The 2015 NYU Purple List
Purple List coordinator 2015: Ashley Michel Hoban
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BACKSTAGE by Shandor Garrison
Drama
An ambitious young record promoter in the late 1990s becomes rich and successful perfecting the art of payola, until a criminal investigation leads his music label to betray him. Based on a true story.
Email: shandor.garrison@gmail.com
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D-DAY by Tamika R. Guishard
Coming of Age
When three foster siblings encounter PTSD, childhood cancer and community residuals, they learn that hustling out of the crack epidemic was only the beginning.
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DEAD PIGS by Cathy YanDrama/Satire
While thousands of dead pigs mysteriously float down the Yangtze River, five people cross paths as they search for their place in a rapidly transforming modern China. Based on true events.
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THE PLACE BEHIND HER EYES by Vika Evdokimenko
SCI-FI
The human population has split into two subspecies. As a 'Decelerant,' 15 year old Ayah is sent to slave for Simeon, a doctor living alone in the desert hinterland. But when her master defies convention and becomes her teacher, Ayah begins to question whether her inferiority is real.
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Email: vika.evdokimenko@gmail.com
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THE SALT OF THE EARTH by Margherita Arco
Drama
When Zacharias’s brother stands to lose the farm that has defined the Meindl family for generations, Zacharias puts his life on hold to bail him out. Working together as a family proves to be more difficult than either could have imagined. Can they put their differences aside to save their tradition?
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Email: margherita.arco@gmail.com
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THE THIRD WIFE by Ash MayfairDrama
Rural Vietnam, late 19th century, May is given away in an arranged marriage at 14. Is she strong enough to find her identity in a household full of strangers? Inspired by a true story, this tale of lost love and hidden desire lets us see through the eyes of a girl forced to grow too quickly into a woman.
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Email: ash.mayfair@gmail.com
Website: www.ashmayfair.com