
6 2-3
White Sands, New Mexico
6 4
Words and Music

Short FictionReturn to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folder
7 1
"Between Projects"
7 2
"Blind Relief"
7 3
"The Blue Motel"
7 4
"The Burning Lake"
7 5
"Call Waiting"
7 6
"Choosing to Believe"
7 7
"Douglas"
7 8
"Entrapment"
7 9
"The Fish Magician"
7 10
"The Game of Touch"
 1974
7 11
"The Gift"
7 12
"Idaho"
7 13
"Loveblind"
7 14
"Making the Ghost Dance"
7 15
"The Man Who Might Have Been My Father"
7 16
'Melissa Curtain"
7 17
"My Family Driving through the Night"
7 18
"Near Her"
7 19
"Phantom of the Phantom"
7 20
"Pick up and Delivery"
7 21
"Return Engagement"
7 22
"Self Abuse"
7 23
"Separation", Critiques
7 24
'Sheila: a Song"
7 25
"Something About the Nest"
7 26
"Street"
7 27-28
"Two-Person Show"
7 29
"Wanting Not to Lurk"
7 30-31
"Weight Loss"
7 32
"What Happened to Lincoln"
7 33
"Where I Am, Where I've Been"

Research Files, "Space Dramaturgy"Return to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folder
8 1
DeLillo's Libra and Historicity
8 2
Dramatic Photos
 2001
8 3
Dramaturgy
8 4
Dramaturgy: Collecting Culture
8 5
The Dramaturg's Legal Rights
 1997
8 6
Dramaturgy: Postmodernism/Pop Culture
8 7
Dramaturgy: Spectatorship
8 8
Sacred Space
8 9
Space, Lecture 1
8 10
Space: The Church and Spatial Form
8 11
Space: Current Week
8 12
Space: The Garden
8 13
Space Images
8 14
Space: King Lear

Book Material, "The Dramatic Moment"Return to Top

Folders 1-8 contain research materials for the unpublished book, "The Dramatic Moment."

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folder
9 1
"The Dramatic Moment", Contracts
 1992-1993
9 2
Cyndi Totten, "Masks"
9 3
Masks/ Puppets
9 4
Play
9 5
Play Writing Text
9 6
Theatre: Playwriting
9 7
Theatre of Sports
9 8
What a Playwright Wants from Development
9 9
Chapter One
9 10
Chapter Three, Action
9 11
Chapter Four, Conflicts
9 12
Chapter Five, Masks
9 13
Chapter Six, Instability
9 14
Chapter Seven, Shifting Power
9 15
Chapter Nine, Dances With Dialogue

"American Drama" Lecture Notes, PlaywrightsReturn to Top

Boxes 10 and 11 contain the lecture notes and research materials for a course Dr. Kranes taught for several years on American Drama.

Container(s) Description
Box Folder
10 1
Edward Albee
10 2
Gard/Machin
10 3
John Guare
10 4
Israel Horowitz
10 5
Tina Howe
10 6
Preston Jones
10 7
Marsha Norman
10 8
David Mamet
10 9
Arthur Miller
10 10-11
Eugene O'Neill
10 12
David Rabe
10 13
Michael Weller
10 14
Thorton Wilder
10 15
Tennesse Williams

"American Drama" Lecture Notes, Subject FilesReturn to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folder
11 1-2
1930s Theatre
11 3
American Drama Articles
11 4
American Drama Newsletters
 1995-1997
11 5
The American Dream
11 6
American Eden
11 7
The American Musical
11 8
American Memory
11 9
American "Soul"
11 10
American Theatre History
11 11
The Archives of Eden
11 12
Broad Questions
11 13
Broadway: Extravaganzas
11 14
Contemporary American Women Playwrights
11 15
"Home" in American Drama
11 16
Hairy Ape
11 17
Iceman Scene
11 18
Intro and Questions
11 19
Piano Lesson
11 20
Pre-O'Neill History
11 21
Naturalism/Expressionism
11 22
William Saroyan

Subject FilesReturn to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folder
12 1
Action, Attempting To Do, Lecture Notes
12 2
American Dramaturgy, Art Borreca
12 3
Characterization
 1993
12 4
Wendell Berry, "Community in 17 Simple Steps"
12 5
Creating a Playwriting Program
12 6
Emory International Playwriting Center
12 7
Gentlemen Callers Workshop
12 8
Godat, Cedar City
1989
12 9
Graduate Playwriting
 1998
12 10
Images, Playwriting
12 11
Journeys
12 12
Romulus Linney
12 13
Music and Rhythm
12 14
Mystery: Dramatic Question
12 15
One-Act Play Revision Workshop
12 16
Play Format
12 17-18
Playwriting Workshop
 1993
12 19
Plot: Frietao's Triangle
12 20
Punch and Judy
12 21
Religious Questions: Plays
12 22
John Luther Adams, Resonance of Place
13 1
Scene Writing Workshop
13 2
Script Questions
13 3
Seaside Workshop
13 4
"Soap" Scripts
 1995
13 5
Theater Materials
 1995-1996
13 6
Theater Articles
 2000
13 7
Theater Correspondence
 1996
13 8
Thresholds, the Door

Books with NotationsReturn to Top

Container(s) Description
Box Folder
14 1
Ingram Bywater, Aristotle on the Art of Poetry
14 2
Edwidge Danticat, The Dew Breaker
14 3
George Johnson, In the Palaces of Memory
14 4
Sam Keen, Your Mythic Journey
14 5
Peter Sandiford, Educational Psychology
14 6
Removed Items
14 7
Ephemera

OversizeReturn to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box
15
Scrapbook
 1958-2011

General MaterialsReturn to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folder
16 1
The Portable Arthur Miller with notations by Krane
 1971
16 2
Certificate
 1986
16 3
Ephemeral Materials
The items in this folder were retrieved from books collected by Kranes.
1960-2009

Books with NotationsReturn to Top

Container(s) Description
Box Folder
17 1
Edward Albee, A Delicate Balance and Tom Dulack, Incommunicado
17 2
T. S. Eliot, The Cocktail Party and Eugene O'Neil, Long Days Journey into Night
The The Cocktail Party contains autographs of all the actors, along with a playbill, for a 1950 performace.
17 3
Eric Overmyer, On the Verge and Harold Pinter, Old Times
17 4
Thornton Wilder, Our Town and Landford Wilson, Fifth of July and The Hot L Baltimore
17 5
Compilations
The folder consists of Four Great Plays by Chekhov, Masterpieces of the Modern Italian Theatre, Masterpieces of the Modern Scandinavian Theatre, and Six Great Modern Plays.

Oversize Mapcase MaterialsReturn to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Folder
1
Posters and Set Rendering
This folder includes a poster for the reading of Courting Disaster, a poster for SLAC Production which included Kranes' play "Catch and Release," a plaque of "Multi-Media Evening," and a set rendering by Ron Crosby for the play Fall Holiday.
1968; 2002

Names and SubjectsReturn to Top

Subject Terms

  • Authors, American--Utah
  • Literature

Personal Names

  • Kranes, David--Archives

Form or Genre Terms

  • Plays

Finding aid prepared by Julia Huddleston
2009 (last modified: 2018)

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