Susan Miller, Eleanor Burgess, Johnna Adams, Chisa Hutchinson, D. W. Gregory

Plays by Women from the Contemporary American Theater Festival (eBook, ePUB)

Gidion's Knot; The Niceties; Memoirs of a Forgotten Man; Dead and Breathing; 20th Century Blues
Redaktion: McKowen, Peggy; Herendeen, Ed

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Based at Shepherd University, in West Virginia, the Contemporary American Theater Festival is nationally and internationally recognized as a home for playwrights and the development and production of new plays. The Festival makes it a priority to celebrate and produce playwrights with strong, distinct voices, with a core value to tell diverse stories.

This anthology of work provides plays that speak to one of the most compelling virtues of artists everywhere - freedom of speech. A necessary volume of women playwrights' work, ranging from a two-time Obie Award-winning author to emerging writers just beginning their careers, it represents a group of women who vary in age, race and sexual orientation and offers an invitation to artistic leaders, scholars and students to embrace gritty, thought-provoking new dramatic work.

Edited by The Festival's Producing Directors Peggy McKowen and Ed Herendeen, this anthology features an introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winner Lynn Nottage. Each of the five powerful plays is followed by an informative and discursive playwright interview conducted by Sharon J. Anderson that contextualizes and develops the works within the wider context of the annual festival.

The plays include:
Gidion's Knot by Johnna Adams
The Niceties by Eleanor Burgess
Memoirs of a Forgotten Man by D.W Gregory
Dead and Breathing by Chisa Hutchinson
20th Century Blues by Susan Miller

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350084834
• Artikelnr.: 55105254

Autorenporträt

Susan Miller is anOBIE award winning playwright and Guggenheim Fellow whose work includes thecritically acclaimed one-woman play, MyLeft Breast (Obie), which premiered in Louisville's Humana Festival andhas been performed across the U.S, Canada, and France. Her play A Map of Doubt And Rescue won The Susan SmithBlackburn Prize, as well as The Pinter Prize. Her play Average American recently won 2nd Prize in the 2014 Arch &Bruce Brown Foundation's Playwriting Competition. A recipient of two NEA's& a Rockefeller Grant, Miller received her first OBIE for Nasty Rumors And Final Remarks. Her other plays include: For Dear Life, Flux, Confessionsof A Female Disorder, It's Our Town, Too, and Reading List. Millerwas a Consulting Producer/Writer on the first season of The L Word aswell as ABC's landmark series, Thirtysomething. She's writtenoriginal screenplays for Disney, Universal, Warner Brothers, and her shortfilm, The Grand Design, was directed by and starred Eric Stoltzwith Frances Conroy.
She is the Executive Producer/Writer,with Tina Cesa Ward, of the highly acclaimed Indie web series, AnyoneBut Me, which airs on Hulu & YouTube and has over 50 million viewsworldwide. For her work on Anyone But Me, Miller & Ward won theWriters Guild of America Award for Outstanding Achievement in Original NewMedia, the first of its kind ever presented.

Inhaltsangabe

An Introduction by Lynn Nottage. A Chronology of the Contemporary American Theater FestivalThe Playwrights and Plays Gidion's Knot by Johnna AdamsJohnna Adams' Biography Interview with Johnna Adams, conducted by Sharon J. Anderson The Niceties by Eleanor BurgessEleanor Burgess' Biography Interview with Eleanor Burgess, conducted by Sharon J. AndersonMemoirs of a Forgotten Man by D.W. GregoryD.W. Gregory's BiographyInterview with D.W. Gregory, conducted by Sharon J. AndersonDead and Breathing by Chisa HutchinsonChisa Hutchinson's BiographyInterview with Chisa Hutchinson, conducted by Sharon J. Anderson20th Century Blues by Susan MillerSusan Miller's BiographyInterview with Susan Miller, conducted by Sharon J. Anderson