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ACCN 2450
David Kranes papers
1958-2011
Kranes, David
14.5 linear feet
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.
Collection materials are in
English.
Biographical Sketch
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.
The David Kranes papers (1958-2011) contain the plays, short stories, book manuscripts and teaching files of David Kranes.
Materials are arranged alphabetically.
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.
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.
Collection Name, Collection Number, Box Number, Folder Number. Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, The University of Utah.
Donated by David Kranes in 2009.
Addendum donated by David Kranes in 2011.
Photographs have been transferred to the Multimedia Division of Special Collections.
Processed by Julia Huddleston in 2009.
Kranes, David--Archives
Authors, American--Utah
Literature
Plays
Play Manuscripts, A- Blu
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- Fro
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- In
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-Pac
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-Win
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-Wor
6
1
Whitespace
6
2-3
White Sands, New Mexico
6
4
Words and Music
Short Fiction
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"
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"
Folders 1-8 contain research materials for the unpublished book, "The Dramatic Moment."
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, Playwrights
Boxes 10 and 11 contain the lecture notes and research materials for a course Dr. Kranes taught for several years on American Drama.
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 Files
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 Files
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 Notations
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
Oversize
15
Scrapbook
1958-2011
General Materials
16
1
The Portable Arthur Miller with notations by Krane
1971
16
2
Certificate
1986
16
3
Ephemeral Materials
1960-2009
The items in this folder were retrieved from books collected by Kranes.
Books with Notations
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 Materials
1
Posters and Set Rendering
1968
2002
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.